Lords and Ladies, Update 43 has arrived with some epic gameplay additions, tons of holiday perks and events, Mythic equipment and a large chest full of balance changes. Without any further ado, let's see what the future of the Realms holds:

[NEW FEATURES]

Alliance Bastion
- Enhance your Alliance supremacy by building the new Alliance Bastion structure and utilize its passive bonuses
- Upgrade the Bastion to unlock powerful time-limited buffs and use them to gain leverage over your enemies. The Bastion buffs will tremendously boost the whole Alliance’s performance. They can be activated using Alliance Resources.
- New Alliance Rank Option that allows the Alliance Member with the appropriate Rank to spawn or move the Alliance Bastion

Mythic Equipment
- Overcharge your champion with almighty Mythic equipment. Reforge equipment items to obtain Mythic Bars and use them to transform legendary equipment into Mythic

Additional Paragon levels & Paragon Pass
- Get closer to the absolute perfection with 35 new Paragon levels, new skill and improved perks
- Obtain the new Paragon Pass and take advantage of increased Paragon points gain, reduced Paragon skills cooldown and Paragon points on a daily basis


[HOLIDAY CONTENT]

Festive Village
- Join forces with all players in your Realm to build the most magnificent Festive Village and unlock marvelous holiday gifts for everyone

Snowball Wars
- Attack the snowball to push it in the desired direction and shove it in your enemy`s face during the Snowball event

Time-limited Holiday Event Shop: 20.12.2020 - 31.12.2020
- Participate in Events to gain Event Shop currency and spend it on awesome rewards

Christmas Lottery – 25.12.2020

*Surprise Christmas Treat 1: 22.12.2020 – 26.12.2020
*Surprise Christmas Treat 2: 25.12.2020 – 31.12.2020
*Surprise Christmas “Definitely Not a Gift Pack”: 25.12.2020

[SEASONAL CONTENT]
- Stop the Viking invasion in the new PvE season (18.12, 13GMT)

[BALANCE CHANGES]
Based on your feedback throughout the year and our gameplay observations, we decided to implement the following changes:

New Realms
- Higher level PvE Encounters will be spawned in the first Ages: up to Level 5 (from 4) in Age of Foundation and up to Level 7 (from 6) in Age of Knowledge
- Slightly increased capacities of Mine Levels 1-4;
- Increased rewards of Glory Emblems for the initial Time-Limited Events
- Added Class Fragments as rewards for some of the initial Time-Limited Events

PvE:
- Army Bonuses of PvE Encounters slightly increased
- Army Bonuses of Barbarian and Resistance Hordes slightly increased
- Barbarian and Resistance Horde's marches will now contest a Capital faster: reduced Contest timer from 4 hours to 1 hour
- Army Bonuses of Alliance PvE Encounters reduced for Normal and Hard difficulties, more significantly in the lower levels
- Increased XP and Social Currency rewards from Alliance PvE Encounters
- Improved Solo Progression rewards of the Alliance PvE Encounters: introducing Themed Legacy Chests with iconic items from past encounters of the same theme