Trials Of The Ancestors

Trials of the Ancestors

Spin the wheel. Beat the clock. Face the curse.

Trials of the Ancestors turns your leveling into a game of chance and nerve. Every trial is drawn on a prize wheel, you get 10 minutes, and failure means a curse. It works on Classic Era, Hardcore and Season of Discovery, and the whole thing is just /tota.

How it works

1. Choose your path at login: Trial of the Living (normal) or Trial of the Ancestors (Hardcore look and feel).
2. Pick your two primary professions so the wheel only gives you tasks that fit.
3. Spin the prize wheel. It is matched to your level and professions and draws from 270+ tasks, so you won't get the same one twice in a row.
4. Beat the timer. Most trials give you 10:00, Nemesis and Chain trials 15:00.
5. Win points and fanfare, or lose and spin the curse wheel.

Features

• Prize wheel: a segmented disc with a pointer, chasing rim lights, peg clicks and a soft landing on the drawn category. Losing sends you to a dark curse wheel.
• 270+ tasks: combat, profession gathering and crafting, secondary professions (first aid, cooking, fishing), exploration, and open-world challenges. The open-world ones include elite kills, killing higher-level enemies, specific creature types, caves, and fighting while low on health.
• Greed or Need: accept a trial as it is, or double the stakes for double the task and triple the points.
• Nemesis trials: hunt a named foe or any elite in your zone, with 15 minutes and big rewards. Your kills are recorded in the Nemesis Chronicle.
• Chain Trials: three trials in a row on one shared clock. Choose Mixed, Combat, Profession or Exploration.
• Daily Trial: one fixed challenge per day for bonus points.
• Bonus goals and random events: optional goals such as finishing fast, staying above 50% health, not jumping or not mounting. In the middle of a trial you may get a time surge, a gift of points, or a new bonus goal.
• Curses: light penalties after a failure, and nastier ones in Nemesis, Chain and Hardcore. No curse lasts longer than 15 minutes, none can harm your character, and nothing ever asks you to die or delete items.
• Progression: a leaderboard, win-streak multiplier (up to +50%), five ranks (Initiate to Legend), 15 achievements, and monthly seasons with a Hall of Fame.
• Two visual styles:
  • Living: warm faction-themed window with an amber timer.
  • Hardcore: a blood-red Soul Globe that drains as time runs out, a restless screen edge in the last 2 minutes, violent blinking and a heartbeat in the last 30 seconds, and cracks spreading across the frame.
• Collapsible window and orb: keep it small, expand it when you want, or collapse it into a glowing glass orb.
• Menu, minimap button and options: toggle sounds, screen flash, window shake, voice lines, the wheel animation and more.
• Respin: if a task is impossible for you, re-roll it (a small point cost applies once a trial is running).
• Custom sounds: drop your own .ogg files into a Sounds folder to replace the built-in effects and voice lines.

Commands

Good to know

• English client only.
• Everything is honour-based where the game can't verify it (the Claim button is there for that), so the addon is as hard as you make it.
• Your points, ranks and achievements are saved per character.

Feedback, bug reports and task ideas are very welcome. Good luck, and may the ancestors be kind.