Overview
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- FP: The Royal War is a Tier 6, 4-player operation in the World of Flashpoint episode. It is also available as elite version. It requires a Combat Rating of 280+ for the Normal and Elite versions while the Casual version requires Level 15+.
- It was also available as a Tier 7 Flashback Alert SoA Flashback: The Royal War in Shadows Over Argo during chapter events.
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World of Flashpoint · Combat Rating · Normal · Elite · Casual · Flashback · Shadows Over Argo · chapter eventsStory
- Flashpoint Batman has a strategy for dealing with the Royal War: break the impasse by taking away the super-weapon of Atlantis and the super-shield of New Themyscira. If he's right, that will be enough to convince his true target to reveal himself. You and the Flash are going to help.
- The exobyte heroes/villains meet with Flash and Flashpoint Batman in the coordinates the latter gave them in Queen's Row Penitentiary. The Flash states that he's having difficulties keeping both the original and the Flashpoint timelines in his head, as he has memories of living two lives, and suspects that the Royal War is Professor Zoom's work. Flashpoint Batman lays out his plan to end the stand-still between the Amazons and the Atlanteans. When the Flash share his concerns about flaring up the conflict, Batman simply replies "I don't care," as Zoom is his one and only priority. Flash shares his preference for his Batman, the group start moving towards the location of the Atlantean super-weapon.
- After passing through imperial soldiers as well as members of the Silent School, the group gets to the Atlantean super-weapon - the Geo-Pulse - which is being guarded by Emperor Aquaman himself. Batman orders Flash to use his powers to offset the Geo-Pulse's vibrations while the rest of the team deals with Aquaman. Upon being defeated, Aquaman regrets that Flashpoint Mera infiltrated New Themyscira and died for nothing. Batman vows to finish Mera's job if he explains how to bypass the Amazons' super-shield, and Aquaman explains that she used magic points the way to the beach in New Themyscira above. The exobyte heroes/villains proceed while Batman and Flash stay behind to deactivate the Geo-Pulse to prevent it from sinking the surface. Aquaman wishes them group the same fate as Mera's if they fail.
- The exobyte heroes/villains arrive at the New Themyscira beach, where Amazons and Atlanteans fight each other. Go through the battlefield and into a structure built underneath the modern city above with Amazons inside. Flash and Batman catch up to them, and they defeat the guards and enter the temple. There, they find Flashpoint Circe, who's being forced by Queen Diana to power the shield that protects Amazonian territory. Flash questions Queen Diana's ethics, which she takes it as an offense and attacks them. The team subdues Queen Diana, setting Circe free. As the witch flees, Flash wonders about Professor Zoom's whereabouts, but Batman guarantees that he will show.
- Zoom arrives on cue, bringing Emperor Aquaman with him and make the two royals face each other. Flash expected Zoom's presence to clear his memory of what lead to Flashpoint, but he's still confused. With disdain, Zoom reveals that Flash himself was to blame for everything. And that's when Flash remembers that he changed time to save his mother, which caused the Flashpoint Paradox. Zoom declare he's going to finally end Flash's life, and the group face him. After defeating the villain, Flash finds he was in possession of some sort of gizmo that seemed connected to the Speed Force. Batman tells the others to give it to Flashpoint Cyborg to be analysed while he questions Zoom.
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Queen's Row Penitentiary · his Batman · Silent School · Speed Force · Flashpoint CyborgCharacters
- The Flash
- Flashpoint Batman
- Flashpoint Circe
- Emperor Aquaman
- Adolescent Trench Creature
- Brine Hatchling
- Brine Hulk
- Jellyfish
- Trench Creature
- Queen Diana
- Aphrodite(elite only)
- Ares
- Hades
- Volatile Shade
- Hera
- Zeus
- Professor Zoom
- Flashpoint Amazons
- Flashpoint Atlanteans
- Imperial Atlantean Soldier
- Silent School Acolyte
- Silent School Adept
- Seahorse Display (Vendor)
- Grecian Lidded Basket (Vendor)
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The Flash · Flashpoint Batman · Emperor Aquaman · Brine Hatchling · Brine Hulk · Queen Diana · Aphrodite · Ares · Hades · Hera · Zeus · Professor Zoom · Flashpoint Amazons · Flashpoint Atlanteans · Seahorse Display (Vendor)Objetives
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The Flash · Flashpoint Batman · Emperor Aquaman · Queen Diana · Professor Zoom| # | Objectives |
|---|---|
| 1 | Speak with The Flash and Flashpoint Batman |
| 2 | Confront Emperor Aquaman |
| 3 | Defeat Emperor Aquaman |
| 4 | Swim Up to New Themyscira |
| 5 | Find Underground Temple |
| 6 | Get Past Temple Guards |
| 7 | Confront Queen Diana |
| 8 | Defeat Queen Diana |
| 9 | Defeat Professor Zoom |
| 10 | Exit New Themyscira and Leave the Operation |
Walkthrough
- You can skip all the mobs in the first map, Atlantis Frontline. With Movement Modes and Shield Powers, you can rush right to the end where Emperor Aquaman is and start the boss fight. The arena will be locked behind you, preventing the mobs from entering.
First boss: Emperor Aquaman
- On PS, Hold Square to Lunge
- Mechanics:
- Periodically, Geo-Pulse Cracks will spawn on the ground. There will be on-screen text when this occurs, stating the following: "Move away from the Geo-Pulse Cracks leaking from the Ground!". After approximately 6 seconds blue columns of water energy ( Geo-Pulse Emitter) will spawn in the affected areas. Players hit will take considerable damage in the normal version, and heavy damage or KO'd in the elite version.
- The Flash will be close to the Geo-Pulse Emitter throughout the boss encounter, and adds that spawn may try to attack The Flash. It is important that these adds either get KO'd as soon as possible, and/or get pulled and aggro'd by the tank so that they aren't attacking The Flash. If The Flash is KO'd in the fight it is likely that the Geo-Pulse Emitter will gain full strength, spawning Geo-Pulse Cracks across the entire boss room and likely leading to a group wipe unless Emperor Aquaman is defeated in time (enrage mechanic).
- Water Spray: Emperor Aquaman jumps and fires a cone of water at a targeted player. Does damage over time. Can be lunged/countered.
- Violent Water: During the fight, bubbles will float around the map. If a player gets near one of these they will take heavy hits of damage and will lose power while affected.
- Gunship Strike: Periodically, Emperor Aquaman will state the following in VA: "All Atlantis gunships, fire!" Several orbital strike AOEs will spawn on all players, and players will need to evade and move away from these straight away. If affected, players will take significant damage and may be KO'd in the elite version.
- Emperor Aquaman may summon Trench Creature, Brine Hulk or Adolescent Trench Creature adds to assist him in battle. There will be on-screen text when this occurs, stating: "Aquaman summons Sea Creatures to fight at his side!". Aquaman will also say in VA: "Come, creatures of the sea! Destroy these assassins!"
- Jellyfish adds will be present through the boss encounter. They can be KO'd. If players get too close to them they will take damage over time and may be stunned.
- (Elite only) Emperor Aquaman may rise in the water a little while having a red skull icon above his head. He will then summon a large wave forward and then backward in the direction he is facing. This should be evaded by being out of range or affected players should block, otherwise this will deal heavy damage and may KO.
- After beating Emperor Aquaman, you could avoid fighting the mobs by rushing to the portal to the next map.
- The Flash is convinced Professor Zoom caused the Flashpoint timeline. Batman states that the war is in a stalemate as the Atlanteans have a superweapon and the Amazons have a super shield; he proposes to disable both to draw out Zoom in the ensuing escalation.
- You must clear the mobs in New Themyscira Temple to proceed however. Queen Diana is revealed to have Circe captive to power the super shield. The group will then confront Queen Diana (the Flashpoint Wonder Woman).
Second boss: Queen Diana
- Mechanics:
- Occasionally, Queen Diana may jump over to a random player and do a Jump Punch, doing some damage to players in nearby range and knocking affected players back.
- Bracer Deflection: Queen Diana may have a red skull icon above her head, and state the following in voice over: "Your lack of combat discipline will be your undoing!" She will then do a reflect ability, blocking while having a shield icon above her head. If players attack Queen Diana directly those players will take heavy damage, or likely KO'd in the elite version. While this occurs, Flashpoint Batman will say the following in voice over: "Don't attack if Queen Diana blocks!"
- (Elite only) Queen Diana will have a red skull icon above her head while looking at and targeting a random player with a yellow/purple AOE ability, which will spawn multiple times on that player and follow that player for a time. This will do considerable damage over time and the player affected will need to move away until the AOEs stop tracking that player. Standing still (or not moving fast enough) with this ability will in all probability cause a KO. It is also best practice to avoid other players - or for other players to avoid the affected player while this mechanic is active. (It is also worth noting that if a player is KO'd from this that the AOEs will stay on top of that player for a time, so players trying to revive should have this in mind and only attempt to revive that player when it is safe to do so)
Matching Symbol mechanic
- Periodically, all group members will receive an Ancient Curse, which will deal damage over time to the other three group members. When this first occurs, you will receive heavy damage over time due to having 3 Ancient Curse mechanics from the other 3 group members.
- There will be on-screen text stating the following: "Stand on Tile with matching Symbol to Remove Curse". Flashpoint Batman will also say in VA: "Find the matching symbol and stand on it".
- All players will receive a different Greek Symbol icon above their heads. On the floor will be different tiles with Greek Symbols on them. In the regular version there will be 4, and in elite there will be 8 (half of which won't be symbols any group members have at the time).
- Players should move over and stand on the Greek symbol tile which matches the icon above their head. Then, the symbol will be removed and will no longer deal damage over time to the other group members via Ancient Curse. When all 4 players have matched their symbols the Ancient Curse damage over time will stop. Although you cannot avoid receiving the symbol, dodge can negate damage from Ancient Curse, so using dodge rolls to reach the tile can reduce damage taken.
- If a player stands on a Greek symbol tile that doesn't match the icon above their head they will trigger a Greek Rune damage over time on themselves, taking heavy damage or will most likely be KO'd.
- Note that the following phases below may not all occur in the same boss attempt.
Hera phase:
- Queen Diana will say the following in VA: "Beloved Hera! Grant me your favour!" A cloud portal at the north of the map will spawn and Hera will appear.
- Shortly after, there will be on-screen text stating the following: "Repeatedly Trample a Field of Lilies to Get Rid of It"
- There will be small areas of flowers around the map which players can walk over to get rid of them. While they are active there will be Field of Lilies AOEs across the map, dealing damage over time and grounding affected players.
Zeus phase:
- Queen Diana will say the following in VA: "Zeus, king of the storm! Raise death upon them!" A cloud portal at the north of the map will spawn and Zeus will appear.
- Shortly after, there will be on-screen text stating the following: "Move Away from others if Marked by Zeus!"
- Some/all players will receive a white lightning icon (proximity marker) above their heads, and will need to stay away from other players.
- Shortly after, affected players will be hit by Empyreal Lightning. This will deal greater damage if players are close together.
Ares phase:
- Queen Diana will say the following in VA: "Fearsome Ares! Crush all who oppose me!" A cloud portal at the north of the map will spawn and Ares will appear.
- Shortly after, there will be on-screen text stating the following: "Avoid Ares' Charge or Block to Reduce Damage!"
- Battle Charge: Ares will charge three times while active. Players will need to avoid his charges or block to mitigate incoming damage. If players are hit directly they will take heavy damage and will be knocked back.
- In between charges, Ares may punch the ground (more info needed)
Hades phase:
- A cloud portal at the north of the map will spawn and Hades will appear.
- Volatile Shade adds will spawn. These should either be KO'd by the group as soon as possible or at least stunned.
- After a time the Volatile Shade may have a red skull icon above their head. If they aren't defeated or stunned in time they will explode ( Blissful Lamentation), disappearing from the fight but causing massive group wide damage in the process.
Aphrodite phase (Elite only):
- A cloud portal at the north of the map will spawn and Aphrodite will appear.
- One player may receive a pink heart icon above their head, and another player may receive a broken pink heart icon above their head. The player the broken heart won't be able to use their powers. (More info needed)
- If a player with a pink heart icon moves close to a player with a broken heart icon, the other player will return to normal and they will be able to use their powers again.
- After defeating her, Circe is freed and she teleports away. Professor Zoom appears with Aquaman in tow, tossing the nemeses off to the side to fight on their own, while you confront Zoom. The Flash realises he caused the Flashpoint timeline himself by going back in time and attempting to save his mother.
Last boss: Professor Zoom
- Reasonable difficulty in the regular version, however can be tricky in the elite version.
- On PS, Hold R1 to Block
- On PS, Hold Square to Lunge
- Mechanics:
- Vortex Trap: Professor Zoom may sometimes spin around very fast while moving across the room. This may draw players in and deal damage over time to affected players. Players may need to roll away and maintain distance while this is occurring.
- Professor Zoom may hard stun all players, and spawn a red vortex animation over himself. There will be on-screen text the first time this occurs, stating the following: "Break Free and Interrupt Zoom before it's Too Late!", and The Flash will say a similar warning in voice over. You will need to spam a button to break out (the Square button on PS), and lunge Professor Zoom to counter/interrupt his attack. If Professor Zoom isn't interrupted in time he will use his Detonating Momentum attack, dealing massive group wide damage and causing affected players to be grounded.
- Velocitug: Professor Zoom may briefly have a red skull icon above his head. There will be on-screen text stating the following: "Block to avoid being Pulled to Zoom!" Professor Zoom will do a spinning attack, trying to draw players in. Affected players will take heavy damage and may be KO'd with enough exposure to this mechanic, regular or elite version.
- Whirling Arms: Professor Zoom may teleport to a random player and do a cone attack, which may pull players in and do large damage. In the elite version this can KO players. This can be stopped by a player lunging him to interrupt this ability. (On PS, Hold Square to lunge)
- As the fight continues, Speed Force Tempests may spawn. There will be on-screen text stating: "Stay away from Speed Force Tempests". If players are affected by these they will deal considerable damage over time.
Speed Force Energy Phase (Elite only):
- Later in the fight, there will be onscreen text stating the following: "Disperse Speed Force Energy before it can Heal Zoom!"
- 4 Speed Force Energy portals will spawn on each side of the room, with a timer icon. Players will need to activate all of these within approximately 5 seconds of them appearing or they will heal Professor Zoom. The more portals that are missed the more Professor Zoom will heal.
- If Professor Zoom heals there will be on-screen text stating: "Speed Force Energy Heals Zoom!"
- You will need group members to be positioned close to where these portals are going to spawn, as the reaction time is very short. You will also ideally need the entire group to stay alive for most or all of this boss encounter in the elite version. If you have especially agile players they may need to activate 2 of these portals.
- Due to various other mechanics, such as Whirling Arms and Velocitug, you will require a tank for best results in this boss encounter in elite. Furthermore the tank may need to run a group breakout/immunity ability in their loadout, and pop it during this phase so that players can securely activate the portals in time without being pulled away by other mechanics.
- When Zoom is defeated, Flash finds a strange gizmo with Speed Force energy and takes the team onward while Batman stays to interrogate Zoom.
Briefings and Investigations
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The Cosmic Speed Force (Investigations) · The Flashing Lights of Gotham City (Briefings)Feats
- A Daydream Believer and a Homecoming Queen (All): During World of Flashpoint: The Royal War (Event, Normal, or Elite), listen to Emperor Aquaman and Queen Diana taunt one another (10 Points), grants title: the Eavesdropper
- Brothers and Sisters in Arms (all): During World of Flashpoint: The Royal War (Event, Normal, or Elite), defeat 162 Atlanteans and Amazons fighting on the beach below New Themyscira (25 Points), grants title: the Warmonger
- Greeking with the Enemy: During World of Flashpoint: The Royal War (Normal), defeat Queen Diana after matching all Greek symbols within 6 seconds of their appearance (50 Points)
- Look Who's Blocking: During World of Flashpoint: The Royal War (Normal or Elite), defeat Queen Diana without anyone taking damage from Queen Diana's Bracer Deflection (10 Points)
- No Boomin', No Cry: During World of Flashpoint: The Royal War (Normal), defeat Queen Diana 4 times without allowing Hades' Volatile Shades to detonate (25 Points)
- Overfishing: During runs of World of Flashpoint: The Royal War (Normal or Elite), defeat 90 Sea Creatures (25 Points)
- Resisted Twister: During World of Flashpoint: The Royal War (Normal or Elite), defeat Professor Zoom without anyone touching a Speed Force Tempest (25 Points), grants title: The Tempestuous
- Temple Runner: During World of Flashpoint: The Royal War (Normal), defeat the guards at the Temple Entrance in 26 seconds or less (25 Points)
- Weeping with the Fishes: During World of Flashpoint: The Royal War (Normal or Elite), defeat Emperor Aquaman without knocking out any Brine Hulks or Trench Creatures (25 Points)
- Where Have All the Flower Gone: During runs of World of Flashpoint: The Royal War (Normal or Elite), trample 36 of Hera's Fields of Lilies; Queen Diana must be defeated for the trampled lilies to count (25 Points)
- You Got Jelly in my Boss Fight: During World of Flashpoint: The Royal War (Normal or Elite), defeat Emperor Aquaman without knocking out any Jellyfish (10 Points), grants title: Friend of Jellyfish
- Elite
- Assisted Living (Elite): During World of Flashpoint: The Royal War (Elite), defeat Professor Zoom after he has been healed by Speed Force Energy exactly twice (25 Points)
- Geo-Repulsed (Elite): During World of Flashpoint: The Royal War (Elite), experience the Geo-Pulse Emitter at full strength (10 Points)
- Greeking with the Enemy (Elite): During World of Flashpoint: The Royal War (Elite), defeat Queen Diana after matching all Greek symbols within 4 seconds of their appearance (50 Points)
- Mission Impos-Zoom-ble (Elite): During World of Flashpoint: The Royal War (Elite), defeat Professor Zoom without him ever being healed by Speed Force Energy (10 Points)
- No Boomin', No Cry (Elite): During World of Flashpoint: The Royal War (Elite), defeat Queen Diana 4 times without allowing Hades' Volatile Shades to detonate (25 Points)
- Scarlet Letters (Elite): During World of Flashpoint: The Royal War (Elite), defeat Queen Diana after all of the Greek Symbols have turned Red (25 Points)
- Temple Runner (Elite): During World of Flashpoint: The Royal War (Elite), defeat the guards at the Temple Entrance in 22 seconds or less (25 Points)
- The Flowers Remain the Same (Elite): During World of Flashpoint: The Royal War (Elite), defeat Queen Diana without trampling any of Hera's Fields of Lilies (50 Points), grants title: the Nature Lover
- The Seashank Redemption (Elite): During World of Flashpoint: The Royal War Elite), defeat Emperor Aquaman without The Flash being harmed (25 Points), grants title: of the Depths
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A Daydream Believer and a Homecoming Queen (All) · Emperor Aquaman · Queen Diana · title · Professor Zoom · Hera's · The FlashFlashback
- Relieve a past memory from under the sea.Flashpoint Batman has a strategy for dealing with the Royal War: break the impasse by taking away the super-weapon of Atlantis and the super-shield of New Themyscira. If he's right, that will be enough to convince his true target to reveal himself. You and the Flash are going to help.
- This alert was featured as a Flashback instance only during the release of Children of Krypton, Chapter 1: Shadows Over Argo, listed under the name SoA Flashback: The Royal War. The original version remained available for all players.
- The difficulty of the instance was increased to match the other Tier 7 instances in the chapter, rewarding chapter-related items and currency. The Collectibles obtainable in the original raid can also be found in this one.
- The Royal War was chosen as a Flashback alert for Shadows Over Argo due to the presence of Emperor Aquaman and Atlanteans in both contents, and it is located underwater like Sunken Argo City.
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Flashback instance · Children of Krypton · Shadows Over Argo · Collectibles · Emperor Aquaman · Sunken Argo CityTrivia
- Queen Diana and Emperor Aquaman can be seen fighting in the background during the boss fight against Zoom. They can be reached if you exit the boss area prior to the Zoom fight. However, while they have red names (considered enemies), they cannot be fought.
- There is a bug where The Flash and Flashpoint Batman can lock onto and attack a player's pets after Zoom is defeated. No damage is dealt. Even after they stop attacking they models continue to face and track where the specific pet is.
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