How to Accumulate and Protect Your Resources

How to Accumulate and Protect Your Resources

Well, you've made it to c14 and you feel like a bigshot!  But every time you get close to piling up enough resources for that c15 build, some jerk comes by and raids you.  Now what?

Follow these tips and your upgrades will go much smoother.

The Pack

Your most valuable ally in this endeavor is your pack.  It looks like such a small and insignificant thing, but it is extremely useful.  When you are given a resource chest, or crate, it will accumulate in your pack.  These resources can NOT be taken from you unless you remove them from your pack.  So don't do that.  FILL YOUR PACK.

1. Attack monsters every day.  As many as you can stand and go for the highest level monsters you can kill.  Each monster will give you a number of crates of a random resource matching their level, so a level 9 monster will give you 9 crates of food, wood, stone or iron.  Additionally you can get materials to use in the forge.  before level 10, this is your MAIN source of forging material, so another very good reason to kill monsters as much as possible.

2. Attack the rebels and rally the ruins, do quests, the daily quest, send flowers, etc.  Basically play the game and crates will come.

Do not use the resources in your pack!  At least don't use them for anything short of a major upgrade or emergency.  

Your Mailbox

If you are a member of an alliance and that alliance has territory, you will receive a letter every day including a territory resource bonus.  This bonus includes only wood and food, but it can remain in your mailbox indefinitely.  There is no need to ever collect it until you need it.  It won't be deleted and can't be looted. If your territory is fairly large, you could accumulate millions of food and wood in here in just a few days.

Quest Rewards

As you complete quests, especially early in the game, the rewards will accumulate.  These rewards can't be looted so they are perfectly safe to leave alone until you need them. These rewards are not as easy to add up to see what you have and they also often contain non-resource items you may need, so check them and take the ones you need, but try to leave as many as possible for your next upgrade.

Using the Resources

If you start accumulating resources in this way, when you reach that first difficult level, usually 15, you will have enough resources handy that you won't have to worry about marauders taking your stockpile away from you.  I would still recommend you harvest and gather as much as you can--the more "safe" resources you leave in place, the more you will have for the next upgrade.  Believe me, they don't get any easier!

When it is time to use resources, begin with your quest rewards.  That way you can also get the speedups, experience, etc that goes along with them.  Your next priority depends on if you still need wood and food or not.  If you do, the territory bonuses in your mailbox are the next to choose.  Then go for the resources chests-look at the bottom of the resource list in your pack.  Levels 1 and 2 are wood and food only, level 3 has stone and level 4 has iron.  Finally, go to the castle and hit "upgrade."  You may see that you don't have enough of one or more resources (shown in red).  Click on "More" next to one of those resources.  You will be shown a list of all of the resource crates in your pack, you can begin opening these until you have enough, then move to the next type until you have enough.  

Conclusion

Keep your resources safe from those who would take them from you so that YOU can use them. After all, you earned them.

Happy gaming!

Dweomr