Age of Warring Empires - Magic Tower - Tips and Tricks

Magic Tower is one of the major parts of the game and by far the only method (as of July 2014) for training heroes in battle mode.
Ever gave a thought of simplifying the tower for best of your needs?
Here are some tricks for getting things done in an efficient manner with regard to tower, where needs meet their ends quickly:

• Experience Run:
  
  • Each stage in tower is comprised of 10 sub-stages. 
  • Always do the last sub-stage of any stage, for example, 1-10, 15-10 etc.
  • Reason is very simple: Hero experience, which is always maximum at the last sub-stage and will always be higher than the first sub-stage of next stage, that is, Hero experience from 10-10 would be greater than what you would get from 11-1. 
  • For example, even though you are capable of doing 11-1, it is recommended to do 10-10.

• Prestige Run:
  
  • If the only thing you are concerned with is prestige (which is not a usual case, but sometimes you feel the need for it), then you are supposed to do the highest level you are capable of. 
  • Prestige reward rises with every stage and sub-stage.

• Crafting Material:
  
  • This is what helps you in upgrading your weapons, armour and accessories. 
  • Game is designed in such a way that it won't be always easy to get to that particular stage from where you need to extract the required upgrade item. 
  • So, most of the times you will have to buff up with all kinds of military bonuses along with the leadership card and head straight to the minimum sub-stage of required Magic Tower stage, for example, 11-1 for iron ore and 14-1 for ruby etc.
  • If you are capable of doing the last sub-stage out their, then it would be an additional Prestige and Hero Exp, but it can come at the cost of reduced "Stars" after completion. 
  • "Stars" decide the amount of material you will get. Minimum 1-2 Star fetch you single item and the subsequent reward contains a pack of three such items along with other Energy and Copper Coins reward. 
  • Stars depend on the troop loss you had and the number of steps you took to reach the final skull inside the instance. Better you perform or longer you go better the item reward.
• Resources:
  
  • There is a huge amount of resources that you can get from the Magic Tower, which increases with every stage of tower. 
  • This amount due to latest change in Tower is usually high enough that you might even need to get extra food for making troops, that is, the amount of troops lost in a single run of tower can be rebuilt using the reward food.
  • Also, always make use of your Medical Centre for regenerating troops (except catapults), because it is cheaper to revive troops through donation of food than to make them directly from barracks.

• Double-Experience Event:
  
  • This is the high time for training your heroes. 
  • Do not forget to wear a double-experience card so that you get triple experience from the tower. 
  • If you have VIP card, it will further add to the exp. 
  • And remember you have to do only the last sub-stage of your highest tower stages, even if it is needed to buff up completely.
  
  

• Minimum Steps:
  
  • This is the most important step for which the blog post was written. 
  • Each instance of the tower is based on some random instance generation algorithm, but it repeats its instances and one learns them while training on and on in tower. 
  • I have posted some instances here below which take a minimum of 7 steps up to 9 steps to complete. What you all have to do is keep switching between two stages of tower unless you get the desired one as shown below.
  • The clear cut benefit is that, by doing tower this way, you gain Prestige and Crafting Material at a very fast pace, which is not possible during usual random grinding of instances.
    
    
  
  
  

• Version 2.3.22: 
  
  • Now this is where key to this business is. 
  • If you find trouble in recognizing the instance, its better to install an older version of this game, which you can easily find on internet. 
  • In this version, Magic Tower shows where the boss is, so it is easy to identify the instance and reach the boss straight.

Check out this link to see how sometimes its needed to spam tap to get into the right instance which is unique and small.

Perhaps, most of the stuff you people who have been playing for long now already knew about. Hope some part of it helped some class of players, at least the new ones, for whom otherwise it takes long to figure out all these things by themselves.

PS: The Game stuff keeps on changing with time, this post had been written as per then current status of game as in July 2014.

Happy Gaming! Cheers!

How to get free gold in game, Read this - Age of Warring Empires - Free Gold
How to deal with the Dragon Event, Read this - Age of Warring Empires - Dragon Event