Mistress Hrin's Granado Espada Blog

The One About Team Arena

Some good news!

We are still in schedule for V3.2 and should be set to launch this Thursday, 9 April'2009.

Check out a sneak preview of the very awesome poster created by one of our creative team members, MooMoo:

Click here to download high resolution poster

Personally, I think it's one of MooMoo's best masterpieces ever! I immediately used it as my desktop wallpaper. It reminded me of the evolution of Granado Espada - From the first build of V1.8 fan art of the musketeer, to Dilos Latemn - the very first raid boss that I fought... To think I felt so intimidated by Dilos the first time I fought him! Back then, he was the Sekhmet of the game. When I first saw the poster, I got all choked up with emotions, as I reflected my own journey through Granado Espada... (or maybe it's just that time of the month where hormones have gone a-haywire)

I like how the direction of Granado Espada's latest updates is moving towards team-based missions and mini games. The Defense of The Zeia was named as such because of one of the new features, Team Arena which reminded us so much of the oh-so-popular DOTA (Defense Of The Ancients). The beauty of Team Arena is how it pretty much equalizes everyone, regardless of your levels, armors, weapons.

Kudos to Kaioujin who fully explored the system and gave me the brief on this!

Background of Team Arena - It don't matter if you're yellow or blue
There are two teams who will pit against each other in Team Arena - Yellow and Blue. Each team will have to work together to fight into their opposing team’s base and defeat the boss there in order to win the game. Each team can either be a 3v3 or 10v10.

The Map - Know thyself, know thy territory
There are two bases which is located at different ends of the map which are linked together by 3 path lanes that are guarded by towers and bosses. There are 3 levels of defenses for each team. I'm not going to go too much into detail but each of the levels are guarded by bosses and shooting towers.

Arena Coins - Choose how you spend them wisely
Periodically, monsters will spawn from the Gates located in the bases and path towards the opposing base in their respective lanes. These monsters drop Arena Coins when killed so it is the most common way for the players to gather Arena Coins to purchase buffs over at their bases.

The Buffs - Strategies revolve around these
This is the most important feature of Team Arena and the various strategies deployed will likely determine your team's win or loss. I can't wait to see what kind of tactics you guys will come up with!

Arena Coins are the only currency accepted by the merchant NPCs in Team Arena. There are a total of 5 NPCs in each base, which will provide the users with different features.

Consumable Item Volunteer
You will be able to purchase Team Arena Soul Crystal to resurrect your characters when they are killed in battle. Also, Base Return Sheets can also be purchased to allow quick teleportation for your characters back to base.

Team Upgrade NPC
This NPC allows you to increase the attack, defense and health attributes of your base creeps.

Enemy Debuff
This NPC decreases the accuracy, attack power, defense power of all the characters in the opposing team permanently. In addition, this NPC can also apply temporary status effects such as stun, electric shock and ritardi on the opposing team.

Family Attack Buff
This NPC increases the attack rating, attack power, attack speed, accuracy and physical penetration of all characters in your family.

Family Defense Buff
This NPC increases the defense rating, defense power, evasion, block, immunity and movement speed of all characters in your family.

Family Attribute Attack Buff
This NPC increases the magic penetration and additional elemental damage of all characters in your family.

Family Attribute Defense Buff
This NPC increases the elemental resistance of all characters in your family.

We will be posting up the Team Arena article pretty soon on the website, so stay tuned for more updates!