Let's discuss the amazing-ness of this new promotion.
Rose Regalia Promotion Discussion
Not mentioned in the official Announcement, but on the Wiki:
The distribution of probabilities for the bonus items included within Rose Regalia Prize Boxes will be as follows.
35% chance for one of the following:
Chapeau of the Garnet Rose
Chapeau of the Moonstone Rose
Chapeau of the Malachite Rose
65% chance for one of the following:
Tabard of the Garnet Rose
Tabard of the Moonstone Rose
Tabard of the Malachite Rose
derp.
They seem to be Frosty, Poison, & Volcanic Themed, though I may be wrong.
http://media.spiralknights.com/wiki-images/c/c5/Rose_regalia_Jan2014.png
Wiki has a better picture but it looks like Bitsbee is right, the variants are Frosty (Moonstone), Malachite (Poison), and Garnet (Volcanic).
The Malachite Tabard would look amazing with the Venom Bombhead...
Note that the poison guy is not holding a flourish, rigadoon, flamberge, snarby or candy poker.
I normally don't like Rose Regalia Costumes, but I'm considering getting the Volcanic looking Tabard.
Meh, I can pass on the rose promo. I never liked chaps or tabards
So we have the $9.95 per prize box and the $9 additional steam card drop, while economically a great decision, some might regard it as their worst attempt at a moneygrab since the sprite update. Sure these are nice to have, but please just stop making this look even more P2P than it already is.
You all are in your right to do these promotion boxes so you can pay the bills, but just tone it down a bit, it's one of the reasons why I personally think this game is going downhill ever since the sprite update
Plenty of players have been asking for promos where you buy energy packages and get additional rewards with them, rather than having in-game promos where one would have to buy the energy package then spend the energy package to obtain the items.
I welcome these, even if they are reskins. First time since elevator passes that I've actually put some money into the game. +1
There really isn't anything to discuss here except for the January 15, 2014 promotion.
I have been waiting for a rose regalia promo for a long time, both regalia promos I was away and now I can finally be part of one ^ ^
Also +1 on those colour, amazing!! Neon everywhere!!! *make a lightsaber noise*
All we need now is a prismatic Rose Regalia... *nudge* *nudge* *wink* *wink*
Also... whats up with the leaf confetti? How is that related to neon hats?
They're probably just wanting to circulate more leaf confetti, I can't see any other reason.
Edit: Oh wait, these are knights of the rose. Rose leaves.
Not to mention energy prices have dropped like a rock.
Though personally I think Malachite makes you look highly radioactive. I saw a couple members of Coalesce standing around wearing it and I couldn't resist asking since when they'd been storing nuclear waste in their guild hall.
A bit sad there isn't any shock themed looking costumes.
/sigh
STILL WAITING ON THAT BROWN REGALIA SET OOO
@Exerpa: You're right, it's none of the current flourishes we have now... but I know which one it is. ;)
The purple spot on the Toxic Rose Knight's sword handle makes me leery.
Something's wrong.
They gave us FIVE days when in Canada it takes 6-8 business days to put funds in a PayPal account.
Nope, not getting a prize box, OOO loves to get off on Canada's tears.
This is nothing, I'm literally waiting for the Dragon Tails promotion to come out.
sucks for the ones who bought the ones in auction a few days ago.
Unless they sold them quickly enough.
oh never mind, according to the wiki they're new ones. Well at least the old ones are on auction rather than buyout this time.