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Ether Castle Territory War registration and initiation timeline (Realm 8)
Registration for the Ether Castle Territory War begins. You must be the leader of a level 4 or higher alliance and have a Proof of Dominance.
- The Proof of Dominance can be obtained from a local agent after owning a territory for 48 hours.
- Each alliance leader can then bid to become the Attacking Alliance at the Ether Castle Agent (Pokari, next to Chauncy).
Each alliance will have to pay 1000 gold to place a ‘stake’ in the bid. Then, they can increase the value of their ‘stake’ by 1000 gold increments.
- The alliance with the highest value ‘stake’ will win the bid.
- If there is a tie between the ‘stake’ values of more than one alliance, the first one that increased their stake’s value will win the bid.
- If you do not win the bid, the amount will remain in the queue, and cannot be returned. However the amount stays in the queue and you can use it for next week’s bidding.
Saturday – 6:00 PM - 9:00 PM
The leader of the Attacking alliance will receive a prompt asking to open Ether Castle for war.
If the leader chooses "Cancel", they can start the registration process again by talking to the Ether Castle Agent. The confirmation prompt will appear for the alliance leader every time they log in until they click “Confirm”.
- If the leader of the Attacking Alliance has not started the territory war by 7:00 PM, it will start automatically.
- After the Territory War has started, members from each alliance will get a prompt asking if they want to be teleported to the Ether Castle battleground.
- If they decline, they can join the battle via the Ether Castle Agent (Pokari / 459,498).
- Regular players, who are in neither of the participating alliances, can join the Territory War as mercenaries. They can enter the battle through the Ether Castle Agent NPC.
- The current Ether Castle Dominator/Defending Alliance leader can obtain "EC Friendly Pass"to give to other alliances.
- If a mercenary has an “EC Friendly Pass”, they will join the Defending alliance; otherwise they will join the Attacking alliance. Each mercenary will have a “Mercenary” tag next to their name.
During the Battle
- Each side will start on opposite sides of the map.
- The goal of the Attacking Alliance is to defeat the Protector NPC of the Defending Alliance (Zaax)
- There are 3 types of resources that can be gathered by each side (Seed of Principle, Seed of Mercy and Seed of Origin)
- NPCs that give out buffs to your side can be bought with these resources.
- The Defending Alliance can build structures to generate resources. The production rate of each structure is [1 resource per 10 seconds].
- There are also four Etherstreams called Earth, Water, Fire and Wind. Destroying one will yield 1 Steam Core.
- Use the Stream Core on the defending team’s NPC, "Zaax", to deal damage to him.
The leaders of the two sides can purchase upgrades from the “War Upgrades” window:
- Force of White Tiger: Increase Intellect
- Force of Black Tortoise: Increase Max Health
- Force of Green Dragon: Increase Critcast and Damage
- Red Phoenix Essence: Increase flight and mount speed
Possible outcomes
- If the Defending alliance wins and they still own a territory, they will keep their status as Ether Castle Dominator.
- If the Attackers win, they will become the Ether Castle Dominator.
- If a Defending/Attacking alliance did not participate, but their friendly NPCs won, then the Ether Castle remains unoccupied.
- If the Defenders win the battle, but they don't own a territory, then Ether Castle will become unoccupied.
Other Conditions
- When the Ether Castle is not in contention, if the current Ether Castle Dominator alliance loses their territory, they will keep their Ether Castle Dominator status.
- The act of changing Alliance leader or Alliance disbanding will cause the Dominance of Ether Castle status to be lost.
Rewards:
- After successfully taking the Ether Castle, the winning Alliance will gain the title "Ether Castle Dominator." The title will constantly change colors so players can’t miss it!
- A special Angelic Bell (ID=22191) will become available to the leader of the Dominating Alliance. This will function like a normal Angelic Bell, except their chat will appear as "[Ether Castle Dominator]XXXX: XXXXX." To obtain this Angelic Bell, you have to trade in normal Angelic Bells.
- Write on the Heaven Crusade Order: The Leader can rewrite the Heaven Crusade Order for 3 times a day.
- All regional prizes from the 3 normal Territories is available for Ether Castle Dominator.
- More Personal Funds Daily: You can get quests from The Ethermaid of Cloud to raise your personal funds.
- Exclusive Mounts and Glide Gears for members of the Defending Alliance: [Shaolin Tiger] which can be upgraded. The Shaolin Tiger is combat available after upgrading it twice.
- Exclusive flying Mount for the Leader: [Nephilim Serpent]. You can also get the transform card of it.
- Exclusive Fashion sets for Dominating Alliance members.
