Battles

KvE battles are a chance for your ketucari to prove their worth against monsters! Keep in mind that your work does not necessarily have to depict your ketucari actively engaged in battle - planning, aftermath, or even simply gazing lazily at the creature you're thinking of hunting would work, so long as both are depicted according to the requirements!

   

Steps

1. After you've learned a couple of skills, you can begin taking part in battles! To initiate a battle, visit a zone page and see which monsters are available for battle. Choose your opponent carefully - each creature does different damage and provides different challenges. Some monsters may prove a challenge if your ketucari has no (or low) Strength, Dexterity, or remaining Armor! While multiple ketucari can be drawn battling, they will each face the creature one vs one. Once you've chosen an opponent, you will have to create a piece that meets the following requirements in order to initiate the battle:

Submissions should meet our minimum submission requirements, found HERE.

 

2.  When you are done with your piece, place this filled out form in the submission comments section for the KvE Battle Prompt.

Import Link:
Pet Bonuses: (please list any pet skills your ketucari has equipped)
Pet Capture Items: (please list any bonus items you're using for pet capture. Must be in your hoard)
Creature You're Battling:
Skill 1/Potion Used:
Skill 2:
Skill 3:
If using a skill that allows for more than three attacks, include your additional moves here should it land:
Skill 4:
Skill 5:
Permission to Revive: Yes/No (If your ketucari reaches 0 or below over the course of the battle, if you marked Yes, the admin will use meat chunks in your inventory to restore your ketucari to health. This means that if at the end of the battle your ketucari is at -100 health, we will use the equivalent of 10 Chunks of Meat from your hoard. If you do not have the appropriate items, your ketucari will be at a negative health and unable to participate in activities! If there is a specific item you would like for us to use instead, you may specify here as well.)

Giving permission to revive will let an admin take the lowest level and necessary amounts of Chunks of Meat in your Hoard and apply it to your ketucari, restoring their armor back into positive numbers and allowing them to continue to participate in activities without having to apply the item yourself. This means that if at the end of the battle your ketucari is at -100 health, we will use the equivalent of 10 Chunks of Meat from your hoard. If you do not have the appropriate items, your ketucari will be at a negative health and unable to participate in activities! If there is a specific item you would like for us to use instead, you may specify here as well.

Upon being rolled, the piece will be linked on your ketucari's Battle Log (on their import), and you'll find out whether they faced Defeat (a loss) or Victory (a win). All items from the battle will be automatically added to your bank account.

 

KvK battles are a chance for your ketucari to fight against other ketucari! To initiate a battle, you can use two of your own ketucari OR find someone who doesn't mind you using their ketucari!

Submissions should meet our minimum submission requirements, found HERE.

When you are done with the piece, place this filled out form for both Ketucaris in the artist's description and submission comments section for the KvK Battle Prompt

Import Link:
Skill 1/Potion Used:
Skill 2:
Skill 3:
If using a skill that allows for more than three attacks, include your additional moves here should it land:
Skill 4:
Skill 5:
Permission to Revive: Yes/No (If your ketucari reaches 0 or below over the course of the battle, if you marked Yes, the admin will use meat chunks in your inventory to restore your ketucari to health. This means that if at the end of the battle your ketucari is at -100 health, we will use the equivalent of 10 Chunks of Meat from your hoard. If you do not have the appropriate items, your ketucari will be at a negative health and unable to participate in activities! If there is a specific item you would like for us to use instead, you may specify here as well.)

Each battle has 3 "turns". Basically, each turn involves an admin rolling to see how much damage your ketucari has done against their opponent and vice versa. For each turn, you will be selecting a skill to use that your ketucari has learned, or a potion to boost your chances. Admins will take in to account any armor or permanent boosters on your ketucari's import page. 

The outcome of the battle is based on which party has done the most damage (your ketucari or their opponent). The exception to this is when your armor is lower than the total amount of damage the enemy deals to you - if, during the course of the battle, the enemy knocks your armor into the negative numbers, you will lose, no matter how much damage you dealt to the enemy. Regardless of the outcome, however much damage the monster has done against your ketucari will be deducted from the overall armor on their import. Winning battles can be quite profitable, as item and gold drop rates from battles are higher than those in Adventuring.

In addition to winning animal products, such as meats, claws, and bones, as well as other miscellaneous crafting items (whose uses you may look up in the Ingredient Codex), you can also win an Offering! Offerings are used in the Hallowed Tarn for resurrections - please see the Hallowed Tarn page for more information!

Strategy

Battles are meant to be simple and straight forward, but you may want to incorporate some strategy into them depending on what skills your ketucari has. It is best to include at least one attack that dose physical damage. If you choose to use status effect skills, however, it is best to use them in the first turn to give your ketucari the best possible chance at winning.

On the zone pages, you can click on the monsters to see what they drop and what damage they do per turn. Be sure to pay attention to damage, especially if you have low armor, as some do more than others. Make sure your ketucari has enough armor remaining to withstand their assault, otherwise you are unlikely withstand the encounter!

 Only battles submitted after January 12, 2019 may count for laurels. 

Laurels are a battle-exclusive currency. They can used to purchase a variety of things from the Laurel Shop and may be redeemed at the Hoard. There is no limit to how many laurels you can earn. Laurels earned from KvE and KvK battles are automatically added to your hoard when the battle images are rolled.

The following actions grant laurels:

KvE Battle resulting in a KO: 0 Laurels
KvE Battle resulting in a loss: 1 Laurel
KvE Low Difficulty Win: 2 Laurels
KvE Med Difficulty Win: 3 Laurels
KvE High Difficulty Win: 4 Laurels


KvK: 3 Laurels for the winner, 2 for the loser

Raid Participation: 10 Laurels

The following battle achievements also grant laurels. Claim them from the Hoard.

Ketucari Achievements (Per Ketucari)

Hobbyist of (Insert Zone)- 6 Laurels
Gain a Victory against one of each beginner-difficulty creature in the zone

Collector of (Insert Zone)- 12 Laurels
Gain a Victory against one of each medium-difficulty creature in the zone

Expert of (Insert Zone)- 18 Laurels
Gain a Victory against one of each harsh-difficulty creature in the zone

The Pits - 3 Laurels
Be defeated by any beginner-difficulty creature 3 times

The Gorges - 5 Laurels
Be defeated by any medium-difficulty creature 3 times

The Canyons - 7 Laurels
Be defeated by any harsh-difficulty creature 3 times

Rend Machine - 3 Laurels
Gain a victory against any creature by only using rend

Stunning - 4 Laurels
Have a stun activated for every turn

Blinding - 3 Laurels
Gain a victory against any creature by only using blind

Slammed - 3 Laurels
Gain a victory against any creature by only using slam

Equipment - 6 Laurels
Gain a victory against any medium-difficulty creature with only basic attacks

Sorcery - 3 Laurels
Gain a victory against any harsh-difficulty creature with only magic attacks

Doomsday - 10 Laurels
Have a ketucari successfully gain a victory an opponent using doom

Ancient Approval - 10 Laurels
Use a lineage skill

Morsel of (Ground Streak, Pinchypollie, Star-Nosed Yeru, Tawny Imp, Feroraptor, Tide Buzzard, Grub, Vazoi, Bauble Griffin, Aconix, Leptin, Quagha, Boil Baby, Chicheep, Kanibar Lythersnitch, Bunnini, Softshell Rippleback) - 5 Laurels
Gain 3 victories against the same critter from this list (Low-Hitting Beginner enemies)

Taste for (Plicilope, Plainstalker, Shirko, Tullewyrm Moth, Uthornie, Troldeeren, Sand Manta, Greater Anta, Short-Horned Leivris, Mutant Mandrake, Pavu, Verdant Theermunk, Keerop, Plumed Hogflier, Giant Pinchiepollie, Seerop) - 10 Laurels
Gain 3 victories against the same critter from this list (Medium-Hitting Beginner enemies)

Peck of (Armatherium, Quald, Dellafin, Anwask, Gorcwehr, Kinrak, Roro, Portabadga) - 15 Laurels
Gain 3 victories against the same critter from this list (Hard-Hitting Beginner)

Hankering for (Atrimott, Naku, Scaled Tapir, Mad Betta, Armored Cermi, Bald Imp, Nymfie, Tangle Lythersnitch) -20 Laurels
Gain 3 victories against the same critter from this list (Low-Hitting Medium enemies)

Nibble of (Moorstalker, Uise, Qarilope, Rock Boar, Gorgot, Bristled Anta, Red Throated Quilldog, Burrowbat, Giant Letonian Set, Swamp Diceros, Mireghast, Sandelve, Dwarf Qirnin, Hoary Warg, Moss Coon, Raktaphage, Spiny Nesha, Davrar, Feathered Raziq, Vanttor, Cephiathus, Sea Leivris, Westsea Luta) -25 Laurels
Gain 3 victories against the same critter from this list (Medium-Hitting Medium enemies)

Hunger for (Striped Tiag, Spadetail, Wallow, Cave Spider, Quillfisher, Dynok, Aharabos, Riptide Dalavash, Cleaver, Ilahaesa Armatherium, Rynack, Orchid Raptor, Greater Squalm) - 30 Laurels
Gain 3 victories against the same critter from this list (Hard-Hitting Medium enemies)

Craving for (Plains Biroru, Maned Qirnin, Golden Eshei, Jade Kisa, Solitary Murkhound, Searstalker, Sylphshriek, Raynen, Artscirict, Howling Wight, Salamander Island Snoot, Revenant, Undarbir, Rasuji, Dyness, Perasyte, Flot) - 40 Laurels
Gain 3 victories against the same critter from this list (Medium-Hitting Harsh enemies)

Chomp of (Gaurus, Shuvi, Crater Hog, Plains Lythersnitch, Thunderhead, Gravidon, Great Nyki, Deepsea Dalavash, Taskish, Lurg, Royal Qirnin, Ghost Eater, Bullchomp, Combustive Sheerstrike, Salamander Hantu, Alseer, Ilahaesa Mountain Glider, Arctic Touskox, Perasyte, Banshee Hantu, Caped Wyvern, Zigzori, Ahriel, Greater Armored Raaksavar, Vipertooth Leviathan) - 45 Laurels
Gain 3 victories against the same critter from this list (Hard-Hitting Harsh enemies)

 

Northern Nemesis - 65 Laurels
Gain a victory against one of each of the following:
Roro, Pavu, Kanibar Lythersnitch, Rynack, Nimfie, Arctic Touskox, Rasuji, Plicilope, Armatherium, Striped Tiag, Moorstalker, Gaurus, Plains Biroru

Snowy Assassin - 65 Laurels
Gain a victory against one of each of the following:
Armatherium, Groundstreak, Uise, Atrimott, Maned Qirnin, Shuvi, Gorcwehr, Greater Anta, Dwarf Qirnin, Hoary Warg, Howling Wight, Combustive Sheerstrike, Kovombe

Lava Lieutenant- 65 Laurels
Gain a victory against one of each of the following:
Uthornie, Vazoi, Quillfisher, Dynock, Lurg, Searstalker, Lantern Betta, Tinder Jeeka, Hogshorne, Agninek, Quilled Hogflier, Forged Elemental, Dyness

Island Fighter - 80 Laurels
Gain a victory against one of each of the following:
Quagha, Salamander Hantu, Snoot, Short-horned Leivris, Bald Imp, Moss Coon, Riptide Dalavash, Chicheep, Kinrak, Ilahaesa Armatherium, Spiny Nesha, Undarbir, Ilahaesa Mountain Glider, Troldeeren, Bauble Griffin, Giant Letonian Set, Aharabos, Sylphshriek, Royal Qirnin, Solavis

Southern Slayer - 65 Laurels
Gain a victory against one of each of the following:
Feroraptor, Gravidon, Plainstalker, Spadetail, Red Throated Quilldog, Great Nyki, Armored Cermi, Sandelve, Raynen, Sand Manta, Leptin, Artscirict

Jungle Judge - 65 Laurels
Gain a victory against one of each of the following:
Bristled Anta, Cliffshriek, Tawny Imp, Scaled Tapir, Jade Kisa, Algae Thrasher, Banshee Hantu, Perasyte, Dusky Imp, Bunnini, Verdant Theermunk, Orchid Raptor, Davrar, Tangle Lythersnitch

Arduous Annihilator -  80 Laurels
Gain a victory against one of each of the following:
Bullchomp, Anwask, Aconix, Mireghast, Swamp Diceros, Ghost Eater, Mad Betta, Tide Buzzard, Wallow, Shirko, Dellafin, Kaishie, Solitary Murkhound, Deepsea Dalavash, Alseer, Revenant, Mutant Mandrake, Boil Baby, Raktaphage, Cleaver

Central Crusader - 80 Laurels
Gain a victory against one of each of the following:
Plicilope, Rock Boar, Star-Nosed Yeru, Gorgot, Thunderhead, Golden Eshei, Pinchypollie, Qarilope, Quald, Naku, Crowned Stalker, Crater Hog, Plains Lythersnitch, Burrowbat, Cave Spider, Grub, Tullewyrm Moth, Taskish, Hyba

Out of the City - 125 Laurels
Be defeated by one of every beginner-difficulty creature

Into the Wilderness - 140 Laurels
Gain a victory against one of every beginner-difficulty creature

Out of the Frying Pan - 150 Laurels
Be defeated by one of every medium-difficulty creature

Into the Fire - 165 Laurels
Gain a victory against one of every medium-difficulty creature

Out of the Fortress - 140 Laurels
Be defeated by one of every harsh-difficulty creature

Into the Dungeon - 190 Laurels
Gain a victory against one of every harsh-difficulty creature

Player Achievements (Per Player and can only be completed once)