Joe’s Journal, Volume 6

Let’s talk about equipment. Your hero can be equipped with six items while each hero can handle three. I so often see players neglecting to place the appropriate equipment on their heroes and captains to amplify their abilities. Doing so is a mistake, let me tell you! Dress them up and watch your bonuses stack!

To craft equipment, you will need the materials, coins, and like all good things, time. Try and pick equipment that matches what the captains already provide, so that you can specialize and swap captains to perform different tasks as necessary. For example, put all your best crypting gear on Carter, and your best resource gathering gear on Stror. Avoid putting resource gathering gear on your hero, and reconsider crypting gear unless you are going solely for the tar production bonus that they provide. 

A good suggestion on timing of gear-making is to make the best crypting gear you can right now, then use that to provide you with other materials, and work your way up. I try to make a set every other rarity possible, so that I am still conserving what materials I can get. Don’t forget that rarer crypts provide you with higher quality materials.

Standard equipment, the first section in the workshop, is created with silver and materials found in common, rare, and epic crypts. You can get higher quality gear from higher quality crypts. I recommend saving your rare and epic tar until you can crypt with high efficiency. A hint is to take note of which type of crypt provides the resource you need, and prioritize those. Of note in the standard equipment section is the Honored Ruler gear, which improves your production rate, a great set of equipment to wear when you are away and your captains are idle in the city. 

The unique equipment in the second section provides more diverse and powerful bonuses. These are created using “Master Coins” earned from destroying Cursed Citadels. Their materials are also earned solely from exploring epic crypts. It might be wise to wait on creating these until you are more advanced. Of note in this section is the Omniscience set, which aids both march speed and crypt efficiency. 

Tournament equipment is the next set that is also created with Master Coins, and materials from epic crypts. These items require a special material as well, tournament trophies, which act the same as other materials but can only be obtained as a reward from the Conqueror’s Revival Event, which occurs concurrently with player versus player events. Each of these items are very powerful, and worth your attention when you are able.

The Ragnarok equipment is a unique set, crafted with the rune stones purchased from the Ragnarok shop. Remember that the shop is available even outside of the event, and can be found at the bottom of the event page at any time. 

The Immortal Warrior set of equipment, rewarded through the guardsmen trials, is another unique set. Notable about these is that unless you’re playing ten years from now you likely won’t ever have to dismantle it.

The last unique piece of equipment is The Burning Crown, unlocked as a reward for completing the intro to the game. This piece of equipment is notable in that it is the only item that boosts troop training speed. When/if you lose this item, you will never be able to get it back. Stop using it for combat before it is gone for good!

Equipment is created using silver or Master Coins. All equipment is repaired and dismantled using silver. Items lose durability when they are used in a battle, and each time they are repaired, their maximum durability is reduced. This means that at a certain point, you will be spending silver to repair every few times you use it, so you may want to consider using other items. Dismantling will allow you to recoup one of the materials involved in its creation.

This is a good time to state that in this game, multiple instances of bonuses are applied at a single time. 100 strength with a 50% boost is 150, but if you have a second 50% boost the total will be 200, not 225. Still a good idea to combine multiple sources to have a higher bonus!

If you note something that I missed, please let me know by attacking me with a single S1 and I will update it!

Thanks 275,

Joe