Level 64 BR 224k shares How to Hold Level Successfully

Hey guys, we have here a nice article from Pinky (class: Archer) sharing with everyone his strategy of successfully holding level and being super strong with 224k BR at level 64. So I hope you benefit from his knowledge and enjoy the guide and thanks to Pinky for sharing with everyone.

Just 1 note from me, a couple of points you need to be careful about and use most recent updated sources such as the point about Refinement locks and most recent events. With that said, let's jump straight into Pinky's guide:

How to hold level successfully

Hi guys, since I am being asked on battlegrounds very often, why I do have so much BR for my level, I decided to make a guide on how to follow the holding level strategy successfully without having to cash a lot into the game.

1. Avoid getting experience!

The most important thing about holding level is, that you may not level up, so you have to avoid getting exp. Some tips how you can do this: -Exit your multiplayer dungeons after you did the second last boss. You will get your cristalloids and legendary stones for your gear, but you don’t get the exp for finishing the dungeon. -In case you complete a quest, don’t hand it in, just let it be.

2. Soul engraving, gems and mount whips

As you can see in the picture, I have maxed out my soul engraving (I also have the highest level gems possible for me, as well as maxed out my stables). In order to get to this, the only thing you have to do is participating in events. These events will make it very easy for you to max out all of these three things as well. The biggest part of my battle rating is built on this, so don’t neglect it.

3. Equipment

Your equipment is very important as well. The only thing that you can do is walking through your multiplayer dungeons every day in order to get the crystalloids and legendary stones for your equipment. As you can see, I have all of my equipment pieces on legendary, what is of course the best. In case you don’t know whether to equip your lvl 50 legendary ring or your lvl 60 normal ring, just go for the lvl 50 legendary, it will give you more BR than the lvl 60 ring. A major part of your equipment is not only the equipment itself, but also its refinements. I would recommend you to go through your campaign and MP dungeon every day and recycle the equipment you get from it. The refinement locks are easily accessible through jewel hunt.

4. Astrals On the right, you see the astral setup I would recommend for archers. For knights and mages I would recommend the will destroyer build since most peoples crit on the lower levels is not that high ( as a mage, take the MATK astrals). But however, an archer with 5000 crit has a higher chance to crit than a mage with 5000 crit.

5. Sylph

I recommend everybody who is holding level to go for a gaia (or hercules). The reason for this is, that it is the strongest sylph in single pvp (take a hades or aegis for multiplayer pvp). A lot of people also have a hades as their main slyph, but keep in mind that you can evolve your gaia at lvl 60 and you hades at lvl 70. So, for somebody under lvl 70 a gaia/hercules is definitely the way to go.

It is also very recommendable to only build one really good sylph (otherwise you would have to cash a lot) because multiple medium sylphs are a lot worse than one good one. I also keep one sylph of every element for dimensional war. In the beginning, I mentioned that I did not cash a lot into my account, so you may wonder why I have three blue sylphs and one two star purple sylph. If you really want to get the blue sylphs for free, then just farm sylphs in the sylph atoll. When you then exchange your essences for seals you have a small chance of receiving a blue sylph, this saves you a lot of mahra! For my hercules, my main sources of mahra were dimensional war, wilds shop and the horns from sky trail (4 a day). I got it completely for free.

6. Mounts

In the game, you get a lot of mounts for free ( for amethysts, guild mount, arena mount, crypt mount etc.). Just try to get all the mounts you can buy from these shops and sometimes you can even hope for an event mount ;)

7. Daily events

The only thing about daily events (jewel hunt, dimensional war etc.) that I can say is, that you should just try to do all of them and try to maximize your rewards.

So this is how you hold your level successfully… I hope I helped you guys a lot. If there is something that is not clear, you can either look at the pictures more close or just do the things like everybody does it (like getting mounts, sylph equipment etc.). But if there are still any questions left, just ask me when you meet me on the battleground or on R2Games server 313.

Holding Level Strategy and Why and How it Works

Hey guys, I regularly get questions for my mage's account "why are you holding level?" and so I want to explain a couple of things to help everyone understand the strategy of holding level in Wartune.

Why some people hold a specific level?

For Wartune Free Player:
Free players, who want to be active in PvP, are almost obliged to use the hold level strategy. This is because a free player cannot win against a casher on equal terms (and especially on top level PvP), so he or she must get stronger than the casher. To do this, get very familiar with the Battleground brackets (see above in menu Analysis or click here: BG brackets) and stop taking experience when you are on the top part of the bracket where you want to remain. And just keep getting stronger and stronger while not taking any experience. Yes, you will miss rewards, but this is the price you have to pay. For free players this might take few months, but you will get very strong for your bracket and therefore can enjoy beating more and more people and raising your honor, even all the way to Lord Divine. After getting this title you have 2 choices: stop PvP completely not to lose honor and this title or continue with this strategy so that you are always the strongest in the bracket before you move to a higher bracket.
Note: this also means quitting the Battleground when you are put into the higher bracket and rejoining until you are put in the lower bracket.

For Wartune Cashers:
Cashers also do hold level, but they need it naturally less. The more money you put into the game the less you need to hold level. However, cashers also enjoy this because the combination of cash and holding level makes you extremely powerful in your Battleground bracket. Here is an example of my casher mage account who is holding level 59 and made an awesome 30 kills in 1 Battleground even:

Why some people continue to hold a level?

Even if they become a lot stronger than 95% of people of their level some people decide still to continue holding level. There are a couple of reasons for that:

• They may want to be absolutely top and reach some record, like some players who are above 90k BR at level 59. 
• They may not have so much extra time to play (going to a higher level also means more responsibilities, more dungeon runs, need to collect new set, new enchants, new refines, etc)
• They may just enjoy winning even if it is against very weak people.
• They may be experimenting with Wartune, learning different classes.

What are the disadvantages of hold-level strategy?

There are, unfortunately, huge losses in rewards for those following the hold-level strategy. For example my mage is not eligible for Sky Trail to get daily rewards from there. Lower hold-level people are not eligible for sylphs or especially jewel or fishing and are therefore losing rewards daily from those. Also hold-levelers cannot participate in Spire or Tower of Kings because they are not allowed to get experience.
However, note that all of that is still worthwhile to follow this strategy because otherwise it is practically impossible, especially for free players, to get to the Lord Divine title and wear that awesome medallion (my Knight still does not have it).

Moreover, there is a new trend to put EXP rewards in the Hot Events and this means all the people holding level in Wartune are not able to collect those rewards which contain the monthly reward items. This is an additional blow, but still worth it to follow the strategy. (I hate not being able to pick up these rewards on my mage's account).

Why COSMOS Knight is not Lord Divine?

As some of you will certainly ask this I will straight away answer about my Knight. I started playing my knight almost from the beginning of the server and, not only I was not an expert of Wartune at that time, but I had and still have very nice friends in my guild. We all leveled up together and did dungeons together, so you see I could not hold back, because we grew together as friends.

My Knight actually managed to reach Imperial Commander after a very long time just by doing Guild Battles. And one day he will reach Lord Divine, but he, as pretty much a free account, has no chance to enter the level 80 Battlegrounds, so I don't even put my nose in there.

Are there any exceptions for the hold-level strategy?

Yes. There is only one exception and this is when a new server is launched. If you start on a server on Day 1 totally different rules follow (actually about many things). In this situation you have a race. You must try to get as high and as fast as possible and create as large a gap between yourself and all other players as you can. the higher you get the easier you can kill everyone (you have 50 set, others 35 for example). So a new Wartune server is an exception - you should not hold level in this case.