Vault Trap

01. Why This Works

The staggered rally strategy replaces the typical chaotic vault run — where everyone starts their own rallies whenever they feel like it — with a coordinated rotation system. Designated captains start rallies at precise intervals, and everyone else joins them. Three reasons it outperforms the free-for-all approach:

02. Timeline: Before the Vault

03. Sample Schedule

A captain rotation schedule will look something like this. The order shown is the planned sequence of captains leading rallies.

🏦 VAULT RALLY SCHEDULE
    Stagger: 35s

    CAPTAIN ROTATION:
    Player 1
    Player 2
    Player 3
    Player 4
    Player 5
    Player 6
    Player 7
    Player 8
    Player 9
    Player 10

04. Why Captains Are the Strongest Players

When you join a rally, the damage your troops deal is boosted by the RALLY LEADER'S buffs — not your own. Your troops, their buffs. This means:

There are NO extra points, rewards, or benefits for being a captain. Captains are doing the alliance a service by leading rallies. If you're curious about the impact, check your damage numbers after a vault run and compare across different captains' rallies. You'll see noticeably higher damage in rallies led by top players.

To view your damage numbers for the most recent vault run, click on the Vault on the state map then click "Rewards". Then click "Damage Rankings" and the small clipboard icon () next to your name at the bottom of the screen. The following screen shows your damage on all runs you participated in and who hosted it. You will likely see your highest damage runs were the ones hosted by top players. Keep in mind this isn't the only factor — the heroes you and others join with affect damage output for everyone, as does your squad makeup.

05. Rules for Captains (Assigned Rally Starters)

06. Rules for Joiners

Everyone else — including captains JOINING other captains' rallies.

07. Optimal Hero Selection

The vault is an event that is nothing more than a "damage sink". The goal is to do as much damage as possible during the event. The vault boss has 0 attack, 0 penetration, and a defense rating of 1, and its HP pool is too large to ever empty. It does no return damage. Therefore, the optimal hero selection focuses on maximizing damage output rather than survivability (defense, damage taken reduction, etc.). Remember that in rallies, the rally captain has all their hero's buffs and exclusive equipment deploy skill (for legendary heroes) applied. Among all the joiners, only the first skill of each member's first hero will apply, with a maximum of the 4 highest-level skills taking effect (excluding Hero Exclusive Equipment skills). The game picks the 4 eligible skills with the highest skill level; ties go to whoever joined first.

The vault uses the hero's "Deploy" skills. As such, here are why the heroes listed above are the optimal heroes for deployment:

For Rally Captains

For Joiners

Why Not These Heroes?

08. Optimal Rally Heroes

Section 07 explains why each hero is good. This section is the plug-and-play cheat sheet: the exact hero lineups to run for each of your rallies. In reality, most players only have enough troops to fully fill three deployments, so these cover the rallies that actually matter. After the lineups below, just use your best remaining heroes (or whatever the game auto-assigns).

With Andre Unlocked

Without Andre Unlocked

Without Brooke Unlocked

A Few Points of Clarity

09. Troop Composition

The ideal troop ratio for the vault is 10% guards / 20% bikers / 70% marksmen (a 1:2:7 split). This comes straight from the game devs, and it lines up with what the vault actually is: a damage sink with no return damage and a boss that has very little defense rating. You don't need tanks — you need raw damage output, and marksmen deliver the most damage per troop slot.

10. How Joining Multiple Rallies Works

Let's say you have enough troops to join 3 rallies simultaneously, and the current stagger interval is 30 seconds:

11. Adjustments During the Run

It is almost impossible to fully restructure the rotation mid-run (e.g., inserting a new captain into the middle of the schedule). Changes will be limited to adding captains at the end of the rotation or replacing a captain who left with someone else online.

12. Unauthorized Rallies

13. Why More Players Online = More Rallies for Everyone

The number of captains directly controls how many rallies can be run. The more high-level players online before the start, the more captains you can designate, the tighter the stagger interval, and the more rallies everyone gets to join.

Even if a joiner only participates in 25% of all available rallies, those 17 extra rallies mean 4 more rallies joined. At 500K average damage per rally, that's an extra 2 MILLION damage — which could bump you up a tier on the damage rewards chart (see Section 17).

14. How to Build Your Rotation

A good rotation comes down to three numbers: how many captains you have, the full rally cycle time, and the stagger interval. Here's how to put them together:

15. Last Call & Hard Deadline

16. Cooldowns & Eligibility

⏳ 2-Day Personal Cooldown

Joining any vault rally locks you out of BOTH traps until 00:00 server time on the third calendar day. Join on Monday at any hour, and you can join again on Wednesday at 00:00 server time.

Inside the run you already joined, there is no limit. Keep rallying.

🏦🏦 Two Traps

An alliance can own two traps but can only run one at a time. Each trap has its own 47-hour cooldown after it closes.

Opening the second trap the next day only helps members who skipped the previous run. Everyone who joined is still on personal cooldown.

📬 Reward Eligibility

Rewards are mailed after the vault closes and go only to members still in the alliance at that moment. Leave before the mail arrives and you forfeit them. Rejoining does not restore them.

17. Reward Tiers

Rewards use 20 absolute damage brackets. Your bracket is the highest Damage Points threshold you reach in the run. Your rank affects nothing. Ammo and Cash pay the same amount, so they share a column.

18. Tranquilizers

Before each vault run, alliance members should donate their Tranquilizers to the Vault Trap. Each level of the trap increases the entire alliance's attack against the vault.

19. Quick Reference