Gifts

As a general rule once you have passed level 1,000 gifts are not very useful in themselves. There are exceptions though. Some are used in Blacksmith recipes to make more powerful items and some are required in order to undertake Adventures, for instance a Thor's Amulet is used in the Aegir's Passage mission, Cross the Red Cliff Channel. For Blacksmith crafts the Poison Arrow is used to craft Noxious Giant Spider [49/49].

Best Gifts

For lower level players (sub 720) the most useful gifts are (at the time of writing, August 2012) the weapon, Sigil of Odin [44/44 which has the highest attack of any gift and, as the top warrior, Ulfsark [22/22].

Ulfsark will be your top 'free' warrior until level 420 when the Frost Giant [22/25] becomes available as a drop (excluding any boss drop or battle drop warriors you have been lucky enough to get).

The Sigil of Odin will surpass any weapon purchasable with coins until at least level 2,000 by which time it will have long been surpassed by boss and adventure drops as your lowest usable weapon. In drop terms it is roughly the same as the Winter Spear [44/42] which is an attack drop of the Draugr Horde boss.

Giving Gifts

There are a few places throughout the game where you can give gifts:

You can send a gift from someone's Viking Clan profile page

From the Gift button on Chieftains

The Chieftain Alerts where you accept gifts

Request Gifts on the Event drop-down box found on the home page

You are allowed to give a rather generous 100 gifts a day but if you manage to reach this limit you will have to wait for several hours before being allowed to start sending again (2, 7 or 22 hours)

Receiving Gifts

If you give out gifts to your clan the majority will give you gifts in return. Returning gifts is best done using the Chieftain Alerts pop-up. Since Kano/Apps upped the limit on giving gifts to 100 you may find yourself accumulating dozens of gifts per day.

The easiest way I have found to streamline gift collection is to start at the bottom of the list and click on all the Accepts that are 1 day or older (ignore any Boosts for now). Follow this by starting at the top of the send gift list (that you have just created from the gifts you have accepted) and click on all the Send Gift buttons and work your way down to the bottom. There is no need to close the VICTORY box. Doing it this way means that you do not even have to reposition the cursor very much in order to select the next send button.

After you have dealt with the gifts you should finally process the Stamina and Energy Boosts. This will usually have been made easier as someone who sent you a gift may also have sent you a boost meaning you do not have to manually select a gift to send them in return.

When using the Chieftain Alerts pop-up some browsers may force the bottom of the popup list beyond the bottom of the page so the lowest items cannot be accessed. In order to prevent this you should select your profile page (or some other long page) before opening the pop-up.

If you do not wish to receive gifts, but you still send them, it is considered polite to just have the Secret Gift in your Wishlist rather than leave it empty. This is so clan who send you gifts do not have to deal with the select gift popup when they are using the quick method above to collect and return gifts.

Optomising Your Wishlist

The Wishlist is a group of gifts that you would like to receive. You can have a maximum of 5 gifts or you may leave you wishlist with just the Secret Gift if you are not interesting in gift exchange.

There are two main strategies for filling your wish list: crafting and strength or you may select a mix of the two.

Crafting

There is usually no great need to fill your wishlist with crafting items. Gifts used in crafting tend to have quite low level requirements so just drag the gifts you would like to receive in order of importance starting from position #1 (leftmost) down to position #5 for the least important. If you cannot fill your wishlist at the moment add gifts that you may want later. You may consult the Blacksmith page for these. I would suggest the Poison Arrows which are used in two useful recipes and are lost when crafting or the Iwaz Rune which is used to craft three different items.

Strength

These are gifts for the lower level player to be used directly for attack or defence. The best gifts have the highest level requirements so they can only be given by high level players. If you only had high level clan this would be no problem but you may also have lower level clan who have not reach the level where they can give these gifts. The trick is to have your highest level gifts first followed by gifts with lower level requirements.

The best armament for an all-round balanced, attack/defence as mentioned above is currently the Sigil of Odin so this should be at position #1. The middle 3 items are more dependant on your build and average clan level. If attack is your priority then you should follow this with the Block Hammer/Ancestral Dagger [42/35]. This takes care of the players on level 750 or above.

For gifts in the 700 - 500 range the best balanced item is the Spellbook/ Herbal Medicine [38/38] (at level 650) and the Fur Coat [35/40] will give you as good a defence as the level 750 gift.

In the 450 - 150 range there are several options. For attack you could choose Odin's Horn Medallion [37/0] while for defence Healing Herbs [0/35] is best and for the balanced option the Viking Spearhead [30/30] is preferred.

Another consideration for low level players is whether or not to ask for warriors instead of weapons. You will always need twice as many warriors as weapons but high level weapon gifts will be with you for far longer than gift warriors.

The main thing to bear in mind, whatever you choose, is that when relying on the automatic gift selection of Chieftain Alert to return gifts for you is that higher level gifts tend to be chosen first followed by the order left to right. Duplication of gifts with the same stats is a bit of a waste but if there is a particular gift that you do want then including duplicates will increase your chance of getting it by 20% pre duplicate. Above is a good example of a wishlist for a beginner.

A List of Gifts

This list of gifts is larger than that currently available because KANO/APPS recycle the available gifts on a monthly basis.

Unlocked	Item
Level 1 to 50	Aesir Statue [7/13] Level 1	Anvil [5/5] Level 1	Beard Comb [1/1] Level 1	Blessed Oil [8/10] Level 1
	Box of Chocolates [10/8] Level 1	Bread [1/1] Level 1	Byggvir Ale [12/6] Level 1	Celtic Gorget [13/7] Level 1
	Corncob Pipe [9/9] Level 1	Egg Mead [1/1] Level 1	Eternal Campfire [25/29] Level 1	Fishing Spears [11/7] Level 1
	Freyja's Tears [6/12] Level 1	Friendship Torch [1/1] Level 1	Gold Necklace [5/10] Level 1	Headstone [1/1] Level 1
	Iron Worker's Hammer [12/6] Level 1	Iwaz Rune [8/10] Level 1	Jack o Viking [9/9] Level 1	Leather Helm [4/9] Level 1
	Leather Saddle [22/28] Level 1	Longbow [5/10] Level 1	Lump of Coal [1/1] Level 1	Mead Horn [4/8] Level 1
	Mini Melee Axe [15/10] Level 1	Mystery Bag [0/0] Level 1	Nordic Cross Pendant [10/8] Level 1	North Star Charm [7/12] Level 1
	Northern Knot Charm [7/12] Level 1	Roast Haunch [1/1] Level 1	Scroll of Vanir Knowledge [9/9] Level 1	Skull Tunic [6/12] Level 1
	Snowflake Pendant [1/1] Level 1	Stag Statue [8/10] Level 1	Thor Amulet [8/7] Level 1	Toolbelt Toolbelt [1/1] [1/1] Level 1
	Torch [7/13] Level 1	Training Sword [10/5] Level 1	Vanir Statue [8/10] Level 1	Viking Axes [12/8] Level 1
	Viking Dagger [9/4] Level 1	Viking Mo Viking Mo [1/1] [1/1] Level 1	Viking Outhouse [1/1] Level 1	Viking Tunic [/] Level 1
	War Belt [8/10] Level 1	Wooden Rabbit Amulet [13/23] Level 1	Wooden Shield [7/11] Level 1	Zombie Bat [12/6] Level 1
	Leather Armbands [8/15] Level 5	Champion Chieftain Knives Champion Chieftain Knive [12/8] [12/8] Level 10	Christmas Roast [15/7] Level 10	Zombie Scorpion [15/7] Level 10
	Poison Arrows [20/10] Level 15	War Boots [10/20] Level 15	Silver Armband [13/23] Level 20	Silver Ornament [21/12] Level 20
	Antlers [25/10] Level 25	Arctic Fox Pup [25/12] Level 25	Cauldron [15/25] Level 25	Earmuffs [25/12] Level 25
	Mead Platter Mead Platter [25/12] [25/12] Level 25	Plow [25/10] Level 25	Skull Dagger [25/10] Level 25	Viking Ornament [24/16] Level 25
	Wolf Pelt [10/25] Level 25	Advent Wreath [20/20] Level 30	Battle Chainmail [15/25] Level 30	Solar Eclipse Medallion [25/15] Level 30
	Viking War Helm [20/20] Level 30	Wolf Skin Cloak [14/26] Level 35	Drakkar Figurehead [26/14] Level 40	Hiking Boots [22/22] Level 45
	Puppy [26/17] Level 45	Trained Hawk [17/27] Level 45	Angel Harp [25/20] Level 50	Dirty Tunic [25/20] Level 50
	Mortar and Pestle [25/20] Level 50	Pet Porker Pet Porker [20/25] [20/25] Level 50	Quill [23/23] Level 50	Rabbit Shield [20/28] Level 50
	Snowball Snowball [25/20] [25/20] Level 50	Stuffed Deer Head [23/26] Level 50	Vegvisir [23/23] Level 50	Viking Doll [25/20] Level 50
	Viking Stew Viking Stew [20/25] [20/25] Level 50	Wineskin [24/22] Level 50
Level 51 to 100	Kite Shield [21/28] Level 70	War Dog [28/21] Level 80	Moon Stone [21/28] Level 90	Archery Target [22/28] Level 100
	Blacksmith Tongs [28/22] Level 100	Dread Necklace [28/22] Level 100	Loincloth [9/9] Level 100	Pack Horse [25/25] Level 100
	Rival Head Rival Head [24/26] [24/26] Level 100	Scabbard Harness [24/26] Level 100	Viking Christmas Tree [28/22] Level 100	Wolf Puppy [24/26] Level 100
	Yggdrasil Leaf Spear [24/26] Level 100
Level 101 to 150	Band-Aids [17/31] Level 150	Emerald [26/26] Level 150	Fox Pelt [15/31] Level 150	Golden Apple Of Youth Golden Apple Of Youth [18/30] [18/30] Level 150
	Hammer and Chisel [17/29] Level 150	Sheep [15/15] Level 150	Stout Boots [17/31] Level 150	Toy Drakkar [17/31] Level 150
	Viking Wish List [29/17] Level 150
Level 151 to 200	Battle Swine [30/18] Level 160	Sacred Well [19/31] Level 180	Christmas Horn [32/19] Level 200	Dogsled [27/27] Level 200
Level 151 to 200	Savage's Necklace [27/27] Level 200	Viking Workboots Viking Workboot [19/32] [19/32] Level 200
Level 251 to 300	Battle Belt [28/28] Level 250	Enemy's Heart [28/28] Level 250	Moundweller Shield [28/28] Level 250	Odin's Mask [28/28] Level 250
	Scroll [19/31] Level 250	Viking Present [28/28] Level 250	Whetstone [31/19] Level 250	Diamonds [32/19] Level 270
	Healing Leaf [0/33] Level 300	Viking Tent [33/18] Level 300	Work Tunic Work Tunic [18/34] [18/34] Level 300
Level 301 to 400	Axe Polish [35/17] Level 400	Healing Herbs [0/35] Level 400	Viking Spearhead [30/30] Level 400	Warmaiden [21/21] Level 400
Level 401 to 500	Odin's Horn Medallion [37/0] Level 450	Ancestral Helm Ancestral Helm [30/37] [30/37] Level 500	Flawless Diamond [35/35] Level 500	Ouroboros Bracelet [35/35] Level 500
	Seax [37/30] Level 500	Seidr Staff [35/35] Level 500	Smelter [35/35] Level 500	Ulfsark [22/22] Level 500
	Valnott [30/37] Level 500
Level 501 to 750	Fur Coat [35/40] Level 600	Herbal Medicine Herbal Medicine [38/38] [38/38] Level 650	Spellbook [38/38] Level 650	Axe Hilt Sword [40/36] Level 700
Level 501 to 750	Wingspan Helm [36/40] Level 700	Ancestral Dagger [42/35] Level 750	Block Hammer [42/35] Level 750	Valkyrie Feather [40/40] Level 750
Level 751 to 1100	Champion Steed [43/43] Level 1000	Hunters Glaive [43/43] Level 1000	Jormungund Spear [43/43] Level 1000	Sigil of Odin [44/44] Level 1100