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Equipment Guide
Gear adds flat stat multipliers on top of everything else. A fully equipped governor with good gear leads a materially stronger army than a bare one with identical heroes and troops.
How Equipment Works
Your Governor wears equipment across six slots: Helmet, Chest, Legs, Weapon, Boots, and Ring. Each piece provides stat bonuses that directly buff your armies — troop attack, defense, HP, march speed, and gathering yield depending on the piece. Equipment is crafted in the Forge from materials collected through gameplay.
Equipment comes in tiers — Green, Blue, Purple, and Gold — in ascending power. Crafting higher-tier pieces requires more materials and a higher Forge level. Gear can be enhanced with Dragon Gems to add additional stat bonuses beyond the base values.
Unlike heroes and troops, equipment is not specific to one activity — you swap gear sets depending on what you're doing. Maintain at least two sets: one for battle, one for gathering.
The Two Sets You Need
Battle Set
Prioritizes troop attack, defense, and HP multipliers. Equip this before sending any combat march — rebel farming, Bear Hunt, PvP attacks, KvK. The stat difference between wearing gathering gear and battle gear into a fight is substantial and costs you kills.
| Slot | Priority Stat |
|---|---|
| Helmet | Troop HP or Army Defense |
| Chest | Infantry / Cavalry / Archer Attack (match your main troop type) |
| Legs | Army Defense or HP |
| Weapon | Attack — highest available piece |
| Boots | March Speed or Army Attack |
| Ring | Rally Capacity or Attack |
Gathering Set
Prioritizes gathering speed and load capacity — how much your march can carry back and how quickly it fills. Wearing battle gear while gathering wastes the bonus stats. A dedicated gathering set worn on farm account marches can increase your resource income by 20–40% over bare marches.
| Slot | Priority Stat |
|---|---|
| Helmet | Gathering Speed |
| Chest | Load Capacity |
| Legs | Gathering Speed or Load |
| Weapon | Load Capacity |
| Boots | March Speed |
| Ring | Gathering Speed or Resource-specific bonus |
How to Get Crafting Materials
| Material Source | What You Get | Notes |
|---|---|---|
| Rebel Kills | Common and uncommon materials | Most reliable early-game source; farm rebels daily |
| Event Rewards | Rare and epic materials | Development, Kill, and KvK events drop better materials |
| Alliance Store | Selected materials for Alliance Coins | Good for filling gaps in specific material types |
| Map Resource Nodes | Material fragments | Special material nodes appear on map intermittently |
| Daily Missions | Material fragments and chests | Complete all daily missions for the final chest which may contain materials |
| VIP Chest | Higher rarity materials | VIP 6+ unlocks access to better material chests |
Dragon Gems — Equipment Enhancement
Dragon Gems are a secondary enhancement system — you socket them into gear slots to add bonus stats on top of the equipment's base values. Each gem provides a specific stat bonus and can be upgraded with materials to increase its value.
Socket battle gems in your battle set and gathering gems in your gathering set. Don't mix — a gathering gem slotted in battle gear contributes nothing to combat.
- Focus Dragon Gem upgrades on your Weapon and Chest slots first — highest stat concentration
- Gem upgrade materials come from rebel kills and events — same sources as crafting materials
- Higher-level gems provide disproportionately better bonuses — upgrading one gem from 3 to 5 outweighs socketing three new level-1 gems
- You can swap gems between gear sets if needed — no gem is permanently bound to a specific piece