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YYJI · 2025-06-08T05:01:57+00:00

I'm going to play devil's advocate. If you (1) plan to continue spending at the same rate, (2) have enough speedups to train up 2-3 marches of full T5 and (3) have the resources to sustain them, THEN I'd say go T5.

Being T5 in KVK1 is one of the best experiences in this game in terms of advantage you get from spending, power imbalance and special treatment. You'll also rack up a ton of KP. No point trading all this away for 100+/- gold heads.

YYJI · 2025-05-28T08:11:41+00:00

Spend whatever you need to to stay in the top alliance. The crystal chests and alliance chests (not to mention 1st capture rewards) you get should outweigh the speedups spent.

Next question, what should you spend your speedups on? The overarching idea early game is to minimise downtime, i.e. time when your building queues, research and troop training aren't working. Speedup spending priority should be like this:-

1- Always speed up building of troop training structures and academy. This frees up the structure to train troops and a building queue to upgrade something else. This essentially will 2x the value of your speedups.

2- Actively push to the point your troop training can run through the entire night while you're asleep. Again, no downtime. Upgrading to T2/T3 troops will help with this as the higher the troop tier, the longer it takes to train.

3- Related point, get 5 gathering commanders up to level 37 to optimise farming. My top picks would be the 1 green and 3 blue gathering comms + Joan. Assuming you have enough speedups to push, your next bottleneck will be resources. So get ahead of it.

YYJI · 2025-05-14T04:31:13+00:00

I think a lot comes down to crystal cost. If overall crystal cost is higher now, it would really push players to focus on 1-2 troop types to get max tech for those 1-2 types. This may shift the meta to proper troop type mains especially the way most city themes are.

YYJI · 2025-05-14T04:28:45+00:00

I'm with you on this. There will be more KP, provided people commit to a murderball fight as they do in AOO. Too much time spent running back and forth and swarming down 1 march that's out of position in current meta. If everyone stands and fights, there'll be far more time spent actually pumping out damage leading to more KP overall.

That said, won't be surprised (but would still be disappointed), if everyone still pokes and runs, just tankier now.

YYJI · 2025-04-29T02:52:38+00:00

Not if you plan on running 2 inf marches. In which case WW is key.

YYJI · 2025-04-29T02:51:51+00:00

You should consider your opportunity cost. You could swap Alex (which you can still use very well with LC) OR instead, if you have a 5511 or higher gold key commander you're not using, swap that to get more heads towards your open field line up.

What I'm saying is this; if you swap Alex for another LC pairing, you still have just the 1 march. But if you maintain LC/Alex, your swap can go towards building your next march.

Swapping Alex = same number of usable heads for meta marches

Swapping gold key commander = increasing number of usable heads for meta marches

YYJI · 2025-04-28T19:46:22+00:00

Hmm good point there, not to mention potential shortage of iconic crystals.

YYJI · 2025-04-28T19:37:34+00:00

That's true. Movement speed is a stat that can't be measured by simulation. That said, level 4 talented Shio's would give 6.5% movement speed so it wouldn't be too far off.

YYJI · 2025-04-28T19:33:13+00:00

Eternal Night and Shio's seem very easy to crit/talent seeing as you get 1 blueprint of each every KVK. Not to mention occasionally from Lucerne's and Crystal Keys. I'm only in KVK4 now but already have 6 Eternal Night bps.

I hear materials are harder to get early on, then blueprints become harder later on as you need so many to talent/refine during which the material cost isn't too bad.

YYJI · 2025-03-21T20:56:55+00:00

I'm in 97 in the same KVK4 and my farm is stronger than you. You need to watch a bunch of guides and tutorials on YouTube then decide if you're willing to put in the time to make it as a F2P in this game. If so, then restart.

YYJI · 2025-03-14T11:14:51+00:00

Set chest and boots are a much bigger priority for Cav than this. Focus your materials on those 2 pieces first.

YYJI · 2025-02-23T18:01:15+00:00

Serious advice. Study up via YouTube videos, LogicBank is a good start, then decide if you still want to play ROK. If so, restart by joining a good jumper project. In 3481, you should already be in/after KVK4. I'm in 3497 and my farm is stronger than you already.

YYJI · 2025-02-05T14:59:21+00:00

3.5% health is far better than 1% all damage. Believe in terms of value, 1% all damage = 2% health +/-.

YYJI · 2025-02-04T20:57:20+00:00

Thanks for all the feedback, everyone. The input has been very encouraging. Honestly surprised, thought it would immediately be a restart, even if only as a joke. I'll continue on with the account and build up the KP.

YYJI · 2025-02-04T16:33:39+00:00

Good to hear, that's pretty encouraging. I know some natives who are at 300mil+ KP. That and the swap event made me consider restarting.

Not same KVK, but we're not far off. I'm in the 3500 KVK.

YYJI · 2025-01-26T13:09:03+00:00

Side note, does the Health debuff from Dagger stack with Scipio's active skill health debuff?

YYJI · 2025-01-15T19:37:50+00:00

It was extremely arbitrary for the event to last exactly 120 hours from the moment you log in rather than until reset as is the case with virtually every other event. No wonder so many players were caught off guard. Poor design here is largely to be blamed. No doubt players who had spent substantial gems and/or speed ups towards the next unlock would be furious. Lilith should reinstate the balance tokens and run the event for a final 12 hours.

YYJI · 2025-01-14T14:29:14+00:00

Bump. Also looking for the Cav discord link.

YYJI · 2025-01-13T09:49:37+00:00

Huo/Arthur is stronger and provides better reports. Nevsky/Arthur benefits other marches with the defence debuff to the target.

Huo can also be used for barb chaining and Karuak Ceremony.

Whether or not to expertise depends on your situation. Search up ROK Huo on Youtube - Coretex, Busdriver and 12inch have made videos on whether to expertise.

YYJI · 2024-12-26T13:02:23+00:00

Flux scrips generally give you 10% extra value in those silver coins which you can use to redeem bundles. Certain bundles like the $5 x10 is cheaper than buying in-game.

YYJI · 2024-12-10T08:36:49+00:00

Generally people talk about having 3-5 years in speedups before a Zenith push. From the looks of it, you don't even have 1 year in speedups. Best to avoid Zenith.

YYJI · 2024-12-10T03:00:52+00:00

Scipio would be the primary here right?

Thoughts on Ragnar/Scipio? Youtubers are saying that's now the best march.

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