Winter Nexus (2021)
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Winter Nexus is an event held from 09 December 2021 to 4 January 2022 (downtime to downtime) and includes Volatile Ice Storms which feature Wightstorm Sites, 13 Days of Nexus Login Campaign, the Winter Nexus Agency Challenge, the Yoiul Chilling Spree Daily Campaign, and Yoiul Festival-themed Abyssal Proving Grounds.
Login campaign (13 Days of Nexus)
Capsuleers must log in for 13 out of the 27 days to collect all rewards. A total of 85k Skill Points are available to Alpha clone accounts, while
Omega clone accounts have access to an additional 425k.
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Agency campaign (Winter Nexus)
The overall event point rewards are available in the table below. Rewards are immediately attached to the redeeming character, and can not be attained as an item.
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Volatile Ice Storm
Volatile Ice Storm is a metaliminal storm that moves between High, Low and Null Security systems. The center system and its neighbors experience the Strong effect, while systems 2-3 jumps out from the center get a Weak effect. Volatile Ice Storms can overlap. The sites spawned depend on the security status of the center system (e.g. a low security system in a highsec-centered ice storm will have highsec sites).
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4% | 10% |
Ice Storm Filaments
Ice Storm Filaments transport capsuleers to a System affected by the Volatile Ice Storm.
There are separate Ice Storm Filaments for High, Low and Null security systems, capable of taking up to one, five, or ten ships.
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DSHR-01H | DNCR-05H | PRNCR-10H |
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DNNR-01L | BLTZN-05L | RDLF-10L |
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VXN-01N | CMT-05N | CPD-10N |
Wightstorm Combat Anomalies
Wightstorm Forward Base
These sites appear in Highsec within systems with the Volatile Ice Storm Effect. Similar to the event site from 2020, the site is doable with a well-fit Battlecruiser with application support.
- Main article: Wightstorm Forward Base
Wightstorm Transit Site
These sites appear in Nullsec within systems with the Volatile Ice Storm Effect. Similar to the event site from 2020, the site is doable with a well-fit Battleship with application support.
- Main article: Wightstorm Transit Site
Wightstorm Muster Point
These sites appear in Lowsec within systems with the Volatile Ice Storm Effect. Similar to the event site from 2020, the site is doable with a well-fit Battleship with application support.
- Main article: Wightstorm Muster Point
Wightstorm Anchorage
These sites are rare and appear in Low- and Nullsec within systems with the Volatile Ice Storm Effect.
- Main article: Wightstorm Anchorage
Volatile Ice Fields
Volatile Ice Fields contain Ice that cannot be processed but can be traded in 7 at a time for a package of Salvage and Sansha items at the Site.
Different areas of space have different sites:
- High Security: Fading Volatile Ice Field
- Low Security: Fresh Volatile Ice Field
- Null Security: Friable Volatile Ice Field
Only the following ships can fit through the Acceleration Gate:
- Expedition Frigates
- Mining Barges
- Exhumers
- Industrial Ships
- Blockade Runners
- Deep Space Transports
- Porpoise
Wightstorm Data Sites
All Sites are:
- Level IV Data Sites. 86 scanner probe strength is able to scan them down but higher is recommended.
- only have one container that requires a Data Analyzer to unlock
Different areas of space have different sites:
- High Security: Wightstorm Communication Relay is the easiest
- Null Security Wightstorm Cryptographic Array is of intermediate difficulty
- Low Security: Wightstorm Strategic Node is the hardest
Rewards
- SKINs: Glacial Drift, Aurora Universalis
- Filaments: Proving Grounds, Calm Abyssal, Needlejack and Ice Strom
- Overseer's Personal Effects 5th - 23th Tier
- Fireworks: Yoiul Festival Snowballs, Snowstar Crystalburst, Rimefrost Starburst
- Basic/Potent/Extended 'Brainfreeze' Cerebral Accelerators
- Agency Drugs: Agency 'Hardshell', Agency 'Pyrolancea'
- Wightstorm Booster: Sunyata, Nirvana, Rapture, Cetana, Manasikara, Vitarka
- Sansha Faction modules and ammo
Yoiul Chilling Spree (Daily Campaign)
During the event, you will earn 5,000 Skill Points a day for hitting other Capsuleers with Snowballs. During the Proving Grounds event, an additional 5k SP per day can be earned for entering the Proving Grounds.
Abyssal Proving Grounds
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10th December - 14th December | 2v2 Assault Frigates | |||
18th December | 1v1 Navy Frigates | |||
31st December - 4th January | T1 Cruiser with T1 modules FFA | |||
8th January | 1v1 Battleships |
Special game mechanics
All of these proving events will feature a special set of environmental effects that increase afterburner speed bonuses by 100% and reduce heat damage suffered by overheating modules by 50%.
External links
- EVE-Online News: Winter Nexus Holiday Season Returns!
- EVE-Online Patch Notes: Version 19.11.2
- YouTube: djAFK's EVE Online - Winter Nexus Exploration / Data Sites (from last year, still viable)
- YouTube: djAFK's EVE Online - Winter Nexus Mining (from last year, still viable)