Love the new Winter Lord Trial! But I have a weird request for 2026...

[CraterLabs]

Okay, so hear me out: the new Winter Lord Trial is great, it's loads of fun and I felt like it was engaging me the whole time through. I love the classic one, but this new version is definitely an improvement over it, so great job to the devs. And having the Suspicious Presents as a way of bringing Lord Winter into Paragon or the Rogue Isles or Praetoria is a fun throwback to Live, so great work on this year's Winter Event all around!

 

But next year: would it be possible to tweak the Winter Lord from the Suspicious Presents so that sometimes he drops yet another present that could send a team into the classic version of the Lord Winter Trial? This would be a way to work in the OG method of assaulting Lord Winter's Realm from back on Live, while still keeping the new, updated version the "main" one, and it would fit story-wise too with the usual Trial being us laying siege to Lord Winter when he's prepped in his stronghold, and the other one being when we're chasing him back to his realm after he tried sneaking into ours with the Suspicious Package.

 

Then maybe put an Exploration Badge into this new version of Lord Winter's Realm. Call it "Olds Cool". 😛 Okay, maybe not. But the rest of it!