EPICDUEL
Nightwraith
| Friday, January 9, 2026
It's hard to believe that Gifting 2025 is nearly over, and what a season it has been! CactusChan appears to have an impressive lead at #1 with over 6 million gifts, but I understand that there are more Gifting mega-events planned before Gifting formally ends.
No is as good a time as any to remind you all to please open your gifts! There's no reason to wait, and clearing the database before a massive Gifting spree should help make the events go much more smoothly.
In case it was unclear, Gifting will officially end at the end of the day on Monday January 12th. I know this can be confusing to map to different time zones (we operate on EST), but the 12th will be the last full Gifting day. In other words, if you try to Gift on January 13th, you will be too late!
For those of you who have been through this process before, this will be old news, but for the newbies, here is a rundown of the process after the Gifting season closes.
After Gifting deactivates, the leaderboard will finalize its list of top 50 Gifters and Gifting functionality will be disabled. Within a few hours after Gifting, emails will be sent to the top 15 winners to offer congratulations, gratitude, and begin the process of creating all the winners' prizes. If you are in the top 15 and don't receive an email within the first few hours, or we don't hear back from you for a day, we will find alternative means of contacting you.
Next, we will distribute the completed score tier items (Gamma Druid Collection) to all the qualifying Gifters. This should also be completed an hour or 2 after Gifting ends. An in-game announcement will pop when the process is complete (you will need to relog to see your items).
The Secret and Silver Secret Packages will not open until they are all distributed by the top 15 winners. This typically takes about 1-2 weeks for all the winners to decide so don't expect them in your inventory immediately after Gifting ends.
This season has been incredible so far, featuring the highest Gifting score of all time! This is great news, but also humbling as it sets a high bar for EpicDuel in 2026! Last year we stretched ourselves out way too far with the volume of prizes (there are still a few still in progress from the 2024 season!), but this year should be much more manageable. We hope for your patience and understanding as we work to fulfill the our obligations to the winners and all participants in this record-smashing Gifting season!
The Gamma Druid Guardian bot, which can be unlocked at a Gifting score of 250,000, is finally ready for a skill reveal:
This new ability should allow for devastating retaliation potential and serve as an amazing compliment to the Gamma Pirate Parrot's Mimic skill.
Endless M4tr1x has some new missions for you. If you've been following along with the weekly item releases, you may have noticed some of the items are based on the components of a powerful, rare bot. Endless M4tr1x now has the means to help you assemble these parts and give them new life, if you have the Credits:
Endless M4tr1x has also added 2 new items to her shop to complete the set:
In addition to the new Australia Day 2026 achievement available in the Achievement shop, we've added new achievements to account for the massive scores this year. I never thought we'd need an achievement for 6 million gifts, but here we are!
AQWorlds 
AQWorlds 
DragonFable 
