Festive aura

The Festive aura is a special aura that features a 50% experience boost and a wintery cosmetic effect. It was released alongside December 2012's Winter Weekends. The "festive bonus" experience effect can remain activated for 30 minutes with a usage limit of once per day exclusively during the month of December, after which it becomes just a cosmetic aura. The item is the first and only aura available that does not require Loyalty points to purchase.

The aura is deposited upon login into all members' inventories starting on 1 December and ending on 31 December. If both bank and inventory are full, players may talk to Xuan to obtain the aura manually. Xuan can also replace the aura if it is lost. Players who subscribe during December are still eligible to receive the aura.

Experience bonus
The bonus is said to work the same way as any other XP-boosting aura does. It is confirmed to stack with other bonuses such as skill pendants and skill outfits. It also does not boost one-time XP rewards from resource dungeons. The daily bonus experience is capped at 50k. The aura can now be taken into Dungeoneering floors for bonus experience, though it wasn't able to do so until 3 December.



The aura was revealed first through a lobby message, confirmed in forums, and after the news post, concept artwork from the RuneScape Facebook page was posted. Mention of it is among the login promotion messages on free-to-play servers.

"This will be announced officially tomorrow, but it will indeed work like other Auras, with a 30 minute duration which can be used once per day. It will also have a cool wintery cosmetic special effect too!"

- Mod Pips

Trivia

 * Something which appears to be snow falls from the glowing sphere on the player's hand.
 * An animation can be triggered in which more snow falls from the wings. Coming out of battle mode and equipping or unequipping an item are a few of the display triggers.
 * This is the only aura to have "aura" in its name.
 * There is currently a glitch where the glowing runes of the aura will appear at your hand even when you have a staff sheathed.
 * The effect of the Inferno adze is less likely to activate with this aura activated.