Points and Levels

### Experience Points

Experience points are gained every time you start an arena fight, complete the daily adventure, start a province fight, and win a dark tower fight. You don’t get experience points for being attacked by other players. You need to accumulate experience points to advance your knight’s level; the number of experience points needed goes up with each level, and is equal to the current level + 500. Extra experience points now carry over into the next level; e.g. if you only need 10 points to reach the next level but win 100 points in a fight, the extra 90 points are retained to the next level.
You get more experience points if you:

* Buy the Docility bonus in the Store; each bonus permanently increases your experience gain by 2 percent
* Buy the Ancient War potion at the Bar; choose a level between 1 and 30 to increase your experience gain by up to 30 percent for the next hour
* Belong to the order that holds the Highlands; all order members will receive 10 percent more experience points in battles and adventures
* Have reached the rank of Legionnaire (rank 8); you gain 10 percent more experience points during battles

### Honor Points

You gain or lose honor points with every arena fight, whether you are the attacker or you were attacked. Knights are ranked based on their honor point total, and sorted into the four leagues (A, B, C, and D). Honor points (both won and lost) are doubled on Double Thursday. You also get more honor points once you achieve the rank of Knight. If you participate in the Knights Games on Saturday, any honor points you win in your regular fighting will be credited to your chosen guild.

### Order Points

For each arena victory you get either 4 or 5 order points, depending on whether your opponent was ranked lower (4 points) or higher (5 points) than you, while for each orc you kill in the dark forest you get 1 order point. These numbers are doubled during double Thursday. Order points don’t directly benefit your knight. Instead, they contribute to the point total for your order. Whichever order gets to the season goal first wins the season (and bragging rights, but nothing else), and brings the season to an end. You can check the season progress on the home page of the website.

All order points earned during a hunting session will be credited to your knight when you next open the skill. The number of order points you can earn each day (from noon to noon in Central European time) is capped at your current level. However, you can also win extra order points for certain activities:

* Each member of the winning Guild in the weekly Knights Games gets 100 points for their order
* The knight that kills the orc king gets 50,000 extra points for their order
* The knight that kills the dragon gets 100,000 extra points for their order
* The knight that kills Azrael (either solo on the top floor of the tower, or at the end of the final battle) gets 250,000 extra points for their order

### Activity Level

Activity level compares your activity to the activity of the other knights in the game; it is updated regularly throughout each day. Your activity level in comparison to other knights on Wednesdays at noon when promotions are decided will determine how much you progress and whether you promote that week. The knights with the highest activity level will promote the most, while those with the lowest activity level may be demoted. You can check your knight’s page on the website to see your activity level, or use the command my activity in the game.

Different activities in the game count towards your activity level, including fighting in the arena and tower, visiting the arrow factory, upgrades, workplace activities, etc. Auto fighting and hunting now appear to contribute to activity, as well.

Activity level is shown as a number out of 14, e.g. 11/14, and resets to 0/14 on Wednesday every week when promotions are announced. The first number indicates how you rank compared to other players on your activity points according to this scale:

After the first two numbers is a percentage; this tells you how your activity compares to the most active player, whose percentage would be 100 percent. So if your percentage is 10 percent, you’ve done one-tenth the activity of the most active player so far this week.

### Division Progress

Division progress shows your progress to the next combat division, e.g. bloodguard. You can check your knight’s page on the website to see your division progress, or use the command my activity in the game. On the website, this is shown as a progress bar with a percentage; combat division progress is only updated once a week, on Wednesdays when they announce promotions.

If you have enough activity during the week to move past 100% for your current division, you will be promoted to the next division. Any extra activity is reflected in your progress towards the next division after the one you just achieved. It is possible to skip divisions, particularly the lower ones, if your activity for the week is high enough.

If you would like to learn even more about how activity determines your chances of promotion, check out Activity and Division Progress.