I've been taking hits from a few Keepers for quite a while (that's one thing that sucks in the Top 100). Since I don't have adequate defense, they regularly steal handfuls of gold. Like I've said many times before, I don't really care about the gold, since I can dig up gold MUCH faster than they can steal it.
The problem is one of them regularly uses Berserker level 8. Check out this battle report (I am defending):
This is not quite ordinary, but you get the picture. Twelve level 15 Black Riders attack, my twelve level 15 Black Riders defend. My Riders do LOUSY damage and his Riders to quite a bit. Normally, equal level creatures should NOT even come close to killing each other, but notice how dangerously close one of my Black Riders comes to dying.
Note: I currently am not receiving any combat bonuses for field coverage (coverage is obviously below 50%). Things that can help you defend against Berserker are:
- activate Burning Eye
- have adequate dungeon coverage (I recommend at least 75%)
- Make sure that your Training Room and Arena are upgraded as far as possible
- Train your defenders well
- With these combat bonuses, you may be able to win more battles and prevent attackers from stealing gold. If they can't steal anything, they may give up on you and attack somebody else
Casting a level 8 Berseker costs 2121 gold. Even if you manage to steal over 600 gold, the damage that you receive will probably cost close to 600 gold to heal (without the First Aid Kit premium). You may not earn much, but if you are able to kill one creature, that means your enemy just lost a lot more than 2121 gold.
- researching Berserker to high levels is expensive and time-consuming.
- casting Berserker at any level is expensive (compared to how much gold you will steal)
- The extra damage that you will do with Berseker is amazing.
So what's it going to be?
I am pretty sure that unless you are relatively low on the High Score List, you will NOT be able to turn a profit by casting Berserker and attacking. Even if you are low on the High Score List and you have good targets near you, you might not be able to turn a profit (there's still healing costs).
The damage that you can do to your enemies, however, will probably be worth it. High level Berserker spells are the first time that I have seen a squad of attackers come close to killing an equal-level defender. Any time that you can kill a level 10 creature or higher, is absolutely wonderful!
Nice post.
Berserker is realy a very interesting spell. But the PT server (I'm form Brazil) is too young to this kind of atacks. I have to train my monsters before think in make some big atacks.
Rôm_Machado said...
June 21, 2008 at 3:12 PM
You can make a good profit with high level berserker if there are enough targets around with lots of cash. Even though level 11 berserker costs ~2300 gold it lasts for almost 3 hours. You can attack a lot of targets in 3 hours especially if you have more than one attack group.
If you have no more targets left but still have berserk on then you can get the benefit of it in defense.
A lot of players fail to see the big picture. If one lets his enemies become powerful then profits will drop significantly. The real economic benefits kick in when your enemies have to drop their defense and become worms. It will be interesting to see how you cope now that Humungus has taken out one of your level 15 riders.
Regardless, you have to realize that, for the Machiavelli, glory in battle is more important than profit.
Dale Freya said...
June 22, 2008 at 3:44 PM
I agree, that a 3-hour attack window is a long time to attack. And also that when your targets can't handle the attacks and take all of their creatures off defense, they become very profitable targets. I have had to remove all of my defenses before to prevent too many creatures from getting killed. it's not a nice feeling.
You just had to throw that in, didn't you, dale...that you know that I lost a level 15 rider recently.
I have to wonder how much energy all of these [MAX] Keepers are spending trying to hassle me.
MoxSapphyre said...
June 23, 2008 at 12:40 AM
Didn't mean to be insensitive. Don't take it personally. Max has a lot of friendly competitions to see who can kill the most enemy creatures. Currently I'm in the lead for Level 15 Black Rider Kills with 5 but killing your Rider brings Humungus up to 4.
Most of the time we amuse ourselves by killing BOC creatures but sometimes we look for more of a challenge.
Max pretty much shares all important battle information. There's not much that goes on with one keeper that the others don't know about.
Humungus was amused to see your post about him.
I love the blog, but we Machaivelli are sons of bitches.
Dale Freya said...
June 23, 2008 at 4:52 AM
competition for killing level 15 riders...awesome.
Congrats on your 5 kills.
no offense taken. it just sucks to know that level 15 takes 35 days to train. ;)
MoxSapphyre said...
June 23, 2008 at 5:53 AM
Berserker is for beginners. Lighting strike is the real hype! :)
And yes, the worm effect rocks. 1 attack with Strike team, and the next one counters no resistance. The third one is an Imp attack taking 2400 gold loot. That's from only one enemy.
Unknown said...
July 17, 2008 at 5:27 AM