Holiday Events - River Crossing and Winter Peak

River Crossing and Winter Peak are zones that are only open for events. Most of the holiday events happen here (Halloween, Valentine's Day), as well as some others (Plumb Rotten, for example).

For each event, the zone is redecorated, and the event characters are different, but the event itself works the same way every time.

Each event has a raid boss, who waits near the top of the zone. This boss is the primary source of trophies, and as usual, you want as many trophies as possible to get your trophy quantity, individual rank, and troop rank rewards.

To engage the raid boss, your troop must donate special monsters. The type of special differs for each event, but they can always be found only by fighting in the River Crossing zone. Once you've donated enough specials, you can engage the boss in battle. Win to get trophies, and choose higher difficulties to get more trophies.

After every battle with the raid boss, the number of specials required to engage increases. The amount of trophies given by the boss also increases every time you beat him.

As with other events, when the event is halfway over, the boss gains a chance to become enraged. An enraged boss has more HP and hits harder than the same difficulty non-enraged, but the enraged boss will give double trophies to those who beat him.

In addition to the raid boss, there is also a lieutenant. The lieutenant requires you to battle monsters around River Crossing before you can battle him. First he requires 2 battles, then 4, 6, 8 and finally 10. Once you've battled enough monsters, you can fight him. (He has a 30 minute timer, but if you don't beat him, it just resets.)

Beating the lieutenant gives you a guaranteed event special to donate to the boss. It also grants 5 event tokens. These are the generic tokens that are used in many events, so you may already have some.

Mortimer also appears in these events. After every five battles you have in the zone (not including the boss or lieutenant), Mortimer will challenge you to a duel. If you win, you get 25 trophies. Mortimer is a wimp, and super or better teams can generally beat him easily with 1 energy. For some, though, the 25 trophies aren't worth it, so many players simply ignore him.

Mortimer has a 15 minute timer - if you wait longer than that to battle him, he'll go away again until you beat another 5 monsters.

Finally, there is a trader. The trader takes event tokens and gives you something in return. You can trade directly for trophies or energy. For a lot of tokens, you can get a rare monster unique to the event, or an event costume. Remember, you can use your event tokens from previous events, or you can save them for upcoming events if you're an obsessive monster or clothing collector.

Now go get those trophies, and I'll see you in River Crossing or Winter Peak the next time a holiday rolls around!