If you’re wondering about the different battle modes in AFK Journey, you’ve come to the right place!

AFK Journey offers players an array of battle modes, each unique in its approach and rewards. A thorough understanding of its diverse battle modes is central to mastering this game.

All AFK Journey Battle Modes

While players can enjoy the story quests and reach higher AFK Stages in AFK Journey, there are also battle modes that they can participate in. These Battle Modes are initially locked until you reach a certain AFK Stage.

Dream Realm

In the Dream Realm mode, players would have to battle bosses and compete with other players on the serve to inflict the most damage to the monster. This mode becomes available once you complete AFK Stage 16. Every day features four distinct bosses. The greater the damage you deliver, the higher your ranking and the better the rewards for the day.

AFK Journey Dream Realm

Basics

  • The monster of Dream Realm changes every day for players to challenge. Each monster has multiple difficulty levels and becomes stronger as the difficulty increases. The difficulty of a monster will not reset after a session ends.
  • You can collect various stage rewards for each monster at different difficulties by dealing the required amount of damage during a battle. Successfully defeating a monster at a difficulty level will unlock the next difficulty.
  • Rewards will be issued every day at 00:00 UTC based on the highest difficulty you cleared and your ranking.

Endless Mode

  • Clear all difficulty levels of a boss to unlock Endless Mode for that boss.
  • Boss will not die in this mode and the objective is to deal as much damage as possible to get a higher ranking and more rewards.

Bosses

  • King Croaker: A skilled Mage that consumes Energy to block damage and releases magic bubbles that instantly defeat targets. Here’s a guide on how to defeat this boss and the best teams again it.
  • Necrodrakon: A formidable abyssal dragon with shattered bones, capable of unleashing wide-ranging attacks and inflicting persistent debuffs upon enemies.
  • Snow Stomper: A monster skilled at using ice and snow spells to deal continuous damage to freeze an enemy in a Yeti Cell and silence groups of enemies with a snowstorm.
  • Skyclops: A nightmare embodying the power of light and darkness that’s capable of summoning winged creatures to help itself in battle.

Rewards: Training Manuals, Diamonds, Weapon Selection Chest, Dream Fragments, and Invite Letters.

Honor Duel

Honor Duel is a Fair Play mode in which players can choose an initial formation and purchase equipment and heroes in the “Duel Store.” After preparing, players can press Match to battle with other players. Be mindful of the heroes and equipment you get and showing your heroes when the match starts, as there are two waves of placing heroes. This mode also allows you to try out heroes you don’t own.

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Basics

  • Honor Duel is a Fair Play mode where you can choose an initial formation (Artifact and heroes) to embark on a series of challenges.
  • You can purchase heroes and Equipment at the Duel Store to strengthen your formation during a challenge round.
  • The challenge ends after achieving 9 wins or experiencing 3 losses.

Duel Store

  • You can use Honor Badges to purchase heroes, equipment, and other items at the Duel Store. Honor Badges can be acquired through battles.
  • As you complete more battles, the level of the Duel Store will increase, and the quality of the items available in the store will improve.
  • The Duel Store auto-refreshes after each battle, or you can spend Honor Badges to manually refresh it. You can also lock any item so that it doesn’t refresh with other items.

Hero Ascension

  • Heroes can be ascended in Honor Duel.
  • You can ascend a hero to Legendary after obtaining 2 duplicates, and further ascend them to Mythic after obtaining 4 more duplicates.
  • After the ascension, the hero’s Basic Stats will increase. You can ascend heroes to Mythic to unlock their Exclusive Skill.
  • Heroes can be sold in the Formation interface.

Hero Equipment

  • You can purchase Equipment at the Duel Store and equip it on any hero. Each hero can wear one piece of Equipment, which can be removed or replaced as you see fit.

Artifact Upgrade

  • In Honor Duel, you gain Artifact XP through battles or by ascending heroes. When the required experience is reached, the Artifact’s star level increases.
  • Two different Artifact effects appear when your Artifact reaches 1 star. You can choose the one that best suits your strategy.
  • You automatically receive a new Artifact effect when your Artifact reaches 2 stars. Tap on your Artifact to learn more about the effects it has.

Victory Conditions

  • Achieving 9 victories during a round of Honor Duel is considered winning the round.
  • Additionally, accumulating 3 losses will immediately end the round.

Rewards: Diamonds

Arena

Arena is the player-vs-player (PVP) mode where you use your own units or heroes against other players. This mode can be unlocked after clearing AFK Stage 20. Players can rise through the different ranks from Novice, Adept, Elite, Epic, Legendary, and Champion.

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Basics

  • In the Arena, you can spend tickets to challenge others on the same server.
  • Defeat other players to gain Arena Points and increase your tier.
  • You can get tier rewards the first time you reach a new tier.
  • Rewards are calculated and sent out according to your tier at 00:00 UTC every Monday. The higher your tier, the greater the rewards.
  • Players who have more than 3,200 Arena Points will be ranked in the Champion Rankings.

Rewards: Diamonds, Gold, Arena Coins, XP Hourglass (1h).
For Champions (Top 200) Rewards: Timeless Hourglass, Twilight Essence, Battle Spirit Title, Radiance Contest, Timeless Hat, Iron Veteran Title, Timeless Cloak, Bygone Dream

Arcane Labyrinth

This battle mode becomes accessible once you surpass AFK Stage 100. In this mode, every attempt garners points, with higher difficulties yielding more points, which can be redeemed for various rewards. You would choose five heroes to battle for each Difficulty. It refreshes every week so players can take their time in progressing through the Arcane Labyrinth.

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Basics

  • Each Arcane Labyrinth round is refreshed every Monday at 00:00 UTC. After which, all exploration progress, monsters, and the event rankings will be reset.
  • Labyrinths have varying difficulties. Clearing each difficulty for the first time grants substantial 1st-clear rewards.
  • You can leave halfway and settle the rewards of the exploration in advance.

Deep Labyrinth

  • The Deep Labyrinth is available after clearing 15 floors. No rewards will be granted here, but exploration depth contributes to Labyrinth Rankings.
  • The Deep Labyrinth’s boss is in Endless Mode and doesn’t die. You only have 1 chance to challenge it. Your Labyrinth Rankings are based on the total damage dealt to the boss.

Rewards: Epic Invite Letters (1st clear), Hero Essence (1st clear)

Battle Drills

You must be part of a guild to participate in this battle mode, which will be unlocked after clearing AFK Stage 121. It will be a team effort to clear the path towards the boss to gain guild rewards. There are multiple stages in this mode: Stout Recruit, Seasoned Challenger, and Restless Warrior and can be achieved by defeating each final boss per stage.

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Basics

  • Battle Drills rotates in a three-week cycle, and each round consists of two phases. The first week is Preparation Phase, during which you can inspect the enemies but cannot initiate battles; the next two weeks are the Battle Phase, where you can initiate battles to capture passages and strongholds, and as well as challenge the final boss.
  • You are free to choose one of the multiple camps as your starting point, and you can only challenge the passages and strongholds connected to that camp.
  • You share the progress in challenging passages and strongholds with other Guild members. Once all passages and strongholds have been captured, you will be able to challenge the final boss.
  • Hero levels will be affected by the baseline level in the Battle Drills mode. Check the Command Center to view the current baseline level. When a hero’s level is below the baseline, they will be automatically upgraded to match the baseline. However, if a hero’s level surpasses the baseline, the portion exceeding 10% will be counted as their actual level during Battle Drills.
  • Challenge progress in Battle Drills is shared among the entire Guild.

Difficulty

  • There are three modes in Battle Drills: Stout Recruit, Seasoned Challenger, and Restless Warrior. Defeat the final boss in Stout Recruit to advance to the next mode, Seasoned Challenger, where you will challenge the Battle Drills again with all buffs, camp skills, and camp levels obtained through the previous mode. Defeat the final boss again to advance to Restless Warrior.
  • In this mode, you will face a never-ending challenge against a final boss that respawns after you defeat it until the end of the current round of Battle Drills.

Rewards: Gold, Diamonds, Treasure Keys (used to open Chest of Valor)

Legend Trial

The Legend Trial Battle Mode can be unlocked after clearing AFK Stage 166. Trials vary daily throughout the week, offering the chance to acquire acorns, essence, and materials essential for the ascension of artifacts.

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Legend Trial

  • Legend Trial takes place in four towers: Tower of Light, Tower of Nature, Tower of Eternity, and Tower of Will.

Schedule:

  • Tower of Light: Monday, Friday, Sunday
  • Tower of Nature: Wednesday, Saturday, Sunday
  • Tower of Eternity: Thursday, Saturday, Sunday
  • Tower of Will: Tuesday, Friday, Sunday

Deployable Factions

  • Tower of Light: Lightbearer Heroes
  • Tower of Nature: Wilder Heroes
  • Tower of Eternity: Graveborn Heroes
  • Tower of Will: Mauler Heroes

Rewards: Invite Letters, Lightbearer Acorns, Mauler Acorns, Wilder Acorns, Graveborn Acorns, Hero Essence

Those are all the Battle Modes currently available in AFK Journey. Make sure to level up your heroes and dominate these modes!

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