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

Stellar

Well by choosing #defensive attackers you have a bonus by doing specific action that partially counter this tactic.
Of course you can go with your preferred champion, whether or not he is a #defensive one but you will have to deal with the tactic without the bonus

Equalizer24K

I heard that leadership will be able to assign ppl to battlegroups, and ppl will be able to show their best defenders and attackers. When can we expect this to take place???
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Leader, Hunters of Goddtier

SuperChrona

Why the big difference in increase of rewards? Top war alliance gets BOTH big increase of rank up ressources like way more t5cc and ALSO big increase in 5* and 6* shards.

Where Gold 1 and Gold 2 get close to ZERO increase in shards. Gold 1 is the only one that gets an increase of small 500x more 6* shards. Yes there are more t5b and alpha tier 2, but these ally are often AQ focussed where we also get a lot of these ressources.

I think the top ally deserves the increase. They work very hard for it. BUT you are forgetting the middleclass !!!!!

Must say that I am hugely disappointed in this AW update. Back to the drawing board!!!!

Seraph

Kabam have simply overlooked the middle tiers of AW, they simply need to apply the same % increase to all rewards... come on Kabam this isn't rocket science!

Arifutera

We will get another one of those big merged threads for stubborn after 1-2 wars like we did for flow....kabam will say we know defense tactics didn't meet our goals, but we will introduce a new one in s20

Polygon

Kabams logic honestly baffles me, they removed the two least common defense tactics, and want to promote diversity of the tactics used, yet release substantially one sided ones like flow and now stubborn ???

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Kimil

That's exactly what we will be doing.

WHOz_R4GE

@Kabam Miike

Can we please get confirmation on the stubborn tactic regarding the dodge mechanic. Does dodge mean If a player uses dexterity they will trigger the tactic and thus place an indestructible on the defender?

Markjv81

Can’t see why it wouldn’t, read the dexterity description.

Sugoi_Dubai

Lol Kabam is using us to test Stubborn

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Markjv81

It’s literally written into the description, I would be very surprised, although happily, that it excluded dexterity. I feel if I did that would be something deemed worthy of being stated.

Mcord11758

It would appear to me that the change in rewards and how the higher tiers starting with plat 3 and up received a much greater bump is an ill conceived attempt to get people to play higher tier wars again. There are a lot of strong aq alliances that don’t even bother. Best guess I can give is that they think this will make them bother. Of course, it’s pretty clear it won’t and will likely lead to more aq mainly alliances but I believe this is what they are trying to do

DianaPrince

Well, about 6* shards, Master goes from 12000 to 30000, but platinum 4 goes from 4000 to 5000, this is one of most unfair things that kabam ever made since the 4th city of the Hobbit kingdom of the middle earth. My alliance stop playing AW, only one battle group for 10 player. Welcome summer. We don’t know if we will play this game after the summer. Thanks

RoOOts

Thanks for sharing where the road is going. I went into an AW focused ally when kabam pronounced updated rewards. Just left them again and joined a no AW ally. Harder nodes for no noticeable increase in rewards. A joke ..

Stagedear85

"The Grandmaster has removed Dodge and Crush from the pool of Defense Tactic choices. These two Defense Tactics did not prove very popular among Alliances, and the Grandmaster wanted to replace them with some that he hopes will bring more variety to Alliance Wars." Kabbam really i cant even imagine what you guys were thinking in that meeting room before posting this, how about you guys do a poll in the forum and call it Least popular defense tactics or Tactics you wish to remove i can bet my last dollar that Flow and Siphon will be 1 and 2 of lease favorite and also onces the community would like to remove and the poll numbers wouldn't even be close, all the community have done for months were complain about how horrible these tactics were and u remove the ones no one complain about and kept the ones everyone complain about i really don't see the logic's in that, oh wait im not done but you guys also add Stubborn lol, i almost fell out my chair when i saw these and also the attacker tactics last i check most OP flow champs were place on debuff immune nodes so getting a heavy off is close to impossible and im sure most people run max limber for defense, please take a second look at this.

TheTalents

There's no such thing as perfect season in gold 1. If you're in gold 1 and you don't lose you would bump up to plat 3 minimum, if not higher. So your argument is not correct.

Icy000

Ahh, i love Kabam communication these days

WHOz_R4GE

I’m aware what it states. This is why I want clarity on what “dodge” truly means. Is a shallow evade considered a dodge as we don’t trigger dex but are still “dodging their attack”. I want to know if dodging implies any mechanic where we the attacker attempt to get out of the way of an Defenders attack, or just the dexterity mechanic, or simply just NC and IW dodge mechanic as described above.

There is a lack of clarity from Kabam right now as to what constitutes a “dodge” from the attacker and it makes a BIG BIG difference in the overall strength of this new defensive tactic in my opinion.

RagamugginGunner

That's not necessarily true. With how war rating has been let to run rampant for years, it's really hard to move up. You've got a number of older allys that are running 2 BG wars nd staying in Plat because their multiplier is so high. Also, you get mid allys beating up on low allys which inflates their rating and multiplier.

I was in a Plat 3/top 20 AQ ally for a few years. When the new tiers were announced we did a season of itemless AW and dropped to Gold 1. When we tried to get back into Play it was a huge pain cause we were facing basically the same allys as in Plat3 but with a lower multiplier and the allys around us were playing Gold level allys.

All in all AW is completely broken and this update is just lipstick on a pig.

Mcord11758

I think you are wrong here. Last season we started plat4 in tier 4 and we went 9-3 and still finished plat 4. We had 2 wars in tier 3 one we won one we lost. Even if we went 10-2 we still would have been plat 4. 11-1 or perfect would have been tight but we likely would have been plat 3. Regardless as long as we were in tier 4 teams in tier 3 were gaining nearly as many points in a loss as we did a win. If you start gold 1 in all likelihood you are tier 5 or 6. Even a perfect season at best would be mid plat 4

The_Mayor

Rewords for g1 and below are a joke
You need to make it more competitive not to make players quit... Aw for good

Menkent

And that would be a PERFECT season, which is effectively impossible because eventually you would get a complete mismatch.

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KnightZero

But the buff to both rewards can definitely be compared. Leave Master Rank 1/23 aside. It's a huge increase in 6* shards for Masters in general. And P1/2 as well. P3 gets a bit. P4 and G1 get basically nothing. A buff in rewards should be throughout the board. Not only the top.

Gregdagr8

Soooo, anything to say Kabam? Let's get that "communication" going.

KnightNvrEnding

That would entirely depend what your multiplier was when you started in g1 lol I’d like to think you’d hit platinum...but if your multiplier was just too low you could still very well end up towards the top of g1 still

ninjadtk

I'm noticing that the champion and health buffs on node 21 are different than node 19 and 20, despite them being the same level mini boss, is this intentional or a typo?

Also, why isn't the original post in the news and announcements section?

TheTalents

I'm in a gold 1/gold 2 alliance. When we win all our wars starting from the bottom of gold 2 we end up in gold 1. If we start at the bottom of gold 1 we end up in p4 if we don't lose. The multiplier you receive from the wins is how you bump up in War. It is just that simple. If you don't lose you advance, if you lose 2-3 wars that is different from not losing at all. So stop trying to change the argument to make your point.