Double xp confusion

Argah

Read somewhere you had to use something to activate double xp for two hours but it had a disclaimer saying it was always active, what is it?

zaria

You need to start an quest you find in crown store under quest starters, this is free, then do an short quest, meet the witch and get the flute from her, you use this to get an 2 hour 100% xp buff.
Note you can not refresh it like food it has to time out or get canceled before you can use it again.
The cauldron you summon can turn you into an skeleton but this is optional.

Argah

zaria wrote: »

You need to start an quest you find in crown store under quest starters, this is free, then do an short quest, meet the witch and get the flute from her, you use this to get an 2 hour 100% xp buff.
Note you can not refresh it like food it has to time out or get canceled before you can use it again.
The cauldron you summon can turn you into an skeleton but this is optional.

Right will give it a try, thanks.

fgoron2000

Some of the confusion may have come from the fact that last year, you needed to use the cauldron after you summoned it, and that enabled both the XP buff and the skeleton polymorph.

They changed it this year, so that the mere act of calling the cauldron (either from last year's momento, or by going through the short quest and getting the momento this year) will give you the XP buff. And then if you take the 2nd step of drinking from the cauldron, that separately enables the polymorph. In addition, if you did the morph accidentally, forgot & drank, or just got tired of it, you can go to the character screen, and just click on the active condition in the bottom right to remove just the morph, and the XP buff stays.

I also heard, but haven't yet experienced, that if you're in the vicinity of someone calling the cauldron, that it dynamically tops you off as well, restarting the 2 hour timer...

All in all, this improvement to the XP buff function is the best part of the event this year to me, much better than twigs & branches & shrubberies...NI

zaria wrote: »

You need to start an quest you find in crown store under quest starters, this is free, then do an short quest, meet the witch and get the flute from her, you use this to get an 2 hour 100% xp buff.
Note you can not refresh it like food it has to time out or get canceled before you can use it again.
The cauldron you summon can turn you into an skeleton but this is optional.

Actually, I'm able to refresh the XP buff just fine without timeout or cancelling...not sure why it doesn't work that way for you...Also, just calling the cauldron doesn't do the skeleton morph, but the optional separate step of drinking from it does...

twev

I get the 'Witches Boon', but not the 'Witches Brew' timers in my window.

fgoron2000

twev wrote: »

I get the 'Witches Boon', but not the 'Witches Brew' timers in my window.

drink from the cauldron, that'll give it...if u don't get it, then there's a prob

baratron

fgoron2000 wrote: »

I also heard, but haven't yet experienced, that if you're in the vicinity of someone calling the cauldron, that it dynamically tops you off as well, restarting the 2 hour timer...

Yep, it does. You don't even have to be grouped with them.

Runefang

I've found it to be a little buggy. At times I've played the flute and it doesn't refresh the XP buff timer, other times it does.

For the times where it didn't refresh I was able to get it back after it expired. So not a big deal, especially in a dolmen group because there is so many people calling the cauldron.