Year 700!

Gamden

For how long does the treasurehunt last?

Tecton

Until all of the bags are found!

Tecton

In the first of the articles on our new championship events, we'll be covering the XP event!

Traditionally, the XP event was a 24 hour bash-fest across Sapience, leaving nothing but battered corpses and empty villages in its wake. For Year 700, we're doing things a little differently! During the 48 hour event, you will have a six hour window in one of four new areas to amass the highest possible score! 

Each of these new areas is filled with endless waves of creatures, who will continuously spawn in groups, filling the area with a variety of nasty villains to slay. The waves will get continually more difficult as they're vanquished, until the highest difficulty creatures are dispatched. Should they prove too strong for you and the rest of the participants in your area, you have the option of waiting for the waves to reset, which will eat some of your precious time. If you're brave enough to conquer the final wave, the reset will happen immediately, allowing you to continue to amass points.

Your window will commence the first time you join the event, and run in a single, continuous block until your time expires, or the end of the event (23:59 GMT on Sunday). This will allow you to participate at a time that works best for you, whatever your timezone!

The area you transported to is assigned at random at the beginning of the event, and you will be locked into that for the duration of your time window. Each of these areas are entirely isolated from the others, meaning abilities and artefacts for transport or attacks will not work between them.

Experience loss and PK experience gain are disabled during the event, and while inside the new areas, all participants can be freely attacked by any other adventurer(*). Dying inside the contest area will put you immediately in the prayer sequence and activate a five minute timer until you can rejoin the action. Player kills are not worth any points, so chose your activities inside the contest zone wisely.

(*) We encourage healthy competition, so in order to prevent anyone going overboard, you'll receive a stacking debuff each time you kill another adventurer. This effect will increase the time until you can rejoin the event after you've been slain. This effect is cleared when you die.

Jarrod

Assuming relics will be lost when you enter the competition area?

Tecton

Correct. Relics will be disabled during all of the championship events.

Tecton

And since I've had many people enquire: XP boosts from elixirs, elite, rare minerals etc. will work during the event, but will not influence your score.

Valkyn

So we still get 2x exp for the weekend?

Draekar

wasn't interested in the xp event at all but this setup looks like it could be fun. Great idea to transform it from a 48 hour endurance event to a 6 hour bashing challenge. I expect a lot of people will more seriously give it a go and it really opens the field up for a lot more people to have a chance at placing as well! the random placement and area setup sounds awesome too.

big ups to @Tecton and the entire crew for this event.

Lorielan

Is @Draekar going to be the next Champion, the Lord of the Crossing, the next Achaean to bear the Staff of Nicator?

Or will it be you?!

Krypton

Tecton said:
Experience loss and PK experience gain are disabled during the event

ALL experience loss is disabled? And only within the 4 hunting areas, or globally for 48 hours?

Skye

edit: nvm it's random for flavour. But still I'm curious how non-dragon participants will handle this, or if this is gonna inadvertently lock out any under 90s from real participation.

Antonius

If it was based on Great Hunt tier (i.e. your level) it wouldn't be randomly assigned at the start of the event. Seems like the intention is to stop an entire city banding together to help a single person win, since you won't all be able to get into the same area.

Exelethril

Did we actually bash for 48 hours last time? It felt like 24 to me.

Kafziel

Tecton said:

Traditionally, the XP event was a 24 hour bash-fest across Sapience, leaving nothing but battered corpses and empty villages in its wake. For Year 700, we're doing things a little differently! During the 48 hour event, you will have a six hour window in one of four new areas to amass the highest possible score!

Tecton

Skye said:

edit: nvm it's random for flavour. But still I'm curious how non-dragon participants will handle this, or if this is gonna inadvertently lock out any under 90s from real participation.

There's some lower-level stuff in the initial tiers, but as it scales up in the later waves, you'll either have to think outside the box in order to survive and continue to gain points. 

Draekar

Lorielan said:

Is @Draekar going to be the next Champion, the Lord of the Crossing, the next Achaean to bear the Staff of Nicator?

Or will it be you?!

Here I am taking a coffee break and reading the forums and this legit made me spit my coffee out and lol

I wish I could play enough (read well enough) to be in contention. I enjoy just being present in Achaea for the fun, and this really looks like it will be great fun for everyone who competes. 

I don't know who is going to take this overall championship out, I think it is as available as it has ever been for your average player to give it a go!

I can't wait to see how it all pans out.

Gamden

Will there be a year 700 Lottery too?

Aegoth

@Tecton: Are rare minerals going to work for events like the Twins Tournament and such?

Tecton

Aegoth said:

@Tecton: Are rare minerals going to work for events like the Twins Tournament and such?

Nope, like relics, they'll be disabled for the championship events.

Tecton

Gamden said:

Will there be a year 700 Lottery too?

Indeed!

Austere

Tecton said:

Gamden said:

Will there be a year 700 Lottery too?

Indeed!

What about an auction!? Please say yes.  With lots of cool stuff I can't afford 

Kasya

Austere said:

Tecton said:

Gamden said:

Will there be a year 700 Lottery too?

Indeed!

What about an auction!? Please say yes.  With lots of cool stuff I can't afford 

Land auction?? And bound credits work for auctions, right? Which is why auction escrow build is a thing?

Kyrra

I love auction escrow build. Auctions are so nom.

Anatral

Lorielan said:

Is @Draekar going to be the next Champion, the Lord of the Crossing, the next Achaean to bear the Staff of Nicator?

Or will it be you?!

To quote a great lady, "No," no it will not.

ETA: still going to be great though! Thanks, Garden.

Dochitha

@tecton about the hunt, can we go home for supplies? Like refills?

Jarrod

You'll be outside if you die until you go back in after the mandatory delay.

Tecton

Dochitha said:

@tecton about the hunt, can we go home for supplies? Like refills?

Yes, you can leave the area naturally, and it does not incur the penalty you would get if you were to die.

Kasya

@Tecton any auctions?

Valkyn

Time to start training for the 750! Most of the big events for the 700 are during the day on a Monday in my timezone, but ah well can't suit everyone. Maybe I'll be able to actually fight properly by 750. :proud:

Just disappointed I'll miss the ship race, but there's always next year.

Greys

@Tecton Can items show up north such as the tundra for the treasurehunt?