The Realm Auction

The realm puts up its own lots of rare Forge materials, and heroes bid lumens for them. The top bid when a lot's timer ends wins it, and that bid leaves the game for good. Open Menu, People, Market, from anywhere in the world, and pick the AUCTION tab. The Market itself is in Trading and the Market.

What goes up

A week brings 21 lots. Each is one stack of one material, dealt from this mix:

The opening bid is the least the first bid on a lot can be. What each material does is in Enchanting and The Forge.

When lots open

• A lot opens every day at 02:00, 11:00 and 19:00 UTC.
• Each lot runs 24 hours, so it ends at the same hour the next day. Three lots are always live.
• The hours are spread around the world. One lot ends in the evening for the Americas, one for East Asia and one for Europe.
• The tab counts down to the next lot. In a lot's last 10 minutes, its clock counts in minutes and seconds.

Reading the tab

• LIVE LOTS shows what is up now. A row shows the lot, the top bid (or the opening bid while nobody has bid), who holds it, how many bids it has and its clock.
• YOU LEAD marks a lot where your bid is on top. OUTBID marks a lot where someone beat your bid.
• RESULTS lists the latest 12 closed lots: what it was, who won it and for how much. Your own wins show in gold. A lot nobody bid on reads "No bids". On a big screen, the latest results also sit under the live lots.
• The side rail counts the lots you have won this week out of 2.

How to bid

You need level 50 and an account at least 72 hours old. You bid with lumens only.

1. Tap a lot, or its BID key. The bid sheet opens with the lot's card.
2. Pick an amount: LOWEST, +10% or +25%, or tap the amount and type your own on the keypad.
3. Press BID.

Your lumens leave your purse the moment you bid.

The first bid on a lot can be the opening bid. After that, each bid must beat the top bid by at least 5% (and never by less than 10,000 lumens), rounded up to a clean number. If the top bid is 1,110,000, the next bid is at least 1,170,000. LOWEST is always the least you can bid right now.

If someone bids first, your bid does not go through and nothing is taken. The sheet shows the new lowest bid. Look again, then bid.

If you are outbid

• Your whole bid goes back at once to your Market Box. You get a message if you are online.
• Open the BOX tab and press Claim to put the lumens back in your purse.
• The AUCTION tab shows a red number: how many live lots you were outbid on.

Fair share

Three rules spread the lots across more players. They count per account, so every hero on it shares them.

• One lead at a time. You can hold the top bid on one live lot. To bid on another, wait until you are outbid or your lot ends.
• Two wins a week. You can win at most two lots a week. The week turns on Monday at 00:00 UTC.
• No bidding against yourself. While your bid is on top, the key reads LEADING and you cannot raise it.

When the timer ends

The top bid wins.

• Anti-snipe. A bid in a lot's last 5 minutes moves its end to 5 minutes after that bid. A lot can stretch at most 2 hours past its first end time. The row then reads "Extended".
• The winning bid is gone for good. Nobody receives it. It leaves the game, which keeps lumens from piling up. See Lumens and Starshards.
• The lot comes to the winner's Market Box, with a message if they are online. Claim it in the BOX tab.
• A lot nobody bid on closes unsold.

Won lots are bound

A lot you win is bound to your account. It cannot be traded, listed or sold on the Market. Any of your heroes can use it: put it in Shared Storage and take it out on another hero. See Bag and Storage.

If the auction is paused

The team can pause the auction for a moment. While it is paused, no bids are taken and no new lot opens, and the tab says so. Live lots still close on time. If the team withdraws a lot, the top bid goes back to that bidder's Market Box and RESULTS reads "Withdrawn".