Clash of Kings

Clash of Kings is a game available on both Android and IOS devices.

The main goal is to develop your castle by upgrading buildings, training troops and doing researches in order to crush your foes.

I've been personally playing this game for three years and I'd like to make this guide to help newcomers or even veterans to reach their max potential.

COK farmer's guide

1. Ressources

Ressources, such as wood/food/iron/mithril are used for pretty much everything in this game. In order words, it is a MUST to be able to efficiently gather those goods.

A. Notifications

Turn on notifications. Avatar icon -> Settings -> Message notification ->
Activate : "Ressource Income" and "Troops returned"

B. Gathering

Send troops out gathering as often as possible. It if free and available to all. You'll be notified when they come back.

C. Ressources Buildings

Try to maximize those buildings, as they produce ressources, even if you are offline.

D. Dragon Word

Dragon words give special boosts. To maximize ressource production, the "Benediction" in the second order Dragon Word is very important to activate, as it gives +40% total resource income.

E. Equipments

Gears can also have attributes to improve food production, up to +350% at my stage, and I am not even done ! Equipments have different qualities, from green, blue, purple, orange and gold. The gold one has better stats than the orange, which is better than the purple and so on.

F. Harvest Dragonglass

Participating in the Ancient Battlefield and the Dragon Campaign award crystals, which can be used to craft a Dragonglass. It has different qualities, ranging from green, to blue, purple, orange and gold. The latter one is the best. With a gold quality harvest Dragonglass, there is a +80% wood production income and a chance of two random attributes that can be purified to get better ones.

G. Heroes

Heroes are a new feature that have been included in the game quite recently. Basically, they work the same as the lord you impersonate. That means that when you level up your lord or your hero by giving it experience, it will gain stat points. You can then spend those stat points on three different categories : combat, development and support. In our case, we would most likely spend our heroes stat points on development and focus on the main ressources that we are in need of. Don't forget to assign them ranks through clicking on a little icon in top of the castle.

F. Alliance

Join an alliance ! It is crucial in order to help others and to get help. Joining an alliance will help you progress faster and further. To make the most out of it as we are farmers, there are multiple rewards to be collected. First, the "Tree of life" gives rewards each hours for a maximum of 5 per day. Then, there are the "alliance treasures" to mined. Those are basically treasure that have a cooldown before we can get the goods. Also, an ally has to open it so both can be rewarded. "Alliance missions" also give a nice reward. Each day, there are specific missions to complete as an alliance. As soon as a threshold is reached, you can collect the ressources. Last, there is the "Gate of the Abyss" when you trade in your shards that you got from the alliance missions.
Being in an alliance also makes use of the special buildings available. Being near a fort grants a +30% ressource production, +15% gathering speed and many more buffs. Also gathering from the alliance mine gives more gathering speed and can keep troops safe for longer than normal gathering tiles, as they can hold a full march instead of a limited amount.

G. Inventory

As best as possible, it is rather preferable to save the ressources that are in your inventory, since they can't be plundered and can be stacked to and beyond infinity ! Also, they are a lot more useful further in the game when you reach a stage where it will take several weeks of gathering to upgrade your castle/buildings.

H. Daily rewards

Log in daily and collect your reward on the ship through the "daily supplies" on the ship. Gold will be awarded on the 7th day, which can be used to buy shields, buffs, ressources, unique items and so on. I would recommend saving them for shields, war horns and gold arrows. There is also a "Wishing well" where you can make a wish few some ressources everyday. There is also a "lucky wheel" to spin once for free everyday for some ressources, gold and items.

I. Merchant

Let's say that you produce more food than any other ressources and you always have some lying around. It would be a great idea to trade that food through the merchant for some wood. Through the merchant, you can buy items and ressources using ressources or gold.

J. Plunder

You can, of course, plunder ressources from other players by attacking them.

K. Researches

A farmer would focus on researches concerning ressources production and gathering speed.

L. Farm castles

Having multiples castles that will focus on different ressources is also a great way to produce more and faster, as they will also be able to gather for the main.

M. Monsters

Hitting monsters is a great way to level up the lord and heroes. They also drop ressources and uniques items.

N. Hero trials

Available through the hero palace, hero trials drop experience, unique loots and ressource items that can be kept safe in the inventory. All there is to be done is to send our troops to fight enemies. The great part of this is that they will only get wounded.

Final thoughts

As a matter of fact, it took me three years to reach castle 30 as a free to play player. Hopefully this guide gave you a hint to help you progress better !