Automatic events

From noon to 2am, an event every 45 minutes. Nineteen a day, and none of them needs a GM to open it.

1. 01

   Six of them, all running

   Team Vs Team, Capture the Flag, Deathmatch, Last Hero, Domination and Treasure Hunt.

2. 02

   Treasure Hunt: nobody can hurt anybody

   Chests appear around the arena, whoever gets there first opens them, and whoever opened the most wins. An opened chest disappears and another spawns somewhere else, so the arena is never empty. And everybody is invulnerable from start to finish: this is the event for somebody who got home tired and does not want a fight. If you could kill inside it, it would be one more Deathmatch with chests in the middle, and there are already three of those. Two edges: a tie at the top produces no winner, and opening no chest does not win by lack of competition.

3. 03

   Domination, and the rule that decides it

   Two teams, three control points. Every five seconds, each point your team holds is worth one point on the scoreboard. Killing does not score here: it is how you get the enemy off the point. And the rule that changes how it is played is this one: a contested point does not change hands. If both teams have people nearby, it stays with whoever already had it. Taking a point means clearing it, not touching it.

4. 04

   Losing pays too

   Winning pays 10 Event Medals and taking part pays 3. That is deliberate: an event that only pays the winner teaches whoever lost not to register again, and in two weeks the same group is left playing against itself. The ceiling is 60 medals a day.

5. 05

   It needs 10 registered

   With fewer than that the event is cancelled and the server says so. Better not to open than to open a 2v2 nobody wanted to play.

6. 06

   What the Medal buys

   At the same merchant as the Hunt Seal, in Giran. One NPC, two currencies, instead of scattering shops around the city:

   • Noblesse for 50. It is the alternative to Barakiel: whoever does not want to hunt the raid buys it. With a ceiling of 60 medals a day, that is a day or two of events. This one is at the Noblesse NPC.
   • Giant's Codex - Mastery for 40, which is the book spent on every safe enchant attempt. The other three are one-offs and cost adena: the ordinary Giant's Codex 50 million, and Oblivion and Discipline 125 million each.
   • Consumables, in bundles: 100 Greater CP Potion, 100 Quick Healing Potion or 10 Elixir of Life S for 10 medals, and 10 Blessed Scroll of Escape for 5.
7. 07

   And the Olympiad, the event that runs all week

   The cycle is 7 days long, and the new heroes are announced every Monday at 00h. Retail runs a monthly cycle, so here there are 52 shots at hero per year instead of 12, and missing one costs you a week rather than a month. You need 10 matches in the cycle to run for the crown.

   • Inside the arena enchant is capped at +6, on weapon, armour and jewels. In there it is the hand that counts and not the gear, and someone who started two weeks ago walks in against anyone. Outside, +20 still decides everything.
   • One character per computer scores in the cycle, and the same IP or HWID never faces itself. That is what stops a player from farming hero against his own second window.
   • The hero of each class takes 50 Rubies, retail hero weapon and skills, and the aura, for one week. After that the next cycle decides again.
8. 08

   Idle for 45 seconds and you are out

   And idle means idle: attacking, casting or moving restarts the count, and you still get a warning halfway through. It is not a timer on how long you have been in the event, so somebody who is playing is never thrown out, nor is somebody holding the arena without dying.

9. 09

   And the Epic Raid, which runs on another clock: every 5 hours

   The server draws three living raid bosses between level 40 and 74, marks them Epic Raid and announces them in chat. A marked boss pays Epic Fragments at 100% to the whole party that is alive and nearby. Quest bosses are left out of the draw, so nobody turns up for a quest and finds the boss contested.

   • The Fragment is what the Epic Forge consumes, from week 4: a craft, with a chance, of the Queen Ant, Core, Orfen, Zaken, Baium, Antharas and Valakas jewels.
   • The jewels still drop from the bosses. The forge is the other road, not a replacement.