Balios - the new Lottery Divine

Today, we welcome a new Divine to Howrse - Balios. He is the brother of Xanthos and comes in four different types - Solar, Lightning, Nebula and Snowflake.

On the 19th of each month he gives his owner a Nyx Pack - providing that they connected to Howrse the day before - very generous we think!

Now, at the moment the only way to get a Balios is to enter the Howrse Lottery and have a go at winning him. As I type only 1 Balios exists in the whole game - you can take a look at the first Balios won by clicking here. Currently Balios cannot be sold, although it looks as though this may change at some point in the future.

Balios is born aged over 740 years old and with 800 skills (although this may vary depending on the type). According to Howrse his skills will increase a little bit each day - rather like an Ocean.

So get buying those Lottery tickets and let's see if you're lucky enough to win a lovely Balios. I know I'll be trying...

Lucy

EDIT 9th August 2011: You can now win a Balios by being one of the first 30 players to complete the Jigsaw Puzzle contest.

Balios and the Lottery

Another day and another big event from Howrse. Today (22nd March 2011), sees the arrival of the Lottery and also a brand new Divine horse - Balios. Firstly, the lottery will run through to the 30th March.

To enter you buy one ticket with 200 equus, or you get one 'free' if you spend a Pass to buy a BM item. You can also buy a ticket for another player, as a gift. Be careful though as you can only buy 3 tickets for and one player for the duration of the lottery.

You also get bonuses for buying 30, 100 and 200 tickets. Not only that, every ticket you buy wins you a prize. You can even win another entry into the next lottery.

And there are some pretty cool prizes up for grabs. These include all the usual things you'd expect such as ageing points, Pieces of Cloud, Made to Measure Saddles, but also Hermes' Winged Staffs, a new BM item called Ploutos' Parchment and of course, the new Divine - Balios. Now this Divine has a pretty amazing feature - on the 19th day of each month he will gift you a Nyx Pack!

So get buying and gifting those lottery tickets and who know you could have a very big smile on your face, sooner than you think!

UPDATE: Howrse have made a change to the lottery which means you can now only gift a ticket to another player once during the course of the lottery. Apparently this was because a lot of players created multi-accounts in order to cheat. One bit of good news though, you can now buy 2 tickets for yourself for each draw. And there is now the possibility that you could win either a Nyx Pack or a Posiedon's Pack as well. So get buying those tickets!

UPDATE 2: The lottery has been extended and now ends at 12.00 Game Time on 3rd April 2011. Also, you can now win a Balios in a Horn of Plenty. What a surprise! The price of Pass horses has risen, as it always does when players are desperate for passes to buy HoP's. We even saw a Sleipnir for sale for 'just' 500e and 200 passes!

Patsy