How To Choose The Research Tree For You

With the ridiculous amount of new research Game of War is releasing, it’s becoming harder for players to decide which research trees they want to focus on with the limited resources they have. Choosing which research tree you want to complete with your limited resources is once again a matter of play style.

You should make your decision based off of these factors:

1. What research makes you the strongest?  ie. combat bonuses
2. What research complements your play style?
3. What research will you use the most?

Research That Makes You Strongest

Overall the bonuses that make you strongest are combat boosts. Once you have completed those trees you will want to complete the defense tree if you are a trap account, or the crafting, set bonus, and march tree if you want to be a Rally leader or solo attacker.

Research That Complements Your Play Style/ Research You Will Use The Most

If you are solo attacker who tries to catch people offline or off guard, then you might be interested in the March Speed in the March tree. If you only donate troops to Rallies, march speed isn’t important to you.

If you are going to be crafting the highest level gear, then you should do the crafting tree. After talking to a few core experts, they agree that relics are roughly equivalent to core up to 4 pieces.

If you are going to power boost by training millions of troops, then you should work on the restorative tree so you need less resources when training troops.

If you want to zero your enemies extremely quickly with rallies, then you should work on the March tree so you can get rally reduction, increased rally speed, presets, and a bunch of combat bonuses.

General Advice

Don’t research random bonuses just to research them. Try to focus on getting the resources and speed ups to reach high levels of research that are most helpful to you. Especially since as you research higher levels of one bonus item, the amount of bonus you get increase significantly. For example, if you wanted to research cavalry defense, the progression is: +1, 2, 4, 6, 8, 10, 15, 20, 25, 40

If you are just starting the game, I recommend you start with the normal combat tree first, then the strategic tree. We’ve proven here before that strategic troops are better, but you have to research normal troops first unfortunately. At the same time work on completing the construction and the resource production bonus of the resource you are hyper farming from the economics tree.

What I have done below is list all the items in every research tree, but I put the most popular/attractive items on the right side of the table so you can more easily identify the important items in each tree. This is my slightly subjective opinion, so be sure to look at all the items in the tree before making your final decision on which one to progress through next.

Wild Combat

This is an essential tree you need to max for combat depending on your play style. Here are the strengths and weaknesses of these troops.

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 Set Bonus

If you are going to be crafting Set Gear, Set Bonuses will significantly increase the power of the gear.

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Defense

This tree is fantastic for trap accounts, and to have in general. It’s one of the least costly trees that provides tons of defense.

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March

The highest categories in this Tree are essential for Wonder Fighting and Rallying.

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Crafting

This tree is necessary for using Core Gear, which is mainly for players who buy the occasional pack. You will need high level Cores for Rallying big players in the 500mil to 1 billion power range. You will always need high level Cores for Wonder fighting.

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Restorative

Definitely not essential tree, but it’s useful when training massive amounts of troops if you are a spender.

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Hero

You will need to complete this tree if you want to frequently farm high level monsters.

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Combat

This is an essential tree you need to max for combat.

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Strategic Combat

This is an essential tree you need to max for combat.

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Wall Traps

Traps are useful for defense on low power accounts fighting against each other, although most gear these days with large march sizes will crush any traps so they are kind of a waste of resources.

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Strategic Wall Traps

Traps are useful for defense on low power accounts fighting against each other, although most gear these days with large march sizes will crush any traps so they are kind of a waste of resources.

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Economics

The tree is useful for producing more resources, but if you build farms, don’t worry about anything beyond Construction for this tree.

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Enjoy!
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