May 2019 Trial of the Novices

[GM-Ayu]

Annoyed that Trial of Heroes seem so impossible to win a ToH voucher because you lack gears compare to the oldies?

Annoyed that you can never win because the other allegiance "only won because of raw numbers" compare to your allegiance's skill?


Join us in a Trial of the Novices where for this month, neither level, stats or equipment matter! Create a brand newlevel 1 novice atMay 18th, 18:00 server time to meet at the Training Ground's first map, and earn points to ToH Vouchers and rewards in variety of skill based novice games. GM will be at the novice spawn point to invite you to the event.

No number of light/dark allegiance points are required to join this trial. You only need to declare for what side you will be playing for, and you will be rewarded points for the appropriate allegiance.


Trial of the Blossoms (75 points maximum)

Survive and navigate through 5 different Flower Mazes of increasing length/difficulty. Participating novices need to reach from one end of the dangerous path to the other end. Series of immovable monsters block the way. Be precise in your movement, and see through all the traps to reach the other end. Excessive stalling will result in GMs spawning monsters to force novices to move on quickly or face death.

Do not respawn if you die. Your corpse location is what is used to calculate your points. If you respawn, it will count as 0 points for the run.

2 trial runs on the easiest path will be given for everyone. These trial runs do not reward points, but it's for you to know what the Flower Maze game is about. Note that unlike normal hosted Flower Mazes, there is no team component nor is there a party wide recall-revive at any checkpoints.

Reaching 1st checkpoint of each maze is worth 5 points.
Reaching 2nd checkpoint of each maze is worth 10 points.
Reaching the goal of each maze is worth 15 points.

The 5 mazes total will give a maximum of 75 points.


Trial of the Dead (50 points maximum)

Survive and run to the end of 5 different paths, similar to previous trial. Participating novices need to reach from one end of a straightforward path to the other end. However, the path is infested with Zombies, Poporings and even Ghouls. Use your luring techniques or even take advantage of other participants to try to survive until the end.

The first run will have only zombies of limited amount. Each repeated run will have increasing amount of zombies, and other monsters.

1 trial run on the lowest difficulty will be given for everyone to learn the basics of the game, then run #1 and run #2 will follow. Then another trial run using run #3 will be given again to learn about ranged monsters.

These trial runs do not reward points, but it's for you to know what the Zombie Run game is about. Notice that unlike Zombie Runs from an Event Bag, no healing items are provided.

Do not respawn if you die. Your corpse location is what is used to calculate your points. If you respawn, it will count as 0 points for the run.

Dying pass the half point gives 5 points.
Dying at/pass the goal post gives 10 points.
The 5 runs will give a total of 50 points.


Allegiance Competition (10 point bonus)

For each allegiance, the highest score of the 2 trials will be recorded and summed up. The allegiance will the higher summed score will be considered the winning allegiance.

All participants on the winning side gets 10 bonus points.

Should the sum of the highest score for the 2 trials be identical for both sides, then Zombie Runs will be hosted until there is one person who is a clear winner in how far they have gotten. Whatever allegiance this player belongs to, will be crowned the winning allegiance.


Prizes

As you see, short of perhaps Luk granted perfect dodge, there is no RNG element to this month's Trial of Heroes. It will be all up to your skill in maneuvers.

At the end, GM will trade you prizes based on your points.

0-29 Points
1 DCA
5 allegiance point

30-50 Points
1 OCA
1 Gold
5 allegiance point

51-75 Points
1 ToH Voucher
1 OCA
1 Gold
5 allegiance point

76-99 Points
1 ToH Voucher
2 OCA
1 Royal Gold Bullion
10 allegiance point

100+ Points
2 ToH Voucher
2 OCA
1 Royal Gold Bullion
10 allegiance points
Light Allegiance: Costume Angeling Backpack
Dark Allegiance: Costume Deviling Backpack

125 Points From All Single Player Content
Should anyone get 125 points without relying on Allegiance Competition's 10 bonus points because you are a God at the 2 hardest novice games available to heRO, you will win the following:

3 ToH Voucher
3 OCA
Costume Crown of Victory



These are all rewards for not dying even once in the entire event... and I don't expect anyone to ever get this

[GM-Ayu]

Minor update:


The cut off of OCA becoming 2 OCA and 1 gold becoming 1 royal gold bullion has been decreased from 80 to 75 points. In other words, it's now easier to get the better prize.

The flower maze trial runs are now spread out. 1 trial run will be given in the very beginning to learn the basics, then you will face maze #1 and maze #2. At the beginning of maze #3, you will be given a trial run yet again to learn about new variety of monsters in the trial.

"What does it mean to be in a checkpoint": it will classify as being WITHIN 3 cell radius of the checkpoint.

[GM-Ayu]

Reminder that Trial of the Novices is today!

[GM-Ayu]

Congratulations to Light Allegiance who won this month's competition!


Best Dark Allegiance Flower Maze runner: Hosie 55/75 points
Best Light Allegiance Flower Maze runner: Roger 60/75 points

Best Dark Allegiance Zombie Run runner: Clicheshawn 30/50 points
Best Light Allegiance Zombie Run runner: NotPonPon 45/50 points


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For interest at those who want to know average points:

Dark side: 62.5, 4 players
Light side: 66.4, 7 players