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

Gamer

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

From plat4 and down is almost the same a few more shard

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lowlevelplayer

yea, the rewards are the exact same. Maybe an extra T4CC, but I can get that from the glory store. Defender tactics don't effect us either. I guess I'll stay AQ only at least for now

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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.
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.

It's only blocking or being struck. Basically, they want you to throw items. Imagine the strike fury/oscillate node lol. Take damage and use items or take damage and use items

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Panchulon21

I think the increase Is ok, but definitely could have been better. For all the trouble they increased for p4 and below 25%. That sucks. These nodes aren’t fun and the defensive tactics are even worse. The effort just isn’t worth it

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Horror_punk

What a mockery for average players really
Master 1 40k 6* shards
Gold1 2.5k 6* shards

Are we exist in game???

Gamer

So we tell you how pissed off we are with flow. You decide to keep flow.

Do you really not want us to play war? Do you hate the mode that much? I wanted to give S19 a chance, but looking at this.. I hold 0 hope.

What had u expected deltas ther never revmove that one

KnightZero

How do you fight Doom well on stubborn tactics? Other than a power control/shock immune that is. Continuously waiting for aura to expire so that you don't get shocked is dumb. Because you have to evade his Sp1. Which gives him indestructible. And if he hits your block, you'll mostly get shocked.

Bendy

The attack tactics are horrendous as why should control flow attackers not gain power flood on heavy and siphon gain block pen and rewards for this season barley changed they need to be increased way higher for it to be worth the time spent and with new map and how its meant to be harder doesnt reflect on the rewards put out please make rewards worth the time and rage from wars and not lacking

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Championcritic

I expected 1.25 to 1.5 times the 5* and 6* shards rewards to be added to the next season onwards, because 5 and 6* shards are the main reason for doing AW in the first place. So disappointed that they increased the catalyst rewards instead. Not that I'm complaining of course but AW needs to focus more on improving 5* and 6* shards rewards rather than catalyst rewards which is what AQ is for. Not saying to remove T2A and stuff from AW season rewards of course, they can stay as they are.

Nojokejaym

Well damn flow is being changed I will be quitting aw

Arifutera

Stubborn is going to be a pain in the ***........
Next OP tactic and it's respective attacker tactic doesn't counter it like flow...

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Greywarden

A lot of really bad combinations to go with stubborn tactic. Tactics in general have been a failure since their inception and just as predicted all that has happened is create a new meta. Every single war will be using the stubborn tactic if everything stays as is.

Just remove tactics, you tried for so long but they just don't work. New nodes is enough of a change. Too many different node and champs in the game (2 champs get added to the pool every month as well) make the combinations impossible to test on your end.

Wakandas_Finest

Beyond disappointed. As a plat 4 player these changes are very underwhelming and not worth the push to maintain plat 4

AzKicker316

There is no rewards buff, call it what it really is, a damn rewards PUFF! Nothing to get the community reinvigorated. Things are already in a bad place with the game, this does nothing to change that!

Championcritic

Still meh rewards. And that solo event is a joke

What's wrong with the AW solo events haha, you get free stuff just from placing AW defenders and moving in AW. Sure they may not be that impressive but it's still free stuff.

Horror_punk

What a mockery for average players really
Master 1 40k 6* shards
Gold1 2.5k 6* shards

Are we exist in game???
Rewards quantum is a different discussion but you can't compare Masters top spot to Gold 1. In order to have a perfect season in Master, people spend about on average 5k+ units on potions and boosts. In order to have a perfect season in Gold 1, you just need to know your basic skills.

Really thanks for enlightening me
But I guess the core of game should be balancing the unbalanced things.

Jermajesty

For the stubborn tactic, does “dodged” mean only champs like invisible woman or NC with a dodge ability or does it mean any dash back, including dexterity, to dodge an opponents attack?

AceHayward

Glory. As simple as it is I think adding glory to each war rewards will encourage people to play. Then WE can chose the rewards ourselves depending on what our current progression is. You can increase the glory store limits, add items including alliance boosts etc. Maybe it's too simple of an idea and I missed something but to me, it makes sense.

KnightZero

Masters gets rewards worth efforts. Below, you get nothing much.
And they just changed it from flow wars to Stubborn wars. Do you guys test your tactics? Or just have a randomiser pull whatever nodes from a hat?

Ajar

Lol Kabam are so serious?
What are you doing? 500 shards for gold1/2 is embarrassing for you. I always liked war but it's getting more and more useless. I mean why the stress of war if the rewards are barely a drop on a hot stone. 1000 6 star shards lol. Go back to the office and try again please

TimeGenesis

It sucks tbh. Gold 1 / Gold 2 rewards are abysmal imo

G2
6* shards remains the same
5* shards remains the same
T5B shards from 9k to 22500
T2A from 1 to 3
T4CC stayed the same

G1
6* shards increase of 500shards
5* shards remains d same
T5B shards from 13500 to 33750
T2A from 2 to 3
T4CC stayed d same

One word from their "exciting news" - Disappointment

DaG891

Once again war rewards and content updated for the top 1% to drive allys to spend and compete for masters. Kabam does not create for fun anymore.