Lunar New Year: envelopes, Dragon Ball, and a daily purchase limit

Every year at the turn of the lunar calendar the Crown Pavilion in Divinity’s Reach fills with firecrackers and red lanterns. The 2025 run went from 28 January to 18 February, and because the dates follow the lunar calendar they move more than any other festival on the calendar.

What is in it

Dragon Ball Arena is the headline activity, and it is worth understanding what it is before you walk in. Both teams get identical borrowed skills, power-ups spawn on the field, and the goal is to kill the other side. Your build counts for nothing. Your gear counts for nothing. It is the closest this game comes to an arcade cabinet.

Firecracker adventures send you around the city collecting firecrackers with gliders and mounts. 🔴 Using a waypoint disqualifies you, which catches almost everybody on the first attempt.

Mount races run roughly every 20 minutes around Divinity’s Reach, and if you do not own a mount the festival rents you a raptor for 10 silver. You can race without Path of Fire.

The Celestial Challenge is an instanced survival activity where the rewards climb the longer you last.

The envelopes, and the limits

This festival runs on Lucky Envelopes, and unlike every other festival currency they are mostly something you buy rather than something you farm.

The daily ceiling is worth writing down:

• 8 Divine Lucky Envelopes from Phaedra, for gold
• 8 more if you have Tokens of the Celestial Champion
• 3 from Sigurlina Jonsdottir, for Guild Commendations

Envelopes open into coin, luck, and occasionally something worth real money. The ornamental figurine that people chase out of them sits around 8 gold, and prices for anything that trades are checkable on the market before you decide whether the gamble is worth it.

The festival that is a market event

Every other festival in this game is content with a shop attached. Lunar New Year is closer to the reverse.

The activities are good and short. The real engine is a daily purchase limit, a random container, and a large number of players opening thousands of the same item across three weeks. Prices on luck, on the figurines, on everything the envelopes contain, move visibly for the duration and settle afterwards.

Which makes this the one festival where reading the market is a legitimate way to play it. If you have ever wanted a small, low-stakes reason to watch an economy react to a scheduled event, this is the three weeks of the year for it.

And if that sounds like homework: the mount races take four minutes, they rent you the mount, and nobody is checking whether you understood the economy first.