Alliance Battle

Overview
Alliance Battles are large-scale, strategic PvP battles that allow factions to conquer new territory.

Each faction fields a team of twelve. This team is automatically formed from twelve individuals or groups of up to four pre-chosen players in any combination that adds up to twelve.

The battlefield map varies depending on where the alliance border currently is between the two factions. The more territory one faction has, the "harder" the map will be for them (with most control points starting closer to the losing faction's team's base).

Control Points
There are usually seven control points on the map which are captured by having more players than the other team in the area. Once captured they spawn a few NPC guards (which count towards holding the control point) and offer some other special ability (melee bonus to people in the arena, elemental protection, spawning resurrection orbs, creating a pet dragon, etc). The NPC guards do not respawn unless the point is lost and then recaptured so it can often be advantageous to kill one even if it means your character's death.

For each control point, the faction currently controlling it gains 1 point in short intervals of time. Additionally, each team gets 1 point for each opponent player killed. The first team to 500 points wins the match and gets a bonus 250 faction points. The losing team just gets 1 faction point for every point their team has at the end of the game.

Strategy
There is no death penalty during alliance battles and characters are respawned regularly. This makes minion masters and IWAY warriors quite powerful, as there are almost always corpses lying around to exploit.

It is very important to spread out and focus on gaining control points vs directly fighting the enemy. A clumped up team has problems winning because they can't easily capture or defend multiple control points. Sometimes it is worth giving up a control point and then recapturing it in order to respawn your NPC guards.

A tutorial to the current map is offered by a NPC in the outpost. Be sure to have read the instructions before forming a group.

Locations

 * Saltspray Beach
 * Etnaran Keys