The first major seasonal event is now live in Amazon's MMO, New World, bringing with it a bit of holiday cheer into the title. After New World game director Scot Lane teased the winter content last month, players can now take part in the first ever Winter Convergence Festival over the next four weeks. Along with the increased snowfall and Northern Lights appearing in the sky, players will have new items to chase as well as content to take part in.
According to Amazon, the Winter Convergence Festival brings a Yeti named the Winter Wanderer to Aeternum. However, malevanent forces led by the Winter Warrior are also on the rise, seeking to bring about a Forever Winter. Ice Caves have also appeared across the land, along with elite Yeti enemies which players will be questing to defeat. However, the event also comes with new activities such as collecting lost presents as well as upgrading a Tree of Light through new Town Project Quests.
The Winter Wanderer has also opened a new shop in the four regions called Everfall, Monarch’s Bluffs, Weaver’s Fen, and Brightwood. Known as The Convergence Shop, this friendly Yeti has all sorts of event items for purchase in exchange for Winter Tokens. However, much of the inventory is initially locked behind reputation threshholds opening more options as new ranks are achieved, similar to how Faction reputation works in New World. Here are all the ways players can raise their Convergence Shop reputation in New World, as well as some methods of farming event rep.
Convergence Shop Ranks
During the Winter Festival, the Wanderer's Shop has 5 total ranks to progress through, which in turn opens up more items for sale. The five official ranks and the requirements to unlock them are as follows:
- Rank 1 Reveler - Everyone starts at this point
- Rank 2 Celebrant - Players will need 1,000 Reputation
- Rank 3 Merrymaker - Players will need 3,000 Reputation
- Rank 4 Joybringer - Players will need 6,000 Reputation
- Rank 5 Holiday Regent - Players will need 10,000 Reputation
While Winter Tokens are used as currency to purchase the special event gear, players will need to increase their reputation at the shop through the various limited time activities added in this New World update.
Winter Convergence Festival Activities
In order to progress through the Wanderer's store ranks, players will need to take part in any of the three available activities. Not only do these award their own specific rewards, players can repeat these activities as often as they want, which also awards reputation. In addition, some daily quests may also hand out reputation as well.
- Lost Present Recovery
This is likely the easiest activity to take part in as the land of Aeternum has lost presents scattered all about. According to the event's lore, the Frigid Folk have been stealing gifts, some of which have fallen and left on the ground. By picking them up, players can turn them in at the Holiday Hut located in any four of the Winter Villages. Doing so awards Winter Tokens as well as 5 reputation points for each present obtained in the wild.
- Gleamite Collecting
Taking place only at night, meteorites have begun falling out of the sky. These random and dynamic events allow players to harvest the mineral from these meteors or search for smaller chunks around the impact site. The recovered Gleamite can be exchanged at the Holiday Hut for more Tokens and reputation.
- The Convergence Spirit
During the Winter Convergence Festival, players can take part in a special Town Project which can be visited at any Settlement. As a collective, players can finish tasks that will upgrade the Settlement's Tree of Light. Upgrading the tree leads to improved daily gifts that can be collected at the tree, awarding reputation and tokens. New World players who have reached level 60 can also get a Diamond Gypsum from their first three interactions with it which can be used to form a Gypsum Orb. These valuable items can be used to increase a specific item's expertise.
Potential Reputation Farming Methods
With this limited time event, many players are going to search for the quickest and most optimal way to rank up the Winter Wanderer's Shop. For right now, the fastest method appears to center around present gathering. Not only are these located all over the map, players will get 5 reputation points for each gift they recover. Considering how much running around players do, the opportunity to continually pick up gifts will result in plenty of reputation gains, unlike the Gleamite event which only happens at night and in specific locations.
One other method players should do each day is visit each of the Winter Villages. The Winter Wanderer has 1 present at each location inside an item called the Bountiful Gift Sack, that players can earn once per day. Each daily gift is worth 125 reputation points, meaning that if all four are gathered, players can net 500 easy points each day.
- Everfall - The Winter Village is on the eastern side of the zone, inside of Bearclaw Pass. The Bearclaw Spirit Shrine is nearby as well.
- Brightwood - Players can find the village on the northwestern side of the zone not too far from the Wolfbough/Fort Alazar Spirit Shrine.
- Weaver's Fen - Players can find this in the northern part of the zone near the Mallory’s Refuge Spirit Shrine.
- Monarch's Bluff - This village is in the southern part of the zone, near by to the Dreadscythe Spirit Shrine.
Finally, players should visit settlements each day as there is 1 gift per day that awards 100 reputation points near the Tree of Light.
New World is available now on PC.
Source: New World