Greetings!
The next round of adjustments for Tournament Grounds will be rolling out to all participating kingdoms during the March 26th, 2026 Tournament Grounds event.
These changes are aimed at addressing your feedback around Strategic Terrain (ST) tent scarcity. As a kingdom ages, the majority of players are targeting the same level nodes on the combat map. This leads to an over-farming of levels 8-10, which can make those levels feel as though they respawn quickly enough, which is at the heart of this feedback.
To help here, we’re going to try condensing those lower keep levels (KLs) into fewer ST brackets. Rather than 10 levels of tents all vying to be spawned, there will now only be 6 levels competing against each other for spots on the combat map.
Additionally, we have some minor tweaks to the keep level brackets at the higher levels, moving Keep Level 34 from the KL 34-39 band down to the KL 30-33.
Here are the new Keep level bracket bands:
Previous:
- ST Lvl 1: KL 1-9
- ST Lvl 2: KL 10-12
- ST Lvl 3: KL 13-15
- ST Lvl 4: KL 16-18
- ST Lvl 5: KL 19-21
- ST Lvl 6: KL 22-25
- ST Lvl 7: KL 26-29
- ST Lvl 8: KL 30-33
- ST Lvl 9: KL 34-39
- ST Lvl 10: KL 40
New:
- ST Lvl 1: KL 1-15
- ST Lvl 2: KL 16-22
- ST Lvl 3: KL 23-29
- ST Lvl 4: KL 30-34
- ST Lvl 5: KL 35-39
- ST Lvl 6: KL 40
Thank you all for your valuable feedback as we work on the best way to address terrain tent scarcity! It is our hope that with these changes that you’ll see more of the festival tents that you’re looking for on the map. While there should still be competition for popular nodes, we hope these changes will make for a better experience overall for everyone.
Be sure to let us know on Discord what you think of these changes. We look forward to hearing your thoughts!