Tips

##### How is Follower Force calculated for Boss Fights?

Getting ready to fight an Alliance Boss or a Story Chapter 10 boss? Notice that your Followers are listed in decreasing order of their Fighting Force and that does not always match up to their level? Here is the deal.

1. TOTAL Stars of Force Ability \* Level Multiplier. This level multiplier is 5000 while the Follower is between Level 1 and 150. Jumps to 10,000 for a while, and at some point jumps to 15,000. Sorry but I don't have those levels where they change :-)
2. Multiply this number by the Follower's current Level
3. Add to this the Follower's Force statistic (The Force stat is a combination of Mr. Right bonuses, Clothing bonuses, Training levels and number of Stars of Force Ability). This number does NOT appear to change if you change your Favorite Mr. Right. Followers get clothing bonuses and Mr. Right bonuses permanently.

##### How do I get enough Follower Awakening items!?

When you reach the point that you have several followers over 250 (Gold level) and approaching 300 (Master level) you will start running into a problem managing to acquire enough hats, medals and ribbons to awaken followers to the Master level. Especially if you have been awakening every follower you have as you go :-) Tips on how you can get follower items:

* Alliance Store - contribute daily with a reasonable amount of diamonds. Fight bosses daily, try to be the last one so you get the reward for killing the boss, even if that means you need to spend a watch to refresh your strongest follower so they can fight twice.
* Bounty Plan - paying the $10 for the bounty plan is well worth it! Over the course of the month you get tons of follower items as well as gold bricks you can exchange for follower items, too.
* daily Contests - Finishing in the top 200 gets you one Green follower set. It's not necessarily that hard to do just enough to be in the top 200. You don't get any more awakening sets unless you finish in the top 10.
* Events and Contests - again you don't necessarily have to finish in the top ranks to get the benefit of a few awakening sets. Check the rewards and take advantage of any free-to-play events and contests. And when the events end be sure to go exchange your contest items specifially for those awakening items rather than letting the system pick rewards for you.
* Login 3 days in a row - getting the achievement for logging in 3 days in a row will reward you with a Green set
* Follower Awakening pack - this one is pricier at $20, but it does give you a total of 93 hats, 93 medals and 93 ribbons, plus 1300 diamonds not to mention the 1300 VIP points.

##### When should I spend Mr. Right Skill points? and which skills?

You get Mr. Right skill points by flirting with him. You should be doing at least 6 flirts a day (to get your Daily Task), but more is great because it is a free way to gain influence! A really good time to spend Mr. Right skill points is when there is an Influence contest - either an Alliance Influence contest or an Individual one. Save your points up and don't bother spending them all up every day. You will get a much better value if you save them up for a contest. Then... Use every Balloon you have to flirt and flirt and flirt until you are tired out. Now... go spend all those skill points and watch the Influence go up.

Generally speaking, each Mr. Right will reward you with the most Influence for his 1, 2 or 6 skill. The 1 and 2 skills are just small and large versions of the same thing. Two levels of Skill 1 are the same value as One level of Skill 2. Usually Skill 6 will give you the most Influence for the least Skill points, but do the math to verify for yourself. Once you get higher up in the levels that can change.

##### What is the deal with the medals that you get on the Daily Tasks?

The medals reflect your progress in opening the daily treasure chests. It takes 140 medals to open all 5 chests each day. Note that the final chest often gives out some special rewards so it is usually worth it to make the effort to open all 5 chests each day. The max number of medals you can acquire each login day is 190 but you have to have the Monthly and Yearly card in order to do that. Your total number of medals is your "ranking" when you are viewed on the Magicarium. When you gift another player carrots, the other players are ordered based on how many medals they have. This ranking doesn't actually affect anything other than this view. Until or unless that ranking gives some sort of reward... you don't ever \*need\* to get more than 140 each day. (There are some events that give rewards for hitting that 140 mark.)

##### Is it worth it to acquire an entire clothing set from one of the events? They are expensive!

Most of the clothing sets from events have one valuable feature -- they give you 19% additional treasure when Travelling. For this reason I think it is worth it to have ONE set, for sure. Beyond that, you might just want to get the set parts you like best, that have the most useful styles or tags, or fill a gap in your wardrobe. I go for parts I think are the most reusable.

##### How can I get Style Guru in Project FaceOff... it's so hard!?

In the Project FaceOff contest which runs every week you have to reach Style Guru ONCE during the 12 week span of the Season in order to unlock ability to purchase the entire clothing set. But hitting Style Guru can be HARD -- there are only 3 slots. First, remember that you only have to hit Style Guru ONCE. You don't have to stay there. You don't have to finish the week at that level. You only have to reach it ONCE. So... Here is a tip that may work for you...

* The new Project FaceOff week starts on Sunday nights (EST) at 1AM. Whatever outfit you were wearing LAST week is carried through to the new week and whatever points that old outfit was worth... you start the new week with that points. Often this means that people at the top of the ranks last week will start the new week off at lower point rankings than they had before. This gives you a window of opportunity to rise above them into Style Guru. But it is a short window!
* Save up FaceOff chances and don't use them all so that you have several extra... up to 10 (no more) by the time Sunday night comes up.
* Get logged onto the server just before 1AM and as SOON as the project contest opens up, immediately go Style that week's outfit as best you can. Don't take \*too\* long though trying to make it perfect because the goal is to get something decent but quickly. Save that outfit.
* Check your points. Check the Ranking and see if your points are higher than the 3rd Style Guru. If it is... GREAT! You can do this!
* You should have close to 15 FaceOff chances ... immediately FaceOff as much as you can to move yourself up through the ranks. You will move up fastest (most of the time) by Facing off with the lady on the left if you can beat her. Use up your chances and hopefully with only 3 or 4 additional purchased FaceOff chances you can rise up to Style Guru.
* If you don't make it all the way to Style Guru... you WILL most likely make it higher than you have been before and you can try again another week. You have 12 chances and it only takes ONE. Good luck!

##### What parts should I buy first in Project FaceOff Boutique?

Alright, so you unlocked Style Guru but that darned dress costs 4900 tickets! So what \*should\* you buy? Well... It is hard to have the patience but you should always buy the most expensive part left in the list first. Here is the reason... During the season, the set parts are discounted cheaper. After the current 12 week season is over you WILL still be able to buy set parts from the season but they will no longer be at a discount. If you truly want to try to get the whole set, eventually. It is worth the investment in patience to save up the tickets so you can buy from most expensive to least. If you don't manage to get them all during the current season, you can always come back and it is a lot easier to come up with an extra 400 tickets to grab the last cheaper items than it is to have EVERY item in the set except the dress and then trying to wait long enough to save up for the \*full\* price dress.

##### Are extra Dispatch, Garden, Pet slots worth it?

Dispatch - yes. But no more than 3. It will be hard to reach the dispatch numbers for Queens Path with only 1 Dispatch slot and rarely do I ever have more than 3 possible Dispatch choices so... no more than 3.

Garden - maybe. if you ever want to try to win any Garden or Flower contests, you will need more. I have 5 or 6. If you only care about Queens Path, you are probably fine with the basic 2, maybe a 3rd one just to speed things a little.

Pets - no. I see no reason for more pet slots. It is hard enough to keep 2 fed :-) I haven't had any trouble meeting the Queens Path requirements with the default Pet beds.

##### What tasks should I do each day?

There is actually so many things you can do in the game that it could take a couple hours to work your way through everything you can do on a daily basis! For suggestions on how to optimize your time online, check out this article.

##### Should I get the Bounty Plan?

I say YES. It actually isn't hard to accomplish all the tasks required to get to level 30 during the 29 days of the event. At level 30 you will have acquired all of the set parts. For only $10 you actually get a lot for your money:

* An entire clothing set
* Follower Awakening items - a good number of them
* 680 Diamonds
* Experience bags (50 EXP each)
* Various Attribute, Intimacy and Pet items

##### Where should I spend my Follower training and attributes?

There is a lot to consider here. Probably its own article :-) For now here are highlights of my thoughts...

You only really need 7 followers leveled up in order to complete the Queens Path requirements for Follower levels, such as 1 follower at Level 20, 3 followers at Level 20, 5 at Level 20, then 7 at Level 20. Then the next Follower task will jump up to Level 25 or 30. For best results, aim to keep your best 7 followers at roughly the same level (20 or above, 125 or above, etc.). Since those 7 are going to be the highest level all the time, I tend to focus most of my Enhancements and Training on those 7 and mostly ignore the rest of the Followers.

You really only need ONE follower that is good at Stamina, ONE that is good at Creation and you get the most bang for your buck when they are higher level. I put all my Stamina into John since he starts with the most Stamina. I usually put all my Creation into Sophie (if you have Topped up to 680 once) because she has a high level of Creation to start with. If you have Eric, he is the best one to give Random attribute training to because he has a large number of EVERY kind of skill to start with. So no matter what random attribute he trains in, it is helpful.

For Force, I pick one Follower that has a Force skill with only 1 or 2 stars, and a second Force skill with a high number of stars: Nina, Morgan, Mary. You want that because of two reasons: One, Force is calculated off of how many Stars of Force the Follower STARTS with and combines that with how many stars they have now, plus how much training they have had in Force and their current level. Two, you want a Follower that it is easy to Enhance their Ability in Force and for that you want a 1 or 2 star skill so you can Enhance quicker and more often. Having to wait until you have 5 Force scrolls can be a slow pain.

Social is another matter entirely. If Debating and winning matters to you, you may want to spread your Social bonuses across your followers to keep their Social values fairly even. Still focus on the top 7 for really leveling them up enough to keep up with your Queens Path requirements, but for the rest of your followers I'd just level them roughly evenly. Awakening items will get verrry hard to come by once you get to Countess I or so when you are likely to start need Master level or multiple Diamond level items. You won't want to spend your greens and blues on second-rate followers just because of Debating.