Keep

The Garrisons are the central keeps in each of the Alpine Borderlands.

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Keeps are massive structures that require a significant, sustained effort to capture. You will need siege weapons and a large group of adventurers to breach a keep's walls and defeat its lord.

• Keeps have many guards and tough defenses.
• Keeps can also be upgraded to have their own waypoint.
• Siege weapons are a good way to break into a keep.

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A keep is an objective in world versus world. Keeps provide a tactical advantage by assisting the organization of groups and also generate 8 points of war score every 5 minutes. An opposing group must break down the gate or walls in order to reach the interior to defeat the keep's lord to capture the objective. There are three keeps in each World versus World map.

Each keep has nearby resource camps, which can be claimed to replenish a keep's supply. Each resource camp will periodically send a dolyak supply caravan to the keep to bring it supply.

Once a keep has been captured, all enemy players will become  Marked and visible on the map.

List of keeps

Eternal Battlegrounds

• Red World Overlook
• Blue World Valley
• Green World Lowlands

Red Alpine Borderlands

• Dreaming Bay
• Stoic Rampart
• Etheron Hills

Red Desert Borderlands

• Stoic Rampart
• Blistering Undercroft
• Osprey's Palace

Green Desert Borderlands

• Impassive Rampart
• Scorching Undercroft
• Harrier's Palace

Green Alpine Borderlands

• Dreadfall Bay
• Green Alpine Garrison
• Shadaran Hills

Blue Desert Borderlands

• Hardened Rampart
• Torrid Undercroft
• Shrike's Palace

Blue Alpine Borderlands

• Ascension Bay
• Blue Alpine Garrison
• Askalion Hills

Edge of the Mists

• Arid Fortress
• Thunder Hollow
• Overgrown Fane

Objective upgrades

Automatic upgrades

Tier	Upgrade		Description
Secured (20 dolyaks)		Build Pots of Oil	Fortifies the objective with pots of burning oil.
	Build Cannons	Fortifies the objective with cannons.
	Additional Guards	Recruits additional guards to protect the objective.
	Storage Expansion	Increases the objective's maximum supply hold size by 200.
Reinforced (40 dolyaks)		Reinforced Walls	Increases the health and defense values of the objective's walls and gates to reinforced levels.
	Build Mortars	Fortifies the objective with mortars.
	Recruit Services	Recruits a siege-weapon vendor, a banker, and an armor repairer to the objective.
	Recruit Patrols	Recruit guards to patrol the objective.
Fortified (80 dolyaks)		Fortified Walls	Increases the health and defense values of the objective's walls and gates to fortified levels.
	Build Waypoint	Fortifies the objective with a waypoint.
	Guard Training	Increases the level of all guards at the objective.
	Storage Expansion	Increases the objective's maximum supply hold size by 250.

Tactics

Tier	Tactic	Availability	Description
(Hold for 10min)	Minor Supply Drop	All objectives	Activate this Tactic to have 200 supply deposited at the objective.
	Healing Mist	All objectives	Activate this tactic to temporarily summon machines that will heal allies at the objective.
(Hold for 30min)	Centaur Banner	Towers, Keeps, Castle	Summon a Centaur Banner at your objective. This banner provides the wielder access to powerful offensive skills, as well as a break bar.
	Turtle Banner	Towers, Keeps, Castle	Summon a Turtle Banner at your objective. This banner provides the wielder access to powerful defensive skills, as well as a break bar.
	Dragon Banner	Towers, Keeps, Castle	Summon a Dragon Banner at your objective. This banner provides the wielder access to powerful offensive skills, as well as a break bar.
(Hold for 60min)	Emergency Waypoint	Towers, Keeps, Castle	Activate this tactic to temporarily create a uncontestable waypoint at the objective.
	Siege Dampener	Towers, Keeps, Castle	Activate this tactic to temporarily make all walls and gates take reduced siege damage.

Improvements

Tier	Tactic	Availability	Description
(Hold for 10min)	Sabotage Depot	All objectives	Deploy bombs at the supply depot that will explode if the objective is captured by an enemy team. The explosion will destroy all remaining supply at the objective.
	Hardened Gates	Towers, Keeps, Castle	Greatly reduces nonsiege weapon damage to gates. Hardened Gates
(Hold for 30min)	Iron Guards	All objectives	Guards gain Iron Hide, reducing incoming damage by 50%.
	Hardened Siege	Towers, Keeps, Castle	Greatly reduces non-siege weapon damage to cannons, mortars, and oil pots.
(Hold for 60min)	Auto Turrets	Towers, Keeps, Castle	Automatic turrets deployed above the objective's gates.
	Presence of the Keep	Keeps	Allied players gain double the effectiveness of the keep's objective aura while within the perimeter of the keep.

Notes

• Capturing shrines surrounding the keeps in the Desert Borderlands while owning the keep itself will grant additional effects to allies of that world.
  • Shrine of Earth
  • Shrine of Fire
  • Shrine of Air

Gallery

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