The Squire's chest, purchased at the shop for 90 gems
A crest is an item with two features. The most important is that players need to collect a few different crest in order to receive a deed to build a 3th or 4th city. The other feature is to increase a knights loyalty, a feature which isn't fully implemented yet. A crest can be found when an attack on an unowned wilderness (level 5 and above ) is victorious or purchased in the shop.
Types of crest
There are several types that can be found in the game.
| Crest | Name | Properties | Level of Wilderness |
|---|---|---|---|
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Sir Bor's Crest | Increases Knights loyalty by 5% | 5-10 |
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Sir Ector's Crest | Increases Knights loyalty by 10% | 5-10 |
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Sir Kay's Crest | Increases Knights loyalty by 15% | 5-10 |
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Sir Bedivere's Crest | Increases Knights loyalty by 20% | 6-10 |
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Sir Gawain's Crest | Increases Knights loyalty by 25% | 6-10 |
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Sir Percival's Crest | Increases Knights loyalty by 30% | 6-10 |
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Sir Galahad's Crest | Increases Knights loyalty by 40% | 8-10 |
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Sir Lancelot's Crest | Increases Knights loyalty by 50% | 8-10 |
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King Arthur's Crest | Increases Knights loyalty by 60% | 8-10 |
Where to find them
Crests are available by a victorious attack on an unowned level 5 Wilderness and above. See Tournament of Crests strategy section for advice on collecting crests from wilds. It is not necessary to keep control of the wilderness, that is to conquer it and keep it as a wild controlled by your city's castle. When you win a crest, it will be listed n the battle report along with the other "loot". Or, you can check under my items to see how many crests you currently have. The table in the section above includes a column for which level wildernesses each can be found.
It is also possible to buy a Squire's Chest from Shop for 90 Gems or a Knight's Chest for 150 Gems
The Squire's Chest will give you:
- 1~3 Sir Bor's crests, and
- 1~3 Sir Ector's crests, and
- 1~3 Sir Kay's crests.
And the Knight's Chest will give you:
- 1~3 Sir Bevidere's Crest
- 1~3 Sir Gawain's Crest
- 1~3 Sir Percival's Crest
Loyalty
Even though announced and patched into game by Watercooler, loyalty has not been activated yet. The only information available is that the rarer the crest is, the more loyalty the knight you used it on gains. Please note that this will probably only be a temporary boost just like boosting loyalty with Gold.
Statistics
For Research on Crest Drop: Crest Drop Research
Based on record keeping from the Tournament of Crests and collecting crests for a third city, I think these are reasonable assumptions:
- Odds of dropping any crest from a level 7 wilderness = 1/20
- Bor's crest is twice as likely to drop as Ector's crest
- Ector's crest is twice as likely to drop as Kay's crest
- Therefore, when a crest drops: 4/7 will be Bor's, 2/7 will be Ector's, and 1/7 will be Kay's.
To get the Third City Deed, you need to collect 4 Bor's, 2 Ector's and 1 Kay's crest. We can calculate the odds of finding at least that many crests in a given number of level 7 wildernesses with a little programming. The results are shown in this graph (click it to view full size).
On average, players will need to farm about 200 level-7 wilderness tiles to collect the crests needed to build a third city. As the graph shows, it will take almost twice that for 10% of the players. That is a lot of farming, and a lot of troops lost to the 150 traps on each of those tiles. Collecting crests is neither quick nor easy.
Note that these results are based entirely on level-7 wilderness farming. How the odds change for different levels of wildernesses is not known.