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

Rotelly

@Kabam Zibiit i think you are missing the impact of the indestructible indefinite passive. 1 or 3 stacks make no difference

Make it so the attacker can remove when they strike the defender and community reaction would be greatly improved.

Gomezlink

If you place a "Mordo" on the center line of the new AW, the game is over and no one kills ... hell knot

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Gomezlink

Central path already seen, we will face "Rino, Nova, Thor Ragnarok" ...

Little_Crocodili29

@Thecurler haha yeh! She was queen. And OG Thor was king.

Electro on stinking Slashed Tires node path 9 was tough. I don't remember what counter we had for him coz it was definitely not my path lol

But everything else was exciting to tackle.

Carmel1

i have a question about the strike counter fury node.

first of all the numbers i see in the counters are different than the one i see in the forum.
in the maps it says 5 light, 5 medium and 2 heavies...
i'll guess the numbers are just based on the tier\map.

second, the description of the node says that in order to get rid of the passive fury the attacker need to reset all the counters.
in the description it says there are two ways to reset the all the counters. once is by completing all the light\medium\heavy missions and the second one is by launching special attack.
my teammate fought this node and use two heavies... the heavy counter went to zero and the defender gained passive fury over time. without completing the other missions he used special attack that reset all the counters but the fury wasn't removed.
is that a bug or i miss something with the way this node works?

It does not say that the fury is removed, if you reset the counter

so reset all the counters just pause the defender from gain more furies?

Ramil0222

the 90% damage reduction from the 2 ebb and flows i mentioned might be a bit too much over the top.

Ebb and flow knockdown, tenacity 3

How do you approach dark hawk? 90% less damage knock him down he enters shield, 6 seconds 90% less damage

Path 5 will make people quit

Speeds80

Overall this war is much much harder than before for no buff in rewards, for my silver 1 level 30m alliance my guys are going to start having to buy revives? Rip aw for sure

QuikPik

The window on ebb and flow is way too small.

zuffy

the 90% damage reduction from the 2 ebb and flows i mentioned might be a bit too much over the top.

Ebb and flow knockdown, tenacity 3

How do you approach dark hawk? 90% less damage knock him down he enters shield, 6 seconds 90% less damage

Path 5 will make people quit

First time fighting DH, I lost Corvus. Then I used capiw. Just do parry heavy to build up 3 bar of power. With 5 charges, parry heavy and then launch l3. That will do major damage. So, I think Hyperion with a bunch of furies, knockdown opponent and then throw l3 will do too. Used same method with capiw against mordo.

Cendar333

Just wanted to give my feedback,

Ebb and Flow is a very frustrating node. Even if you play correctly the window to get your damage in is very tight and quickly disappears if you need to bait or dodge a special.

I think either:

1) the window for the fury needs to be significantly increased

2) the damage reduction needs to be reduced from 90%

3) Both of the above

Please change this node, It's particularly frustrating

Tarzan041

This new war is terrible I hope our alliance decides not to do war. The little boost in rewards are not worth the increased difficultly.

Wardioz

AW new map needs rework ASAP please. Node 23 for one is just terrible and don’t get me started with path 5 just WOW. Using us as beta testers it feels and we didn’t sign up for that...

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KnightNvrEnding

I’m literally trying to convince mine how bad the cost to reward is lol at this point my account would grow way faster just doing AQ 🙄😂 don’t even see a real upside to them. They’re not gonna be fun and rewards aren’t even measuring up to the challenge.

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Ricky4Steamboat

Woah. The new map is simply awful. I will pass on AW season 19. Tunnel Vision=Unit grab for a pittance of a reward. My favorite mode of the game has officially died.

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Stagedear85

Take out defensive TACTICS PROBLEM SOLVED

Finalflash8

I've formerly played with 2 alliances that finished plat 4, running wars between tier 3-5. I used to really enjoy the competitive nature of war. Its the most directly competitive mode in MCOC, as you get to test yourself against another group of summoners.

And now, I don't. Ive moved to an ally that is happy to hang in tier 6+ and after experiencing half this map, I can't be happier for my decision. The extremely small increase to season rewards, coupled with the obvious increased difficult of the map, theres virtually zero incentive for mid tier alliances to push for tier 5. The cost of war isn't close to the rewards. And when you mix in a defensive tactic, its exponentially worse. We've all but decided to relax and put no effort into war. Juice aint worth the squeeze.

If Kabam sees this as in line with their road map, then I'm struggling to look forward to anything else that's announced, regardless of what explaination the game team releases.

SandPounder

Ebb and Flow
Tunnel Vision

Two nodes that need to die a quick and painful death!

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Vicious_Delicious

Path 5 is absolute bs. The window of opportunity to hit the opponent is too small.

Gojibok

FIRST OF ALL, PLEASE CHANGE THE BACKGOUND COLOUR OF AW MAP. ITS HURT MY EYES....

Jmille85

Wow they barely changed the AW rewards and then their “new direction” in AW is giving us this trash... With all the recent outrage, if this is what they consider a step in the right direction with AW then they are extremely out of touch with their players...

So now we still have horrible rewards with an even worse map... way to go Kabam....

bpunk88

Well done Kabam, I'm officially done with war. I wanted to give you a chance, the announcement looked from, but the reality of what you released is so absurd it's laughable. I've gone from P2, to casually playing in a gold alliance, to opting-out. Let war go the way of Bases.

Rewards update only benefits Platinum & master ranks, but you force these garbage node pairings on everyone? No thanks.

Node 23 in Hard map was the final straw:
Havok defender with Tunnel Vision, Oscilate, and Aggression Fury. 🤬