Training Tier 7 Mobile Traps is pretty expensive, but our friend, K458 (XoA) Gaia xox, has a great tip to save on speed ups!
A few items exist in game that will boost your Mobile Trap training. Even a blast from the past, ancient relics!
Mobile Trap Training Gear
Mobile Traps have some fairly long training timers. Unfortunately, your training gear doesn’t boost trap training speed. However, some gear items exists that reduces that pesky trap training timer. The Kunoichi’s Machete has a trap training speed of 30% for legendary.
The rest that I found are all Ancient Relics. Even if you can only do a few you will benefit. I use the following items when I train traps:
- Kunoichi’s Machete for 30%
- Dragon Fang Helm (purple) for 24%,
- Dragon Bone Greaves (gold) for 45%,
- Typhon Head Pendant (gold) for 40%.
I found them by just tooling around the Ancient Relics. I know a list was published but with only one device it was easier to just find them myself. It lists the ones you have materials for first so you only have to look at a few.
Without putting them on, I looked in my Hero preset where I put all these items and skilled the right side of the hero tree and clicked on Stats and saw that I have a Trap Training Speed of 668%. This is approximately 25% boost in trap training speed over base research time.
The Mystery of Those Percentages Explained
I have always wondered how the time reduction percentages worked. I mean really, how can you still owe speeds if it’s over 100%. Well if you are in retail this is easier, it is like retail mark ups. You take for instance, a 200% speed reduction. Now, you are thinking, WOW, that will be a zero cost to me. Not so fast, it is a reduction, so here is the math:
Time of whatever is divided by 1 plus the bonus percent (as a decimal). That equals the real reduction. Let’s put that into an example.
Time / (1+bonus percent) = reduced time
You have a 1,000,000,000 speed cost for some troops and your gear gives you a 250% reduction. The cost in speeds with your gear will be:
1,000,000,000/(1+2.5)=285,714,285.71 days
Not too shabby, but still a bunch for T7 traps, may have to wait on that next pack to build, sorry Steph and Sky!
(X0A)Gaia xox
Kingdom 458
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Best Defense Gear in Game of War! *Update in progress*
I crafted a custom set gear with relics, special event, regular and core gear. The stats indicated a 783% trap training speed boost which beat the 681% available with the current training gear at the time (2 weeks and 2 gear sets ago). I tested each by training 1M traps. The training gear cost me 72m days, the custom gear over 2b for the same number of the same traps. I emailed MZ asking for an explanation and I’m still waiting.
Thank you for the recommendations for Dragon Fang Helm, Dragon Bone Greaves, and Typhon Head Pendant.
I’ve been using a dedicated trap-building Hero Set with three key components, which are a Kunoichi’s Machete gold (30%), Inferno Legplates gold (20%), and Envoy’s Grace black (8%). These are all Normal gear (neither Core nor Ancient Relics), although the Envoy’s Grace is a non-craftable item. Given the 8% of a black, an Envoy’s Grace gold must add quite a bit.
When crafting Ancient Relics, be sure to wear Powerforged gear. Leveled up to 100 and used as a seven-piece set, it will add 100% to the duration of Ancient Relics as well as Core gear.