Beating Bosses - visiting San Juan

Zynga has had a few promotions like the San Juan promotion that is currently underway. We love them: they are engaging and they offer great loot. Please note that when I talk about these fights, I am talking about fighting at the highest level: lower level fights are easier.

There are a number of guidelines you should keep in mind in order to win at these:

1. Make sure you have enough stamina. I've completed all the promotions like these ones, usually several times. The San Juan promotion requires a HUGE amount of stamina: if you don't have 1000 stamina, help someone on the higher tiers because...

2. Helping people is very useful. If you don't have the stamina to beat these guys yourself you can get almost all the items - sometimes all of them - by helping people. I've seen people get items after doing 0 damage. You need to be in the top 5 helpers (ie in the top 5 of damage done) to get the item from the boss. If the player winning gets an item AND a bonus item, you generally get both.

Even if you already have the item, the combat pays decent XP and money and gives you XP after the fight.

3. Different rules apply for these combats than traditional bosses. Zynga has really loosened up these bosses over time: you can re-enter a combat after "dying", but that is a separate entrance and you can only enter 25 per day. The weapons and aids are MUCH more effective than in regular boss fights: a shiv does 30% bonus damage (not 30 points like in regular fights), the health kit is a full health refill (not a fraction), and the stun gun stuns the boss twice (not once).

4. There is lots of time for the fights. So you can fight, die, fight, die, fight, die, level for more stamina, etc. These fights have been taking hours at level 3 - but they do provide great loot.