in the season of conquest kvk you live
and die by your crystal technology so
in this video we're gonna break down
exactly
what you need to know about the sequence
of technologies you should research
whether you're free to play or pay to
win and yeah we'll even cover some ways
to get crystals
so let's freaking go
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hello my friends and welcome back i'm
chisco gaming and in this video
sponsored by the makers of rise of
kingdoms we're going to give you
everything you need to know about
crystal technology prioritization and
how to get a few
extra crystals we made the most watched
crystal video
during the original release of the
crystal system and
since that's changed a little bit we're
overdue for making
a new guide so let's get this started by
talking about the very first place you
should spend your crystals
which is the crystal mine this will pay
dividends for you in terms of the amount
of crystal return you get
for crystals spent yes you are going to
convert your resources into crystals
you take this building straight to 25
and you don't look back whether you're
free to play or pay to win
this is value and you should do this as
fast as you can
of course you're also going to work on
your crystal research center
the crystal research center however does
not need to be
as high level if you are a low spender
or free to play
because i'm going to max all of my
technology i went
straight away and maxed the crystal
research center
in general the return on investment for
this crystal cost reduction that you see
here
is actually not all that amazing so
you're gonna be spending
probably more crystals than you'll save
by upgrading the crystal research center
at some point your technology will
require you to upgrade this thing a
little bit
anyways but unless you're gonna like max
out all your tech there's probably a
break even point that you could
calculate maybe it's somewhere around
level 22 in fact if somebody does that
exact math
leave a comment down below so now that
we've got your buildings
sorted out and what you'll do at the
very start the question is
how much do you tech up and which tech
do you focus on
and that depends on when passes are
opening
if we just get a quick look we're in
heroic anthem right now
and depending on when you're about to
have a big fight it is going to shift
your focus
i'm going to make an uh sort of argument
that when you're
far away from a pass opening like the
fight will have over here
or over here you should focus on your
economic tech and as you get
closer to being in a fight
then you focus on your war tech because
at that point
you're not going to get a return on your
investment
for the crystals that you use in
economic technology and
that by the way is a clue to what i
think is very very valuable for your
tech
and that is your economic tech things
that give you
value over time now everything in here
gives you value even the combat
abilities are giving you
value in terms of less resources you'll
spend healing and more resources the
enemy is going to have to heal
because yes they're taking more damage
right
but there are economic technologies i'd
recommend right at the start and let's
get into what a few of those are
the first thing that is really important
is skillful operation
this is just going to straight up reduce
your crystal cost for further research
and the earlier you invest in this the
more benefit you're going to get from it
so maxing out skillful operation to five
out of five
and as a spender going in and taking
skillful operation
2 to 7 out of 10 was my very first
priority and by the way if you want to
see me doing this in real time
i'll have a card up in the top where i
was making all these choices
in a live stream to show you exactly the
thought process
in perhaps greater detail so i started
by
going to skillful operation and i'm
going to go with the full pay to win
route real quick and then we'll
we'll cut back and talk about free to
play and low spend okay
but after i got skillful operation
reducing
the maximum amount as was reasonable the
crystal cost for all of the research i
was doing
i hit a point where i kind of had to
stop because this
is going to require a chain of other
things which we probably need to talk
about
the crystal technology is going to have
prerequisites for some of it and for
certain levels of it
so at some point the amount of
prerequisites i would have to do to
actually
advance skillful operation 2 any further
it's just prohibitive
i need to switch gears and work on other
things and eventually double back to
take this further
so the next thing i went and i worked on
is treaties
and also cultural exchange the reason i
really like treaties and cultural
exchange is because they are working on
your economy yet again
you earn more crystals from bastion
quests this is strictly economy
you get more favor from bastion quests
using cultural
exchange which in turn lets you level up
your bastions more and get more crystals
we'll talk about that in a bit
but this was the second thing i did
before i even did a single bastion quest
on day one
max treatise one max cultural exchange
one and i even went in
and imax treaties two and cultural
exchange two now
that's maybe uh beyond the point where
i'll get a full return on my investment
before
the pass five opens and i'm doing my
first round of fighting but
i'm trying it out this kvk and we'll see
how i like it the next economic
technology that i can
wholeheartedly recommend is plunder one
and two
this gives you more crystals when you
defeat kahars which
also has a really solid return on your
investment
over the course of kbk i went and i
maxed the first tier of plunder took it
to five out of five that did require
i think first aid and perhaps at some
point i had to do larger camps three out
of five there
and also i took plunder two all the way
up to seven
and this is probably where i should stop
before past five opens there's probably
not
a return on investment for the number of
kaharas i'm going to summon in battle
by the time that the first fighting
starts and i mean look
it's gonna be a lot of fighting so i
gotta put a lot of crystals into combat
related stuff
now the final piece of economic related
technology for crystal technology is in
fact barbarian reports your ability to
slay barbarians effectively
and sure there's a minor amount of
optimization here in terms of
the amount of resources you save on
repairs when you go and battle
barbarians which you should be doing
all the time because those two give
crystals right but if you are gonna do
aoe
barb farming uh using a technique i've
explained in the past i'll have a card
up in the top for that video if you'd
like to check that out
i would recommend that you work a good
bit on your barbarian reports so that
you can actually do that effectively and
that
is an economic boon saving you a ton of
action points getting you a ton of
crystals
but you do have to spend a lot of time
and have commanders
that are really good for that activity
in a great place
now if you were free to play obviously
you're not gonna have as many crystals
to work with on day one where i went and
i purchased everything that was offered
to me which is a little bit crazy
no i would recommend still though that
you focus on
skillful operation one if you're free to
play
i would recommend that you focus on
getting
your treaties and cultural exchange to a
good place
so when you start doing bastion quests
you've at least put a bunch of crystals
into that
and you can get a little bit further
than you would have otherwise or get a
little bit of return
above and beyond what you would have
done otherwise when you go and you do
all your bastion quests which of course
you are gonna do 15 out of 15 bastion
quests every day
right continue to focus on some of this
economic technology in the first couple
days and as you get closer to the past
opening shift gears and go for some of
the war tech that you think will be most
helpful for you
focusing in again on the ones that are
most valuable to you so if it's
infantry that you're using primarily
then yeah focus a little bit on some of
those infantry stats
so that when you go and fight you've got
more of that available to you
i do want to mention however and this is
very important
that the first levels of a lot of these
research items
are actually really really really low
crystal cost so you may want to sort of
surge your way through the tree just to
unlock a bunch of things for a very
cheap amount of crystals
which is something that i myself did
getting very far
into the tree getting the first one or
two levels of things
is just incredibly cheap i mean 100 000
crystals is a very low cost
and you get a little bit of boost here i
know it's just half a percent of troop
capacity
but it is a tiny amount of crystals
compared to what you will be paying
later
for some equivalent boosts so it's
probably worth considering as you're
getting closer to the past opening
just surging your way through the tree
just unlocking some of the base levels
of things
getting bare minimum prerequisites done
so you can get
the base levels for a really cheap
crystal value now at this point we've
talked about
where you can spend your crystals to
boost your economy right
it is sort of influencing the rate at
which you're
getting crystals we've also found ways
to reduce your crystal costs which is
really important but the other thing you
can do to
improve your crystal technology is to
just get
more crystals so what are all the ways
that you can get crystals
i think a couple things we need to talk
about includes barbarians
and forts which now drop a bunch of
crystals
some people would recommend that you
spend a lot of action points
battling barbarians and barbarian forts
to get a ton of these crystals and the
sooner you do that
obviously the more you get to enjoy the
crystal tech
for the rest of your kvk there is very
much
a weird balance here because in further
zones in the kvk
you will get more crystals for the exact
same amount of action points
so it's a little bit of a balance that
you'll need to play deciding whether or
not you want to spend a lot of action
points
really early to get a jump start on your
crystals or
doing it in zones when it's really much
more advantage because the level of the
barbs and forts
is higher but something that everybody
should be doing
is going and getting their caves and
villages if you're in
heroic anthem kvk that's where you're
literally going around the map
clearing all the fog all over again
visiting the villages
and scouting every single one of these
stinking caves which
sounds like a bit of a chore but if i
just open
one treasure of cave here i mean one and
a half thousand crystals
and 200 action points is nice here's
another
wait no crystals okay well i got kind of
wrecked on that one
that's that's a little bit of a
disappointment three more treasures of
cave here
and i got 3 000 crystals and okay tiny
amount of gems
but you get the idea going and exploring
and getting all that for free
is a way to convert your time into
crystals which is not so bad
and along the sort of lines of time into
crystals
there are bastion quests that you can
get done
those bastion quests are going to reward
you crystals
thankfully a couple months ago they made
a change where
you can refresh your bastion quests much
more frequently
i would strongly recommend that if
there's a bastion quest you don't like
like
man i really hate to turn in materials
then you can refresh to find a better
one
and there are quests that give more
crystals than others
but they are generally more expensive in
some other way
so for example this bastion quest for
rallying barbarian forts
is giving me twenty two and a half
thousand crystals and a caja bone
whistle which by the way you summon a
kahar and
battle it down you'll get crystals too
uh but other quests for example
this one here is giving me 45 000
crystals and a cajar bone necklace so
some will give more favor and more
crystals than other
and as you level up basically favor as
experience for your bastions
as you level up your bastions you will
get more
crystal mining speed this is
really really important really important
because
this is how you're going to turn
resources into crystals
and you can do that 100 free to play
now i mentioned that you can summon
kajars using the bone
whistle over here you'll want to use the
best marks you've got to try to take
that down
and you'll want to hold off on doing
this for as long as possible
so that you get closer and closer to
when the pass is actually going to open
and really what i'm hunting for is that
you've maxed out the plunder as
at least as far as you wanted to take
that plunder technology which is going
to give you
more crystals for doing this also the
more you've advanced your barbarian
battling technology
the easier it's going to be to battle
these things down and
get the reward and obviously the fewer
marches you spend battling on these
things
the less action points you're spending
and to that end
in case you didn't know you can do area
of effect damage on a regular barbarian
it will aggro the car
and then it'll start attacking you
essentially you're paying a small amount
of action points a barbarian worth of
action points to also get the car
when normally those are like 200 action
points it's a good
bit more expensive now if you are going
the pay to win
route with crystals or even just paying
a little bit
the very first thing you'll want to get
is absolutely no questions asked
the premium season crystal supply the
big benefit of this
is not actually getting crystals every
day which is nice
but it is actually having the 50
increase to your mine speed this
is the biggest deal the crystal mine
work speed of 50
is massive and you can see that boost
when you look at your crystal mine
the season supply 50 boost is really a
nice jump start
for your season there are also pop-up
bundles which
i went and i picked up every one of
those those are generally really
good value for your crystals and a part
of what's so amazing about that
is you get that right at the start of
kvk if you are gonna spend on that
giving you a really solid jumpstart on
your economic technology
like i did now there is also a mountain
war bundle
whenever a pass opens you can get
something like nine and a half or maybe
9.8 million crystals
from this bundle and i think that costs
if i remember
correctly something like 185 bucks to go
and do that maybe it's one of those 385
bundles
but for a pretty meaningful amount of
money
you can get a lot of crystals when a
pass is going to open
so that is another way you can really
surge your tech
a lot which is something i plan to be
purchasing and there is
also a daily bundle that you can get
this
is something you can only buy i think 35
dollars worth every single day
and that is a super value bundle the
conquerors will
it's another way to get some additional
crystals to tech up just a little bit
more
truly the most important takeaway from
this video is understanding that balance
of
when you focus on the economic
technology and when you shift gears
to focus on the war-related technology
and this all depends
on when your first fight or next fight
is going to be that will help you get
sort of your maximum
return on investment from these
technologies and i honestly
may have over committed a little bit on
treaties and cultural exchange
like maybe that is a little bit of a i
don't know too many crystals spent and
not enough of a return there
i'll just call out one last advantage of
working on these things
is that you'll unlock the support skills
from bastion sooner
and if you're in heroic anthem kvk that
is kind of a big deal but a topic for a
separate video to understand and unpack
all of these support skills in fact i
have a card up in the top
for a video dedicated to this exact
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