Raid Event Guide

MARVEL: War of Heroes - Raid Event Guide

UPDATE 08/19/2013:  Maximum Carnage Raid

The Raid Guide has been updated for the first time!  Thank you all for your support!  There are two big changes that I made to the guide.  They are:

• RDS Bar farming by holding onto unclaimed rewards has been eliminated.  The game developers have changed the scoring method.  Now your raid rating increases instantly after you defeat a boss regardless if you claim the reward or not.  I have removed this technique from Item #3 of the guide.
• It looks like Huge Raid Boss battles are here to stay.  I have addressed this in Item #4 of the guide.

Raid Event Guide

This guide is written under the following player assumptions:

• You are willing to share your Raid Deck with others.
• You are willing to trade your cards and/or pp for Raider cards.
• You are willing to use your ppp/pp if needed to make rank.

You can still use this guide to succeed in Raid events, but if you are not willing to do the above it will not be as easy for you.

I will break up the guide into the five factors that I believe are most important to successful raiding. The five factors are:

1. Building your Raid Deck
2. Sharing a Raid Deck with others.
3. Farming RDS bars.
4. Attacking the correct bosses.
5. Paying attention to rankings.

1. Building your Raid Deck:

Raider cards can be difficult to attain.  This is because they are mostly only attainable in card packs (ultimate card packs and the special raider card packs).  However, there are some low end raider cards available as Shield Enforcement Training rewards (Rare & SR base rewards).  There are also raider cards available in the shard exchanges once the raid begins.

Here is a quick example of how I start to prepare my Raid Deck after SET, before the raid, and into the beginning of the raid:

Depending on your personal and alliance rank (and how many accounts you play) you can easily get 4-6 SR base reward cards.  The first thing I do after SET is properly fuse and boost my SR base reward cards.  This gives me 2-3 SSR+ Raiders with a 350% bonus and on their alignment specific day they are given an additional 50% boost.  The Rare base SET reward cards are also raider cards, but they only give a 250% boost when fused.  If you don't plan on acquiring additional raiders then by all means use them, but I always use mine as boosters if I get them.

The next chance you have at getting raider cards is the packs that you can purchase a few days before the raid starts.  I know a lot of people who always buy these packs and some are successful and some are not.  I purchased 2 rounds of the pre-raid packs this past raid and only pulled one Rare raider card!  Like it or not though, this is a good chance to get some of the higher end raid cards that you will need to compete for the high level ranks.  The day before the raid starts raider cards also become available in all packs, i.e. Ultimate Card Packs.  I recommend saving all your UCP tickets you receive during the previous month and using them now.  I have only pulled Rare base raiders with UCP, but I know people who pulled SR base and SSR base raiders multiple times!  

Odds are at this time that you have pulled a base raider card (or none!) and need more for fusion or to complete your raid deck.  Now is the time to start trading your cards and/or pp for raider cards with other players.  Make sure you have at least 5 properly fused raider cards in your deck and you will be ready for raiding!

I should also mention that as you start fighting bosses and collecting rewards that you will have the opportunity to pull additional raiders in the shard exchanges.  Pulling raiders in red shards is rare, but the orange shards always contain decent raiders for a low to mid level raid deck.  If you don't plan on using these raider cards give them away to alliance members or trade them.

2. Sharing a Raid Deck with others:

As I said above, raider cards can be difficult to attain.  Unless you are comfortable with a low level raid deck, or paying a lot of money and/or pp for your raider cards, you will want to team up with friends and share raider cards with each other.  I suggest using fellow alliance members and grouping up into teams of 4-6 members.  

If you use the methods above as a team, it will be much easier to put together a mid to high-end raid deck.  Combine all your strongest raiders into one deck and pass it around throughout the day with the members of your group.  In my opinion this is the most important factor of successful raiding!!!

I also keep my own personal low-end raid deck on me so that I can participate even when I do not have my groups higher-end raid deck.

3. Farming RDS bars:

Having a massive store of RDS bars is necessary if you want to compete for SSR base prizes without using a lot of ppp/pp.  There are several ways to collect (farm) RDS bars. They are as followed:

• Daily Log in bonus.
• Rewards for achieving certain set raid points.
• Shard Exchanges.
• Receiving the "Last Strike" bonus when fighting a boss.

The easiest way to farm RDS bars is by repetitively attacking bosses, using a single RDS attack, to receive the "Last Strike" bonus of 2 bars.  You want to do this as often as possible.  Keep track of your "Villain List" and hit every boss that you know you can take down with a single RDS attack.

4. Attacking the correct bosses:

This is where a lot of people go wrong with raids.  They waste their precious RDS bars and ppp/pp attacking the wrong bosses.  There are only 3 types of bosses you should attack and they are as followed:

• Low level bosses that you can defeat with a single RDS attack.
• Enraged bosses
• Huge bosses 

You never want to attack any bosses that are not enraged unless you can take them down with a single RDS attack.  Using more than one RDS is just a waste ammunition.  Be patient and wait for the enraged bosses to appear in the second half of event.  When you summon an enraged boss hit him with all you got until he is down.  Only share if you run out of RDS and ppp/pp.  You will earn millions of raid points doing this.

Huge bosses appear during the last few days of the first and second halves of the raid.  These special bosses are gigantic and usually require multiple players sharing attacks to take down.   The huge bosses are worth 3 times the raid rating (same as enraged), but because they are so gigantic their "Star Agent" bonuses are insanely huge.  If you get the chance to attack one of these bosses do it multiple times until it's defeated or you run out of RDS Bars and/or ppp/pp.  Attacking these bosses during the first half of the raid will give you a nice boost in raid ranking and can qualify you to earn a decent Interim reward.

5. Paying attention to rankings:

The last factor in successful raiding is easy.  Just pay attention to your rank.  If you are close to attaining or losing rank then you need to either accept defeat or use some ppp/pp to attack enraged bosses until you make rank.  Pay special attention the last couple of hours because the ranking can change very dramatically.  I was about 100 places ahead of making rank the last raid 4 hours before the raid deadline.  During the last hour I noticed that I slipped below rank by about 100 places.  I used up about 20 pp on enraged bosses to get my rank back, but I failed.  I ended up ranking 4 places too high!  I will never make that mistake again!