Arena of Champions

Arena of Champions is a roguelike wave arena. Your real gear comes in. Monsters scale with the wave. Every few waves you pick a relic that lasts for that run only.

You cannot start from an Arena of Ares queue or another instance. Disconnect: 60 seconds to reconnect. !arena leave forfeits with no rewards. !arena rank, !arena coins and !arena stats work outside a run.

Hardcore: +50% score, +30% coins. One death ends the run for everyone. Normal mode gives 3 lives (downs); extra lives can come from the Reborn Spirit relic.

Solo gets +25% score. Monster counts scale up with extra party members. Monster pools follow the party's hunt tier, not a single global list.

Waves follow a 10-wave cycle: trash, ranged, tanks, elites, then a miniboss around wave 5 and bosses on 9 and 10 (wave 10 is an enraged boss plus trash). 4 seconds between waves. 3 minutes without a clear forces reinforcements. Max run length is 90 minutes.

Relics are offered on waves 2, 4, 6, 9, 12, 15, 18, 21, 25, 30, 35, 40, 45 and 50. You have 15 seconds to pick. Categories: attack, crit, defense, mobility, healing, mana, area, cooldown, summon, utility, luck, economy. They last for that run only.

Each run also rolls global modifiers (Wrath of Ares, Storm of Zeus, Curse of Hades, and others). One modifier is forced by the Week of the Gods — Zeus, Ares, Poseidon, Hades, Athena, Artemis, Apollo or Aphrodite — which also swaps extra monsters and a weekly coin/score nudge.

~22% chance per wave of a random event (invasion, meteors, sacred totem, mystery chest, wandering merchant…). Divine objectives hit on waves 3, 7, 11, 16, 22, 28, 34, 41 and 48: destroy a totem, slay a quota, survive, or protect an obelisk.

Score comes from kills, wave clears, speed, combo, style rank (D → SSS) and divine objectives. Deaths and combo breaks hurt. Style decays if you take hits.

Champion Coins come from waves, bosses, divine events, leftover score, and wave chests handed to you at milestones (the next wave starts in 4 seconds — you do not loot corpses for these):

Chests repeat every 10 waves after that pattern. Farming coins have a weekly cap of 25,000. Ranking payout does not count against that cap.

Monsters still drop XP. There is a safety cap of 15 levels gained in a single run.

Payout runs Monday 00:00 (server local time). Live board is also on the site under Arena of Champions.

Clearing wave 50 unlocks the title Arena Immortal. Other milestones: first run, waves 10/20/30/50, flawless (wave 15 with 0 deaths), Nightmare wave 10, style SSS.

NPC Achilles in the temple is the coin sink. Talk to him to open the shop (you must stay nearby). Outfits and mounts cost 20,000 Champion Coins each. Full visual list lives on Outfits and Mounts.

Outfits (20,000)
Celestial Guard Abysswalker Warforged Gilded Champion Golden Grey Golden Blue Golden Green Ethereal Sanguine Ashen Vanguard Winterforged

Cannot shop during a run. ~4,000 coins is roughly one farm day on Normal solo.