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  

Age of Warring Empires - Dragon Event - Tips and Tricks

The Dragon Invasion Event is a daily event in which dragon re-spawns every 23 hours. Most of the information about the event is available in the log on the left side of the window. Please read that before going up for the event.
This is an event which I would say every one should try, at least when their heroes have become a little better so that they do some 1 or 2 damage on the dragon. There are nice gifts available for toppers, first blow and killing blow, and for the rest some prestige and copper.
But one has to be careful so that you do not waste many troops and do maximum damage.

1. Dragon's Nationality - This changes randomly for the dragon, so one has to take the heroes of the same nation in which the dragon is (Persia, Rome or Greece) so that you can do 200% increased damage. Now this you already know, what you need to know is the number of troops, number of heroes and the formation for the battle.
2. Number of heroes - If you have four heroes of that nation, you are good to go. In case, you don't have take rest of other nations. Do not take less than four due to the fear of loss of troops. This is because with the right formation of the heroes, you can make your same nation heroes do more damage while other heroes keep dying and hence give you extra turns to hit.
   Therefore for such a scenario, the formation should be such that your same nation heroes are hit by the dragon at last.
3. Formation -
                           1              2                 3
                           4              5                 6
                           7              8                 9
   
   If we number the grid like this, and let us assume that you have only two heroes of same nation H1 and H2, where H3 and H4 are for sacrifice only. Also, H1 is stronger than H2.
   In this case, one of the options for maximum damage is to place H1 at 2, H2 at 3, H3 at 4 and H4 at 5. With this H3 and H4 should never get a chance to hit and H1 and H2 will give maximum number of hits before dying.
   
   If you have all the four heroes of same nation with their strength as H1 > H2 > H3 > H4, the corresponding position that I found to be best is, 7 - 8 - 5 - 6 respectively.
   
   Give these a try if you were not using the same formations, and you will see the difference.
   




4. Number of troops - The heroes which you take for a sacrifice only, give him just a single troop to carry, because he is anyway not going to attack for such a case.
   Give the best necklace to your heroes which are fighting in same nation so that they carry maximum troops.
5. Do not wait and watch the battle and be ready for the next attack (after the wait timer).
6. You can send the other heroes on wall or on an attack so that they do not irritate you in the selection process and you can always choose the designated heroes from the list just from the top 4. This will fasten your process of attacking.
7. With these tricks, which are obvious for a veteran player though, you can make maximum damage loosing lesser troops. You can claim better prizes, for example, a military bonus buff everyday is good enough.
   
   If I have missed out something, or some information is incorrect, or if you have some question, use the comments below.
   
   Keep playing! Enjoy!

PS: For better damage on dragon, try using Two Ashokas in front and a stacking attack hero at the back. This hero combination is far better than any other.

How to get free gold in game, Read this - Age of Warring Empires - Free Gold
How to grind tower better, Read this - Age of Warring Empires - Magic Tower