How to Join and Fight in Guild Battles

Introduction

The purpose of the Guild Battles is to test your guild's strength against another guild.  It is a fun, non-threatening battle because you get to choose who you will duel.  The investment is only 20 Stamina points for the entire battle.  Once you pay you can duel as many players as you like as long as your Health and Tokens (10 to start with, and another every 6 minutes) hold out.  At the end of the battle you usually get your 20 Stamina points back if not more.  The battle lasts 5 hours and you can come in and out as you please during that time.  Below is a step by step procedure on how to enter and play:

Step 1 - Open up your Castle Age and click on your Keep tab.

Step 2 - Scroll down to your Guild information and click the button that says View.

Step 3 - Find the tab that says Guild Battles and click on it.

Step 4 - You will see the battles that have been started by your Guild officers.  Pick one and click Engage.  (These 2 battles have already ended so where it would normally read Engage it says Collect Reward.)

 

Step 5 - Click on the words Enter Battle (20 Stamina).  This means at this point you need to have 20 Stamina to get in.  Don't worry you will get that back at the end of the battle and maybe even more.



Step 6 - The first thing you will see is your name and statistics for the battle.   In the upper lefthand corner you will see how much time is left in the battle in red.  In the upper righthand  corner you will see who you are fighting in blue.  Down in the lefthand corner you will see your name, level, the class you are fighting as (Warrior, Cleric, Mage or Rogue), Health (your total Health from Keep), status in the battle (healthy, good, fair, weakened, stunned) and your Battle Activity Points (the points you earn during the battle).  The red bar will go down as you fight.  It shows how much Health you have left.  When it hits the bottom, you cannot fight anymore.  In the bottom righthand corner you will see a flame inside a green oval.  Next to it is the number of Tokens you have.  You start out with 10, and it takes 1 Token every time you fight.  You can get a new Token every 6 minutes.  If you have no Tokens left, you cannot fight.  You must wait for more Tokens before you can fight again.

Step 7 - As you scroll down you will see your Guild (green) and the enemy's Guild (blue).  The colored bars show who is currently winning in the battle.  As you go down you will see 2 tabs:  Enemy Guild and Your Guild.  Make sure you pick the Enemy Guild if it is not already chosen.  Under the tabs you will see 4 gates.  Your opponents are behind the gates.  You can open up any gate to duel.  I would recommend that you look in each gate to find people to battle a little below your own level.  Once you look them over, you can decide which gate you will start with and who you will fight first.

Step 8 - As you open a gate you will see your opponents and their levels.  Look at several things before you choose one to battle:  their level (try to pick just below your own level), their health (It has to be higher than 0.), their status (Do not pick anyone who has the status Stunned.  They can no longer fight.)  In this picture you can see all the opponents are Stunned.  Therefore, you want to scroll down to find some opponents that are not in that condition. 

Step 9 - After scrolling down you can find someone you can duel.  At that point you hit Duel and a scoreboard will show up.  In this case I chose to duel with Robert.



Step 10 - Here is the scoreboard after you duel.  At the top it will tell you if it was a victory or defeat.  Then your stats are listed under your name and those of your opponent under his.  When you roll the cursor over the little pictures of the equipment, you can see the names of the equipment your opponent has.  This is a very good thing to study when you lose.  You can see what they have that might be better than what you have.  Then you can set some goals to get those pieces of equipment.  Next, it tells you the damage that you took and that of your opponent.  The green word Gain tells you the guild battle points you earned, and the green word Cost tells you what it cost you to fight this battle.  At this point, you can duel the same opponent again or go fight another opponent.  You can continue this until you run out of health or tokens.  Tokens can be replaced (1 every 6 minutes), health cannot.  Although, clerics in the same gate that have a lot of health have the capability of healing you.  More on this later.















How to Do a Call to Arms

First, it is very important to understand why we should do Call to Arms in battles.   Most battles, unless you have extremely high level hitters, cannot be won without weapon launches.  The only way you can bring about a weapon launch is to invite your friends to click on the battle.  You do this by posting Call to Arms.  Doing a Call to Arms is not reserved for the summoner, or the higher level players, all players in the battle should be doing Call to Arms regularly.  The most critical time when all players should be doing a Call to Arms (CTA) is right after a new launch has started.  Now I am going to teach you how to do a Call to Arms.

Step 1 - Find the green box on your battle page that says Call to Arms and click on it.

Step 2 - A box will appear that will be published to your home page in Facebook where all your friends can see it.  Then a cursor will appear which will allow you to invite your friends.  Simple things you can write are "Please click", "Need clicks."  It is very helpful if you can state the name of the launch and how many clicks you need.  You will find this information underneath the Call to Arms box.  (See above).  After you finish typing your request, click the Publish button at the bottom.

Step 3 - Next go to your Home page in Facebook to see the post.  It will appear at the top or close to the top of the page, go down to the bottom and click where it says "Assist (your name)."  By doing that, you will count one click towards the new launch. 

Step 4 - After you click your Assist, it will take you back to the battle.  You will see the number that you are in bringing about the launch.  Copy that number or the whole phrase and paste it in the Chat Log of the battle.