Battlegrounds Updates

New Battleground Modes

Regicide

One soldier in each army is crowned Warlord at random. Soldiers fighting near their Warlord hit harder, but the Warlord’s position is marked on every minimap on the field and is given a special aura on their sprite.

Cut down the enemy Warlord and your army claims a Crown/Point. The moment a Warlord falls, their army crowns a new one at random and surges with a short Vengeance rally: quickened by Increase AGI, and with most incoming magic washing harmlessly over them.

• Win condition: 5 Crowns/Points
• Rally aura: +10% ATK and MATK within 9 cells of your Warlord
• Vengeance: 15 seconds of Lv10 Increase Agility and 75% Magic Damage reduction
• Maps: Old Payon or Old Izlude

Bounty Hunt

Every head carries a price. Killing an enemy earns your army Gold/Points equal to that soldier’s bounty: one Gold/Point to start, and one more for every kill on their current streak, to a maximum of five.

Your own bounty climbs the same way. Once your head is worth four Gold or more you are marked WANTED and your position is revealed to the entire battlefield, plus you get a special aura on your sprite. Dying wipes your bounty clean. A rampage pays your army well right up until it makes you the most hunted player on the map.

Furthermore, we’ve enhanced this mode with some sound effects for kills done.

• Win condition: 40 Gold
• Bounty range: 1 to 5 Gold
• Marked WANTED at: 4 Gold
• On death: bounty resets
• Maps: Old Payon or Old Izlude

Both modes join the weekday rotation and can be read up on at the Battle Recruiter, alongside the existing arenas.

Guild Skills in Battlegrounds

Battleground armies now run on the same guild skills a real guild fields in War of Emperium. Each team has a leader, announced on the arena map when the match begins, and only the leader can call these on the army’s behalf.

• Great Leadership: Aura, STR for nearby allies
• Wounds of Glory: Aura, VIT for nearby allies
• Soul of Cold: Aura, INT for nearby allies
• Sharp Hawk Eyes: Aura, DEX for nearby allies
• Battle Orders: Active, STR/INT/DEX to the whole army
• Regeneration: Active, HP and SP recovery for the army
• Restore: Active, heals and cures the army

A few things worth knowing:

• Emergency Call is not available in battlegrounds.
• Cooldowns belong to the army, not the caster. Passing leadership with @leader does not refresh anything.
• Guild skills from your own guild outside have no effect inside a match anymore.

Rewards and Shop Prices

Match payouts are up and the reward shop is cheaper across every equipment tier.

• Glorious equipment (weapons and armors): 30~40% cheaper
• Valor and Brave equipment: 20~30% cheaper
• Costumes: 15~25% cheaper
• Consumables and misc: unchanged
• Match coin payout: increased by 20% for both Valor and Glory Coins. Applies to match rewards only.
• Increased losing team’s rewards slightly.

Battlefield Colors

For the length of a match, every player wears their army’s colors: Guillaume in blue, Croix in red, and the Traitor team in green in Triple Inferno.

Your own palette is handed straight back the moment you leave the arena.

Partybuff Updates

Choose which buffs you see
Every support class watches different buffs, so !partybuff now lets you pick which ones show in front of your party members’ names. Your picks only change your own party window, and each character saves its own setup.

Commands

• !partybuff: turns the buff display on or off. Turning it on shows the buffs you’re tracking and how to change them.
• !partybuff list: shows every buff code and what you’re tracking right now.
• !partybuff set <codes>: picks up to 5 buffs, shown in the order you type them. For example, !partybuff set BAKMU.
• !partybuff reset: goes back to the default [BAFS+].

Buff codes

Bard & Dancer songs

Example setups

• Priest: !partybuff set BAKMU
• Soul Linker: !partybuff set SZPT
• Crusader / Paladin: !partybuff set +D
• Blacksmith: !partybuff set RWO
• Sage: !partybuff set E
• Bard / Dancer: !partybuff set 2347

Bug fix

• Fixed buff tags sometimes appearing on the wrong party member, or not appearing at all, after someone left the party.

Notes

• If you never use set, nothing changes: you’ll still see the current default [BAFS+].
• E lights up for any Sage endow or Elemental Converter, whatever the element.

Fixes and Minor Updates

• Gramps now shows your remaining Eden limits -after- finishing a mission.
• Added a lot of missing costumes to the Dressing Coach. Primarily those with a different location counterpart.
• Costumes added to Lutie Vending Machine registration:
  • Water Mastery Costume
  • Floating Ice Costume
  • Many Stars Costume
  • Rune Helm Costume
  • Magic Books Costume
  • Saiyan Hair Costume