Hello everyone,

Now that Nimue has been announced for November 21, we want to give you more details on the upcoming Crystal Realm Battle feature. Since this feature will affect the currently running GvG Season 4, we want to make sure guilds have enough time to plan and prepare for these changes.

Keep in mind that the details of this feature are subject to change up until the point that it goes live, so please feel free to give us your feedback in this thread.

Participation

If your guild owns a Resource territory you will have the additional option to fight once per day against other groups who have also chosen to use this feature.

Basic Rules

In these GvG battles:

• full loot is active
  
• the item power is soft capped at 1000, and each item power point above this threshold only counts 50%
  
• the scoring mechanics are the same as in regular GvGs
  
• the battle vault of the territory the team starts from is used
  

Requirements

To start the match:

• players have to join (queue) the match (it will be listed below the regular upcoming GvG battles). This is possible from anywhere in the world as it is for regular GvG signups.
  
• players have to be in the cluster of the territory from which they joined the battle during the time window of the territory
  

Time Windows

Currently the system offers two time windows similar to those of siege camps.

• 14:00, 13:00, 12:00, 05:00, 04:00, 03:00, 02:00, 01:00; 00:00 start at 4:00 UTC 2:00 UTC
  
• 23:00, 22:00, 21:00, 20:00, 18:00, 17:00, 16:00, 15:00 start at 19:00 UTC
  

Tower Level

Each of the Resource Territories will have a tower level of 1, 2 or 3. Tower levels:

• will increase after a win in a Crystal Realm Battle
  
• will decrease after a loss in a Crystal Realm Battle
  
• remain the same after a draw in a Crystal Realm Battle
  
• will increase if the system cannot find an opponent for you
  

The tower level will also influence the rewards for the Crystal Realm Battle (see below)

Season Points

To keep the rough balance of Season points, we will move some of the points from territory ownership over to participation in Crystal Realm Battles

Previous Daily Season Points for Territory Ownership:
Mercia - 336
Cumbria - 288
Anglia - 240
Royal - 96

New Daily Season Points for Territory Ownership:
Mercia - 216
Cumbria - 168
Anglia - 120
Royal - 96

Max Season Points per Crystal Realm Battle:
Tower level 1 2 3
Mercia 190 240 290
Cumbria 190 240 290
Anglia 190 240 290
Royal 190 240 290

The Season Points will be sent directly to a team’s guild, while the siphoned energy can be looted along with other rewards at the end of the match.

Seasonal Point Multiplier

Keep in mind that season points from Crystal Realm Battles will also be influenced by the seasonal multiplier. This kicks in in the last month of the season as previously announced and will double the points gained from Territory ownership and Crystal Realm Battles.

Since this is the most crucial part that will also influence the seasonal competition we want to give you a bit more insight on our thought process here:

• we want to set a point amount per fight, that reflects the risk you accept by entering a full loot battle against potentially strong opponents
  
• we keep the total season points available per season roughly the same. This is necessary to keep all siphoning energy prices and thresholds stable
  
• since we also match teams around the world against each other we think that only your tower level should influence the amount of points
  
• and since these fights happen synchronized (in two time windows) we see a potential for guilds with more than few GvG teams to shine here
  
• we are still discussing the final values here, esp the share of the GvG fights compare to the territory ownership
  

Rewards

Rewards will be given out at match end as follows:

• the winner always receives 25% of the total possible reward
  
• 75% will be divided into 4 bonus loot lists and be given out based on the final tickets at match end
  
• for example:
  
  • a 150:0 win will give 100% of the loot to the winner
    
  • a 1:0 win will give 62.5% (25+ 37.5) to the winner and 37.5% to the loser
    
• a draw will give out only 75% total and divide it between both teams based on final tickets
  
• A team that signs up but cannot be matched will receive 25% of the total winner loot and approximately 63% of the total season points
  

UPDATE: The amount of season points a team receives when the system cannot find a match for them will now be as follows:

• 50 season points at tower level 1
  
• 60 season points at tower level 2
  
• 70 season points at tower level 3
  

The main reason for this is to reduce the incentive for huge alliances to force these situations and benefit from them. If we see this still happening we will take further actions.

As an additional motivation, Crystal Realm Battle rewards include:

• non-tradable Tomes of Insight
  
• non-tradable Silver bags
  
• a chance for black market drops
  

There will be a set total amount of these items (Team1’s tower level at match start influences Team1’s loot etc.) and this will be given out following the same breakdown described for season points above.

Matchmaking

• The matchmaking system will attempt to match teams of the same tower level against each other and only match different tower level teams if there would otherwise be no fight at all
  
• This system will also prevent Crystal Realm Battles between two Territory Teams from the same Alliance
  

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That's it for now - we're very excited about this new feature, and hope it will bring exciting opportunities for new GvG teams.

Questions? Comments? Reply to this thread and let us know!