War and Order Guides

Strategy articles, reference guides, and beginner walkthroughs — written by players, for players.

Castle Requirements 31–43 and the Real Bill

Castle 40 costs 7.58B on its own. The buildings it makes you upgrade first push the bill to 12.60B, and past 40 azurite becomes the constraint.

Sep 24, 20265 min read

Reference

Hall of War Rally Size by Level, in Marches

Rally size runs from 50,000 to 1,946,000 across 40 Hall of War levels. Measured in full marches: 1 at level 16, 3 at 30, 5 at 39.

Sep 24, 20263 min read

Reference

What a Colossus Costs in Crystals

188,400 crystals and 7,530 relics to max one colossus. The last bonus unlocks at level 130, and the 20 levels after it are a third of the bill.

Sep 24, 20264 min read

Reference

Every March Is the Same Size

47 of the 53 army templates land between 350,000 and 353,500 troops. What changes between activities is the ratio, never the volume.

Sep 18, 20264 min read

Reference

What an Artifact Costs in Shards

540 shards for a blue, 1,000 for a purple, 1,700 for an orange. The shard gap is 3.1x, the experience gap is 6.9x, and only 8 of the 35 go on at once.

Sep 18, 20264 min read

Reference

What Is in the Garden: 58 Pieces, Counted

37 decorations, 6 statues, 5 sets, 6 beast skins and 4 illusions, across 1,315 levels and 48 distinct stats. Computed from the WAO Tools garden table.

Sep 18, 20263 min read

Reference

What One Jewel Costs, and What Six Cost

6,731 jewels and 1,154 essence to take one slot to level 40. Essence only starts at level 21, and the last ten levels are 63% of the bill.

Sep 18, 20262 min read

Reference

What Orange Equipment Actually Adds

Orange gear unlocks enhancement levels 21 to 30: worth 39% more on a combat enhancement and nothing at all on a development one.

Sep 18, 20264 min read

Reference

What Totems Cost in Runestones

1,272,912 runestones to max every totem. A gold one costs 7.1x a blue one, and the last fifth of the levels is 40% of the bill.

Sep 18, 20264 min read

Reference

Does Your Beast Choice Change the Cost?

Dragon, Panda, Pegasus and Phoenix each need exactly 267,705 talent points. 88% of that is talents all four share.

Sep 17, 20263 min read

Reference

The High College, Priced in Azurite

378,710 azurite to max all 31 researches, 29 levels that cost nothing, and a 29x gap between the most and least expensive line.

Sep 17, 20264 min read

Reference

What the Packs Actually Cost: 89 Packs, Priced

Every pack tier divided by what it contains. The cheapest tier wins 93% of the time, and the same item swings up to 9.5x between packs.

Sep 17, 20264 min read

Reference

What the Cost Tables Actually Say

All 440 upgrade steps summed: which resource is the real bottleneck, how much the Castle alone takes, and why most research costs no resources.

Sep 7, 20265 min read

Advanced

Anubis Tower: Expansion First, Then Damage

Only the army size limit locks on entry, so you load with every expansion piece you own and then swap into your damage set.

Feb 12, 20242 min read

Advanced

Auto-Attacking Monsters All Day: Full Setup

The exact setup for running monster hits all day: rank 30 monsters, one march queue, the stamina loadout, and where regeneration comes from.

Feb 12, 20243 min read

Strategy

Batch Healing: Spend Help Times, Not Speed-Ups

The cheapest way to heal when no event is coming: which healing speed sources to equip, and how to size the heal to your alliance help limit.

Feb 12, 20242 min read

Advanced

Elite War: Lock Stats, Then Swap for Army Size

Battle stats lock on entry in Elite War, but the army size limit does not. That gap lets you run an extra beast passive and a bigger march.

Feb 12, 20242 min read

Reference

Obsidian and Enhancement Priorities by Slot

How Recast and Fortify work, the level caps per equipment quality, the four builds worth targeting, and every enhancement by slot.

Feb 12, 20245 min read