Province Fights

Province fights are held every Sunday, from noon to 10pm Central European time, with members of each of the three orders competing to capture one of the four provinces. A different province is up for grabs each week, and whichever order wins the fight will hold that province for the next four weeks, until it comes up in the rotation again. During those four weeks, all order members get to enjoy the benefit that comes with the province. The rotation follows this order:

* Darkshore
* Highlands
* Swamps of Sorrow
* Plaguelands

### How to Participate

You use province coins rather than energy to participate in the province battles, with each coin being good for one fight. The goal is to secure as many province tokens as you can for your order. Opponents are randomly assigned from either of the other two orders, regardless of rank, so you will encounter opponents of MUCH higher and MUCH lower rank than you. Just as with normal fights, players don’t have to be online, or be actively participating in the province battle to be chosen as your opponent.

* Commands: province fight or province battle or start province fight or start province battle
* Tip: say province fight during the rest of the week to find out which province is coming next

#### Risk vs. Reward

If you win a province fight you win a token, which you can immediately secure for your order. However, you can also choose to keep fighting while wearing the token you have won; your attributes will be reduced by 10% in the next province fight, but if you win the second fight you will get an extra token, giving you 3 total for the 2 fights. Both the risk (in terms of reduced attributes) and the reward (in terms of extra tokens to be won) go up with each additional consecutive win, as shown below.

You can choose to secure tokens at any point, and you will secure the number of tokens shown in the total column for the number of fights you have won. If you lose, though, you lose any collected tokens that you have not yet secured. Any tokens you lose are just lost; they don’t go to your opponent, so you don’t have to worry about benefiting the other orders if you lose.

* Commands: secure tokens or yes; keep fighting or fight

### Tips

* You can continue to do regular fights while the province fights are taking place. Just say **fight** or **fast fight** to do a regular fight, vs. **province fight** to do a province fight.
* Province fights give you free experience and activity points, since you use the province coins instead of energy, but don’t come with other rewards, don't affect your honor points, and don't count towards your order point total for the day.
* At the end of the province fight, the members of the winning order get 30 province coins; second place members get 40 coins; and third place members get 50 coins. However, there is a cap of 100 of coins received this way; for example, if you still have 90 coins, you would only get 10 more coins, bringing you to 100. This cap doesn’t apply to the single coins the King gives you in the arena during the week.
* You can plan ahead for the next province fight by holding onto some of your province coins. For example, if your order looks like it will come in third this week, and you hold onto 50 coins during the fight, you’ll be given another 50 province coins at the end of the fight, bringing you to the max of 100 coins that you can receive at the end of the fights. That will give you 100 coins (plus however many the King gives you during the week) for next week’s battle.