Madoka Magica Online Walpurgis
As announced in the Walpurgis preview page, Walpurgis Night appeared in Madoka Magica Online on February 26.
Raid Witches
Raid witches, such as Walpurgis Night, have a chance to appear after you do a quest or pvp (even if you didn't clear it). You'll see a cut scene featuring one of the magical girls followed by a preview of the witch. A button will appear in your lobby next to the event banner.
If you fight the witch and don't kill it, a new button will appear in the lower left of the raid window that allows you to make the witch available to your friends list (only people who were in your list before you clicked). To fight witches your friends found, click the button with three megucas in your lobby.
Unlike co-op, the fights are separate, so you should attack the witch immediately. You'll qualify for the bulk of the rewards after battling her once, so let as many players as possible participate in each fight. See the Tactics section for details.
Interface
The lobby during the Walpurgis raid. The banner leads to the raid info window, the middle button allows you to fight witches, and the button with 3 megucas lets you join others in their battles. The join button turns yellow when a new battle is available (except sometimes it doesn't turn yellow like it should).
Starting a new battle costs 10 AP, and joining an existing one costs 5 AP. You'll only get one "turn" of combat per 5 AP, so your fight can be interrupted even if you haven't died. (When combat was changed from separating each turn to happening continuously, they only increased the number of attacks per turn. A long fight will still require multiple turns.)
The last 5 people who fought the witch are on the left with their damage. On the right: the time left until the witch expires, the number of people who fought the witch, your raid points, your raid point ranking, and the rewards for killing the witch.
The lower left button, which allows your friends to join, only appears after you've fought the witch once without killing her. This message pops up when you've invited them.
A list of your friends' battles. You can join these at the cost of 5 AP. If this list is empty, you'll have to wait for someone to send invitations.
A list of raid battles you've participated in.
The raid info window accessed through the lobby banner.
The raid point rankings. You and your friends will be highlighted in the list, which updates every day at 3am JST.
Rewards
- Raid Points: You get raid points for fighting witches. When the witch dies, the one who found it gets the full participation bonus, and everyone who helped gets 25%. For example, if you find level 1 Walpurgis, upon her defeat you'll get 100,000 points and everyone who joined the fight will get 25,000. You get an additional 1 point for every 100 damage you dealt. Rewards will be given via achievements for collecting lots of raid points.
- Silver tickets: Tickets will appear in your presents when the witch dies. Spend your tickets, since silvers will expire when the contents of the event box change.
- Ranking: All players will be ranked based on their raid points. If you get a high enough ranking, you'll get extra rewards. Rankings are updated at 3am JST.
- You can receive rare drops, such as a cute dress, after defeating Walpurgis.
- See the Events page for lists of rewards.
- You should receive all the rewards even if you died or got disconnected and didn't make it back until after the witch was slain.
Tactics
- Don't forget to check your presents to collect your loot. These presents will expire within 48 hours.
- The bulk of the raid points are awarded for simply engaging the witch at all, so you can maximize efficiency by fighting each witch only once (unless there's not enough people helping to kill the witch before her timer runs out).
- Walpurgis is a weak and delicate witch who can die very quickly. In order to let more people join the fight and qualify for points, consider equipping joke weapons such as the tawashi so she'll last longer. Save the big guns for higher levels. (Keep enough real weapons to make sure you'll win if you end up in a fight against a normal witch like Elly, since those can be raided just like Walpurgis)
- Only people who were in your friends list before you sent the battle invitation can join the fight. If you have few friends, invite people first and then open Walpurgis after they accept. Use the thread or IRC to find people.
- Stack just enough defense to survive until the end of the "turn" and then optimize your attack.
Anti-Walpurgis Weapons
Magic Weapons of Helplessness are raid point rewards and were available in the silver and gold event boxes. The muskets, pictured below, deal 10x (SS), 5x (S), or 3x (RR) damage to Walpurgis. This is calculated after defense, so if you have 3000 ATK and Walpurgis has 2000 DEF, a 5x weapon will hit her for 5000.
Elemental magic weapons deal increased damage to the witch whose nature matches their element. Walpurgis Night's witch card shows that her nature is helplessness, the same element listed on the weapons. However, the weapons specify "Prologue" in parentheses, implying that Walpurgis Night has more in store for us. See the Items: Elemental Weapons section for data about their effectiveness. Quick summary: Don't fuse them away, since even RR ones can be useful.
Boss Stats
- Level 1 Walpurgis: 1003-1016 ATK, from 797 to 1000 DEF (averge: 898.5), 2,000,000 HP.
- Level 6 Walpurgis: analyze data from the yellow sheet here
- Level 7 Walpurgis:
- copy data from wratha posts here
- make a table
- oh no people are looking at my todo's in a published page
Trivia
Walpurgis Night's real-life date is midnight after April 30, and this is the most likely date for her appearance in the anime, but her timing can vary. Homura, while speaking to Kyoko in the arcade, gave Walpurgis a week-long window. It's likely that Walpurgis can appear even earlier under special circumstances.
Troubleshooting
- This is more trouble than you can shoot. Just ask Homura.
- Only people who were in your friends list before you sent the battle invitation can join the fight. If you have few friends, invite people first and then open Walpurgis after they accept. Use the thread or IRC to find people.