Gems in Wartune are used to enhance equipment within the Blacksmith. A gem can be placed into any equipment that has open sockets. Only one of each type of gem can inserted in each piece of equipment. You need a socketing rods to unlock extra sockets on equipment. There's also Block, Snipers edge and some others that you can also use. This will add to your BR Gems; If you're an archer using critical gems, or a knight using block gems, you can convert those gems to Patk, this will give more BR than block/critical. This shopping feature will continue to load items when the Enter key is pressed. In order to navigate out of this carousel please use your heading shortcut key to navigate to the next or previous heading.

Battle rating is used to compare strength of players. It is derived from the total of your statistics. Whenever you upgrade your character - enchant equipment, improve gems, level, academy skills etc. your BR improves. It is similar to the Ability total in Doomlord.
How is BR calculated?
1 ATK, 1 DEF etc. worth 1 BR, and 5 HP worth 1 BR, so it's pretty simple. If you are a mage and gain +1 PATK, your BR will increase. But it will not make you any stronger. So if you have slightly higher BR than another player, it does not mean that you will be able to beat him. The BR itself is rather for 'showoff', for being 1st in rankings, and winning rewards in BR events.
Which stat should I increase?
Sometimes you can make decision which stats to improve, like when spending mount training whips. When you spend whips on intelligence, you gain +20 ATK and +5 DEF (=25 BR) if you spend them on armor, you gain +20 PDEF and +20 MDEF (=40 BR). So it would seem improving armor is better, since you gain more BR. However, Wartune is based on offense. Attack is more valuable, since you get more multipliers on attack. Also, +1 ATK increases your dmg more than +1 DEF decreases it. (See my article on combat to learn why)
And don't forget that the main resource generator, World Boss takes into consideration only your attack power, your defense is irrelevant there (after reaching a minimal level).
So in general, you should go for ATK first, and when it's maxed or too costly, begin improving the other stats in stables, in academy, in guild skills etc.
Spending balens

Wartune Converting

When you spend balens, you actually buy BR. You have to make sure you get the maximum amount of +BR when spending balens, otherwise you are just burning money. See this article how to maximize the BR/balen gain.
Maxing out BR
Of course you still want a BR as high as possible, for being 1st in BR ranking, and to grab the occassional nice rewards for BR events. There are some things you can achieve this:

Wartime Conversion

• In Academy, improve PATK for mage (and MATK for knight/archer). Although it is a useless stat for you, you can get a good BR increase for a minimum amount of kyanite.
• You can improve the other attack as well in stables. When you need to use 200 whips to gain +5 intellect, it's okay to spend 30 to gain +5 strength. It not only gives some pdef, it helps you in BR events.
• In guild skills, max out every skill. Even charisma. Those all give some BR, and in the long term, the gold cost will be insignificant.
• An archer should use crit gems - but before BR reward events, convert them to mdef of pdef, since they give more BR.
• A sylph's only stat which is added to yours in HP. So when a BR event is coming, reset your main sylph's attribute points and spend all on HP to gain extra BR.
• Some astrals are nice, but don't give BR at all. Such are will destroyer, determination, goddess blessings etc. Before you log off, equip the brilliance, charisma astral you otherwise not using to improve your BR. With a good reward event, you might even consider converting one non-BR astral into a PATK/MATK astral as well, then convert back later.
• Potions/scrolls no longer work in BR event and rankings so don't waste them. But if you log off in a dungeon, your card bonus will count.

Wartune Enlightening Guide by Cryx_Seekers

Welcome everyone to my new Guide.
I will tell you all my experience about Enlightening!

Hello all, this guide is for all players who get lvl 40 barracks and are interested in the enlightening.

But when you shall use it? Is it worth? What does it do?

The Enlightening is a special upgrade you can do to your troops after they reach lvl 40, it can be done to all troops.

The Enlightening basically consists in giving your troops a special ability. That ability will give you a % to a attribute, depeding the amount your troops has of that attribute, you will recive more or less.

Example: Hp Transformation, it gives you 1% of your troops HP to you.

That isn’t 2 much but, at higher lvl Transformation and troops lvl you will receive more and more.

How to get a higher lvl enlightening?

It’s very easy, but really need a lot of duru:

Just click on enlighten, doing this in the right side will appear a new transformation. If you want it you can use the SWAP button to use it, if not just let it.

You must do the enlightening the nessesary times to get Blessing full.
After you get it full you will have higher lvl transformation. The new transformations, will be all lvl 2, you will need to complete the blessing again if want a higher lvl.

Each time you enlighten it takes you 1.000.000 Duru, so it’s a bit expensive.
To get lvl 2 Transformation you need 5m. To get lvl 3, you need 10m…
So you will need a lot of duru to get a higher lvl.

When to use it?

The enlightening is very nice, after you have high lvl troops, actually I don’t recommend you to use at low lvl troops. I recommend to be lvl 50, get the warlocks or templars, up them to 45-50(need 3m after to up lvl after ) and then start the enlightening.

Which one is the best?

If you are a archer or a knight you will need more P attack, but only templar got good one, if you selected warlocks you can’t get it. So you will can use mdef, cuz they have more. If you get templar then get the P attack. The same for Mages, if get warlocks, use M attack, if templar, P def.

What is Convert?

The convert option let you change your troops Transformation ability. It can be used if you previosly used enlightening with a lower lvl troops and now get other troops. To use it, you will need 200 Balens or 2.000.000 Duru. So thats one of the reasons why you should wait to be lvl 50 and have templars or warlocks to use the enlightening.