Evony Strategy Guide

There are some minor changes when it comes to the layout of Evony Age II compared to Evony I. It seems they have focused on making different features easier to access and more smooth. One is the production tab under your city overview. Here you can now change the production level of all your resources instead of doing one at a time like before. They have also made some changes to the amulets to make it quicker and easier to use, and it is also easier to enter and leave truce mode now with just one button.

In the statistics tab there are also some changes, you can now see a list of the first players and alliances to reach certain prestige levels. This is like a Hall of Fame for Evony Age II which shows the top 100 for each of these levels. The last layout change that has been mentioned, is the change in attack reports, you can now see the scout reports in a separate tab. All these changes improves the enjoyment of the game and the ease of playing.

Using Gems is a new feature of Evony Age II and you use these gems to improve the attributes the gear and items give to your heroes. The gear itself you make in your workshop, while you use the forge to place gems on the gear you have already made, this is called Advanced Blacksmithing. Then you use the feasting hall to equip heroes with gear. Gems are not the same as stratagems or gemstones. Gems in Evony Age II come in 3 types, Rubies, Sapphires and Topazes and each of these come from level 1 to level 10 I believe, even though I’ve only seen level 1 to level 9 so far.

You can buy these gems in the Evony store, and you can also get them from attacks. You can also melt two gems together to make a higher level gem using Advanced Gems Smelting. If you want to buy the gems from the store you buy them in chests. There are 3 types of chests, the Wooden Chest, the Bronze Chest and the Royal Chest. Each chest offers you 1 or 2 gems of level 1-3 for a Wooden Chest, 4-6 for a Bronze Chest and 7-9 for a Royal Chest.  Read the rest of this entry »

A new feature of Evony Age II is that you can equip heroes with different types of equipment and items. These different type of hero gear all adds different attribute points to your hero. The gear can again be equipped with the gems you want so that they give extra bonuses in the attributes you are interested in. You put gear on your hero in the feasting hall.

Each hero has 16 available slots he can use to place gear in, that is mount, shield, legs, weaponry, feet, 2 rings, 2 charms, belts, gauntlets, chest, back, shoulders, head and neck. As you can see the heroes of Evony Age 2 can get really powerful if you give them good gear. What type of gear your hero can be equipped with depends on his level. The lowest level possible that can use gear is a level 10 hero, he can use level 1 gear. You can see what type of heroes can wear what gear in this table.

You make the gear in your workshop and you can decide what focus the gear should have when you put in on your hero. Hero at higher levels have higher attributes and you can also use higher level gems on this gear in the forge. You can read more about making gear in the gems article. If you equip your hero with all level 1 equipment without gems that is focused on attack he will get +16 attack. If you put a ruby level 1 on all of this equipment each part of the level 1 equipment will now be 1 + 1 = 2 so he’d get a +32 attack bonus. With high level equipment your hero could get an increase of several hundred points in the attribute of your choice!

Catapults are the most powerful units in Evony, they throw huge rocks at the enemy from a very long distance. Catapults are really cool, and for an attack force nothing beats a 125k catapult attack. There are many problems with them though, number one is that they take an extremely long time to build and you need level 10 barracks to build them in. Many players have 100 total barracks that are level 9, but very few have even close to this many level 10 barracks. In addition to level 10 barracks you also need level 10 metal casting and level 10 archery. Read the rest of this entry »

Appointing a mayor in Evony is pretty basic stuff, but there are still  quite a few new players joining the game. Evony is one of the largest MMO strategy browser games out there after all. Anyways, to appoint a mayor you first have to build an Inn and then a Feasting Hall. You need to recruit at least one hero from your Inn, since you need a hero to have a mayor. For each level of your Feating Hall you can recruit one extra hero. All a higher Inn does is giving you more heroes to chose from, and also higher level heroes to chose from. Read the rest of this entry »

The browser game Evony has been out for almost a year now and lots of people are having massive armies of troops that take a very long time to train. I think it’s too bad that a browser game like Evony don’t let people use larger armies than the 125 thousand troop cap. Battles are pretty much always in favour of the defense player when it is not possible to send as many troops as you want in battle. If it were up to me you should be able to send out as large of an army as you wanted to, or at least increase the limit from 125 thousand to 1.25 million. Anyways, here is an attack with battering rams gone wrong running into million of defense troops. Read the rest of this entry »

I just noticed a player on server 29 in Evony that had posted in the screenshot section of the official Evony forums. He has a hero with attack power of 1030 now so he can train cavalry in 0 seconds, yes that’s right, he can train as many cavalry as he wants to right away with no waiting time.  The hero Shala of SirMagnus is level 741 with 38 politics, 60 intelligence and an extremely high attack of 1030. You can check out the hero yourself at the top of the heroes list of server 29. Below is the picture of his barracks showing he can train 50k cavalry in 0 seconds! Read the rest of this entry »