The House of Valor challenge board provides 18 challenges for the Fateless One to complete. Those involve fighting all manner of monsters in the arena, sometimes with added handicaps or a time limit. The reward for each is a level-dependent sum of Gold (but NO XP - either for killing monsters or completing a challenge), plus unique items in some cases. The reward for beating challenges you've beaten before is 25% of the normal leveled amount of gold.
Available Fights[]
- Strength in Numbers - Defeat all of the Brownies before the announcer calls for the end of the match!
- Defeat: 40 Brownies in less than 3 min.
- Reward: Leveled amount of gold.
- From Parts Unknown - You've never seen foes more grotesque or terrifying! Who knows where the beast tamers found this lot? Challengers beware!
- Defeat: 10 Sons of Laz, followed by 4 Faer Gorta Sentinels and 3 Sons of Laz.
- Reward: Leveled amount of gold.
- Tuatha Vangard - The Champion has arranged for a group of lethal Tuatha to make an appearance! Can you defeat these Mighty Tuatha Overlords?
- Defeat: 3 Tuatha Overlords - 2 Melee and 1 Mage.
- Reward: Leveled amount of gold.
- Warrior Kings - Prepare to face Royalty, in the fallen kings and kings of the wild in this match!
- Defeat: 3 Bolgan Brutes, followed by a wave of 2 Bolgan Brutes and 2 Arcane Barghest.
- Reward: Leveled amount of gold.
- Untouchable: Jottun - Tread carefully! The match ends if you are struck!
- Defeat: 1 Jottun Runelord - Fight ends if you get hit.
- Reward: Leveled amount of gold.
- Wood for the Fire - The Champion's beats tamers have appropriated a host of woodland Fae—if you think you can match up, enter this exhibition immediately!
- Defeat: A wave of Boggarts, 2 Bog Tresh at the end of the wave.
- Reward: Leveled amount of gold and Unique staff: Ivory Staff (level 12, 61 Fire Dmg, 53 Burning Dmg over 3 sec, 10% Chance to steal 24 Health per Hit).
- Sprite Showdown - Prepare for the sprite fight of your life! In this exhibition, you'll face a horde of sprites led into battle by a trinity of champions!
- Defeat: Kill 25 Sprites, mix of normal Sprites and Fire/Storm/Frost Champions.
- Reward: Leveled amount of gold.
- Race Against Time: 1 - Defeat your enemies before the announcer calls for the ends of the match!
- Defeat: 25 Boggarts in less than 2.30 min.
- Reward: Leveled amount of gold.
- Scavengers - Defeat these vultures of the depths before they slay you and claim your corpse for their own!
- Defeat: A wave of Kobolds, followed by a wave of Giant Rats, another wave of Kobolds, a wave of Leanshe, and a final wave of one Crudok with multiple Brownies.
- Reward: Leveled amount of gold.
- Blood And Steel: 1 - Magic and sleight-of-hand tricks are prohibited from this match! Only the daring and the hearty need apply!
- Defeat: A wave of 3 Ettins, followed by a wave of 3 Jottun, followed by a wave of 3 Bolgan, and a final wave with 1 of each Ettin, Jottun and Bolgan Warriors.
- Reward: Leveled amount of gold.
- Wrath of the Storm - The most electrifying match ever! Fight through this scintillating horde of lightning-powered foes!
- Defeat: A wave of Storm Sprite Champions, a wave of Murghans and a Banshaen Priestess, and a wave with 2 Ettin War Priests.
- Reward: Leveled amount of gold and Unique hammer: Mortrost (level 15, 173 Physical Dmg, +10% Physical Dmg, +25% Dmg vs. Jottun and Ettin).
- Untouchable: Leanashe - Tread carefully! The match ends if you are struck!
- Defeat: 2 Ancient Leanashe - Fight ends if you get hit.
- Reward: Leveled amount of gold.
- Contagion - Defeat your enemies before you fall prey to their venomous attacks!
- Race against time: 2 - Defeat your enemies before the announcer calls for the ends of the match!
- From Beyond the Veil - Don't ask us what the beast tamers had to do to acquire them, but defeat these Niskaric fiends before they slay you!
- Blood and Steel: 2 - Magic and sleight-of-hand tricks are prohibited from this match! Only the daring and the hearty need apply!
- Defeat: A wave of 4 Ettins, followed by a wave of 4 Jottun, followed by a wave of 4 Bolgan, and a final wave with 2 of each Ettin, Jottun and Bolgan Warriors.
- Reward: Leveled amount of gold.
- Untouchable: Troll - Tread carefully! The match ends if you are struck!
- Defeat: Mountain Troll - Fight ends if you get hit.
- Reward: Leveled amount of gold.
- Fae Mania - The beast tamers truly out-did themselves this time! Prepare to face the largest gathering of Fae you've ever seen!
Details and Strategies[]
- Strength in Numbers
- 180 seconds to kill 40 Brownies. Area of effect weapons such as Chakrams, Staves, or Faeblades perform exceptionally well here. Spells make this even easier.
- From Parts Unknown
- Standard brawl against a group of Sons of Laz followed by more Sons of Laz and some Faer Gorta Sentinels.
- Tuatha Vangard
- Brawl against 3 Tuatha Overlords, 1 Sorcerer, 1 Warrior, and 1 Rogue. Take the sorcerer out first, then duke it out with the others.
- Warrior Kings
- 3 Bolgan Thugs, then 2 Bolgan Brutes with 2 Arcane Barghests. Best to stay away from those Bolgans, so ranged attacks and spells do well. Constant dodging required, and Mages should watch out for the Barghests, as they drain mana.
- Untouchable: Jottun
- 1 Jottun Runelord. Since the Fateless One cannot be touched in this fight it's best to use ranged attacks/spells, or batter the Jottun with a constant stream of attacks. Rogues can also use Smoke Bomb to assassinate the lone enemy. Reckoning Mode helps as well.
- Wood for the Fire
- 4 Waves of assorted Boggarts, followed by two Bog Threshes. The Fateless One should equip fire weapons and spells to quickly dispatch the monsters.
- Sprite Showdown
- Elemental mayhem, all 3 Sprite Champions are present, plus a handful of regular Sprites. The Fateless One will need to dodge and block constantly to survive. Elemental resistance Potions will make this somewhat easier.
- Race Against Time: 1
- 150 seconds to defeat 25 Boggart Zealots, 5 at a time with new ones spawning to replace dead ones. Fire area of effect attacks and spells are most effective.
- Scavengers
- An assortment of Kobolds, Giant Rats and Ancient Leanashe in three waves. Venomguard Potions should be useful. Otherwise a regular brawl.
- Blood And Steel: 1
- The Fateless One has to fight against 4 waves of brutal melee foes without using skills or magic. Once again ranged weapons are useful, with lots of dodging and blocking needed to survive. Poison weapons do well in whittling down the monters' HP, and reckoning mode can easily clear out a wave. The waves are: 3 Ettin Brutes; 3 Jottun Warriors; 3 Bolgan Brutes; and a final wave of one of each monster. You can use magic before accepting the matchup at the board and still keep the effects for the match, so it might be wise to buff up beforehand.
- Wrath of the Storm
- Similar to Sprite Showdown, this fight involves only Sprite Storm Champions and regular Sprites, but also has Banshaen and Ettin War Priests in waves. Current Stopper Potions are useful.
- Untouchable: Leanashe
- This one is tricky, the Fateless One cannot be touched and the 2 Leanashe have ranged attacks. For rogues this can be easily completed by using Smoke Bomb to assassinate one enemy and quickly overwhelm the other. Mages should have no problems either, the summon does well to distract the Leanashe. Warriors will need to be extra careful and dodge often, or alternately take a more defensive approach by standing with shields up, and then using Harpoon during any lull of projectile fire to reel each Leanashe in for a quick disposal by slashing/hammering. Use Reckoning Mode for an easier time with this one.
- Contagion
- A standard brawl against Giant Rats, Pestilent Brownies and a Crudok.
- Race against time: 2
- 240 seconds to defeat 2 Wolves, 2 Ettin Brutes, 2 Jottun Chieftains and a Jottun Runelord.
- From Beyond the Veil
- 2 Niskaru Hunters, 2 Niskaru Bloodhunters and an orange named Niskaru Horrinox (tyrant).
- Blood and Steel: 2
- Same as Blood and Steel: 1, except the first 3 waves are of 4 monsters, and the final wave has two of each kind of monster. Reckoning mode is best left for the final wave. To dispose of Bolgans the Fateless One needs to approach and lure them into lowering guard and attacking. You can use magic before accepting the matchup at the board and still keep the effects for the match, so it might be wise to buff up beforehand.
- Untouchable: Troll
- Same as the previous untouchable challenges, this time a single Mountain Troll. Best attacked from a range or using magic/traps. Its attacks are easily dodged. Use Reckoning Mode for an easier time with this one.
- Fae Mania
- An assorted selection of Boggarts, Sprites, Barghests, Sprite Champions, Arcane Barghests, and Ancient Leanashe. All served in bite-sized waves and topped with a Mountain Troll. Nothing unusual.
Notes[]
- Some of the challenges have additional weapon rewards when completed for the first time.
- There is NO reward for completing all the challenges.
- Fights can be repeated for a smaller reward (1/4 of the full gold reward).
- For Untouchable fights, shielding often and throwing the occasional long-range attack is a viable strategy if you don't mind a slow fight.
- For Blood and Steel fights, all active abilities will be disabled, whether or not they are construable as "magic" or "sleight-of-hand". However, temporarily-activatable abilities, such as Battle Frenzy, Envenomed Edge, Blade Honing, or Sphere of Protection will be usable if the player has them already running.
- You can get a few levels at the House of Valor: After you finished all the tasks from the board you can fill your Fate Bar up if you repeat the Race Against Time:1 Challenge and finish the Untouchable: Troll task in Reckoning Mode, you can get Exp this way and on Level 36 it gave roughly 1/20 of a Level.