Dutchy

sure, absolutely nothing wrong with a Beginner WORKSHOP, will help Me taking a break from earning My place in PVP

Mentoring from The Volin himself. This could be a once in a lifetime experience guys, make sure you sign up! 

Do you run away from Lost Souls and the Creepers give you the creeps? We can show you how you can go vigilante on the Vigils and banish those Bandits! Join us for the first ever RPVE Discord Workshop to learn how to Battleground better.
 

 
When & Where
• Sunday 27th February 2022 at 1pm CET
• Voice channel Room 1 on the main Skylords Reborn Server
 
What the sessions involve
• Tutorial about deck building, spawn mechanics, power management and gameplay
• Break out groups with helper mentors to help with making modifications to your deck/s to optimize it
• Applying the knowledge with your new deck on the battleground with one of the mentors
• Feedback from both participants and mentors
• Question time
 
What to bring
• 1 or 2 battleground decks that you currently play with
• Any questions regarding battlegrounds
• An open mind
 
Basic Rules
• Must have access to Discord and a headset as the sessions are conducted in Discord live
• Must have a booking to participate
• Arrive on time
• Be respectful to our mentors and other participants 
 
How to Join
Book yourself in via https://discord.gg/XHpFSQDz 
 
Who?
Our workshop mentor and facilitator is Volin is from Germany and 39 years old. He played BF casually back during the EA Games era and started from scratch again with Skylords Reborn. He quickly developed an interest in Battlegrounds and consistently achieves top 10 finishes in the monthly leader boards cementing his title as a game Veteran. Volin plays decks of all colors but has a soft spot for pure Fire and Bandit colors. Volin is passionate about teaching and passing on his knowledge to a new generation of players.

Hey everyone, I was looking for a place where I can find multiple RPvE decks for inspiration for new decks, but I did not find it. The first thing that came to mind was to just create a place ^^
Below you can find a couple of my favorite RPvE decks that can do (at least) difficulty 9. 
 








I would love to see your own favorite or unique decks as well!
 

Greetings Skylords!
Every three weeks, we give an update on the things going on behind the scenes of Skylords Reborn. Welcome to another Community Update!



• Teaser rPvE Nature

As decided (quite overwhelmingly) by vote, Nature will follow up Fire and be the next faction to become available as a new rPvE enemy.
We are still in the early stages of both design and balance, so it will still take quite a while before you can fight your way through a new challenge, but we wanted to give you a little teaser of what to expect. 


• Expectation management

For these community updates, we always carefully decide what to share with the public already. We aim to strike the right balance between giving an insight into what we are working on while not giving false expectations about their expected release. When deciding on what to share, our rule of thumb is that it should be something that is definitely happening, even if it might still take quite a while.
For example, Wasteland Terror and PvP Happy Hours are still happening, although in hindsight we probably revealed them too soon. Another example would be the Tower Deepdive from the last community update. This has lead to multiple questions expecting these changes to hit the server soon, even though we are still in early iterations. In this case, the reason we shared the Deepdive already was to let the community join into the discussion and provide feedback about our intended changes.
In other cases, we are sometimes just excited about what we are working on and want to share them with you already! We hope you are patient while we work on our next patch, even if it will probably not include Nature rPvE already. Rest assured that we are hard at work on other exciting things though! 
 
• New artwork reveal

On the day of our previous community update, SpiritAlpha has joined the team as a 2D artist. Since then, he has been hard at work and we can already show you two pieces of his artwork. The first is our new art for the Banzai Birds, spawned from our new card Banzai Lord. Since the card is quite popular, we felt the birds deserved a proper artwork, instead of a recolor of the old artwork. 
                   
The second artwork is an icon for Stronghold's new ability "Bombardment", as mentioned in our Tower Deepdive. Bombardment will become an active ability with a power cost and a long cooldown. It deals area of effect damage with knockback and has a long range to enable Stronghold to counter siege units on its own.
Icons will be quite small in the game, but we still like the details that went into this one. We plan to add more icons to other missing abilities, like Thug's and Lost Shade's Unity buff, so look forward to those!
 
• New tools for new players

Skylords Reborn is an awesome game, but it can be quite hard to get the grasp of it when you are starting out. Various community members have been trying to help newer players get started or improve, including a recently started tutoring program.
• NEW - Volin's Random Rushhour
Every Thursday, Volin hosts a new stream series focused on helping players improve in rPvE. Every week covers different topics, and of course players are encouraged to ask questions and interact. Follow Volin on Twitch, or keep an eye on the stream-channel on our Discord to be notified when the stream starts. 

• NEW - Workshops
The recently started community project REBORN hosts special workshops for new players looking for guidance. In these workshops, you get supported by a mentor guiding you through various topics like deck building, spawn mechanics, power management and of course gameplay. You will get helpful feedback from participants and mentors and get advice on your deck and applying the knowledge on the battleground with one of the mentors. The workshops are not a lecture and one-sided, you are highly encouraged to openly engage in discussions with the mentors. The workshops take place every Sunday, if you are interested, be sure to sign-up. 


• PvP - Toggy's Fightclub
Every Wednesday, Toggy hosts a PvP Fightclub, where players can train and get commentary on their matches. Whether you are a veteran PvP player wanting to put on a show or a new player in need of some helpful feedback, Fightclub is where you want to be. Starting around 18:30 CET every Wednesday, you can watch the Fightclub live on Twitch, while joining the games in the sparring lobby. You are encouraged to spectate and join the fun! Follow Toggy on Twitch, or keep an eye on the stream-channel on our Discord to be notified when Fightclub starts. 

Need more help on PvP? Be sure to check out the Tutor and Apprentice Discord, and the PvP guide written by two of the best PvP players; RadicalX and Hirooo. 

• Patreon update

Skylords Reborn is being worked on by a team of volunteers. The game is free to play, and we do not make any profit of it. We have been able to pay for our server through the donation of generous Patrons, and our current savings are high enough to support server upkeep costs for years to come. Since we are currently not allowed to spend money on other areas (like marketing), we decided to put the Patreon donations on pause. Should this situation change, we will open it up again.
Thank you so much for supporting Skylords Reborn over the years!
 
• Skylords Reborn Wallpapers

Now that the Patreon is not available anymore, we have decided to release our previously Patreon exclusive wallpapers to the public. Our former artist ArtRhino has created 38 great wallpapers with a new take on various units, spells, buildings and area's in the game. You might have seen some of them already during our stream or as banners for the Community Update. Now you can look at them in all of their glory and tell that coworker glancing at your screen about our great game! 
You can find all the wallpapers here.

 
• Tournaments / Events

• NEW - Community Map Challenge #4: “Lyr’s Distress Call” - UNTIL 21st February 2022
Dallarian has hosted another winter themed event! The event will be run on a brand new one-player community map, “Aeglos Fortress”. Complete the map with a few restrictions and win some prizes! Be sure to check it out, since there are also prizes for the less experienced players. 

• FINISHED - Official 2p rPvE Contest#2: The Bandit Alliance
We were looking for the fastest time with only one rule: each player could only spawn one single unit with ground presence through the whole run!
You can rewatch the stream and find out the winners on our official twitch channel. 
 
• SOON™ - PvP League
Some exciting news for our PvP players. Toggy is hard at work on creating a PvP league, where players can compete against opponents from the same skill level over the duration of multiple weeks. More info in the coming weeks! 

• Host your own event / tournament
Want to host a tournament or event? Please reach out to our Event Organizers Hiko and/or Metagross to have your event prizes sponsored by us. If you have a cool idea for a PvE event, or want to host a PvP tournament, please don't hesitate to reach out to us, we will gladly assist you. 
 
• Team changes

Our team has seen quite a few changes in the past weeks. 
Pascal has left the team as our Lead Moderator. Dutchy will take over his role and is our new Lead Moderator. 
Our Global Moderators DragonOfTime and Lontzek have also left the moderation team. To fill in these spots, Dallarian and Naturee are our new Global Moderators. 
We would like to thank each of them for their contributions. Moderation has always been a very important part of the Skylords Reborn project, and we wouldn't have the community we have now without their help! 
As mentioned above, SpiritAlpha has joined the team as 2D-artist, working alongside Tweeto to add new artwork into the game. 
Lastly, Killbuster has joined the PvP taskforce. He helped us greatly with the testing process while providing very constructive feedback and suggestions.
 

• We need your help

Unfortunately, we currently do not have enough volunteers to continue implementing any further voice lines and sound effects into the game.
Now that we are able to implement voice lines and audio into the game (thanks to some great voice actors helping us out!), we are looking for someone to help us with audio post-production and quality control.
• Open Position: Audio Editor
We would love to continue adding voice lines for more cards and narration for new maps. As an Audio Editor, you will be responsible for selecting and extracting the best takes, doing post-production and making sure the overall quality is high enough to be implemented into the game. If you have more skills, you will also be able to design new sounds for the game as Audio Producer. Click here to read more and apply.
 
We are also still looking for a new Community Manager, who can help us with these Community Updates. If you are interested or have any questions, please reach out to us. 
• Open Position - Community Manager
As a community manager, you are responsible with aiding the communication to and from the community. You will work closely with the Project Coordinator (previously Community Manager) to communicate staff and project decisions to the community through, for example, The Community Updates and self-written announcements. Furthermore, you will act as a contact person for the community to share project feedback and suggestions and are expected to keep the staff informed and be up-to-date with the state of the community. Click here to read more and apply.

• In Conclusion

And that's it for this Community Update, thanks for reading! 
As is tradition, this community update comes with a scratch code. 
The code will reward you with a mini-booster: COMM-UNIT-YNEW-S19B
The code is valid till March 12th, when we will bring you another Community Update. 
As always, we are open to feedback, so please let us know if you have any questions, suggestions or comments! 

Archive
• Skylords Reborn Documents (Deepdives, Behind the Scenes, PvP Guide)  
• Overview Community Updates
• Community Update #18

I may offer some idea for anyone who already has a mate to play battlegrounds with.
The decks are constructed and tested in/for 4 Player rPvE 9.
They were cooperatively constructed by Abylon and me.
The friendly Magma Fiend

Catching Comets

Lingering Souls 

Swamp Drakes 

Construct 

Primeval Watcher 

 
 

Thanks! It was fun and I won something due to random draw! 🙂 I was assuming I wouldn't manage top 10 with only a bit of trying but still blown at the top 10 times!

The booster code is in Kapo's message ^^

no special prize for the fastest pure frost timing? 😛

A suggestion for Event Organizers and devs in regard to Community Challenges.
Even with the small sample size we have today, it becomes apparent that Community Maps are not something everyone is familiar with. For Community Challenges with Community Maps such as CCC#2 and Dallarians “Lyr’s Distress Call” is this an additional hurdle to reach players - no matter how well the event is managed.
I suggest an additional location for Community Challenges (very well illustrated below in orange (╯°□°）╯︵ ┻━┻ ). It would host the current Community Challange, be it a Community Map or any specific cPvE or rPvE setting. With the difficulty preset, nothing can go wrong and it would be the least effort required for any player to join.
The addition of a custom Leaderboard which can be hidden or shown during the event (depending on the event leader) could be a future expansion to this feature. It could also be used to extract replays directly which would further reduce the steps required for a player to take part in the challenge.
Feel free to chip in expansions or adjustments as well as your thoughts on this idea.
Regards,
Myno

Edit 1: The Icon could change its apperance according to the max human player amount of the active map. 

The booster code is in Kapo's message ^^

I just sent out all prizes.

Thanks again to all Sponsors: Odessa, arabika, THE_BIG_WET, Damo, SylarXXI, Metagross 31, Glurak, Donaar and, of course, the Skylords Team ! 🙂

This concludes all business concerning the CCC#2.

Hello again Skylords, Skyladies and other Skybeings; The contest is over, and it's time to announce the winners!

But first, I’d like to thank everyone for making the Crappy Community Contest #2 happen – no matter in what way: participation, sponsoring prizes, spreading the word or helping me to organize it. Of course, the extra-special-thanks goes to Mynoduesp, who did a fantastic job on the map.
In total, we reached a total number of 92 participants – thanks to the Skylords Team for sponsoring the code CCC2_SAVE-THEF-ORGE
 
Here are the fastest Skylords of CCC #2:
1st place          00:54.4       RadicalX
2nd place         01:00.7       Treim
3rd place          01:00.7       Donaar
4th place          01:04.3       Dolewan
5th place          01:05.2       Juntti
6th place          01:05.5       Hiko
7th place          01:05.5       Wanky
8th place          01:06.7       Dutchy
9th place          01:08.2       Arabika
10th place        01:08.2       Pritstift
Short reminder: Three times two entries have been exact the same, and as written down in the rules have been decided on who submitted the entry earlier. If your Sherlock Holmes-mind kicks in that this is highly unlikely to be a coincidence, I agree. I will investigate and post something about that in the next days, either with answers how this happens or with more questions.
As an additional information for those who are interested, RadicalX went through the Bandit camp and killed the Stonekin Warlord (details about that see below), the fastest submission that took the other route (Stonekin camp / Twins boss) was Juntti’s 5th place, so both sides had the potential for a top time in the ranks.

Winners of the Random Draws:

Draw 1      Killbuster        Infect
Draw 2      Lans               Church of Negation
Draw 3      Donaar           Overlord
Draw 4      Nmy               Brannoc
Draw 5      Tinuvien         Juggernaut
Draw 6      Dolewan         Worldbreaker Gun
Draw 7      McRibwich     Grinder R
Draw 8      Damo             Shrine of War

Draws for 9-13 for 1 General Booster each: itap, Jaroddampsey, houkai, Nyakyua, Hrdina_Imperia
 
I will send you the prizes as soon as possible through ingame mail. 

Replays and Strategy Spoiler:
These are the replays of the Top-3 entries – copy them into your Replay folder to watch them:

CCC2_00.54_RadicalX.pmvCCC2_01.00.7_Treim.pmvCCC2_01.00.7_Donaar.pmv
For those who just want to quickly know how the top time was achieved without watching, here is a short description: 
 
Complete list of times:
If you didn't make it into the top ranks, here is the complete list of entries, so you may compare how you stacked up:
 
 
In conclusion
Thanks again to all who helped to make this happen. CCC #3 has already been discussed with the Event Managers, and will be something completely different, far far away from the realm of 'fastest time wins' – but before that we will see some other events.
If you have a crappy idea for future CCC's you may share and discuss that with me, maybe you can host your own Crappy Contest! Feel free to contact me anytime. If you want to discuss or host a non-crappy contest, contact our Event Managers Hiko and/or Metagross. They are super supportive and will help you to organize your event!

Hope you enjoyed the contest, I see you in the Forge!
Kapo

Hey everyone, I was looking for a place where I can find multiple RPvE decks for inspiration for new decks, but I did not find it. The first thing that came to mind was to just create a place ^^
Below you can find a couple of my favorite RPvE decks that can do (at least) difficulty 9. 
 








I would love to see your own favorite or unique decks as well!
 

Pure frost is very fun to play in RPvE 9, and I assume in CPvE as well, but for that we need to call @Dallarian
Anyway, this is the deck I use for RPvE 9:

Hey everyone, I was looking for a place where I can find multiple RPvE decks for inspiration for new decks, but I did not find it. The first thing that came to mind was to just create a place ^^
Below you can find a couple of my favorite RPvE decks that can do (at least) difficulty 9. 
 








I would love to see your own favorite or unique decks as well!
 

Here's a few more from myself and _empty_
Worms


 
Conwarp Plague (_empty_)

 
Double Jorne (_empty_)

 
Turtles

For rPvE 9:
Support:


"Standard" t4 decks:



T3 decks:


Weird stuff:

For rPvE 10:

Hey everyone, I was looking for a place where I can find multiple RPvE decks for inspiration for new decks, but I did not find it. The first thing that came to mind was to just create a place ^^
Below you can find a couple of my favorite RPvE decks that can do (at least) difficulty 9. 
 








I would love to see your own favorite or unique decks as well!
 

Welcome Skylords and Cute Beings!
 
Winter is not over yet, and so are winter events.
Kingdom of Lyr  receives way more attention than it would like to, Skylords need to intervene once again. Take a set of warm clothes, for these tasks shall lead us into Lyrish Reaches, where one of Lyr’s key fortress is being attacked.
 
Trailer
 
Where, when and how?
The event will be run on a brand new one-player community map “Aeglos Fortress”.
The contest starts today – submit your replay through Discord (Contact Dallarian#1085) or through forum message until 21st February 2022 23:59 CET (16 days).
 
Lyr’s Distress Call – fastest time wins

Near mount Aeglos a siege takes place.
 
Complete 1-player community map “Aeglos Fortress”
on Advanced difficulty as fast as possible.[1]
 
[1]. While complying with following restrictions:
Rules
Do not use Amii Monument. Do not use Enlightenment to summon any affinity of Batariel. Do not teleport, create, or in any way move a unit with ground presence into location where Blue Stronghold is sieged, without going the usual way first – this includes but is not limited to: Nether Warp, Scythe Fiends, Incubator and many more. You may use spells like Infect, Undead Army, or send flying units like Swamp Drake or Grim Bahir. Do not decompose any non-player Frost units. Play the map alone, replays with two players are not accepted. Play the map as a Skylord that has monument in bottom left corner of the map, if you start the game in top-right, replay will not be accepted. Accessing and sending the replay
You may find your replay in:
This PC --> Documents --> Battleforge --> replays
Your most recent game will be named “autosave.pmv”, unless you have already saved it in-game, or checked in option “save all replays” in the game options.
You may submit your replays as many times as you want, however, only the fastest one will count. To reduce my workload, please rename your file to CMC4_"time”_”nickname”.pmv – for example: CMC4_23m51s_Dallarian.pmv  .
Submit your replay through Discord (Contact Dallarian#1085) or through the Skylords Reborn forum until 21.02.2022 23:59 CET
Please note that some of the best replays may be posted on forum or may be used in a video.
If there are found any significant gameplay breaking bugs, I reserve the right to disqualify entries.
How to access the map
 
Rewards
In the unlikely case of a tie, the run that was submitted earlier gets the higher placement in the ranks.
 
Pure Frost have received many nice changes in the past, including brand new card added in December. I have genuine hope the event will increase interest in playing pure Frost. Therefore, the whole rewards pool consists of Frost boosters and Frost cards only. Some rewards are unique to newer players only.
1st place             6 Frost Boosters         Avatar of Frost
2nd place           6 Frost Boosters         Avatar of Frost
3rd place            6 Frost Boosters         Dreadnought
4th place            6 Frost Boosters         Mountaineer
5th-8th place     4 Frost Boosters
9th-20th place   3 Frost Boosters
 

1st-10th place – only players with PvE rank 11 or below will receive :
Dallarian’s Frost starter pack, containing:     

Frost Mage      Coldsnap        
War Eagle        Area Ice Shield                            
            Battleship                                   
 
Bonus category
This category is separate from the main one - you may participate in both with different replays.
Complete the map on Expert. Follow the same rules as before.
1st place - 6 General Boosters
2nd place - 4 General Boosters
If you want to take part, state the difficulty when submitting the replay.
 
Mysterious reward
Two chosen players will receive following rewards:
2 Frost Boosters and Dallarian’s Frost starter pack    .
 
Sponsors
All the rewards have been sponsored by:
Dallarian                      The Old God of Battleships                             Cult of Battleships GmbH
 
Map discussion
Please fill in the poll in map's thread to provide feedback.
If you would like to share your thoughts on the map, you may find the discussion here:
 
Thank you
To: Metagross31, Hiko and Majora, for helping me with organization of the event.
To: Everyone who supported me in map making process
 
Have fun and and may the be with you,
Dallarian
 
 
Future events
If you are interested in helping with these (or better) kinds of events for the community, or want to host one yourself, don't be afraid and simply reach out! Contact our beloved Event Managers Minashigo Hiko and Metagross31 on the forums or discord. They are happy to assist you with upcoming events and with sponsoring your prize pool!

Interesting being pushed to use units I rarely used and most I never owned.
Thanks for doing this!

Since there was a request to give some statistics for past challenges, I compiled a few for the Gold challenge of this contest:
 
If you want a similar analysis for the silver challenge or other events, just tell me 🙂

Single player 9 all time

Two player 9 all time

 
 

Pure frost is very fun to play in RPvE 9, and I assume in CPvE as well, but for that we need to call @Dallarian
Anyway, this is the deck I use for RPvE 9:

Submission sent, fun challenge! I do like the level playing field, considering you do not get to use your own cards.