The War Machine will be available this week for 400 Glory in the shop as well as in Event Chests, and will appear in Glory, Gem, and Guild chests in 3-4 weeks’ time.
There are 6 battles that players can encounter during the event: The Infernal Machine, War Machine, Deep Golem, Ironjaw, Nyar’Mel, and Tartarus. The battles are randomly chosen, but they all have an equal chance of appearing on the map.
Scoring
You can find the following rewards for each of the different battles you may encounter.
The Infernal Machine: 4 Components
War Machine: 12 Components
Deep Golem: 5 Components
Ironjaw: 8 Components
Nyar’Mel: 8 Components
Tartarus: 12 Components
Each Component is worth 3 points. As the battles against The Infernal Machine, Deep Golem, Ironjaw, Nyar’Mel, and Tartarus get harder, the battles will increase the amount of Components given by 25%. The battles against War Machine will drop a variable number of Components (on average about 1.18x the base amount).
The loot table for troops in event chests is expected to look like this:
Chance
Amount
Troop
0.11%
1
Queen of Sin, The Scourge of Honor
3.2%
1
Despond, Lust, Wrath
12%
1
Abject of Despond, Barghast, Broker of Greed, Envoy of Pride, Gael Spiritwhisperer, Indolator of Sloth, Pride, War Machine
21.6%
1
Glutmaw, Gluttony, Maid of Envy, Sibyl of Lust
21.6%
2
Envy, Greed, Soldier of Wrath
21.49%
3
Sloth
It doesn’t contain faction troops, guild wars troops, tarot cards and special soulforge troops, even though the official Game Guides suggest otherwise.
Event chests have been configured incorrectly in the past. Infinity Plus Two doesn’t compensate for keys wasted due to their mistakes, if you plan to spend a large amount of keys make sure what you are looking for has already been found by other players.
OK, so that scoring is ridiculously over-complicated and just serves to emphasize again: the scoring needs to be easily visible in-game rather than burdening GMs with explaining it to their players.
Thank you! These world events are boring as sin (sorry devs!) But since this game has so much going on that is forgivable. The inscrutable scoring stuff is just a pain in the behind.
The hint of randomness to prevent ties, I get. But the crazy stupid math (I personally love math!) though… it adds nothing good to the game.
F’ing preach it! Never understood why they refuse to just do straightforward scoring it cant be any easier doing it this way for the devs either and no it isn’t fun having to learn new scoring methods for each new world event. strange orders where epics are worth more than mythics or scoring is all over with multiple items worth multiple points each.
Here’s to hoping there is an ‘ongoing piece of feedback’ about event scoring (unnecessary math/convoluted, and lack of in-game visual way to see how many points each battle offers) too, since it has been brought up countless times since World Events started, and ignored pretty much as many times by the old mods, e.g.
Please note that the official scoring and what I saw in testing didn’t line up for Deep Golem. I’ve detailed what I saw as perhaps the official scoring had a typo
If they made Medal of Seasons available somewhere else/as tokens in explore… would anyone actually miss World Events if they were swapped for Journey Events? like permanently retired, as a concept
It’s all personal taste, much like Treasure Hunt and GWs, some love it, some hate it, but variety of events allows you to pick a guild that focuses on something that you enjoy. Eg there’s loads of no GWs or no World event requirement guilds out there.
For me, I can’t stand journey events, the penalisation at the harder end of the event is impossible to mitigate and was only doable because of a bug in the code letting you run illegal weapons on the team.
The medals in world event really do help you fly through the event feeling pretty powerful and the enemy and team restrictions do get you to experiment with team building. That said, complicated scoring is not appreciated and frustrating when it’s not in game. Hopefully that changes in the future and I won’t need to post in global 429 and do all the guides.
Apart from last week’s World Event (which was a horrible grind), I’ve found the two Journey Events recently to be much slower and tougher than a World Event. That’s with my standard, Tier 3 buy-in.
Ditch obscure scoring unless its explained in event. Journey? no thanks but 3 day faction repeats should be a no brainer. One day tuesday run is and always was a horrible experience.
Considering this is basically thought of as a casual game, played by people of all stages in life & maturity, the complexicated event scoring is a nightmare.
Many players never ever see Hawx’s posts and are completely oblivious about the scoring, which is frankly punishing any guild out there → many of those players (especially lower level ones) would prefer to take easier fights, leading to them having less overall score → makes it harder for the non-hardcore guilds to complete the events.
And for people like me who have actual memory issues, it can be a struggle to remember the score order all the time… which is really frustrating → it can sometimes take conscious effort to keep track of things for me /sigh.
Not kidding, I have an LCD tablet thingy to write notes on - I use it for shopping and to write down event scoring so I can have a glance and see what’s worth what.
Isn’t that crazy?
We really need those changes - and please don’t create something ingame that we need to look up again but mark every fight clearly so that we don’t need anything but the map with the possible battles.
You could do it for journey with the miles, I’m sure you can do it for world event as well.
I post the scoring in Global Chat 429 (pc/mobile) which is currently the only thing I could think of to help the community out with an in game solution.
We keep the channel free from chatter and purposely scouted the channels to find an unused one so that it only has the scoring and nothing else. Hopefully that helps out a little
Super helpful. Until word gets out and the channel is flooded by recruiting posts or random trolls.
I tried the same thing years ago with my team builds. I haven’t used it in years and trolls now think the channel still exists somewhere in global. A part of me hopes they bother checking every channel that exists.
There’s been a few random posts in there but generally everyone is pretty grateful and respectful and doesn’t post. I mean I can’t claim a public channel but seems that nearly everyone so far is happy to use it for the scoring and then switch channels to chat/recruit/talk cat or whatever the cool kids do
About the only game mode with any variety is weekly event so i like them. The points per battle last week were ridiculous and this week is unnecessarily complicated. So although i like playing the events i 100% agree the scoriing is maddening
Do you really can not see why they do the obscure scoring thing?
Most people do not read the forums or different discord servers, or reddit or whatever. I haven’t knew about channel 429 either.
An easy straightforward scoring would be too easy to figure out, with this kind of scoring those who do not look up the rules can not optimize their sigil usage. They need more sigils to reach the goal, more sigils means more gems spent, and gems are money.
→ it can sometimes take conscious effort to keep track of things for me /sigh.