Registering for the Castle Siege

To register for the Castle Siege, your clan must be level 3 or level 4. Clans above or below those levels will not be able to participate. The Clan Leader and authorized clan members can only register for the siege via Tyron, who is located outside the north entrance of the town. The registration period is 13 days prior to the start of the siege ending Saturday before the siege at 19:59 Server Time

Start of the Siege

For the first siege of the castle, Castle NPCs spawn around the area of the castle. Sieging clans should head to the town of or use their siege headquarters set up by their clan leaders. The defending clan (none at the beginning) will be moved to the castle.

The area around and inside the castle will become the designated battlefield. The battlefield lines are invisible, and system message will indicate whether you enter or leave the area. Non-sieging players can enter the battlefield, and by doing so can attack other players or be attacked. XP loss for non-sieging players remains at 4%, and XP loss for sieging players is approximately 1%.

Victory Conditions

The castle siege lasts for the full two hours. An interim victory is declared when a clan leader on the sieging side successfully uses the Imprint skill on the holy artifact of the castle after defeating Baron Lewin Waldner. This will cause the clan to become the defenders of the castle, and they then fight to prevent other clans and clan leaders from Imprinting the holy artifact. The castle can change hands between clans during the siege, so a new clan on the sieging side that successfully Imprints on the holy artifact would steal the castle from the defending clan and then the new clan becomes the defenders of the castle. A clan is declared the Castle Siege victor when they are the defenders of the castle at the end of the full two hours. The clan then owns the castle for two weeks until the start of the next Castle Siege, at which point Castle will automatically transfer back to NPC ownership.

Imprinting

Clan leaders must use the Imprint skill on the holy artifact during the siege period to become defenders of the castle and ultimately own the castle if the clan is successful in preventing sieging clan leaders from imprinting the holy artifact.

When imprinting the holy artifact, the clan leader can choose an alignment—Light or Dark. The alignment has its advantages and disadvantages along with a different physical look when conquered. Imprinting the holy artifact takes time to cast and can be disrupted so it’s crucial to defend your clan leader while the casting is in progress, or interrupt opposing clan leaders from claiming it.

Alignment Benefits	Castle of Light	Castle of Darkness
Castle Appearance	The castle gleams in shining white light.	The castle is shrouded in darkness beneath swirling storm clouds and a vortex of evil.
Village NPCs	The Proclaimer of Light NPC appears in the Castle of Light’s town and gives a beneficial buff to any character: Blessing of Light: Boosts acquired XP/SP from hunting by 3%	-
Alignment-specific Penalty	-	Clan members that own a Castle of Darkness can be PK’d without penalty to the killer, and the PKer even receives increased PvP value.
NPC Sales Tax Rate	0%	10%
NPC Purchase Tax Rate	0%	15%
Stat Boost	Max CP +2000	Max CP +1000

Rewards

There are many rewards to be claimed from Castle Siege. All participants in the Castle Siege can obtain Blood Crystals by defeating Castle NPCs. Blood Crystals can be spent on Clan Skills.

Even greater spoils go to the Castle Siege victor. During the two weeks of castle ownership, the winning clan can collect taxes paid to NPC purchases in the town, purchase items only available to the castle’s Chamberlain, and access to other castle NPCs.

Schedule Gludio Castle

The Gludio Castle siege schedule is based on server time and occurs every other Sunday with the first siege starting.

	Registration Period	Setup Period	Castle Siege
Server Time	13 days	Saturday 20:00p.m – Sunday 20:00p.m	Sunday 20:00p.m to 22:00p.m

Schedule Dion Castle

The Dion Castle siege schedule is based on server time and occurs every other Sunday with the second siege starting.

	Registration Period	Setup Period	Castle Siege
Server Time	13 days	Saturday 2:00a.m – Sunday 2:00a.m	Sunday 2:00a.m to 4:00a.m

Schedule Giran Castle

The Giran Castle siege schedule is based on server time and occurs every other Sunday with the first siege starting.

	Registration Period	Setup Period	Castle Siege
Server Time	13 days	Not available	Not available

Schedule Oren Castle

The Oren Castle siege schedule is based on server time and occurs every other Sunday with the second siege starting.

	Registration Period	Setup Period	Castle Siege
Server Time	13 days	Not available	Not available

Schedule Aden Castle

The Aden Castle siege schedule is based on server time and occurs every other Sunday with the first siege starting.

	Registration Period	Setup Period	Castle Siege
Server Time	13 days	Not available	Not available