Alliance War Season 19: Updates to Path Identities and New Nodes! [ June 30]

Summoners,

After his defeat at the hands of the Summoner and Carina, the Grandmaster has been an elder without a calling. Despite the problems and conflicts that the Grandmaster and The Collector have caused, they are still Carina’s family, and she loves them very much.

Instead of banishing them to a far off land, she’s worked with her council to create a plan to keep the two of them busy, and out of trouble.

The Universal Gamesman

Carina knows that a game with changing rulesets and unpredictable pieces is the perfect distraction to keep En Dwi Gast out of trouble. Under her supervision, The Grandmaster will transform Alliance Wars into his tournament, where he seeks the strongest Alliances every season to crown as his victors!

Recreating the Battlefield

The Grandmaster has never been shy about wanting to mould the Contest to his vision, and making sure his presence is noticed. He’ll be starting with the Maps on which you fight.

So first, we’re going to take a look at the new Nodes, Path Identities, and Layouts of the Grandmaster’s New Maps. All Map Changes will take effect on June 24th!

New Maps

First, we've got 2 Brand New Maps! One for Alliances playing on Easy and Normal, and one for Alliances playing on Intermediate, Hard, Challenger, and Expert. If you'd like to take a closer look, we've attached the High-Resolution versions of these maps to this post.

These new more simplified Maps eliminate Portals and bring the entire Battlegroup back together and key points throughout the Map.

Easy and Normal:

Intermediate, Hard, Challenger, and Expert:

New Local Nodes

The Grandmaster has crafted the following nodes for Alliances on the Intermediate, Hard, Challenger, or Expert Maps.

Path Identities

If you like to plan ahead, the Grandmaster is happy to provide you with a list of all buffs on all nodes across the Maps. There are lots to look at, so we've attached the lists of Nodes in the next post.

Matchmaking Updates

The Grandmaster wants to ensure that his tournament stays as competitive as possible. To do so, he is updating the parameters of Matchmaking. Matchmaking will now emphasize your Alliance's War Rating above all else. This will ensure that Alliances vying for the crown will be competing against other top Alliances.

This will be a big adjustment for a lot of Alliances. Currently, many Alliances are either have an inflated War Rating or a Deflated War rating due to the current system. To expedite the process of Alliances finding their "true" War Rating, we will be reducing every Alliance's War Rating by 50%. This will affect every Alliance in-game and will accelerate the rate at which Alliance's find their true position faster because of the concentrated War Ratings of all Alliances.

The Change to Matchmaking and the War Rating reduction will occur on July 8th.

What's Next?

There's still so much to reveal about Season 19 and beyond. Next week, we'll cover:
- Reward Changes
- Defense Tactics and Attack Tactics
- Alliance War Solo Events

Remember, Alliance Wars Season 19 Starts on July 7th, and there will be no war starting on July 5th!

Stay tuned for more information on everything else about Season 19!

Comments

pseudosane

The whales get half a t5cc though! Thats where the money comes in. Rest of us get yummy peanuts......
Where are the node descriptions? We get only one week of war to figure it out?

bdawg923

The whales get half a t5cc though! Thats where the money comes in. Rest of us get yummy peanuts......
Where are the node descriptions? We get only one week of war to figure it out?

Those were posted a few days ago buddy

pseudosane

The whales get half a t5cc though! Thats where the money comes in. Rest of us get yummy peanuts......
Where are the node descriptions? We get only one week of war to figure it out?
Those were posted a few days ago buddy

Not all of them. A lot of them have no descriptions.

bdawg923

The whales get half a t5cc though! Thats where the money comes in. Rest of us get yummy peanuts......
Where are the node descriptions? We get only one week of war to figure it out?
Those were posted a few days ago buddy
Not all of them. A lot of them have no descriptions.

Which ones? https://forums.playcontestofchampions.com/en/discussion/204124/alliance-war-season-19-matchmaking-updates-new-maps-nodes-and-path-identities-corrected/p1

KnightZero

So Stubborn tactic doesn't allow you to dodge an attack? What rubbish

Icy000

Gold 2 and 1 rewards are the same as they were before lol. What a change 👎

Duo_Kulio

Gold 2 and 1 rewards are the same as they were before lol. What a change 👎

Hehe some shards more for the whole month of playing 🤔🤔🤔🤔

bdawg923

There was probably more time spent on these useless titles than was spent on implementing user feedback.

1) defense tactics are garbage. They ruined war
2) seasons are garbage
3) one month of grinding still doesn't reflect the rewards we get
4) we want meaningful changes

This season update looks like it was written before the feedback even started coming in

cab55

Another lame update

The increase in the rewards isn't tasty for the people that already aren't playing wars, especially mid-tier alliances.
Then the solo-events are a joke and to make things worse, new impossible nodes
Are you guys really reading the complaints of people? Because it looks like you are still missing the problem.

Buttehrs

So top alliances now get half a t5cc. Gold 1 and below gets next to nothing. But remember everyone, we are not in the 6* meta yet.

Championcritic

Gold 2 and 1 rewards are the same as they were before lol. What a change 👎

they upped the amount of T2A you get at gold 2 but barely touched the 5* and 6* shard rewards, which is somewhat helpful I guess but they should have given a good boost 5* and 6* shards cause that's what AW is known for.

RiderofHell

Gold 2 and 1 rewards are the same as they were before lol. What a change 👎

G1 got a increase of 500 shards more 🤣🤣

Mcord11758

ok the positive,
you removed hidden nodes (they should never have been part of the plan)

then there is the rest...............

nothing to see here

Championcritic

So Stubborn tactic doesn't allow you to dodge an attack? What rubbish

That's not what it means lol, it means that if the defender evades/miss/dodge they will get an indestructible. Nothing is preventing your quake from evading or your ghost from phasing.

KnightZero

So Stubborn tactic doesn't allow you to dodge an attack? What rubbish
That's not what it means lol, it means that if the defender evades/miss/dodge they will get an indestructible. Nothing is preventing your quake from evading or your ghost from phasing.

False. It says whenever the Defender's Attack misses/is evaded/is dodged.

FactorQ

Hot take: the attacker tactic for stubborn nearly useless in battle as it doesn't help you overcome the defense tactic at all. Better to just use a champion that doesn't evade/phase than to use a "defensive" attacker to counter a "defensive" defender.

Therefore season 19 will be stubborn wars since there's really not much drawback from using the stubborn tactic.

Mcord11758

So Stubborn tactic doesn't allow you to dodge an attack? What rubbish
That's not what it means lol, it means that if the defender evades/miss/dodge they will get an indestructible. Nothing is preventing your quake from evading or your ghost from phasing.

wont you have to hit them to remove the indestructible?

Arifutera

ok the positive,
you removed hidden nodes (they should never have been part of the plan)

then there is the rest...............

nothing to see here

5min timer is a big positive for me

Amadeo01

ok the positive,
you removed hidden nodes (they should never have been part of the plan)

then there is the rest...............

nothing to see here

But even that is tinged with bitterness because though they are removing it for now, they are promising that hidden nodes will definitely be brought back at some point. I don't understand why they're so insistent on this. They're also quite up front that they'll be putting it back in some way that THEY are happy with, not the community.

Amadeo01

So Stubborn tactic doesn't allow you to dodge an attack? What rubbish
That's not what it means lol, it means that if the defender evades/miss/dodge they will get an indestructible. Nothing is preventing your quake from evading or your ghost from phasing.

Sure, you can still evade, if you want them to keep getting indestructible charges...so....

Giodood_1

i know the buff is good for people in master and up or platinum idk but gold 1 and down looks almost the same. i’m kinda disappointed that the rewards down there look the same because i’m in g2 rn and i was hoping for more shards but oh well

Championcritic

So Stubborn tactic doesn't allow you to dodge an attack? What rubbish
That's not what it means lol, it means that if the defender evades/miss/dodge they will get an indestructible. Nothing is preventing your quake from evading or your ghost from phasing.
False. It says whenever the Defender's Attack misses/is evaded/is dodged.

ahh ok, my bad, i interpreted it wrongly the first time. This looks pretty dangerous if you put a defensive defender on stun immune.

ShoNuff29

This is so bad, I went right past being mad to just laughing. Basically if you’re not a platinum alliance, you might as well not do war. A month of daily inconvenience to get the same trash. Go back and try again.

RagamugginGunner

Wow, this is so much worse than expected.

Icy000

Gold 2 and 1 rewards are the same as they were before lol. What a change 👎
G1 got a increase of 500 shards more 🤣🤣

So lucky

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Championcritic

So Stubborn tactic doesn't allow you to dodge an attack? What rubbish
That's not what it means lol, it means that if the defender evades/miss/dodge they will get an indestructible. Nothing is preventing your quake from evading or your ghost from phasing.
Sure, you can still evade, if you want them to keep getting indestructible charges...so....

I hope those indestructible charges are like killmonger's, where you can get rid of them through striking the defender in addition to what the node says which is to block a hit or be struck. If the indestructible charges cannot be removed except from blocking or being struck then its too OP.

GroundedWisdom

This is so bad, I went right past being mad to just laughing. Basically if you’re not a platinum alliance, you might as well not do war. A month of daily inconvenience to get the same trash. Go back and try again.

I wouldn't go that far, but this chart shows a definite imbalance.

Adityatheaawesom

100% Kabam has once again disappointed while some changes are positive this change is absolute garbage and useless. Especially for Mid - low tier players.

Etm34

My alliance is gold 3-2 and rewards are still atrocious for a month’s worth of time, units, and effort. Swing and a miss.