Weekly stages

The content does not all arrive on day 1. It opens in stages, and the enchant ceiling rises with them, which is the most direct answer there is to the pay to win question: money does not help, because the limit belongs to the server and not to your wallet.

1. 01

   Week by week

   The whole calendar is published before the season opens:

   • Week 1: opening, Recruit Kit, Vesper in the GM shop, Routine zones, Queen Ant, Core and Orfen. Enchant ceiling at +12 and no castle in play.
   • Week 2: Elite zones and the first siege. Aden and Giran come into play.
   • Week 3: Zaken and Baium, Vorpal, fortresses, the start of Territory War, the player Ruby auction opens, and the Start Bonus comes into effect.
   • Week 4: Frintezza, the Epic Forge and Elegia. The ceiling rises to +16, and Goddard and Rune come in.
   • Week 6: Antharas and Seed of Infinity. Innadril and Dion come in.
   • Week 8: Valakas, Freya and the Ancestral Scroll, which is what takes weapons to +20. All nine castles in play.
   • Week 10: Beleth and the whole of Hellbound.
   • Weeks 12 to 14: Final War.
   • Week 15: everything merges into the Eternal World.
2. 02

   Hellbound climbs in steps, and one of them is the whole map

   The island has a level of its own, and the season holds how far it can climb:

   • Week 1: level 1, the island opens.
   • Week 2: level 4, the whole of the first stage.
   • Week 4: level 5, Derek and two gates.
   • Week 6: level 6.
   • Week 8: level 9, the two gates that were left.
   • Week 10: level 11, the island is complete.
3. 03

   Your trust never stops, even before the step

   What the season holds is the island turning over to the next level, not your work. Farming Hellbound in week 3 loses you nothing: the trust is kept, and the level turns on its own the moment the week arrives. Arriving early is arriving ahead, not arriving for nothing.

4. 04

   And the steps miss the round weeks on purpose

   They land where the map changes face. Between level 4 and level 5 the island swaps close to a hundred spawns at once, which is why that step is in week 4 rather than on a week that would look tidier written in a calendar.

5. 05

   Why stages instead of everything at once

   A server that opens with everything unlocked is a server where the fighting is over in the second week, once the two best organised clans have taken every epic and every castle. Opening in stages, each week has a target nobody has reached yet, and somebody who arrived in week 3 still gets the week 6 Antharas along with everyone else.