Board Thread:Questions and Answers/@comment-47.23.116.138-20140128202809/@comment-24477712-20140129150113

the actual increase coming from the march of death 10 melee formation is exactly as big as the increase you get from your dragonlordfront or icy heat pentacle formation, they only differ in the fact that 10x of one type has the 5x formation types, like Assault shift or Harem kiss. The big 10/9 card boost is the same, just the smaller boost partitions differ.

generally speaking as you sound like someone who is still in the theory of it all, and trying to figure out things... I recommend dragonlord front for you. the formation allows you to use literally any card in your deck if you replace the correct equivalent. "free" obtainable event cards like Ziva and Morwenna are not gonna fit an all melee deck... and what you also have to think about is why you really want "all chaos" because depending on your guild class, the actual realm bonus your chaos cards get from you using a chaos captain is not very big. for soldier it's merely a 10% stat boost, which would mean that if you get to chose between death knight and agni for your chaos melee deck for example, agni will be way better for your deck even if he is not chaos.

also as DLF you have easier choices in cost efficient cards and specific skills.. if you are looking for a good setup you will want the strong skills, namely warcry, flag of victory, lure of love and drums of war for attack

a melee deck can only use warcry and flag effectively (dorado with lure is not exactly going to be strong in your deck due to his weak stats) and a charm deck can't really use drums of war effectively either (Kahyangwuti is way too weak)

when talking defense decks... there is always the question: "reduce enemy attack or increase own def"

as percentages for these counterparts are usually similar (allcharm formations are the exact counterpart of the other formations, just in reduction)

when the enemy has higher baseattack than you have defense, reduction works better than defense increase and vice versa

in guild vs guild wars a simply 20WP attack already attacks with 150% (1.5x) of your regular attack, a 40WP attack hits with 200% (2.0x).... meaning that reductions are especially effective here... also points are calculated based off of the damage you deal, which means that the more you get reduced the less points you get

so if you want to set your focus on guild vs guild you should aim for an all charm defense in my opinion, if you are aiming for ToD and normal battle, formations are pretty balanced out... DLF will always get way higher base stats than other formations

and an insane all charm defense with basically a perfect setup will not go far higher than 310k defense while DLF def can have 350k+ base def

so when not a lot of skills trigger (which happens a lot) DLF usually wins