Hey Albion!


This Feature Dive will revolve around Might and Favor. Might and Favor are a new way we reward you, as an individual player, for your conquests in Albion’s recurring seasons and it even further rewards taking the risk of lethal full loot PvP.


Earning Might and Favor

Any time you complete selected activities in lethal areas of the game, you’re awarded an amount of Might and Favor to highlight that accomplishment.

Eligible activities are:

• PvE (in Outlands and the Roads of Avalon)
  
• Gathering/Fishing (in Outlands and the Roads of Avalon)
  
• Corrupted Dungeons (awarded on kills only)
  
• Hellgates (awarded after the completion of every Hellgate)
  
• Outland Treasures (awarded when any member of your group opens one)
  
• Crystal League (awarded on Wins and partially awarded with no match)
  
• Killing Crystal Spiders
  
• Killing Siphoning Mages
  
• Capturing Hideout Power Cores and Territory Energy Crystals
  

These activities do not award an even amount of Might, with some yielding much more than others. We encourage you to test as many of these activities as possible to see what you can earn.


Conqueror’s Challenge: Weekly Rewards

Each week, regardless of whether or not it’s during a Season, players are eligible to receive weekly rewards for earning enough Might. These rewards come in two varieties: Favor Milestones that award you along the way and an ultimate Weekly Reward of a Grand Conqueror’s Chest.

While you can spend Favor on other rewards (more on that later), the Grand Conqueror’s Chest yields instantaneous rewards to highlight your success. This includes some basic loot such as fame, silver bags, resources, and a bit of siphoned energy, but also a rare mount and a valuable new Artifact resource that can act as a “wild card” when crafting artifacts.

These new artifact items can be used as a replacement in the crafting of any artifact that shares the same tier and artifact level of that item. Each Grand Conqueror’s Chest guarantees one of these items but does not guarantee which tier and type you’ll receive. These recipes can already be seen at local crafting stations, and used if you’re able to obtain one of these items!


Conqueror’s Challenge: Season Rewards

In addition to the short-term Weekly Rewards, there are also Season Rewards to strive for. Each Season’s rewards return but as individual incentives to participate. The Season Rewards you can earn will be familiar: Battle Mounts, Fame Boosts, and Avatar portraits. Once each of these unlocks it can be upgraded with further progress, and in the case of Avatar portraits you retain any that you unlock.




Favor Rewards

Favor can currently be spent on Siphoned Energy as well as Conqueror’s Chest (not Grand Conqueror’s Chest), which are versions of the Weekly chest that do not guarantee the receipt of an Artifact resource. These items are available at the Energy Manipulator, which has also been added to Level 2 Hideouts.

We plan on expanding the Favor Rewards in the near future and will be announcing what else we’ll include at a later time.


Your Guild and You (or just you!)

You can now participate in Albion’s seasons even if you’re not in a guild! Your progress is now your progress, and you keep it with you regardless of your chaotic, ever-shifting allegiances! (wow, whatever happened to loyalty??)

Alternatively, you can still benefit from your Guild’s progress and your Guild can benefit from your own! You receive bonus Might and Favor based on your Guild’s current Bracket, and your Guild benefits by applying all Might earned by their members to Might Levels, which yield Season Points each time a new level is reached.

In addition, each time the Guild reaches a new Bracket, you’re awarded a payout of Might that’s applied to your own Season Progress (but not Weekly progress). You have to be with your guild for a minimum of one day to receive the bonus Might.

Each player’s contributions to a Guild’s Might Levels are ranked, so you can compare how much you’ve earned versus that of your guildmates.




Staging Rewards

We’d really love to hear all of your feedback on all of this and know it’s quite a lot to test.

Anyone who receives Might from any activity excluding PvE, Gathering, Fishing, Hideout Power Cores, and Territory Energy crystals will be included in the raffle to receive gold!

Hideout Power Cores and Territory Energy Crystals have a raffle of their own, and you can read about the overall contest here.

Once you’re done checking out this new feature let us know what you think! Feedback is entirely optional, and you do not need to supply feedback in order to be eligible for a chance to receive the gold.


Known Issues

• The balancing and prices of Conqueror’s Chests and Siphoned Energy favor purchases are not yet complete
  
• The new Artifact resource items are missing localization
  
• The Escape key doesn't close the Conqueror's Challenge window
  

Sorry for the order and formatting..updating from my phone.

This is a known issue but it seems it's evaded my known issues overview. Will make sure to follow up on this on Monday.

And add it to the known issues here now.

Thanks for the report Triky, both the player sorting for the rankings and the incorrect icon have been fixed internally and will be fixed in the next test server build.

The Might and Favor bonuses you get from your guild bracket is applied every time you get Might or Favor, and you can see the contribution the bonus gave next to the Guild icon in both the overhead message as well as the combat message.