Alliance is a game feature focused in PvP where you can get several rewards, participate in fights, acquire reputation points to exchange for items and crafting materials and more.
In order to join an Alliance, you first need to join a guild. There are 3 different Alliances in the game and they are each responsible for one territory and have a specific bonus reward just for those assigned to it. They are as following:
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ALLIANCE |
BONUS |
LOCATION |
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Free Traders (FT) |
1% more gold from monsters |
Velika |
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Enlightened Union (EU) |
5% more reputation credits |
Allemantheia |
|
Iron Order (IO) |
5% additional stun resistance |
Kaiator |
Once you join a guild you can ask the Guild Master to join an Alliance with the Alliance Admin NPC located in each Alliance Headquarters. If you do not wish to join a guild and yet want to take part in the Alliance feature you can join one of the 3 system guilds that are already part of the 3 Alliances. (press alt > social > guild > guilds on server) and look for the system guild that better suits your preferences. Here on Nova the guild name will be in Russian so once you find it you can just hit “apply” and you will automatically join the guild and by extension the Alliance.
Upon joining a guild with an Alliance you will receive through parcel post a Pasive Skill and an Alliance teleport skill. The skill teleports you to the Alliance Headquarter (note: this skill has 30 minutes cooldown, so if you need to go back to the Headquarter before that time you can go to the Alliance city and take one of the city teleports to go to the hall).
Ranking - Alliance is a game feature that resets once a week. For this particular server, resets occur every wednesday at 7am Brasilia time. Every week, players from the Alliances compete amongst themselves for ranks in the following week. Alliance ranks are as follow:
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RANKS |
POSITION |
BUFFS |
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1 |
Exarch |
Alliance leader. Can distribute points and gold to commanders, can summon infiltrators, use skills to give buffs, adjust the taxes of the territory and upgrade the Alliance enchanted from bronze to silver or gold for 1 hour (if enough points are accumulated). |
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2 TO 5 |
Assault Commanders |
Have an aura that prevents people within it from getting knocked down and staggered. |
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6 TO 10 |
Defense Commanders |
Have an aura that boosts the defense of the people around him. |
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11 TO 20 |
Adjunct Commanders |
Have an aura that prevents Stamina from decreasing while within range. |
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21 TO 120 |
Echelons I, II, III and IV. |
Can summon banners that provide power, defense and stamina auras to people in their range. |
You can earn points in Alliance by doing quests (purple exclamation mark - daily quests), doing PvP, collecting keys from Noctenium Extractors, killing BAMs and killing MOBs.
Points distribution are as follow:
Things you do inside the Alliance territory also give you buffs. You can stack up to 30 buffs (do keep in mind those buffs only work within the Alliance territory. If you leave the map or disconnect from the game those will be lost and you’ll need to farm them again).
Buffs earned are as follow:
Those are a big part of the Alliance experience. Each map has 100 Noctenium Extractors and there is a daily competition on who “steals” more Extractor Keys (item that drops once you “gather” an extractor). Competition starts at midnight which is the time the Extractors reset, by this time every single map will have 100 keys each. (that makes midnight the perfect hour for “key stealing”. At 11 PM the Extractor Competition ends and all the keys are gone for 1 hour until reset. The amount of keys per Alliance, at the end of the day, will grant the winning Alliance more Vault Access Hours - you can check vault access hours by pressing: Alt > Social > Alliance > Standings > Vault Access Hours.
Stealing keys is a great way to foment PvP within the Alliance Territory.
Conflict - Every Sunday at 7PM, there is a conflict between all 3 Alliances. They fight each other for the right to be called champion of the week, gold rewards and more depending on the patch. Only the top 120 ranked members from the previous week can participate and only those online on the Alliance map at the time of conflict are eligible for rewards afterward.
For this event, you have to both defend your territory and attack the others. There are many tactics that can be used here, but it depends on the amount of players. The sky's the limit. Conflict is a good way to get gold, especially early in the game because it happens regardless of how many people are participating and if you go there, even with minimum contribution you will still get a gold reward.
In order to win the conflict fair and square, you need to eliminate both the other Alliance's executors. To do so, you can form an offense party and head straight to their fort. This move is not advised unless you have several raids to support you. During the conflict, the executor will have a shield and will hit you pretty hard. So the safest way to approach this is to kill the Savaliths that appear on the Alliance's map. Each Alliance will have 8. When you kill them, the executor loses % of his shield. After killing 4 Savaliths the Executor defense will be greatly decreased, but not 100%. It’s better to kill all 8 before proceeding to killing the executor. Upon Executor death, the members of that Alliance will be teleported out of the map until the conflict ends. It will end either if it reaches 2 hours duration or if 2 executors are killed.
Gold rewards are rank based so the exarch gets the biggest amount, AC’s get half of his prize, DC’s gets half of AC’s prize and so on. There’s specific values for Alliances that end up in first, second and third. The lowest reward for the losing Alliance is around 2k gold.
Alliance Enchanter - enchanting a gear could be a troublesome thing to do, with that in mind, there is an Alliance enchanter that will give you better chances of success at enchanting your gear. This feature can only be used by members of the Alliance. Whenever you join an Alliance you become a “Cadet” in order to become a member you need to achieve 1000 contribution points in a week and then you will be promoted to “Member” the following week.
Bronze enchanter has a higher chance of success than regular enchant. Using Exarch’s powers and depending on the whole Alliance contribution, there is a way to upgrade the Bronze enchanter to silver enchanter, which has an even higher chance of success and even a gold enchanter which has double the chance of success from normal enchanting. Those upgrades cost a lot of points and can only be used by the Exarch, and each only lasts 1 hour. Usually, if there are enough points, the Exarch will tell the Alliance members the date and time of the upgraded enchanter so people can be prepared to use it.
You can craft your own Noctenium Infusion (Nocs) with a few simple items.
You need to have all 3 items on your inventory and then simply click on the Affinity Catalyst and it will convert them into Nocs. Every conversion gives you a pack of 60 Nocs.
Alliance Quests - There are daily quests you can do in the Alliance in order to get points, credits, rewards and gold.
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QUEST |
WHAT TO DO |
LOCATION |
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People demand a demonstration |
Kill a final boss in a dungeon. People usually do “Balder's Temple - solo version”, but feel free to pick whatever dungeon from the quest log |
Alliance Headquarters |
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Vaulted Improvement |
Kill the Vault BAM. Just accept the quest and talk again to the NPC to be teleported to the Vault arena. There, you can kill a BAM. Upon killing it and taking the rewards, use the command “/reset” to leave the dungeon and complete the quest. |
Alliance Headquarters |
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Specialty loot |
Hit 5 banana trees outside the fort (EU) Hit 5 rocks outside the fort (IO) Hit 5 monkeys outside the fort (FT) |
Alliance Fort |
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Gathering quest - Energy |
Collect 3 Arunic energy from essences throughout the Alliance map |
Alliance Fort |
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Gathering quest - Ore |
Collect 3 Noctenium ores from rocks throughout the Alliance map |
Alliance Fort |
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Gathering quest - Seed |
Collect 3 contaminated seed from flowers throughout the Alliance map |
Alliance Fort |
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BAM hunt quest - Aurum |
Kill 3 BAMS throughout the Alliance maps. Basilisk, Fimbrilisk and Fangspawn This first quest is done on your own Alliance map which is called (the waste, the barrens or the wilderness) |
Alliance Fort |
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BAM hunt quest - Tor |
Kill 3 BAMS throughout the Alliance maps. Basilisk, Fimbrilisk and Fangspawn |
Alliance Fort |
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BAM hunt quest - Darkquaver |
Kill 3 BAMS throughout the Alliance maps. Basilisk, Fimbrilisk and Fangspawn |
Alliance Fort |
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MOB killing quest - Aurum |
Kill 3 MOBs throughout the Alliance maps. Mugato x3, Ghilliedhu x 3 This first quest is done on your own Alliance map which is called (the waste, the barrens or the wilderness) |
Alliance Fort |
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MOB killing quest - Tor |
Kill 3 MOBs throughout the Alliance maps. Mugato x3, Ghilliedhu x 3 |
Alliance Fort |
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MOB killing quest - Darkquaver |
Kill 3 MOBs throughout the Alliance maps. Mugato x3, Ghilliedhu x 3 |
Alliance Fort |
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Noctenium extractor collecting quest |
Collect 5 keys at the enemy territory, from Noctenium extractors. Can be done twice. |
Alliance Beachhead |
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Noctenium extractor collecting quest |
Collect 5 keys at the enemy territory, from Noctenium extractors. Can be done twice. |
Alliance Beachhead |
Alliance Credits can be used by both PvP and PvE players. Truth be told, this is a more PvP oriented feature, but it can also be useful for PvE players to some extent.
PvP players will mostly use these credits to farm the PvP gear. Using Alliance Credits is way cheaper and faster than using just regular Bellicarium and Killing Spree credits. Once the PvP player finishes his gear, has all his PvP crystals and his belt, he can keep using the credits to try and create ultimate Dyad Crystals from the Superb Niveot.
The main way to get Alliance Credits is to do the Alliance Daily quests everyday, however there are a few extra ways to get credits such as:
There is a weekly cap on points you can get from BAMs and MOBs. Once you reach that limit, you will receive a notification every time you kill something in Alliance saying: this kill will not grant you anymore credits. While you don't hit this limit, you can keep farming more Credits. There are a few places with a good amount of MOBs and or BAMs where you can farm depending on what you prefer. It is faster with BAMs, but it is up to you.
Also, you get double the amount of points if you use the 2x reputation bonus and you can get an extra 5% if you are in the EU Alliance.