Shadow Cities Comprehensive Beginner’s Guide
Shadow Cities Comprehensive Beginner’s Guide by Gabriel
Attributes are found in your profile, beneath your mana and health. There are four attributes: Endurance, Intelligence, Vitality, and Willpower. Every 500 XP gives you 1 Attribute Point (AP), to a max of 2200 APs. Attribute Levels (AL) can be purchased with APs at the following rate:
AL How many APs Total APs for one attribute to max this level
0-15 1 AP = 1 AL 15 total AP
16-30 2 AP = 1 AL 45 total AP
31-40 3 AP = 1 AL 75 total AP
41-45 4 AP = 1 AL 95 total AP
46-50 5 AP = 1 AL 120 total AP
51-55 8 AP = 1 AL 160 total AP
56-60 10 AP = 1 AL 210 total AP
61-65 12 AP = 1 AL 270 total AP
66-70 15 AP = 1 AL 345 total AP
71-75 20 AP = 1 AL 445 total AP
76-85 25 AP = 1 AL 695 total AP
86-90 30 AP = 1 AL 845 total AP(Numbers gathered by Seil and Lakuja)
Aalny has taken this information and made a very handy attribute calculator. You can use this to find your current APs, or test out various builds and see how much AP they would take.
You can reset an attribute for 10 mana potions using the blue button in the top right corner of the attribute screen. The attribute points you spent on that attribute will be returned to you for redistribution.
Endurance (Green): Every AL of Endurance gives you an extra 10 to your max HP
Intelligence (White): Every AL of Intelligence gives you an extra 5 to your max MP
Willpower (Red): Each additional level of willpower increases average spell damage by 2. This has been proven by GiantDong.
Preliminary studies indicate that each level of Willpower adds +1 HP to your base heal when casting an Aria of Light.
Vitality (Blue): Increases mana/health regen in a scale depending on your level. Health regen increases occur faster than mana regen increases.
High Vitality also means Arias of Light are more effective on you. Each level of Vitality adds approximately +3 to the HP you receive from an Aria of Light (when tested, this was off by only 1 HP from 0 to 75, that is, instead of the 513 recovery expected at vitality 75, the test recovered 514 hp).
The following table shows how many AL of Vitality you need for each regen rate, health and mana:
| MANA REGEN RATE | HP REGEN RATE
Level | 30 45 60 75 90 105 120 | 30 45 60 75 90 105 120 135 150 165 180 195 210 225 240
------|------------------------------------|---------------------------------------------------------------------------
1 | ?? XX XX XX XX XX XX | 11 22 33 43 XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX
2 | ?? XX XX XX XX XX XX | 9 20 31 42 XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX
3 | ?? XX XX XX XX XX XX | 8 19 30 40 51 XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX
4 | ?? XX XX XX XX XX XX | 6 17 28 39 50 XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX
5 | 11 47 XX XX XX XX XX | 5 16 27 37 48 59 XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX
6 | 5 41 XX XX XX XX XX | 3 14 25 36 47 58 XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX
7 | 0 36 XX XX XX XX XX | 2 13 24 34 45 56 67 XX XX XX XX XX XX XX XX
8 | 0 30 66 XX XX XX XX | 0 11 22 33 44 55 66 76 XX XX XX XX XX XX XX
9 | 0 24 60 XX XX XX XX | 0 10 20 31 42 53 64 75 86 XX XX XX XX XX XX
10 | 0 18 54 90 XX XX XX | 0 8 19 30 41 52 63 73 85 96 XX XX XX XX XX
11 | 0 13 49 85 XX XX XX | 0 7 17 28 39 50 61 72 83 94 105 XX XX XX XX
12 | 0 7 43 79 XX XX XX | 0 5 16 27 38 49 60 70 82 93 104 XX XX XX XX
13 | 0 1 37 73 109 XX XX | 0 4 14 25 36 47 58 69 80 91 102 113 XX XX XX
14 | XX 0 32 68 104 XX XX | 0 2 13 24 35 46 57 67 79 90 101 112 123 XX XX
15 | XX 0 26 62 98 134 XX | XX 0 11 22 33 44 55 66 77 88 99 110 121 132 XX
16 | XX 0 20 56 92 128 XX | XX 0 10 21 32 43 54 64 75 86 97 108 119 130 XX
17 | XX 0 15 51 87 124 XX | XX 0 8 19 30 41 52 63 74 85 96 107 117 128 139
18 | XX 0 9 45 81 117 XX | XX 0 7 18 29 40 50 61 72 83 94 105 116 127 138(Numbers gathered with help from Sinesis, Abbarrax, Teknik, Kieri, KrazyPete, tristero, Rubao, Yurasyuk, and Raelyne)
GATEWAYS
Gateways are bright flames in the world of Shadow Cities, where cracks in the seal between the Shadow World and ours have appeared. Magic leaks through the cracks in the form of these bright flames and can be tapped through the use of Dominators. A conquered gateway will provide power and energy to anything friendly attached to it.
The first dominator attached to a gateway conquers it for that team regardless of how many enemy dominators are attached to that gateway. To conquer a non-neutral gateway, you must both attach one of your dominators to that gateway as well as destroy all enemy dominators attached to that gateway.
(Thanks to KrazyPete and his daughter for confirming this)
Neutral gateways are white.
Animator-controlled gateways are green.
Architect-controlled gateways are orange.
HARVESTING
When you harvest a dominator, you gather a set amount of energy based on how many friendly gateways are in the area and what the value of each gateway is. There are two types of gateways, CONNECTED, the one your dominator’s energy line is drawn to, and VISIBLE, ones your gateway counts when you get the message “Your team has X gateways in the area.” Flipping that and reversing it, a gateway gives a boost to CONNECTED doms (doms feeding directly from it) and VISIBLE domes (doms that count it as ‘in the area’).
Realm Value Energy Boost to CONNECTED doms
0-50 0
60-520 +3
530-5000+ +?
Realm Value Energy Boost to ALL VISIBLE doms (max 3 of this boost)
0-90 0
100-490 +1
500-??? +2Much help, as always, from Lakuja in gathering this data.
These two values stack, so a 100 value gateway will give +3 to its connected doms for being over 50 and another +1 for being at 100. Four 100 value gateways will give +3 to a dom connected to one of them, plus +1 three times for three of the visible boost.
The more of YOUR dominators attached to a gateway, the less energy each pulls. Allied and enemy doms do not affect your harvest in any way (unless they change the alliance of a gateway)
The more friendly gateways visible from a dom, the more energy each dom pulls.
A gateway is counted as visible if the dominator can “see” the gateway. It is unsure right now how that sight is measured. It seems to neither be the number of visible gateways in cloud view nor the number of visible gateways in local view, however, it does rely on the dominator’s positioning. If one of your doms is reporting a different number of friendly gateways than the rest, try moving it to see if the value changes.
(conflicting information provided by PhenixRose, Lakuja, and Axlar)
Seil
First off there’s a base value depending on how many dominators are attached to a specific gateway.
1 dom on a gateway has a base value of 7.
2 doms have a base of 5 each.
Any more than 2 has a base of 2 each.
Then one is added for every friendly gateway in the area.
If there is only one friendly gateway then you add 1, if there are two you add 2 and so on.
If the gateway is owned by you and you have invested at least 50 potions into it(the value of the realm would be 60+) you get an extra 3 to the dominators in that realm as well.
Next we take into account realm values, which is where things change. We were already aware that at value 60, there was a +3 bonus to dominators on the gateway. We now know that at realm value 100 another +1 bonus is applied, but not only to the dominators on the gateway itself, but all dominators in the area.
For example, we’ll use the scenario Bigtail had set up:
Gateway 1, value 110, 2 doms
Gateway 2, value 100, 2 doms
Gateway 3, value 70, 2 doms
2 doms = 5 base harvest
3 gateways = +3 = 8
60+ value = +3 = 11
Two 100+ values = +2 = 13
All dominators will provide 13 energy per harvest.
(above information also contributed by Bigtail)
DOMINION BUFFS AND REALMS
If you want to go further, you can purchase a gateway with mana potions in 10-pot increments to become Shadow Lord of that particular realm.
Lakuja had some nice information on Realms
Purchasing realms give you bragging rights and a minimal boost to energy harvested from attached dominators as well as a boost to the dominion buff. Harvest boost goes toward ALL attached doms of the same team as the gateway color, not necessarily that of the gateway’s Shadow Lord.
It costs 500 potions to increase the value of a realm to silver, 5000 to increase it to gold.
Pots you have invested into a realm stay as credit until that realm’s value is maxed out at 5000.
Lakuja
The mana that you have previously invested into a gateway will be taken into account if you buy it back. For example you paid 60 bottles at first, then someone raises it to 80 with 80 bottles. So to get it back you’ll need to pay 30 bottles and the gateway value will raise to 90.
If you harvest an owned realm, you receive a vitality buff based on how many likes a realm has (this value scales along with the amount of likes on all realms: as average realm like value increases, it’s harder to get a bigger buff).
If YOU harvest YOUR OWN realm, you get an additional willpower buff based on the value of the realm.
If you harvest an unowned realm (even if it’s liked), no buffs are given.
The buff also functions similar to an individual spider buff in that your energy gains are increased.
0 likes = 0 vitality boost
20 value (10 pots in) = 11 willpower boost
The highest recorded boosts so far are:
6000 value (5990 pots in) = +84 to willpower (confirmed no cap to willpower buffs)
+50 vitality boost for the best-liked realms (confirmed to be the cap)
Numbers we have found thus far (a ~ means we do not know that side of that range):
WP Boost Value (pots spent +10)
11 20
12 30
13 40
14 50
14 60
15 70-80
16 90
17 100-120
18 130
19 140-160
20 170-190
21 200-210~
22 ~230-250~
23 ~270-280~
24 ~300-320
25 330-360
26 370-390
27 400-440
28 450-480
29 490-520
30 530-570
31 580-620
32 630-670
33 680-720
34 730-780
35 790-840
36 850-890
37 900-960
38 970-1020
39 1030-1080
40 1090-1150
41 1160-1220
42 1230-1290
43 1300-1360
44 1370-1440
45 1450-1520
46 1530-1590
47 1600-1680
48 1690-1760
49 1770-1840
50 1850-1930
51 1940-2020
52 2030-2110
53 2120-2200
54 2210-2300
55 2310-???
77 ~5000~
78 ~5100~
84 ~6000~Data gathered with much help, especially from Pati, Seil, and Rincwind
**This section will assume you have successfully completed the basic tutorial and are at least level 2.**
Topics covered include:
* ABC/AHC
* Arachne Weaver
* Fighting Lag
* Friends
* Guide to Guides
* Guide for Healers
* Kill-sharing
* Low-Level Usefulness
* Movement/Dodging
* Spirit Spawning Patterns
ABC/AHC
These monster beacons are 20,000 HP behemoths that are summoned by the game in places of large enemy activity—Architect Battle Control beacons show up around Animator hotspots, and Animator High Command beacons show up at Architect hotspots. When summoned, a message is displayed on the screen of all allied players in that battlegroup if they are on the main display. The beacon is also available in the beacon list of all allied players in that battlegroup.
Beacons seem to be summoned by excessive harvesting. Though they are meant to be summoned more frequently by the losing team, this does not seem to be the case. Factors that DO seem to summon enemy beacons include:
· Harvesting with five or more friendly gateways in view
(tips provided by Axlar)
ARACHNE WEAVERS
With the update to 1.3.0 on September 26, 2011, Shadow Cities introduced the Arachne Weaver. This 25,000 HP “Spider” spirit is not an easy spirit to take out.
The spirit appears as a Shadow Spirit of House Dannan. The spirit starts off sunken into the ground with pulsing blue legs drawing energy. When it wakes up, it rises out of the ground and walks around, wreaking havoc by destroying beacons.
The spirit can deal massive amounts of damage, but it also creates patches of ‘sparkle’ which will drain HP from mages caught in its range and heal itself.
(image courtesy of Rincwind)
The Arachne Weaver has several attacks, all of which are good to familiarize yourself with. Aside from the vampiric sparkle, they also have summon/control spirits and reflect/recover
Summon/Control: Arachne Weavers will sink down and rise back up, ‘bouncing’ in place. They will draw their legs under them and then spin, throwing their legs out wide and high. This summons multitudes of spirits, some of which will begin attacking mages who have attacked/are attacking the Weaver.
Reflect/Recover: Arachne Weavers will sink into the ground with their legs thrashing and spiraling around. When it moves in this fashion, it will reflect all damage inflicted upon it back to the caster AND heal itself for the same amount of damage.
Spider sigils are randomly given to some of the attackers upon the defeat of the Arachne Weaver. In addition, the person who first hits the spider gains a 60-minute energy buff for their entire battlegroup. All activities that would gather energy (harvesting, capturing spirits, destroying enemies/structures, and completing missions) are given a 20% minimum boost until the orange spider mark in the upper left corner wears off. This boost scales in accordance with how many rounds your team has lost in this campaign.
Arachne Weavers give a good chunk of energy for all participants who were not banished or who didn’t run away between their last blow to the spirit and it’s demise. The fewer attackers, the greater this reward.
Fighting Lag
Lag (the slowdown of your iDevice, not the Animator), is a frequent cause of many headaches, banishments, and frustration among most mages. Currently, the following strategies can be used to possibly help reduce lag:
* DELETE AND REINSTALL YOUR APP. A main source of lag seems to be not how many friends you have, but how many you have visited. Every beacon you hop to saves some information in the cache. The more beacons you hop to, the more information is stored up, until you can’t do anything. This means that frequent PvP battlers and spirit-hunters will need to reinstall frequently, but if you only have a few beacons you frequent, you should be fine.
* Cull your friends list. This is easiest done on the forums, as you see all your friends listed in order of most-recently to least-recently active. Also consider removing friends with excessively long status posts, as these can slow down your device
* Sync your iDevice regularly, as crash reports can build up and slow down your game (and submit those crash reports to GA so they can improve the game for everyone, but especially you!).
* Play with your iDevice resting on a cloth-covered icepack to keep it cool. Excessive heat can slow things down.
* Close out of any apps running in the background.
* Play during off-peak hours.
FRIENDS
The number one thing you can do to have an advantage in Shadow Cities is to make friends. Lots of friends. The more friends you have, the more beacons you can warp to, the more spirit hunting grounds are available, and the better your chances of finding and surviving PvP battles.
To make friends, begin by introducing yourself in your battlegroup team chat. Offer everyone in the chat a friend request (tap their name to visit their profile, then tap “Add Friend” in the top right corner). As you gain friends, you will notice status posts appearing below the team and cross-team chats. Unfamiliar players may be responding to your friends’ statuses. Offer them friend requests as well. Offer friend requests to people you see and like on these forums.
GUIDES AND RECRUITMENT
Experienced mages are encouraged to recruit and guide new mages and help them Awaken. All mages receive a mission to this extent, either Looking For a Guide or A Guiding Voice. Level 8 and below are asked to follow a guide, while all levels receive the A Guiding Voice mission. Being a guide is not level-dependent.
After selecting your Choose Your Guide button, you will be taken to a screen like the following (Animators will have the green sigil). Simply enter the mage of your choice in the text box, and you have selected your guide!
Note: Once you select a guide, you cannot change. Make sure the guide you are picking is one who has truly helped you.
Right now, guiding/following is a way to unlock new sigils for the social areas of the game and to show respect for those mages you admire. A guided mage can select the Shadow Cities knot in the color of their team as opposed to the neutral grey. A guide receives the bronze Envoy sigil when they have guided one mage. The silver Diplomat sigil comes at 7 mages, and the gold Ambassador sigil comes at 25.
When a mage is chosen as a guide, they are given a completed mission. At the moment, this is the only way to know who your followers are, as they are mentioned in the text of the mission and no where else. Currently, you can only receive one of these completed missions per login, so if you suspect you have gained additional followers, close and reopen the app. You will need to make a list of your followers by hand.
In addition, guides earn rewards as their followers level up, at levels 8, 10, 12, and 15.
Follower Level XP Energy Pots
Follows you 50 10 1
8 150 25 1
10 150 50 1
12 150 75 1
15 25 5 0GUIDE FOR HEALERRS
Protonius has written an excellent guide for people interested in playing healers.
KILL SHARING
Starting with the 1.3.0 update, kill-sharing has been enabled for all spirits.
Anyone who hits a spirit before it is banished and remains alive and in the area is granted an equal share of the total energy and xp of that spirit, rounded up. (This does mean if two people take out a 3 energy spirit, the total energy gain from that spirit is 4). Energy rewards are not dependent on how much damage you deal to the spirit.
If you warp away from the area, any spirit you had aggravated will return to a steady state. No more raging, mana-draining spirits running around. Spirits go docile almost immediately upon departure, and you are removed from the list of mages to receive energy/xp rewards. If another mage keeps the spirit aggravated, you remain on the list to receive rewards, at least for a short period of time.
If you attack a spirit that was attacking someone else, the spirit will target you instead. Any spell it was already casting will hit the previous target, but any new spells will be aimed at the latest attacker.
All mages who receive energy/xp rewards for attacking a spirit receive mission credit as well.
LOW-LEVEL USEFULNESS
If you are a new player, level five or below, you can be a HUGE asset in battle for your team! Scorpienne has written a great guide to just how you can help your academy be the best that it can be.
MOVEMENT
New mages are offered a few random beacons in cloud view from their area to warp to before they make friends. Once mages start making friends, the random beacons are replaced with the beacons of their friends from all over the world. Warping to a beacon is as simple as tapping on it in the cloud view and selecting the warp button or tapping the upper right corner to view a list of all friends’ beacons in order of the beacon’s age. Simply tap a beacon to visit it.
Moving around in local view is a bit more challenging. The arrow at the base of your avatar always points north, and many statuses will offer directional abbreviations for things of interest from their beacons (N,S,E,W,NE,SW, etc.). Begin by selecting your destination, which can be ANY friendly object—mage, dominator, ward, catcher, or beacon—or any non-enemy gateway. Pull down the rune layer and cast the Warp spell (upside-down U. It may be helpful to think of it as a hop to remember). Your avatar will warp beside your target.
Leapfrogging is one particular method of movement in which you team up with one or more friends to travel in local view. You decide as a group which direction you want to travel in and warp toward the mage furthest from you in the correct direction. Continue to select that mage and warp until you have overshot in the direction you wish to travel. Now the other mage(s) will select you and warp to you until you have been overshot, and it is your turn again. While it may seem slow, leapfrogging can be very successful, especially in large groups.
Dom-surfing/hopping/walking is another method of travel in which you cast a dominator spell to build a dominator. If it is not in the direction you wish to travel, destroy it and cast again. Once the dominator is in the right direction, you can warp to it, destroy it, and start again. You can also use wards or catchers in this fashion, with the added benefit that wards and catchers are not visible in cloud view the way dominators are. They are more expensive to cast, though.
Of course, if you have an iPhone or are otherwise not tethered to wifi, you can physically move in the real world to move your avatar in the Shadow Cities realm.
DODGE
When you are in battle with an enemy mage, you can attempt to dodge their attacks by warping to a nearby friendly. Dewarping will not dodge, and spirits cannot be dodged. However, if you Dewarp or warp away from a fight, spirit or PvP, you will not be attacked further and can recover before returning.
SPIRIT SPAWNING
Raelyne and GiantDong did a lot of investigating to discover how the spirits spawn. Check out their findings Shadow Cities Spirit Spawning Pattern Explanation
All numbers are given for an unimproved mage—no attribute points spent, spell points only spent to get first level of spells. See the Spells section for spell costs and Structures and Power section for how many beacons/wards/catchers you can summon at each level and their starting HP.
Level Cap: 18
Level AP HP/Regen MP/Regen Avg. Dam. Max Doms Level Up at
1 0 200/0 200/0 10 0 2 0 250/15 250/15 73 0 ~200 XP
3 1 300/15 300/15 86 0 ~300 XP
4 1 350/15 350/15 100 2 ~3800 XP
5 9 400/15 400/15 114 2 ~6000 XP
6 21 450/15 450/15 127 3 ~8700 XP
7 39 500/15 500/30 140 3 ~10500 XP
8 61 550/30 550/30 156 3 ~13500 XP
9 89 600/30 600/30 171 4 ~17000 XP
10 123 650/30 650/30 185 4 ~20000 XP
11 163 700/30 700/30 200 5 ~47000 XP
12 257 750/30 750/30 215 5 ~74000 XP
13 405 800/30 800/30 230 5 ~101000 XP
14 607 850/30 850/45 241 5 ~132000 XP
15 871 900/45 900/45 255 6 ~144500 XP
16 1289 950/45 950/45 270 6 ~200000 XP
17 1689 1000/45 1000/45 285 6 ~255500 XP
18 2200 1050/45 1050/45 299 6 N/AEvery 500 XP, you gain an attribute point. By figuring out how many AP you have already, using the Attribute Calculator linked in the attribute post, you can find out roughly where you stand in terms of leveling up to the next level. For example, if you are level 12 and have 400 AP, you are about 5 AP, 5 x 500 = 2500 XP away from leveling up to 13. This was pointed out by NightNinja. A spreadsheet to calculate this for you can be found here, but do not change anything other than what is in the yellow boxes! If anyone wants to turn this into a proper calculator like the AP calculator, let me know!
Level 1: Normal. Spells cost 0 mana. War Chant Given
Level 2: Apprentice. +50 mana. Can access the chat. Aria of Light given
Level 3: Neophyte. +50 mana, +50 HP.
Level 4: Acolyte. +1 SP, +50 mana, +50 HP, +2 Dominators. Warp, Dewarp, Dominator, and Harvest given.
Level 5: Mage. +1 SP, +50 mana, +50 HP
Level 6: Disciple. +1 SP, +50 mana, +50 HP, +1 Dominator. Beacon given. Auto-protection ends.
Level 7: Journeyman. +1 SP, +50 mana, +50 HP
Level 8: Conjurer. +1 SP, +50 mana, +50 HP. Catcher spell unlocked.
Level 9: Mystic. +1 SP, +50 mana, +50 HP, +1 dominator.
Level 10: Guardian. +1 SP, +50 mana, +50 HP, Ward spell unlocked.
Level 11: Evoker. +1 SP, +50 mana, +50 HP, +1 dominator
Level 12: Channeler. +1 SP, +50 mana, +50 HP
Level 13: Scholar. +1 SP, +50 mana, +50 HP
Level 14: Arcanist. +1 SP, +50 mana, +50 HP
Level 15: Awakened. +1 SP, +50 mana, +50 HP, +1 dominator
Level 16: Seeker. +50 mana, +50 HP
Level 17: Visionary. +50 mana, +50 HP
Level 18: Enlightened. +50 mana, +50 HP.
At each level between three and fifteen, you get one extra spell point. There are currently more spell choices than spell points available, so plan your increases wisely.
Spells are the cornerstone of the game. Currently, there are nine different spells:
Aria of Light: Backwards Z
– Free at Level 2
– Your healing spell. Can be used on anything. Will not affect spirits, but will heal all injured mages/structures and increase the HP of undamaged structures (both friendly and enemy).
– Higher levels increase healed HP.
Dewarp: U
– Free at Level 4
– Undoes any warps you have. Will take you back to your physical location in the real world. Dewarp will not dodge but can be used to escape a fight quickly.
Harvest: –
– Free at Level 4
– Harvests a full dominator for energy. Can only be used on your dominators and can only be used within ~1 mile/2 km of your real-world physical location.
Summon Beacon: | with a crook to the right.
– Free at Level 6
– Summons a beacon for your friends to see and warp to while in cloudview. Requires power from dominators.
– Requires Warp Level 4 to cast while warped
– Higher levels give an increased starting HP.
Summon Catcher: O
– Available for purchase at Level 8
– Lures a spirit which will be released to attack enemy mages casting within range. Spirits can also be harvested for energy/missions but doing so will destoy the catcher. Requires power from dominators.
– Requires Warp Level 2 to cast while warped
– Higher levels allow stronger spirits to be caught.
Summon Dominator: Backwards L
– Free at Level 4
– Summons a dominator to gather energy for your harvest and generate power for your other summoned structures. Also conquers gateways.
– Higher levels give an increased starting HP.
Summon Ward: X with a horizontal line connecting the top legs.
– Available for purchase at Level 10
– Creates a ward which will attack enemy mages casting within range. Only three wards per local view.
– Requires Warp Level 3 to cast while warped
– Higher levels give an increased starting HP
War Chant of Light: Z
– Free at Level 1
– Your attack spell. Can only be used on enemies.
– Higher levels increase average damage.
Warp: Upside-down U
– Free at Level 4
– Your movement spell. You can cast warp on anything friendly to immediately hop beside it. Warping to the same object multiple times in succession will move you around that object randomly. Warping in local view during a PvP battle gives you a chance to dodge a spell.
– Higher levels allow you to summon structures while warped. Catchers at level 2, Wards at level 3, and Beacons at level 4.
At every level up to 15, you get one spell point to put toward improving your spells (max 12). At any time, you can spend 10 mana potions to reset your spell picks by tapping the blue button in the top right corner of the spell screen. Catcher and Ward spells are not automatically given to you.
Until you have warp level 4, you will be unable to set a beacon away from your dewarped physical location.
Your mana and health are constantly regenerating, but your bars only refresh every 15 seconds or when something happens to affect them: you get hit, you cast a spell, you quaff a potion, you get healed, etc. Dewarp, despite its 0 mana cost, counts as casting a spell, so when you dewarp, it fills your mana with all the mp you’ve earned since the last refresh. Spamming dewarp, therefore, will make your mana bar appear to fill up faster, however, it fills up at the same rate as it would normally. The difference is…
Well, say you have a regen of 75 mana/15 seconds. That’s 5 mana/second. And say dewarp takes 3 seconds to cast. You can sit for 15 seconds and regain 75 mana, or you can dewarp 5 times (15 seconds) and regain 15 mana each time (5mp/second * 3 seconds) for a total of 75 mana. Same amount of progress in the same amount of time, but the constant dewarping means your mana bar has been steadily going up instead of going up in 15-second bursts.
The spell cost stays roughly:
1 Beacon = 2 Wards = 4 War Chants
1 War Chant = 1 Harvest
1 Aria = 1 Dominator
Aria SEEMS to equal War Chant now, but it has not been confirmed at all levels.
To find the cost of a war chant, at maximum mana, cast war chant on something attackable and immediately open your profile and check your mana level before you even finish casting the spell. Subtract your remaining mana from your max mana to find the cost of your war chant.
War Chant (WC) = Harvest = Aria = Dominator
Ward = 2xWC
Catcher = 3 x WC
Beacon = 4xWC
Warp costs minimal mana. Dewarp is always free.
Level Warp WC Aria Ward Catcher Beacon
1 N/A 0 N/A N/A N/A N/A
2 N/A 63 63 N/A N/A N/A
3 N/A 75 75 N/A N/A N/A
4 10 88 88 N/A N/A N/A
5 12 100 100 N/A N/A N/A
6 14 113 113 N/A N/A 450
7 16 125 125 N/A N/A 500
8 18 138 138 N/A 413 550
9 20 150 150 N/A 450 600
10 23 163 163 325 488 650
11 26 175 175 350 525 700
12 28 188 188 375 563 750
13 30 200 200 400 600 800
14 31 213 213 425 638 850
15 33 225 225 450 675 900
16 38 238 238 475 713 950
17 43 250 250 500 750 1000
18 43 263 263 525 788 1050(Data gathered with the help of Raelyne, Seil, Abbarrax, Qwit, Sniklefrits, and Sir-Gruth)
There are four structures, falling into two types:
Power Gatherers:
Dominators: Tall magical towers that draw from a nearby gateway. If attached to a friendly gateway, Dominators will provide power for your other structures and energy for your harvest. Destroying an enemy dominator will net you between 0 (empty) and 10 (completely full) energy, depending on how full the mana bar is.
Reward for Healing allied: Varies depending on damage healed.
Damage Healed Energy Reward
(roughly)
150-350 2
350-550 3
550+ 4(Numbers determined by JimShorts365 and GiantDong)
Reward for Destroying enemy: Varies depending on how full the dominator’s mana bar is, with a max of 10 energy for a ready-to-harvest dominator.
Power Consumers:
Beacons: Glowing cylinders of light that streak up into cloudview and allow your friends to warp to your location. The more friends you have, the more beacons you’ll be able to see. New mages with few friends will be given a few random beacons from their battlegroup to visit. Feeding a mana potion to a beacon will give it a full mana bar that must first be drained by enemy attacks before the beacon itself is damaged as well as send out the ‘emergency beacon’ summon for offline players. Beacons require warp level 4 to be cast while warped.
Reward for Healing allied: Nothing
Reward for Destroying enemy: 20 energy
Catchers: Giant claws which immediately begin luring a spirit into their grasp. When the mana bar is full, the spirit is caught (feeding catchers a pot will make it instantly catch the spirit). Catchers will release caught spirits on an enemy mage who begin casting within range. Feeding a catcher a stream of mana potions while an enemy mage is attacking can cause it to catch and release many spirits. Released spirits target the enemy mage that triggered the release. Caught spirits can also be harvested for minor energy gains and to fulfill mission requirements. Harvesting a spirit from a catcher will destroy the catcher.
Catchers CAN catch boss spirits. Abbarrax has offered this screenshot of a Breath of Khaos caught in a level 4 catcher as proof.
At the time this screenshot was taken, the Breath of Khaos spirit gave you 150 energy if caught wild but only 25 when harvested from the catcher.
Reward for Healing allied: Nothing
Reward for Destroying enemy: Nothing?
Wards: Intricate circular knots of light on the ground. Wards will start casting spells on an enemy mage that begins casting within range. Only three wards can be cast in one local view.
Limit: 10 wards TOTAL (limit found by GriffinClaw)
Reward for Healing allied: Nothing
Reward for Destroying enemy: Nothing?
This table shows the base HP for each structure at each level. Base HP can be boosted by spell levels, endurance, and Arias of Light.
Dom Bea Cat War
1 N/A N/A N/A N/A
2 N/A N/A N/A N/A
3 N/A N/A N/A N/A
4 256 N/A N/A N/A
5 290 N/A N/A N/A
6 328 675 N/A N/A
7 364 750 N/A N/A
8 400 825 207 N/A
9 436 900 225 N/A
10 474 975 244 358
11 508 1050 263 385
12 546 1125 282 413
13 580 1200 300 440
14 618 1275 319 468
15 654 1350 338 495
16 690 1425 357 523
17 726 1500 375 550
18 764 1575 394 578Catchers do not change hp based on spell level. All other structures have a minor HP increase as spell level goes up.
Power is represented by the purple bar in the upper right corner of your local view screen. Part of your power comes from your mage level and part comes from your dominators. You must have enough power for all your Consumers, or they will all fail.
If you wish to destroy one of your structures, you can tap the purple dominator button in the upper right corner of your screen. From there, you can select any structure and tap the red Destroy button.
As your level increases, the number of structures you can power increases. The following table shows the maximum number of structures you can have at each level for each combination—all beacons, all catchers, all wards, beacons and catchers, beacons and wards, catchers and wards, or a mix of all three.
Level B C W B/C B/W C/W B/C/W
6 1 0 0 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0/0
7 1 0 0 0/0 0/0 0/0 0/0/0
8 1 2 0 1/1 0/0 0/0 0/0/0
9 2 2 0 1/1 0/0 0/0 0/0/0
10 2 2 2 1/1 1/1 1/2 0/0/0
11 2 3 3 1/1 1/2 1/2 1/1/1
2/1
12 2 3 3 1/1 1/2 1/2 1/1/1
2/1
13 2 3 3 1/1 1/2 1/2 1/1/1
2/1
14 2 3 3 1/1 1/2 1/2 1/1/1
2/1
15 2 3 4 2/1 2/1 1/3 1/1/1
1/2 1/2 2/1
AT LEAST
16 2 3 4 2/1 2/1 1/3 1/1/1
1/2 1/2 2/1
17 2 3 4 2/1 2/1 1/3 1/1/1
1/2 1/2 2/1
18 2 3 4 2/1 2/1 1/3 1/1/1
1/2 1/2 2/1(Data gathered with help from Relic)
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