Skills

Hero's Skills are two sets of special knowledge that gives you more power (or "stats") in the game. The first set is called "Main" and the second is called "Against Invaders". Skill points for developing the Hero's Skills are earned from leveling up the hero. The Hero's Skills are set in a tree, so the top skills must be upgraded to some level, usually 1, 3, 5, or 10, before skills underneath it can be unlocked. Some skills have two that you can max out, such as Woodworking and Woodworking II. If you don't have enough skill points to max out both, max the second one, as it gives you better stats.

Note: With the "Second Chance" (buy in clan store for 15000 Loyalty Points) you can reset all Skills and distribute your Skill tokens differently. Very handy to adjust for producing more resources or faster training time or greater military advantages and such, as needed depending on what is most important.

Note: You can also reset skills with hero sets: First change skills with Second Chance, then, before putting skills save a hero set and name it Empty. Then put skills in. When you want to change skills again, activate the Empty hero set and boom, you can reset skills with hero sets. Warning: save the hero set before putting skills in.

Main Hero´s Skills

Each skill can be upgraded to various number of levels. Detailed stats for each level are not provided here because it would be too difficult to read in a single page. However, please note that most rewards come from the last levels of each skills, lower levels being almost insignificant. It is therefore recommended to focus on a few skills to max only.

For a better understanding, main Hero skills are divided into two tables covering combat and training skills (left tree) and farming and building skills (right tree). Only Building I and Learning Speed I skills are necessary to access both trees.

Combat and training skills (left tree)

Skill	Max skill	Max increase	Gives	Requirements
Building I	10	40%	Building speed up
Learning Speed I	10	40%	Knowledge speed up
Total Offense	5	3.5%	Increased Offense caused by all Troops	Building I (lvl 1) Learning Speed I (lvl 1)
Training Speed I	15	30%	Increased Training Speed	Total Offense (lvl 3)
Melee Offense I	15	17%	Increased Melee offense
Ranged Offense I	15	17%	Increased Ranged offense	Melee Offense I (lvl 3)
Cavalry Offense I	15	17%	Increased Cavalry offense
Killer Offense I	15	17%	Increased Killer offense	Cavalry Offense I (lvl 3)
Siege Offense I	15	17%	Increased Siege offense	Cavalry Offense I (lvl 3)
Scout Offense I	15	17%	Increased Scout offense	Killer Offense I (lvl 3)
Total Health I	15	15%	Increased Health for all Troops
Total Defense I	15	15%	Increased Defense for all Troops
Melee Offense II	35	53%	Increased melee offense	Total Defense I (lvl 5)
Ranged Offense II	35	53%	Increased ranged offense	Melee offense II (lvl 5)
Cavalry Offense II	35	53%	Increased cavalry offense	Ranged Offense II (lvl 5)
Killer Offense II	35	53%	Increased killer offense	Ranged Offense II (lvl 5)
Siege Offense II	35	53%	Increased siege offense	Killer Offense II (lvl 5)
Training Speed II	35	90%	Increased training speed	Killer Offense II (lvl 5)
Scout Offense II	35	53%	Increased scout offense	Siege offense II (lvl 5)
Total Defense II	50	85%	Increased Defense for all Troops	Training Speed II (lvl 5)
Total Health II	50	85%	Increased Health for all Troops	Total Defense II (lvl 5)
Melee Defense	50	50%	Increased Defense for Melee Troops	Total Health II (lvl5)
Ranged Defense	50	50%	Increased Defense for Ranged Troops	Melee Defense (lvl5)
Siege Defense	50	50%	Increased Siege Defense	Melee Defense (lvl5)
Cavalry Defense	50	50%	Increased Cavalry Defense	Ranged Defense (lvl5)
Melee Health	50	50%	Increased Melee Health	Siege Defense (lvl5)
Killer Defense	50	50%	Increased Killer Defense	Cavalry Defense (lvl5)
Ranged Health	50	50%	Increased Ranged Troops Health	Melee Health (lvl5)
Scout Defense	50	50%	Increased Scout Troop Defense	Killer Defense (lvl5)
Siege Health	50	50%	Increased Siege Troops Health	Ranged Health (lvl5)
Cavalry Health	50	50%	Increased Cavalry Troops Health	Siege Health (lvl5)
Enemy Troops Defense	50	50%	Reduce Enemy Troops Defense "This was bugged, but now they fixed it." Sorry, nope. It still lowers your own defense. AVOID THIS	Siege Health (lvl5)
Killer Health	50	50%	Increased Killer Troops Health	Cavalry Health (lvl5)
Enemy Troops Offense	50	50%	Reduce Enemy Troops Offense	Enemy Troops Defense (lvl5)
Scout Health	50	50%	Increased Scout Troops Health	Killer Health (lvl5)
Enemy Troops Health	50	50%	Reduce Enemy Troops Health	Enemy Troops Offense (lvl5)
All Troops Offense II	25	10%	Increase All Troops Offense	Enemy Troops Health (lvl5)
March Speed	50	100%	Increased March Speed	All Troops Offense II (lvl5)
Warrior Training III	50	30%	Increase Troop Training Speed	All Troops Offense II (lvl5)
Troops Offense in an Onslaught	25	10% (25) 8% (24)	Increase Troops Offense during an Onslaught	March Speed (lvl20) Warrior Training III (lvl20)
Troop Number in a Onslaught	25		Increase Troop Numbers allowed to send in Onslaught	March Speed (lvl20) Warrior Training III (lvl20)

Regarding combat skills effectiveness, one of the most common question players come by is "What is better to boost ? Health or defense of troops ?". Actually, some players have made some tests, and while the global algorithm for combat remains unknown, it seems obvious that :

• maxing troop health is better than maxing troop defense and/or maxing troop offense;
• maxing troop offense is better than maxing troop defense but not as rewarding as maxing troop health;
• maxing troop defense is the least lucrative investment in terms of combat effectiveness.

Knowing this, you should primarily max troop health, then troop offense, then troop defense. Same applies to the new health/defense/offense reduction skills which prove to be very effective, except the defense reduction skill that is bugged now and actually increases enemy defense !

Regarding what skills to go for first, also from real word testing, it seems that the best skills to go first are:

• reduce enemy health
• reduce enemy offense
• reduce enemy defense

Farming and building skills (right tree)

Skill	Max skill	Max increase	Gives	Requirements
Building I	10	40%	Building speed up
Learning Speed I	10	40%	Knowledge speed up
Lumber Production I	15	40%	Increased Lumber production	Food production I (lvl 1)
Food Production I	15	80%	Increased Food production	Bulding I (lvl 1) Learning Speed I (lvl 1)
Iron Production I	15	40%	Increased Iron production
Stone Production I	15	40%	Increased Stone production
Silver Production I	15	40%	Increased Silver production
Resource Yield I	15	80%	Increased Resource Yielding in the Resource Locations
Food Production II	20	130%	Increased Food production
Stone Production II	20	65%	Increased Stone production
Lumber Production II	20	65%	Increased Lumber production
Iron Production II	20	65%	Increased Iron production
Silver Production II	20	65%	Increased Silver production
Building II	20	60%	Building Speed Up	Silver Production II (lvl 5)
Learning Speed II	20	60%	Knowledge Speed Up	Building II (lvl 5)
Resource Yield II	20	120%	Increased Resource Yielding in the Resource Locations	Building II (lvl5)
Food Production III	50	700%	Increased Food production	Resource Yield II (lvl5)
Lumber Production III	50	350%	Increased Lumber production	Food Production III (lvl5)
Stone Production III	50	350%	Increased Stone production	Lumber Production III (lvl5)
Iron Production III	50	350%	Increased Iron production	Stone production III (lvl5)
Silver Production III	50	350%	Increased Silver production	Stone production III (lvl5)
Food Consumption	30	20%	Reduce Troops hourly Food Consumption	Silver production III (lvl10)
Resource Production I	30	20%	Increased Production of All Resources	Silver production III (lvl10)
Capacity I	50	50%	Increased Troop Capacity	Resource production I (lvl10)
Construction Cost	30	10%	Reduce the required Resources to Upgrade a Building	Capacity I (lvl10)
Knowledge Learning Cost	30	10%	Reduce the required Resources to Upgrade Knowledge	Construction Cost (lvl10)
Vault Capacity	30	4.5(lv10) 5.25(lv11)	Increase the total amount of Resources protected by the Vault	Knowledge Learning Cost (lvl10)
Capacity II	50	7.5(lv10) 8.5(lv11)	Increased Troops Capacity	Vault Capacity (lvl10)
Resource Production II	50	10.8(lv30) 11.4(lv31) 30%(lv50)	Increase Production of All Resources	Capacity II (lvl10)
Number of Warriors in Training	50	30%	Increase Maximum Troops able to Train per build.	Resource Production II (lvl10)
Warrior Training Cost	25	10%	Reduce Troops Training Cost	Number of Warriors in Training (lvl)10
Gold Yielding	25		Increase speed of Gold Yielding	Warrior Training Cost (lvl10)

Invader Hero´s Skills

6 Skills in total, all about fighting Invaders.

Skill	Max skill	Max increase	Gives	Requirements
Weaken Invaders	10	30%	Reduces Invaders defense
Energy Regeneration	15	20%	Regenerates energy faster	Weaken Invaders (lvl5)
Energy Depletion	15	12.25%	Reduces energy costs	Weaken Invaders (lvl5)
Hero's total offense	15	60%	Increased Hero's attack level	Energy Regeneration (lvl10) Energy Depletion (lvl10)
Total energy	30	170(lv10) 310(lv15) 400(lv18) 430(lv19) 550(lvl22)	Increases hero's total energy	Energy Regeneration (lvl10) Energy Depletion (lvl10)
Sustained attack	15	15	Increases the number of sustained attacks in a series	Energy Regeneration (lvl10) Energy Depletion (lvl10)