Collecting and Crafting Gear in Evony: A Complete Guide
In Evony: The King’s Return, gear plays a pivotal role in enhancing the performance of your generals. Whether it’s boosting troop stats for combat or increasing efficiency in resource gathering, having the right gear is essential. This guide will cover the process of collecting materials, crafting high-level gear, and refining equipment to maximize your effectiveness.
Why Gear Matters
Gear provides significant buffs to your general’s stats, troops, or both. Equipped properly, it can:
- Enhance attack, defense, and HP for specific troop types.
- Improve resource gathering speed and efficiency.
- Boost march speed, troop capacity, and other critical attributes.
Understanding the process of collecting, crafting, and refining gear is key to achieving success in both PvP and PvE gameplay.
Collecting Materials
Materials are the building blocks for crafting gear. They can be obtained through several methods:
- Monster Hunting: Defeating monsters is one of the most reliable ways to gather materials. Higher-level monsters drop rarer materials.
- Boss Events: Participate in events like the Huns Invasion or Server War for opportunities to earn rare materials.
- Resource Tiles: Gathering from resource tiles occasionally yields crafting materials.
- Treasure Chests: Open chests obtained from quests, rewards, or purchases to collect materials.
- Market and Black Market: Check the Market and Black Market frequently for material deals.
Crafting Gear
Once you’ve gathered enough materials, you can craft gear in the Forge. Follow these steps:
- Access the Forge: Tap on the Forge building in your city.
- Select the Gear Type: Choose from categories such as weapons, armor, boots, and accessories.
- Choose the Gear: Select the gear you wish to craft. Each piece requires a specific combination of materials and gold.
- Craft the Gear: If you have all the required materials, craft the gear and assign it to a general.
Crafting tips:
- Focus on Sets: Many gear sets provide additional bonuses when two, four, or six pieces are equipped.
- Start with Specialized Gear: Equip gathering generals with gear like the Dragon Set or combat generals with the Ares Set.
- Upgrade Gradually: Start with basic gear and work toward high-level sets as your materials improve.
Refining Gear
Refining gear is the process of improving its attributes to align with your strategy. Each piece of gear can be refined up to four times, providing unique buffs.
- Open the Forge: Navigate to the gear you wish to refine.
- Select “Refine”: Use refining stones and gold to enhance the gear’s attributes.
- Choose Attributes: Lock the desired attributes to retain them during the next refinement.
Refinement tips:
- Focus on Relevant Stats: Align gear attributes with the general’s role, such as troop attack for combat generals or gathering speed for resource-focused generals.
- Use Refining Stones Wisely: Save advanced refining stones for high-level gear.
- Lock High Attributes: Locking attributes ensures you retain valuable buffs, but it increases the cost of refinement.
For full details and buffs/debuffs read our detailed guide to Refining General Gear
Strategies for Effective Gear Management
Here are some tips to make the most of your gear:
- Prioritize Key Generals: Focus on equipping your primary PvP and monster-hunting generals first.
- Mix and Match: Combine pieces from different sets to balance stats for versatile generals.
- Upgrade Over Time: Regularly refine and enhance your gear as better materials become available.
Conclusion
Collecting and crafting gear is an essential part of building powerful generals in Evony: The King’s Return. By mastering material collection, gear crafting, and refinement, you can significantly enhance your gameplay and gain a competitive edge. Start small, focus on your primary generals, and steadily work your way up to crafting and refining high-level gear for maximum effectiveness.