UNDERSTANDING / GRINDING WINTER ITEMS 2023

Min-Max Your Winter Event usage with this subjective table!

Spoiler: You may purchase these Items with Winter Points

Items	General Thoughts	Civilization Interactions	Available Gear Slot
	They have the same DPS as other Legendary Javelins vs Buildings! It's essentially a generalist Javelin gear but all Javelin users are situational!	Greek Peltasts: See Persian Takabara. Greek Sarissphoroi: Too short range to effectively use the snare even when considering its Advisor and Champion Upgrade. Egyptian Scout: I would not recommend this gear for them considering they have a more appropriate gear for them. Celtic Carpentom: Their AoE Attack (from Champion Upgrade) does not apply snare on area damage, and their population space is too much for the snare. Persian Takabara: Acceptable if Curse of the Archer is not within your budget. Roman Centurions: Do not need it, given they have a decent ranged snare and they would rather have raw damage stats on their Javelin. Babylonian War Chariot: See Celtic Carpentom except they get their AOE damage from an Advisor. Norse Skirmisher: See Persian Takabara. Indian Ranger: See Persian Takabara.	Greek: 2 Egyptian: 1 Celts: 2 Persian: 1 Roman: 1 Babylonian: 1 Norse: 1 Indian: 1 Total: 9
	In this event, the Spear has gotten a significant snare resistance buff, possibly aiding some cavalry to breeze through some enemy snares.	In addition to Spearmen who might use it if they want to snare more... Greek Prodromos has a lot of snare in its Champion Upgrade. Egyptian Camel Riders: They are often fast enough to not need the snare resistance or snare. Celtic Horsemen: No opinion. Persian Cataphract: Despite being slow... they often will kill whoever is snaring them quickly enough. Roman Gallic Horsemen: See Persian Cataphracts. Babylonian Lancer: If desired, since they are often used as a base-rushing unit and a charge-on-snare sounds nice. Norse Horsemen: See Celtic Horsemen. Indian Turanga: No opinion except their identity might reflect an inverse Egyptian Camel Rider (but still being fast to match with Cavalry might have the same Egyptian Camel Rider comment).	Greek: 2 Egyptian: 2 Celts: 2 Persian: 2 Roman: 2 Babylonian: 2 Norse: 2 Indian: 2 Total: 16
	A MUST-HAVE. INCREASE SPEED AND HEALTH? CONSIDER UNITS THAT DO NOT NEED THE DAMAGE INCREASE. BEST-IN-SLOT CONSIDERED BY MANY ON THE PROPER UNITS.	Just think of units that only need to survive due to them having way more damage or they have some other unit providing damage, I will mention some but not limited to: Greek Hoplite Egyptian Spearman (with Sobek) Egyptian War Elephant Egyptian Elephant Archer (full damage on the rest of the gear) Celts Champion Persian Sparabara Roman Aquifier/Primus Pilus (they only need to survive to grant damage buff) Babylonian Shieldbearer Norse Berserker Norse Harjars Norse Chief (only need to survive to grant HP buff)	Potentially 73 Soldiers' Gear Slots in the game for you!

Spoiler: You may craft these items with an Ice King's Heart

Two thing to note about Ignore Armor stat: It affects aoe damage normally and stacks additively. 2 +15% Ignore Armor will equal +30% Ignore Armor not +32.5% Ignore Armor.

Items	General Thoughts	Civilization Interactions	Available Gear Slot
	A MUST-CRAFT. The Ignore Armor effectively translates into bonus damage against some cavalry (as many have base pierce armor) siege, buildings, and ships due to their already high existing pierce armor. This arrow in terms of DPS will lose to other Legendary Arrows easily in the early game but if you like taking your time when the enemy starts getting armory upgrades, this arrow starts seeing value! I recommend at most 2 per civ since you can switch them when you're on a different quest to save Winter shards. Example: Switch this arrow on my Trireme for water quests and back to my ranged units for land quests	There are so many options for this arrow, if you don't know what to craft, just craft this! You'll always find a buyer! Most if not all ranged units can use this arrow effectively! I have made special mentions. ALL ARROW SHIPS All towers(but preferably Greek or Celts who have the better Tower synergies) Greek Toxotes/Gastraphetes Egyptian Chariot Archer/Elephant Archers Celts Bowman Persian Bowman/Mounted Archer Babylonian Bowman/Mounted Archers/Chariot Archer Norse Bowman Indian Bowman/Blade Chariot/Elephant Archer	Potentially 69 Arrow Slots in the game for you, but you won't be putting it in every Arrow Slot anyway!
	GOOD ON TOWERS AND MAYBE FORTS, NOTHING MORE. Don't say you want to put it on a Town Center or some other building to reduce build time because there are completely better options for that.	Greek and Celts Tower benefit hard.	Potentially 16 Slots.
	The Sword of Piercing Frost is considered to me as the Sword of Tiberius but with more offensive stats. It is a great item to craft otherwise. However, I am wary of putting it on Cavalry Sword units since there are little melee-cavalry armor aside from spearmen and anti-cavalry cavalry to worry about (but maybe you can justify a case there)	The developers recommend using them on Celtic Champion Persian Immortals (can match with Kaveh+Arrow of Piercing Frost Roman Legionary(match with Caesar)+ Roman Centurion Babylonian Royal Guard Indian Juggernaut I also recommend: Can also use Norse Milestone (Sunder) granting infantry +8% Ignore Armor. Celts Longswordsman	Greek: 3 Egyptian: 0 Celts: 3 Persian: 3 Roman: 6 Babylonian: 2 Norse: 2 Indian: 2 Total: 21
	Great item mileage, can't go wrong with it. On spearmen, it makes them more effective at killing cavalry and anti-infantry infantry units while on cavalry, I consider it an anti-cavalry cavalry spear.	Greek Prodromos: Cheap and replaceable, they'll love it. Egyptian Camel Riders: See Greek Prodromos. Celtic Horsemen: Good as a generalist item. Persian Cataphract: Let their high base damage break through cavalry's ranks. Roman Gallic Horsemen: Let their high base damage with the ignore armor breaks spearmen easily. Babylonian Lancer: Charge damage with Ignore Armor works well. See Greek Prodromos. Norse Horsemen: See Celtic Horsemen. Indian Turanga: No opinion.	Greek: 2 Egyptian: 2 Celts: 2 Persian: 2 Roman: 2 Babylonian: 2 Norse: 2 Indian: 2 Total: 16
	This event gave them a significant buff from +20% Ignore Armor to +30% Ignore Armor! Very huge, good generalist stats damage-wise.	Greek Hoplite: They have high base damage as well, that'll work well. Egyptian War Elephant: Also great considering their splash can benefit from Ignore Armor as well. Persian Sparabara: No, the damage is too low to wear. Roman Eques: Very good, helps fix some of Eques' weaknesses in trying to fight more dedicated anti-cavalry cavalry units. Babylonian Shieldbearer: See Persian Sparabara. Norse Ulfhedinn: Somewhat good, but weird? Considering not many cavalries have melee-infantry armor in the first place. Indian War Elephant: A MUST-CONSIDER FOR THE NEXT RELEASE DUE TO THEIR TRAITS.	Greek: 1 Egyptian: 1 Celts: 0 Persian: 1 Roman: 1 Babylonian: 1 Norse: 1 Indian: 1 Total: 7
	I have no opinion on this gear.	-	-