Duels - Fight Back!

Now, my advice if you're getting attacked all the time, and you just can't stand to see all those alerts that you lost a duel? You can do two things: Sit and whine about it in the discussion forums and pray that the developer changes the dueling part of the game. Or you can be proactive and do something about it.

Don't put yourself in the position to be a victim. Having hundreds of order members will scare some wannabes from attacking you. So if you don't mind strangers on your Facebook friends list, go on and use some of the Mass Add lists or Add Me threads in the discussion forums.

But the beauty is only skin deep. You can still loose a duel to someone with a smaller order than you if you don't have enough items/magic/creatures for your 3,000 members order.

So it definitely helps to know how duels work. The player who has both the highest Total Attack Points and Total Defense Points will always win. If you can't win on both counts, it becomes a flip of a coin. Sometimes you'll win, sometimes you'll loose.

There are three components that will ultimate increase or decrease your Total Attack Points (TAP) and Total Defense Points (TDP).

1. In a duel you attack once and you defend once. Every order member gets to duel with 1 item, 1 magic and 1 creature. Every time you duel, the computer will automatically assign the best items (one of each) for attack and the best items for defense from the most powerful item, to the least powerful item (descending order).

2. Then there's your Individual Attack Points (IAP) and Individual Defense points (IDP), the ones that can be increased using skill points, but I advise against because they add very little to your total.

3. Finally there's character's strengths and weaknesses that are directly tied with 2 specific dueling modifiers: Attack and Defense. For example, Raven-Haired has high defense, and bookworm has high attack but low defense. Broken-Wand's characteristics do not emphasize neither. (For all formulas, click here)

For example, you start the game with 10 IAP and 10 IDP. If you only have one order member, and your items are 1 Lightsaber Wand (A.30 D.20), 1 Robe (A.1 D.1), 1 Fancy Robe(A.10 D.5), 2 Alohomora (A.8 D.13), 1 Phoenix (A.10 D.2), 1 Owl (A.6 D.10). Note that you have 3 items, 2 magics and 2 creatures.

When your one member order attack, you'll use 1 Lightsaber Wand, 1 Alohomora, 1 Phoenix. If you add the  attack points from items plus your IAP you'll get 30+8+10+10 = 58

When you defend you'll use 1 Lightsaber Wand, 1 Alohomora, 1 Owl. Again if add all the defense points from items plus your IDP, you'll have 20+13+10+10 = 53 this will be your Total Defense Points.

Now the third step is tricky since it depends on which character you have. If you have Broken-Wand, the numbers above will be your TAP and TDP.

If you have Raven-Haired, your modifier is that you are high in defense. So your TAP remains the same, 58 but your Total Defense Points can be calculated using this formula:

TDP = (Defense Points from Items + Individual Defense Points) * 1.1

So your actual Total Attack Points will be 58. Basically a 10% bonus.

If you have Bookworm, your modifier is that you are high in attack BUT low in defense. Your formulas are:

TAP = (Attack Points from Items + Individual Attack Points) * 1.1
TDP = (Defense Points from Items + Individual Defense Points) * 0.9

So Bookworm has 10% bonus on attack, and 10% penalty on defense. Using the numbers from the example above, Bookworm will have 64 TAP and 48 TDP.




Now if you have 3 members in your order:

Attack:
1 Lightsaber Wand, 1 Fancy Robe, 1 Robe, 2 Alohomora, 1 Phoenix, 1 Owl, plus 10 IAP
TAP = 30+10+1+16+10+6+10 = 83

Defense:
1 Lightsaber Wand, 1 Fancy Robe, 1 Robe, 2 Alohomora, 1 Owl, 1 Phoenix, plus 10 IDP.
TDP = 20+5+1+26+10+2+10 = 74

Note that 1 member of your order doesn't have any Creature nor Magic. You should get him one of each ASAP if you like to duel.

3rd Step Calculations:

Broken-Wand (no modifiers, numbers above will be your stats):

TAP = 83
TDP = 74

Raven-Haired (high defense)
TAP = 83
TDP = (Defense Points from Items + Individual Defense Points) * 1.1
TDP = (74) * 1.1 = 81

Basically a 10% bonus.




Bookworm (high attack, low defense):

TAP = (Attack Points from Items + Individual Attack Points) * 1.1
TAP = (83) * 1.1 = 91

TDP = (Defense Points from Items + Individual Defense Points) * 0.9
TDP = (74) * 0.9 = 67

10% bonus attack, and 10% penalty defense




If you have 4, 5, 10, 100 order members but still have the same amount of items, nothing will change, you'll still have the same Total Attack and Total Defense Points you had when you only had 3 order members.

So it's a combination of order member + item + creature + magic + character that gives your order power. Your Individual Attack/Defense Points helps little. It's better to get an extra order member, better items, creatures and magic than to boost you Attack or Defense with valuable skill points.

So at the beginning (levels below 15, I believe) if you see a another order with 50 members, same stats as you, 10 attack, 10 defense, click on them, and see how many items they have. If they only have 1 robe, and your 3 members order has 3 robes, go ahead and attack him/her, I guarantee you will win.

There's also a link that tells you your attack and defense points. The first time I saw the link it was first posted in a discussion forum by Katz von D. I'm just copying it here. http://apps.facebook.com/wizard_/items. Click on the link and hit Ctrl+A so that you can read the page.

If you don't want to add strangers to your Facebook account and you're getting attacked by someone about your level, about same amount of order members as you, make sure everyone in your order has an item/creature/magic. If you click on the link above, it will tell you how many order members are missing items/magic/creatures.

Now that you know how it works, buy better items for your members if necessary, boost your Attack and Defense points by begging you real friends to install the application so that your order can grow, they don't have to play the game, it's the headcounts that matters to you. Bide your time to strengthen you order and remember, revenge is a dish best served cold.

P.S. If you play with premium characters, and you would like to help out with their bonuses information, please feel free to drop me a line here. TDP/TAP formula is courtesy of Sougata Som, thank you.