Snowball Mayhem

Snowball Mayhem

Type

PvP

Within 

Enchanted Snow Globe

Snowball Mayhem is a capture the flag style activity introduced in the Wintersday: The Wondrous Workshop of Toymaker Tixx update. The game revolves around gathering presents and bringing them back to a home base. Players must choose between 3 combat professions: Supporter, Scout, and Heavy Gunner.

Getting There

• Speak with Festive Lionguard standing on a barrel in Trader's Forum, Lion's Arch to be sent to Snowball Mayhem.

Objective

The objective of Snowball Mayhem is to be the first team to achieve 500 points. Points are scored by retrieving Wintersday gifts and returning them to your base. Bonus points are scored by defeating other players with unique snowball fight skills.

Scoring

Points are earned by killing players or by recovering the present.

Killing Enemies: Players will earn three points per kill, while their team gains five points.

Recovering Presents: Players will earn ten points per recovery, while their team gains 100 points.

Power-ups

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Power-ups are scattered around the map and can be used to gain additional buffs.

• Damage Boost: All of your attacks deal extra damage.
• Speed Boost: Your movement speed is increased.
• Piercing Shots: Your snowballs travel through targets, allowing you to hit multiple foes.
• Skill Recharge: Your weapon skills recharge faster.
• Health Regeneration: Your health is restored over time.

Skills

Your weapon skills are determined by your choice of combat profession. You also have an additional utility skill that is based on your profession.

Supporter

Supporters control areas of the battlefield and heal their allies. This is offset by not having strong combat abilities.

Skill	Activation	Recharge	Description
Throw Snowball			No skill description found.
33x33px  Healing Breeze	10.25¼	8	Heal allies in a cone in front of you, including yourself. Allies gain 5 seconds of regeneration.
Icy Ground			No skill description found.
Ice Wall	1	25	Create an ice wall to block enemies and their snowballs.
Snowroll			No skill description found.

Scout

Scouts are infiltrators and assassins. They are the fastest class and can use stealth. Their skills allow them to flank foes and get in and out of battle quickly. This provides hit-and-run tactics and makes them valuable in small skirmmishes. Scouts gets a damage bonus when hitting enemies from behind.

Skill	Activation	Recharge	Description
Quick Shot			No skill description found.
Evasive Shot			No skill description found.
Rapid Fire			No skill description found.
Sniper Shot			No skill description found.
Snowblind			No skill description found.

Heavy Gunner

Heavy Gunners are the tanks for the activity. They use a weapon kit to attack, which slows their movement and grants passive health regeneration. Along with the Defensive Bubble, this allows them to take and deal a beating.

Skill	Activation	Recharge	Description
Draw Rifle			No skill description found.
Fire Snowball			No skill description found.

Skill	Activation	Recharge	Description
Fire Snowball			No skill description found.
Fire Snowball			No skill description found.
Powder Spray			No skill description found.
Jump Shot			No skill description found.
Overcharged Shot			No skill description found.
Defensive Bubble			No skill description found.

Profession-specific skills

	Skill	Activation	Recharge	Description
	Slingshot of Understanding			No skill description found.
	Command			No skill description found.
	Rush			No skill description found.
	Snowman Turret			No skill description found.
	Detonate Snowman Turret			No skill description found.
	Snowball Trap			No skill description found.
	Ice Wurm Venom Trap			No skill description found.
	Summon Ice Elemental			No skill description found.
	Clone			No skill description found.
	Frostmark			No skill description found.

Downed skills

Skill	Activation	Recharge	Description
Throw Snowball			No skill description found.
Icy Ground			No skill description found.
Freeze Beam			No skill description found.

Achievements

The following achievments were obtainable during Wintersday 2012:

Name	Tier 1	Tier 2	Tier 3
Gift Bringer Return gifts in Snowball Mayhem.	1 gift returned +5	3 gifts returned +5	5 gifts returned +5
Gift Stopper Stop gift bringers in Snowball Mayhem.	1 gift stopped +5	3 gifts stopped +5	5 gifts stopped +5

Tips and Tricks

• Supporter: If you just downed someone, activate Snowroll and repeatedly run over the downed enemy. The snowball does a lot of damage to downed players and can finish them off quickly.
• Supporter: A good strategy is to stick to your gift carrier and heal him with Healing Breeze, use Ice Wall behind him to block incoming fire and cast Icy Ground near him to keep enemies at bay.
• Heavy Gunner: A good strategy is to stick to your gift carrier and use Defensive Bubble to reflect incoming fire and Overcharged Shot to keep enemies at bay.
• Heavy Gunner: It is often a good idea to save Powder Spray until after you have you have downed a player, as it is the quickest and safest way to finish someone off. Even if you are interrupted, you will still do some damage.
• Scout: You can activate your Snowblind ability near the gift carrier of your team. This will stealth both you and the gift carrier for a few seconds and give you both swiftness.
• Scout: Scout is the quickest class and the easiest to get the gift. Just activate Snowblind at the start as this will give you swiftness. Then use that to get the swiftness power up. Once you reach the gift, use Snowblind again before picking the gift up.
• Scout: You can camp near the enemy base and if you see an enemy gift carrier coming, activate Sniper Shot as soon as the gift carrier is in range. In order to deal all of the damage Sniper Shot you need to hold down the key and wait for all the bars to fill before realeasing the key. If you get Sniper Shot channeled for the whole duration, this will hit the enemy for 80% of his HP. Activating Snowblind before Sniper Shot can help you channel it without being seen from enemies. This is an easy method to complete the Gift Stopper achievement.
• Thief/Ranger:Well placed traps can really help your team when returning a gift to your base. Try to set traps along the path that leads up to your base, as the gift carrier and the enemies chasing him will most likely follow that path and the enemies will have a much higher chance of detonating the traps.
• Warrior/Mesmer:Warriors and Mesmers can be very good gift carriers. The Warrior's Rush skill is a running skill and can be used to quickly cover distance or escape out of a sticky situation. The Mesmer's Clone skill can be used when carrying a gift, to trick your enemies into attacking your clones. The clones will be seen carrying a gift if Clone was used when the player had the gift.
• A good strategy is to use your defensive skills right before picking up the gift. If the skills have recharged and you are still carrying the gift, then drop the gift, quickly use a defensive skill and pick it up again. This is much better than simply running with the gift and taking free damage from your enemies. Knowing the cooldown of your skills is very important in doing this.
• You can also drop the gift and let an ally pick it up instead of you if you are crippled, chilled or have very little health left. Be careful not to drop the gift near a lot of enemies, as the enemy might pick it up before you do and steal it.
• Attacking the enemy gift carrier or staying close to an ally gift carrier to support him is the best thing to do. However, not every player of your team should be near the gift carrier. Leaving a scout to camp at the center of the map, where the new gift appears, is a very good tactic to quickly score a gift for your team.