Winter Nexus is an event held from 15 December 2022 to 03 January 2023 (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, and Yoiul Festival-themed Abyssal Proving Grounds.
Login campaign (13 Days of Nexus)
Capsuleers must log in for 13 out of the 19 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 skill points and 20,000 EverMarks.
| Day | For Alpha Accounts | Additional for Omega |
|---|---|---|
| 1 |  Yoiul Festival Snowballs Crate (Tier 1 Gift) |
 25,000 Skill Points (Tier 3 Gift)
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| 2 | Yoiul's Ascent Fireworks Crate (Tier 1 Gift) |  Ice Storm Filaments Crate (Tier 2 Gift)
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| 3 |  Winter Nexus Expert System (Tier 1 Gift) |
 Cruor Aurora Universalis SKIN (Tier 2 Gift)
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| 4 |  DSHR-01H Highsec Ice Storm Filament (Tier 1 Gift) |
2,500 EverMarks (Tier 4 Gift) |
| 5 |  10,000 Skill Points (Tier 3 Gift) |
 50,000 Skill Points (Tier 4 Gift)
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| 6 | Worm Aurora Universalis SKIN (Tier 3 Gift) |
Skybreaker Aurora Universalis SKIN (Tier 3 Gift)
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| 7 | Dramiel Aurora Universalis SKIN (Tier 3 Gift) |
4,000 EverMarks (Tier 4 Gift) |
| 8 | DSHR-01H Highsec Ice Storm Filament (Tier 1 Gift) |
Daredevil Aurora Universalis SKIN (Tier 3 Gift)
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| 9 | 25,000 Skill Points (Tier 3 Gift) |
 100,000 Skill Points (Tier 4 Gift)
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| 10 | Succubus Aurora Universalis SKIN (Tier 3 Gift) |
6,000 EverMarks (Tier 4 Gift) |
| 11 | DSHR-01H Highsec Ice Storm Filament (Tier 1 Gift) |
Damavik Aurora Universalis SKIN (Tier 3 Gift)
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| 12 | Astero Aurora Universalis SKIN (Tier 3 Gift) |
7,500 EverMarks (Tier 4 Gift) |
| 13 | 50,000 Skill Points (Tier 4 Gift) |
 250,000 Skill Points (Tier 4 Gift)
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Agency campaign (Yoiul festival)
| Category | Task Name | Description | Reward |
|---|---|---|---|
| Combat Challenges | |||
| Combat introduction 1/3 | Burst through the gate | Enter a Wightstorm Forward Base, Muster Point, or Transit Site located in a Volatile Ice Storm in high-security, low-security, or null-security space. You will need a Tech II fit battleship (or equivalent) for the fight ahead. |  10 points
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| Combat introduction 2/3 | points
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| Combat introduction 3/3 | points
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| Exploration Challenges | |||
| Exploration introduction 1/3 | Slip through the back door | Enter a Wightstorm Comms Relay, Strategic Node or Crypto Facility site located in a Volatile Ice Storm in high-security, low-security or null-security space. You will need a data analyzer module and a probe scanner for the task ahead. | 10 points
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| Exploration introduction 2/3 | points
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| Exploration introduction 3/3 | points
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| Mining Challenges | |||
| Mining introduction 1/3 | Into the eye of the storm | Enter a Fading Volatile Ice Field, Fresh Volatile Ice Field, or Friable Volatile Ice Field located in a Volatile Ice Storm in high-security, low-security, or null-security space. You will need ice harvesting equipment for the task ahead | 10 points
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| Mining introduction 2/3 | points
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| Mining introduction 3/3 | points
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| Festival Challenges | |||
| Festival introduction 1/2 | Target Practice | Time to dust off your festival launchers. Test your snowball launching prowess on any NPC. | 5 points
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| Festival introduction 2/2 | Snowball fight! | Target another capsuleer and shoot them with a snowball. Snowballs do no damage and are safe to use even in highsec space. | 1x DSHR-01H 5 points
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| Snowball challenge 1/9 (repeatable) |
Void the warranty | Probe down a Wightstorm data site within an ice storm and hit the hackable tower with a snowball. | 10 points
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| Snowball challenge 2/9 (repeatable) |
points
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| Snowball challenge 3/9 (repeatable) |
points
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| Snowball challenge 4/9 (repeatable) |
points
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| Snowball challenge 5/9 (repeatable) |
points
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| Snowball challenge 6/9 (repeatable) |
points
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| Snowball challenge 7/9 (repeatable) |
points
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| Snowball challenge 8/9 (repeatable) |
points
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| Snowball challenge 9/9 (repeatable) |
points
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| Points | Reward |
|---|---|
| 50 | Typhoon Aurora Universalis SKIN
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| 100 | DSHR-01H Highsec Ice Storm Filament
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| 150 | Dominix Aurora Universalis SKIN
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| 200 |  Wightstorm Sunyata Booster II
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| 250 |  VXN-01N Nullsec Ice Storm Filament
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| 300 | Scorpion Aurora Universalis SKIN
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| 350 | Armageddon Aurora Universalis SKIN
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| 400 |  DNNR-01L Lowsec Ice Storm Filament
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| 450 | Garmur Aurora Universalis SKIN
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| 500 | Wightstorm Nirvana Booster II
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| 550 | Ice Storm Filaments Crate
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| 600 | Sacrilege Aurora Universalis SKIN
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| 650 | Ice Storm Filaments Crate
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| 700 | Ishtar Aurora Universalis SKIN
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| 750 | Wightstorm Cetana Booster II
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| 800 | Ice Storm Filaments Crate
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| 850 | Cerberus Aurora Universalis SKIN
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| 900 | Muninn Aurora Universalis SKIN
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Volatile Ice Storm
Volatile Ice Storms have begun to appear across highsec, lowsec, and nullsec space. These ice storms spread out across the stargate network two jumps from a central system, and occasionally move from system to system just like metaliminal storms. These storms provide bonuses to ship thermal resistances and module overheating for all capsuleers flying within them.
Sansha's Nation and Outer Ring Excavations have both mobilized to take advantage of the novel forms of stellar ice found within these storms.
Ice Storm Filaments
Ice Storm Filaments transport capsuleers to a System affected by the Volatile Ice Storm.
| Area / Ship Count | 1 | 5 | 10 |
|---|---|---|---|
| Highsec |
DSHR-01H | DNCR-05H | PRNCR-10H |
| Lowsec |
DNNR-01L | BLTZN-05L | RDLF-10L |
| Nullsec |
VXN-01N | CMT-05N | CPD-10N |
Combat anomalies
Wightstorm combat anomalies have begun appearing within the Volatile Ice Storms. These sites are full of hostile Sansha's nation vessels, and CONCORD advises capsuleers to bring a battlecruiser or better when attempting to engage with these forces.
Wightstorm Forward Base
Found within storms that originate in highsec space appears to be guarded by the weakest Sansha fleets.
Wightstorm Transit Site
Found within storms that originate in lowsec space appears to be guarded by intermediate strength Sansha fleets.
Wightstorm Muster Point
Found within storms that originate in nullsec space appears to be guarded by the strongest Sansha fleets.
Hacking sites
Wightstorm data signatures can be found within Volatile Ice Storms. These Sansha's Nation data sites require scan probes and data analyzer modules.
Wightstorm Comms Relay
Wightstorm Strategic Node
Wightstorm Crypto Facility
Mining sites
Volatile Ice Field anomalies can also be discovered within Volatile Ice Storms. These fields of newly discovered stellar ice have recently been captured by ORE and Mordu's Legion forces who have driven away the Sansha harvesting fleets. These ice fields can be accessed through a special ORE-commandeered acceleration gate that only allows medium and small mining and hauling ships to enter (Expedition Frigates, Mining Barges, Exhumers, Haulers, Blockade Runners, Deep Space Transports, and the Porpoise).
The volatile ice found within these fields cannot be reprocessed by standard facilities, however Outer Ring Excavations has set up mobile ice collection operations within each of these ice fields, and is willing to trade with capsuleers who contribute to their mining operation. Capsuleers can trade seven units of volatile ice with the ORE representatives in the ice fields to receive a package of valuable salvage and items that ORE forces collected from the wrecks of Sansha ships.
Rumors suggest that other valuable Sansha salvage has frozen directly into some of the ice chunks and can be occasionally picked up along with the ice by normal mining activities.
Fading Volatile Ice Field
Fresh Volatile Ice Field
Friable Volatile Ice Field
Yoiul Chilling Spree (Daily Campaign)
The Chilling Spree will offer up Skill Points for hitting fellow capsuleers with snowballs daily!
Abyssal Proving Grounds
If slinging snowballs at each other isn’t enough, you’ll also be able to go nose to nose with your fellow capsuleers in dedicated Abyssal Proving Grounds events, themed around the special Ice Storm environment! You’ll have new opportunities to overheat your modules for longer and get a bigger speed boost from afterburner modules too!
| 16th December - 19th December | Yoiul 1v1 T1 Cuisers |
| 30th December - 2nd January | Yoiul T1 destroyer 4-player free-for-all |
| 7th January - 8th January | 2v2 Battleships arena |
Note: The battleship 2v2 will feature a repeatable challenge that grants 100 million ISK for doing 10,000 damage in the arena.
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 News: Winter Nexus Returns!
- Patch Notes: Version 20.11 2022-12-15.1