This guide is a chapter from the full WZI guide ------> Warzone Idle Guide
Database
First of all, I made a database for all the Advancements. It shows the effects and costs for every possible upgrade.
Advancements Database: Phase 1 - Phase 2 - Phase 3 - Phase 4
Advancement Points
The Advancements are permanent upgrades that have a game changing impact on your progress. The more upgrades you have, the easier and faster clearing maps becomes.
The upgrades cost Advancement Points, or AP. There are 3 ways to get AP:
- finishing the normal levels
- defeating challenges
- playing battles
The AP reward for playing battles is insignificant.
Defeating a challenge will award you 100 AP per challenge. You will get the award only once, so clearing the same challenge multiple time is a waste of time.
Completing all the challenges will award you a maximum of 3100 AP (the tutorial level is not playable as a challenge).
Your only way to progress is to play and finish the normal levels.
Finishing all of the normal levels once will award you 12861.09 AP
When you are ready to take on the hardened levels you can also earn additional 16238,22 AP, but don't even try these levels at the beggining!
In order to fully upgrade you Advancements in all 4 Phases you’ll need roughly 400,000 AP!
Finishing all 32 levels once can take several months, so let’s make one thing clear: upgrading everything is probably out of the question for the first couple of ascensions.
So how to choose which upgrades you need?
To answer this question I’ll categorize all the Advancements into 5 groups (it’s my way to make it easier. Of course, everyone is entitled to his/her own approach):
Red – Upgrades that affect directly your army and money generating, reduce costs of upgrading, makes your attacks, smelting and crafting more efficient etc.
Yellow – all the ores production increase
Blue – all the Auto-Upgrades
Green – Visibility upgrades
Tan – all the other upgrades
Generally speaking, you want to concentrate at the beginning on the red and tan groups!
The blue group should be relevant to you if you like the game to get more and more idle – these upgrades will improve the AI. They will also have an impact on the challenges and battles.
Note, you won't be able to deactivate the Auto-Upgrades during battles!
The green group works like a permanent Fog Buster Power and will become helpful after the second Ascension, when there are mostly no Powers left on the maps.
The yellow group should be relevant to you if you want to base your strategy around the market
Phase 1
The upgrades you want to get ASAP are:
- Increased Idle time to at least 2 hours so that you’ll enjoy a total idle time of 4 hours (you start already with 2 hours)
- Joint Strike to the max – the impact on the game is tremendous!
- Increased Army Camp Production to at least 100%
After that you can spread out and start investing in other upgrades
- Additional Mercenaries, Statistics to at least level 2, Mine Discount and Increase Cache Money.
Don’t try to upgrade all of them to the max. It won’t happen any soon. Especially not with the Increased Army Camp Production and Additional Mercenaries. These two are the longest of all the Advancements to upgrade. Check the costs for a full upgrade in the Database at the top of the page.
Phase 2
Will be unlocked after investing at least 1000 AP into Phase 1
The upgrades you want to start with are:
- Auto-Conquer to the max – it will allow you to participate in battles!
After that stick to the following upgrades:
- Army Camp Discount
- Mercenary Discount
- Increased Cache Resources
You will be tempted to go straight to the Increased AP. Don’t. Upgrading it to the max will cost you 7718. At this stage of your development better go back to Phase 1 and invest even more into army camps and mercenaries.
A good time to upgrade the Increased AP is probably at the end of your 1st ascension.
The upgrades of Phases 1 and 2 are going to be the base for your advance in the game. Investing patiently in them will eventually decrease the time of completing levels. The faster you get the AP, the easier it’s going to be unlocking the very expensive upgrades of phase 3
Phase 3
Will be unlocked after investing at least 8000 AP into Phase 2
You'll unlock the 3rd phase probably at the end of your 1st ascension. At this point your problem during the levels should be lack of money. Therefore, your main goal should be:
- Increased Money from Bonuses
- Increased Item Sell Values
Secondary choice may be:
- Start with Tech, upgraded to at least level 4
Phase 4
Will be unlocked after investing at least 25000 AP into Phase 3
The first advancement to max out should be:
- Better Hospitals
secondary important upgrades:
- Faster Digging
- Increased Cache Armies
- Auto-Draft, together with maxing out Increased Draft Sizes from phase 2
After that do whatever you like. At this point you'll be finishing levels within hours, which means you'll have a fast flow of AP
Investing in the wrong Upgrades
If you think you made the wrong choices don’t be ashamed, there is a reset button. Resetting all your spent AP will cost 150 WZ coins. Is it worth it? It’s your decision. On some occasions yes!
My own Advancements
I've finished (01.09.21) my 1st ascension with the following Advancements:
Phase 1
Increased Army Camp Production - 400%
Increased Cache Money - Max
Joint Strike - Max
Increased Ore Sell Values - Max
Discount Mine Upgrades - Max
Increase Smelters Speed - 60%
Additional Mercenaries - 55%
Statistics - Max
Increased Idle Time - 300min
Phase 2
Auto-Conquer - Max
Increased Cache Resources - Max
Army Camp Discount - Max
Mercenary Discount - Max
Increased Alloy Sell Value - 80%
Increased Draft Size - 230%
Increase Crafters Speed - 40%
Increased AP - Max
Phase 3
Increase Money from Bonuses - 10%
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GG
Parsifal (01.09.2021)