Fame, Rank and Award

[Triplexx]

All credits goes to Apathetic for this!!!

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Ok, I know a lot of people are curious about the HoH (Hall of Heros) and how to increase fame and rank. This guide is here to show you and explain just about everything you need to know about the Hall of Heros / Rank and Fame.

What is the Hall of Heros?

The HoH is a battle (which is fought every 10 minutes). It can be accessed through the Tomb of Premeival Kings which is a place you get to from either a PvP character or going through a warp in Dragons Lair. What people do here is create a group (8 players) and enter the mission in order to go to HoH and gain favor. It's not easy, you will have to go through battles leading up to the Hall and in the process fighting good teams along the way, such as ranked guild teams, etc. Before gaining entrance to the Hall of Heros you must fight on 8 different maps:

1 The Underworld
2 Burial Mounds
3 Broken Tower
4 Scarred Earth
5 Unholy Temples
6 Dark Chambers
7 The Courtyard
8 Sacred Temples.

Maps 1, 2, and 6 are all one-versus-one battles. You will be randomly picked with a team to take down to advance.

Maps 3 and 7 are altar maps, which is a map where you hold an altar for 10 minutes or take the altar and cap it while the other team(s) try to take your hero down and cap before the time runs out. Map 3 is a one-vs-one so it is a common strat that you cap and fight the team. On the other hand, map 7 is a 3-way free-for-all. If you have the altar at one point, both teams will attack at the same time. While (if your team has capped) tries to prevent other heros from capping (assuming your hero died) or just heal your hero and keep him on the altar.

Maps 8 and 5 are Relic runs. These are one-versus-one where you run a relic back and forth (like capture the flag if you will). The goal is to get 3 more relics before your opponent caps one or cap the last relic.

Map 4 is a four-way standoff, where 2 teams fight at a time (blue vs red) (yellow vs green) and the winners fight to advance.

Sometimes it will not always be in this order. You may skip, from Map 1 to Map 8 which saves you a lot of time fighting but you do not gain as much fame (for example). Sometimes, if you win at the right time, you can skip to the Hall of Heros.

Hall of Heros

The Halls is an altar map and the objective is to cap the altar and keep possesion on it when the time runs out. HoH matches last 10 minutes long and start again after every win. The previous team will start the game already holding the altar. The message you see "Apathetic's Team has won the Hall of Heros, and keeps the favor of the gods for America" is an indication that a match has just ended and will begin in about a minute. This passing time is for the players who have just won to pick up their goodies they recieve from a nice little chest in the HoH, only accesseble to the winning team.

Rewards!

Yes, you get prizes for winning the HoH. The Chest drops (always) 3 Celestial Sigils and 1 Gold item. The rewards go to random players on the team (not necessarily the leader). Sometimes that one gold item that drops is better than the Sigil. For example, I've gotten a Gold Unid Stormbow from the chest, but the item varies. Gold Unid Armor or maybe a Gold Unid Axe or Sword. It all depends. Four people on the team will walk away without a prize, well that's life, but you are still in the HoH and if you hold it one more time, you have another chance of getting yourself a Sigil. No one person can get 2 Sigils or 1 Sigil and the Gold item. It goes to 4 different people on the team, BUT one person can get a Sigil for every win for 5 times, and you may not even get one. It's all luck.

Fame

Ok, just to claify some things about fame. Fame is gained from winning maps on the way to Hall of Heros. The value increases with every win. Let me demonstrate:

By winning the first map, you gain 1 fame. You go to Burial Mounds and win again you gain 2 fame. With both of these wins = 3 fame. If you do a nice run and win 7 of the 8 maps you will surely gain nice fame, but will take you a while. For some who skip to the Hall of Heros and win, they can only gain what they would if they were starting from the first map. For every consecutive win, you gain more fame. Heres the chart:

Here's how ranks work (provided by Sama):

The first win gives you 1 fame point. The next consecutive win gives you 2. Then:

3
4
6
8
12
16
20
24
28
32
36
40
(This is, of course, for consecutive wins meaning if you lose after the fourth map and re-enter you will start over in getting fame at 1 for the win, etc).

For more fame comes rank and with particular ranks (3,6,9) you gain rewards or emotes which you can set off by typing (/rank or /fame). Here is a list of the amount of fame you need for each rank.

Rank 1 - 25 fame
Rank 2 - 85 fame
Rank 3 - 180 fame (Deer emote)
Rank 4 - 360 fame
Rank 5 - 600 fame
Rank 6 - 1000 fame (Wolf emote)
Rank 7 - 1680 fame
Rank 8 - 2800 fame
Rank 9 - 4665 fame (Tiger emote)
Rank 10 - 7665
Rank 11 - 12960
Rank 12 - 20000 (Phoenix emote)

There is no such thing as a Dragon emote. When Gaile Gray was in LA dist 1 after the weekend a couple of guildies got in questions about the next ranks, it is said that there is no definitive emote for the ranks yet but will be soon (people are getting closer). But for the time being no one is rank 12 yet.

*EDIT* There is in fact an emote for rank 12 with the current update, which is reported to be a Pheonix by LuLu.

Just want to verify that you cannot gain fame through GvG or Competition arenas.