Gear upgrades while leveling

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  1. Aryzel

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    So here is the fairly tight list of gear upgrades to consider while you level up. It will get you 90% of the best options for minimal use of coins and your time/energy. There are more options than this in the game, especially if you've got lots of coin and like to craft all recipes, but if you want to do a quick check of what are good upgrades around your level, without much thinking or research, then this list will cover your needs and get you to level 40 very efficiently. Updated as of 2021.Feb.28

    https://docs.google.com/spreadsheet...Ao61pzQyDTPILsaH6f_XTx-fXo/edit#gid=589927857

    Below contains the sheet details but gathered into practical level checkpoints


    Level 5
    You should be able to build a Windy Widgets Store in your home city, lots to buy from there
    • 5 - Arrows - Vanguard Ranger Arrows - Store Windys Wild Widgets, home city 100c
    • 5 - Bow Vanguard - Vanguard Recurve Bow - Store Windys Wild Widgets, home city 100c
    • 5 - Construction Addition - Vanguard Training Scroll - Store - Windys Wild Widgets, home city 50c
    • 5 - Heavy Spear - Vanguard Heavy Spear - Store Windys Wild Widgets, home city 125
    • 5 - Laborer Gear - Vanguard Leather Hood - Store Windys Wild Widgets, home city 100c
    • 5 - Light Armor - Vanguard Leather Gorget - Store Windys Wild Widgets, home city 100c
    • 5 - Medium Armor - Vanguard Scale Breastplate - Store Windys Wild Widgets, home city 110c
    • 5 - Work Tools - Vanguard Work Tools - Store Windys Wild Widgets, home city 110c
    • 5 - Advisor Age 1 - Apprentice Mason Philon Uncommon - Advanced General store on pro civs - ask in trade for someone to buy it for you and trade to you, cost 225c
    • 5 - Advisor Age 1 - Slave Driver Zephyros Uncommon - Lodi Store - ask in trade for someone to buy it for you and trade to you, cost 250c
    • 5 - Advisor Age 1 - Woodsman Weylin Common - Crete Store - ask in trade for someone to buy it for you and trade to you, cost 250c
    • 5 - Advisor Age 2 - Chieftain Britomartus Uncommon - Lodi Store - ask in trade for someone to buy it for you and trade to you, cost 300c
    • 5 - Advisor Age 2 - King Nannus Uncommon - Lodi Store - ask in trade for someone to buy it for you and trade to you, cost 300c
    • 5 - Advisor Age 2 - Good Shepherd Shahriyar Uncommon - Rome Store - ask in trade for someone to buy it for you and trade to you, cost 675c

    Level 10
    • 6 - Cloth Armor - Spartan Guard Tunic - Store - Sparta 65c
    • 6 - Great Axe - Primitive Broad - Crafted - Infantry School Recipe from Egyptian capital city
    • 6 - Light Spear - Spartan Hoplite Spear - Store Sparta 60c
    • 10 - Javelin - Ordinary War Javelin Crafted - Cavalry School Recipe in your capital city
    • 10 - Work Tools - Crete Steward Hatchet - Store - Crete 125c
    • 7 - Advisor Age 3 - Councilman Onesiphoros Uncommon - Agros Store - ask in trade for someone to buy it for you and trade to you, cost 375c
    • 7 - Advisor Age 3 - Cowardly Colonel Pamphilos Uncommon - Argos Store - ask in trade for someone to buy it for you and trade to you, cost 375c
    • 7 - Advisor Age 3 - Bow Master Sohrab Uncommon - Rome Store - ask in trade for someone to buy it for you and trade to you, cost 1125c
    • 7 - Advisor Age 3 - Siege Tactician Titus Uncommon - Rome Store - ask in trade for someone to buy it for you and trade to you, cost 1125c

    Level 16
    • 11 - Ram Head - Fine Ram head - Crafted - Engineering School Recipe in your capital city
    • 11 - Sword - Spartan Veteran Blade - Store - Sparta 190c
    • 13 - Armor Plating - Ideal Folded Sidings - Crafted - Engineering School Recipe in your capital city
    • 15 - Reinforced Construction - Superior imperial fortifications - Store - Sparta 150c
    • 15 - Sling - Crete Champion Sling - Store - Crete 250c
    • 15 - Warpaint - Mark of the Ram - Crafted - Metalworking School Recipe in Celtic capital city
    • 16 - Bow - Spartan hunter bow - Store - Sparta 235c
    • 16 - FirePot - Fine clay fire pot - Crafted - Construction School Recipe in your capital city
    • 16 - Medium Armor - Spartan Polemarch Cuirass - Store - Sparta 255c
    • 15 - Advisor Age 4 - Trajectory Specialist Timo - Argos Store - ask in trade for someone to buy it for you and trade to you, cost 600c

    Level 20

    • 17 - Torc - Ancient Gold Torc - Store - Massalia 180c
    • 17 - War Horn - War Horn of the Raider - Store - Massalia 210c
    • 18 - Holy Staff - Jeweled Staff - Crafted - Religion School Recipe in trade or ask someone to craft. Material cost 108c
    • 20 - Construction Addition - Lookouts - Store - Sparta 200c, put on watchpost and maybe storehouses?
    • 20 - Engineering Accessory - Rugged Beams - Store - Northern Hold 900c
    • 20 - Great Axe - Bronze Great Axe - Store - Argos 240c
    • 20 - Javelin - Crete Champion Javelin - Store - Crete 360c
    • 20 - Laborer Gear - Hood of the Resolute - Store - Taros 190c
    • 20 - Light Spear - Argos Guard Light Spear - Store - Argos 450c
    • 20 - Medium Armor - Argos Guard Breastplate - Store - Argos 450c, only small upgrade on lvl 16 Spartan Polemarch Cuirass, get one or the other
    • 20 - Soldier's Gear - Mycenaean Heavy Gloves - Store - Taros 175c
    • 20 - Throwing Arm - Mighty Argos Siege Arm - Store - Argos 450c
    • 19-23 - Reinforced Construction - Hand Carved Wall Braces - Trade Channel/Global Marketplace EXPENSIVE 30-50k, put on watchpost for map line of sight

    Level 25
    • 21 - Shield - Spartan Polemarch Shield - Store - Sparta 350c
    • 22 - Heavy Spear - Cruel Heavy Spear - Store - Northern Hold 500c
    • 22 - Ram Head - Wallbreaker - Store - Northern Hold 450c
    • 25 - Belly Bow - Create champion - Store - Crete 460c
    • 25 - Cloth Armor (for Villagers) - Workers Cloth - Store - Northern Hold 1300c, +3.5% wood
    • 25 - Light Armor - Armor of the North - Store - Northern Hold 550c, only get if you're cavalry need a boost, otherwise wait for Argos lvl 30 light armor
    • 25 - Medium Armor - Argos Sentry Cuirass - Store - Argos 600c
    • 25 - Sword - Argos Sentry Blade - Store - Argos 600c

    Level 30
    • 26 - Armor Plating - Argos Silver Plating - Store - Argos 405c
    • 26 - Cloth Armor - Spartan Champions Tunic - Store - Sparta 775c
    • 26 - Light Spear - Spartan Champion's Spear - Store - Sparta 800c
    • 27 - Arrows - Dark Flight Arrows - Crafted - Archery School Recipe in trade or ask someone to craft. Material cost roughly 400c
    • 28 - Work Tools - Magnificent Worker Tools - Crafted - Craftsmen School Recipe in trade or ask someone to craft. Material cost 146c
    • 30 - Bow - Argos Champion's Bow - Store - Argos 750c
    • 30 - Light Armor - Argos Champion's Cavalry Armor - Store - Argos 750c


    Level 36
    • 31 - Sword - Spartan Champion's Blade - Store - Sparta 920c
    • 32 - Merchant Gear (Caravan) - Noble Travel Log - Crafted - Craftsmen School Epic materials. Recipe in trade or ask someone to craft
    • 34 - Great Axe - Osiris' Axe of the Underworld - Crafted - Infantry School Epic materials. Recipe in trade or ask someone to craft
    • 34 - Light armor (Scout) - Epona's Scout armor - Crafted - Cavalry School Epic materials, material cost 3200c
    • 35 - Bow - Arduinna's Hunting Bow - Range focus - Crafted - Archery School Epic materials. Recipe in trade or ask someone to craft. Material cost 3200c
    • 35 - Heavy Spear - Argos Cohort Heavy spear - Store - Argos 900c
    • 35 - Javelin - Crete Cohort Javelin - Store - Crete 1310c
    • 36 - Bow - Spartan Marksman Bow - Store - Sparta 1400c
    • 36 - Medium Armor - Spartan Champion's Cuirass - Store - Sparta 1300c
    • 36 - Work Tools - Craftsman's Hammer - Crafted - Craftsmen School Epic materials. Recipe in trade or ask someone to craft. About 2600c material cost, but definitely try to get as it will be your main hammer until you've 30k+ to spare at lvl 40
    • 36 - Work Tools - Blessed hammer of Construction - Trade Channel/Global Marketplace EXPENSIVE 30-80k

    Others
    • 7-27 - Scout Special - Looking Glass - Trade Channel/Global Marketplace 5-50k
    • Fishing Nets - - Nothing worth bothering with, just use whatever drops until you're 40
    • Merchant Gear (Transport Ship) - - Nothing worth bothering with, just use whatever drops until you're 40
    • Ship Accessory - - Nothing worth bothering with, just use whatever drops until you're 40
     
    #1 Aryzel, Mar 1, 2021 at 2:29 AM
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    I've a couple of suggestions for devs on some gears that could be added that would be great for new players while levelling, that are high impact but don't have an accessible option currently.


    Reinforced Construction with line of sight for watchpost, none easily accessible, all rare drops
    • Suggestion, increase LOS on Argos Reinforced Walls, from 3.1% LOS to 30% LOS, that’s still well below the LOS on the two drops Hand-Carved Wall Braces (42.8-49.7% LOS) and Walls of master defender (53.8-59.4%)

    Scout special - no LOS easily accessible, all rare drops
    • Add a green lvl 10 one in a shop with 19% LOS stat. That still less than the blue Looking Glass drops that starts with 19.2% at the lowest at lvl 7, up to 52.3% as best lvl 27.
    Map visibility is a huge gameplay impact, and currently players go from almost no increases to very large increases when they get lots of coin at lvl 40, an incremental step while levelling would be a helpful quality of life/gameplay improvement to players and indicative of what endgame looks like in practice.

    Advisors
    Some accessible but others a bit random. There are some in Crete, Lodi, Well of Urd and other locations but are not accessible at ideal levels. An accessible selection of white/green advisors, good basic options for age 1-4, as fallback choices for players that don't get lucky drops.
     
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    I'm going to try to keep some items on the marketplace for new players. Items that are good for new players while levelling that are easy to access for lvl 40 players but hard for new players. Such as green advisors from stores that new players can't travel to, and some core crafted items.
    Selling for basically cost price + listing price/%

    Advisors
    Slave Driver Zephyros - Uncommon - 250c - Lodi [285 sell price]
    Woodsman Weylin - Common - 250c - Crete [285 sell price]
    Good Shepherd Shahriyar - Uncommon - 675c - Rome [755 sell price]

    Chieftain Britomartus - Uncommon - 300c - Lodi [345 sell price]
    King Nannus - Uncommon -300c - Lodi [345 sell price]

    Cowardly Colonel Pamphilos - Uncommon - 375c - Argos [435 sell price]
    Councilman Onesiphoros - Uncommon - 375c - Argos [435 sell price]
    Bow Master Sohrab - Uncommon - 1125c - Rome [1260 sell price]


    Jewelled Staff
    22 olive oil - 44c
    14 oak planks - 24c
    12 scrolls of lore - 36
    -> 104c [140c sell price]

    Magnificent Worker Tools - Don't have recipe yet, would like to buy it if anyone has it
    22 copper - 17c
    16 bronze - 32c
    8 concrete - 96
    -> 145c [180c sell price]

    Craftsman's Hammer
    22 precision tools - 792c
    12 pure gold ingots - 60
    6 illuminated codexes - 1680
    -> 2550c [2800c sell price]
     
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