Festive aura

The Festive aura is an aura that was released on 1 December 2012 that will feature a 50% experience boost and a wintery cosmetic effect. The "festive bonus" experience effect can remain activated 30 minutes at a time with a usage limit of once per day during the month of December, after which it becomes just a cosmetic aura. Note: With any aura, once activated if you remove it before the time expires you lose the rest of the time. The bonus exp has a maximum cap; after the player gains approximately 50k bonus exp, it will stop giving bonus experience. Every day, the 50k experience cap is reset. The bonus is confirmed to stack with other bonuses such as pendants, and experience boosting costumes and it doesn't work in dungeoneering or for the xp gained from going into a resource dungeon for the first time. The item is the first aura available that is not purchased with Loyalty points. The aura is deposited upon login in 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. Players who subscribe during December are still eligible to receive the aura. At this point the aura can not be used in the Dungeoneering skill, this may be changed later.

At the end of December, the item will become purely cosmetic.

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.

"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 looks like snow falls from the glowing sphere on your hands.
 * An animation is triggered in which more snow falls from your wings. Coming out of battle mode and equipping or unequipping a weapon are one of the many things by which this display is triggered.