Players level 85 or higher after third class transfer after Awakening or 3rd Liberation can take part in a new competition – Ceremony of Chaos. The participants get Marks of Battle as reward. You will find the rules, the rewards and other related information below.
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The schedule and the requirements
Ceremony of Chaos schedule
The Ceremony of Chaos runs on a monthly cycle. It begins at midnight (server time) on the first day of the calendar month at 00:00, and ends on the last day at 24:00. Matches occur every 15 minutes (.00/.15/.30/.45) from 8:00 p.m. to midnight (server time) on Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday and Thursday. One player can tale part in 16 matches per day.
Requirements
- Belong to a clan level 3 or above.
- Be level 85 or above.
- Complete Awakening (or 3rd Liberation for Ertheia).
- Dual Class and Subclass characters can participate if they meet the above requirements.
The process of the Ceremony of Chaos
The matches of the Ceremony of Chaos occur from 8 p.m. till 00:00. 0-5 minutes, 15-20 minutes, 30-35 and 45-45 minutes of each hour: invitations are sent.
Invitations appear in the notification chat.
Teleportation to Arena
5 / 25 / 45 minutes of each hour is the deadline to accept invitations to the Ceremony of Chaos. 10 / 30 / 50 minutes of each hour – the participants are teleported to the Arenas of the Ceremony of Chaos. After that you have 1 minute to get ready. There can be up to 18 participants on each Arena. You can see the Arenas below. The button allowing you to cancel your participation becomes inactive 10 seconds before teleportation.
First Arena | Second Arena |
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Third Arena | Fourth Arena |
- If your character belongs to a party, it's excluded from it when teleported to the Ceremony.
- Servitors and cubic summons remain, but pets are unsummoned.
- The character’s HP, MP, and CP are fully recovered.
- Skill reuse timers for all skills that have less than 15 minutes of cooldown time are reset.
- All characters teleporting to the Ceremony of Chaos arenas, get the Energy of Chaos effect.
- As long as the Energy of Chaos effect is active, cloaks and head accessories are not displayed. All characters look the same.
- Characters without cloaks and head accessories also look the same.
- The aura of the Ceremony of Chaos is still displayed.
- The Energy of Chaos effect cannot be cancelled by players and it disappears only when a character leaves the Ceremony of Chaos.
- Conditions that prevent a character from moving into the arena include the following:
- Is inside an instanced zone.
- Has over 80% weight or volume in their inventory.
- Leaves the clan.
- Changes to a class that is below level 85 and has not passed their fourth class transfer.
- Is Chaotic.
- Is fishing.
- Is dead.
- The character is being teleported.
- Possesses a Cursed weapon.
Cancellation and penalties
- You can cancel your match registration within 7 minutes into the Registration Period without penalties.
- If you cancel your registration after 7 minutes, a cancellation penalty is applied and you cannot take part in 1 match.
- If you don’t meet the requirements after you’ve applied, you’re prohibited to take part in 1 competition.
- Inside an instanced dungeon.
- Over 80% weight or volume in your inventory.
- If you leave your clan.
- Your level is below 85 and has not passed its fourth class transfer.
- You’re chaotic.
- You have a cursed weapon.
- If you’re offline (by choice, or by disconnect) after you’ve applied, you’re prohibited to take part in 1 competition.
- If you press Quit before the match is over, you’re prohibited to take part in 1 competition.
- If you’re offline (by choice, or by disconnect) before the competition is over, you’re prohibited to take part in 1 competition.
- If you have 30 penalties, you cannot take part in the Ceremony of Chaos.
- The character with 30 penalties doesn’t get invitations to the Ceremony of Chaos.
- The penalties accumulated during one period of the Ceremony of Chaos, are set to null when the next period begins.
Preparing to a match
- Upon arrival, a character has 60 seconds to prepare for battle, during which time they can also read the pop-up guide about the Ceremony of Chaos.
- During the battle all participants’ named are replaced with unique numbers. All merit badges like symbols of clan wars, are hidden.
- You cannot create a private shop or a workshop.
- After teleportation of a Ceremony of Chaos arena all buffs are removed.
- The buffs from vitamin items purchased in Game Shop, are removed as well.
- Vitality supporting and replenishing effects, as well as debuffs, are not removed.
- The following effects giving effects of 6 melodies level 1 and 1 harmony effect level 1 (according to character’s class) can be used:
Item | Description |
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Ceremony of Chaos | Item that can be used only at the Ceremony of Chaos Arena. For 7 min., provides the effects of Horn Melody, Guitar Melody, Pipe Organ Melody, Lute Melody, Harp Melody, Drum Melody, and Warrior's Harmony Lv. 1. |
Ceremony of Chaos | Item that can be used only at the Ceremony of Chaos Arena. For 7 min., provides the effects of Horn Melody, Guitar Melody, Pipe Organ Melody, Lute Melody, Harp Melody, Drum Melody, and Wizard's Harmony Lv. 1. |
Ceremony of Chaos | Item that can be used only at the Ceremony of Chaos Arena. For 7 min., provides the effects of Horn Melody, Guitar Melody, Pipe Organ Melody, Lute Melody, Harp Melody, Drum Melody, and Knight's Harmony Lv. 1. |
Competition process
There are 2 types of battles: PvP with players and PvE with mobs. 1-18 players can take part in each of them. You are placed in a match type and group number at random.
Upon arrival to an arena, a character has 60 seconds to prepare for battle, during which time they can also read the pop-up guide about the Ceremony of Chaos. The countdown timer is displayed during that period. After the 60 seconds end, all participating characters become visible and the battle can begin.
Herb Boxes may drop at random in the arena during either type of battle. There’s a 100% chance to get a HP Recovery Herb and some chance to get a Power Herb if you attack a box.
- HP Recovery Herb: Recovers 5,000 HP. If there is extra recovered HP left over after a character’s HP is fully restored by this herb, the remaining amount recovers CP.
- Power Herb: for 30 sec. P. Atk. +100%, M. Atk +400%.
Herb Boxes drop at random in the arena during either type of battle, the schedule is as follows:
- 20 seconds after the start of the match - 5 boxes (existing for 5 min. 40 sec.).
- 2 minutes after the start of the match - 3 boxes (existing for 4 min.).
- 4 minutes after the start of the match - 1 box (existing for 2 min.).
Besides Herb Boxes, on the Arenas of the Ceremony of Chaos you cannot use any items instantly restoring HP/MP/CP.
Inside a Ceremony of Chaos arena, the following restrictions apply:
- All functions that aid in the identity recognition of another character are made neutral or hidden:
- Names of and references to other characters in an arena are all changed to Challenger with a number suffix.
- The character’s name color also appears neutral (white).
- All opposing characters’ clan and alliance information is hidden, and their ranking level is changed to Vagabond.
- The following items cannot be used on the Ceremony of Chaos: Firecracker, Large Firecracker, Mysterious Potion, Facelifting Potion, Dye Potion, Hair Style Change Potion, Deton's potion, Caravaner's Remedy.
- Characters that are in the same clan cannot cast beneficial ranged spells, like Tree of Life or Iss Enchanter Melodies, on each other.
- Chatting, private shop, workshop, friend invites, and other interactive actions are unavailable.
- Character return and summon skills are not available.
- All agathions are unsummoned when teleported to arenas, and they cannot be summoned there.
- XP is not lost upon death.
- On the 2nd and the 4th minutes after the start of the match the invisibility effect is cancelled for all characters.
- A character can receive the following 4 items either from monsters in the Ceremony of Chaos, or by exchanging Mysterious Marks via the Mysterious Butler NPC. These items can only be used while in a Ceremony of Chaos battle:
Item | Description |
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Mysterious Defense | Item that can be used only in the Ceremony of Chaos Arena. Makes you invincible for 5 sec. |
Mysterious Power | Item that can only be used in the Ceremony of Chaos Arena. Your MP and CP are all reduced to 1 but 1/ 3 of your HP is maintained. Has a 50% chance of inflicting a lethal strike on the target. |
Mysterious Shadow | Item that can only be used in the Ceremony of Chaos Arena. Upon use, becomes hidden and decreases Speed by 30%. |
Determining winners
- If entering an arena alone in PvP version, you are immediately declared a winner.
- If a character happens to be alone in a PvE battle, it needs to defeat 5 monsters. If a character is killed or hasn’t killed any monster, it’s counted as defeat.
- If two or more characters enter an arena (no matter which version), the last character alive, or the one that scores the most kills over 6 minutes is declared the winner. If killed by a NPC or another character, you lose the match. If two or more characters survive the match but none are singled out as an obvious winner, a tie is declared.
- If killed, you cannot be resurrected. You can watch the rest of the match as a viewer until the match is over and you are moved out of the arena at the end of the match.
Rewards
The participants get various rewards:
Buffs
Name | Description | Receiver |
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Mysterious Herb of Power | Given to participants in the Ceremony of Chaos. P. Atk. +100% only when fighting monsters. Duration: 5 min. | The winner, the loser, the last survivor |
Mysterious Herb of Magic | Given to participants in the Ceremony of Chaos. M. Atk. +400 only when fighting monsters. Duration: 5 min. | The winner, the loser, the last survivor |
Mysterious Vitality Recovery | Given to participants in the Ceremony of Chaos. Replenishes Vitality when XP is gained through hunting. Duration: 5 min. | The winner, the last survivor |
Rewards to the winner
The match winner gets Mark of Battle and Mysterious Box into the inventory to get varioius items.
Ruler’s Consideration
The character that accumulates the most PKs in the match but does not win receives this prize:
Item | Description |
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Ruler's Consideration | A pouch given to those who fought bravely in the Ceremony of Chaos but were unable to succeed. When Double Clicked, a Victory or Scroll: Enchant R-grade Weapon can be obtained. |
Consolation Prize
Even then losers get prizes. If you are defeated during the match, stay there, you\ll receive 2 Mysterious Marks as a participation reward once the match ends. Be sure to stay until the match ends, however; if you leave prematurely you will not receive the reward.
Rewards for winning the Ceremony of Chaos
True Hero reward
The best warrior is the character who’s gained the biggest amount of Marks of Battle for a cycle of the Ceremony of Chaos. The declaration is made as a server-wide announcement in the chat window. There can be only one True Hero per server. If several players have the same amount of Marks of Battle in the same month, a tie is declared, and the True Hero is not chosen. True Hero can obtain unique buffs and items from the Mysterious Butler:
Item | Description | P. Def. | M. Def. |
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Ruler's Authority | An item awarded to the winner of the Ceremony of Chaos held in the Mysterious Mansion. Max HP/ MP/ CP +1000, Weight Limit +25,600, Damage +8%, Received Damage -9%, Damage Reflection Resistance +5%, Inventory Slots +36, Attribute Resistance +15.
<Enchanting> Use Scroll: Enchant R-grade Armor. <Enhancing> Take the item and Authority Ornament to Ilia in Aden to get Enhanced Ruler's Authority. |
50 | 0 |
Best Clan reward
The clan of the True Hero character receives a special buff from the Mysterious Butler NPC:
Marks of Battle
The participants of the Ceremony of Chaos get Mysterious Marks as reward. Such marks can be further exchanged for the items which are useful during the Ceremony, items to level up your clan, or you can also buy equipment. Mysterious Butler NPCs are located in every township near Olympiad Managers. They sell items for Mysterious Marks.
Items for clans and the Ceremony of Chaos
Item | Cost |
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Chaos Recovery Potion | Mark of Battle — 2 pcs. |
Hero's Miracle Cure | 500,000 adena Mark of Battle — 20 pcs. |
Hero's Rune Box (1-hour) | 10,000,000 adena Mark of Battle — 100 pcs. |
Hero’s Recovery Potion | 500,000 adena Mark of Battle — 10 pcs. |
Mysterious Defense | Mark of Battle — 2 pcs. |
Mysterious Incantation | Mark of Battle — 2 pcs. |
Mysterious Power | Mark of Battle — 2 pcs. |
Mysterious Ring | Mark of Battle — 200 pcs. |
Mysterious Scroll | 1,000,000 adena Mark of Battle — 100 pcs. |
Mysterious Shadow | Mark of Battle — 2 pcs. |
Potion of Protection: Confusion | 400,000 adena Mark of Battle — 4 pcs. |
Potion of Protection: Danger Zone | 400,000 adena Mark of Battle — 4 pcs. |
Potion of Protection: Infection | 400,000 adena Mark of Battle — 4 pcs. |
Potion of Protection: Obstruction | 400,000 adena Mark of Battle — 4 pcs. |
Potion of Protection: Stupor | 400,000 adena Mark of Battle — 4 pcs. |
Item | Cost |
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Hero's Earring | Mark of Battle — 2200 pcs. |
Hero's Ring | Mark of Battle — 2200 pcs. |
Special Magic Ornament Eternal Belt | Mark of Battle — 5500 pcs. |
Special Magic Ornament Eternal Belt | Mark of Battle — 5500 pcs. |
Special Magic Ornament Eternal Belt | Mark of Battle — 5500 pcs. |
Special Magic Ornament Eternal Belt | Mark of Battle — 5500 pcs. |
Talisman of Battle - Attack (1-day) | 300,000 adena Mark of Battle — 6 pcs. |
Talisman of Battle - Attack (3-day) | 500,000 adena Mark of Battle — 10 pcs. |
Talisman of Battle - Cancel Hide (1-day) | 200,000 adena Mark of Battle — 4 pcs. |
Talisman of Battle - Cancel Hide (3-day) | 350,000 adena Mark of Battle — 7 pcs. |
Talisman of Battle - Speed (1-day) | 300,000 adena Mark of Battle — 6 pcs. |
Talisman of Battle - Speed (3-day) | 500,000 adena Mark of Battle — 10 pcs. |
Talisman of Battle - Support (1-day) | 300,000 adena Mark of Battle — 6 pcs. |
Talisman of Battle - Support (3-day) | 500,000 adena Mark of Battle — 10 pcs. |
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