Dungeons

**Status Notes: November 29th, 2023**: The Troll Cave is now open (and will be staying open, barring any unforeseen issues)! Progress resets every 2 weeks on Wednesdays after promotion.

In each dungeon, multiple sections await you, where a team of up to five knights can face up to twenty enemies. And don't worry, you're not just fighting against other knights. You can expect a variety of creatures like trolls and gnomes, each with unique abilities to make your life difficult. Your existing skills will be used in new ways, and new objects will be introduced to help you face the challenge.

### Strategy Chamber

The **strategy chamber** is where players can gather and prepare themselves for each challenge. To start forming a team, the team leader goes to the strategy chamber and pays the fee of 50,000 gold. They are then able to invite team members. Teams must have between 3 and 5 members in order to tackle a challenge. There is no level requirement and groups can include knights of very different abilities; however, the current challenges may be out of reach for groups made up of just lower level knights.

To invite players to join their team, the team leader must search for each player by name or number; once the player is found, say **invite them to my group** to send an invitation to them. The next time the invited player opens the game they will be notified that they have an invitation and asked whether they want to accept it. They can also go to the strategy chamber to receive their invitation. You can’t send an invitation to someone that is already part of another team.

Note that progress is tracked individually and all team members must be facing the same challenge. So if player A defeats the first boss, they can’t join a team made up of members that haven’t yet defeated that boss, nor can they join with members that have already moved on to the third one. This ensures that each player can only defeat each opponent once. Progress is reset every 2 weeks on Wednesdays, allowing players to rearrange their groups and test their swords against each boss once more.

Once a group is ready to face the chosen challenge, all members must go to the **strategy chamber** and say **start challenge**. Each attempt uses 50 energy from each player. Players are placed in a holding room until all group members are present. Once they are, the battle is prepared and as soon as it’s ready, it will start playing for all members at the same time. This may take a few minutes, so just hang out there until the fight begins, since if you leave you will miss the fight playback.

#### Commands in the Strategy Chamber

* Set a challenge: lets the team leader choose the next challenge for the team
* Gather information: gather information about the group, including a list of members and the name of the group leader
* Start challenge: lets each member enter the dungeon to face the currently selected challenge
* Check the bulletin board (or messages): lets any team member post messages for the group or check what messages have been posted
* Remove a member: lets the team leader remove a member
* Leave the group: lets any team member leave the team

#### Notes & Updates

* You can use the following items to improve your performance in the dungeons: potions, thorium spears, boar meat; the magic clock
* If you get kicked out of a dungeon fight, you should be able to rejoin it right away and hear the rest of the fight, as long as it is still going
* While waiting for others to join, a message now lets you know how many in your group are missing
* How much health the troll has left, as a percentage, is now announced once he drops below 50%
* The stone golems in Grumblefoot’s cave now have unique names

### The Challenges

Each challenge will feature different enemies, require different strategies to overcome, and deliver different rewards. The dungeons will come in three difficulty levels: Normal, Heroic, and Legendary. The three levels must be unlocked sequentially, so all bosses must be defeated in Normal mode before you can move on to Heroic mode. Players can conquer each available dungeon once per two-week period; if you lose, you can keep trying the boss again and again until you win and move on to the next one. Every other Wednesday the challenges are reset, allowing you to add or change group members and make another attempt starting over from the first boss.

Currently there is just one challenge, the Troll Cave. It has a high difficulty level, making it challenging for even the top players to advance through each mode. But more dungeons, with varying difficulty levels, will be launched in the future.

#### The Troll Cave

The Troll Cave was officially launch on November 29th, 2023. Deep within the labyrinthine tunnels of the Troll Cave, brave bands of knights will face off against trolls of various shapes and sizes, pushing ever deeper until they encounter the most powerful among them, monsters created through Azrael’s dark experiments, possessing powers beyond imagination. The cave features 3 troll bosses, each more menacing and destructive than the last: Toothripper, with fangs that bite through armor; Grumblefoot, with a stomp powerful enough to trigger an earthquake; and Firefang, with a flame whip that locks his enemies in its searing embrace. Learn more about each boss and his fearsome attacks on the Knight Manager Website.