Thank you for the updates, unfortunately im not that active lately. Working on that!
Sadly, i was never able to edit my posts. We found out about the rewards a couple of weeks after i posted the guide, but for some peculiar reason i cannot really edit my posts, so...
The only reason that Exarch chat is not really used during conflicts by smart people is because it prevents from any form of spying.
If i'd be like "Everyone teleport to Aurum" and FT potentially had a spy (well currently being in IO, i don't know how much people bother on spying that alliance, but it used to happen in former alliances), then my alliance will lose that "one step ahead" advantage.
Especially if you belong to an alliance that is some sort of underdog and not the one that is superior and just zergs over dead bodies, you cannot afford to let your enemies know your moves and lose the element of surprise for yourself. Of course that applies to different tactics that you will learn through time.
So, my suggestion: During conflicts, never use /x (Exarch Notice) chat (unless it's something like really obvious, e.g. you are outside of the enemy fort, you have already died once, you keep sieging, your enemy knows you are there, and you just say in /x chat something like "Regroup at the left gate and rush the executor", that's not a big of a deal) or the Alliance chat, only the /l chat, which refers only to echelons. Well yeah of course, if your enemies are real tryhards they will have spies that will acquire echelon positions, but i don't know if that has happened or whatever, yet. In the very end, you can be in TS with the other raid leaders and they can just say in raid notice chat whatever you say in TS.
Additionally, i have received plenty of PMs with questions over the guide and the alliance content overall. Don't be shy to post your questions here, because your question might be someone else's question as well.
Regards
Thanks for the feedback brother!
I might be able to confirm the Exarch reward this Sunday, since a zerg is a zerg 
I'm not quite sure if the amount is reduced if you lose your Executor, which can happen anyway, but i think you get more money after all if you kill an Executor with your Alliance.
Hello.
I can sort both of these out for you.
As about the Echelon3 thingy
When the Rankings reset, everyone has 0 points, as it is obvious i suppose. Some people would expect the players to be sorted alphabetically. No, the players get sorted according to the Accumulated Contribution to the Alliance. That means that if there is a player A that has Acc.Contribution level 27, another player B has Acc.Contribution level 32 and a player C has Acc.Contribution level 9, then player B will be ranked 1st, player A 2nd, and player C 3rd. I hope i explained that well enough.
So, according to that, you can imagine i suppose that apart from the players that farm to get into top120, there are players that can stay in top120 with 0 points, just because they have high accumulated contribution.
As i've explained above, there is no way you get Echelon4 if you dont have 2000 points and you are not OUT of top120. That means that if 120 people dont farm 2000 points each at least, then you cannot get it, no one will.
As about the Crystals and the Shield
It's a bit confusing for me as well. What i know for sure is that you need 3 or 4 to attack the executor. If you try doing it without killing these 3-4, you will not even be able to deal any damage to him/her. Now, as about the remaining crystals, i don't know if anyone has calculated the damage you do on the executor, so you can actually find out if you deal more damage with less crystals, neither have i. That is a simple assumption we made over this. They definitely though provide you with extra points, thus they are worth destroying.
If anyone has any more questions , feel free to ask.
Kind Regards
You get echelon 4 the next week of the week you farmed 2000 points. You should have gotten the echelon 4 on the "Do nothing this week" week.
Although, i dont know whats happening if the 2000 points are able to get you in top120. I suppose you get the corresponding rank. I mean, if you get 2000 points and you don't get top120, you will get echelon4. But what if you get 2000 in a dead server and you get ranked in the top120 with that? That's probably a good question to be answred by BHS, cause it might happen in dead servers.
And also , yes , the Alliance Leaders tab shows only the top 120 people, and the echelon 4s do not belong to that crew.
Being an Exarch
So here we are, we are down to the point that we are going to analyze what an Exarch does, and how he does it.
So far, I have been an Exarch once in Velika’s Free Traders Collective, and currently I
am the Exarch of Kaiator’s Iron Order. So, I’ll share with you a part of my experience
and some of the knowledge I got about it.
First things to do as an Exarch
First of, find a cool way to use your mask. It’s pretty awesome.
Moving on, you have to do some really basic stuff at the beginning. First of, go the Alliance window > My Alliance Tab > Policies. There, you will change your Tax Rate from 3% to 7% and save the changes. Moreover, you should write a message in the black box above that, saying some stuff to your citizens, w/e you want, and maybe set an Enchanter time.
Maybe something like that:
Your Responsibilities as an Exarch
First off, many people don’t quite know how to use your Exarch powers and stuff. The key
is the Executor. You go to your Executor, interact with the guy and you will have this appear in your screen:
Exarch Powers
As about Exarch powers, you will have something like that appear on your screen:
Mostly, you need the PvP and the Fortitude bolsters. BE CAREFUL! These 2 bolsters take 2
HOURS to activate. Which means that if you want this potion to be ready to use
at 9pm, you will have to activate it at 7pm! This is really important, and you
might get caught off-guard sometimes. That’s something useful to know.
Issuing Policy Points
Another responsibility you have, is to issue Policy Points to your Echelons! Depending
on the Echelon, I issue a different amount of points. I usually give the first
day 1000 PP to Echelons 1-2 and 500 PP to Echelons 3. No points for Echelons 4,
at all.
Here’s what it looks like: 
This is the tab “Issue Policy Points” from the first screenshot I showed you. There are two
options: Even distribution and Customized Distribution. You should never use
the first. I personally, NEVER EVER give PP to any echelon that won’t whisper
me for it, and I also think that’s what most exarchs go. Many echelons are
inactive, so its not useful to give PP to everyone. The amount of PP I
mentioned is good to start with. On the Alliance window > Alliance Skills
> Leadership Skill History, you can see these 2 numbers that I mentioned
above in the “Alliance Profile Section”. You can see how many points an Echelon
has and how many has he used from the ones you gave him. If you see in an
Echelon the indication of 1000 (1000) that means that in this case, he used
1000 out of 1000 points you gave him, so you should give him more. That way you
will know who uses his points and who doesn’t, cause people keep asking for PP
while they haven’t used their existing ones.
As about the Tab “Issue Activity Funds”, it is for distributing money between
the commanders (I think). You don’t need to do that of course. That money, is
your money, the one you give I mean.
Allocating Enchanter
It’s pretty simple to Allocate the Enchanter. The last option of the 4 when you speak to
the Executor, is about the Enchanter. This window will pop up:
You can see your options there. Nothing much to say about that. Unlike the pvp/power
boosts, the Enchanter is activated right at the time you activate it. So, you
don’t need to schedule it ahead and activate it earlier. The enchanter you
usually activate is the gold one, which doubles your success rate.
Summarizing the screenshots above, you can see that you need plenty of PP. You
can keep track of your alliance’s available PP on the Alliance Window >
Alliance skills tab, at the bottom right corner of the window. There is a green
number there that shows how many available PP you got.
Exarch’s Skills
The Exarch has some specific skills, as you can imagine. Here is what it looks like : 
Infiltration Beacon: Costs 1700 PP. You can use the Infiltrator’s Teleport Scroll and
teleport to it. You cannot teleport from one map to another (e.g. from Aurum to
Tor) with it. It has 1 minute cooldown and lasts for 5 minutes, which means you
can replace it really fast.
Alliance Guard: Costs 2700 PP. Summons a guard in your home territory. Has a
30m cooldown. You usually use this on Sunday before the event, you spam some
guards usually at the center of your fort.
Barricade: Costs 1100 PP. Has a 10 minute cooldown and creates some barricades
that are eligible to destroy though. You can create fancy blocks with these and
prevent sieging, until they are destroyed.
Cannons: Costs 13000 PP. It has a 30minute cooldown, and it as it is obvious, it summons
a cannon. The damage is not that good (does something between 7-9k dmg I think)
and also knocks down. Although, it is really expected to have enemy RCs
everywhere, so KDs won’t happen.
During the Event
During the event, I mean the Sunday’s Conflict, the fact that you are an Exarch doesn’t
mean that you necessarily have to lead the conflict. Although, of course you
can. It is useful to sometimes use the /x chat, which is the Exarch notice chat,
to make it really easy for the people to see what you wanna do, unless you are
100% sure that your alliance is flooded by spies and you want to keep your
plans secret and confidential. To avoid that, you can just use the /l chat or
even better just whisper the other raid leaders or be in TS with them.
Start the raids 1 hour before the event starts, organise them, start the BAM farm and handle the situation on your own. Don't expect others to carry you or whatever just to get the cash and run away. I will not really analyze tactics about alliance conflicts or ways to take decisions on what to do, because yeah.
Make sure to be decisive and take initiatives to make moves and place beacons
in good spots. Your beacons must NOT be perfect, you can just place them
somewhere to transfer your allies really quick and then find the best spot to
infiltrate.
Also, you do not know how many points you will need as an Exarch, so it is kind
of good to have at least around 50k pp before the event starts.
Short Conclusion
The Alliance content is basically interesting, but might get to be really boring
after a while. If you want to go after high ranks, you might have to do stuff
related only to the alliance for 1 week, and that is something unpleasant for
some people. It is though, another form of competition that you can take part
in, and you can also be rewarded with gold and achievements (There is an
achievement for every single rank in each alliance), some fancy masks and more
stuff I suppose.
Although, I want to warn people that don’t know about pvp, to not take into
serious consideration the pvp that is happening in alliance zones. It is a
broken form of pvp, with weird and op buffs, with countless potions and
invisible targets. I suggest you participate in that content, but you don’t
take it really seriously.
Personally, I want to thank you for reading my guide (if you did) and I mostly
hope that my explanations on some stuff, some tips I gave (although I did not
reveal a lot of things in this guide, everyone has his own tricks and secrets)
are being useful to you, especially if you are starting now or you are
returning to the game after a long time.
Kind Regards,
Pandalf
(Updates will be made in the guide as soon as I and some people that read it
notice some mistakes, some things that need to be added or if the content gets
updated. Cheers!)
Noctenium Society Credits
This is the new Reputation system that was added a few months ago. Despite that it is a rep
system, you can only get credits, not any reputation. I mean, in any other Rep
you will find, you are able to achieve Revered someday. In this one, you cannot
get that , but you can get plenty of credits. What are they useful for? Oh
well, plenty of stuff. In your Fort, you can go and find the vendor for these
credits, and you will see that apart from consumables for the Alliance, you can
get materials related to the BG/KS credits, even some crystals.
I will end this one, by referring exactly to the number of credits that every
source can provide you with:
-Quests give you a specific amount of credits (usually equal to the CP they
reward you with). You can apply reputation boost for these, and for any other
form of Noct.Soc. credits income. 2 quests though, will not give you the right
amount. The vault and the dungeon quest reward you with 110 CP each. You would
expect to get 110 credits too, but you get 30 instead.
-Bam/mob farm. You can get up to 3000 credits per week from this source. You
can distribute the amount of these the way you want. You could 3000 the first
day, or the last day, or distribute them equally every day, like most people
do. Bams reward you with 10 credits and mobs with 2 (2x with boost for each of
them).
-PvP. 1 credit for each kill or assist, boost applies here as well.
Invisible Bams
You might notice that sometimes there are some dragonish bams being killed in the
alliance territories. These are the so called Invisible bams or world bosses.
These bams are invisible till you get them in combat or you reveal them with a
Detection Totem. There are 3 types of these bams: The Dracoloth (nexus traverse
last bam), the Bloodtalon (Crucible of Flame Dragon), and the Drake (Labyrinth
of Terror 2nd boss after the 2 kumas).
These bams have double the rewards of the normal bams, and they can drop some
really worthy stuff and materials, such us Superior Noctenium Membranes, which
are necessary for Nightforge PvP Gear. They spawn 1 hour after they are dead,
there is 1 in each territory , and their spawns are specific in each map. I’m
afraid you will have to find these on your own, although many people know them
by now. Most of them are usual invis bam farmers. If you want to kill these
bams, especially in pve time, you’d better have a good lancer or warrior to
keep the agro, because these bams can be reset and stolen by another
person/group. I think I’ve said already enough for Invisible bams.
What Materials to Gather/Pick Up
There are not too many useful thingies you want from the alliance content. I suggest you
pick up and gather the Noctenium Tissues. They are useful for a lot of alliance
stuff, such as crafting noctenium infusions or using them to craft bam
summoning wands. Also, pick up the Common Noctenium Membranes that drop from
bams. You can use these to craft wands, then kill some monsters, that will give
you Uncommon ones, then kill some Ovoliths that will give you Rare ones and
then some orisks that will provide you the holy Superior Noctenium Membranes
that are used for Nightforge gear. You will need help for the Orisks, maybe for
the Ovoliths too, depending on your dps and squishiness.
Alliance Consumables
In this section I will go over some alliance consumables.
Partial Invisibility Potion- Pretty much useless at the moment. You cannot use
that and expect to be successful. You cannot use any skills while it is active,
or else you will get revealed, as well as when you get hit. Not as useful as
people think it is. Lasts 1 minute, 5 minutes cooldown. (You can get them from
key quest rewards)
Superior Invisibility Potion- One little potion of OPness. You get to be
invisible, you can use any skills you want without being revealed, you can get
hit without being revealed etc etc. The only way to get revealed is to stand in
an enemy’s Detection Totem. Lasts 1 minute, 2 minutes cooldown. ( You should
buy them with Noct. Society credits, cause they are too expensive in broker
sometimes)
Detection Totem- Really useful in mass fights. You can detect deadly invisible people.
Just for that, they are really necessary. 3 minutes cooldown. They can get
killed, though. Do not buy them with society credits, because they are too
expensive and you can get them from key quests.
Health Potion- Really useful, restores same amount of flat HP as the Healing Draught
VIII, but it has only 30s cooldown. Shares the same cooldown with potions like
the Rejuvenation one. Buy them with Noct society creds.
Drop Bomb- Useful to bomb people when they have keys on them. You can bomb them like that,
and thus you stun them for 10 seconds (!). If you bomb them and you are not in
your home territory, don’t be stupid enough to pick up the keys and then kill
them , cause you might not have enough time and they can bomb you back. Kill
them, then pick up the keys. Keep in mind that this can happen to you as well,
so you might want to drop your keys if an enemy is coming close to you and he
is not in his home territory. Cooldown is 1 minute. Get these from key quests.
Stun Grenade- Really strong, the only way to pretty much stun RC. Lancers can
use that to pull out leashes, cause the enemies will be stunned after they get
hit. The stun lasts almost 2 seconds, and the bomb has cooldown of 10 seconds.
Really useful. Buy them either with noct society creds or off the broker if
they are not too exp.
Flash Grenade- Weird but useful. When I first saw that, I was like…hmm that’s not
counter strike, is it? Still useful though, you can blind enemies for a sort of
long period (I think its like 4-5 seconds, which is good). Cooldown is 1minute.
Slow Grenade- Haven’t ever used them to be honest. I suppose they slow enemies,
lol. I cant say much general, but you might waste too much fingers for
consumables already, so I would suggest you focus more on the previously
mentioned grenades.
Infiltrator’s Teleport Scroll- You heard me talking about some beacon scrolls up there. There
they are. You use these scrolls to teleport on the Exarch’s Infiltration
Beacon. Really really useful in many cases, especially in the conflict. You can
get them from the Alliance Grand Merchant in the hall.
I can’t really recall any other consumables that are useful or something. I
mentioned consumables that are usable ONLY in alliance territories, therefore
they are useful only there.
So now, let's see how it is being an Exarch up next!
Echelon 4: Echelons 4s have a different flag. A flag that improves resistances by 50%. That one is a little bit tricky though. Why? Because that extra 50% in resistances cancels the Raid Commander aura. Oh yes. Although, it can also cancel the Enemy Raid commander’s auras too for some reason. Personally, I haven’t tried that on my own, so I cannot confirm that it is 100% true, but there are many people saying that this is valid. Rely on that at your own risk. Some people would say: “Why didn’t you get into testing this one before you even right a guide?”. Because I think it’s not that important after all, and I’m also too lazy to do that stuff. Hue. But, how do you become an Echelon 4? Simply by contributing to the alliance with at least 2000 points.
Alliance Member: You have no flags or anything that you can be proud of. You simply don’t do anything useful, you just have privileges to use the Beacon scrolls or the Gold Enchanter. Nothing else, more or less. Of course these privileges regarding the beacon scrolls and the Gold Enchanter, are available for all of the guys mentioned above this one. How to become an Alliance Member? Contribute to the alliance with 1000 points at least.
Alliance Cadet: A mascot, just that. No privileges no nothing. You can’t even use the gold enchanter, so you’d better farm at least 1000 points to become an alliance member, if you really rely on that enchanter guy.
Alliance Conflict
What is the alliance conflict? Oh well, it’s an event that takes place every Sunday between
5 and 7 pm server time (17:00-19:00). The eligible participants are the ones that
finished on the top 120 positions the previous season, as it was mentioned
above. The rest of the people will simply be teleported out of the alliance
territories. Despite that, you are still able to use your alliance teleport
skill (the one that teleports you to your executor) and stay in the alliance
areas for 20 seconds. You could get a kill maybe, if the enemies are right in your fort.
What happens in the alliance conflict? Oh well, war. The Three Alliances fight
each other, and as it is obvious, only one emerges victorious. The Sunday’s
conflict is the only time you can kill alliance guards and the Executor of one
alliance (unlike the old times that you could do that every day, several
times). When the clock strikes 5pm, 7 crystals are placed in each alliance
territory. These crystals increase the shield of the executor, and you need to
kill 3 or 4 of them to be able to even attack the executor of the defending
alliance. The more you kill though, the more the shield is weakened.
How is the winner awarded? If your executor dies, you are automatically out of
the alliance conflict, aka you lost. What if the time is over and more than 1
executors are alive though? The alliance with the most points wins. Killing a
crystal is worth 5000 points, and killing an executor is worth 10000 points. I
suppose that should make you imagine that you can just snipe crystals and then
turtle in your fort. Yes, it’s possible.
The alliance conflict is probably the only time in the alliance that, after the
numbers, mind games matter. It’s a chance to really outplay your opponents and
punish them for doing mistakes.
Ranking rewards after the Conflict
Someone would think: “Oh well, where’s the difference between the last guy of the
top120 and the first one, apart from the fact that they get to be more
useful?”. The top guys get more money of course! I will include a short list of
the ranks and the money these guys get regarding on your rank. Though, I am not
really sure about the amount of money you get when you lose, cause I have lost
a war only as Echelon 2. So, the numbers that are followed by a (?), are not
100% confirmed. Therefore I’d like people that know these amounts to comment
below or pm me so I can fully complete it.
Exarch- Victory: 70.000 gold / Loss: 35.000 gold
Raid Commander- Victory: 35.000 gold / Loss: ?
Defense Commander – Victory: 30.000 gold / Loss: ?
Adjunct Commander – Victory: 25.000 gold / Loss: 7.000(?)
Echelon 1- Victory: 10.000 gold / Loss: 5.000 gold
Echelon 2- Victory: 7.000 gold / Loss: 2.000 gold
Echelon 3- Victory: 5.000 gold / Loss: ?
You can see that there is a really decent amount of gold given on the top20
people (Exarch and commanders). That means you can have respectful rewards for
your weekly effort.
Contribution Points
You keep reading stuff about alliance ranking boards, contribution points, policy points
blab la, but … how do you get contribution points?
Some stuff have been added through the alliance lately etc. so here are the
possible ways to get alliance contribution points:
-Daily quests (max 790 CP per day)
-Keys (max 200 CP per day)
-Bam/Mob farm (max 300 CP per day)
-PvP (no daily CP limit)
So, to sum up, we have 790 + 200 + 300 = 1290 CP per day, without counting in any PvP at
all. Things you have to know about it:
-You can do daily quests whenever.
-Keys reward you with 5 points each if you do it in PvE time, and 10 points if
you do it in PvP time. So if you do your keys in PvE time you will get 100 and
not 200 points. So, you should do your keys only in PvP time.
-You can get 300 points from bams or mobs or both, per day. Which means you can get 200
from bams and 100 from mobs, or 0-300, or 300-0, or 171-129 or whatever you
want. Don’t get really confused about it. There usually are some “BAM farming
raids”, which actually farm bams for CP and Rep points (I will explain about
Rep right after this). As about the rewards:
-Bams in pve time reward you with 10 CP each, while in pvp time with 20 CP each.
-Mobs as well, in pve time reward you with 1 CP each, while in pvp time with 2 CP each.
If you are a lone wolf and don’t want to farm bams or whatever, you can find
great tree farming spots usually in front of your spawns in enemy territories.
Gather up as many as you can and kill them. Repeat. It will also make it easier
for you if you kinda keep track of how many points you can get. What I mean is
that before you start farming, see how many points you have. For example, you
will know that you have 2550 points, so you know you can get maximum up to 2850
points. That way you won’t have to check all the time if you are capped or not.
PvP is what creates the gap between the Exarch and the commanders. If you want
to go ham and achieve a high rank, you’d better farm a lot of PvP. I don’t know
if it is fortunate or unfortunate, but, the more you pvp ,the less points you
get. Yes. The first day you might find yourself PvPing 4 hours and gathering
250 points, and the last day of the alliance week , you might find yourself
pvping 8 hours and gathering 30 points. Ridiculous, isn't it? You reach a point
that you get 15 kills and you get only 2 points. I forgot to mention,
technically (aka, the first days), you get 2 CP per kill and 1 per assist. That
amount obviously declines over days.
I made a small infographic thingy just to give you an example of how much of a
difference pvp makes:
More specifically:
My total points this week: 10.773 CP
Outcome: Exarch
CP from quests: 6320 (usually you count 7x790, and the amount of CP you can get from
quests before the maintenance. I am saying that cause you might not have a vault between 2am (the daily reset
time) and 8am (the maintenance time). )
CP from keys: 1500 (7x200 and 100 the last day before maintenance. Why 100?
Because there is no PvP and you cannot get 200 points before maintenance).
CP from Bams/Mobs: 2100 (simply, 300x7. There is no last day count, cause the
bam points reset at 12 (with dungeons). Although, there was a weird thingy
going on a few weeks ago, that I could farm my bam points 4-5 hours before
that. That was really … weird.).
CP from PvP: 853. The only way to calculate that is to keep complete track of
your pvp points during pvp, or to just go on and do some simple math: 10773 –
6320 + 1500 + 2100 = 853.
I got 853 CP from PvP, after doing a lot (believe me, A LOT) of pvp the last week. The
more pvp you do, the less rewarding it is, so you might as well want to not go
over really hectic pvp sessions.
During the older times, you were able to get points by picking up keys in your
home territory (1 points in pve, 2 points in pvp time). As you can imagine,
people abused that and formed a new way of cheating: The Key Trading. After
many bans Gameforge did and all, this was thankfully removed and people cannot
cheat anymore. Oh well, they can, by kill-trading, but that actually is way
harder cause after you kill someone 3-4 in a row, you stop getting points.
Greetings!
Welcome to an Alliance content guide brought to you by Pandalf of Codex.
Contents:
-Introduction
-Starting over with the Alliance System
-Alliance Window
-Alliance Ranks
-AllianceConflict
-Ranking Rewards after the Conflict
-Contribution points
-Noctenium Society Credits
-Invisible Bams
-What Materials to Gather/Pick up
-Alliance Consumables
-Being an Exarch!
Introduction
As the title says, this is a guide regarding the alliances, and a not too long
but not too short either, walkthrough of the current alliance content.In this
guide, I will go through a lot of stuff regarding the current alliance system, I
will analyze some more complicated things and terms, and will also refer to
some tips. Basically, I will sum up everything I can as about the current content.
Reasons behind this guide:
First of, I might as well give some regards to Flanberry, for sparing some of his free time
to write a guide about PvP and 3v3, which actually reminded me that we can
create guides ourselves and not expect everything from someone else. It has
been a long time since we have seen some guides in this forum as well.
Additionally, I keep seeing alliance guides in some forums regarding Tera, in the
NA forums, but not in ours. Therefore, I think it is about time we have an
all-inclusive alliance guide. Furthermore, when I returned in the game a couple
of months ago, I found myself lacking a lot of knowledge for the updated
alliance system, and I also believe that the guides that I found to help myself
lacked a lot of information and details. So, the main reason of this guide, is
to help people comprehend the alliance system and the updates of it, learn
stuff faster through my guide (I believe reading a guide is easier than asking
people in global or whatever) and not waste a lot of time in just learning some
simple stuff, cause yeah, the alliance content is not that complex.
So, let’s get started.
Starting over with the Alliance system
Ok so, starting over with the alliance system (some really basic stuff will be
mentioned as well).
First and foremost, how do you join an Alliance?
Depending on the Alliance you want to join, you get into the Alliance Hall and
you find the Alliance Administrator. The requirement for a guild to join an
Alliance is just 1000 gold. Keep in mind that changing an alliance is limited
by a 6 hour cooldown. Also, only the Guild master of the guild is able to move a
guild through the alliances.
What is mentioned above refers to guilds that are not in an alliance already.
If you, as a single unit, want to join an alliance, you can just join a guild
that is already in the alliance you want to join or even join a system guild.
System guilds can be found in the guild list of the server and their names are
like “Velika/Allemantheia/Kaiator Guild 1,2,3 etc.”. You can press the apply
button for these guilds and you are instantly accepted. So, congratulations,
you joined an alliance. By the moment you join, you are ranked as an “Alliance
Cadet”. What is that? Oh well, let’s move to the Alliance Rankings part, after
we add some basic stuff regarding the “Alliance” window.
Alliance Window
The default button for that is “Z”. In any case, you can still go to the Menu > Social
Menu > Alliance. You will have a window opening there for you, with 4
different tabs. The 2nd tab, the tab named as “My Alliance” is a
quite important one. On “Policies” you can see something like a message from
the Exarch, on “Alliance Leaders” you can see the Top-120 people of your
alliance for the current week, and on “Profile” you can see pretty much
everything about you: Your ranking and total points, your KDA against each
alliance, your accumulated contribution to each alliance (this one works with
levels) and on the bottom part you can see 2 numbers. It should be 0 (0). These
numbers are associated with your Policy Points. What are policy points? Policy
points are some sort of the contribution points that the alliance farms every
day. I’m not 100% sure if the ratio is 1:1 (I mean, I don’t know if the
alliance gets 1000 policy points if you farm 1000 contribution points), cause I
think that the Tax Ratio gives you a slight additional amount, that’s why you
see every alliance set its’ tax rate to 7%. So, these 2 numbers: The left
number is the amount of PP you have available, and the right number in () is
the amount of the total PP you were given this week. Let’s say the exarch gives
you 1000 PP the first day, it will indicate 1000 (1000). Then you use 2 flags
(each flag costs 50 PP), it will indicate 900 (1000). Then the exarch gives you
1000 more points. It will indicate 1900 (2000). I hope that understandable
enough.
The next tab is called “Standings”. It’s another really useful tab. You will
mostly be bothering about these 2 tabs that I mentioned. There you can see in “Individual
Standings”, the rankings of the alliance. Don’t worry if you find a difficulty
in scrolling up and down through the board, cause you just can’t. In “Extractor
Competition” you can find information about these well-known “keys”. The blue
number in each alliance indicates the number of available keys at the moment
(keys keep spawning all the time), while the green number shows the score of
your alliance. The alliance with the highest score, wins the competition and
has the chance to get more vault hours the next day ( I don’t think I need to explain
what vault is, do i?). If you are wondering how is this happening, 24 rolls
happening (1 for each hour of the day) and the 1st (of the key competition) has 70% chance
to win the roll, the 2nd 20% and the 3rd 10%. Pretty
simple. You can also see the timeframe of the key competition on the top of
that tab. Next is “Vault Access Hours”. Oh well, title says everything. It
pretty much shows what alliance can enter the vaults and when. Next day’s Vault
times are decided 12pm server time every day.
I think I said a lot of stuff for only 1 window, maybe I was too explicative,
but that’s ok I guess.
Alliance Ranks
When the alliance system was firstly implemented into the game, there used to be a
“Guild contribution” tab in the alliance window, where you could see the
summarized contribution of a guild. Let’s make a short break here regarding the
alliance ranks, and mention a few changes that have been made to the alliances,
to help some people that return to the game after a long time:
-There is no more guild summarized contribution.
-Commander privileges have been added.
-Based on the first point, you can hopefully understand that everything now relies on
you and not your guild. So, if you want to achieve anything, you’d better start
farming!
-More stuff that will be mentioned throughout the guide.
So, let’s make a short analysis as about the Alliance Ranks:
Exarch: There is only one Exarch for each alliance every week. (The alliance ranks reset every Tuesday with the weekly maintenance). Exarch will be the person to finish first in the rankings. You do realize I suppose that this requires a lot of farming. The Exarch has several authorities and responsibilities. I will refer into these specifically in the Exarch section later in my guide.
Assault Commander: Also known as Raid Commander. This guy pretty much has one of the most over-powered stuff that have been added in the game: an anti-stun aura, in an area of 15m (if I am not mistaken) around him. How do you cancel that? The only way is to kill this commander. Bear in mind that this can still be silenced by sorcerers, can receive healing debuffs and can be rooted. The guys to receive this buff are the ones that finish between the 2nd and 5th position (so there are 4 Raid Commanders every season).
Defense Commander: This commander has an aura around him as well, providing extra endurance and defense. A pretty useful one too, as you can imagine. Not much to say about this guy. The people that get thebuff are the ones to finish between 6th and 10th position (so there are 5 Defense Commanders every season).
Adjunct Commander: A commander with an aura as well. Not surprising anymore, is it? The aura of this commander is a stamina regeneration aura. The least useful of the 3 auras you could say, that’s why it is easier to get than the others, I suppose. Keep in mind that this commander’s stamina regeneration aura affects you only if you are out of combat. The people that get this buff are the ones to finish between the 11th and the 20th position (so you will see 10 Adjunct Commanders each season).
Echelon 1: Not any changes to this rank, pretty much does what he used to do. Has the privileges to summon a flag that increases the power (by 30%) of the members that stand inside it’s area of effect. 30 Echelon 1s are awarded every season, the ones between the 21st and 50th position.
Echelon 2: No changes here as well. The difference is that his flag increases endurance (by 30%), not power. 30 Echelons 2s as well each season, the ones between the 51st and 80th position.
Echelon 3: His flag provides extra movement speed (50), pretty useful as well but nothing you can’t live without. 40 Echelons 3s every season, the ones between the 81st and 120th position.
Aaaaaand, till that point, everyone is allowed to participate on Sunday’s Alliance
Conflict (5-7pm). In total, 120 people (1 Exarch, 4 RC, 5 DC, 10 AC, 30 E1, 30
E2, 40 E3) are eligible to join this competition, the top 120 in other words.
For people that get confused a little bit about it: Let’s say we are in Week 1.
You farm in this week, and you get Echelon 1. You are not able to participate
in Week’s 1 conflict, but in the one of Week 2.
Yet, there are more ranks to acquire.
You never fail to impress i guess. I cannot really believe how you got the courage to write such huge walls of text (oh well, i guess its kinda easy when you get in motion?!), as well as how did i get the courage to read the whole thing.
Brilliant work, 10/10, A++ etc.
It's actually a really comprehensive guide, covers pretty much everything that new players need to know to start over and what old players need to additionally learn to become even better. Whenever i felt like was about to quote to add something that i felt like you missed, i read it a few lines below; thus, very inclusive, once more.
Despite it being really long, i suggest that everyone reads this guide, or at least, everyone that cares even a little bit about arenas whatsoever. Explains some stuff that look like riddles to many people and analyzes some really simple and obvious stuff i would say, that are not that obvious i suppose to players that cannot excel (maybe for that reason??) in arenas and generally pvp at the same time.
And again, that RNG though. A couple days ago in premade 3v3s, i met a sorc with NF wep (while i still have the SF one) and i kept getting VM stunned so oftenly. I would say that approximately in every single hailstorm, he would get that Blacksmith's Hammerstrike triggered. Pretty annoying, isn't it?
Bottom line: I hope this guide is technically an extra motivation for some people that are sort of hesitant around the whole 3v3 situation. I think it was also mentioned in the guide, but keep in mind that no one entered the 3v3 field and instantly won really decent teams. You don't have to be disappointed if you lose in arenas. Oh well, maybe you have to be frustrated and disappointed if you keep doing the same mistakes over and over and over and over again, because that means that 1) you are not learning 2) you are not learning because you dont really see what you did wrong, hence you are not seeing clearly and not improving. Keep trying, keep wondering what went wrong, keep finding ways to correct your mistakes and outplay your opponents.
You can never correct a mistake, if you dont know what the mistake is. Realising what went wrong and what could have gone better is everything. That's a way you can understand how high your game sence levels are. Misleading your own self that something else went wrong and alter the reality in your mind, will not change anything. Or it might will: it will make things worse.
Props to Flan once again for that guide.
Kind Regards
