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daveynydaveyny Member Posts: 8,227 Arc User
After a week of trying... I have as yet to get even ONE!
Last year I managed to get a whole TWO on another toon the entire event. (I know, pitiful)

Apparently, I'm just not coordinated enough to get to the spots where they are located before they are grabbed up.

Come on Cryptic..., Please, PLEASE give us another way to acquire them.

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  • tempus64tempus64 Member Posts: 806 Arc User
    Recipes? You mean from the invasion? That's odd as I seem to get one every time I run it. I also noticed people are listing them on the exchange so you can always buy them if you want. They were pretty cheap when I checked.
  • gerwalk0769gerwalk0769 Member Posts: 1,095 Arc User
    Run Winter Invasion:
    1. As the mission starts hit the "M" key to bring up the map.
    2. Look for the green outlined circle.
    3. Head towards it. The recipe should be in the middle of the circle.
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  • daveynydaveyny Member Posts: 8,227 Arc User
    Thanks for the tips, I just don't seem to get there fast enough. Somebody always beats me too it.

    Heh... I'd like to be able to earn them in some manner, but if it comes down to it, I guess I could buy them.
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  • peetapipmacpeetapipmac Member Posts: 2,131 Arc User
    daveyny wrote: »
    Thanks for the tips, I just don't seem to get there fast enough. Somebody always beats me too it.

    Heh... I'd like to be able to earn them in some manner, but if it comes down to it, I guess I could buy them.

    Erm, you know you don't have to get to it first to get it right? The whole team can claim the receipe,
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  • baddmoonrizinbaddmoonrizin Member Posts: 11,443 Community Moderator
    The first year of the recipes, during the initial week at least, the first person to claim the box got the recipe. Everyone else was SOL. That got fixed so that everyone in the match could claim one as well, as long as they found the box.

    The thing is, you've got to get the recipe BEFORE the Snow Overlord is defeated, otherwise it disappears. So, you can't go back and claim it after the queue is finished. And this year players seem to be rushing straight through to the end without accomplishing any of the secondary objectives (Gingerbread Rescue, Candy Collecting, Bumble Fight), leaving Accolade and recipe hunters little opportunity to do those things.
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  • grylakgrylak Member Posts: 1,594 Arc User
    You just have to make sure you get it before the level is completed because although it appears on the map still, you can't collect it once the overlord has been defeated and the leave map icon is up.
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