All About Shrines!

Overview

• Capture a Stronghold to Rule the Realm
• Capture a Core Shrine or Mini Shrine to boost your Clan's Attacks against other Shrines and strength in the Realm.
• Earn Shrine Score for capturing and holding Shrines to boost your Realm Ranking.
• The Ruler of the Realm chooses the Realm Bonus, a Realm Reward, and assigns Realm Titles.

Event Phases

Battle for the Realm
(2 Hours - ???)

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Ruler Deliberates
(1 Hour)

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Reign Period
(1 Day)

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Cooldown
(Varies)

Battle for the Realm - Stronghold

• Players need to hold the Stronghold for the required amount of time to earn the Ruler of the Realm title.
• The required time decreases the longer a Ruler has not yet been determined
• You can only Rally against a Stronghold
• Once captured, you can send additional troops to replace any injured ones
• Troops are capped by your Shrine Rally Size
• Exists on a non-Biome Lava tile without any other Ally or Biome Bonuses

Battle for the Realm - Core Shrines

• Each Biome has it's own unique Core Shrine
• Take control of the Shrine by rallying and staying for 10 minutes
• Control grants the entire clan a boost to attacking monsters and gathering from resource nodes of that specific biome type as well as attacking the Stronghold Shrine
• These bonuses only remain while the Clan maintains control of the Shrine
• Clans can only control 1 Core Shrine at a time
• Core Shrines remain active during Deliberation and Reign Phases

Battle for the Realm - Mini Shrines

• Each Biome has 4 Mini Shrines (North / South / East / West)
• Take control of the Shrine by rallying and staying for 1 minute
  
• Control grants the entire clan a boost to attacking Shrines in other biomes and attacking monsters or gathering resource nodes of that biome type
• These bonuses only remain while the Clan maintains control of the Mini Shrine
• Clans can control any number of Mini Shrines
• Mini Shrines remain active during the Deliberation and Reign Phases

Battle for the Realm - Ejection

• To prevent camping locations on the Stronghold Shrine Island, as well as to protect players from being totally stripped losing combat against your City will eject you from the Lava Island
• Ejected players will be randomly relocated outside of the Lava Island, be shielded for a short period of time, and be granted a single teleport item

Battle for the Realm - Lockout

• Once a player has been kicked off a Shrine (or recalls) they are locked out from leading a Rally against that Shrine for a period 5 minutes longer than the Capture Time.

Shrine Score

• Earn points for capturing and holding Shrines
  • Capture Stronghold: +10,000 Shrine Score
  • Hold Core Shrine: +3 Shrine Score / Minute
  • Hold Mini Shrine: +1 Shrine Score / Minute
  • 10x Shrine Score during Capture Phase
• Top Shrine Scores earn extra Realm Classes and extra rewards during reign phase.
  • Top 10: Lords
  • Next 40: Nobles

Deliberation Phase

• Decision 1 - Realm Reward
  • Greed: Jewels for your Clan only! Nodes spawn every 8 Hours
  • Generosity: 2 x Jewels for the whole Realm! Nodes spawn every 8 Hours

• Decision 2 - Realm Bonus
  • Open Season: Energy Regen Rate and Monster Hunt Strength Bonus increased:
    • +15% for the Realm
    • +30% for Ruler's Clan
    • +10% Dragon XP for Lords
    • +5% Dragon XP for Nobles
  • War: March Speed, Rally Caps, and Reinforcement Caps increased:
    • +15% for the Realm
    • +30% for Ruler's Clan
    • +10% Training Speed for Lords
    • +5% Training Speed for Nobles
  • Tyranny Tax: Tax all Realm Resources from Gathering and Monster Hunts:
    • +10% for the Realm
    • NO TAX for Ruler's Clan
    • Lords earn 2% of Taxed Amount
    • Nobles earn 1% of Taxed Amount
  • Bountiful Harvest: Resource Gathering Rates, Production, and Protection. Caps increased:
    • +15% for the Realm
    • +30% for Ruler's Clan
    • 10% Max Monster Resource Ally Bonus for Lords
    • 5% Max Monster Resource Ally Bonus for Nobles
• Decision 3 - Treasures
  • Ruler chooses 1 of 3 Treasure Sets that contain high-value rewards
  • Ruler receives 1 Treasure Chest for themselves
  • Ruler receives a large number of Treasure Chests to gift to others
  • Gifted Chests are limited to 1 per Player per Reign

Reign Period

• Realm Titles Assigned
• During this time players will gain the selected Realm Bonus benefits and are able to collect Jewel Nodes spawned in the Realm
• The Ruler of the Realm also has the ability to set a Ruler Message, viewable in World Chat

Cooldown Period

• After the Reign Period ends there will be a cooldown period before the battle for Strongholds begins again.

(Note: This information is accurate as of September 27th, 2018 and is subject to change)