Note that is a post from our friend Astute from server L11.

This is a post more about how to maximize this feature for your school, if you want specific information about how school work try to look for it on the new patch page and on the forum :

Patch page : http://item.koramgame.com/ck/v1.50/article%203.html
Forum thread : http://forum.koramgame.com/thread-55904-1-1.html

After playing around with the school features, below are some info that should help everyone.

1. Every player have a max number of seek advice (click advice button). This number start off with 3, I am not sure if it will increase later.
2. Every player with a hero of literary Talent of level 3 or more can Challenge another hero of level 3 or more
3. Student receives more insight and Contribution as compared to the teacher.
4. Each teacher can have a max of 3 students.
5. Student gets attached to a teacher by pressing the Pay respect button

6. A teacher need to have 3 students attached before the students can seek advice

In order for everybody in the school to gain the maximum insight and contribution, the objective is to help everybody use up ALL advice and ALL challenges.In the below instructions, I am assuming that the school has 10 players.
- There should always be 3 teachers in the school.To be fair and even out the points for everyone, the 3 players with the lowest contribution should assign 1 hero as teacher.
For the other 7 players,
- assign heroes that you want to improve and use up the 3 advices
- If you have a hero at Literary level 3, check for any teacher or students with lvl 3 and use challenges.
- After finishing with the advice and challenge, remove the hero from the teacher with 3 students- Assign the hero (preferably lvl 3 hero) to a teacher with 0 or 1 student.
For the 3 players with lowest contribution,
- remove the teacher hero
- Assign heroes that you want to improve to another teacher and use up the advice.
- If you have a hero at Literary level 3, check for any teacher or students with lvl 3 and use challenges.
- After finishing with the advice and challenge, remove the hero from the teacher with 3 students
- Assign a hero to become the teacher

After every week, the school can review again who have lowest contribution and reassign the 3 players with lowest contribution.

- A Teacher hero from the Headmaster can take more than 3 students

- Teacher from other players can take a max of 3 students

- The player with highest contribution becomes the headmaster

For the current event (see announcement)

- Every hero have 3 free reviews

- Every player have 3 free Private Tutor

Private tutor gives additional free advice to all students under that teacher.Since Headmaster can have more students, the way to maximize the Private tutoring is for all heroes to become students of headmaster. Headmaster use up 3 private tutor session Another player try and gain more contribution until he becomes headmaster, he assign a hero to be teacher. Everyone else assign student to the new headmaster, and repeat.

DDtank server merge

Yesterday (march 13) DDtank merged the server 1 and the server 2
Here a extract from there press release for more info:

To respond to your request, improve the atmosphere of the gaming environment and give you a better experience in game with more partners and more challenges,
YooGames DDTank on 2012.3.13 PDT will merge server 1 Canyon and server
2 Treasure after a temporary maintenance(for the exact times please visit the
YooGames DDTank website:http://www.yoogames.com/ddt/ and forums)?

Special thanks to all that have been supporting YooGames DDTank all this while!
We will give all of you more chances to share your in-game experience,battle with
stronger opponents,and make new friends!

After the merge, there will be these events,be the first to check them out:

Event 1: Celebration of merging! Double (what’s bless?)
Event 2: Celebration of merging, free packages! Will be gift away
Event 3: Melting Jewelry for merging of the server
Event 4: Fortifying weapon, hat, shield/arm because of the server merge!
Event 5: Marriage event!
(for details log on to YooGames DDTank webpage and forums:">http://

www.yoogames.com/ddt/)

Let these events ignite our passions,what are you waiting for?Join the family of
YooGames DDTank now!

Three Kingdom Online U25, U26 & U27 Server Merge

There is a merge of 6 server into 3 utlimate server. I’m not on any of these server though.
Here the detail:

19:00 Mar. 21th to 19:00 22th Mar. (PDT)
S50, S52 -> Ultimate Server 25
S51, S53 -> Ultimate Server 26
U12, U18 -> Ultimate Server 27

If you are merging go check their forum thread explaining the merge, it pretty much the same as other merge but it always good to remember what happening.

http://forum.koramgame.com/thread-53823-1-1.html

You can check my other articles on the server merge.
How to prepare for a merge
My first merge
Ultimate server merge war lasted 1 day

Clash Of kingdom L5, L7 and L10 Server merge poll

L5, L7 and L10 are almost done, while we don’t have a hard date, Koram is asking for suggestion on how to do the merge.
You can check the forum thread and give your opinion if your one of those server.
Here the forum thread : http://forum.koramgame.com/thread-53846-6-1.html
Here where you can vote on one of 4 option : http://forum.koramgame.com/thread-54250-1-1.html

I think Merging all 3 servers into 1 its bad, having many characters in the same server is very annoying to do specially with the new koram start page. Some players are stuck with 3 and more different character they need to switch.
Instead of merging everybody in 1 server, create 3 new L servers with different maps (one with 6, one with 8 one with 3) and kingdoms for each account ID to pick. This will allows players to split up their IDs into different kingdoms and reduce the pain of account switching.
So from that perspective I think the best option is the last one (option 4) have 3 new server and legion can change server.
So go give your opinion you have until march 15th 11h59PM PST.

I was feeling old school and I decided to bring out my old nes and play a game that really loved then Destiny of an Emperor.

Destiny of an Emperor is old NES RPG game (made in 1989) that is based on the Romance of three kingdoms novel.

It’s not the actual story of the Luo Guanzhong’s Romance of the Three Kingdoms novel since you control Liu Bei and is general and you can actually take down the Wu and wei Kingdom.

So for you fan of Clash of Kingdom and Three kingdom online, I think you will love that game. You will see all the good old general from the Three kingdom Area.

I don’t know if I’m going to write about it but if you want to check some walkthrough you can check lord Yuan Shu site for there review and walkthrough of the game :

Lord yuan shu site:http://www.lordyuanshu.com/category/destiny-of-an-emperor

You can find the game and walkthrough on Kongming site:http://kongming.net/doae/

I’m laughing myself out right now because of Peng Guo awesome Three Kingdom comics. Read this one and click on it for his main site

Peng Guo created this web comic about the story of the three kingdom but on is own view. Zhang Fei like Mc Donald, Cao Cao have a duck hat and the Red Hare is a red hare… Some might be a little offensive or be NSFW but there are all awesome.

Check these out, click on the image for the main site.

This is kind of a update from my previous post :What to do everyday to maximize your army and heroes but I sometime cut in the in the middle of something and just log in grab some tax, build troop, move around my carrier and help my kingdom in an attack that I forget this stuff.

So here are the top thing I forget to do sometime that are important to do…

1-Greet your fellow brother: Sorry my brother if I forget to greet you, it just that it lost in the city interface. Click on a city, then city again then tavern then the last tab and sometime they’re not enough brother in your brotherhood so you can even click… So please go greet your brother, each time you do it you gain loyalty and you need to get to 41 of loyalty to get the brother in arm skill.

2-Train in the cave for some xp (last 8hr so up to 3 time a day): I usually think about it the first time I login but forget to do it afterward. A friend of mine said, if your afraid of forgetting it, do it right away and if there only a few hours remaining, just cancel and restart for 8hrs so you maximize the amount of training your heroes get. And don’t give a little extra to you favorite heroes with some inspiration, specially when the boost is on.

3-Register battle royal: I log in the morning so this is never enable, when I come back it sometime already 5h00 PM PST. arrrg

A easy way to get gem and a extra tax, try to do it before 5h00 PM

Hum that not battle royal …just a image to fill point 3 and 4

4-Play resource war : It’s at 8h00 PM PST so don’t miss it. I tend to always miss it because 1- it so late and 2- at 8h30 it’s already to late. Its great way to get free resources. Check out the forum for more information.

5-Help your legion in legion league battle: This one can be easy to forget because sometime your legion leaders are human and forget to register your legion. If your legion is strong enough and you don’t have amnesic legion leader you have to remember to go sign in after 8h00 PM (which for some of us is late) and next day you have to go collect your silver ( If your legion win) before 5h00 PM…

If you manage to think about all of this you’ll get a good amount of extra silver the next day.

6- Donate to kingdom: I’m guilty of forgetting this one some time. But at the beginning of the server it essential that you help your kingdom and it will help you later. When there only one left when tend to forget…

7-Buy all gear at mystery shop: most of it is crap, so in the past I rarely visited it at all. Now it’s good to visit the mystery shop because you can recycle all the crappy gear since the update 1.4 so it’s good to go there and buy everything for a total of 15 gear and recycle everything you don’t like.

8-Recyle

Recycle all your crappy gear from point 7 and from the historical campaign. All sometime forget this because doing it is freaking (no swearing see) is boring. Click click click get some gem click click get some more, click click nothing …

It worth it but since it tedious I don’t always do it. I hope they will do like in three kingdom online and do batch recycle. You get so many gem if you do it every day and you can upgrade/enhance/refine/temper a lot of your gear after that.

9-Login for free gift:

Now that they log us with the announcement I don’t forget it but I use to do.  Don’t forget to check if there any free gift, there almost free gift every day, sometime you have to do stuff to do it but it’s usually worth it.

10-Check to if there any new heroes (after awhile you might not to do that)

When you have all your heroes we tend to forget to check forget to check for new heroes, I actually got Deng Ai just by refreshing with 10 silver. Ok if you’re using gold you’re probably better to really forget checking heroes with silver, since you probably got a bunch of gold one already…

List of silver heroes

Click on the image to check Peng Guo awesome comics.

Other that are not there

Play bull-eye 5 time

Let be honest after doing bull-eye a bunch of time you get bored and never look back… I forget it but then I think of doing it I don’t do it anyway …

Play heroes roster 5 time

Same has Bull-eye but worst…

So what are the thing you tend to forget ?

I found a great video that explain everything you should know about the last CoK update.

Thanks to bleiktube. Give some love and subscribe to is channel.

[Clash of Kingdoms][Elite][L5][Overall Guide to Version 1.40]

Most people use their main heroes to do logistics work or convert to Siege hero.
However, with Brother-in-arms, your main hero is now a very powerful combat hero with crazy Area of Effect ability. Please start converting your main hero into a fighting machine. Rebirth and reassign stats to Leadership or Power, Enhance stats to increase Leadership or Power, give equipment to boost Leadership/Power, give ability for combat, passive abilities are preferred.

thanks to PigFace for the image

The Brother-in-arms ability is similar to Pang Tong Thunder Fury, and it can actually be much stronger if you organize with your brother well.
As described, the number of brothers from the same garden on the battle field affects the number of targets.
To maximize this ability, create a mailing list of all your brothers (in the garden).
Coordinate and place all the main heroes of the 10 brothers in the same city. The stats of individual hero may not be great, but together, the effect will be fearsome.
It will be like 10 Pang Tongs that hits 10 targets when the ability triggers.
For Brother in Arms skills, here is what I know so far (correct me if I am wrong):
1. Damage: Same like singular focus :  130%+ (10% x skill level)
Note:some source say is -10% less so it’s 120%+ (10% x skill level)
2. Trigger Rate: 40% Chance
3. AOE : 3 + (number of brothers in battle / 3) == so if all 9 brothers in battle AOE will hit 6 enemies (maximum)
Requirement:  when you main hero gain more than 40 loyalty (so 41+), the skill singular focus will change to brother in arm after server maintenance at 4am.

Troop type: all type of troop
Gear effect: every 1% gear effect is about 4.5% in damage
Skill level: every level gain additional 10% damage
Charge attack bar: 2000

Additional note from MingLi about the Tavern : some peoples say that after loyalty = 40 you need at least 5 members to greet each day or loyalty will decrease faster than it increase.

Special thanks to MingLi, Astute and Jitkilan (L10) for help on this guide

Yesterday we saw How to Enhancing & Upgrading and Tuesday we learned how to recycle, today we dig a bit on 2 other addition in the gear enhancement, Refining and Tempering.

Refining

Refining uses flaming jade to replace a stat or bonus of an item with a new random stat or bonus. The player is able to select the gear’s stat which will be replaced.
There is no risk to losing the gear using this feature.There is no limit to how many times an item can be refined. Mounts may now have their “Increased marching speed” replaced with a new stat or ability. It’s very useful to remove skill you don’t for other skill  or to improve mounts as by removing increased marching speed for something else.
 

Numbers of required flaming jade
White – 4x lvl 1 flaming jade per attribute change.
Green – 4x lvl 2 flaming jade per attribute change.
Blue – 10x lvl 3 flaming jade per attribute change.
Purple – 13x lvl 4 flaming jade per attribute change.

Tempering

 
Tempering increase the quality of you gear from crude to common (white to green gear) . However tempering is gamble since gears can be destroyed using this feature!
So, if you do not want to lose a particular gear, do not try to temper it.
I wasn’t able to actually try this feature yet because I wasn’t able to get any solid ice. From what I’ve heard  from other player it basically upgrade the color of your gear giving it a additional bonus. For example you can make a green gear become a blue gear therefore it gains an additional stat or bonus.

Thanks to death for is great guide on the new gear feature, really helped me to have more info (specially temper)

Here the link to the forum : http://forum.koramgame.com/thread-50064-1-1.html

If your looking for info on Recycling, enhancing or upgrading check my previous entries:

Clash of Kingdoms – Recycling your gear

Clash of Kingdoms Gear – Enhancing & Upgrading

Yesterday we saw How to recycle, today we dig a bit on 2 other addition in the gear enhancement, Enhancing and upgrading.

Enhancing

It seems the same system has it used to be the max level of gears remains +10.
And you have to use mithril :

Mithril: Increases the enhancement level of gears.
Minor Mithril: Increases the enhancement level of gears upto level +5.

There a Rumor has it that the chances of enhancement have been reduced since mithril is now easier to come by because of recycling.

Check this link to the forum to have more info on how to enhance gear.
http://forum.koramgame.com/forum.php?mod=viewthread&tid=37906&extra=page=1

Upgrading

This is were you use your Yin Jades from the recycling.
Upgrading gears allows players to use Yin Jades to transform their items to a new version but beware that new gear will requires a higher level… Like this sun tzu manual that I upgraded to lv 62:

What nice with upgrading you won’t lose any gears when you do it.
After each successful attempt the current stats on a gear are increased along with a higher minimum level. Along with these, the amount of yin jade required for the next upgrade increases. The minimum level for items now passes level 30 and a wide range of new items have been introduced including round birettas and gold rings. Note that upgrading may have no effect or reduce your bonus enhancement level, reducing didn’t happened often but something I upgrade and the item stay the same but the level go up…

Hope you liked this guide, I’ll bring another guide on gear enhancement tomorrow about tempering and refining.

Note: any resemblance to Death Guide is purely coincidental(lucky the auto-correct knew that one) in some part, inspirational in some other and almost identical in rare occasion.
If you want to check the original gem go here and tell Death that he’s awesome.

Surprisingly Recycling is not just something of the modern age it something they use to do in the past, in the three kingdom period particularly.
Or maybe it’s just that Koram is going green and is making us recycle our old gear to prevent pollution and and improve our other gear in the process.

Item recycling is the last tab within the gear improvements.  Each player is able to recycle up to 20 gears per day. That mean that if you don’t have gear to recycle you can always buy every gear in the mystery shop for that day then recycle. You won’t get much but is better than nothing.

In return you will receive a variety of jades which are essential to making improvements to the gears you wish to use in battle. Only recycle items which you no longer want or need since they will be destroyed. If you need all your current items, I would recommend buying cheap items from the Mystery Shop for the sole purpose of recycling. Here’s a list of the different items you can get for recycling. I find higher quality gears provide better chances at gaining high level enhancement items.

Yin Jade: Used to upgrade gears, ranges from level I to V for white to orange gears respectively.

Flaming Jade: Used to refine gears, ranges from level I to V for white to orange gears respectively.

Yin Jade Fragments: exchange multiple fragments for yin jade of the same level.

Flaming Jade Fragments: exchange multiple fragments for flaming jade of same level.

Solid Ice Fragments: exchange multiple fragments for solid ice.

Changing Fragment to actual item:
After you have recycled enough gears, its time to trade in your fragments for actual enhancing items. Go to the mystery shop and then item exchange tab. Below all your scrolls you will find the fragments which can be exchanged using minor scholars scrolls.

Have fun recycling, next I’ll explain enhancing and upgrading our gear.

Disclaimer any resemblance to Death Guide is purely coincidental(luckly the auto-correct knew that one) in some part, inspirational in some other and almost identical in rare occasion.
If you want to check the original gem go here and tell Death that he’s awesome.