Basics

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#### **1. Unit information and stats of multiple unit troops**

Now you are able to check Hero / Troop stats and skill description in the "Heroes / Troops" section which you can access from the main menu. Press on the icon of the troop you want to review; the appeared window will show its stats. There you can review different level's stats by pressing the arrow below. If the troop has an ability, you can swipe to the right to open the ability description. Thus you can see the skill of the Pilgrim called “Solar Healing” and information about what exactly it does.

The stats you see in the troops’ menu are for a single count. There are two kinds of troops in the game: single unit (one count) and multiple units (many counts). Multiple-unit troops have up to 9 counts in the squad. All stats including Attack, HP and Defense are shown per one unit (count). Same goes for the troop skills, thus, for example, each single pilgrim has his own healing skill that activates separately from others.

#### **2. Heroes and upgrading**

There are 3 kinds of heroes in the game: rare (blue color), epic (violet color) and legendary (orange).

Legendary heroes have an additional skill that unlocks when they reach level 11.

To upgrade your hero, you must collect hero cards (shards) that you can obtain by opening chests, buying super card packs or by taking part in special events. After you collect enough cards (shards) of the same hero, you can upgrade the hero to the next level. The first upgrade (upgrading hero to the 2nd level) usually requires 2 identical hero cards.

#### **3. Troop upgrading**

To upgrade the troops you need to combine troops of the same kind and same level (stars) by dragging and merging them together. You can do it on the battlefield or in the barracks.

#### **4. Barracks and its' capacity**

The function of the barracks is to store troops you don’t need when your battlefield slots are fully occupied. You can also use it for regrouping and upgrading troops. If your army is fully set, all new troops will automatically get stored in the barracks.

* If you don’t know how to use barracks:

1. Choose the troop you want to move or combine and press on it.
2. Keep pressing on the troop icon for 1-2 seconds until you feel haptic feedback (if vibration feature is on) or until the troop card is highlighted;
3. Don’t release finger from the troop and move it onto free space on the battlefield to deploy those troops or onto the glowing troop if the same kind to merge them. You can also combine identical troops in the barracks.

* There are two buttons in barracks:

1. Sort troops by rareness/by level;
2. Combine All - combine all eligible troops inside the barracks.

Your barracks capacity grows with the amount of levels you completed.

When your battlefield army is fully set, all new troops will go to the barracks.

You will be able to upgrade them all at once there, send them to the battlefield or combine them with battlefield troops at any time.

If both barracks and the battlefield are full (the unusual situation for the normal gameplay), you won’t be able to buy new troops for coins until you have free space, but you will be able to buy any new troops for gems (including super card pack). In this case, each new troop bought for gems will be added to the barracks, increasing barracks capacity by 1 troop space.

### **In-game resources: Coins, Gems, Honor Hunting Medals, etc.**

You can find details about these items on the **Loot** page.

### **Game events and modes**

#### **1. Expedition**

To unlock next Expedition chapter, you should complete a certain amount of levels in the Normal game mode.

**Levels to unlock:**

> Chapter 1: Green valley - Level 70
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> Chapter 2: Green valley - Level 200
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> Chapter 3: Green valley - Level 400
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> Chapter 4: Winter Land - Level 700
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> Chapter 5: Winter Land - Level 1000
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> Chapter 6: Winter Land - Level 1400
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We are working on new expedition chapters.

Right now, our game has only some chapters available, other chapters are in "To Be Developed" state.

Chapter 6 will be released very soon, but we can't tell you the exact date yet. If it's still not there, please wait as it will be released soon. We are doing our best to complete it as soon as we possibly can.

#### **2. PVP Arena rules**

* In arena mode, players can challenge other players to gain points and win rewards;
* Players can fight up to 20 battles a day (e0 with premium pass) in the Arena against people whose rank is close to theirs.
* If the player wins the battle, he will gain points according to the the player's own and the enemy's ranking; defeat will lead to points reduction.
* One season on the Arena lasts two weeks. At the end of the season, final rewards will be given according to the player's ranking at the end of the season;
* After the start of a new season, you must fight at least one battle in the Arena to gain the initial points and participate in the ranking in the new season.
* Whenever you offline or online if someone attack you, you passively will gain or lose point depending on whether you army won or lost in that passive battle.

Lost my arena points when the season finished.

At the end of every season we downgrade our players Arena trophies to keep our game competitive and let you earn the rewards again.

The amount of trophies that are deduced depends on the league you're in.

#### **3. Elite and Masters Arena**

Due to the large number of players, we decided to separate users according to their rank points into Arena leagues. Right now, we have two leagues: Elite Arena (normal), and Masters League (advanced). There will be more leagues soon. In the current version of the game, players of the two leagues can fight with each other without restrictions, but in the future, players from lower league won't be able to attack higher league players.

Requirements for entering the leagues:

* Elite Arena: everyone with a rank less than 2200 points.
* Masters League: ranks higher than 2200.

#### **4. Wheel of Fortune chances.**

The chances of drawing of Hero doesn't mean that you 100% will get the shard in given diapason, there's still the luck factor.

All chances are written in the award window as count of numbers so when you press to spin, the system executes the function of a random number from 1 to 100. Legendary hero card posses 2 numbers in this row, that is to say, when the random number falls on "1" or "2", you get your hero and when it falls on "3" or other number, you get other things that are associated with this number, thus, for example, epic hero Illum posses 4 numbers in the diapason of 100, etc.

We are sorry if you weren't lucky enough yet and hope that you will get it next time.

#### **5. Card master event**

**Rules:**

* Each player can play up to 20 rounds of card game.
* With each round, the player can flip to up 9 cards. The first flip costs 300 gems. After that, each flip costs 600 gems.
* After the player won the desired card, he/she can tap [End this Round] button to start a new round.

On average, the cost per shard is 2,700 gems.

Should I play card master?

If you are a free-to-play player, you should play card master only if you have invested heavily in one of the legendary heroes featured in the event. Otherwise, it may be better for you to save your gems for a Davison or Poseidon events.

**Strategy:**

If you are short on gems, it is generally better to wait until the last day of the event to play the card master.

Before starting each round, make sure you have enough gems to flip 9 cards (5,100 gems), which is the worst case scenario. You do not want to be in a position where you are one flip away from a hero shard but happened to be out of gems.

* **NOTE:** you can exit a round using white arrow at the top and continue it later, after accumulating enough gems for the next card.

Check how many shards you need to upgrade your hero. You may not need to play all 20 rounds.

### **Damage reflection**

Right now Davison and Cactuses have ability to reflect enemies damage.

#### **Davison**

Davison is one of the most popular heroes. His passive skill, Dragon Blood, allows him and all friendly troops to reflect the damage caused by all basic attacks (both melee and range).

It should be noted, however, that Davison (and his friendly troops) cannot reflect special attacks. For example, Davison cannot reflect Poseidon’s first wave, and Davison can’t reflect Taurus Witcher’s Misfortune attacks.

#### **Cactuses**

Cactuses can reflect melee attacks with their Thornmail skill. Like Davison, Cactuses cannot reflect special attacks. For example, Cactuses cannot reflect attacks from Ghost Assassins’ Shadow Daggers Skill.

When paired with Davison, the reflection adds up. For example, a level 8 cacti paired with a max-level Davison can reflect 30% damage from range attack (0 + 30%) and 50%\* damage from melee attack (25% + 30%).

\*It’s supposed to be 55% but due to balance requirements we set a restriction of maximum damage reflection of 50%, in the future we will have more troops and skills reflecting damage and we will increase the maximum reflecting percentage.

**Troops fast dying.**

Some players may have noticed that single-load range units die quickly in the battle against Davison. This is primarily due to Davison’s reflection skill. When a troop with areal AoE attack (bomber, mages, and siege weapons) hit multiple targets, the percent of damage from multiple target reflects back to that troop.

### **Savable formation slots feature.**

You can save up to 3 formations in our game.

This feature unlocks at the same time with the Arena on the level 30.

To use use save formation feature you need:

1. Go to battlefield and open you barracks;
2. In upper right corner you will see formation icon;
3. Press it and chose from 3 sets.

### **Clans**

#### **General information**

Clans in Art of War is a source of additional rewards, feeling of unity, a way of making friends and chat with them inside the game, as well as a way to be recognized and respected in the game community.

#### **How to join the clan**

1. To join clan you first need to reach a 240 level;
2. Open the territory map and press the clan picture;
3. Search for the clan in the menu. You can use key words of clan id number to find the clan;
4. If you want to create your own clan you need not to be in any clan or leave current clan, press create clan button and pay 1000 gems.

#### **Clan rewards**

There are two type of reward in the Clan feature:

***a) Clan quests Chests rewards***

* The reward that all clan members receiving by completing the clan quests and receiving the clan xp. points;
* Each clan level brings new clan chest;
* Starting from 15 level, each 5th level of chest gives you gems as the reward, other chest levels will bring you gold coins.
* You need to claim rewards yourself after it's ready and clan leader pressed "claim" on quests.

***b) Clan Contest seasonal reward***

* This is the reward that clan receive after the end of arena season, the reward depend on the clan final rank;
* Attention! You need to claim reward yourself, if you leave the clan before claiming the reward it will disappear and you won't able to claim it.
* To claim available clan reward you need to go to clan menu - rankings section - option in the right upper side of the section - press Season Rewards - press claim on the available reward.

Daily change clan restriction. Error while joining the clan (error code 332).

A player can join the clan only 3 times a day. When player overreach this daily limit, he or she will see the error code 332 and unable to join the clan. Player can try to join again on the next day.

#### **Change or remove clan leader**

There can be different situations in the clan's life: conflict of members with clan leader, clan leader don't play the game, give clan rights by mistake, etc.

Our team principles and policy are not allowed to intervene into matters inside the clan, so we won't adjust a clan structure upon the request and you need to solve the issue yourself by negotiation with your clanmates.

If your leader stopped to play the game and not showing in the game, you shouldn't worry or try to contact us, because according to the game rules the general of the clan will be replaced automatically after 15 days of inactivity, the clan leader will be passed to the member with the highest role after general and with the highest arena points within the same role.

## **Game Tips**

### **Lost to a weaker opponent / safe formation issue.**

It can be easily explained: some of the players set up a very weak defense, but their attack formation is much stronger. Some people just forget to update defense formation, others do it on purpose.

Also, a low trophy ranking doesn't mean the player is weak: it's possible he hasn't been playing PVP for a long time, but his army is still very strong.

The power is not the only variable in our game. What matters as much as the power of the army is its formation. The way you place your army onto the battlefield can significantly impact the result. Also, some heroes have abilities that are especially effective against other heroes. That might also affect the battle in a big way.

As for the low trophies, this is normal when you win people with less trophies than yours. Please attack people with the same rankings as you or higher - the higher the rank of your opponent is, the more points you will get.

In addition to that, there is one thing that can possibly solve your issue:

Try to go to your defense formation in the arena menu (defense) and then press the "save" button or "import formation" button. It will synchronize your hero level and current defense with our servers, and will possibly solve the issue.

If you have more questions or need a more detailed explanation, be free to ask.

### **How to win and move up the ranks in the Arena**

We have compiled a list of useful tips to help you perform better and win in the arena:

#### **Tips for winning**

1. Write down the name of enemies who you can easily defeat and to who you constantly lose, especially those who bring/deduce more points. You may notice that the opponents you can attack in the arena may repeat more often the higher your rank is.
2. Do not rush to attack immediately. Look for the best opponent to attack! Remember that you can always exit the PvP fight without losing tries or points if you don’t press "fight".
3. Check your enemies' formations, especially of ones that you want to revenge. If you notice that your enemy is using a weak hero (due to farming with Hohenheim or other scenario), then consider attacking them.
4. Try to revenge players who attack you if they are not much stronger than you. Usually, revenge often leads to victory, especially when you manually control the hero’s skill as opposed to using auto.
5. Pay attention to troop count advantage. The more 9-load troops you have the bigger advantage you may have, even if your opponent has more rare single load troops. Also, remember that Undead Soldiers can revive once during a battle so they can be considered as an additional troop (or unit).
6. Pay close attention to the enemy's strongest troops. For example, how many Demons, Golems, Paladins, Undead Soldiers, and Assassins they have.
7. **Very important!** Try not to attack or revenge people that have much less ranking points than you - they will bring you very little points (1-3), but deduce more from you if somehow win you (possibly strong but not too active user).

#### **Tips for your own army**

1. The main strategy to pass a hard level and defend in the arena is to increase your army soldier counter by using multi-load troops that load 9 units instead of single load troops. No matter how strong a single load troop is (with exception to demons and golems who are incredibly strong) multi-load troops are stronger because 9 soldiers combined typically have higher stats than a single load troop.
2. Use undead soldiers (they revive once during a battle), assassins and apprentices (they are fast to kill enemies in the back row), paladins (they have the highest combined HP and can shield friendly troops), harbingers of fire (who are high DPS troops that deal AoE damage) and archers (who deal ranged DPS damage).
3. Fortify your first row to make it as durable as possible.

## **See Also**

http://www.armyneedyou.com/support/news

https://www.mrguider.org/cheats/art-of-war-legions-guide-tips-cheats-strategies

https://owwya.com/art-of-war-legions-code/

https://ucngame.com/codes/art-of-war-legions-codes/