Paths of Adventure

*For collecting Chests, see also Wanted Missions or Missions.*

**Paths of Adventure** is a collection of in-game challenges introduced in June 2023 as part of Version 58, continuing the 2020 **Path of Valor** with the new parallel **Path of Giants**. The paths give out **Daily Challenges** and separate, longer-term ones in a 4-week cycle. Their completion is rewarded with **Points**; after a given number, a **Milestone** is reached and the player receives a reward: players who purchased the respective premium **Pass** receive extra rewards at every milestone while free-to-play receive only lesser rewards at every second milestone.

## Path of Valor

**Path of Valor** was introduced in February 2020 (Version 26). There are three **Daily Challenges** and longer-term **Valor Challenges** and rewards from Milestones, achieved through the accumulation of **Valor Points**. Since June 6, 2022 (Version 48.1), Path of Valor has been condensed into 4 weeks (incorrectly announced as "30 days") with 30 milestones, running consecutively starting on Mondays – in 2023, week 3, 7 etc., i. e. from 13 Feb, 13 Mar, … (Earlier it used to run 50 days, with a waiting period after it ended.)

### Valor Points and Milestones

**Valor Points** are accumulated by completing Daily Challenges or a Valor Challenge Tier; during some Challenge Events etc. there are also extra **Event Challenges**. Each Path of Valor rewards the player for reaching certain **Milestones**. There is a total of 30 Milestones, the last needing a total of 24.475 points. It is possible to accumulate even more points (see calculations below), after which an extra **Valor Chest** is given for each 1000 VP (contains random "valuable loot", though players' opinion varies).

The free Path gives a reward for every other Milestone, while the paid-for premium **Valor Pass** serves an additional reward every Milestone. The rewards have to be collected separately, any time after they are reached. (After the end a Path's term, all uncollected rewards are given to the player. This may be used to temporarily "bank" rewards, i. e. Trainer Heroes of an undesired element that would otherwise take up storage space.)

By clicking on any not yet achieved Milestone one can see how many points are missing.

Important Milestones for free Path of Valor are No 18 giving Gems, No 6 and 26 Emblems, No 20 and 28 unfarmable Ascension Materials.

### Daily Challenges

**Daily Challenges** are tasks that change every 24 hours (at 8:00 UTC): complete map or quest stages, gather materials, produce items, defeat enemies, and so on. Every Daily Challenge is worth 150 Valor Points upon completion. Three Daily Challenges are chosen randomly per day. The following list shows most of the Daily Challenges:

### Valor Challenges

**Valor Challenges** are six tasks constant throughout the whole 4 weeks, but gradually increasing in requirements after each **Tier** is completed (individual tiers are numbered in Roman numerals much like Missions). Every fully completed Valor Challenge rewards 2500 Points; these are distributed between its Tiers (there are 4 to 10, most often 5) in a faster-than-linear progression (favouring the final Tiers, even in a "per capita" comparison). This constitutes a significant share of Valor Points gained (3 Dailies times 150 points times 28 days is just 12,600, out of 24,475 to the last Milestone), so the Valor Challenges are a faster method of reaching milestones, and skipping some kind altogether makes it very hard to reach the end of the Path (the reserve is just 3,125).

Six Valor Challenges in each Path of Valor are selected from 11(?) possible; they change a bit from one Path to another although completing Daily Challenges below is always included and others (like Attack in War or Summon) are present in more than half cases.

So filling this Valor Challenge within 28 days allows skipping 11 Dailies, or just less than 4 full days.

Below are four other frequent Valor Challenges, updated to 2022 (names shortened to fit the screen).

 Sum Total: 33 Attacks in Wars | 2500

 Sum Total: 151 Summons | 2500

 Sum: 19 Titans | 2500

 Sum Total: 19 Titans | 2500

 Sum Total: 2075 enemies | 2500

**WARNING**: the values in the listing below come from mid-2020, even before another round of changes in 2021 and need to be updated as above; the current tables are available in the FAQ on the forum linked below.

 Defeat 100 Enemy Heroes in Raids
 Defeat 200 Enemy Heroes in Raids
 Defeat 300 Enemy Heroes in Raids

 Win 10 battles in the Tournament
 Win 15 battles in the Tournament
 Win 20 battles in the Tournament
 Win 25 battles in the Tournament
 Win 30 battles in the Tournament

 Win 10 Raids in Silver Arena
 Win 20 Raids in Gold Arena
 Win 40 Raids in Platinum Arena
 Win 60 Raids in Diamond Arena

 Gain 5.000 Experience
 Gain 10.000 Experience
 Gain 25.000 Experience
 Gain 65.000 Experience
 Gain 150.000 Experience

## Path of Giants

The **Path of Giants** has *six* Daily Challenges worth only 100 points (mostly dealing with Raids; there are also almost regular "Defeat 10 monsters of X element in Season Y" and "Win Map Stages in Season X - Province Y [rather far along, so rewarding the more experienced players only for progressing with the story] without using Loot Tickets") and three Weekly ones worth 1250.

After 2 runs, the Path of Giants was tweaked from August 2023: Daily Missions reward was increased to 100 points (originally 90) and "certain missions … just a bit too difficult or frustrating to clear … either toned down or removed entirely" (for example, the "Defeat 10 monsters of X element in Season Y" was originally 15, i. e. achievable in a single battle for some combinations but requiring two or even three in others).

### Milestones

Completion of Path of Giants Challenges give **Giants Points**. After accumulating a set amount, a **Milestone** is reached, giving a reward of Gems, Flasks, Bundles, Trainer Heroes, and Aethers.

## Forum links

* https://forum.smallgiantgames.com/tag/path-of-valor
	+ https://forum.smallgiantgames.com/t/path-of-valor-pov-28-day-long-version-general-information-discussion-master-thread/272310
* https://forum.smallgiantgames.com/tag/path-of-giants
	+ https://forum.smallgiantgames.com/t/master-discussion-path-of-giants-pog-general-information-discussion/321436

## Footnotes

1. ↑ (*Valour* for those who prefer British spelling, but there is no such an option in the game's language selection)
2. ↑ The challenge is completed only when the Hero's Special Skill is activated during the battle; the original wording was just "Win Raids with … Heroes" and led to some confusion.