A working Setup (Tested, and Foolproof) is the following:
Defender:
6 Trees on Martirism/ 0% Personal VE
Reason:Trees are good becouse they have Regeneration, and never seem to run out of VE Becouse of that. They boost each others Regen too, so thats why there are 6 of them. LVL 4-5 or 5 are fine, but for a Standartized System it should be LVL 5.
All Attacker Rituals need to be Personalized, YOU have to figure out what Ritual will make you give a Victory at the lowest loss for the Defender. That would be a (11%-42%) Battle.
For me many Different Strategies Worked. For exemple is used
-1 Maxed Bird
-2 Maxed Water Damion
-3 Kantor War Master
-4 Tree lvl 5 Martirism
-5 Tree lvl 5 Martirism
-6 1 Maxed Looreroot Archer (From Scout)
At 100% Personal VE this gave me a Perfect 11%-43% Win, With Victory to me, and NO LOSS to Defender.
(Sidenote: This was against 6 LVL 4! Trees)
But becouse everyone has different stats, the attacking Ritual will be different from Person to Person.
It requires quite some knowlege to set up the good ritual, but it also makes you learn.
It works without Alt-s, without useing Bursts, every fight involves actualy Attaking and not just retreating with 0-0. And it chalanges players to learn about the fighting system.
For me this seems to be in every way in the Spirit of the Game.
I will be making an Effort to set up this place, becouse testing has showed, that if anything its more REAL then the Burst farming at GGG, more Balanced then getting smoked by tokened Drachs at GOE, and much much more rewarding then beating on Idles at DOJO. Its fun to try to set up the Ritual you need, and more often then not it will fail:) Thing will go haywire and you will be forced to adopt. Have fun!