Raid War Event

## Events

Raid War is one of three events in Clash of Beasts. It is the most involved, requires the most time, is the most fun, and has the highest rewards.

As with all events you must be part of a clan before the event starts to participate and remain in the clan the entire time. Every clan is placed in a "shard" of ten clans. The leaderboard clans 1-10 are in a shard, and 11-20 are in a shard, etc. You compete against other clans in your shard. As each clan can have up to 50 players, the shard may have up to 500 players.

VP refers to Victory Points, which is your personal score. Crystal refers to a type of point that the clan collects for the clan score.

Disclaimer: Some of this page is the personal opinion of specific people.

## Raid War Event

When the event starts there will be a new screen listing all ten clans. From that screen you select which clan to attack and then which person in that clan.  The toughest bases in each clan are worth the most points. Your goal is to gain as much VP (Victory Points) for yourself and Crystal for your clan (which is the clan score).  As you reach certain milestone VP you will get rewards.  This event takes the most time, it favors people who can put extra hours in, but it has the overall highest rewards in the game.

The War is split into 8 hour rounds.

### Choosing your target

You will earn the most VP by attacking the top person in a clan.

At the start of the event look at the top person of all nine competing clans and attack the weakest of those people. If you cannot hit the weakest of the top person, find the highest person you can hit and consistently kill with a single beast. If there are multiple potential targets, you may also want to choose someone you will earn good XP on. Many people use this event to level up their beasts. Seasonal beasts have the fastest heal times and therefore commonly used.

Depend on your level and the level of the top players in your shard you might not be able to five star destroy them. Do not despair, while your options are more limited you can still earn almost as much VP as a larger base. In this case, arrange a time with a high level clanmate you know will join you in an attack. Now attack a top level person in another clan. Your beast will die and your teammate will finish off the attack. Now that you have a five star victory over the base you can then auto attack that base. This will allow you to do five auto attacks against a max VP target. When it comes to the star attacks you will need to switch to the easier base that you can beat on your own with 5 stars. Worst case is that you don't 5-star a base which means you'll need an extra auto attack to get to the 30 stars for the star attack, which is not ideal but not horrible.

During clan wars there is no defense. People will not get a defense notice so the weakest of the top people will not be spammed when 450 other players in the shard attack them.

During clan wars if you join an attack to help a teammate you will use your Cinder to increase their VP but you get little reward on your own (you get XP and object drops). During raid wars you may see many invites to join an attack and you can differentiate by seeing the target is same easy base everyone is attacking. It is rare that people join such attacks unless there is deliberate coordination or someone is joining with low level beasts to get XP for them. An attacker may choose to disable invites so that no one in the clan gets notified.

### Step by Step Instructions

Click on Events on the main screen and look at the Events tab. This is a list of the ten clans in your shard.

When you click on a clan you see the list of bases, sorted by difficulty. You can see that the top base gets 125 VP and the next gets 123 VP. Do not feel bad if you cannot hit the top person, each person down from the top is roughly 1% less VP after everything else is considered.

After you select who to attack you can select the attack type. You will be primarily doing a regular attack which costs 4 energy, a regular attack with auto costing 4 energy and a health potion (only available after you do a 5 star attack against them), or a star attack which costs 30 stars.

You can switch to the Event Rewards page to see your VP and the clan score (recalculated at the end of every 8 hour round). Click on the personal points to see and collect the rewards that you get after achieving certain VP targets. See Event Rewards for more info.

### Energy, Attacking, and VP

You start with 16 Energy.

Energy recharges up to he maximum of 16 at a rate of 1 energy every five minutes.  Therefore if you have used up all your energy then you will be full in 1 hour and 20 minutes, at which point you get four attacks. Or if you log in hourly you can do three attacks each time.

From chests and other places you get Energy Packs. You can spend Energy Packs to buy more Energy. Make sure you only purchase 100 energy at a time. The first purchase costs 5 energy packs, then next is 10 energy packs. Then 20, 30, 40 after which is stays at 40. Every 8 hour round the price is reset.

There are 5 attack types:

1) Basic attack.  Cost 4 energy.  Benefit 125 VP (225 with cinder). 1 chest (random)

1a) Basic attack (auto).  Cost 4 energy and one health potion.  Benefit 125 VP (no cinder can be used). 1 chest (random)

2) Super attack.  Cost 20 energy.  Benefit 625 VP (725 with cinder).  5 chests (random)

3) Star attack.  Cost 30 stars.  Benefit 1250 VP (1350 with cinder). 10 chests (random with at least one silver)

4) Mega attack. Cost 100 energy and 20 cinder.  Benefit 3750 VP (3850 with cinder).  30 chests (random with at least two gold)

Note:  If your clan is in Warrior I it is 110 VP for basic attack with other attacks scaled to match.  With the cinder, they basically get 6% less VP if grinding basic attacks.

Random chests typically drop bronze but can also drop silver or gold.

In general (excluding auto) the lower attacks get you more VP but take a lot longer time to go through your energy.  The higher attacks take less time but you don't get as much VP.

### Cinder and Stars

Cinder is a consumable something you gain in chests.  Then when you attack you select it as a boost (just like the other boosts).  It will give you 100 more VP for the attack (regardless of the attack size).  Therefore Basic attack gives the most VP is because you will get more cinder bonus for the energy you use.   At the start of event, after you gain cinder make sure every beast you have (even the ones not in the roster) have cinder on.  If you run out of cinder and use a beast to attack it turns off the boost so if you get more cinder later make sure to add it again.

Every attack you make earns stars.  When you have 30 stars you get to make a special star attack.  It is easy to forget to, and extra stars are lost.  At the beginning of the event you make 6 attacks, each earns 5 stars for 30 stars total.  Then you spend the stars to make a star attack.  You now have 5 stars (since you just earned some) so you do 5 more attacks, then a star attack.  Every sixth attack is a star attack.  If you ever miss a star and you have cinder then deliberately do some 3 star attack (which gain more VP via cinder) so that you end up at 30 stars evenly.

If you use two or three beasts with cinder, you get more VP but fewer stars.  If someone joins you in an attack (and they have cinder) then you get their cinder bonus and still get 5 stars.  They do not get any VP for helping, but you can return the favor during their attacks.

### Recommendations

Add cinder to all of your beasts.   If you are low on cinder, you can find some by opening chests.

Pay attention to the 30 star attacks and don't miss them.

You can choose harder bases that help you level up you beasts or you can choose easier bases that are faster to churn through.

Buy energy when it costs 5 or 10.  Buy energy every round even if you cannot use it right away.  Each purchase is 100 energy.

Using 100 energy takes between 2 and 30 minutes depending on how you spend it.  Your most valuable resource is time.  The more time you put in, the more VP you get.

### Crystals and Raiding

So all that about VP and attacks, which is all gaining you personal VP (Victory Points -  your score).  In addition every attack gets Crystal, which goes towards the clan score.

The amount of Crystal you gain per attack is equivalent regardless of the attack type, it does not matter which you do.  The day is divided into 8 hour rounds.  The first 6 hours you can only gain Crystal for your clan.  The last 2 hours the clan Leader and Officers can also launch Raid Ships against other clans to steal their Crystal.

When a raid ship is heading for your clan you can attack it.  Click on the ship and select a target that has the most damage. Initially attacking the top person will cause the most damage, however a subsequent attack on the same person does less. Therefore it is typical to attack a different person eah time.  Attacking ships also gives 100 bonus VP more than normal basic attacks.

You can use auto attacks if you have previously defeated that base. Due to the raid ship bonus VP the difference between normal attacks and auto attacks is lessened. However using auto repeatedly on the same target will cause less and less damage. This can however be a way of deliberately keeping the ship alive in order to grid more more VP with low damage auto attacks.

At the end of the 8 hours the clan Crystal gets added to the clan score, and the crystal is reset to 0.

Therefore, if at all possible try to time your play so that at least some of it is during the 2 hour raid and that you have Energy / Energy Packs to spend.

Clan Officers - it is good to have an officer online during raid time.  Check how much unguarded crystal is at the target before you launch the raid ship.  Inactive clans wont have any crystal.  Super active clans are more likely to shoot down your ships. Launching a ship costs crystal so failure has an impact to the clan score. In the top shards almost all ships are shot down. Therefore you will see that ships are rarely launched because it just gives the other team more personal VP. Sometimes you will see a wave where several clans will attack a single clan, hoping that the defenders wont be able to shoot down all the ships.

## How to earn the most VP

Mostly Harmless opinion: This section contains both calculations that are purely from the game along with personal opinion. Other people may have different opinions.

This contains numbers and calculations to help people who understand the event choose what to do.  I am not making specific recommendations, though in several places I mentioned what personally matters to me and what I personally chose to do and the outcome - you can use that as a benchmark for your own choices.  This guide is not intended to explain the strategy needed for top 50.

Overall there are two limitations: Energy and Time. While cinder and health potions can also be limitations for some people depending on what they are doing, they are not for the majority.

One optimization for what you do is how much VP you can get per energy.  The answer changes with or without cinder.  However this event really is a grind fest.  It it really about how many hours you want to put into the game.  So I personally think it is more important to optimize for time spent.  If VP is your goal and you can do more attacks per hour with auto then do that will get more VP overall than basic attacks which have higher VP per attack but take more time.

Since you buy energy in blocks of 100, it is good to measure things that way.

#### Basic attack with cinder

100 energy is 25 basic attacks at 225 VP each for 5625.  That allows for 5 star attacks for 6,750 VP.  Total 12,375 VP in 30 attacks.  This takes me roughly 30 minutes.

This costs 100 energy, and 30 cinder.  You will get 75 random chests (at least 5 silver).

#### Auto attacks

100 energy is 25 auto attacks at 125 VP each for 3125.  That allows for 5 star attacks for 6,750 VP.  Total 9,875 VP in 30 attacks.  This takes me roughly 7 minutes.

This costs 100 energy, 25 health potions, and 5 cinder.  You will get 75 random chests (at least 5 silver).

#### Basic attack with cinder using 3 beasts and 3 stars

100 energy is 25 basic attacks at 425 VP each for 10625.  That allows for 2.7 star attacks for 3,645 VP.  Total 14,270 VP in 27.7 attacks.

This costs 100 energy, and 80 cinder.  You will get 55 random chests (at least 3 silver).

#### Basic attack with cinder and two attackers using 2 beasts and 5 stars

Pass the kill to a teammate, both using cinder. You get five stars and two cinder bonus.

100 energy is 25 basic attacks at 325 VP each for 8125.  That allows for 5 star attacks for 7,250 VP.  Total 15,375 VP in 30 attacks.  This is the maximum VP per energy possible.

#### Super attack

100 is 5 super attacks (with cinder).  725 VP each is 3625.  One star attack (1350 VP).  4,975 VP in 6 attacks. This takes me 5 minutes.

This costs 100 energy.  You will get 35 random chests (at least 1 silver).

#### Mega attacks

100 is 1 mega attacks.  3850 VP in 1 attack.

This costs 100 energy and 21 cinder.  You will get 10 random chests (at least 2 gold).

#### Comparisons

There is no reason to every do Super or Mega attacks as auto gets more VP and chests in roughly the same time. As long as you have health potions to fuel the auto, they are better. The only reason for doing Mega attacks is if you are trying to get Gold chests.

Basic attacks that you do by hand take significantly more time than auto attacks, but earn more VP. They also earn more VP per energy spent. However if you have enough Energy Packs (by opening chests or buying packs) then it is better to do auto attacks. The top leaderboard players will get whatever energy they need and will only do auto and star attacks.

In every 8 hour round, the cost for energy starts at 5, then 10, 20, 30, 40.  I have found that a f2p player who opens all the chests is able to buy 5 and 10 every round.  That means 200 energy every 8 hours. With auto attacks and some ship raiding you can get the highest personal milestone. However this does mean you have to open every chest.

## VP Goals

Mostly Harmless opinion: This section contains both calculations that are purely from the game along with personal opinion. Other people may have different opinions.

During the event you may want to aim to achieve certain VP targets, based on what you reward you want and what time you have.  This will be a very personal decision, however there are some clan impacts.

#### Clan milestones

There is a clan bonus if 8 people get 80k, or 12 people get 140k.  So lets start by using those as targets.  If you are reading this guide you probably care enough about the event that you will make 80k.  I encourage people to try for the 140k as the clan making that target will each member will get an additional 200 Season Tokens.

#### Personal milestones

One way to target is to look at the personal milestones. If you make 80k you will get a total of 450 Season Tokens.  If you make 140k you will get 750 Season Tokens.  185k is 1000 Season Tokens. The maximum personal milestone gets 1950 Season Tokens

## Strategies

Here are two different strategies I used in different wars and their result. You can use this as examples of what could be done.

### Basic attacks when I have time, not doing buys every round

* Most rounds (but not all)
* Open enough chests that I have 15 Energy Packs. I still had some chests left over.
* Buy energy at 5 and 10 so that I have 200 energy.
* Do basic attacks (plus star attacks) with cinder until most of my cinder is used or I am low on time.
* Do auto attacks (plus star attacks) for the rest if my energy.
* Repeat for most rounds
* Results
	+ This earned around 140k VP
	+ This took 60-90 minutes total during the day.

### Auto attack only and doing every round

* Every single round
* Open enough chests that I have 15 Energy Packs. This ended up taking every chest I had.
* Periodically (5-10 times during the day) log in and spend the 16 recharged energy
* During the Raid portion of the round with ships buy energy at 5 and 10
* If there are incoming ships attack them with auto for bonus VP (remembering star attacks)
* Else do auto attacks (plus star attacks) for all of my energy
* Repeat for every round
* Results
	+ I had to open every single chest in order to get the energy needed
	+ 12 rounds with 2 energy buys each is 24 times you get 9,375 VP, resulting in 225k VP
	+ If you can get an additional 65k VP via the ship attacks and recharged energy then you can hit max personal reward (which I did)
	+ This took 60-90 minutes total during the day in several 20 minute sessions and several 5 minute sessions