Top 50+ Best Rise of Kingdoms Tips for Beginners

New to Rise of Kingdoms and you are just starting off? No problem! I have assembled top 50+ best Rise of Kingdoms tips for beginners and newbies like you. These tips was created to help you getting started with your very first civilization and mastering the skills early in the game.

Behold, here’s our top 50+ Rise of Kingdoms tips for beginners!

Top 50+ Best Rise of Kingdoms Tips for Beginners

1. Don’t attack cities at the beginning of game. You will always lose more than what you gain from the battles.
2. Don’t spend money until you fully understand the game. Learn how to create a jumper account and jump to a new kingdom. A fully-geared jumper account is worth $200 in-game bundles.
3. Don’t star up your legendary commanders beyond Level 10 until you have maxed out their first skill. Take advantage of the Star Jump Trick.
4. Always spend your gems on upgrading your VIP Status. Rush your VIP to Level 6 early in the game and continue to work towards maxing it out to get even more bonuses from the daily chest.
5. Pick a civilization that will match you preferred gameplay strategy, for instance Germany is great at combat and France is good at gathering resources.
6. Speed level your City Hall to 22 in order to dispatch up to 5 armies.
7. Your ultimate goal as a F2P player is to rush for Tier 4 troops, that’s when you will be on even platform with majority of the players.
8. To make your life easier, join one of these top alliances to get helps, troops bonus, resource bonus, and more. Be loyal and do your work, you will gain respect quickly.
9. Before using any of your speedups, make sure you max out all of your helps first from alliance members. This ensures you are using your items more frugal and saving them for critical buildings.
10. All players starts on Zone 1 which is the outer area of the map. Work with your alliance to gain control of the passes to move closer to the center where the Lost Temple is located at.
11. Once your alliance gain the control of Lost Temple, the next objective is to compete for control on The Lost Kingdom map next to your kingdom with 7 other kingdoms.
12. A kingdom on average usually is between 200 to 400 real players (not counting farming accounts at all).
13. Don’t start an alliance if you are new, it’s a lot of work and eat up your time easily. It’s like running a business.
14. Being a Free-to-Play player like me is fun, but you won’t dominate in the battle easily. Although, you will do your part in alliance wars.
15. Set up a mini farming account, one is good, two even better. Rise of Kingdoms is all about war and to advance quickly, you need ton of resources. Level 12 farming accounts is good but Level 17 farming accounts is just amazing.
16. Lohar’s Trial is the best event for farming accounts, hands-down.
17. Alliance Center is the second most important structure in the game after your City Hall. Level it up so you can get more helps to speed upgrade more buildings.
18. Always keep researching technology upgrades as they are one of the most expensive and time-consuming in the game.
19. The peacekeeping commanders are worth investing in and you will need them for chain-farming barbarians effectively in Rise of Kingdoms. Use infantry as they are slow and tanky.
20. You always will want to star up your gathering commanders to Star Rank 2 and max out their second skill. Don’t level any further than it as they don’t provide that much of value.
21. Keep Siege Tier 1 units as they are excellent for farming resources. Plus, they heal super fast if they get injured on the battlefield while farming, You can easily heal 1,000,000 Siege T1 units just in 3 seconds.
22. Farming in friendly alliance territory increases the farming speed by 25%. Your alliance also gets 1% on top of gathered resources that can be used to advance alliance technology, build flags and even a new fortress.
23. In the beginning of game, focus on gathering resources as they are easiest and most effective method to get resources for upgrading your buildings, training troops and researching technologies.
24. Runes needs to be activated before you can upgrade them.
25. The largest Starlight gives more experience, medium Starlight gives more luck and increases your chance of getting double amount of experience.
26. Cavalry focuses on speed and counters archers.
27. Infantry focuses on defense and counter cavalry.
28. Archer focuses on attack and counter infantry.
29. One of the most effective way to spawn more resource spots in your alliance territory is to teleport on the edge of the alliance border.
30. Spend your alliance credits on teleporters as they are the best bang of your bucks and comes with a lot of utilities.
31. Tomoe Gozen, El Cid and Minamoto No Yoshitsune isn’t the best commanders in the game.
32. Check the Shop every time Mysterious Merchant pops up in your city and buy everything that costs resources.
33. Did you know that City Level 22 and Tier 4 is just only 1/4 way of the entire game? To obtain Tier 5 troops, you will have to have at least 39 million power.
34. Always complete every Expedition missions with 3 stars so you can get free coins to spend on Aethelflaed and other commanders in the Expedition Store.
35. Germany is the best Civilization for attacking. Japan is great for scouting early in the game and France is amazing for gathering resources, a must-have civilization for farming accounts.
36. The best way to spend your gems is to wait until More than Gem event arrives. You get to collect Legendary Sculptures along with resources, bonuses and special items while spending your gems on VIP Level.
37. Make friends in Rise of Kingdoms. Eventually someday you will want to move to a new kingdom and having friends will have a lasting impact on your future growth in the next game. More friends, the merrier we all are!
38. Commander Level is important, while it expands their ability to command more troops and grow in strength, getting these talent points and investing them in is pretty important. For detailed information on how to invest your commander’s talent points, please visit our commanders page to start exploring the best talent builds.
39. The game meta right now for Infantry is Guan Yu + Leonidas I, for Archer it is Ramesses II + Yi Seong-Gye, and lastly for Cavalry, it is Genghis Khan + Cao Cao.
40. Pick 2 PvP commanders you are confident in and stick with them. Research the best talent builds and understand how to use their skills right to maximize your combat effectiveness in the game. These 2 PvP commanders are going to be your main pair for PvPing.
41. Always save your resource token in your inventory just in case for events and during the wars. Don’t use your resource tokens during peace time.
42. To city bomb your enemies, you will need to play as Britain or garrison your army in an allied city who is Britain player then teleport next to the enemy player and launch 5 minutes rally to take them down.
43. Never research basic economic technologies. Scout map and ask friendly tribes, they will give you basic economic technologies for free. Research military technology all the way until you reach Tier 3.
44. In late game, it is better to stick to one type of troops to converse your resources and to maximize your civilizations / commanders troop specialization.
45. Be smart about PvP battles, if you don’t know what the heck you are doing, just stick to beating up the person you can beat. Otherwise, don’t risk your manpower and resources.
46. Always use your speedups for length upgrades like City Hall. You can use them to help you reach to City Hall Level 21 to unlock Tier 4 troops.
47. Save your Action Point Potions for special events like Lohar’s Trial to speed up and  reap in massive rewards at the end of event.
48. Some of the events requires you to spend a specific amount of Action Points. If you don’t have enough or just want to save them, spam your dispatches on Barbarians or Forts. Then cancel and the game will refund your action points! The event will still record yours in the objective regardless.
49. Login daily and do all daily objectives to maximize your rewards. You get ton of speedups, resource tokens, essential items and a golden key at the end.
50. You can get a headstart early in the game by avoiding these top 10 simple mistakes that new and experienced players makes all the time.