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PvP & Guilds

PvP Guide

How player-versus-player works: factions, safe zones, reputation, death and the battlegrounds.

PvP is a war between the two factions, Athens and Sparta. There is no PK switch and no red-name penalty: you can attack players of the other faction anywhere outside a safe zone, and you can never hurt your own faction (except in the free-for-all part of the Duel Arena). The open-PvP maps are Thermopylae, Derveni, Argolis, Isthmus, Megara, Plataea, Olympia, Larissa, Thebes, Mycenae and Delphi Forest: watch out…

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