2x EXP Events over Christmas weekend!

Pretty sure your wrong, no way I got 5 Big Spiders in a hour on just 2x drop.

You're just lucky. I got 0 in 1 hour's worth of training/hunting there. It's definitely not 2x drop. Gaga's missions take maybe over 3 hours if you have no familiar on. I take less than 2 hours on my mules with Mixed Golems.