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Sphere 3 has a new event!

Mysterious keys hidden in magic stones are hidden throughout the world. It is not difficult to find such, you just need to fight monsters or complete daily tasks that can be obtained at the entrances to the dungeons.

When retrieving the magic keys, you can get equipment improvement items, experience potions, resurrection scrolls and much more. And if you collect the Great Magic Stone, you can get the unique title "Master of Keys", as well as an effect that increases maximum health, experience and protection!

As long as the Premium Account is active, the chance to drop magic stones is doubled.

Killing a representative of the opposite faction allows you to take half of the small magic stones that he had with him.

Good luck with your adventure!

What is a battle season?

The battle season is a number of challenges that can be completed to earn progress points. Accumulating progress points will give you sets of useful or even unique rewards. For example, completing the first battle season will grant you a unique mount - and participating in it will earn you new magnificent titles, useful consumables, special elixirs, illusions and more.

I’m in game! Where do I sign up?

Each of your characters will see an invitation window when you enter the game for the first time after the season starts. Click the “Begin season” button to join. Afterwards you will be able to access the season window by clicking the icon next to the mini-map.

What should I be doing?

Open the season window to see the list of tasks. Some of these challenges can be completed daily and some are available only once per season. The one-time challenges are arranged as quest chains (complete the current task to unlock the next one), but all challenge groups are available to you from the very beginning.

I want more rewards and challenges!

We hear you! You can buy a premium pass to access more challenges and receive additional rewards for the progress points you accumulate. Aside from that, the premium pass increases the amount of battle experience (i. e. progress points) that you earn. A premium pass needs only to be purchased once per season and is valid for all characters on your account.

Can I receive my rewards right away?

Yes! If you are bored with challenges, you can speed up your progress and immediately access rewards by purchasing levels (a set number of progress points) directly.

How long does this season last? What if I complete it faster?

The battle season lasts two months and contains 50 progress levels, but the swiftest players can access 50 more! Once you complete the main challenges you will receive a box every 5 levels and a chest every 4 levels on top of that assuming you purchased a premium pass. You can obtain differerent useful things from them.

Get all the gifts!

Good luck!

You may interact with cauldrons to perform special alchemical reactions by using runic and crafting resources as well as secondary reagents. The result of the reaction is completely unpredictable — you may receive a random item from the list or fail, losing the resources entirely.

You can see the possible outcomes in the cauldron interface window by clicking the reaction formula. Different cauldrons may give you:

• existing potions of all types
  
• various decoration
  
• essences of quality
  
• weapon and armor upgrade scrolls
  
• crafting recipes (including rare ones)
  
• pet food
  
• different kinds of scrolls, including banker summoning, skill reset, nickname change, etc.
  
• reinforcement and protection crystals, runic crystals, selectors
  
• new unique shoulder decorations
  

To perform a reaction you are going to need the following:

1. 5 different components between 1 and 10 of each (depending on formula). It may be crafting resources (primary resources acquired in the open world - pants, trees, ore, minerals), runic pieces or both.
   
2. Formula itself (formulas are selected from the list).
   
3. “Alchemical spices" (optional) - every reaction needs some. It is a special consumable that increases the chance of creating rare and valuable items and completely prevents failure. These spices can be purchased in the store or purchased using coins of the Free Marches. Eventually there will be more ways to get some.
   
4. Gold.
   

Each player has 15 alchemical attems per day (the owners of a premium account get 45). You may use an "alchemical enhancer” if you need more attempts (this item is sold in the game store or purchased using coins of the Free Marches).

Every cauldron comes with its own set of unique formulas. The most valuable formulas are found in castle cauldrons. The higher the castle level, the more precious the cauldron formulas are. Only the castle owners can take advantage of its cauldron. The cauldron access is also limited by the level of the location or the castle itself (for example, a level 10 character won’t be able to use a level 20 cauldron).

The time for alchemical research is now! Good luck!

Come one, come all! The bravest, wisest and noblest champions of the Sphere are invited to participate in the first battle season!



What is a battle season?

The battle season is a number of challenges that can be completed to earn progress points. Accumulating progress points will give you sets of useful or even unique rewards. For example, completing the first battle season will grant you a unique mount - and participating in it will earn you new magnificent titles, useful consumables, special elixirs, illusions and more.

I’m in game! Where do I sign up?

Each of your characters will see an invitation window when you enter the game for the first time after the season starts. Click the “Begin season” button to join. Afterwards you will be able to access the season window by clicking the icon next to the mini-map.

What should I be doing?

Open the season window to see the list of tasks. Some of these challenges can be completed daily and some are available only once per season. The one-time challenges are arranged as quest chains (complete the current task to unlock the next one), but all challenge groups are available to you from the very beginning.

I want more rewards and challenges!

We hear you! You can buy a premium pass to access more challenges and receive additional rewards for the progress points you accumulate. Aside from that, the premium pass increases the amount of battle experience (i. e. progress points) that you earn. A premium pass needs only to be purchased once per season and is valid for all characters on your account.

Can I receive my rewards right away?

Yes! If you are bored with challenges, you can speed up your progress and immediately access rewards by purchasing levels (a set number of progress points) directly.

How long does this season last? What if I complete it faster?

The battle season lasts two months and contains 40 progress levels, but the swiftest players can access 40 more! Once you complete the main challenges you will receive a box every 5 levels and a chest every 4 levels on top of that assuming you purchased a premium pass. You can obtain differerent useful things from them.

Get all the gifts!

Good luck!

What do PvP and PvE server players have in common? They both love Sphere! And what is the main difference between the two? Their willingness to participate in ruthless combat! We spent a long time looking for solutions that would please both battle enthusiasts and those who seek to gather resources in peace! The boundaries of the worlds have become blurred, and from now on both PvP and PvE players will be able to play together just the way they like it! Introducing new PvP rules! 

[h2]New rules[/h2]

We changed the rules and did our best to preserve the most interesting features available on both PvP and PvE servers. 
Peaceful zone - players cannot enable PvP mode and cannot be attacked.
Faction zone - players can enable PvP mode to attack members of their own faction who also enabled PvP mode. Members of the enemy faction in your territory are always subject to being attacked and cannot disable PvP mode, so their consent is not necessary. You will not be able to receive damage or useful buffs from players in PvP mode unless you also enable it.
Neutral zone - this is a territory where all players can toggle PvP mode as they wish. Important: you will remain vulnerable for 3 minutes after you choose to disable PvP mode. Participating in combat with other players will freeze the countdown, not allowing you to leave PvP mode.
PvP zone - this is a territory near a castle or an altar. Players can attack any other players regardless of their PvP settings.

[h2]New bonuses[/h2]

From now on staying in PvP mode will always bring 10% extra gold and experience, allow you to deal 10% extra damage and grant you 10% extra item drop chance.
Losing to other players in PvP combat no longer makes you lose accumulated experience.

[h2]Reputation[/h2]

We replaced negative karma with a system of positive and negative reputation. Your reputation can change anywhere in the world with the exception of PvP zones. Your reputation goes down each time you kill a member of your own faction and and improves every time you kill a member of the enemy faction.
You will receive a buff after reaching certain thresholds of positive and negative reputation. Your reputation decays over time, so not engaging in PvP for may days may lead to your buff diminishing or disappearing completely. 

[h2]New quests[/h2]

We introduced new PvP quests into the game. Begin by arriving to the northern entrance to Cinderkrag if you are fighting for the human kingdom or the base of the hill where Hellsong Tavern stands if you report to the commanders of Vagrot's host.
You will meet an officer who'll give you quests that can only be completed in the enemy territory and a portal stone that will take you to the required location.
According to the new rules, enemy faction territory is considered a PvP zone. PvP mode will be automatically enabled and remain active until you leave the quest zone.
Completing PvP quests will give you extra gold and experience as well honor points that can be spent on buying equipment and various consumables. You may also encounter an enemy faction world boss: defeating it grants both valuable equipment and extra honor.
We plan to increase the number of such quest locations and faction world bosses in the nearest future.

[h2]PvP-items[/h2]

In-game vendors now sell “rewards” and “treasures” - special boxes that contain random pieces of rare and epic equipment. From now on all PvP equipment can have affixes and differs in quality, and some of the epic item slots will be colorles.
We intend to add more interesting items for PvP players and will increase number of items that can be purchased with honor and dishonor points.

[h2]Server merge[/h2]

We merged our servers today. From now on your adventures will be more exciting, and sieges and battles become even more intense! The players of Anhelm and Almaert servers are now playing in the same shared world, which means everybody gets a chance to make new friends and enemies!

Let's move on to the most important question —  which PvP rules will active on the new server? They were different on Anhelm and Almaert, after all. From now on all Sphere 3 servers are subject to the new base PvP-PvE rule set. You can only be attacked if you enable PvP mode. But there's a catch: you get extra bonuses for playing in PvP mode, including a very special buff that will help you in battle. You can read more about the new rule set here. 

Here is what you need to know.
• In case you had characters on both servers, all items in your account bank on Almaert were moved to the magic chest. If you had characters only on one server, the contents of your bank will remain unchanged on the new server. 
• All items for sale in the auction house on the moment of the merge were returned to sellers. 
• After the merge only the characters you had on Anhelm will be available. To bring back the characters you had on Almaert, please delete the unwanted characters from Anhelm and restore the characters from Almaert using a special tool. Character recovery will be available for one month to all players including non-members of GameXP Club.
• In case of name conflict the original name remains with the character from Anhelm and the name of the character from Almaert gets the additional _003 suffix (if the name is shorter than 12 symbols. If the name is longer, it will be changed completely). Your character can be renamed at any time with the rename scroll we put in the magic chest.
• In case of clan name conflict the original name remains with the clan from Anhelm and the name of the clain from Almaert gets the additional _003 suffix (if the name is shorter than 12 symbols. If the name is longer, it will be changed completely). If you are not satisfied with the name of your clan after the merge, the clan leader can contact technical support and provide 5 desirable clan name versions. Your clan will be renamed during the next server maintenance.  
• Only Anhelm clans will retain castle ownership. All castle equipment belonging to Almaert players has been recalled. We don't want you to be upset because of this, so clan leaders who previously controlled castles on Almaert will receive gifts for their clans as compensation. 
If you find a bug or encounter a problem, please report it in the comments or contact technical support.
 
We wish you new breathtaking victories on the newly merged server!