Take on the Trials of the Elementals!

Summoners!

The powers of the elements pulse throughout The Battlerealm, each reflecting a Skill or aspect of the Champions who dwell here. You shall be given the rare honor to gather aspects of these Elements and forge them into something new as you face The Trials of the Elementals!

If you remember Trials of the King and Trials of the Mad Titan, you’re already familiar with the format of these Quests. If you aren’t, then read on!

Trials of the Elementals are Daily Quests that occur on a 7 day schedule, where you will collect Elemental Essences on the first 6 days that you can use to empower your team on the 7th Day! These special event quests will only be available from January 2nd until February 6th!

Like Chilled Challenges and the Occult Labs, these Trials have entry limits, however only one difficulty of the Trials of the Elementals can be played on Days 1-6. If you enter Easy difficulty, and either complete or quit that quest, you will have used your entries for all difficulties for that day. In the event that you QUIT the quest, you will also be forfeiting all rewards for that day as well.

For the first 6 days, you’ll be playing through 3 fights in every difficulty, with all those fights having a set of Buffs applied to them that fit the theme of that day.

Day 1: Trial of Wind - Fights that focus on Regeneration and Specials.
Day 2: Trial of Fire - Fights that focus on unpredictable outcomes.
Day 3: Trial of Earth - Fights that focus on high Damage and increased Attacks.
Day 4: Trial of Darkness - Fights that focus on lingering Debuffs and Power Drain.
Day 5: Trial of Water - Fights that focus on Resistance and Adaptation.
Day 6: Trial of Light - Fights that focus on defensive transformation and evasion.

Complete any difficulty of these Trials to earn their respective Essence. Essences are mode specific boosts that can only be used on Day 7, Trial of the Alchemist, and must be activated from the map screen. This 7th day features buffs and fights from all 6 elements, plus the Alchemist!

You’ll want to make sure that you complete each day’s Trial, as it will greatly power up your team for the Trial of the Alchemist!

The Encounters

Here is a list of enemies that could appear on each day, and a list of Buffs that they’ll have, separated by difficulty

Trial of the Alchemist has Champions and Buffs from each of these days, with increased rank and levels.

The Essences:
Each of these Essences harbour a powerful buff for your Champions!

Essence of Wind: This Essence periodically triggers an Arc Overload, regenerating the Health of your Champions in a fight.
Essence of Fire: This Essence increases Champion's Attack, Critical Resistance, Critical Rating, Block Penetration, Power Rate, and Ability Accuracy by 10%, up to a maximum of 60% whenever they fill a bar of Power.
Essence of Earth: This Essence makes Champions become Unstoppable for 5 seconds after activating a Special Attack if they aren’t already Unstoppable. Enemies lose 25% Block Proficiency.
Essence of Darkness: This Essence will reverse your opponents healing effects.
Essence of Water: This Essence periodically cycles between building up Physical Resistance and Energy Resistance for your Champions.
Essence of Light: This Essence gives your Champions a Chance to Evade all incoming attacks and leave your Opponent Stunned.

Rewards:

Below is a list of the rewards for each difficulty.
Note that there is a 50% chance to get a signature stone/signature stone crystal on each day, and a 50% chance to acquire varying Tiers of ISO

Additionally, each Boss fight also includes a rare chance to award either Premium Hero Crystal shards, or an Ultimate Elemental Crystal. These are quite rare, and it’s likely that some Summoners will go this entire event without finding one!

What are Raw Elements?

Completing these Trials will award you with Raw Elements which you can trade for a unique, limited-time item in the Store, and Elemental Crystals in the Vault. These Crystals contain items to assist you throughout the Battlerealm. They’ll be available in limited quantities in the Crystal Vault under the Special Tab until February 11, 2019. Be sure to check each Crystal’s description and Drop Rates for their contents!

Activate the Beacon!

A strange Beacon is being added to the Store, and it can only be purchased with Raw Elements. No one really knows what it does, or who it sends a signal to, but missing out on it would mean missing out on one piece of a year long event…

Item Transmutation

It’s not quite turning lead into gold, but during the Trials you’ll be able to harness your inner alchemist by going to the Featured Tab in the Store and combine certain low value items to create a new higher value one! You’ll be able to combine:

Level 1 Health Potions into a Level 2 Health Potion
Level 2 Health Potions into a Level 3 Health Potion
Level 2 Team Health Potions into a Level 3 Team Health Potion
Level 1 Revives into a Level 2 Revive
Level 1 Alliance Health Potions into a Level 2 Alliance Health Potion
Level 2 Alliance Health Potions into a Level 3 Alliance Health Potion
Level 1 Alliance Revives into a Level 2 Alliance Revive

All Transmutations will require 2 of the lower level potion/revive to create the higher level one. For example, you’ll need to combine 2 Level 2 Health Potions to create a Level 3 Health Potion.

Your powers of Alchemy will only allow you to create each of these items 3 times, but that limit refreshes every week between January 2nd and February 6th!

Prepare to face off against the Power of the Elements, Summoner!

Comments

Ourobøros

I just hope the Android users will have more time to do the Trials since we're running out of time without the Update

darkklaw

Please consider making aq 30min timers for those running map6

Jac094

I expect a compensation for android issue if we can't complete the trials before tomorrow's new trial.

BirdReynolds

These trials are so thoroughly broken it’s not at all fun. It used to be 6 days of difficult fights, then rewarded on day 7 with relatively easy fights, if you completed the first 6 days.
NOW, it’s 6 days of tricky fights and rewarded on day 7 with an unmitigated disaster. Some of the boosts don’t seem to do anything, the node and defender interactions are at times absolute insanity. Kingpin on the second fight took me 10 minutes to beat. Dorm is a massive pain. Iceman. Mordo. Wasp even. Venompool with 300% power gain from cornered and starting the fight with a debuff, with no way to gain power without pushing him to sp3 is just make believe imaginary shenanigans. Seriously.
Take it down, issue everyone full rewards for this day 7, and start fixing it. That gives you a week to get it working properly and be thoroughly tested this time. Because it very obviously wasn’t previously.
Add time to the boosts as well. 30 minutes is not enough when some fights take as much as 10 minutes, plus constant connection issues in the map, when starting fights, and after fights.
This is ridiculous

nelly22

Epic trials 3rd fight is ridiculous. Juggs with spite, burden of might, champion boost, debilitate, and bane of damballah.

Kabam Zibiit

Hey there Summoners,

The Masochism node buff has been removed from the first fight of the Epic Level Trial of the Alchemist, so it will not be there if you start the quest from now on. It will still be there for those who have started that quest before this change though. For those that were affected by this node, we have not yet started discussions on how we will handle this situation, but do plan on investigating the impact and compensating for this change.

Fhfjghhggggjfhfjg

@Kabam Zibiit any news on when we can actually play the trials?

mdb7613

When the timer renewed early today the trials disappeared from my quest events. What is going on?

TacoScotty

So for trials these boosts have led to some fun consequences:

1) masochism / reverse heal interaction

2) High sig Dorm degen once arc overload / other boosts fall off

3) arc overload / other boosts leading to spite power gain makes fights like mordo fun (iceman initial cold snap wrecks you such that you want arc overload to offset it some even if it causes spite)

Was it intended that boosts would actually hurt you for some fights? Given you only get 1 set per week (and last 30 min).. was it intended we would intentionally not use or let them wear off before finishing epic to avoid these consequences?

Drop iceman / dorm sig a lot. Drop masochism as planned. Potentially make the boosts from these special boosts not count as active buffs

Also make AI significantly less passive when doing armor part of oscillation - makes interaction with Hyperion stupid at times as you can’t bait specials and he gets 3 bars during armor phase and L3 once it switches to fury

Kabam Miike

Hey all,

Due to complications beyond our control, our 21.2 release is still not available for users on Google Play. At this time, we still do not have an ETA for the release, but are continuing to work with our partners to get this sorted out as soon as we possibly can.

Without the Update, it is not possible for users to take part in the Trials of the Alchemist, which is the 7th and final day of Trials.

To compensate for this, we will be allowing all Android users to access and participate in an additional and exclusive Trials of the Alchemist Qquest that will take place on February 6th, at 12pm PST. This is to make up for the Trials of the Alchemist that they are currently missing.

Additionally, we will be locking the current Trials of the Alchemist to iOS users only. This is a precaution we want to take in case users are able to access the Quest with little time left, and lose their Essences, and to prevent an unfair double dip.

We’re very sorry for this delay, and are working as hard as we can to get all users into our new release as soon as possible.

Thank you all for your patience.

TacoScotty

If I play with two phones - one Android, one iPhone do I have access to both?

You can lock it anyway you want now but should just track who attempted / completed it this round and anyone who didn’t, regardless of device has access to Feb 6

Kabam Miike

TacoScotty wrote: »

If I play with two phones - one Android, one iPhone do I have access to both?

You can lock it anyway you want now but should just track who attempted / completed it this round and anyone who didn’t, regardless of device has access to Feb 6

It's most likely you will be able to, but you will only have the same amount of Boosts as everybody else. These quests are not easy, and many people are having trouble with them even with the Boosts.

We'll discuss further locks soon.

DrZola

Kabam Miike wrote: »

TacoScotty wrote: »

If I play with two phones - one Android, one iPhone do I have access to both?

You can lock it anyway you want now but should just track who attempted / completed it this round and anyone who didn’t, regardless of device has access to Feb 6

It's most likely you will be able to, but you will only have the same amount of Boosts as everybody else. These quests are not easy, and many people are having trouble with them even with the Boosts.

We'll discuss further locks soon.

One of the reasons the Day 7 Trials are difficult even with the boosts is the wacky and (hopefully) unintentional interactions between the AI champs and the boosts (e.g., Dorm and Arc Overload).

Is there any recalculation by the game team going on re: whether this is the kind of event experience they wanted to provide?

Thanks

Dr. Zola

Werewrym

DrZola wrote: »

Kabam Miike wrote: »

TacoScotty wrote: »

If I play with two phones - one Android, one iPhone do I have access to both?

You can lock it anyway you want now but should just track who attempted / completed it this round and anyone who didn’t, regardless of device has access to Feb 6

It's most likely you will be able to, but you will only have the same amount of Boosts as everybody else. These quests are not easy, and many people are having trouble with them even with the Boosts.

We'll discuss further locks soon.

One of the reasons the Day 7 Trials are difficult even with the boosts is the wacky and (hopefully) unintentional interactions between the AI champs and the boosts (e.g., Dorm and Arc Overload).

Is there any recalculation by the game team going on re: whether this is the kind of event experience they wanted to provide?

Thanks

Dr. Zola

Ah someone else ran into that issue also... That Dorm sucked... Had to spend a couple revives on him. Arc overload regen should be passive.

OmegaMan

BirdReynolds wrote: »

These trials are so thoroughly broken it’s not at all fun. It used to be 6 days of difficult fights, then rewarded on day 7 with relatively easy fights, if you completed the first 6 days.
NOW, it’s 6 days of tricky fights and rewarded on day 7 with an unmitigated disaster. Some of the boosts don’t seem to do anything, the node and defender interactions are at times absolute insanity. Kingpin on the second fight took me 10 minutes to beat. Dorm is a massive pain. Iceman. Mordo. Wasp even. Venompool with 300% power gain from cornered and starting the fight with a debuff, with no way to gain power without pushing him to sp3 is just make believe imaginary shenanigans. Seriously.
Take it down, issue everyone full rewards for this day 7, and start fixing it. That gives you a week to get it working properly and be thoroughly tested this time. Because it very obviously wasn’t previously.
Add time to the boosts as well. 30 minutes is not enough when some fights take as much as 10 minutes, plus constant connection issues in the map, when starting fights, and after fights.
This is ridiculous

Agree 100%! Today is an absolute disaster. Epic is an epic fail on all accounts. Dormammu with 1000 damage degen per second absolute absurd. Iceman coldsnap, Killmonger power gain on cornered with random buffs you cannot play around it!

Bring champsto fight with that doesnt have debuffs? Sure thing it doesnt matter. Chaos and random debuffs they get bleed and poison anyway go into power gain to SP3 almost immediately and you die. Revive or quit is the choices. This is not fun and challenging its ignorance just stacking buffs to see how fast you cam be knocked out.

Aquama

Enoughs enough. I’ve got a great amount of 5 stars , but to have to narrow down to 4 champs on a fight I can’t even see, to counter a 100 percent health drain on iceman is ridiculous. Noded for extended buff duration at that. I played all week. Spent plenty to get to this point. Used all my buffs. This fights literally impossible without emptying the bank. When kabam continues to do stuff like this, I’m done supporting the game. #kabammedagain

Swank777

Where is the update for android users? Why are y'all trying to blame it on Google? Do you seriously think further penalize android users making us wait a month to collect rewards iOS users were able to get today such b.s. bet if it was iOS user's having this issue you would just give them the rewards for all the trials immediately

BigPoppaCBONE

Kabam, I think your testers need to take a second (first?) look at those boosts. They seem to not do anything other than the mesmerize boost. For sure for sure they weren’t reversing squat.

nelly22

Thanks kabam! Fun and interactive. Unstoppable the whole fight and taking constant L3 chin shots. PS - have a nice day

imShakib

Even after updating right now, I don't see day7. Is this cause of the locking? There should be a compensation for the frustration on the whole thing. Rather than this extra day plan. Pissed off really.

Magrailothos

imShakib wrote: »

Even after updating right now, I don't see day7. Is this cause of the locking? There should be a compensation for the frustration on the whole thing. Rather than this extra day plan. Pissed off really.

Miike's announcement above - Android users will get a bonus attempt in February to 'make up' on an even footing. Hopefully the iOS guys get some kind of package too - Epic sounds appalling!

AdiMukh555

How do you expect the Android users to do it when you can't even provide it to them on time?

Mechanech1

So us android users have to go a full month to play the alchemist event we are missing now. 1 month to claim. Rewards we could be using now if we complete it. Something doesn't seem right here. I believe you need to remove the entire quest and fix everything, then try again next month. iOS is gaining an unfair advantage more and more. This needs to stop.

MaatMan

epic was a disgusting mess.

KP - unstoppable, chaos.... FML
Mephisto - spite, burden of might... so my half my boosts dont work due to soul imprisonment, this guy gains power like a mofo and basically ends up always with an aura and always gaining power.....
Sparky - mesmerize... FML. not much more to say really. urgh...

easiest fight by far was diablo and that includes not even knowing his animations.

BS champs, BS nodes and we cant scout before hand to prepare properly for it

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fcg237

Aquama wrote: »

Enoughs enough. I’ve got a great amount of 5 stars , but to have to narrow down to 4 champs on a fight I can’t even see, to counter a 100 percent health drain on iceman is ridiculous. Noded for extended buff duration at that. I played all week. Spent plenty to get to this point. Used all my buffs. This fights literally impossible without emptying the bank. When kabam continues to do stuff like this, I’m done supporting the game. #kabammedagain

I agree. I had to struggle to pass this node...and i went with a team with 2 6*, 2 5* R5 and one 5* R4, but if those are not sabretooth or Corvus you are dead...and i had suicide masteries and the damage was even bigger...i spend almost 1k of units to pass this node...if i used a 40% revive, the fight wouldnt take more than 10 sec...i was getting around 1,4k of coldsnap per sec....absurd! it took more than a intire life! @Kabam Miike i would like you to take a look at this node too and make the compensations. I played the entire week to get this in the end? spend 1k units to get 800 5* shards, little gold and some 5* stones? come on kabam! i opened a ticket too and appreciate if you could help me there

tkhan08

So many long fights are killing all the fun. Moreover, the boosts, nodes, debuffs, etc. are doing too much. Epic is really hard for many players, even with decent rosters.

One more thing, the timer for boosts should be longer than 30 mins.

xNig

Aquama wrote: »

Enoughs enough. I’ve got a great amount of 5 stars , but to have to narrow down to 4 champs on a fight I can’t even see, to counter a 100 percent health drain on iceman is ridiculous. Noded for extended buff duration at that. I played all week. Spent plenty to get to this point. Used all my buffs. This fights literally impossible without emptying the bank. When kabam continues to do stuff like this, I’m done supporting the game. #kabammedagain

Interesting that you KNEW the possibility of having an Iceman in your path and didn’t bring a cold snap immune or rogue.

xNig

fcg237 wrote: »

Aquama wrote: »

Enoughs enough. I’ve got a great amount of 5 stars , but to have to narrow down to 4 champs on a fight I can’t even see, to counter a 100 percent health drain on iceman is ridiculous. Noded for extended buff duration at that. I played all week. Spent plenty to get to this point. Used all my buffs. This fights literally impossible without emptying the bank. When kabam continues to do stuff like this, I’m done supporting the game. #kabammedagain

I agree. I had to struggle to pass this node...and i went with a team with 2 6*, 2 5* R5 and one 5* R4, but if those are not sabretooth or Corvus you are dead...and i had suicide masteries and the damage was even bigger...i spend almost 1k of units to pass this node...if i used a 40% revive, the fight wouldnt take more than 10 sec...i was getting around 1,4k of coldsnap per sec....absurd! it took more than a intire life! @Kabam Miike i would like you to take a look at this node too and make the compensations. I played the entire week to get this in the end? spend 1k units to get 800 5* shards, little gold and some 5* stones? come on kabam! i opened a ticket too and appreciate if you could help me there

Compensation for your choice to spend 1000 units?

Man.. I need to ask for compensation for my FGMCs as well.

xNig

Mechanech1 wrote: »

So us android users have to go a full month to play the alchemist event we are missing now. 1 month to claim. Rewards we could be using now if we complete it. Something doesn't seem right here. I believe you need to remove the entire quest and fix everything, then try again next month. iOS is gaining an unfair advantage more and more. This needs to stop.

Seriously? 800 + 500 5* shards + a few elementals is an “unfair advantage”?