Been playing for a while but just casually, so just mainly waiting around. I just recently started playing a bit more and read a bunch of threads about prioritising leg AV/ACacheB to use the market strat.

My current artifacts are pretty weak (main arti is rare AcacheB + rare IM, but I could make one epic) and I don't have AV. Is it worth playing easier levels and just doing digs to try and get one? It currently takes around 2 weeks to finish a level if going in order, and I usually end up stuck near the end of levels with not enough armies and a pathetic army production, as well as not enough money to dig the expensive digs.

Also is there a limit to how many times you can claim a power from the same level?

later levels have more digs, at 2 weeks per level, probably better to do levels with more digs...

you can reclaim the same power twice ever with playing the same level again. but know that you earn 30% less AP per replay until ascending.

advancements are more impactful than artifacts so i would also go forward.

when it comes to targeting for a specific artifact, you should prefer short digs over long digs, ie the 100% commons.
furthermore, you could keep 4 of every rarity so that you can push the AV through all upgrades once you get one.

Edited 8/27/2023 03:48:45

Agree with both these posts ^^

Definitely get a Rare or Epic AV as soon as possible and also pump as much AP as you can into the Alloy Values advancement as well.

Unless you’re a 1%er who had beaten all the levels multiple times, ACacheB is a nice to have while AV is a complete game changer. It’s only in the ultra lategame where the ACacheB artifact excels.

Advancement points matter more than artifacts in many ways, so don't replay levels due to the 30% fewer AP earned on replays. There are plenty of digs on the later levels, so keep advancing.

I hope youv'e maxed out joint strike.

Aiming for hospitals just as much as markets can help. If you develop the self discipline to leave territories unconquered until they are literally free due to the hospitals you've acquired (and upgraded), it really helps alleviate or avoid those agonizing end of map situations where you are gasping for armies.

Using the screensaved unfogged maps of cosine malady in the Forum can speed up your play, to find the most efficient pathways to your priority conquests: hospitals and markets, and probably army caches and merc camps for the armies to reach those goals.

The first statement is false, it's well known that (especially for SAsc) artifacts are more important. Maxing out JS is an absolute must. and aim for markets, in general, taking hospitals nearby where convenient.

Edited 8/27/2023 06:25:25

Take first market and bake some artifact goodness with surplus of cash. Applies to mid to late levels.
Depending on how fast you are progressing you won't or will regret doing SAsc immediately as you might lose some high rarity artifacts in process (sunk cost)

Edited 8/27/2023 06:53:17

You shouldn't re-do any level. You earn less points and you might use a power twice and lose it (I don't think it's stated by the game though, which is weird). Just start the next one you haven't completed yet, you'll have many digs and good points.

And you should put all your points in joint strike (25% less armies required is insane), alloy sell value and money/resource caches boost.

To have more chances to find good artifacts concentrate on 8H digs, more artifacts/day. Or the cheapest if short on money. When you'll have the artifacts you desire it won't matter anymore as they all statistically take the same amount of time to reach an insane artifact.

Keep the inspire mercenaries to have a x5 for the later levels, it allows to complete them easily Basically you should always finish a level with 5 powers everywhere (excepted multi-levels as they are the hardest to get).

One trick for flash start the levels is to use all the starting money to boost the first army camp then use supercharge army camp then x5 free cache. With this you easily reach the first market, even the second + a few hospitals on the way).

And you shouldn't hesitate to do the hardened levels. They may take more time but they give much more points and the bonuses are great. The amount of points alone makes the hardened levels interesting. Some people avoid them, it's a mistake. With markets/alloy sell value/mercenaries I find them easier to complete than normal levels as they have many powers (easy to double time warp hospital upgrades to move on).

Here is a link that helps to do levels, if you want: https://pkmx.github.io/wzi-levels/europe-huge.html

Edited 8/27/2023 13:02:37

https://pkmx.github.io/wzi-levels is actually the better link, then click whichever level you're on.. don't hesitate to do Hard Scandinavia, it's so worth it with the 4th slot, and yes with market strat some hard levels are faster than normal levels

When you'll have the artifacts you desire it won't matter anymore as they all statistically take the same amount of time to reach an insane artifact.

I remember I used to think that uncommon/common was the most efficient... when i realised how dumb i was it was pain

Edited 8/27/2023 13:08:33

I don't entirely agree about don't repeat levels. If you are getting to the stuck point is it because you are out of Merc to buy if so repeating earlier levels that you can do faster could help getting Additional Merc to 150. If you are running out of money well maxing Alloy Values AP and Merc Discount AP from lower level you can do in several days might help.

Your Max AP per day will vary by level attempted, AP owned(the right ones), and artifacts owned.

Fast Supers are about high powered artifacts sure but also about many levels of +25 AP.

Common digs are not better than others. While they are perceived to be faster, this is not true. Since it takes 5 poors to make a common, 5 commons to make an uncommon, etc., define a poor as worth 1 point, a common as 5, an uncommon as 25, a rare as 125 and an epic as 625. Using a weighted average based on the probabilities of each level in a dig, you will find that the times of all digs were set to give roughly the same number of points per hour. I only dig commons when I have other commons needing upgrades. Otherwise I dig sites that include rares. Yes, I get a lot of poors but the rares are frequent enough (1-3 pet month) and don't require much upgrade time to make epics. Also, finish resetting active artifacts and always start a rare or epic dig before completing a level. With the market strategy, it will take more than 8 hours to start digging in a new level if you use the money from the first few markets to upgrade army camps and hospitals (to level 4). With mostly rares and epics, I complete levels in 2-3 days but usually spend a week digging before taking the last territory. I use the last few days in each level for making upgrades so I can use the higher artifact in the next level. Remember, you can't use an artifact while it is upgrading. Finally, get your time warp to epic. Saving 2 hours every 16 in the last few days helps speed up digging and upgrades.

The point is not about rarity or upgrade time or time till insane.

The reason 100% commons are the best is because you can finish 3 digs a day, instead of less than 1 for poor/epic combo, making it much more likely you will hit a good artifact.

There is no difference in what you get between a poor/epic and 100% common if you do enough digs for the random chance to become statics not a dice roll you end up with the same number of artifacts and they will have the same rarity. The more important thing is to minimize the amount of time you are not digging. If you can do with 100% commons great but other longer digs are often better at minimizing downtime when you have and use a tumewarp artifact.