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

BirdReynolds

@DrZola mine too. I mean, what’s the point of arc overload when you get heal block from gamblers fate two fights in a row?

Also what’s the point of arc overload when it triggers spite every time against iceman? @Kabam Miike inquiring minds want to know!

V1PER1987

BirdReynolds wrote: »

@DrZola mine too. I mean, what’s the point of arc overload when you get heal block from gamblers fate two fights in a row?

I would gladly take heal block as opposed to the poison/bleed/degen I keep getting every fight.

Markjv81

I can't even activate my essence today!

DrZola

BirdReynolds wrote: »

@DrZola mine too. I mean, what’s the point of arc overload when you get heal block from gamblers fate two fights in a row?

Also what’s the point of arc overload when it triggers spite every time against iceman? @Kabam Miike inquiring minds want to know!

Luckily I had a lot of heal block and poison too. Zero temptation to try to revive and make another go. And that Hypo who kept power flooding and going straight to Sp3 on both my GR and Voodoo was a nice touch.

If this is a preview of Act 6, go ahead and head back to the drawing board.

Dr. Zola

arsjum

DrZola wrote: »

BirdReynolds wrote: »

@DrZola mine too. I mean, what’s the point of arc overload when you get heal block from gamblers fate two fights in a row?

Also what’s the point of arc overload when it triggers spite every time against iceman? @Kabam Miike inquiring minds want to know!

Luckily I had a lot of heal block and poison too. Zero temptation to try to revive and make another go. And that Hypo who kept power flooding and going straight to Sp3 on both my GR and Voodoo was a nice touch.

If this is a preview of Act 6, go ahead and head back to the drawing board.

Dr. Zola

I’m pretty sure Act 6, especially later chapters, will be harder than this.

DNA3000

So having gone through a couple of cycles, here's my feedback on this event so far.

I'm not specifically complaining about the difficulty although that seems higher than it should be especially on epic. And I'm not specifically complaining about the random champs themselves. But I will say that when I compare this event to the previous version of this style of event something does jump out at me. In the previous iteration the boosts we earned during the week for fighting the content seemed to have a dramatic impact on the difficulty of the final map. I could easily perceive how they were helping me to complete that map much more easily than if I didn't have them. I considered those boosts a kind of reward for running through the earlier days. And I understand you could have gotten them for running easier versions of the previous days: I acknowledge my perception might not have been design-intended.

But with this version, not only is everything harder but it feels like the boosts are having less of a significant impact. It is *not* like I don't notice them. Rather it feels to me like whether I win or lose, whether the map is easy or difficult, has far more to do with luck of the draw on which champions show up on which nodes. The map configuration "swamps" the benefit of the boosts, and that makes their reward value seem much more pointless than in the previous iteration.

Basically, the way I perceived the old version is you fight the hard maps in days one through six and your reward is an easier day seven. The current version is one where I perceive you fight the hard maps in days one through six and your reward is on day seven you might get a hard map or you might get a ridiculously hard map but at least you'll be wearing a pretty hat while you get punched in the face. That makes the event far less enjoyable, regardless of difficulty.

I did not complain about the difficulty of the Maze: I understand that sometimes you have to release super hard content to challenge the highest tier players but you can only offer token rewards for that super high difficulty. But this content doesn't seem to be that: the six + one days and earning boosts design seems to run counter to that. It feels more "progressional" where doing the early stuff should feel like it is helping with the later stuff. But ignoring the quantitative value of the boosts, they simply don't feel like that at all. And that seems to be a complete design miss to me.

DrZola

@DNA3000 I especially like this line:

“at least you’ll be wearing a pretty hat while you get punched in the face.”

Only thing I would add is that under no circumstances should the boosts be punitive on Day 7. In many instances, they are.

Dr. Zola

DNA3000

DrZola wrote: »

@DNA3000 I especially like this line:

“at least you’ll be wearing a pretty hat while you get punched in the face.”

Only thing I would add is that under no circumstances should the boosts be punitive on Day 7. In many instances, they are.

Dr. Zola

Certainly, no content should have bugs or odd behavior that clearly appears to have subverted the intent of the design. That goes without saying. I was offering an observation beyond what others have already specifically pointed out as problems with the content. It shouldn't supercede other people's observations of problematic elements of the content.

RiderofHell

Fun and interactive they said smh

OmegaMan

Everything has unstoppable now, game is fillled with it in every quest. The timer resets in the middle, unstoppable triggers at any time, in the middle of specials, etc. Wth? Seriously its to the point of frustration that you just want to walk away and never play again. Its supposed to be a fun game that is challenging but that has gone away. Its ludicrous that you can lose an entire team in two ffights and never get hit. Great content guys

winterthur

DrZola wrote: »

Only thing I would add is that under no circumstances should the boosts be punitive on Day 7. In many instances, they are.
Dr. Zola

I am wondering if day 7 quest is not to be completed at one sitting.
We can't spectate the opponent champs.
Though the boosts gathered is helpful, it can be detrimental depending on nodes.
So, should it be played over a few hours (check first opponent, check nodes, apply one boost. Finish fight, let boost cooldown (run out), start second fight, check nodes, apply boost if necessary) ?

I am on Android, so have two of each.

iknull

hello!
i started playing trials of alchemist as soon as server was back up after the maintenance, and after a while it stopped working and and now i am getting a notification that "contest is down due to maintenance"... will i get a boosts refund?

TwistedEnigma17

I got the spite node in epic on juggernaut. This wouldn’t be a problem if the boosts that are supposed to help didn’t make him gain a bar of power every 5 seconds. He ate through 5 lv2 revives before I got him down with Quake. Seems like there was terrible planning all around for this event.

Kushstar420

please take out brawl on the next version of trials please and close the gap from master to epic. these trials are great but the jump from master to epic does not match at all

HULK_BREAK

I would say that there is too much difference in the levels, considering that I can do heroic level with one 4s r4 without any boosts and I can't do the master level with the 5s r4 and all the boosts :'(

Magrailothos

I had an issue with the boosts not functioning as they were supposed to. The Essence of Darkness is supposed to reverse all healing; but in my fight against Sparky who gained endless passive aggression:regeneration, it functioned intermittently - at times he lost health, at other times he recovered it. This made the boost fairly useless; even counterproductive.

I was using CAIW; initially at 100% health, in Master.

Has anyone else seen this?

MrOnizuka

I’m cool with anything EXCEPT that freaking **** BRAWL node! Can you guys imagine a JUGGY or kingpin or AV on this node?

V1PER1987

Magrailothos wrote: »

I had an issue with the boosts not functioning as they were supposed to. The Essence of Darkness is supposed to reverse all healing; but in my fight against Sparky who gained endless passive aggression:regeneration, it functioned intermittently - at times he lost health, at other times he recovered it. This made the boost fairly useless; even counterproductive.

I was using CAIW; initially at 100% health, in Master.

Has anyone else seen this?

The buff is similar to spectre where there’s a timer and cooldown period. It reverses healing for like 10 seconds then goes on cooldown for 10 seconds. Something similar to that. So it won’t constantly reverse regen.

Magrailothos

V1PER1987 wrote: »

Magrailothos wrote: »

I had an issue with the boosts not functioning as they were supposed to. The Essence of Darkness is supposed to reverse all healing; but in my fight against Sparky who gained endless passive aggression:regeneration, it functioned intermittently - at times he lost health, at other times he recovered it. This made the boost fairly useless; even counterproductive.

I was using CAIW; initially at 100% health, in Master.

Has anyone else seen this?

The buff is similar to spectre where there’s a timer and cooldown period. It reverses healing for like 10 seconds then goes on cooldown for 10 seconds. Something similar to that. So it won’t constantly reverse regen.

That's definitely an explanation; albeit not one I expected!

So, probably working as intended; if not as described? Sounds about right.

Evangelionlovr

@Kabam Miike @Kabam Zibiit @Kabam Wolf Are any of you going to address this feedback? I mean seriously you have several players here with 5/65s who have completed all other difficult content and they are getting wrecked by these challenges, don't you think that's a little absurd? I mean for a daily challenge that's supposed to be a quick and fun challenge for some small rewards?

Any type of answer would be appreciated, as of right now your silence just shows poor customer service and a huge amount of apathy.

Evangelionlovr

TwistedEnigma17 wrote: »

I got the spite node in epic on juggernaut. This wouldn’t be a problem if the boosts that are supposed to help didn’t make him gain a bar of power every 5 seconds. He ate through 5 lv2 revives before I got him down with Quake. Seems like there was terrible planning all around for this event.

I also got Jugg on Epic for Day 7. The fight consisted of my 5/65 sparky or domino constantly evading specials and unstoppable attacks until he backed me into a corner and either spammed SP1 over and over and over or if I happened to get a window to attack in, he got to sp2/3 within a few seconds.

BirdReynolds

@Evangelionlovr probably pretty safe to say they won’t respond. They know it was a mess, and wasn’t even close to properly tested. They’ve shown in the past when they know they messed up it takes a mountain of pressure to get them to cop to it openly. Hopefully the best resolution to this is seen in the next iteration of trials. Maybe if we’re lucky they’ll scale down the coldsnap and degen, but I won’t hold my breath, and I definitely don’t think they’ll adjust how the “boosts” interact with the nodes.

Markjv81

Gotta love procing degen and heal block on today's trials, of the 120+ champs in the game maybe 6-8 can survive that and of those 6-8 in some cases you'll still rely on RNG.

Horrible design, never thought I would actually be thankful for half life penalty on a force quit.

Aquama

https://youtu.be/u-mHGnx2DG8

Seatin makes the point so so well. I mean seriously kabam. At least acknowledging the reality of this brokenness would add a little integrity to morale here. @Kabam Miike
@Kabam Lyra

Magrailothos

So, leaving aside Epic (which I'm not even attempting, having seen the screenshots posted), can I make a request/suggestion for whatever future iteration of Trials/Danger Rooms etc that we see?

People need time to play. As a rule, most of us have more time at the weekend; whether we're teen-agers, young adults or married with kids.

So if you're going to provide us with a set of bonus quests where we can run five different, potentially challenging events on the seventh day, can we not make that day Sunday? Instead of Tuesday? Particularly since Sunday is the day we're likely to spend less time grinding the arenas.

xNig

Epic is another level higher than Masters.

In the last iteration of Trials, there was only Masters and with the boosts earned, Masters Day 7 was a cakewalk.

It is exactly the same as the current iteration, only difference being another added difficulty added on top of Masters, with slightly better rewards.

If we were to ignore Epic and solely do Masters, Trials will STILL be as enjoyable as it’s previous incarnations that we remember.

The main reason why people are complaining is due to Epic being difficult beyond their level and because of the meager increase in rewards as compared to Masters, it doesn’t warrant item usage.

So everyone, just chill abit and if you find Epic ridiculous, just do Masters. No one is going to judge you.

DNA3000

xNig wrote: »

If we were to ignore Epic and solely do Masters, Trials will STILL be as enjoyable as it’s previous incarnations that we remember.

That's not true in my case. At least, when I compare the current expert with the previous one on my secondary account which actually has progressed only a moderate amount, it still seems significantly harder and significantly less enjoyable (which for me are two separate things). If I were to do expert with my main account I would in fact stomp all over it but that has everything to do with my main account being several times stronger today than before, and is irrespective of the difficulty or design of expert.

Epic seems to suffer from the fact that some combinations of champ and node buffs are just plain ridiculous. Something to keep in mind is that Ice Phoenix was adjusted downward with an emergency patch because the complaint was that her cold snap could obliterate any champion below an extremely high health 4/55, which at the time few players have. The Iceman Seatin faced in the recording above is doing, on a relative basis, *more* damage than an Uncollected Ice Phoenix was determined to be broken when doing.

I'm not saying that is proof that encounter is broken. There's no law that says Epic trial must have identical difficulty to Uncollected map boss. But it is a significant data point.

So far I have yet to fail any of the Epic maps. But it is costing me way more potions to complete them, and it feels like my losses are not due to being unable to do some thing I ought to be able to do. It seems like I'm being killed by combinations that five years from now I still won't be able to skill my way around unless I'm stomping them with rank 5 8* champs.

Shamanriver77

Well just attempted expert difficulty with all the power ups active and it was a clown fiesta. Sorry but that was too hard and and degen was ridiculous tbh

Shamanriver77

BigPoppaCBONE wrote: »

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.

.completely agree with this. See post above . The boosts are doing absolutely squat

Evangelionlovr

I agree the issue is with the combination of nodes and champs leading to reliance on RNG to decide your fate. How is that fun or interactive? You can’t even plan ahead for day 7 because the combination of champs that are possible create over a thousand different possibilities and I’m only allowed to have 5 champs to counter all that?

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