Talk:Winter's Gift

Obtaining it

Is this an enhancement drop/purchasable by merits, or is it, as rumored, a winter-event-only set? -- Aggelakis 17:24, 3 December 2008 (UTC)

Winter's Event only, it seems. 50 Candy Canes for the Slow Resist, 40 each for the other two. Dr Toerag 15 December 2008

Enhancement Level

I think it would be very useful to include more information about the level of the enhancement. The article says Winter's Gift ranges from level 10 to level 50, but the Candy Keeper's recipes are all labeled level 1. Has anyone build/used this? Is it perhaps theoretically a range of 10-50, but is only available from the Candy Keeper at one specific level? What level is that? Or does it depend on the level of the character building it? Dark Horizon 08:01, 19 December 2008 (UTC)

As far as I know it is awarded at character level (not sure what happens with a character less than level 10 though.CmdrAdeon 18:21, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

The level of the Enhancement is set at the time the recipe is purchased from the Elf. A level 10 toon can purchase the recipe and hand it to a level 50. It will show up on the 50's recipe list as producing a level 10 enhancment, and when crafted will be exactly that. It currently can not be purchased from the Elf by toons under level 10. (Gives an error message about not enough room for the recipe.) Larryw24 22:32, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Unique

The in-game description for all three in this set is UNIQUE -- Only one may be slotted per character. Our page says only one may be slotted per power. I assume our page is wrong. Can anyone verify? Larryw24 22:40, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Effect

Does the Run/Jump/Flight/Range affect ALL travel powers, or just the one the enhancement is slotted on? Does it affect all movement, with or without Sprint, or just travel power(s). The equivalent in Blessings of the Zephyr appears to have the same benefit but is not unique. Larryw24 22:40, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

They are standard set IOs. The enhancement percentages only affect the power it is slotted in. It cannot be slotted in Sprint or Passive +movement powers, only travel powers and their pre-reqs. Winter's Gift has one unique IO (20% Slow Resistance) and so does BotZ (4pts -KB). The other two in both sets are not unique.-- 22:44, 29 December 2008 (UTC)

Recipe Pool

What do people think of adding a new "Special" recipe pool? Currently these are tagged as unknown origin which isn't true, but at the same time none of the standard pools is correct.CmdrAdeon 18:21, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

That's a good point. Let me play with the template a bit and see what I can come up with. --Eabrace 19:52, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

I modified the DropHeader template, so it should be usable. Don't think I broke anything, but have to run, so will have to check when I get back in a bit. --Eabrace 20:37, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

As seen here, we were already discussing that. However, I don't think we should create a Special category that is ONLY for Candy Keeper items. As on the template talk page, I think it should be a "misc" section to catch everything not already established (and future weirdo sources) sounds good, and point to the main set page for an explanation of where they come from. -- Agge (talk) 21:05, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

With the modifications I put in, if you don't specify the actual method for obtaining the recipe, the template will generate the following:

"This recipe cannot be bought from stores. It must be obtained by special means, from another player at Wentworth's or the Black Market, or by trading. It is special drop."

However, I built in the flexibility to specify the method for obtaining the recipe using an additional parameter ("special"). I didn't automatically link it to the main set page, but that could be done pretty easily within the "special" text. Anyway, the modifications I made to the template are very generic and not specific to the Winter Event or Candy Keeper items, so I think we're good to go here and we've got room for growth. --Eabrace 21:21, 22 December 2008 (UTC)

Oh, and I left a spot in the template for a generic "special drop" icon, but it's set to the big question mark for now. --Eabrace 21:25, 22 December 2008 (UTC)