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Era IV Preview | Land Clearing Strategy Share, Clear Land Easily with Low Losses

translated from: https://www.bilibili.com/opus/1002658818215116808

World of启元 Mobile Game November 22, 2024, 23:08

Hello, Trailblazers! The first batch of Era IV servers for "World of启元" is about to launch. To help more players understand how to approach land clearing in Era IV, we have invited a community strategy group to share their insights for the new era.

Recommended Land Clearing Teams

Wei Qing, Qin Shi Huang, and Pericles are still the T0 land clearing team. New heroes can form several T1 teams. Since everyone is already in Era IV, we will skip the fundamental principles and go straight to team tier recommendations. Overall, there isn't much change from previous land clearing teams. It is recommended to use tanky teams or teams with extreme burst damage + control (the Qin Shi Huang system). Teams with higher damage output will have a higher ceiling and lower battle losses. Note for the images below: All heroes are assumed to be at level 10 with their first row of skills unlocked. Teams that cannot be used before level 20 are marked.

T0 Teams:

Team 1: Wei/Qin/Co (Available from Level 1)

Comment: A newly promoted T0 team. It relies on Wei Qing to stack buffs for Columbus. Although its sustain is not as good as the Pericles variant, its damage is higher and the burst is faster.

Team 2: Wei/Qin/Pe (Available from Level 1)

Comment: Still T0. This team has the lowest battle losses. When clearing high-level land quickly, such as level 10 land (at hero level 40+), you can swap Pericles for Cao Cao for more stable damage output that isn't afraid of the [Suppression]¹ effect.

T1 Teams:

Team 3: Oath of the Peach Garden (Only available after Level 20)

Comment: The old "Peach Garden"² team is still considered T1. It's a relatively effective tanky team, slightly slower and with slightly higher losses than the Wei/Qin/Pericles team. If your Guan Yu has high duplicates³, you can opt for a magic-based build.

Team 4: Gil/Qin/Sal (Available from Level 1)

Comment: The go-to brain-dead land clearing team from the first Era. Note that the skill [Parting Shot]⁴ can conflict with Gilgamesh's [Epic of Heroes]. This team can be used from level 1 all the way past level 20. It remains very strong after level 20, and while not as good as some other teams this version, it's still a solid choice.

Team 5: Talents of Jiangdong (Available from Level 1)

Comment: The Eastern Wu "Dudu"⁵ team. The overall land clearing experience is similar to the Peach Garden team. It's quite stable for clearing level 8 land at level 30 with the troop bonus. After level 40 with titles and high troop counts, it is also very stable for clearing level 9-10 land, second only to Wei/Qin/Pericles. It can clear level 6 land under-leveled before level 20.

Team 6: Columbus Focus Fire Team (Available from Level 20)

Comment: A focus-fire team built around Columbus. Its strength is considerable, with a land clearing experience similar to the Peach Garden and Gilgamesh/Caesar/Alexander teams. It is an extreme damage output team. While it is stable for clearing level 9 land after level 40 with titles, it falls short against level 10 land compared to the Wei Qing variant.

T2 Teams:

Team 7: Expanding Frontiers

Comment: A fate-based land clearing team. The evasion can stack, making it incredibly tanky. It's very comfortable to use from level 1 to 20. After level 20, its strength is not on par with T1 and T0 teams.

Team 8: Military Masters (Available from Lvl 1)

Comment: A skill-chaining mechanic land clearing team, where skills trigger each other repeatedly. Caesar can replace either Pericles or Sun Wu, slightly increasing the team's strength.

Team 9: Counterattack Gramps (Available from Lvl 1)¹

Comment: A new way to use Pericles after his update. Pair him with Zhang Fei or Antony for a triple-core output. The center-rank can also be Caesar or Cleopatra. Its strength is below T0 and T1, but it becomes more stable with high troop counts and titles.

Team 10: Caesar's Conquest Infantry (Available from Lvl 1)

Comment: Formerly the strongest team before level 20. Now there are superior systems like the Dudu and Wei Qing teams. However, it is still a relatively strong team and remains viable.

Free-to-Play (F2P) Team:

Team 11: First Purchase Team (Available from Lvl 1)

Comment: A very F2P-friendly team. The vanguard can be replaced with various semi-DPS heroes like Zhang Fei or Antony. In the worst case, a Spartan hero can be used. Note that the skill [Champion of the Three Armies]⁶ requires three different troop types to be active; otherwise, you'll need to bring [King's Rise]⁷ to ensure survival.

Land Clearing Process

• Civilization Choice: Start with Huaxia (China) to level up quickly. Switch to Egypt after you have cleared all level 8 lands or reached the Iron Age.

• Landing: Immediately send out 3 armies to burn stamina. Stamina recovery will be less efficient later, as Huaxia (China) has a 200 stamina cap.

• Gacha/Drawing Cards: First, draw your main heroes and use them to clear land and consume stamina. Only begin mass-drawing cards after your teams have used up a significant amount of stamina to avoid waste.

• Dismantling for Skill EXP: If you have the means, use Gold to dismantle stored 3-4 star cards for a large amount of skill experience, which will make land clearing much smoother. If not, dismantle 4-star cards or use Silver coins.

• Prestige Shop (Must Buys):

  • Skill EXP: For land clearing.
  • Resource Packs: Resources are everything.
  • Envoys: The importance of trade envoys in the early game is self-evident.
  • Administrative Points: For Garrison Farming⁸, no explanation needed.
  • Militia: Most people will fail a few times during land clearing. More troops mean more room for error.
  • Emergency Mobilization Order: Same as Militia.
  • Great Person Points: Depending on your needs.

Detailed Early Game Start-up Flow (For Top Players: Open Level 5 Land at 0 Stamina)

1. Civilization Choice: Recommended to start with Huaxia (China) for the massive experience bonus. Switch to Egypt in the Iron Age or when stamina is depleted.

2. Clearing Land: You can utilize the stamina swap mechanic to use 1-2 teams to clear land indefinitely with low losses, quickly taking all level 7 and 8 lands. If you have Wei Qing, use him on rotation.

   • Plan 1: Wei Qing + Qin Shi Huang + Pericles. The strongest land clearing team for all stages. Use it if you have the heroes and skills.

   • Plan 2: The Dudu team is also a strong team throughout all stages. Unlike the Peach Garden team which requires level 20, this team can be used for land clearing before level 20.

   • Plan 3: Use Alexander, Caesar, and Zhang Fei before level 20, then switch to the Peach Garden team after level 20.

3. Early Game Tips: You can reset titles to add duplicates to your heroes, then promote them again at level 40. Remember to complete quests quickly and push through the civilization chapters!

4. Barbarian Camp Mechanic: Barbarian camps heal every 7 minutes and cost no stamina. During the novice period, hero serious injury time is 2 minutes. You can attack a maximum of 4 times. Defeating them gives a fixed amount of experience. If a hero is seriously injured, wait for them to recover before having the team receive the experience together.

Barbarian Camp Mechanic: - High-Power Player Version

Requirements:

1. Skill experience must be as high as possible; skills need to be high level.
2. Teams should have high duplicates if possible, and use the recommended T0 and T1 teams.
3. Note that some teams are only usable after level 20.

Other Notes:

1. The difficulty of Ruins is about 2 levels higher than land of the same level. You can attempt a Ruin once you can reliably clear land of the same level without relying on luck.
2. The impact of hero duplicates is less significant for clearing level 4-6 lands, but it becomes much more important for level 7-8 lands. As long as you are using one of the specified teams, you should have no problem transitioning smoothly to level 7 land.

Barbarian Camp Mechanic - Pure F2P Version

F2P Land Clearing Situation:

1. Skill levels are relatively low, typically around levels 7-8.
2. Teams have no duplicates and are not T0 or T1, possibly even worse than T2 teams.

Other Notes: The difficulty of Ruins is about 2 levels higher than land of the same level. You can attempt them once you can clear land reliably.

Land Difficulty and Recommended Troop Strength

This table shows the minimum troop strength required with maxed-out skill levels. If you want to play it safe, wait 1-2 more hero levels before attempting. Be sure to pick easy-to-defeat armies, such as those with low damage output (e.g., teams with multiple healing skills are recommended first targets). Do not blindly push for the absolute minimum. As long as you can use multiple teams to clear land, filling up your territory is fast and easy. The easiest land defenders are survival-type teams. Remember, you can check the team's tendency to see its type if you don't know how to differentiate them. The general difficulty is: Damage > Control > Survival. Survival-type teams are the weakest.

Land Difficulty Recommendation Table (Extreme Version)
(For a safer approach, level up 1-2 times more before attempting)

Summary of Techniques

Edict Purchase and Use

• Purchase all daily edicts. Focus Garrison Farming on Iron and Stone to level up buildings. The return on Garrison Farming Tech Points is low; as long as you have enough food, don't use it on tech.

Aqueduct Planning

• Land must be developed, improved, and conquered around your main and sub-cities to receive a 20% resource production bonus.

Technology Progression

• Upgrade the Royal Academy until you can stably clear level 8 land. Save the rest of your resources for technology buildings. Max out the Monument as soon as possible, and build multiple Libraries. Clear as many level 7+ Ruins as you can.

Land Conquest

• You don't need to fight for high-level land. Focus on low-loss battles + aqueduct planning to reduce resource consumption and develop faster.

• Make good use of the free skill and troop swaps during the land clearing period. Use multiple teams to clear land, utilizing all your stamina to conquer more territory.

Resource Production Allocation

• In the early game, keep food production as low as possible, prioritizing high Iron and Stone production. Maintain just enough food for troop recruitment and land conquest.

• An Iron-to-Stone ratio of 1:1.5 is ideal (e.g., 50k Iron, 75k-80k Stone). Any shortfall can be covered by Garrison Farming.

Team Configuration

• During the early land clearing period, skills can be swapped for free, and dismissing troops returns 100% of the reserve forces. Once Team 1's stamina is depleted, immediately swap to Team 2 (with free troop and skill changes).

• Use this feature to maximize the use of the cards in your inventory. Level multiple teams and use the extra stamina to quickly conquer land.

• After the land clearing phase, these extra teams can be converted into siege teams (higher level means higher demolition value) or serve as follow-up pathing and clean-up support teams.

• The optimal 5-team setup for your main city is: 3 main combat teams and 2 siege teams (siege engines and flying units). Early on, this will be 1 main team and 2 siege teams (one of which can be converted to siege engines).

Stamina Swap Trick in Practice
What's the trick to using Wei Qing or your strongest team continuously? Find a level 1 hero to swap with, because hero swaps also swap their current stamina. This allows you to use your single strongest team to power-level all your other teams. After the swap, Wei Qing will have full stamina and can repeat the land clearing process. Furthermore, since you can use special training EXP to shorten the phase of clearing level 5 and 6 lands, this method can result in your main team leveling even faster than a single-team approach.

Early Game Garrison Farming Development Planning

This is the most crucial technique for hyper-accelerated development, potentially giving you 20-30% more resources than others! Look for land plots like the one in the image below.

After developing them, they will become adjacent developed plots, perfect for concentrated Garrison Farming (preferably near a main city aqueduct for future bonuses).

The most important mechanic is that when the central point of Garrison Farming is adjacent to other resources, it provides an additional +15% yield based on the adjacent plot's level. This means if a plot is adjacent to 5-6 plots of the same level, you will gain a 90% bonus to Garrison Farming resources. While Garrison Farming for tech points early on is a tempo loss, it is not a loss if you do it on adjacent tech plots. Refer to the image below for a clear comparison.

Garrison Farming a single level 8 Iron plot only yields 70k resources.

Garrison Farming the same level 8 Iron plot, but with 6 adjacent resource plots, yields much more.

Version Summary

• Land Clearing Teams: A hundred flowers bloom. Strong land clearing teams from previous eras are still powerful, especially Wei Qing. The newly added Zhou Yu and Columbus are also very strong.

• Land Defender Lineups: Defender compositions before level 8 land have not changed much; the difficulty and tempo are the same. Level 9 land has many new lineups, and level 10 land will also be slightly more difficult than before.

• Other Techniques: Existing tricks and techniques have not changed and are still applicable.

The above content represents player opinions and does not reflect official views.

Translation Notes:
¹ [制敌/zhì dí] "Suppression" or "Control." A general term for crowd control or debuff effects that hinder enemy actions.
² [桃园/Táoyuán] "Peach Garden." Refers to the "Oath of the Peach Garden" from the Romance of the Three Kingdoms, a common team name for Liu Bei, Guan Yu, and Zhang Fei.
³ [高红/gāo hóng] "High Red." A common slang in Chinese games referring to a hero having many duplicate copies, which are used to increase their star level or unlock enhancements, often marked by a red color.
⁴ [回马枪/huímǎqiāng] "Parting Shot." A Chinese idiom meaning to turn back and strike. Likely a counter-attack or on-death effect skill.
⁵ [都督/Dūdū] "Viceroy" or "Governor." A title for high-ranking military commanders. In the context of the Three Kingdoms, this often refers to the team of Zhou Yu, Lu Xun, and Lu Meng of the Wu kingdom.
⁶ [勇冠三军/yǒng guàn sān jūn] "Champion of the Three Armies." An idiom meaning to be the bravest warrior in the entire army.
⁷ [王者崛起/wángzhě juéqǐ] "King's Rise." A descriptive skill name.
⁸ [军垦/jūnkěn] "Military/State Farming." A game mechanic where edicts or special commands are used to instantly gain a large sum of resources from a owned land plot. Translated here as "Garrison Farming" for clarity.