Honor Grounds (New PvP Event - BETA)

1. Automated Team PvP. A new large-scale team battle event fires every hour. When registration opens, a notification appears on your screen with a countdown timer. Click Register to join (level 76-99, minimum 10 players to start, up to 100). Teams are shuffled and balanced automatically. Friendly fire is disabled.

2. Two Arenas. Battles take place in one of two instanced maps, selected randomly each match: Gracia Wharf (outdoor elevated terrain with stair chokepoints) and Pagan Temple (indoor sanctuary with gates). More maps coming soon.

3. Anonymous Combat. All participants appear as "Combatant" with hidden names and ranks. Team identity is shown through colored orbs (blue ice / red flame) floating above your character, and colored team titles.

4. Auto-Party with Healer Balancing. Teams are automatically organized into 5-man parties. Healers are distributed evenly across groups so no party is left without support. You cannot kick or leave your party during the event.

5. Gear Equalizer. A balancing buff is applied based on each player's gear score, helping close the gap between differently geared players. The buff refreshes throughout the match.

6. Custom Music. 7 original Honor Grounds tracks play during battles, with a different track after each respawn.

7. Kill Feed. On-screen kill notifications show portraits, class icons, and kill streaks. Names remain hidden during the event.

8. Scoreboard. A live scoreboard tracks team kills and remaining time throughout the match.

9. Rewards. Winners earn 15 Honor Marks, losers earn 8, and the MVP (most kills) earns a 5 mark bonus. Draws award 10 marks to all participants.

10. Weekly Cap. Honor Mark earnings are capped at 250 per week across your entire account, shared between Eva's Bounty and Honor Grounds. The cap resets every Monday. You will see a message when you are approaching or have reached the cap. Additional rewards such as consumables for players who have reached the cap will be added soon.

11. AFK Protection. Players who spend more than half the match sitting in the spawn zone will not receive rewards. The spawn area is a peace zone, but enemies who enter it are pushed out.

12. Battleground Stats. Your lifetime and weekly stats (matches, wins, kills, deaths, MVP count) are tracked. Weekly stats reset every Monday alongside the Honor Mark cap. In-game rankings with special rewards for the top 3 players coming soon.

13. Catacomb Restrictions. You cannot register for Honor Grounds while inside a catacomb, and you cannot teleport to a catacomb while registered.

14. Keep Your Buffs. You enter the battle with all your current buffs intact. No buff stripping.

15. Honor Shop. A new shop where you can spend your Honor Marks, accessible via the Clan tab. The shop will open next week once the new systems have been tested.

Bug Fixes

1. Aroma of Death (Blood Rose). Skill cooldown now correctly decreases with enchant level. Previously, the unenchanted cooldown was shorter than intended and enchanting made it longer.

2. Inventory Sorting. Your custom inventory order now persists after relogging. New items are added to the end of your inventory instead of jumping to the top. Opening chests and boxes no longer scrambles your item order.

3. Hidden Power (Dye Potential). Daily reset now correctly restores 20 attempts per day. Previously it was resetting to 5.

4. Revenge List. No longer triggers during PvP events like Honor Grounds.

5. Karma. No longer reduced during PvP events.

6. Target Cycling (/nextenemy). Now correctly skips your teammates in Olympiad and Honor Grounds.