First War of Emperium ROPH Loki

Let the war Begin:
War of Emperium marks the Official Launch of Ragnarok Online Philippines. It is one of the end game content of the game that can be accessed immediately by the players. Although the war is open for everyone, the feature is mostly show of power, best build and equipment so this is typically for high level characters. Support players can participate even at low level but damage oriented builds are advisable to participate when close to max level with good gears.

At every first War of Emperium, castles are initially conquered by MVP monsters. Guilds must try to break the Emperium even if there are MVPs trying to stop them. In ROPH, after the maintenance the Emperiums on each castle initially spawned and the first Guilds to break the emperium claims it immediately. The actual war will still happen in the evening at 8pm to 10pm.

First Hour:
I joined the Eternal guild through a common friend for my first War of Emperium. We tried conquering Skoegul, the upper left castle in Valkyrie Realm, during the start of the war. The entrance geography of the castle make it hard for us to out maneuver the MVP. What happen is that Stormy Knight together with two Garms are now camping the entrance. Our first hour was burned by just trying to get pass the entrance. We have times that we were able to reach the Emperium but another Stormy Knight squad is guarding the Emperium.

Second Hour:
At the second hour, we explored other castles. Our Guild Master then decided to try our conquest at Swanhild, the lower right caste in Valkyrie Realm. The castle is very spacious to out maneuver the Stormy Knight at the entrance however there are other guilds trying to conquer this castle too so we have to deal with them to at least slow them down. The Emperium room is also spacious that we can also out maneuver the other Stormy Knight. We were able to conquer this agit but we can't defend at the Emperium Room because of the MVP. We set-up our defenses at the third map but this is not easy because it's not an ideal place for creating a choke point. Eventually someone slip to our defenses and was able to break the Emperium.

We tried our luck on other castles but most of them were Hot Agits. We call a castle Hot Agit when the change of ownership is very fast due to the number of guilds trying to outrace each other in breaking the emperium. We went to every realm except for Luina.

During the last minute, we tried breaking in Bool-Young, the upper right castle in Greenwood Lake. At this point the castle is also a Hot Agit. Most of the chaos happens at the entrance map, followed by people racing to the emperium room. The real battle happens at the emperium room where in breakers are just focus on trying to get damage on the emperium. Defending guild were also trying their best to delay the breaking of the emperium. Since this is a Hot agit, it is expected that it will always have a down pour of people from different guilds.

At the end of the war, we were not able to have a castle. I think our number is not that competitive as compared to bigger guilds who most of the time can defend their castle after a successful break. We have the ability to take a castle but we can't really defend it when a bigger guild comes and challenge our defenses. Though this is just the start, we can still have our chances on the next wars to come.