PvP Overview: Gems of War

Overview

In PVP, or Player versus Player, you play with your teams against the teams of other players. The enemy teams are built by other players (and will be ones they have fought with in PvP), but they are played by the game’s AI.

To enter PvP a player just needs to tap the PvP Button on the Krystara World Map and you’ll be taken to an alternative version of the world map for PvP. On this PvP World Map players will be able to see 10 Regions, it’s in these regions where PvP takes place.

While in the PvP World Map a few changes to the UI will be noticeable, the bottom left 3 buttons change to PvP Shop, Ladders, and Alliance replacing PvP, Games and Guilds. While the buttons on the left side-bar change from  Adventure, Campaign, and Events to be replaced with PvP Goals. More buttons are planned to appear on the left in future updates.

These are the only UI changes that happen as all other buttons on the World Map remain the same.

To return to the regular Krystara World Map with Kingdoms, players just need to interact with the central button, similar to how you return to the world map from the Underworld.

Quick Battles

Quick Battle is where most PvP currently takes place. When entering any unlocked region on the PvP World Map, there will be an icon in that region's menu saying ‘Quick Battle’. When you enter a quick battle you’ll be presented with 3 opponents to choose that are usually (but not always) from your current League. Each opponent card will display their Team Score, Level and the Gold, Glory, Trophy and VP rewards that will be received upon winning the battle. 

These opponents will generally be Easier, Medium, and Harder difficulty and if you don’t like the 3 opponents selected you can refresh and get new opponents given to you. It’s important to know that when you refresh it is possible to get one or more of the same 3 opponents.

Victory Points

While competing in PvP, players will earn Victory Points (or VP) from PvP Battles, these PvP battles take place in 1 of the 10 Regions that are available. All PvP battles have a base amount of VP which is based on the enemy’s progress and team strength. A player can earn a bonus amount of VP from battles if certain conditions are met within the fight.

Bonus VP can be earned in these following ways;

• Make a 4-of-a-kind match during battle.
• Make a 5-of-a-kind match during battle.
• Make a 6-of-a-kind match during battle.
• Make a 7-of-a-kind match during battle.
• Make an 8-of-a-kind match during battle.
• Winning a battle in 10 Turns or less.
• Winning a battle in 8 Turns or less.
• Winning a battle in 6 Turns or less.
• Winning a battle in 4 Turns or less.
• Winning a battle in 2 Turns or less.
• Winning a battle with 2 Troops still alive.
• Winning a battle with 3 Troops still alive.
• Winning a battle with 4 Troops still alive.
• Getting 2 or more Extra Turns
• Getting 4 or more Extra Turns
• Getting 6 or more Extra Turns
• Getting 8 or more Extra Turns
• Kill an enemy in a single attack

Any Bonus VP earned during a battle will be applied to base VP in the post-battle menu. This is shown by a series of slide-ins that show the task completed during the battle and the exact amount of Bonus VP it awards.

In PvP, VP is used for 2 separate things. It’s firstly used to measure a player's progress through the ranks of their league bracket in weekly PvP. Secondly, the total amount of VP that accumulates week-by-week will unlock things in the PvP Shop for a player to purchase.

The team you attacked with can also be attacked by other players. You neither win nor lose anything from these battles, but the game tracks them for you, and refers to them as Defense Battles. 

While your Weekly VP is used for leaderboards, the game also tracks your total VP, which is used to unlock shops offers. At a future time, we will be introducing PvP Seasons. Your Total VP will reset when a new PvP Season starts. More details will be forthcoming about PvP Seasons at a later date.

Currencies

While playing in PvP you’ll be able to earn 2 new currencies, Gold Marks and Silver Marks. These marks can only be earned in PvP and can be spent in the PvP Shop. 

Silver Marks	Gold Marks

Silver Marks are earned from playing PvP battles in Regions with a Silver Mark Bonus, from completing weekly PvP Goals, from rewards for finishing well on leaderboards, and from daily logins.

Gold Marks are a little harder to obtain and they are earned by completing harder weekly goals in PvP, and finishing higher on weekly leaderboards. They can also be purchased in the PvP Shop.

PvP Goals are a series of VP milestones that a player can work towards. Each week, a player can work their way through 20 Ranks in the PvP Goals, with each rank giving a reward when it’s been reached.

As mentioned above, both Silver and Gold Marks can be earned each week by completing these PvP Goals. Two types of Timed Boosters can be earned from PvP Goals too. These Boosters are for Gold and Souls, and function the same way the XP Booster does, by giving a timed 15 minute bonus to the amount of Souls and Gold a player earns from battle..

To view your PvP Goals menu, you’ll just need to interact with the PvP goals icon that’s located on the left sidebar to the screen. While in this menu a player can see what rewards will be given at each rank for the week. To collect any completed goals, a player must go into the PvP Goals Menu and select the Collect button which is at the bottom of the screen.

The old PvP System gave some Glory every day for logging in based on your Rank. This was implemented at a time when there were far fewer ways to obtain Glory. This has now been changed so that you will receive Silver Marks every day instead, based upon the League you are currently in (from 1 per day in Bronze League, up to 10 per day in Diamond).

Talismans 

Talismans are a new collectible item that can give a one-time buff in a PvP Battle, this is similar to the Trinkets in Underspire that grant a one-time buff. Talismans are used to help the Attacker, but Talismans to help Defenders will be coming in a future update.

There are 7 different types of talismans that can be purchased from the PvP Shop. Each Talisman can only be used once in battle before being consumed. Multiple copies of Trinkets can be stacked when purchased from the PvP Shop.

 

Curse Talisman	Life Talisman	Bless Talisman
Curse all enemies	Give +10 Life to all allies	Bless all allies
Magic Talisman	Doomskull Talisman	Armor Talisman
Give +7 Magic to all allies	Create 7 Doomskulls at the start of battle	All allies are Armored (25% skull damage reduction)
Impervious Talisman	Victory Talisman
All allies are impervious	Doubles the Amount of VP earned in a Single Battle

To use and activate Talismans, you’ll see that there are 6 blank slots on the left-side of the Choose-An-Enemy Menu in Quick Battle mode. Interacting with a blank slot will bring up the Talisman Menu where you’ll be able to select which Talismans you’d like to use in battle. When a Talisman is selected it will fill a black slot and have the “Equipped “ tag appear in the Talisman Menu. Active Talismans will continue to be used in each subsequent battle until you remove it from the slot it’s equipped to or you’ve used all available Talismans.

PvP Shop

The PvP Shop offers the chance for players to spend the Silver and Gold Marks they earn from playing PvP. As well as some real money purchases. Players can view their current VP and Marks amounts in the top right corner of the PvP Shop Menu.

When your in the PvP Shop you’ll have 5 Different offer tabs to choose from;

• Home: This is where you start when opening the PvP shop and it will always highlight one of the main PvP offers available.
• Premium: This is where you can purchase offers with real money transactions
• Talismans: This is where Gold and Silver Marks can be spent to purchase Talismans that can help you in PvP Battles.
• Pets: This is another place Gold and Silver Marks can be spent to purchase PvP Pets - only 4 Pets will be available each week, along with an Orb of Minions.
• Other: Is where you can spend Gold Marks to purchase some rarer resources, including a random Book of Deeds.

Many offers in the PvP Shop have VP requirements, the better the reward the more VP will be required to have access to it. The VP is not “spent” upon purchasing any offer, your VP total simply unlocks it so it can be purchased. In some cases it may take a number of weeks to get enough VP to unlock an offer.

Some Offers in the PvP Shop the have limitations for how many times they can be purchased within a timeframe, for example;

• The Gold Mark Pack can be purchased only once per Day.
• The Pet Pack can be purchased only once per week.

Weekly Reset

After one week has passed by, the current event will end and rewards will be sent out via the game mail to anyone who participated in that week's PvP. Everyone in a PvP League Promotion Zone will go up to the next League, while players in a Demotion Zone go down a League. Current PvP League opponent brackets are reset and Global Leaderboard position will be reset for the following week's event. Each week starts and ends at Monday 07:00AM GMT.