Division 2’s Winter Event brings Krampus, raid exotics, and a community grind

The Division 2 is wrapping up the year with a limited-time Winter Event that mixes a roaming holiday boss, refreshed loot pools, and a global community challenge. It runs from December 16 to January 6, overlapping with Year 7 Season 3: Mutiny.

Event dates and basic structure

The Winter Event is live from December 16 until January 6. During this window you get:

• Dynamic Krampus encounters across Washington D.C.
• Winter Keys as the main event currency.
• A limited-time Event Vendor with three cache types.
• A personal and global Winter Event Community Challenge.
• Julmust, a holiday Hunter mask, added to The Summit floor 100.
• A separate Winter Twitch Drops campaign from December 16 to December 26.

After January 6, event activities and claimable rewards are turned off, so anything you have not opened or claimed by then is effectively gone.

Krampus encounters and the White Krampus Mask

Krampus is the centerpiece of the event and functions like a roaming threat layered onto standard activities in D.C.

• Krampuslauf packs: Krampus’ followers appear as packs of four named Krampuslauf enemies that can spawn around Washington D.C. They will actively hunt you once they appear.
• Krampusnacht bounty: Clearing a Krampuslauf pack has a chance to spawn a Krampusnacht bounty. That bounty directs you to Krampus himself.
• Krampus boss rewards: Defeating Krampus grants regular loot, the White Krampus Mask, and a Winter Key for the Event Vendor.

These encounters sit on top of the normal open-world flow, so you keep progressing your usual activities while chasing the event’s cosmetics and keys.

How Winter Keys work

Winter Keys are the event’s universal token. You spend them at the Event Vendor on apparel, gameplay, or community caches, and you also donate them to push the global challenge forward.

Winter Keys can drop from:

• Completing a Krampusnacht bounty.
• Killing Krampuslauf named enemies.
• Opening Summit containers.
• Opening hidden gifts scattered around the D.C. map.

There is no mention of a hard cap, so the limiting factor is how much you play during the three-week window.

Event Vendor: the three Winter caches

The Event Vendor is refreshed for the event and trades Winter Keys for three distinct cache types:

• Winter Apparel Cache
• Winter Gameplay Cache
• Winter Community Cache

Each one serves a different purpose: cosmetics, loot hunting, or community progress.

Winter Apparel Cache (new outfits and vanity)

The Winter Apparel Cache is dedicated to apparel and vanity items and is structured to avoid duplicates. That makes it the cleanest path to clearing the cosmetic collection for this event.

It includes four new outfits built for the season:

• Police Navidad
• Leather Bomber
• Glacial Ghillie
• BTSU Winter

On top of those outfits, the cache also contains:

• Candygram Turret Skill VFX
• Trimmings universal weapon skin
• Winter Berry universal weapon skin
• Naughty weapon skin
• Dark Krampus uniform
• Dark Krampus mask

You normally open this cache with Winter Keys, but Winter Apparel Keys are also available to buy for 100 Premium Credits each. Those paid keys are optional and exist purely as a shortcut for cosmetics.

Winter Gameplay Cache (named items, exotics, Bell Ringer LMG)

The Winter Gameplay Cache is aimed at gear progression. It can only be opened with Winter Keys earned in-game and pulls from a large loot pool ordered by decreasing drop chance.

Special Named Gear has the highest odds in this cache:

• Lexington
• Turmoil
• Caretaker
• Shield Splinterer
• Huntsman
• Hunter-Killer
• Handbasket

Seasonal Named Gear sits below that tier:

• The Harvest
• Chill Out
• Sleigher
• Slingshot
• Oh Carol
• First Sight
• Quickstep
• Festive Delivery
• Snow Machine

At the rarer end of the table, the cache can drop:

• General pool Exotics
• Bell Ringer LMG
• Eagle Bearer
• Ouroboros
• Regulus

The Bell Ringer LMG is new for the event and is notable both as a named weapon and for its seasonal flavor. Eagle Bearer, Ouroboros, and Regulus are high-value exotics typically associated with raids and other high-end content, so this is a limited-timed alternate route to them.

There is no published drop rate for any item in the cache; only the relative ordering is given. Expect the exotics and Bell Ringer to require more pulls than the named gear.

Winter Community Cache and donation tradeoffs

The Winter Community Cache is less about direct loot and more about contributing Winter Keys toward arm patches and a global cosmetic unlock.

Every Winter Key you donate here does two things at once:

• Advances your personal donation milestones.
• Adds to the global Winter Event Community Challenge total.

On top of those personal rewards, the global “Challenge of Giving” runs from December 16 to January 6. If the community collectively donates 1,000,000 Winter Keys to the Winter Community Cache before the deadline, everyone unlocks the White Krampus Outfit.

Those keys are a shared resource: anything donated here is not available for Apparel or Gameplay caches. That forces you to decide how much to push toward outfitting your own Agent versus accelerating the community unlock.

Note: all challenge rewards, including the White Krampus Outfit if unlocked, must be claimed before January 6. Unclaimed rewards do not remain available in the UI after the event period.

Julmust mask on The Summit floor 100

Julmust, a holiday-themed Hunter mask, has been added as a drop to The Summit’s floor 100 for the duration of the event.

That means if you clear floor 100 and defeat the Hunters there during the Winter Event window, the Julmust mask is on the reward table. This gives dedicated Summit players an extra cosmetic target on top of the usual loot from high floors.

Winter Event Twitch Drops (December 16–26)

Separate from in-game keys and caches, a Twitch Drops campaign runs from December 16 through December 26 with Winter Event–themed rewards.

To make sure rewards land on the right account, the account linking is mandatory.

Step 1: Log into your Twitch account and link it to your Ubisoft Connect account. The linking flow is available through the Ubisoft Connect account management pages or through the dedicated Ubisoft Drops site at https://drops-register.ubi.com/.

Step 2: In Ubisoft Connect, confirm that your primary gaming platforms (such as PC, PlayStation, or Xbox) are correctly linked to the same Ubisoft account.

Step 3: Watch any drop-enabled Tom Clancy’s The Division 2 stream from partnered creators on Twitch. Your watch time stacks across multiple channels.

Step 4: When Twitch notifies you that a drop is ready, claim it directly in the Twitch interface.

Step 5: Log into The Division 2 on your chosen platform so the game can deliver the claimed items to your account.

Rewards are tied to cumulative watch time during the campaign:

• 30 minutes – Sleepy Snowman backpack trophy.
• 1 hour – Named Item Cache.
• 2 hours – Ornamented weapon skin.
• 3 hours – Exotic Cache.
• 4 hours – Santa Slays backpack trophy.

Once the window closes on December 26, these rewards can no longer be earned from Twitch; you only retain what you already claimed and pulled into the game client.

Patch timing and related limited-time events

The Winter Event lands as part of the Y7S3.1 update, which also delivers a few time-limited stat and resource multipliers shortly before and after the core holiday window:

• Countdown Surge – Resource Multiplier: December 26–30, granting double Countdown Requisition earnings in the Countdown mode.
• Deadeye Overdrive – Stats Multiplier: January 9–13, temporarily boosting headshot damage, weapon damage, accuracy, stability, and weakpoint damage.

Those side events are not formally part of the Winter Event but sit on the same patch and calendar, giving extra reasons to log in while the holiday content is still active or just after it completes.

For three weeks, The Division 2 leans into a straightforward loop: hunt Krampus and his crews, convert the resulting Winter Keys into either cosmetics or chase exotics, and decide how many keys to divert into the Community Cache in the hope of seeing every Agent walking around D.C. in the White Krampus Outfit. With a clear end date and several separate reward tracks, the main constraint is how you want to spend your time and keys before January 6.