This guide is mainly about special bonuses and its relationship with combat stats.
It also covers Widgets, Gem Buff, Rally Leaders’ Hero Choice topics.
•What is Special Bonuses, and How to check it? Special Bonuses affect your combat % stats. You can learn it from your battle report.
If you have any special bonuses that apply to that battle you can see it.
•Where to get Special Bonuses? There are 3 ways to get those bonuses, but each of them got its limitations.
1- (Territory Limited) Staying within Alliance Territory, provides you special bonus.
You can check it from Alliance> Territory> Bonus Stats
2- (Time Limited) You can buy them with gems or get some of them from fortresses as rewards. Note: While time limited buffs are active you can register Alliance Championship. Your buffs will affect your registered team until you try to update your registered team.
So you just use the buff and register your team.
To buy and use them follow these steps
Click on the ones you want to buy/use
If you have own it you will see number, for example I have Troops Damage Up II x 2 amount. When I click them it will use it without any second prompt. If you don’t have them you will see this screen when you click “Use”
You will see second prompt for buying with gem.
You CAN’T STACK the SAME TYPE.
When you used your buff, you can see them below your avatar. And if you click the image, you can see the timer.
3- (Battle Type Conditional)/ Widgets aka Hero Exclusive Gears
Widgets of Season 1 Heroes
Natalia (Infantry)
Jeronimo (Infantry)
Zinman (Marksman)
Molly (Lancer)
Season 2 / Second Generation
Flint (Infantry)
Alonso (Marksman)
Philly (Lancer)
Season 3/ Third Generation
Logan (Infantry)
Greg (Marksman)
Mia (Lancer)
Season 4/ Fourth generation
Reina (Lancer)
Lynn (Marksman)
Ahmose (Infantry)
Widgets costs Unlocking/level 1, costs 5 Level 2, special troop buff 5% unlocks. Level 3, costs 15 Level 4, special troop buff increased to 7.5% costs 20 Level 5, costs 25 Level 6, costs 30 increase the buff to 10% Level 7, costs 35 Level 8, costs 40 increase the buff to 12.5% Level 9, costs 45 Level 10/Max level, costs 50 increase the buff to 15% Total costs to max from start, is 275 widgets for a hero. So, you can max season 1 heroes with 275×4 widget chests of season 1. You can max all season 2 heroes with 275x 3 of widgets chest season 2 version. For season 3, 275×3 of season 3 widgets chest.
Note: YOU CAN ONLY USE CORRESPONDING WIDGET CHEST SEASON FOR THAT SEASON HEROES. YOU CAN’T USE WIDGET SEASON 1 CHEST FOR SEASON 2&3 HEROES.
You can buy Widget Chest via recharge/top up or Mystery Shop. You can reroll Mystery Shop daily, first reroll is free, second reroll is 100 diamonds, third reroll is 200. I recommend doing 3 rerolls daily. When your server unlocks second generation heroes, you will able to see second heroes’ widget chests in Mystery Shop.
You can get 80 mystery badgets daily by reaching 325 activity points in daily activity.
You can also get previous generation’s widget chest via HoH. Second Generation’e HoH currency can buy Gen 1 Widget Chest. Third Generation of HoH can buy 2nd Gen Widget Chest.
•How important special buff is? They are very important and they affect your stats more if you have more base combat stats. Current Formula for special buff is Base Combat Stats X Special Bonus Stat + Special Bonus Stat. So it provides both X Multiply increase and + Additional increase to Base combat stats. Let’s say, you have 400% infantry/marksman/lancer attack. And you make Rally with Nimo. When you make rally with Nimo, it provides Rally Troops Attack increase by 15%. (400x 1.15) + 15= 475% for troops attack. So for 400% base troop attack, it will provide 75% increase.
And let’s say someone using, max widget Mia and Jeronimo and attacking someone/someplace with a rally. Mia will provide 15% Rally Troops Attack increase and Jeronimo will provide another 15%.
And let’s assume this person also using 20% 12 hours gem buff.
In total that rally attack will have 50% Rally Troop Attack increase. If his marksman attack got 400% attack increase without those special buffs, it will be (400×1.5)+50= 725% If he got 500%, it will be (500×1.5)+50= 800% marksman attack. THAT’S WHY SPECIAL STATS ARE SO IMPORTANT.
My suggestion to what use when doing rally with max Widgets. (Including Gen 3) Jeronimo (Infantry) Rally Troop Attack 15% Greg (Marksman) Rally Troop Health 15% Mia (Lancer) Rally Troop Attack 15%
>>>>>Defending for your castle& garrison <<<<< Logan Infantry Defender Troops Defense 15%. If you don’t have logan, you can use Flint. Philly for GARRISON ONLY, defending your castle only molly’s widget provides bonus among lancers. Philly is 15% health to garrisoned units. Molly is lethality increase. If you got very high base bonus, you can try Zinman as defender marksman hero or Use Greg ignoring the widget bonus totally. Max level Greg provides 290% stats to marksman. Max level Zinman provides 200% only. You can experiment or do math to see which one is better for you. (though if you are doing rally attack at the same time, greg will be at outside so your best choice will be zinman according to that.)
Those are optimal suggestions for max level heroes & widgets for rally leaders/big shots. You can do your own experiment & calculation to see which one is better. (And these suggestions are based on conclusive data, so it EXCLUDE the EXPEDITION skills of heroes.)
Extra Note, don’t forget to adjust your defender heroes manually
Question-1Using Alonso for defending garrison is better than Zinman?
Answer : (Those are just assumptions based on number, it ignores the expedition skill impact because we don’t have clear understanding about combat system yet and not enough experiment done about it, so do your personal experiment) Let say Season 2 player, X person got 400 attack stats for all troop types with Flint Molly/Philly Zinman Set up And he also runs all gem buffs. He would have 15% defender troops attack from flint and 15% defender troops attack from zinman. (Assuming max widgets) Your troops attack will be 400×1.5+50= 650% for marksman 650% for lancer attack 650% for Infantry attack When you switch the Alonso for defending/garrison set up Max alonso got 40% more marksman attack and def. Max Zinman is 200% Max Alonso is 240% So you will lose 15% defender troop attacks for the increase of 40% base attack for marksman. 440×1.35+35= 629% Marksman Attack 400×1.35+35= 575% Lancer Attack 400×1.35+35= 575% Infantry Attack (I excluded marksman defense increase cos it is not important stat, and you get 10% lethality and health for marksman due to season 2 max widgets got 10% more lethality and health. 10% base lethality+ 20% gem buff bonus, and assuming you use Molly (+15%) as lancer for defending, it will provide you 13.5 lethality increase)
Question 2 Why did I recommend doing reroll 3 times for Mystery Shop?
Answer Try to get good discount and if you are lucky getting free widgets and essence stones.
