1.45.1 (v395)
Friday July 16th, 2021 4:17:02PM
Bug Fixes and Updates
Changes:
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	- Made the Campaign Selector on the map a more appropriate size
	- Collapsed some Information buttons in the Top DPS display into a single item to make some room
			

What are the Trials of Mount Tiamat?
The Trials of Mount Tiamat is a co-operative multiplayer campaign that allows you to earn currency used to power up your Champions' equipment items. In it you will take part in an epic battle against the forces of Tiamat, the Mad Dragon Queen, who has recently escaped to Faerun and threatens to destroy the whole of reality. You will battle to distract, disrupt, and destroy the Dragon Queen's forces in conjunction with four other players in a last ditch effort to banish Tiamat back to Avernus and save the world.

How do I unlock this feature?
Before you can take part in Trials you must have battled Tiamat at the end of the Descent Into Avernus campaign and then completed the introductory adventure by clicking the Trials of Tiamat campaign button on the campaign map. Once that is done, a new dialog will appear in the game which will let you create and join active Trials of Tiamat campaigns.

What is a Trials of Tiamat campaign?
A Trials of Tiamat campaign is a multiplayer group campaign that lasts for seven days once it has been started. In a campaign, five players must complete five different Trials in order to distract, disrupt, and destroy the Dragon Queen's forces in order to banish Tiamat and save the world.

How do I create a Trials of Tiamat campaign?
Once you've unlocked the Trials of Tiamat feature you can start a campaign on the main Trials of Tiamat dialog. You do so by picking the campaign difficulty and the currency you will use to start it. Normal campaigns have no cost or requirements to create, but higher difficulty campaigns require you to have defeated Tiamat at the difficulty below it and pay a currency cost in order to start it. Once you have created a campaign, you can select your Trial and nominate your Assault Front Champion. You may then wait for up to four additional players to join and "ready up" before you start it. You do not have to pay the starting currency costs until you start the campaign.

How do I join a Trials of Tiamat campaign?
Once you've unlocked the Trials of Tiamat feature you can join a campaign on the main Trials of Tiamat dialog. You can view a list of available campaigns started by other players or input a campaign code to join a specific one (someone who started a campaign can give you one that will let you join their campaign). You can filter by the difficulty of the campaign and/or the available Trials. You can only join campaigns at most one difficulty higher than the highest difficulty at which you have defeated Tiamat.

Once you have joined a campaign you must pick a Trial to attempt and nominate your Assault Front Champion in order to "ready-up".

What are the "Trials" and how do I pick one?
The "Trials" of Mount Tiamat are five unique adventures that take place on, around, or under Mount Tiamat, and focus on distracting, disrupting, and destroying the Dragon Queen's forces so that the Assault Front Champions can engage her directly in order to banish her back to Avernus. The five trials are the Forest Trial, the Swamp Trial, the Mountain Trial, the Plains Trial, and the Underground Trial. The monsters and environments you battle in vary from Trial to Trial, and there are rewards for completing each Trial for the first time, but other than that it doesn't make a difference which Trial you choose on any given week.
You must pick a Trial before a campaign you create or join can be started. Only one player can pick each Trial each week.

What is an "Assault Front Champion" and how do I pick one?
Each player who joins a campaign selects one of their roster's Champions to join the Assault Front. The Assault Front is where Champions directly engage Tiamat, taking advantage of the distractions from the players' Trials in order to deal damage over time and attempt to reduce Tiamat's health to zero and force her into the Red Wizard's trap.
Players will be unable to use their chosen Assault Front Champion while the campaign is active, however these Champions are not completely disabled. They will provide buffs to all players on the campaign based on their role(s) and their item level, so sending more popular, more powerful Champions to the Assault Front will result in higher buffs to each party. Choose carefully!

What can I do during a Trials of Tiamat campaign?
The goal of the Trials of Tiamat campaign is to reduce Tiamat's health to zero. To do so, players must increase their DPS contribution by doing their chosen Trial adventure. For specifics of how to increase your DPS contribution, see questions further below. Aside from doing your Trial adventure, you can also use scrolls to increase the damage, gold find, and assault party dps contribution of all players' parties. You can also read Sending Stone messages from the Assault Front Champions as they update the party on the progress of their battle against Tiamat.

How is my DPS contribution calculated?
The DPS done by each player is equal to the exponent of the total damage done by that player's formation on their Trials adventure throughout the week. For example if a player has done 1.0e50 damage in total throughout the week, their DPS contribution will be 50.
In addition to this base DPS contribution, Bonus DPS contributions can be acquired by completing the area objective in their Trials adventure each day. Bonus DPS contributions stack additively on top of the base DPS contribution and can greatly increase your party's total DPS.
Finally, Scrolls of Assault can be used to increase the DPS contribution of all players in the campaign.

How do I increase my DPS contribution?
There are three ways to increase your DPS contribution:
1. Deal more total damage in your Trials adventure. Your base DPS number is based on the exponent of the total damage done by your party in your Trials adventure during the campaign week. For example if you've done 1.0e50 damage in total throughout the week, your base DPS number will be 50. The total damage use to calculate your base DPS is cumulative throughout the week.
2. Complete your daily area goal in your Trials adventure. This can be a big boost to your DPS contribution and you can do this once per day.
3. Use Scrolls of Assault. These scrolls can be found in Glory of Bahamut chests and increase the DPS contribution of all players in your campaign.

What happens on my Trial Adventure?
By battling through your Trial Adventure, you will increase your DPS contribution to the Assault Front party. See the section about how your DPS contribution is calculated for more details.
You can reset your Trial Adventure multiple times a day, but will always be forced to reset at the end of the day. This is because each day, the battle against Tiamat gets harder. You start out on day one with a single, simple restriction on the adventure, such as "Only Champions with STR 10+ can be used", but each day a new restriction is added, making the fight to reach your daily area goal even harder.
You will earn Bahamut favor by resetting your Trial Adventure, which can be converted to the permanent favor of your choice after the campaign has ended.

What rewards can I earn from the Trials of Mount Tiamat?
Every time you complete a campaign, based on how much damage you do to Tiamat over the course of the campaign, you receive Scales of Tiamat, which can be used to forge and upgrade Legendary equipment. If you manage to bring Tiamat's health to zero and banish her back to Avernus you will receive a bonus of 50% more Scales. You may also receive 1 or more Glory of Bahamut chests for defeating Tiamat. The higher the difficulty level of the campaign, the more Scales and Chests you can get.
There are also some one-time rewards you can receive for defeating Tiamat. The first time you defeat Tiamat on each difficulty, your Scales of Tiamat reward will be multiplied by 3. Additionally, the first time you defeat Tiamat after taking part in each Trial you will receive a special Champion Skin. Note that these one time rewards may change or be renewed over time.

My Campaign has ended but I can't claim rewards! Why not?
Once a Campaign has ended, each player is given 24 hours to check-in in-case they have offline progress that would aid in the battle against Tiamat. Once all players have checked in, or 24 hours have passed since the campaign ended, all players can claim their rewards, and any additional check-ins by tardy players will not affect the campaign's outcome.

Can I start another Campaign while I wait for players from my old one to check in?
Yes, you can create or join another campaign immediately after your campaign ends, however you may need to wait to claim the campaign rewards from your old one. You can claim these rewards through buttons on the dialog even after you've started a new campaign.

What happens if we defeat Tiamat before the week is over?
If you manage to bring Tiamat's health to zero before the week ends you will still need to wait for the campaign to end before you can claim your rewards and create or join a new campaign. No matter what happens, you can not create or join a new campaign until seven days have passed since your previous campaign started.

Explain to me how Tiamat's health bar works?
Tiamat's health bar takes constant damage based on your party's combined DPS. There is also a bonus section that you may notice. This bonus damage is equal to damage that would have happened if your party was doing their maximum damage for the entire day, and is dealt in one big chunk at the end of the day.
How is it possible to do enough damage to banish Tiamat? Especially when the Trial Adventures get harder every day, so it's harder and harder to do more damage in the Trials?
The key is the bonus DPS you get from reaching your area goal every day. That bonus DPS will be your primary avenue of increasing your campaign's DPS as you get later into the week, so finding a party that can battle through the Trial restrictions to reach the daily area goal should be your main goal each day.

How do higher difficulties affect the campaign?
Higher difficulties increase both Tiamat's max health and the maximum number of Scales of Tiamat you can earn for damaging and defeating Tiamat. Since you are limited to one campaign per week, your best bet is to fight Tiamat in the highest difficulty you are confident you can defeat her in.

Can I leave a campaign part-way through?
No, you can not leave a campaign once it has started. If you join a campaign you may leave before the campaign owner starts it, and as a campaign owner you can abandon your campaign any time before you start it, which will cause everyone in the campaign to be removed.

How can I help my campaign do better?
Aside from increasing your own DPS contribution, you can use scrolls which increase the damage and gold find of all campaign members while on their Trials adventure. The Champion you choose to send to the assault front will also affect the group, as the type of buff they provide is based on the Champions' role and the magnitude of the buff is based on their item level -- the higher the better. Sending your highest geared Champion will help your team deal more damage.

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