Valentine's Day Event 2025
Overview
The Valentine's Day Event (officially called Spring Fling) celebrates the anniversary of Pocket D and Valentine's Day.
The Valentine's Event started on February 7th and is planned to run through to March 11, 2025. It includes the reliving (or crashing!) of a heroic wedding, heroes and villains teaming up together, delivering (or misdelivering!) Valentine notes, assisting in the resurrection of the Red Widow, and a battle with Snaptooth to prevent him from destroying DJ Zero's portal.
New Additions
Relive Manticore & Sister Psyche's Wedding
Sigil (for level 10-50 Heroes & Vigilantes) and Kadabra Kill (for level 10-50 Villains & Rogues) have been added to Pocket D as contacts. In the midst of a disagreement about the events that transpired at the wedding of Manticore & Sister Psyche, they are looking to send someone else through time to verify the truth.
The missions are a recreation of the in-game live event from the 2008 Spring Fling, allowing heroes and villains alike to relive the moment - including the crashing of the wedding by Arachnos' elite!
New Badges
There are five new badges to be had from the event:
Complete Sigil's mission to earn the Best Man/Maid of Honor badge.
When given the opportunity to travel back in time and experience Manticore & Sister Psyche's wedding, you stood with the Freedom Phalanx and successfully drove back Lord Recluse and his villains who tried to disrupt the happy occasion.
Complete Kadabra Kill's mission to earn the Wedding Crasher badge.
Opportunities like this don't come often! You took the chance to go back in time and help Lord Recluse crash Manticore & Sister Psyche's wedding, getting the drop on both the Freedom Phalanx and the heroes in attendance.
Be a nuisance by standing in the middle of the ceremony to earn the Down In Front badge.
The audience wasn't very amused when you proved yourself a nuisance during Manticore & Sister Psyche's wedding ceremony and had to be escorted off-stage.
Those who have experienced both sides of history and completed both missions can deviate from the timeline to earn the Chaos Spiel badge - and subsequently face the wrath of both the wedding guests and wedding crashers.
You think back on this moment often... Where did that chaotic impulse come from? An opportunity to test your strength? A chance to deviate from Ouroboros' timeline control? You may never find an answer for why you invoked Nemesis' name whilst time traveling.
Defeat all nine signature heroes & all five signature villains to earn the Officiator badge and 2 Prismatic Aether. This does not need to be done in a single run.
Despite the Freedom Phalanx and Arachnos elite being dressed in their finest for a special occasion, you pulled no punches and demonstrated your prowess in combat by defeating each and every one.
New Vanity Pet
Follow the steps for the Chaos Spiel Badge, then defeat all the signature enemies within 20 minutes in that mission instance. Everyone on the team will receive a Mini Nemesis Horse vanity pet.
New Enhancements
Completing these missions will grant a reward table - of which one of the options is a random enhancement from the new Cupid's Crush Attuned Universal Damage Enhancement Set.
Similarly to the Overwhelming Force set from the Summer Blockbuster Event & Trial, Merit Vendors will also provide enhancements from this set in exchange for Reward Merits.
Returning Events
Co-Operative Missions
Two mission contacts can be found in Pocket D:
Both contacts give out a two-mission arc that requires players to bring along at least one teammate from the opposing faction to get to the end-reward. The first mission of the arc can be soloed, but players need an opposing faction teammate to complete the second mission of the arc (only the opposing faction teammate could target and destroy the last object).
Characters have to be in the final mission of both arcs long enough to get credit for completing those two missions in order to acquire the Handsome/Beautiful badge.
Characters can only pick up one arc from their one contact. In order to do the other arc, they will need to get invited to an opposing faction team, or, invite an opposing faction teammate into their team and have that person pick up the mission.
Heroes and Villains who complete the second mission from both Ganymede and Scratch receive the Handsome Badge for male characters, Beautiful Badge for female characters):
Eros can bring out the beauty in any being.
The Handsome/Beautiful badge grants the temporary power of Nectar, a 20-use targeted area of effect confuse and placate. For characters that already have the Handsome/Beautiful badge from another year's event, they are able to do these missions again, but the badge isn't re-granted, and thus, the character does not get Nectar again.
Ranged (Targeted AoE), Foe Confuse, Placate
Eros has fashioned a version of Ambrosia from the waters of the Well of the Furies, which he has dubbed 'Nectar'. Eros' Nectar can be used up to 20 times on opponents to beguile them, effectively Placating and Confusing them. You have 20 doses. Recharge: Very Long [4 minutes]
After completing both missions, Ganymede or Scratch will offer a mission to introduce DJ Zero.
Defeat Snaptooth
Introduced by Ganymede or Scratch, DJ Zero sends players on a mission to prevent Snaptooth from destroying a Dimensional Portal, with a reward pop-up menu upon completion. This mission can be completed 10 times.
Reward choices:
Through the choices made in your life, you have been blessed with a Heart of Light.
Through the choices made in your life, you have been cursed with a Heart of Darkness.
Defeating Snaptooth 5 times awards the Toothbreaker badge.
You have defeated Snaptooth 5 times, and are truly a Toothbreaker.
Dimension Drop Powers
The event store contacts, Chilly and Dram, sell special temporary powers called Dimension Drop powers. These powers increase your teammate's damage, defense, or buff their hit points and endurance, but if used on one's traditional enemy (heroes on villains or villains on heroes), the power had a significantly greater effect. Chilly sells these temporary powers to heroes, and Dram to villains.
Teammate +Damage, +Accuracy (Special)
Dimension Drop of Power is a special concoction created by DJ Zero to celebrate the opening of the new Pocket D. This dimensional energy can increase one's potential. In keeping with his club's theme it must be given to someone else to be effective and giving it to a Villain, Rogue, or Loyalist / Hero, Vigilante or member of the Resistance increases their potential to near god-like proportions! This version of Dimension Drop buffs Damage and Accuracy. Dimension Drop can only be used on teammates. You have 4 charges. Recharge: Slow
Teammate +Resistance (All) (Special)
Dimension Drop of Resistance is a special concoction created by DJ Zero to celebrate the opening of the new Pocket D. This dimensional energy can increase one's potential. In keeping with his club's theme it must be given to someone else to be effective and giving it to a Villain, Rogue, or Loyalist / Hero, Vigilante or member of the Resistance increases their potential to near god-like proportions! This version of Dimension Drop buffs Damage Resistance to all damage. Dimension Drop can only be used on teammates. You have 4 charges. Recharge: Slow
Teammate Heal, +Endurance (Special)
Dimension Drop of Vitality is a special concoction created by DJ Zero to celebrate the opening of the new Pocket D. This dimensional energy can increase one's potential. In keeping with his club's theme it must be given to someone else to be effective and giving it to a Villain, Rogue, or Loyalist / Hero, Vigilante or member of the Resistance increases their potential to near god-like proportions! This version of Dimension Drop Heals the target and recovers their Endurance. Dimension Drop can only be used on teammates. You have 4 charges. Recharge: Slow
Valentine's Tip Missions
Main Article: Valentine Tips
Tip missions involving delivering (or misdelivering!) Valentine notes to NPCs throughout Paragon City, the Rogue Isles and Praetoria. Completing a Valentine Tip delivery awards 5 charges of either the Arrow of Romance or Arrow of Jealousy temporary powers.
Ally +Regen OR Foe Placate
The Arrow of Romance can be used on friendly or hostile targets alike. If used on an Ally, it will increase their regeneration temporarily. If used on a Foe, it will cause them to be Placated.
Ally +DMG OR Foe Confuse
The Arrow of Jealousy can be used on friendly or hostile targets alike. If used on an Ally, it will increase their damage temporarily. If used on a Foe, it will cause them to be Confused.
There are two badges available for completing Valentine Tips.
Deliver 7 Valentines to the intended recipient to earn Match Maker:
In honor of the season of Spring, you've delivered Valentines throughout the world!
Misdeliver 7 Valentines to someone other than the intended recipient to earn Missed Connection:
You've spurned the season of Spring in favor of sowing discord and heartbreak throughout the world by misdelivering Valentines!
The Widow in Red
Two mission contacts can be found in Pocket D offering a story arc to reunite Lord Recluse with his long dead lover, Red Widow:
- Jessica Megan Duncan (Ms. Liberty) (Heroes Contact)
- Arbiter Hawk (Villains Contact)
Completion of either arc awards the Widow Maker badge.
You were instrumental in the resurrection of Red Widow, Lord Recluse's love from long ago. Only time will tell if this calms Recluse down or drives him to new heights of villainy.
Past Events
Anniversary Presents
For the duration of previous Valentine's event, heroes could find Sela Vermont, the wedding coordinator for Manticore and Sister Psyche's Wedding, standing in Atlas Park Plaza near Ms. Liberty. Talking to her would assign a mission to retrieve seven stolen wedding presents from an Arachnos warehouse.
Likewise, villains could find Zev Scalamore standing near the Black Market on Mercy Island. Zev would offer a chance to steal the same presents.
Though the contacts do not appear in zones anymore, their missions are available to all levels via Flashback at any time. No special badge or reward is offered for completing either mission.