Laird Brinni said:

Impressive I have a long way to go before I reach that kind of level I'm only at palace 23 with hero level 52 I only have one piece of Armour at the moment the Jarl's  helmet for food production, I only want legendary equipment so it will be some time before I have Lynx, Saracen and Sigurd Armour's but the wait will be worth it I think.

As to level up the hero you can craft certain rare or epic equipments which offers increased hero experience. Then buy that 41k pack from store which gives 2.5mil x 2 book of hero experience and apply them. I get 19.6mil of exp just from opening 1 2.5mil exp book and also dot forgot to put 25% hero exp boost.

As for you purchasing $4.99 pack is bad. Wait for 8 weeks and have 2.5mil energy pack for $9.99 and if there is supposed to be any day to be celebrated like we have right now you can have marvelous packs. Attaching SS of those below. But remember that dont waste money on energy which all had done at some point of time. First Do every important knowledge in invader section and get your invader gear First. I can kill 1 uber at 48-50k energy and 1 lvl 6 invader at 19-21k. And i am attaching another SS of my hero when i was at lvl55 and i had 600% sustain attack bonus.Hope it helps

That first energy pack listed WOW!!!  I usually get the second pack listed as my 2 months don't seem to line up with holidays:(

That first energy pack listed WOW!!!  I usually get the second pack listed as my 2 months don't seem to line up with holidays:(

My uber killing set is set-up like yours, for my farm/bank accounts I move the sustained attack points to total energy as they only attack lv. 1 or 2 and this gives them more time to gather points.

That first energy pack listed WOW!!!  I usually get the second pack listed as my 2 months don't seem to line up with holidays:(

@Laird Brinni

Attack runes for all troop types would be dangerous indeed and I hope we never see them. As for gear you should put your runes in special sh gear not saracen. Choose a troop type and stick with it rest of the troops disband in the future, its way more practical for max effect of hero skills and for fast attacks. 

As for lynx gear I use 4 Stamina runes and 2 valor runes. For lynx you just wanna cover your troops and scouts together so any runes that cover all troops are good. 

StitchyTurtle said:

@Laird Brinni

Attack runes for all troop types would be dangerous indeed and I hope we never see them. As for gear you should put your runes in special sh gear not saracen. Choose a troop type and stick with it rest of the troops disband in the future, its way more practical for max effect of hero skills and for fast attacks. 

As for lynx gear I use 4 Stamina runes and 2 valor runes. For lynx you just wanna cover your troops and scouts together so any runes that cover all troops are good. 

Great Advice again thank you, I Really like the look of the new Appeal to the Gods Rune I will try and get 4 of them to add to the Lynx Armour along with 2 Valor Runes that you mentioned for some strange reason it's also know as Prowess on one of the Viking help websites. Just as a matter of interest do you use a separate hero set for scouts or not.

I have separate special hero gear for my spies and my melee, but I have killed a lot of invaders/ubers over the last year.  With the shaman now available don't forget about them, especially now that they have more equipment choices.  With a hero/shaman combo you now can have 12 pieces of gear helping you in attacking/defense/spy/learning/building etc. and that my be more valuable to you right now than having a separate hero set for scouts.

I have separate special hero gear for my spies and my melee, but I have killed a lot of invaders/ubers over the last year.  With the shaman now available don't forget about them, especially now that they have more equipment choices.  With a hero/shaman combo you now can have 12 pieces of gear helping you in attacking/defense/spy/learning/building etc. and that my be more valuable to you right now than having a separate hero set for scouts.

@LairdBrinni

Yes ofc I have separate sets for everything. I use siege and melee 75m troops total. I have all the sh gear for development production and so on but  from troop gear just siege gear, melee gear and scout gear along with shaman sets of gear to go with it. But those are only for hits or for pop defense or for trapping in another town. When I drop my shield and pretend I'm offline I put lynx on and swallow couple of OSs.

Important to remember for when you use lynx is that you should put extra skills in scout health and scout defense if possible because if you are a bigger player ppl tend to scout you more often then they will actually attack, some might assume you are in sh special gear like melee. And in general we tend to have less scouts than we have troops so it helps. I personally have 12m t1 scouts 4m t4 and around 3mt5 and I never needed more, but will train more in the future.

Also assuming you have a lvl 60 bagi the big it is wise to invest in Ulf the brave for up to stage 4, his skills cover the two amulets spaces a stage 6 Bagi the big has. For stage 5 and 6 of Ulf or Vendla you will need more money. If you already did your essential research go for it but if not first do that then go invest there. 

@STITCHYTURTLE

Fantastic advice I have now gone from 2 hero sets to 4 I will make a 5th Hero set when I have enough skill points to put into Scouts. My Hero Set were just Military and Economic but I now have a set for rss yielding and  a set for Building Learning and Training . Now that I have 4 sets I don't think my 54 remaining hero activation set will last long. With my military set I don't have enough points to go troop specific  for attacking yet I am only at hero 53 I have Enemy Troop Health, Defense and Offense maxed out, Troop Health II and Troop Defense II Maxed out, Troop Health I is at 10/15 Troop Defense I is at 5/15 and Troop Offense I is at 3/5. once I reach Hero 54 I will have an extra 18 points to max out Troop Health I and Troop Defense I then I will go troop specific, Hopefully by then we will have the 4 extra shamans for Killer, Siege, Cavalry and Ranged  and at least one of the shamans will have infirmary capacity like Inga the wise does.

Fantastic advice I have now gone from 2 hero sets to 4 I will make a 5th Hero set when I have enough skill points to put into Scouts. My Hero Set were just Military and Economic but I now have a set for rss yielding and  a set for Building Learning and Training . Now that I have 4 sets I don't think my 54 remaining hero activation set will last long. With my military set I don't have enough points to go troop specific  for attacking yet I am only at hero 53 I have Enemy Troop Health, Defense and Offense maxed out, Troop Health II and Troop Defense II Maxed out, Troop Health I is at 10/15 Troop Defense I is at 5/15 and Troop Offense I is at 3/5. once I reach Hero 54 I will have an extra 18 points to max out Troop Health I and Troop Defense I then I will go troop specific, Hopefully by then we will have the 4 extra shamans for Killer, Siege, Cavalry and Ranged  and at least one of the shamans will have infirmary capacity like Inga the wise does.

Laird Brinni said:

... at least one of the shamans will have infirmary capacity like Inga the wise does.

well, in my case, i don't worry to much about infirmary capacity...

I rarely fight but when it happen, it is big... it involve million of troop and no infirmery have the capacity for it... in fact, i have over 20 mil troop in my city and same for a nig guy lvl 31, it is needed several attack for crack the nuts... first t1 die and fill the infirmerie, high lvl troop die later and are send to resurection ( that i don't do, training is cheaper )

anesfan said:

Laird Brinni said:

... at least one of the shamans will have infirmary capacity like Inga the wise does.

well, in my case, i don't worry to much about infirmary capacity...

I rarely fight but when it happen, it is big... it involve million of troop and no infirmery have the capacity for it... in fact, i have over 20 mil troop in my city and same for a nig guy lvl 31, it is needed several attack for crack the nuts... first t1 die and fill the infirmerie, high lvl troop die later and are send to resurection ( that i don't do, training is cheaper )

As hero set, i have a bunch of them... one for killing invader, one for yielding, one for recherche, one for building, one for training, one for produce rss, one for archer, one for spy... it is all for now...

I only want the increased infirmary capacity for traps, let my shield drop after one attack re shield and all higher level troops that die will go to healing and the lower tier troops that do not fit into healing will go to resurrection.

Laird Brinni said:

Fantastic advice I have now gone from 2 hero sets to 4 I will make a 5th Hero set when I have enough skill points to put into Scouts. My Hero Set were just Military and Economic but I now have a set for rss yielding and  a set for Building Learning and Training . Now that I have 4 sets I don't think my 54 remaining hero activation set will last long. With my military set I don't have enough points to go troop specific  for attacking yet I am only at hero 53 I have Enemy Troop Health, Defense and Offense maxed out, Troop Health II and Troop Defense II Maxed out, Troop Health I is at 10/15 Troop Defense I is at 5/15 and Troop Offense I is at 3/5. once I reach Hero 54 I will have an extra 18 points to max out Troop Health I and Troop Defense I then I will go troop specific, Hopefully by then we will have the 4 extra shamans for Killer, Siege, Cavalry and Ranged  and at least one of the shamans will have infirmary capacity like Inga the wise does.

Thats great that you have done sets for different things(which is wise to do)...tho i would suggest that do those BIG 6 military knowledge at lvl11-12/15 and leave them there until u get big enough for rss needs. And for points i would suggest that leave offense for now until you have specific troop type. Offense is least counted compared to health and defense. So max out troop health and troop defense and then go for specific troop health and then its defense and then its offense. Which i did with my hero sets.