Best Forsaken Winter Boss Teams + Trick to Get Island Rewards

When the northern winds batter at the door and frost rims the windows, Shemira becomes reflective. She recalls that winter which now seems like forever ago. Her son, only two years of age and barely able to stand on his own two feet, bundled tightly against the cold seeping into their home and looking out at the driving snow with wonder. She remembers the way his breath, so warm, fogged the panes of glass. This was contentment. She remembers the messenger at the door. The skirmishes were happening with more frequency. They needed more men. More healers and medics, he explained. They needed her husband.

Niru left the next morning and though she had been assured that he wouldn’t be at the front lines, she had a nagging feeling that scratched at the back of her mind. She felt as if something was going wrong. As it happened, she was right.

The fighting continued unabated. What she had expected to be one difficult season turned into several. Eventually even the longing she felt became a dull kind of pain after the seasons turned to years. She received news with some regularity, him ever optimistic, but now the letters were more a curiosity than the lifeline they had once been. She read over them distantly, barely internalizing the words on the page. After all, if he wasn’t there then what good was this? It was like talking to the dead.

All the while, their son grew. Shemira did the best she could on her own but the burden was heavy. She had good work as a tailor, fashioning dresses for noblewomen and wives of the wealthier merchants. She would spend long hours over the fabric, working her needle with a careful hand. Sometimes she would think briefly of Niru and wonder if he too was holding a needle, sewing up some wound rather than fine cloth, somewhere far away from his true duty here at home. Each year when winter came she would watch out the window as Daimon, getting bigger all the time, would play in the snow. She wasn’t unhappy, not truly, but something was certainly missing.

It was a day much like the one that stood monumental in her memory that Niru returned. She surprised herself by recognizing him by his gait alone, guarded as he was against the elements. She surprised herself even more by feeling a flood of relief, a surge of joy, at his return. Running outside, she scooped up their boy and ran with him to the father he’d nearly forgotten.

Her joy was short lived. The man who had left their threshold that day years ago was not the same as the man who’d come back. He was gaunt, disheveled, with a feverish glint in his eye. Getting settled back into their old home, he spoke at a frantic pace of the things he’d seen. He went on and on about the graveborn they’d been fighting, saying he’d learned more from them than from all his previous studies.

“They don’t tire! They require no food or rest. They feel no pain!” He had exclaimed.
She knew now that he had been right about most of his claims, but there was one that he had misunderstood. Years more had passed since his return. Years more than that had gone by since she had herself undergone the transformation. It was true that she never felt hunger. It was true that the icy winds swirling around her caused her no discomfort. It was not true that she felt no pain. She was consumed by it. Every memory of her old life was overshadowed by the memory of Niru’s trial and execution and the subsequent death of their son.

She stood alone in the cemetery with only her wretched memories to accompany her. Cold tears froze on her face. She screamed her anguish into the howling wind, and the spirits of winter heard her call. The flurries of snow became ever more animated, circling around her in a vortex. She imagined that once or twice she saw faces in the whirling white. When the winds finally subsided, she was donning gossamer sheets of frost. She was the image of death. A perfect picture of endings.

The upcoming AFK Arena Midwinter Feastivities are finally here! Let’s defeat the Ice Shemira, participate in the Midwinter Feast and get yourself a ton of rewards as well as a Hero chosen by yourself!

Ice Shemira Event

Defeat the Ice Shemira and earn the rewards!

Duration: 10 days

• Players are able to do battle with Ice Shemira once a day while the event is running.
• Ice Shemira can suffer damage and will drop Gold Coins and Glacial Keys.
• You can get max 5 keys per day. So you will get 50 keys at max.
• Having 36 keys gives you one guaranteed hero.
• Glacial Keys can be used to open presents on the Midwinter Surprises page.
• Ice Shemira’s difficulty is determined by each player’s own combat rating.
• Players can choose to repeat battles without the deduction of any battle attempts,
• However, the rewards earned in the previous battle will subsequently disappear.

Ice Shemira Skills

Blizzard: Shemira summons snowfall 10 seconds into the battle which falls heavier every 20 seconds. While there is light snowfall, all of her enemies will be unable to recover any health. While there is heavy snowfall, her enemies will also be dealt periodic damage. Each time Shemira summons snowfall or increases the severity of the snowfall she will receive a layer of frost armor which, when active is immune to all damage that is lower than 30% its total value.

Glacial Beam: Ice Shemira prioritizes her attacks against two frontline enemies, channeling her glacial beams to deal multiple instances of damage over time to the enemies. The glacial beams also possess a freezing quality which stacks over time, reducing the enemies’ Haste.

Frost Nova: Ice Shemira creates an expanding shockwave of ice that damages all enemies. Enemies that possess less than 50% of their max health will become frozen.

Lore

Midwinter Feast

Requires at least 10 Guild members to participate.

1. There are a total of 7 quests. Quests are refreshed daily. You will receive one Winter Feast for every quest that is completed.
2. Each quest requires 5 formations in order to be started. Each formation must include 2 mandatory heroes. Players also have the choice to add 3 optional heroes to their formations. Quests can be undertaken as soon as 2 mandatory heroes have been selected. The more optional heroes that are selected will lead to more rewards being received.
3. Once the quest dispatch requirements have been met, the Guild Master or Guild Deputy can choose whether or not to dispatch the heroes on a quest.
4. After a quest has been completed, all guild members may claim their rewards from the quest page. Any unclaimed rewards will be sent to players’ inboxes after the event has ended.
5. Players may unexpectedly be faced with ‘Emergencies’. Helping to complete these emergences will reward guild members with additional rewards.
6. When a hero is dispatched the hero’s owner will receive 60 Contribution Points (CP). Completing an ‘Emergency’ quest will reward the hero’s owner with 80 Contribution Points.
7. Guild members can view their Contribution Points by viewing the `Contributors’ page.
8. Guild members will receive a bonus reward which will be determined by their guild’s overall Midwinter Feast progression after the event has ended.
9. You will still receive rewards via mail for quests that your heroes were dispatched on even after leaving a guild.

Midwinter Surprise

1. Players can add a specific Hero 15 Faction Scrolls to the reward list.
2. Glacial Keys may be acquired by completing Midwinter Feast quests or defeating the Ice Shemira.
3. Players are required to choose their ultimate reward on each new page before they can begin opening presents.
4. Once an island’s ultimate reward has been discovered, players can choose to advance to the next island or may also continue to stay searching on the current island. However, if players choose to advance, the remaining slots on the current island will disappear.
5. Remaining Glacial Keys will be recalled for 250k Gold per key once the event has concluded.

Midwinter Feast Deals