Chapter 1559 Christmas Activities

The activity announcement was made, and there were less than two days before it officially started. Old players knew the benefits of this Christmas event, and they all moved at the first sign of it. Those who wanted to team up looked for friends and those who wanted to go solo used the last two days to hone their equipment.

Club guilds would certainly not miss this event. For them, in addition to directly participating in the event content, they also had to compete for the rankings during the event. The rankings were a source of income and a way to promote their image.

However, at the thought of Lord Grim being in the online game, the presidents of the major guilds couldn't laugh. Because this event would involve teleporting to maps and restrict entry to small teams, the advantage of their large guilds in terms of numbers could only be brought into play on the guild rankings. As for individual or team rankings, they couldn't gather together no matter how many people they had!

These competitions were obviously about the strength of elite players and teams. Originally, the big guilds were confident in this area, but competing with Happy... Happy's record of dominating the new dungeon rankings was the best explanation. That was also a competition of elite team strength, and what was the result?

Only professional teams could compete with Happy's team. But the Christmas event didn't interfere with the professional league. The event lasted three days, Wednesday, Thursday, and Friday, and then there was the sixteenth round of the professional league on Saturday. Professional players couldn't possibly skip training and preparation before the match to play the event in the game. Even if they were interested in playing, they might just play a game or two for the experience, and it was obvious that they couldn't be expected to get a score that would put them on the rankings.

The big shots of the club guilds were worried! But two days passed in a flash. The Christmas event officially began. Because the event was limited in times, there weren't many players who couldn't wait to start at dawn. What about the club guilds? They didn't immediately send out their elite teams at the first moment. Those who aimed for the rankings naturally had to observe and understand the real situation of the event first before making targeted arrangements.

That night, the major club guilds were both studying the event and actively paying attention to the rankings.

What about Lord Grim? What about Happy? Would they soon appear on the rankings?

In the end, no one from Happy made it onto the rankings until dawn. Although the major club guilds hadn't sent out their real elites, their foundations were well reflected at this time. In this situation, the forces of these guilds were the only ones that stood firm on the various rankings. As for the guild rankings, there was no need to mention them. The top twenty were all club guilds. Some bored people compared this ranking with the professional league ranking to see what the differences were.

There were quite a few differences.

For example, the first place on this list was currently the Samsara guild. This guild had been developing very strongly since the team won the overall championship last season, and the guild's players were also very diligent. After the Samsara guild, there were traditional powerful guilds such as Blue Brook Guild, Herb Garden, and Tyrannical Ambition. Team Tyranny was currently at the top of the professional league, but their subordinate guild Tyrannical Ambition's performance in this event seemed to be on par with other wealthy families, and they didn't show the momentum of rising all the way in the league.

In addition, like Excellent Dynasty, although the Excellent Era team had been eliminated and was playing in the Challenger League, the guild couldn't completely collapse because of this. At this time, the most loyal fans would undoubtedly be the ones who had the most hope for Excellent Era. The Excellent Dynasty guild performed exceptionally well in this event, and many middle and lower-level teams' guilds lost to them.

Another relatively large contrast was Team Heavenly Swords. Their Heavenly Swords team's ranking in the league was still precarious, constantly hovering between relegation and non-relegation. But in this guild event, Heavenly Swords also achieved good results, currently ranking seventh. There were rumors that Heavenly Swords had offered heavy rewards within the guild for this event to trigger the players' enthusiasm, but whether this was the case remained to be further investigated.

These guilds attracted the attention of most players, but they themselves were painstakingly searching the rankings to see if Happy Guild's current ranking posed a threat to them. After this search, everyone was quite relieved. Happy's guild strength was still too weak. To compete for guild rankings, it was useless to rely on individual elite experts in such events; it required the strength of all players. Happy's Lord Grim and others were strong, but they couldn't play a decisive role in this event.

Moreover, after a night of careful study, the major guilds also discovered a problem.

As with previous events, the player rankings needed to be divided by level. Usually, it was a 5-level increment. In the normal server, this increment would be very detailed, starting from level 20 after leaving the newbie village, with a 5-level increment until level 75.

But in the Heavenly Domain, because all the players were max level, there was usually no need to divide them. However, this time it happened to coincide with the level cap update, so in the Heavenly Domain, two rankings were divided by level.

One was the ranking for levels 70-74, and the other was the ranking for level 75. Both rankings were divided into individual and team rankings, and the team level was based on the highest level of the characters in the team.

This division was also Glory's consistent approach, mainly to separate the level 70 and level 75 equipment grades. However, looking at the present situation, the major guilds who had studied it all night discovered a problem: there were relatively fewer level 75 players.

The new level was opened on December 3rd, and now it was only December 25th, just over 20 days later. The higher the level, the more experience required to level up, and the slower the leveling, which was inevitable. The core characters of the club guilds practiced frantically at the fastest speed day and night, and they all reached level 75 in the 11-day break. Ye Xiu and the others weren't so diligent, but their efficiency wasn't low either. They also reached level 75 a few days after the break and began to sweep the various record rankings. But for the vast majority of ordinary players, where did they have so much free time? These players who only had a few hours of game time every day were still struggling on the road to leveling up! And this group was definitely the vast majority of players.

The club guilds recruited the most die-hard fans of the teams. These die-hard fans were mostly the most fanatical group of players in Glory, and they were naturally more willing to dedicate their time to the game. Therefore, quite a few members of these club guilds reached level 75 in these 20 days. Therefore, in the current group of level 75 players, the members of these club guilds accounted for a considerable proportion. So when the tasks were randomly assigned, teams or players from the same guild often happened to be assigned to the same map. Obviously, this assignment was truly random and didn't avoid members of the same guild.

In this way, players from the same guild could help each other in the task map, which was naturally more advantageous than other players. This hidden phenomenon was finally grasped by the major guilds after a night of observation and understanding.

However, this advantage was something that their own guild had, and other guilds also had it, so they had to take advantage of it and also be wary of it. But they had it, and some people probably didn't have it. For example, Happy Guild...

The major guilds had long had undercover accounts in Happy. Even if they couldn't understand the core information, wouldn't it be clear at a glance to scan the list of guild members and look at the level distribution?

Happy Guild currently didn't have many level 75 players. In the early stage of development, they didn't pick and choose their income, so the members were mixed. There were people who actively logged in to participate in various activities every day, and there were also diving parties who disappeared for several days after logging out once. Happy Guild was currently in the transitional stage from a player guild to a professional guild.

Facing Happy Guild, the major guilds exclusively enjoyed this advantage. So, in this case, if a task map happened to randomly assign them a large number of people, wouldn't they have the opportunity to embarrass the great experts like Lord Grim?

Although they knew that Lord Grim was a great expert, the major guilds had to find a way to deal with him. Besides having more people, what other advantages did they have? Could they find someone to compete with the great god in terms of skills?

And this event task, which was originally impossible to have the advantage of numbers, was promoted to such a scene because it coincided with a special moment, and the club guilds naturally had some ideas. Just after further consideration, even if two teams from their own guild were assigned to the same map and encountered Lord Grim's team, 10 people versus 5 people... was this an advantage?

The presidents, who had thought of this step, all came to the particularly depressed conclusion that 10 was less than 5. The strength of Happy's experts couldn't be taken down by having 2 or 3 times the number of people; they needed even more. But if there were even more people, they probably wouldn't be randomly assigned together. The scene of three teams being assigned to the same map only happened a few times throughout the whole night.

"So, one isn't enough... are we going to gather a few?" Someone couldn't help but think of it.

So, in their group of guild presidents, someone gradually began to bubble up and started to guide the topic with a casual tone.

"Samsara is doing well, they snatched so much tonight."

"Hehe, your family is also good!"

"Isn't Heavenly Sword not in this group? They're also amazing this time!"

"What's wrong with Hundred Blossoms? They seem a bit颓废 (tuí fèi - dispirited)!"

The big shots discussed their gains for the night one sentence at a time. In their hearts, they all wished that everyone else's results were negative, and that they were the only ones at the top. But now, they were all harmonious and loving with each other.

"Cough, Excellent Dynasty is also snatching fiercely!" Someone seemed to have found a breakthrough to guide the topic.

"Let's do our best!" Chen Yehui also echoed like everyone else with a fake smile.

"Compared to you, that Happy is far behind. Where's their guild ranked? Can't find it!" Someone began to cut to the chase.

"They're not hoping for the guild, but what about the individual and team rankings?" The main topic was officially raised.

"If we don't think of countermeasures, I'm afraid we'll all lose to them, right?"

"Why don't we join forces to restrict them?" The president who said this didn't seem very happy. To be honest, their brain cells might die even more when they were fighting side by side than when they were fighting each other.