Challenge

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Think you're a PvE powerhouse? Then put your money where your mouth is and take on time-based challenges and earn awesome rewards. Speed kills... and so will you!

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While out questing or exploring the world, the player may receive a Challenge, an optional timed objective they can do for additional rewards. They may fail a challenge without consequence by the timer running out, leaving the challenge area, or manually ending the timer. (There is, however, a voice over that says "Challenge failed!", except when manually ended.)

Should the player achieve at least Bronze medal, or finish the challenge, it will go on a 30 minute cooldown. The cooldown will only tick down while the player is active; should they log out, the cooldown will still be where it was before they went offline.

Challenge Types

Challenges are divided into four types:

General Challenge

A General Challenge usually involves a feat of skill without combat, like reaching the top of a cliff in a set amount of time, traversing a booby trapped room without setting off a trap, or disabling mines without getting blown up.

Item Challenge

An Item Challenge, as the name implies, involves collecting enough of a certain item. This could be out in the world, such as Snoglug eggs, or special drops from enemies.

Ability Challenge

An Ability Challenge grants the player a temporary ability, or "T-Spell." With this, they will have to perform a task with the ability, such as throwing rocks at a speedy adversary, capturing critters using a net-grenade, or handing out flyers to bystanders.

Combat Challenge

Quite possibly the simplest of all challenges, the Combat Challenge merely requires the player to kill a lot of a certain mob. These mobs will often have a white exclamation mark on the left of their nameplate, denoting them as a valid target.

Challenge Log

Should a player fail a challenge, wish to perform it once more, or to collect rewards they have yet to redeem, they can go to the Challenge tab of the Codex, accessed by pressing the "L" key. The log displays a summary of all the categories of challenges and the player's status for each, alongside the cooldown timer. Sections on the side allow the player to access each zone's challenges that have been unlocked.

Rewards

Rewards are given out on a lottery basis. Based on the medal the player had received at the end of the challenge, they will get an increased chance to receive an item of their choosing. Bronze medals award 2x, Silver 4x, and Gold 10x. Aside from items specific to a challenge/zone, the player may be offered:

A Satchel of Scavenged Supplies, containing Medishots and Food
A Chest of Crafting Components, containing raw materials like ores, seeds, and elemental signs
A Feretory of Fascinating Furnishings, which will award a random piece of furniture upon opening
An Index of Interesting Items, which will reward a random piece of gear
Or a Trunk of Tarnished Tints, which will award a random dye unless it is a chest from a specific collection