Arenas come as part of the MMO’s latest update, which also ushers in expedition mutators, a Varangian Knights quest chain - where you can “continue the story of the Varangian Knights and their conquest for power” - a PvP rewards track, and “a whole host of other updates”. Each Arena match is a Best-of-five contest and the first to secure three of the two-minute-long rounds wins. That said, “if the battle lingers”, “a deadly ring of fire will push players to the centre of the arena, forcing combatants to engage or die!” To get involved, you need to be level 20 or over and allow on-demand PvP gameplay from anywhere in Aeternum in your Modes menu - talk to fight promoter Maximus Marcellus in Everfall if you need more information to get yourself arena-ready. The latest update also includes Return to the Depths, a new challenge for end-game rewards that is part of the weekly expedition mutator rotation, along with three others: Overgrown, Barbaric, and Fiendish. The former focuses on nature damage and resistance, the latter nocturnal, whilst Barbaric focuses on physical damage. For more, including an in-depth dive into the new PvP rewards track, head on over to Steam. March saw the arrival of New World’s Heart of Madness update, bringing the game’s main storyline to a close with a new endgame expedition, Tempest’s Heart, which promises a “final showdown” against Isabella in a corrupted dimension of reality.
