Game of Sultans guide: Vizier and Consort leveling

Introduction

Main game goals

Empire Power growth

Dominating in Union wars

Dominating in Arena

Combat Power growth

Key non resource limitations and success factors

⚠ Non resource sultan’s requisitions:

Key resource limitations of success factors

Vizier’s level

Vizier’s talents

Consort bonuses

Harmony bonuses

Tutor bonuses

Vizier’s PVP-skill

Union war registration contribution

⚠ Sultan’s resource requisitions:

Maximizing key resource gain

Defining a game strategy

Viziers

Which viziers to level up

Which viziers should level up research, politics, prestige

Which viziers should level up military

How to spend clothes

Viziers summary:

Consorts

Which consorts to level up

Choosing and leveling up a consort

How to avoid excessive consorts

Introduction

This Game of sultans viziers guide is for a experienced players, who know and understand well game basis. If you don’t you should read some guides for novices.

Main goal of this guide is to define base optimal strategy of vizier and consort leveling, based on basic game rules for a long distance for VIP0-VIP4 players. Yes. there are better strategies for a small game distance (less than 100 game days), or for a very long distance (then you’re stuck at viziers talent limits), but they are not discussed in this guide.

Main game goals

Main game global goals for a majority of Game of Sultans players are:

  1. Maximum empire power;
  2. Union war dominating;
  3. Arena dominating.

Nonobvious global goal for all players is maximum combat power, that defines success in a lot of game events (union war, frontier, pirate hunting, ruins etc).

Let’s dive deep into this goals achievement through key success factors and required resources. In that guide we assume:

  1. We do not take in consideration social aspects: unions, ability to find better team for a pirate hunting or feast attenders. Only solo player;
  2. We do not take in consideration donate by default. We assume you are VIP0-VIP4 player. If donate is influencing for a part of strategy it would be written directly in guide.

Empire power growth

Empire power is a sum of all attributes of his viziers and children:

  • Military – defines( decreases) soldier’s loss in Campaign and Vanquish;
  • Research – defines ( increases) gold income from levy and imperial affairs;
  • Politics – defines ( increases) grain income from levy and imperial affairs;
  • Prestige – defines ( increases) soldier income from levy and imperial affairs.

⚠ Vizier’s attribute from talents formula

Key success factors and required resources for an Empire Power

Empire power growth key factors and resources

Vizier’s level and vizier’s talents define total attribute value from corresponding skill.

Consort bonuses define “flat” or “percent” addition for a vizier’s attributes: from talents and books.

Harmony bonuses define “flat” or “percent” addition for a vizier’s attributes: from talents and books.

Books give an attribute bonus and do not depend from vizier’s level or talents. And “percent ” consort or harmony bonuses do work on books attributes.

Pearl harvesting requires 7 consorts.

Union wars dominating

Union wars dominating in this guide simplified to maximum player’s impact on union placement in union war. We do not discuss predicting in this guide.

Union war: key success factors and resources

Union war success factors and resources

Viziers combat power defines damage/health of vizier in union war.

Combat power deserves individual chapter and will be descibed later.

Union war registration contribution gives:

  1. Viziers health bonus;
  2. Individual prizes in registration rewards ranking.

Union war participation requirement: 16 viziers 60+ level.

Arena dominating

Arena dominating is :

  1. High place in Arena ranking;
  2. High places in Arena ranking rushes.

Arena ranking rush is the most donate-dependent ranking rush. You are forced to use challenge letters and challenge edicts. But there are some factors, which affects this ranking rush apart from donate.

Arena: key factors and resources

Arena success factors and resources

Total viziers count defines maximum amount of points you can lose after opponent challenge. More viziers do you have – more points you will lose.

Vizier >59 level count defines amount of viziers, among which is chosen attacking vizier. More viziers >59 level do you have – less chance to get strong vizier to attack.

Vizier’s talents define vizier’s damage on Arena.

Vizier’s attributes define amount of vizier’s health on Arena.

So talent affects damage and health. Books affect only health.

Vizier’s PVP-skill level defines chance and bonus damage to critical strikes.

Combat power

Combat power is the second important attribute after sultan’s power.

Combat power defines:

  1. Dominating in union war;
  2. Clothes income;
  3. Ability to compete in Pirate hunting, Ruins.

⚠ Combat power formula

Combat power formula

It’s important not to mess Combat power with Military attributes. At most combat power comes from vizier’s level and talents. Military attributes give around 0.5-2% of combat power. It depends from military attribute come from books and harmony/consort bonuses.

Combat power: key factors and resources

Combat power key factors and resources

Vizier’s level и vizier’s military talents defines the most part of combat power.

Military attributes give a little addition to combat power. So then we will remove this factor from consideration.

Tutor bonus for a VIP0-VIP4 players is limited to 4% addition. So it is secondary factor.

Key non resource limitations and success factors

Let’s sum up key non resource limitations:

  • 60+ level vizier count  – minimum 16( unions war);
  • Consort count – minimum 7( pearl harvesting);

Let’s sum up key non resource factors:

  1. Total vizier count – less is better (Arena);
  2. 60+ level vizier count – less is better (Arena).

So finally we can say.

⚠ Non resource sultan’s requisitions:

  1. Total vizier count – minimum, but 16+;
  2. 60+ level vizier count – 16;
  3. Consort count – minumum, but 7+.

Key resource limitations of success factors

As we point this guide to VIP0-VIP4 players, we can be sure that you will miss resources everytime. You will feel lack of resources in every area. So we will define resource limitations for every success factors.

Vizier’s level

You will not have enough resources to level up all viziers. So we have a question: to level up all viziers equally or to select a few viziers?

Theoretical answer is:

  1. For a power it’s better to level minimum viziers up to maximum level, because power formula is quadratic. Cost to level up viziers grows non linear, but less than quadratic;
  2. For a combat power is better to level up all viziers equally, because combar power formula is linear.

We will look for detail answer later. Now we can assume that common resource limitation is to level up minimum viziers.

Vizier’s talents

We have no resource limitations for a talents.

Consort bonuses

You won’t have enough intimacy and charm for more than one consort.

Limitation is simple: to level up one consort.

Harmony bonuses

Same as consort.

Limitations:

  • to upgrade second harmony of Magnificent Five “The Heroic Five” only to one vizier;
  • to upgrade second harmony of Outstanding Four “The Unparalleled Four” only to one vizier.

Tutor bonuses

No limitaions. Only priority – strong viziers first.

Vizier’s PVP-skill level

Even good income of skill xp packs it will be enough only for 1 vizier.

Limitation: to level up pvp-skill up to 10 vizier in Imperial Academy and 1 vizier by skill xp packs.

Union war registration contribution

No limitations.

⚠ Sultan’s resource requirements:

  1. To level up minimum viziers;
  2. To level up one consort;
  3. To upgrade second harmony of Magnificent Five “The Heroic Five” only to one vizier;
  4. To upgrade second harmony of Outstanding Four “The Unparalleled Four” only to one vizier;
  5. To level up pvp-skill up to 10 vizier in Imperial Academy and 1 vizier by skill xp packs.

Optimizing key resource income

Assuming lack of all resources, let’s try to create income optimizing strategy. We will compile key income’s increase possibilities with out micromanagement. We will ignore some resource types, which income is result of achieving our main goals. For example: talent badges from ranking rushes or book xp from Arena.

  • Gold – maximize research attributes;
  • Clothes – maximize viziers combat power ( Frontier);
  • Fearless medals – maximize politics, prestige and military attributes;
  • Imperial Academy seats – buy out all( 10) available seats in Academy;
  • Consort experience – minimize total count of consorts and give all charm items to chosen one;
  • Pearl – maximize consort title and intimacy;
  • Children – buy out all( 8) available seats in Heir;
  • Grain – maximize politics attributes.

Defining a game strategy

Viziers

Which viziers to level up

So let’s try to define our game strategy based on our requsitions and possibilities to maximize resource income.

Let’s begin with viziers:

  • Total amount of viziers – minimum;
  • 60+ viziers count  – 16;
  • To level up minimum viziers;
  • To level up minimum one vizier from Outstanding Four;
  • To upgrade second harmony of Outstanding Four “The Unparalleled Four” to chosen vizier;
  • To level up minimum one vizier from Magnificent Five;
  • To upgrade second harmony of Magnificent Five “The Heroic Five” only to chosen vizier;

Let’s try to find out first 16 viziers to level up.

If you’re ready to wait the first viziers of Four and Five, you should grant 2 place from 16 to them.

If you’re ready to donate, you can take Hersek (VIP4) and Murat (VIP3).

Recommended viziers to level up higher than 60 are marked by green color. In first priority by military talent count. In second priority by total talent count.

So viziers strategy is:

  1. Choose 16 viziers at start to level up higher than 59. Recommended viziers are marked by green. If you have possibility to wait for Magnificent Five (more probably), Outstanding Four( less probable) viziers, it would be better. If you are ready to donate, you can use Hersek or Murat;
  2. Then you get 16 viziers you need, obtaining new viziers is more harmful than useful. So you don’t need Beryl, Barbaros etc. Either you do not need to level up Sultan to get new viziers;
  3. First exception from previous rule are Magnificent Five and Outstanding Four viziers. You need to get them all (for harmonies). And you will need to level up one vizier from Five and one vizier from Four;
  4. Second exception is Grace O’Malley. Her ability to increase union war and war of supremacy damage is too awesome;
  5. Level up only chosen viziers higher than 59. All other viziers stay at 51-59 level( do not forget about sultan bonus “”, which gives a chance to get 3 levels instead of 1). Even rest Magnificent Five and Outstanding Four viziers( except chosen ones)!

Which viziers should level up research, politics, prestige

Let’s repeat thesis sounded earilier: for a power it’s better to level up minimum viziers to the highest level, because formula is quadratic, and gold/clothes cost is less than quadratic.

Before choosing viziers to spend talent badges and books we will keep in mind these thesises:

  1. This guide is for VIP0-VIP4 players. They can’t get viziers like Beryl, Columbus, Barbaros, Da Vinci etc at starting weeks;
  2. You can maximize charm and intimacy only for one consort – so only one vizier will get consort bonuses;
  3. You can maximize second harmony of Outstanding Four only for one vizier;
  4. You can maximize second harmony of Magnificent Five only for one vizier.

Outstanding Four harmony bonuses give 20% bonus for military and politics attributes for each vizier from Four( 80% at all). And 8% bonus for all attributes for each level of second harmony.

Magnificent Five harmony bonuses give 20% bonus for military attributes for each vizier from Five( 100% at all). And 5% bonus for all attributes for each level of second harmony .

Single high charm consort can give good percent bonuses to 1 (maximum 2) type of vizier’s attributes. So you can’t maximize all attributes of vizier with consort. Only one or two.

For maximizing attributes we need to find out which bonuses are higher for a chosen attribute type: harmonies of Four/Five or consort.

It’s obvious that harmony of Outstanding Four vizier is ideal for a politics.

Next we should choose, that attribute is more important for us: research or prestige. That’s because Magnificent Five harmony bonus is not very high. Consort bonuses for a special one attribute would be higher.

The game experience says that you will lack fearless medals more than gold. So you need prestige more than gold after a while.

Distribution:

  • Research – Magnificent Five vizier;
  • Politics – Outstanding Four vizier;
  • Prestige – vizier with consort.

Among Magnificent Five viziers Kilic is the one with highest research talent potential( 4 star talent).

In choosing vizier with consort we should keep in mind, that soldier levy is limited by grain amount. So prestige attributes should be lower than politics attributes. So vizier should have not only good prestige talents, but also military talents (we diversify only military, later we will talk about it).

The most fittest vizier for a VIP0 player is Mesih (5* military and 5* prestige talents), because he not only has nice talents, but also because you get his consort not from Masquerade. So you will get Hope guaranteed at 1M power.

For a VIP3 players the most fittest vizier is Murat( Alessa).

For a VIP4 players the most fittest vizier is Hersek( Rosa).

Summary:

  • Research – Kilic;
  • Politics – Outstanding Four vizier;
  • Prestige – Mesih( VIP0) / Murat( VIP3) / Hersek( VIP4).

Chosen viziers must get ALL appropriate talent badges and books.

Random attribute books you should give to Kilic because of best +all attributes percent harmony.

Which viziers should level up military

As it was mentioned before, we level up military talents for:

  • military attributes increase( decreasing soldier losses in Campaign and Vanquish);
  • combat power increase.

Since combat power has linear relationship from military talents, we can grow up combat power to any number of viziers with high military talent cap. But we should keep in mind that it must be highest level viziers.

Let’s try to decide, how many viziers with high combat power we need:

  • Hunting Ground: we need ~2-3 powerful viziers, to close all stages.
  • Fortress Siege: does not matter;
  • Union war: author’s opinion is that maximim amout of powerful viziers to union war is 4. Good unions usually use rotation strategy, what allows negate the gap between weak and strong viziers. Some may want to set up 4 viziers with close combat power. But author’s opinion is that optimal amount of powerful viziers is 2 or 3, because of consort’s skills, The Five harmonies and The Four harmonies.

If you’ve chosen main consort with military vizier, then you should grow up combat power to:

  1. Military vizier with consort (Mesih/Hersek for VIP4/Murat for VIP3), because of +military % skill;
  2. The Outstanding Four vizier, because of military harmony;
  3. Optional is Grace O`Malley or The Magnificent Five vizier (Kilic).

If your main consort is not for military vizier, then you should grow up The Four and The Five viziers.

You may have a question: Why not The Magnificent Five with their +100% harmony first?

The answer is: no, because of

  1. You will have enough gold from Kilic, so he will not be the first vizier to grow up. The first would be politics and prestige viziers;
  2. You must have additional 4 viziers to achieve all 100% harmony. But this means that you will get 4 additional viziers at all = will lose more points at Arena.

Military books you can spend at vizier with the highest +military % addition: harmony or consort skill.

Choose on your own, when you should switch. You can look at union war situations about spending twice diamonds for more powerful vizier, or to the hunting ground stage completion.

How to spend clothes

Since clothes is a limited resource, we have a question: how to spend it?Earlier we defined a key viziers, which talents we should level up first. It’s obvious that these chosen viziers should get clothes first.

“Spend cloth” strategy depends on these facts:

  • Power income from non key viziers from leveling up (and spending clothes) is very low;
  • Combat power income is in linear relationship from level;
  • Combat power income gives more tokens from the Frontier and increase cloths income too.

Cloth amount, we need to level up viziers:

Based on this factors and focusing on combat power only (only military talents part) we can conclude:

  1. For all viziers higher than 60 level we will calculate a coefficient of cloth value
  2. For a key viziers (our research, politics, prestige resource victims) we will use a military talents from main military vizier (for simplify reasons only). After playing for a while you will decide on your own – when you should spend clothes for them without any formula;
  3. Sort vizier by this coefficient;
  4. Use the clothes.

You all of your key viziers are 400+ level and you can buy all cloth from the Frontier, you may use in formula not only military talents, but all (switch from combat power maximizing to power maximizing).

Example:

Let’s look at these 5 viziers.

Cloth spend coefficient example

You can see that Veli has the highest cloth value coefficient. So we should spend some clothes to level up him till 300. Hersek in this example is a key vizier with presige, so we use military talents from main military vizier (Kilic).

Viziers summary:

  1. Choose first and almost the only 16 viziers to level up higher that 60 level;
  2. Minimize new vizier income.
    1. Do not level up your Sultan;
    2. Do not take viziers from Events.
  3. Exceptions from p2 are:
    1. The Outstanding Four viziers, because of their +60% harmony to military and politics;
    2. Grace O’Malley, because of 30+% combat power increase in Union War and War of Supremacy.
  4. You should have 16 chosen viziers + 1 The Five vizier (Kilic) + 1 The Four vizier + 1 Grace O’Malley higher than 59 level. If you have more – you’re wrong;
  5. You don’t have to level up left viziers exactly till 59 level. Do not forget about “Decent Promotion” Sultan’s boost. As an option you can level up vizier till 9th level. And then level him up by 10 level steps till 59;
  6. Spend your military resouces to:
    1. Military vizier with main consort: Mesih for VIP0, Murat for VIP3, Hersek for VIP4;
    2. The Outstanding Four vizier;
    3. The Magnificent Five vizier / Grace O’Malley;
  7. Spend your research resources to the Magnificent Five vizier (Kilic);
  8. Spend your politics resouces to the Outstanding Four vizier;
  9. Spend your prestige resources to: Mesih for VIP0, Murat for VIP3, Hersek for VIP4;
  10. Spend your clothes by cloth value coefficient.

Consorts

Which consorts to level up

Let’s summarize all consort requirements and limitations have been told before:

  • Consort count – minimum 7;
  • To level up one consort.

Let’s find out which consort will be taken to chosen 7.

As we can see, VIP0 player without Masquerade and Romance Event will get 6 consorts.

If you are VIP3/VIP4 player and you’ve got Alessa/Rosa you have no need in new consorts.

If you are VIP0 player you will need to get one consort from Masquerade to be able to get pearl from Consort Hall.

Choosing and leveling up a consort

Consort’s choise is equal to vizier with consort choise. So let’s remember:

  • VIP0-VIP2: Hope;
  • VIP3: Alessa;
  • VIP4: Rosa.

Chosen consort gets all charm and intimacy items you have.

Consort XP formula

How we can see from formula, consort experience from visit has quadratic dependence from consort’s charm, that only confirms our principle to grow up only one consort.

Main consort experience spends only to +prestige% skill. If you stuck at grain, you can level up +military% skill.

You should spend your pearl the same way. Prestige% skill at first, then military.

How to avoid excessive consorts

We can get excessive consort by:

  1. Masquerading;
  2. Getting another VIP level with consort;
  3. Getting a consort from Romance Event.

Consorts at Masquearade are met if your fortune amount is higher than 70. So the goal is to keep your fortune level low as you can.

  • Fortune restores automatically 1 point per 15 minutes if you have fortune below 110;
  • Fortune gets from VIP bonus – don’t use it;
  • Fortune gets from fortune amulets – don’t use it;
  • Fortune gets from Daily quest chests – open only last chest, if you have a gap of fortune, because it may give talent’s badge or 50 diamonds.

Summary:

  1. Spend masquerades and energy orbs to zero down your fortune;
  2. Don’t use any fortune-giving items;
  3. Ignore all chests from daily quests except the last one;
  4. Spend your walks: by clicker or bot.

If you can’t keep your fortune low you’d better do not masquerade at all.