Preview - Upcoming Leaderboard and Scoring Changes

[Cinco]

For Fun and Fairness

Our Legendary Leaderboards are Changing!

Leaderboards have been a part of Arlor's DNA since day one.
They have always been a fun way to flex your skills and your savvy (and sometimes just how much free time you have)!
Over the years, we've seen some fierce competition... and some less-than-fierce ones,
along with plenty of debate over how they work, how rewards are given, and what's fair.

We've been listening - and based on your feedback, we're making some major upgrades.

What's Changing?

Bound Rewards
Leaderboard rewards will be bound!
By 'bound' we mean stash-friendly and character-bound rewards.
Our aim is to eliminate all trade-friendly Leaderboard rewards - with the exception of Jewels.
Old-school LB purists have long criticized us for awarding trade-friendly items.
Trade-friendly rewards have encouraged deliberate ties and rank-stacking via alt characters.
Making future LB rewards bound (stash-friendly) should diminish these undesirable behaviors.

No More Locked Crate Score
Locked Crates will no longer award event score!
This has been one of the most controversial features of recent Leaderboards and we're going to revert it.
In reality no one has actually won LB simply by purchasing locked crates.
Nevertheless, this feature is very unpopular.
Old-school, new-school, casual and hardcore players have criticized this mechanism for being too P2W.
Moving forward, locked crates will not provide any event score.

No More Farmer's Elixir Score Buff
Farmer Elixirs will no longer buff event score!
While not as controversial as our process of directly awarding event score for opening locked crates,
the Score buff from "Farmer Elixirs" has been very unpopular, and worthy of reconsideration.
LB runners have been clear and consistent in their criticism of this mechanism...
And we are removing it!

More Consistent Rewards
Leaderboards will have simple, predictable rewards!
A Title. A Banner. A Badge... and that'll be it.
(apart from bragging rights, and maybe a Jewel)
Super awesome, exciting vanity items tend to fuel controversy and make runners unhappy.
Mid, weak, and otherwise unexciting vanities tend to fuel controversy and make runners unhappy.
We strongly believe that making event LB's about competition with simple and predictable rewards is the best thing.
So, moving forward: expect Leaderboards to offer a Title, a Banner, a Badge (and maybe a Jewel)!


So what's next?
Stronghold Siege is happening later this week (preview tomorrow), and the 2025 Dragkin Temple will drop a few weeks after.
Both of these events will follow the directives that I outlined above.
We look forward to hearing what you have to say about these events as they unfold.
In the meantime, please feel free to share your thoughts on the aforementioned.


Best wishes!

[CLN3696]

gg !

need few more chars

[jaeden.]

Oofda


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[Apocalyptis]

Awesome news about siege and temple leaderboards! Thanks

[Voorge]

Good change

[presp600]

No vanity's in Lb lmao yeah this games dead. Its not that the vanity yall make is bad its just that you put the better versions of the vanity in locks rather than the LB.

[Brruiser]

So the only way for a f2p player to make a decent payout is by farming 24/7 ?

[CLN3696]

No vanity's in Lb lmao yeah this games dead. Its not that the vanity yall make is bad its just that you put the better versions of the vanity in locks rather than the LB.

nah facts tho lmaoooooooooo

[Encryptions]

Its nice to have exclusive looking vanities in the lb but whats annoying to players is when the pay to obtain vanities look 10x better than the lb vanities.
Why run the event for lb which takes a ton of time and effort when you can get a vanity from the plat store that looks a whole lot better than the lb vanity set?

[Sampep]

i put the thread into a mr krabs translator : No more putting our time into trying to create “nice” looking vanities Lb so we scrapped them entirely because you guys will spend money either way in locks

[Umai]

Finally it was time, iwould say… anyway, there’s some good changes, for example the elix, or crate, kinda a shame for the bound rewards, but it’s fine. And no more vanity sets ? Wuttt @.@.

You make and put new things, that you remove afterward, you complicate your life for nothing.

Listen to the community more often.

[angelomezei7]

I strongly recommend reconsidering the vanity removal as those are the Main drive that motivates players to run it , this will rather kill the lb and event runs and it will not bring excitement unless the titles are very very special looking ones


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[presp600]

You should've exclusively made the events that are easily farmable on alts like this, this change makes 0 sense on events like Halloween or winter. Temple, Siege, easter, ect would be fine.

[ThaAnas]

"Eliminate trade friendly rewards" - The perexcisting lb vanities hopefully stay tradeable.
- So if I spend 3 billion in energies, I m awaiting 1 title, 1 badge and maybe a jewel. This just doesnt sound right.
Have to agree with the upper comment. We asked that the better vanities or the design shouldnt be in lockeds - it should be rewarded as lb vanity. Already old days if you ran events and got top lb you could sell items for profit, nowadays its so expensive to run that you barely make some value out of it due to high running costs + time spent.

[Lolifee]

Strange decision with the vanitys but I think the rest what the community wanted

[Umai]

Running for 2 weeks and if energy based to be in top lb for a title, banner and badge as rewards.

That’s wild…

[Toys]

Good thing, no more elixirs, crates that give pts, bound rewards

BUT..

If the rewards are bound, why vanitys and auras will be removed? Running lbs for title, banner and a badge, maybe a jewel (not sure)..

Can people who will run lbs, flex their bound lb vanity or auras aswell? If you consider putting vanitys and auras bound

[Americanarmy]

Its nice to have exclusive looking vanities in the lb but whats annoying to players is when the pay to obtain vanities look 10x better than the lb vanities.
Why run the event for lb which takes a ton of time and effort when you can get a vanity from the plat store that looks a whole lot better than the lb vanity set?

Vanity in crate should always be better desgined its cost money to get. the lb van is free to get and should atleast looks passible for the massess plus its easily accesible to all players who try there best i dont agree with the removal of lb vanites thats a huge no no


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[Verse]

I like where this is going and I appreciate that changes are being made to address fairness—but the execution feels off, and honestly, I think this could hurt the game more than help it.

I actually support the move to make all rewards bound—it’s a good step toward stopping manipulation and abuse. But I don’t agree with removing vanities from LB rewards altogether. Vanities are a big motivator for many players, and taking them away makes leaderboard runs feel less exciting. Also, the idea of sometimes getting a Jewel as a reward feels underwhelming and not worth the grind.

Right now, it feels like the best cosmetics are coming from pay-to-win crates, not from skill or effort. It’s starting to feel like a CS:GO case system where all the good stuff is locked behind a key. If LB rewards are going to be bound, at least include high-quality vanities that players can be proud to earn—otherwise there’s not much incentive left to compete.


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[Kflixxx]

Keep lb vanities tradeable , rest are good changed


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