December this year is proving to be exceptionally busy, with many new games released in October and November still going strong, and several popular classic games releasing new patches to attract players, such as WoW MoP Classic.

As a new server launched in July this year, Mists of Pandaria Classic scheduled release Phase 3 The Thunder King at 3 PM Pacific Time on December 9th, bringing new raids, zones, bosses, and more.

While Throne of Thunder raid is the focus of Phase 3, other content should not be overlooked. Below, we will introduce information on how to deal with two new world bosses.

Boss 1: Oondasta

This boss's habitat is located in the center of the new zone, Isle of Giants, which is also home to various dinosaurs. You can start the boss fight after completing the dinosaur-related quests.

Boss Skills

Oondasta has six skills, which it will use at different stages of the fight to maximize damage to your party. Each member of your team needs to prepare for and react to these skills based on their role. These skills include:

• Alpha Male: The boss will make the strongest player in the party immune to taunts and increase the threat generated by tank-specialized players by 100%.
• Crush: Deals a large amount of single-target damage and continuously reduces your armor by 25% for one minute.
• Frill Blast: The boss can accumulate energy using its armor and then release a shockwave, dealing fire damage to all players within 60 yards in front of it.
• Spiritfire Beam: Fires a beam at you, dealing fire damage. The beam will then bounce, affecting up to 99 players.
• Piercing Roar: This skill allows Oondasta to deal physical damage to all players and interrupt your spell-casting. You will be unable to use the same spell again for 10 seconds.
• Growing Fury: Throughout the fight, the boss continuously accumulates rage, increasing its damage by 10%, and this effect stacks until the boss dies.

How To Deal With These Skills?

To ensure that your tank players can accumulate enough threat even under the effect of the boss's Alpha Male skill, DPS players should not attack immediately at the beginning of the fight.

After that, tank players who have accumulated sufficient threat should stop attacking to reduce threat, then allow the second tank to begin building threat. This cycle should be repeated to ensure that each tank player shares the damage.

Additionally, throughout the entire fight, you must ensure you are positioned behind the boss to easily dodge Frill Blast skill, which only impacts the boss's front.

To avoid the effects of Spiritfire Beam skill, everyone needs to maintain a distance of approximately 10 yards from each other while remaining behind the boss.

As for Piercing Roar, simply ensure you stop casting before the boss uses this skill to avoid being silenced.

Boss Fight Rewards

This boss drops Epic 522 item-level gear rewards, which only dropped from world bosses, with Reins of the Cobalt Primordial Direhorn mount item being a notable reward.

Boss 2 Nalak

This boss is located in Isle of Thunder, another new zone introduced in Phase 3, and is close to the entrance of the new raid. However, it's important to note that to enter this zone, you must complete stage 5 of Isle of Thunder campaign on your current server.

Boss Skills

Compared to Oondasta, Nalak has fewer main skills, only 4, but you still shouldn't take him lightly.

• Lightning Tether: The boss can connect you and your teammates to himself, dealing approximately 10,000 Nature damage to each person every second. If you move more than 30 yards away from the boss during this time, the damage will be doubled.
• Arc Nova: Nalak will fire a pulse of energy, dealing significant Nature damage and knocking back any players within 35 yards.
• Stormcloud: The boss will summon a storm cloud that covers the entire arena, dealing significant Nature damage every 3 seconds for 30 seconds to all players within 10 yards.
• Static Shield: The boss will always be surrounded by energy pulses, which deal Nature damage to a random player every 1 second.

How To Deal With This Boss?

Every 15 seconds during the fight, the boss will cast Lightning Tether on players. This is unavoidable, but you can avoid the doubled damage by always staying close enough to the boss.

However, if Nalak uses Arc Nova skill, you shouldn't consider the damage from Lightning Tether; instead, it's best to immediately move more than 35 yards away from the boss, as Arc Nova's damage is instantly fatal.

Additionally, Stormcloud's skill effect means you need to maintain a distance of at least 10 yards from the boss to avoid taking extra damage.

In general, the key to dealing with Nalak is to constantly pay attention to which skill he is using to quickly determine how far away you should be from him. Sometimes even a slight difference in distance can consume you your life.

Boss Fight Rewards

Defeating Nalak will drop Normal Tier 15 legs and gloves gear, as well as a large amount of PvP gear. And like Oondasta, Nalak will also drop a mount item, Reins of the Thundering Cobalt Cloud Serpent.

The above is the main information you should know to defeat the two new world bosses in Phase 3. Based on this, you should also contribute to the fight or heal others according to your role in the raid to ensure ultimate victory.

December is the last month of the year, and many people are looking forward to Christmas holidays. Grow A Garden also updated on December 6th with the first part of its Christmas Harvest event.

Christmas Harvest event will last for three weeks, with a second and third part to follow. This update is quite extensive, and you're probably wondering what new seeds and pets this event brings.

New NPCs And Events

After entering the game, you'll see two platforms with several NPCs, each with different functions.

Presenting The Elf

Talking to her will reveal a 2025 Advent Calendar with 19 slots containing rewards. You need to complete daily tasks to unlock the daily rewards. Once unlocked, you can claim one Gingerbread Blossom seed, the best seed in the game.

These tasks include playing with friends, harvesting 5 light cycle mutated plants, harvesting 75 apples, and more. If you find the task difficult, you can use in-game currency to skip it and directly claim all possible rewards for the day.

Ribbon The Elf

Talk to Ribbon the Elf to browse Gift Given menu. You can contribute gifts to Santa's Sleigh to unlock rewards. Rewards include personal contribution rewards and community-based rewards.

You accumulate contributions by submitting Christmas-mutated fruits, while the community-based rewards are quite generous.

• 100,000 Points: 1x Christmas Crate
• 200,000 Points: Unlock Snow Day Weather
• 400,000 Points: Reduce Shop Timer (45:00 minutes)
• 800,000 Points: 1x Christmas Present
• 1,400,000 Points: 1x Christmas Crate
• 2,000,000 Points: 1x Yule Log
• 2,800,000 Points: Unlock Festive Night Weather
• 3,500,000 Points: Unlock Christmas Glow Track
• 4,300,000 Points: 7x Rare Present
• 5,000,000 Points: Unlock Santa's Surprise present
• 5,800,000 Points: Unlock Penguin in Event Shop
• 6,400,000 Points: 10x Santa's Surprise Present
• 7,000,000 Points: Unlock Milk and Cookies Weather
• 7,500,000 Points: Unlock North Pole Weather Controller
• 8,200,000 Points: Reduce Shop Timer
• 9,000,000 Points: Unlock Santa's Stocking in Event Shop
• 9,900,000 Points: 1x Mega Lollipop
• 11,000,000 Points: Unlock Pet Mutation Shard Hyper Hunger

Seline The Elf

Talking to Seline the Elf will open Santa's stash menu, where you can trade items. You'll see that some Grow A Garden items are locked because they need to be unlocked with Community-based rewards.

Snowy Mutation

A snow event occurs approximately every 10 minutes. During snowfall, plants in the garden will mutate into Christmas mutated plants. You can submit these mutated plants to NPCs to add gifts to your harvest and advance the event.

Snow Shoveler Limited Time Event

You obtain various gifts through digging. This event supports offline gain digs, so you don't need to be online all the time, and digging counts reset every 24 hours.

Christmas Harvest New Items

New Seeds and Plants: 

• Gingerbread Blossom Seed
• Peppermint Vine Seed
• Cookie Stack Seed
• Poinsettia Seed
• Antlerbloom Seed
• Holly Berry Seed
• Gift Berry Seed
• Frosty Bite Seed
• Cryo Rose Seed
• Bush Flake Seed
• Rosemary Seed
• Cryoshard Seed
• Frostwing Seed
• Pollen Cone Seed

New Gears and Items:

• Christmas Sprinkler
• Christmas Firework
• Gift Basket
• Yule Log
• Santa's Stocking
• Pet Mutation Shard Hyper Hunger
• Sleigh
• Snowball
• GingerBread Man Gear
• Pet Mutation Shard Nocturnal
• Areaclaimer
• Player Gift
• Bad Present
• Normal Present
• Rare Present
• Christmas Present
• Santa's Surprise Present
• Exotic Santa's Surprise Present
• Rainbow Exotic Santa's Surprise Present
• Holiday Seed Pack
• Exotic Holiday Seed Pack
• Rainbow Exotic Holiday Seed Pack
• Christmas Crate
• Holiday Crate

New Pets:

• Penguin
• Snowman Soldier
• Snowman Builder
• Snow Bunny
• Mistletoad
• Krampus
• Gift Rat
• Arctic Fox
• Frost Dragon
• French Hen
• Christmas Gorilla

New Cosmetics:

• Penguin Statue
• Christmas Ribbon
• Gift Stack
• Christmas Lights
• Snowman
• Santa Chair
• Snowman Lights
• Frozen Krampus
• Winter Bridge
• Winter Lantern
• Winter Globe
• Frozen Pond
• Frost Rune
• Winter Arch
• Winter Fountain
• Ice Table
• Toy Horse
• Winter Wheelbarrow
• Christmas Lamp
• Nutcracker
• Christmas Bench
• Christmas Tree Painting
• Candycane Fence
• Elf Chair
• Christmas Gift Large
• Christmas Gift Long
• Christmas Gift Medium
• Christmas Gift Small
• Christmas Gift Tall
• Christmas Gift Tube

New Food:

• Gingerbread Cookie
• Candycane
• Wreath
• Holiday Roast
• Holiday Stuffing
• Fruitcake
• Eggnog

Items To Watch

Peppermint Vine Seed

At the very bottom of the seed shop is a Peppermint vine seed. Its effect is that when a nearby egg hatches, there is a 10% chance of hatching a pet with Peppermint pet mutation.

Peppermint mutation effect is that every 15.5 minutes, 12 random Christmas-type fruits in the garden are sacrificed to immediately activate a pet ability, and the effect is random.

Frost Dragon

Frost Dragon is arguably the best pet in the game, as it can convert all Frozen mutations within 30 yards into Glacial mutations. Each conversion grants 600 experience points to all other pets in the garden. Additionally, when you sell fruit with Glacial mutation, there's a 6% chance that a random mutation from that fruit will be applied to other fruits in the garden.

Snowman Builder

Snowman Builder allows you to consume fruit with any cold-type mutation every 4 minutes, granting a snow-based cosmetic reward.

How To Get More Rewards?

To get more rewards, maximize the use of Snowy mutation event every 10 minutes. You can use this event to obtain mutated plants for rewards.

It's recommended to fill every row of your garden with a large number of low-tier plants to quickly generate a large amount of snowy mutation fruit for submission. It's best to pair it with a pet that can copy or amplify mutation effects (like Frost Sprinkler) to more effectively utilize Snowy mutation event.

Best Pets: 

• T-Rex pet: Consumes a random mutation every 18 minutes, then spreads it to four other targets.
• Polar Bear pet: Has a 10% chance every 90 seconds to turn nearby fruit into Chilled or Frozen.
• Giant Ant pet: Has a chance to copy fruit, and can copy the mutation along with it.

Christmas Harvest event has just begun, and the second and third parts will bring even more content until Christmas. Enjoy the event and the holidays, players!