Winter is here, and DC Universe Online is launching its grand winter event. This year's Season's Greedings will run from December 2nd to December 29th, 2025.

DCUO Season's Greedings will bring many winter-themed rewards, changes to Ally system, and the new Ally, Mister Freeze!

Season's Greedings Seasonal Rewards

Simply log in to the game to receive the following rewards:

• Once per Account: Mogo Acorn Supply Box (x20)
• Once per Character: Ally: Mister Freeze (Level 4)
• Once per Character: Skill Point Token

Winter Vendor

During the Season's Greedings event, players can exchange Holly Leaves for the following items at Winter Vendor:

Base Invitation: Mister Freeze

Endless Winter Cowl Style

Allwinter Mercenary Styles:

• Allwinter Mercenary Helm
• Allwinter Mercenary (Modified) Helm
• Allwinter Mercenary Beard

Toon Shaded Winter Chroma Pack:

• Toon Shaded Winter Chroma 1
• Toon Shaded Winter Chroma 2
• Toon Shaded Winter Chroma 3

Seasonal Base Items:

• Snow Clouds – Heavy
• Holly Jolly Fireplace
• Festival of Lights Fireplace
• Frozen Lake Floor
• Batman – Santa Claus: Silent Knight #1
• Batman – Santa Claus: Silent Knight #2
• Batman – Santa Claus: Silent Knight #3
• Batman – Santa Claus: Silent Knight #4

Batman appearance is inspired by Justice League: Endless Winter. His helmet includes a beard style that can be customized with face styles and supports area-by-area dyeing.

How To Get Holly Leaves?

This event's crisis is triggered by Orange Lantern of Avarice. Players must take on the role of either hero or villain to retrieve or destroy the stolen goods and obtain Holly Leaves by completing open-world events and raids.

The rewards for Holly Leaves obtained in daily missions, Daily Journal Missions, and Alerts have been adjusted.

• Daily Journal Missions: Reduced from 6 to 4.
• Seasonal Alert Rewards: Increased from 4 to 8.

Players can complete Season's Greedings Daily Missions at Hal Jordan (Heroes) or Sinestro (Villains), and the missions can be completed at multiple locations:

• Metropolis Seasonal Hub
• Gotham City Seasonal Hub
• House of Legends

The missions will automatically complete after you talk to the NPCs in these areas; you don't need to go back to the mission location.

Marketplace Bundles

Additionally, unlocking Marketplace Bundles will also grant you some Holly Leaves. The contents of this bundle are as follows:

• 50 Holly Leaves
• Festive Winter Hat
• Reindeer Antlers
• Jolly Aura
• Snowflake Aura

Ally Legion System

DCUO Season's Greedings introduces Ally Legion System. When unlocking an ally now, you can choose to use Legion Tribute tokens to unlock it for a single character or for the entire account. This is to prevent players from repeatedly training allies.

Unlocking an ally for multiple characters will require a significant number of Ally Legion Tributes, while unlocking it for only one character will require fewer tokens.

Legion Tribute tokens cannot be exchanged for DC Universe Online cash, but can be traded in Marketplace using Daybreak cash or Marketplace cash. Members and free players can each receive 250 Ally Legion Tributes, while completing Season's Greedings event can earn up to 1,000 Ally Legion Tributes.

Ally Legion Tributes are account-bound and cannot be traded with other players after acquisition. However, other characters under the same account can use them to unlock allies.

Before using Ally Legion Tributes, ensure your Allies are at the highest level and meet the required standards, as some Allies, such as Bruce Wayne's and April Fool's, cannot be shared with other characters.

Mister Freeze Ally

Mister Freeze can be leveled up to maximum immediately upon acquisition. Its skill deals approximately 10.4 million AoE damage to 5 targets, currently the second highest among all Allies. It deals approximately 3.94 million damage to a single target, which is average. Overall, it is inferior to Superboy in AoE and inferior to Flashpoint Batman or Zod in single-target damage.

Passive 1

When a player is attacked while holding a shield, there is a 25% chance to summon a Snow Devil. A maximum of three Snow Devils can exist simultaneously, lasting for 19.5 seconds. However, in practice, a maximum of two Snow Devils are summoned at a time, rarely reaching three.

This passive has a good trigger rate in actual combat because Snow Devils deal decent damage and have a wide attack range. It's suitable for tank classes that rely on shields, providing additional damage and indirect healing.

Passive 2

When your character consumes Supercharge, a continuous frost damage zone is generated around them. The duration depends on Supercharge consumed: 2500 points for 5 seconds, 5000 points for 10 seconds, and 10000 points for 20 seconds.

This passive synergizes well with builds that frequently use Supercharge, dealing sustained and significant AoE damage and preventing opponents from getting close, thus improving survivability.

Mister Freeze ally is primarily geared towards tanks, especially ice-based tanks, and provides additional damage and healing through summons and the damage-over-time zone. For DPS classes, Passive 1 might have some use with shield-based builds, but its overall design leans more towards tank support.

This concludes the overview of DC Universe Online Season's Greedings. Besides the event content, the most important aspect of this event is Ally Legion System. You can acquire Ally Legion Tributes based on your class and needs and enjoy seasonal events.

Diablo 4 Season 11, Season of Divine Intervention, has been postponed from the previously speculated December 9th to December 11th, specifically at 8:30 PM Pacific Standard Time, unlike the usual 10:00 AM start time.

Season 11 differs significantly from PTR 2.5.0, including a large amount of new content, system rework, and balance adjustments. However, the core theme is a slower overall game pace, increased difficulty, and a general nerf to build strength compared to Season 10.

In PTR, players were generally dissatisfied with changes to crafting aspects such as Sanctification system and Masterworking, and the official response was that these would be adjusted. These changes are now live in Season 11 release. Let's take a look at the specific changes.

Sanctification System

Sanctification is a new seasonal mechanic introduced in Diablo IV Season 11. The development team seemed to have considered making it a permanent system, but recent campfire chat hints that it might not be.

Veteran ARPG players will recognize that this system's core concept originates from similar systems in other ARPGs, such as Vaal orbs in Path of Exile and Worldstone Shards in Diablo 2 mod.

Essentially, it's a gambling mechanic with gear. Players can potentially gain powerful buffs to a piece of gear or brick it. Based on strong feedback from the player community, the development team made two key changes to Sanctification mechanic.

Removing Negative Effects On Specific Gear

In PTR, Sanctification could replace an affix on gear. While the new affix might be powerful, it could also brick the gear by replacing Greater Affix on Uniques and Mythic Unique items.

The current official solution prevents the attributes of Unique and Mythic Unique gear from being replaced. This means that the risk of destruction for top-tier gear, which is of greatest concern to most players, is no longer present. This negative effect may only exist on Legendary gear, and its impact is significantly reduced.

Changing No-effect Outcome Result

In PTR, there was approximately a 20% chance that sanctification would result in no change, meaning the equipment neither improved nor damaged. In Season 11 live servers, this 20% probability has been replaced with an increase in equipment quality.

This effect works in conjunction with Masterworking system, as Masterworking can increase equipment quality by up to 25%, with each 1% quality increase boosting all equipment stats by 1%. Sanctification now directly increases equipment quality by 5% to 25%, improving base stats such as armor, resistances, weapon damage, and the values ​​of all affixes, tempers, and mythic equipment stats.

Sanctification Probabilities

Based on official information and player testing results in PTR, the possible results and approximate probability distribution of sanctification are as follows:

10% probability: Replace an affix

• Approximately 15% probability: Add a new power.
• Approximately 20% probability: Add a more powerful affix.
• Approximately 30-35% chance: Adds a random powerful affix.
• Approximately 10-15% chance: Improves equipment quality.

According to Diablo 4 community manager, the new Might pool contains some incredibly powerful options, and the affixes added by Sanctification come from a specific pool of powerful affixes, which may include:

• Cooldown reduction
• Attack speed
• +2 to all skills on jewelry
• Doubling the strength of gems
• Percentage core stats
• Total resistance
• Crit chance
• Movement speed
• Lucky chance
• Resource cost reduction
• Maximum resource
• Maximum life

Defense System Overhaul  

Diablo 4 has made many changes to the defense system, including a rework of Fortify and Toughness system.

Fortify Reworked

Diablo 4 Season 11 introduced a new attribute, Fortify. It has also been reworked in the live servers of Season 11. It no longer directly provides damage reduction. The new mechanism is: when you take damage, Fortify points are converted into health regeneration, essentially a second health bar.

Fortify can coexist with Barrier, but they function differently: Barrier adds a shield to health, while Fortify quickly regenerates health after it is depleted.

New Defense System

Season 11 introduced a completely new Resistance and Armor system, but the specific workings (such as the cap) are somewhat unclear.

Additionally, UI displays a comprehensive Toughness value as a reference for survivability at each difficulty level, but you shouldn't blindly rely on this value. You must balance improving all resistances; otherwise, too low a single resistance can still lead to instant death.

Intelligence class can equip Skulls gems. For non-Intelligence classes, if the primary attribute is Armor, socket Diamonds to increase all resistances.

Affix Updates

Rings and gloves will have new affixes such as life on hit and coldown reduction, and Life on hit will be a crucial survival affix.

Crafting Changes

Tempering System

Tempering changes are consistent with PTR, and each item can now only be tempered once. As compensation, Diablo 4 items will drop with an additional base affix. While player control over affixes is reduced, the total number of affixes remains unchanged.

Masterworking Upgrade Rework

Masterworking has received some adjustments compared to PTR. Its maximum level has been increased from 12 to 25. While the increase per level is smaller, the cumulative increase may be greater, perhaps providing a 50% increase in base stats. Furthermore, there is now a chance to critically strike upon upgrading, resulting in an even greater boost.

Potion System Changes

Basic potions can no longer be upgraded, and players will only have four basic potions. As compensation, your character will automatically replenish one potion every 30 seconds to cope with prolonged battles.

These are the main changes to crafting and items in Diablo 4 Season 11 live server. Compared to PTR, it restores the strength of builds, preventing players from struggling this season.