Entry Requirements

Astragalos

Players can queue to enter Rival Wings campaigns alone, or in a party of up to four players. Please note there are no role restrictions when queuing as a party.

Preparing for Battle

Rival Wings participants will be placed on one of two teams: the Falcons or the Ravens. Players will then begin the match at their teams' respective landing points. Matches will begin after a 45-second countdown.

Chat

The Say, Party, Alliance, Yell, Shout, Free Company, Linkshell, Cross-world Linkshell, PvP Team, and Novice Network chat channels can be used during Rival Wings.
* Say, Yell, and Shout can only be used with players on the same team.

Retaliation

Incapacitated players will be returned to their landing point, where they will be allowed to rejoin combat after a short delay. Furthermore, players will be invulnerable so long as they remain at their landing point. This effect will be lost upon returning to the battlefield.

Mounts

Players are free to use mounts during Rival Wings campaigns. However, players taking damage while mounted will be afflicted with the Hoofing It status effect for five seconds.
* Flying mounts cannot be used to fly during Rival Wings campaigns. Furthermore, party members may not ride pillion on multi-seat mounts.

Return

Using Return will teleport players back to their landing point. Moreover, this action has no recast time during Rival Wings campaigns. Please note, however, casting will be interrupted by attacks.

Items

Items cannot be used during a Rival Wings campaign.

Rules of Engagement

Cores and Towers

Cores

Each team has a core located at its base, and the chief objective is to destroy the enemy's core. The core is protected by a magitek field emanating from two towers, so before you can strike at the core, you must first destroy at least one of the towers. With one tower destroyed, your team can begin to damage the core; however, damage will be significantly mitigated by the remainder of the magitek field until the second tower is eliminated.

Towers

Each team has two towers that serve to protect their core. Each tower is also enveloped in a defensive field that mitigates damage taken by team members and restores their HP, which players can take advantage of as protection when hard-pressed by the opposing team. If you succeed in destroying the enemy team's towers, the magitek field around the enemy team's base will dissipate, and all parties on your team will earn ceruleum and Soaring stacks.

Display of Core and Tower HP

A unique UI is used to display the HP of cores and towers. Because each team's core cannot be damaged until one or more of their towers are destroyed, only the HP of towers will be displayed at the start of a match. Once the core is exposed by the destruction of at least one tower, however, its HP will also be displayed.

Machina

Players can deploy three types of powerful machina in battle.

Cruise Chaser

A next-generation machina ideal for combat against enemy players and machina.

Action Type
HP	50,000
Required Ceruleum (CE)	50
Maximum Simultaneous Deployment	6
Requirements to Deploy	-

Actions

Action Name	Cast	Recast	Cost	Range Radius	Effect
Spin Crusher	Instant	3s	250 EP	0y 5y	Delivers an attack with a potency of 10,000 to all opposing warmachina in a cone before you. 1000 when attacking a player, mammet, or object.
Laser X Sword	1.5s	10s	1000 EP	0y 15y	Delivers an attack with a potency of 12,500 to all opposing players and warmachina in a cone before you. 1,250 when attacking a mammet or object.
Optical Sight	1.5s	5s	500 EP	50y 10y	Deals damage with a potency of 7,500 to all opposing players and warmachina near point of impact. 750 when attacking a mammet or object.
Ceruleum Refill	Instant	30s	25 CE	0y 0y	Uses 25 units of ceruleum fuel (CE) to restore 5000 EP to currently mounted warmachina.

Oppressor

A hulking machina engineered for siege warfare, it excels at wreaking havoc upon structures.

Action Type
HP	100,000
Required Ceruleum (CE)	50
Maximum Simultaneous Deployment	2
Requirements to Deploy	-

Actions

Action Name	Cast	Recast	Cost	Range Radius	Effect
Steam Release	Instant	5s	500 EP	0y 10y	Deals damage to all opposing players and warmachina nearby with a potency of 2,500. 250 when attacking a mammet or object. Additional Effect: 15-yalm knockback
3000-tonze Missile	2.5s	15s	2000 EP	75y 10y	Deals damage with a potency of 250,000 to all objects near point of impact. 5,000 to opposing players, warmachina, or mammets. Potency decreases the greater the target's distance from point of impact, to a maximum of 30 yalms.
Ceruleum Refill	Instant	30s	25 CE	0y 0y	Uses 25 units of ceruleum fuel (CE) to restore 5000 EP to currently mounted warmachina.

Brute Justice

Boasting unrivaled power, Brute Justice dominates opposing players and machina on the battlefield, while also laying waste to structures with its lethal armaments.

Action Type
HP	75,000
Required Ceruleum (CE)	50
Maximum Simultaneous Deployment	2
Requirements to Deploy	Available after losing a tower.

Actions

Action Name	Cast	Recast	Cost	Range Radius	Effect
Flarethrower	2s	10s	500 EP	0y 31y	Deals damage with a potency of 10,000 to all opposing players and warmachina in a cone before you. 1,000 when attacking a mammet or object. Additional Effect: Inflicts Burns on opposing players and warmachina Potency: 2,500 Duration: 12s
Double Rocket Punch	Instant	3s	250 EP	50y 3y	Deals damage with a potency of 150,000 to all objects near point of impact. 7,500 when attacking opposing players, warmachina, or mammets. Additional Effect: Stun Duration: 3s
Mega Beam	2s	15s	1000 EP	0y 70y	Delivers damage with a potency of 15,000 to all opposing players and warmachina in a straight line before you. 1,500 when attacking a mammet or object. Additional Effect: 30-yalm knockback
Ceruleum Refill	Instant	30s	25 CE	0y 0y	Uses 25 units of ceruleum fuel (CE) to restore 5000 EP to currently mounted warmachina.

Actions

Action Name	Cast	Recast	Cost	Range Radius	Effect
Cannonfire	1.5s	1s	-	60y 6y	Deals damage with a potency of 5,000 to all opposing players and warmachina near point of impact. 500 when attacking a mammet or object.

Mammets

Mammets are clockwork soldiers programmed to seek out and destroy towers and cores. They emerge from their own core at regular intervals before striking out on a set route, and will remain in battle for a set duration. Upon detecting an enemy mammet, they will engage and attack until either side is destroyed. Mammets that arrive at an enemy tower or core will perform a powerful self-sacrificing attack. That is the extent of their programming; mammets will not harm adventurers.

Wind-up Viking
These mammets boast high HP and specialize in fighting at close quarters.

Wind-up Magus
These mammets specialize in long range combat with magic-based attacks.

Power Generators

A power generator is located at the center of the map. Combatants from either team can take control of the generator by interacting with it. While the generator is under a team's control, the stores of ceruleum for all of its alliances will gradually replenish.

Soaring

When you defeat an enemy team member, your party receives the Soaring enhancing effect. When destroying an enemy tower, your party and all parties on your team will receive the Soaring enhancing effect. This effect can stack up to twenty times, increasing all party members' damage dealt and HP restored via healing magic, while also reducing damage taken. At twenty stacks, Soaring will be replaced with the Flying High effect, which confers even greater benefits, including an increase to the rate at which the limit gauge fills. However, the effects of Soaring and Flying High are stopped when riding machina.

Gaining stacks of Soaring

Player Icons

All players engaged in combat will appear on the map and minimap when nearby.

Miscellaneous

Rival Wings makes use of a unique UI to display match information such as the deployment of machina by allies or enemy players and the units of ceruleum stored by your party. This UI also displays the number of stacks of Soaring accumulated by your party.

The position of these UI elements can be changed via the Duty section in HUD Layout interface under System in the main menu.
* These UI elements can only be adjusted while participating in Rival Wings or while in the Wolves' Den.

The duty list will not be displayed while participating in Rival Wings.

Damage Modifiers

Damage dealt and damage taken in Rival Wings are adjusted based on your current job.