World of Warships: New Year Gifts and Rewards – Get ready for the Grind!
10 min readSoooo… we now know more about the New Year Event and basically, if you want the Puerto Rico, get ready for one nice grind.
With the New Year celebrations on the horizon, a fresh layer of snow is coating the Port of New York and the much-loved Snowflakes are once again set to appear on your ships.
REWARDS FOR SNOWFLAKES
In line with our traditions, ships of Tier V and above will feature Snowflakes with holiday bonuses. Throughout Update 0.8.11, the first victorious battles with each of these ships will reward you as follows:
- Ships of Tier V–VII will bring you 400-750 Coal.
- Ships of Tier VIII–IX will bring you 75 Steel.
- Ships of Tier X will bring a Santa’s Gift container which can drop doubloons, Free XP, Coal, and other goodies. If luck is on your side, you might even get a Premium ship!
Please note: a Snowflake can be ‘blown off’ a ship only once during Update 0.8.11.
NEW YEAR DIRECTIVES
The new game event tasks you with completing 82 missions spread across seven Directives. Completing Directives and their missions will bring you rewards, among which the following particularly stand out:
- VII Gorizia
- The New Year permanent camouflage that can be applied to the majority of Tier VIII ships
- 4x Santa’s Gift containers which have a certain chance of dropping one of the Premium ships
- 1 950 Shipbuilding Tokens—a resource needed to buy construction boosters for the Dockyard
- 24x Shipbuilding containers with items from the new collection
- 9x Port slots
- 18,180 Coal
- 2 250 Steel
- One Santa’s Big Gift container
VII Gorizia and a Commander with six skill points can be obtained by completing five out of the 13 missions of the third Directive. The remaining four Directives are aimed at the most determined “Sea Wolves”—those Captains who truly have their hearts set on speeding up the construction of cruiser X Puerto Rico.
If you already have Gorizia in your Port, you’ll receive an amount in doubloons that corresponds to the cost of the ship as compensation, plus a Commander and Port slot.
The first Directive opens up with the release of Update 0.8.11, once server maintenance is complete. The other Directives will become available on December 17, December 21, December 25, December 29, January 2, and January 7. The Directives will be available for completion until January 14.
REWARDS FOR THE COLLECTION
The new collection consists of 20 elements related to various stages of the shipbuilding process, taking a World War II-era U.S. large cruiser as the example. The collection offers you insights into how a warship is built, starting from the keel-laying stage, then looking at the various roles and people involved in the construction process, the machinery used at dockyards, and the ship’s armament and equipment.
- Each completed subcollection will reward you with 1 day of Premium Account
- The reward for completing the entire collection is a Santa’s Big Gift container.
Elements of the collection can only be obtained from Shipbuilding containers.
You can find the following in a Shipbuilding container:
- An item from the Shipbuilding collection
- One of the following: Frosty Fir Tree or New Year Streamer expendable camouflage
- One of the following: 100 doubloons; 400 Coal; 1 day of Premium Account; 1,000 Free XP; 2 500 Elite Commander XP; or 50 000 credits.
The exchange rate of duplicates for other elements is 4:1. After you complete the collection, all duplicates will automatically be exchanged for 15 000 credits.
DAILY SHIPMENTS: CLAIM, CLAIM, CLAIM
During Update 0.8.11, log in to the game between December 12 through January 2 inclusive to start getting valuable rewards via the Daily Shipments section.
You can grab a total of 14 rewards, with the Daily Shipments running for 21 days. Thus, you can skip seven days out of the three weeks and still claim all the rewards.
COMBAT MISSIONS FOR GORIZIA
Obtaining VII Gorizia unlocks access to four consecutive chains of combat missions. The first one can only be completed playing Gorizia. The others require ships of Tier V–X. The missions will be accessible from December 12 till January 16.
Complete all the missions, and the following rewards will be yours:
- 12x Shipbuilding containers
- 2x New Year permanent camouflages for Tier VIII ships
- Researchable ships VI Furious, VI Izmail, VI Guépard, and VI Trento. They come with all researchable modules, Port slots, and Commanders with three skill points
If any of these ships are already in your Port, you’ll get compensation in credits, a Commander, and a Port slot.
EVENT CONTAINERS
Daily Shipments, Snowflakes, and the event’s Directives will bring you Santa’s Gift containers.
A Santa’s Gift container drops one of the following rewards:
- A Premium ship and Commander with 10 skill points
- 300 doubloons
- 2 500 Coal
- 10 000 Free XP
- 30 days of Warships Premium Account
- 4x New Year Streamer camouflages
- 4x Frosty Fir Tree camouflages
- 50x Zulu signals
- 50x Papa Papa signals
- 50x Zulu Hotel signals
- 50x Equal Speed Charlie London signals
A Santa’s Big Gift container drops one of the following rewards:
- A Premium ship and Commander with 10 skill points
- 1 000 doubloons
- 7 500 Coal
- 90 days of Warships Premium Account
- 12x New Year Streamer camouflages
- 12x Frosty Fir Tree camouflages
- 15x Dragon special signals
- 15x Red Dragon special signals
- 15x Wyvern special signals
- 15x Hydra special signals
- 15x Ouroboros special signals
- 15x Basilisk special signals
- 15x Scylla special signals
- 15x Leviathan special signals
Santa’s Big Gift containers offer higher chances of dropping a ship.
A Santa’s Mega Gift container drops one of the following rewards:
- A Premium ship and Commander with 10 skill points
- 2 000 doubloons
- 12 500 Coal
- 180 days of Warships Premium Account
- 20x New Year Streamer camouflages
- 20x Frosty Fir Tree camouflages
- 5x Mosaic camouflages
- 5x Asian Lantern camouflages
- 5x Spring Sky camouflages
- 30x Dragon special signals
- 30x Red Dragon special signals
- 30x Wyvern special signals
- 30x Hydra special signals
- 30x Ouroboros special signals
- 30x Basilisk special signals
- 30x Scylla special signals
- 30x Leviathan special signals
Santa’s Mega Gift containers offer the highest chances of dropping a ship.
Rules of Compensation
- If a container drops a ship that is already in your Port, your New Year gift will be replaced with a supercontainer that will drop another ship from the list, a Port slot as well as a Commander with 10 skill points.
- If you already have all the ships from the list in your Port, your Santa’s container will drop a different reward out of those that can possibly drop from it.
- If you didn’t immediately open your container, and prior to opening it you obtained a ship that could drop from the container, it’s possible for a duplicate ship to be dropped. If this occurs, you’ll receive compensation equal to the ship’s cost in the form of doubloons, a Commander with 10 skill points, and a Port slot.
is it possible to buy our way throught? i like this game and this ship but i just dont have time to play as much as required.
if you’re willing to drop some 60k (6000 +8000 +10000 boosters should get you to the point where you can buy the ship instantly, then it’s i think 36000) gold on single ship, sure…
I hope that you guys don’t have too much planned in December and early January because if you want the Puerto Rico (that is actually a pretty nice ship) a big grind is awaiting…. NO WAY my friend. I will spend my money on real value stuff, maybe new SSD, new mobile phone, and my time with people in real life. So if you go and try this free grind, lol GO AHEAD and swim fast .