Board Thread:Question and Answer/@comment-108.69.77.18-20140822224624/@comment-25067771-20140823031004

Alright, hopefuly I can help you out a bit!

First, I will answer some of your questions:

1.) How much time per day? Roughly 6 hrs a day, if you want to rank. Highly variable, which I will get to in a bit.

2.) Top 500? Roughly 2.5-3mil a day.

3.) Top 300? Roughly 4.5-5mil a day.

4.) What should you never do? Never send a really low HP FAW. You will only hurt your standing with your comrades.

Now, I'll try and give some more in-depth tips.

1.) You will need time. You will need comrades.

Unless you are in a god-like guild, and have senders that are at your beck and call, it takes effort to rank. Be ready!

The amount of time it takes to reach daily threshholds will vary according to your alliance and comrades. If you have not done so already, you need to head to the Comrade's Request and/or Fairingrey's Spreadsheet. Loyal traders will be your biggest and most important factor in climbing the ladder. You do NOT want to try and self feed yourself 2.5mil everyday. I've been there and done that. It's a nightmare.

When I went for 300, I was on 3 times a day, 2 hrs each session (for 500, I would do about 4 hrs a day). That's 6 hrs a day. My guild is casual so only 1-2 were ranking with me. Most of my points came from my comrades. At any given time, I had at least 5 traders on. In total, I have 20 or so reliable traders. Gauge yourself from what I have and you should be able to track how much time it will take you.

2.) Be efficient. Use statuses.

As much as anyone loves Valkyrie Crusade, it's difficult to be on all day. Pay attention to people who send you FAWs, and learn when they are generally on. I call these 'peak hours'. Learning these peak hours is the difference in getting 2mil in 1 hr versus getting 2mil in 3 hrs. Add people that use off statuses because you should have a lot of people to send to, and not knowing if someone is off is potentially wasting sends. That said, you should use on/off statuses too. It's important! Also, make sure to refresh yourself every so often so that you are back on top of your comrades' list. You can do this by entering/exiting your 2nd kingdom a couple times. You can also collect resources or (try to) build something and it will refresh you.

The moment a majority of your FAW traders sign off, you should probably take a break until more get back on. Killing your own FAWs, or sending your FAWs to nontraders will eat your time and exhaust you.

More on effciency. Make sure you are only spending 1 BP for FAWs that people send you. And farm in area 1-2 so that you don't burn your vit too quickly.

3.) Share your FAWs at Full HP

Just do it! Tap your FAW and flee (make sure you tap the FAW not her minions). Some people say it's okay to send at half for the ace, but I disagree. Seriously, if you are ranking then you'll get a million boxes and enough SRs to max your medal count and some. Full HP FAWs does not just mean more points, but it means that more people will be able to catch it. The more people that catch your FAW, the higher the chance they will feel they should send back to you. Ranking is not about getting drops, it's about points!

4.) Check your F/AW tab like a pro!

Taken from my profile:

If you are ranking then you'll need to find a way to get to the AW tab as much as you can and as efficiently as you can. I recommend clicking the 'Fight Later' option when encountering both AW and FAWs. When you click the button for AWs, it will bring you to field and you'll have a flashing red AW button that will bring you to the AW tab. When you click the button for FAWs, it will automatically bring you to the AW tab. In both cases, once you are done slaying the F/AW you can click the 'back' button and it will return you to the field where you left off.

And that's my advice. Fairingrey has some similar advice and lots of more words that you can find here. Ranking for 500/300 is almost always about time and effort. That said, I bid you good luck man!