Pit Trials (Gauntlet)¶
The Gauntlet is a 30-minute wave survival challenge. Clear as many waves as you can, alone or with your party. Everything you earn is shared at the end, and your run goes on the leaderboard.
Entering¶
- Use a Pit Trial Stone and choose Start Gauntlet Trial.
- Entry costs 5 Realm Defender (Turret Defense) Tokens, unless the stone is set to free entry.
- Each stone has a few arenas. If they're all in use, wait for one to free up.
- Groups: invite nearby players from the stone. Everyone must be in your party.
The run¶
- Waves start after a 30-second countdown. Then you have 30 minutes.
- Clear a wave and the next one comes 5 seconds later. There are up to 100 waves.
- Waves get tougher as you go:
| Waves | Monster tier |
|---|---|
| 1–5 | Trivial |
| 6–15 | Easy |
| 16–25 | Normal |
| 26–40 | Hard |
| 41–55 | Veteran |
| 56–70 | Legendary |
| 71–75 | Boss |
| 76–100 | Abomination |
Wave size changes too: 50 creatures at the start, down to 15 around wave 45, back up to 40 at the end. Creatures also get a little more HP and aggro range each wave.
- Dying: you can't bring supplies in mid-run. The only way to restock is to die, resurrect and use Re-enter Arena, which costs you time.
- Rules inside: no PvP (players and pets can't hurt each other), you can only loot your own corpse, you don't lose items, and no Recall, Gate Travel, Sacred Journey or Mark.
- Pit Trial monsters give no guild prestige and no rare loot kill points.
Rewards¶
Every kill adds gold to the team pot. Gold per kill grows with the wave, from 10 at wave 1 up to thousands in the late waves. When the run ends (time up or wave 100):
- Gold: the pot is split evenly, up to 150,000 per player, as a bank check.
- Your score is your share of the gold. It gives Monthly Challenge points (score ÷ 50, max 2,500) and Achievement Points (score ÷ 100, max 250).
- Spoils go into a shared pool and are handed out round-robin to the team's bank boxes:
| Spoil | How many / chance |
|---|---|
| Special items | 1 per 10 waves (at least 1) |
| Treasure maps | 1 per 10 waves (at least 1), +10% chance of one more. Level 1–3 below wave 20, 2–4 below wave 40, then 4–5 |
| Decoration | from wave 26: 0.5% per wave past 25 |
| Rare-hued item | from wave 26: 1% per wave past 25 |
| Rare-hued cloth | from wave 31: 0.5% per wave past 30 |
| Gauntlet artifact | from wave 36: 0.5% per wave past 35. One of: Hunter's Headdress, Spirit of the Totem, Tangle, Hat of the Magi, Paladin Cloak |
| PvM rune | 5% per 10 waves cleared (not on free-entry stones) |
Leaderboard¶
The stone keeps a leaderboard of runs: best wave, best gold and total runs.