It’s apparent that many adventurers wish for the current iteration of Node Wars to change. However, there is also concern that, while Node Wars warrants a change, such an update doesn’t guarantee that it will turn out for the better.

An update which seeks to retain the current method of Node Wars by simply tweaking bits here and there we felt wouldn’t address all the issues our adventurers feel are plaguing this content. (These include barrier of entry, sniping, cartels, filling up participant spots, difficulty in preparing for annex construction, etc.)
Therefore, we decided to take a serious look at starting entirely from scratch with the following ideas.

• By Territory
  • Victory goes to the guild who occupies at least one of the pre-installed neutral nodes in a territory by the end of the war.
    
    • Apply to a specific territory to participate
    • Random matchups set 10 minutes prior to Node Wars beginning
    • No. of neutral nodes automatically changes with the no. of participating guilds
    • Guilds who remain occupants of such nodes at the end of a war will exit Node Wars

• Nodes with different or hidden ending times
  • Various strategy would come into play when discerning which node to occupy first based on their varying ending times
• Node Wars Prep Improvements
  • Reduce the amount of elements for preparing prior to a Node Wars to increase approachability
• Reduce Node Wars Time (2 hours -> 1 hour)
  
  • To deal with sniping and increase the tempo of battle
• Various Forms of Combat Structure
  • To reduce cases where one guild clearly overpowers the other guild and Node Wars ends rather anticlimactically.
• “Last Attack”-determining Node Occupation
  •  Even if a participating guild is clearly the underdog, this element would grant a fighting chance if they could get the last attack in to occupy a node