Madoka Magica Online Walpurgis
Walpurgis Night is a global raid event where players get a chance to earn various unique rewards, as well as compete with each other for a chance to earn a special meguca. As announced in the Walpurgis preview page, Walpurgis Night first appeared in Madoka Magica Online on February 26. The initial raid (Prologue) lasted two weeks, and the second raid (Chapter Two) began on March 26. Since then it occurs at least once a monnth.
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 and don't hit the same witch repeatedly unless it's about to expire. 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 grief seed button added on 3/26 allows you to retrieve your loot and raid points. The join button turns yellow when a new battle is available (except sometimes it doesn't turn yellow like it should).
Attacking a witch you found yourself costs 10 AP, and joining someone else's battle costs 5 AP. You'll only get one "turn" of combat per 5 or 10 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 interface was changed to show the MVP, who did the most damage to 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.
Click the buttons on the right to receive loot, or click the lower right button to loot all at once.
The lobby interface during early Walpurgis raids.
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.
- Higher level witches give more points when they die. Walpurgis gives 400 more points per kill per level (100 more for assists).
- Silver tickets: Tickets can be collected in the raid rewards tab (click the grief seed button in the lobby) when the witch died. In earlier raids, they were sent to your presents, and rewards may still show up there if your inventory is too full. Spend your tickets, since silvers will expire after the Walpurgis Night witch raid event.
- You have a random chance to get more tickets than usual. For example, when Walpurgis normally gave 12, sometimes you could get 24. This seems to be completely random. Unfortunately, recent raids have been giving fewer tickets, so you might get 2, 3, or 9 from Walpurgis now.
- 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.
- Some witches, such as Anja, Oriko, Kazumi, and Yuma, have a small chance to give special items such as weapons or accessories instead of silver tickets.
- See the Events page for lists of rewards, including cute military dresses.
- 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.
- Don't forget to check your rewards tab to collect your loot. You can only have 50 unclaimed rewards at once.
Tactics
- The bulk of the raid points are awarded for simply engaging the witch at all (provided she eventually dies), 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).
- After hitting each witch once, use your extra AP to spawn more witches. They can only spawn if you don't have any witches of your own active at the moment.
- 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.
- A witch can spawn from your last 10 AP spent before going to sleep. To avoid losing it due to lack of AP, start a PVE quest but don't clear it until you come back. This won't work with PVP, which auto-completes, causing the witch's timer to run out while you're away.
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, dealt 10x (SS), 5x (S), or 3x (RR) damage to Walpurgis during the first raid. This is calculated after defense, so if you have 3000 ATK and Walpurgis has 2000 DEF, a 5x weapon will hit her for 5000.
Marked Chapter Two instead of Prologue, this sword worked during the second raid.
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, so they only work on the Prologue version of her. The second iteration of Walpurgis Night, Chapter Two, required a new set of weapons. 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
- Walpurgis Night gains 96,000HP per level, and is worth 400 more raid points (100 more for assists). She's normally worth 2 silver tickets and has a random chance of giving 3 or 9.
- Level 1 Walpurgis: 2,000,000 HP, 1003-1016 ATK, from 797 to 1000 DEF (average: 898.5), 100,000 raid points for the finder, 25,000 raid points for assisting.
- Level 8 Walpurgis: 2,672,000 HP, 1019-1023 ATK, from 848 to 1015 DEF (average: 931.5), 102800/25700 raid points.
- Level 16 Walpurgis: 3,440,000 HP, 106,000/26,500 raid points.
- Level 24 Walpurgis: 4,208,000 HP, 1046-1057 ATK, 866 to 1046 DEF (average: 956), 109,200/27300 raid points.
- Elly gains 49,800 HP per level, and is worth 100 more raid points (25 more for assists).
- Level 1 Elly: 100,000 HP, 5000/1250 raid points.
- Level 3 Elly: 199,600 HP, 5200/1300 raid points.
- Level 5 Elly: 299,200 HP, 830 ATK,
- Level 10 Elly: 548,200 HP, 810-850 ATK,
- Level 13 Elly: 697,600 HP, 6200/1550 raid points.
- Level 15 Elly: 820-850 ATK,
- Level 17 Elly: 896,800 HP, 6600/1650 raid points.
- Elsa Maria gains 4000 HP per level, and is worth 20 more raid points (5 more for assists).
- Level 1 Elsa Maria: 10,000 HP, 500/125 raid points.
- Level 25 Elsa Maria: 106,000 HP, 980/245 raid points.
- Gertrud gains 7000 HP per level, and is worth 40 more raid points (10 more for assists).
- Level 3 Gertrud: 34,000 HP, 1080/270 raid points.
- Level 13 Gertrud: 104,000 HP, 1480/370 raid points.
- Level 39 Gertrud: 286,000 HP, 2520/630 raid points.
- Level 66 Gertrud: 475,000 HP, 3600/900 raid points.
- Charlotte (small) gains 4000 HP per level, and is worth 20 more raid points (5 more for assists).
- Level 1 Charlotte: 10,000 HP, 2500/625 raid points.
- Level 6 Charlotte: 30,000 HP, 2600/650 raid points.
- Charlotte (big)
- Level 1 Charlotte: 20,000 HP, 5000/1250 raid points.
- Oktavia von Seckendorff
- Level 1 Oktavia: 120,000 HP, 10000/2500 raid points.
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.
- Sometimes a witch's HP count will get out of sync and show more HP than she actually has.