The Strength of Snow

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The Strength of Snow
Section	Festival Event Quests
Given by	Rift Warden in Lion's Arch or Kamadan, Jewel of Istan (Depths of Tyria)
Campaign	Multi campaign
Type	Festival quest (Solo Quest)
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The grentches have discovered the secret base of the snowmen. Assist Freezie in repelling the invasion and save Wintersday.

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[edit] Objectives

Speak to the Rift Warden when you are ready to defend the secret lair of the snowmen.
Join Freezie's forces to defend the secret lair of the snowmen.
Defend the secret lair of the snowmen from the attacking grenches.
See Rift Warden for your reward.

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1,000 Experience
5 Candy Cane Shards

Also, random items from the Wintersday Chest

[edit] Walkthrough

You will be under the effects of Yuletide when you enter the Secret Lair of the Snowmen and your skill bar will be replaced with this:

The Optional slot depends on your profession:

Various snowmen and grentches will be battling each other. Any snowmen that survive a battle will run to the starting area and disappear. There is a hidden grentch where the Angry Snowman would be if you were doing the dungeon. Thats the Angry Snowman that disables the traps when you kill him. When you meet up with Freezie and his group, grentches will appear in waves. If Freezie or any of his snowmen are defeated, they will resurrect after a certain amount of time. The first time Freezie dies, you will gain a 2% morale boost. A Wintersday Chest will spawn when all the grentches are defeated. Speak to the Rift Warden to collect your reward.

Most of the grentches can be avoided. You can run past the battles as the grentches will be busy fighting and will remain stationary when the battle is over unless aggroed. When you reached Freezie and killed the first 2 waves, you can simply go back where you came from and wait out the battle. Alternatively, you can stand by the large door where the chest spawns and will avoid all mobs including the first two waves. The snowmen will get overrun, but they resurrect and will eventually kill all the grentches. This takes less than 15 minutes if you ran through the dungeon avoiding battles where possible. It takes 2:47 minutes to run to Freezie (best tested time without the Let's Get em Skill) It takes a minimum of 8 minutes before the chest spawns (best tested time without helping the snowmen) An average of 11:03 minutes has been tested for each run to take including taking the quest from the Rift Warden.

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19 Grentchus Magnus

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Rift Warden

"Grenth's forces have located the snowmen's secret base and are staging an attack. If they are successful, there will be no snowmen to defend the just and the innocent. The grentches will be unopposed in their capers! Dwayna beseeches you to defend the snowmen and save Wintersday...for the children."

"For the children!"

Accept: "For the children!"

Decline: "For eggnog!"

When asked about quest: "Are you ready to defend the Secret Lair of the Snowmen? You will be separated from our party for the duration of this task. You must protect the snowmen at all costs are you ready."

[edit] Intermediate dialogue

Freezie: "The grentches are here!"

[edit] Reward dialogue

Rift Warden

"The grentches have been routed and Wintersday is saved! Please take these gifts to spread joy and happiness around the world this Wintersday."

[edit] Notes

There are no resurrection shrines during this quest.
The Grentches that spawn at the end of the quest, are enemies of the Grentches that you meet along the way there. So if you run past the the last two grentches, they will attack the group that spawns behind you when you near Freezie.
The Quest Log indicates that this quest is acquired from the Avatar of Dwayna at Kamadan, Jewel of Istan even though it is actually acquired from the Rift Warden and available in Lion's Arch and Kamadan, Jewel of Istan.
Candy Cane Shards have a high chance of dropping from grentches making this a good place to farm.
To be able to repeat this quest after collecting your reward, you must leave town and return, or change districts for the Rift Warden's list to refresh.
Once you start this quest you cannot start Straight to the Heart until you finish or abandon this one.
If you are positioned badly the Grentch can attack the Snow Men without them defending themself. That happens most often with the two Grentches after the first bridge.
Deaths in this area do not count against the Survivor title track.

Bug.

Sometimes a Grentch may spawn inside the wall, becoming unreachable.

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