Dragon Spirit

A short description of all important aspects of dragon spirit. Take a look! 

This page will try to gather all relevant information for dragon spirit and benefits which this segment of KoA brings to your account. There are several segments which are important for your adventure in the dungeon:

• Dragon Spirit and Benefits
• Equipment 
• Characters 
• Runestones
• Arena

Dragon Spirit and Benefits

As you know, KoA gives you a possibility for entering this separate segment of the game where your city's stats do not have any impact, but your determination and strategy to complete certain levels of the dungeon. Each level unlocks better rewards and brings benefits to your city. At the moment, I am 24th in explorer rankings with 7-9 level cleared. 

I will try to shortly explain you my strategy, three different classes, and benefits.

First of all, you have to actively spend your time in the dungeon by completing levels and constantly improving your dragon spirit. Your dragon spirit's stamina recovers every day so make sure that you use it. There is a reason why you have so much mana - you should use it to plunder levels you have already passed over and over again.

This gives you coins which can be traded at the undead trader for resources, dragon emblems, statues, and temporary accolades. The math is simple - the more you plunder, the more coins you can get which directly influence your stats and resources. Therefore, make sure you do it daily.

By leveling up your dragon spirit, you can choose talent points which can be focused on your dragon spirit or on army stats. Rush for experience so you can unlock higher benefits. Apart from talents, each dragon spirit automatically unlocks spirit skills which improve both the dragon spirit and stats. If you check it, you will see that i.e. Tier 1 gives you bowmen attack, Tier 4 gives you cavalry attack, defense and health, as well as bowmen attack, etc.

Apart from those benefits, you get special benefits when you clear the first five sections which influence your troops' health, attack and defense (+10%, +15%, +20%, etc). Also, by completing each section, you secure chest contents such as speed-ups, dragon spirit equipment scrolls and crafting materials.

To sum up, you can immediately see all the benefits that the dragon spirit can bring to your city, especially on army stats. My suggestion is to use these coins regularly - in my case, all radiant emblems were crafted because of my dragon spirit. Also, I have filled all prestige statues - either green, blue or purple and have taken a large amount of resources which are safely stored in my bag until I do not need them. 

Equipment 

In order to clear dungeon levels, you need good equipment. First of all, each character has its own set of equipment which fosters dragon spirit's stats which are important for creating a strong spirit. During plundering and clearing levels/sections, you get dragon spirit equipment scrolls. After you collect 100 of those, you can craft a scroll and later, a piece of equipment. Once you have the scroll, you can see that there are 18 different pieces which can be crafted). First 6 are used for berserker, next 6 for knight and last 6 for mage. I will not describe each class in details regarding stats such as wisdom, strength, etc., but will focus on the benefits of each class. 

There are blue, purple, gold (level 35), gold (level 45) dragon spirit equipment scrolls. These levels do not indicate the necessary level of your dragon spirit in order to be able to equip those, but simply a quality of the equipment. To craft a piece of equipment, you need certain materials and steel which are obtained by plundering in the dungeon. At the moment, I have 2x level 45 and 4x level 35 (which are enhanced to level 1). Yes, dragon spirit equipment can be enhanced just as lord equipment can be. It requires materials and steel. The logic behind this is very simple - the higher the level of your equipment and higher enhancement level, the stronger your spirit dragon is.

Runestones

Another important thing is runestones which give a huge boost to your dragon spirit's stats. There are 12 different runestones which affect on defense, attack, health, mana, parry damage, etc. You can refine extra runestones to upgrade the equipped ones and have higher benefits - a maximal level is level 5. For instance, a purple thunder rune level 5 increase the dragon spirit's attack for 910 - a lot!

Characters 

As I mentioned, there are 3 different characters - Berserker, Knight and Mage. Each class has its own benefits, the dragon spirit's talents and has a different impact on the Dragon Spirit Arena. 

• Berserker

• The Berserker is the simplest of the three types. It is focused on dealing as much damage as possible with a conventional attack.
• The corresponding equipment for berserker has a high Attack and Strength value to achieve but is lower on Mana. 
• The Berserker equipment does not have any unique boosts.
•  Early on in the Berserker Talent Tree there is a Troop Attack I project and near the end a Troop Attack II, providing a boost for combat outside of the Labyrinth. 
• The Talent Skills are Berserker Strike I and II (doing extra damage by sacrificing some health) and Savage Swing (doing direct damage).

• Knight

• The Knight focuses more on Health and Defense and it can be considered a Tank.
• The corresponding equipment has a high Defense, Health, Physique and Wisdom, but are relatively low on Attack. 
• The equipment has as extra boosts the Spirit Earth Ability and Spirit Parry Damage. 
• The Parry Damage causes the attacker to take damage when they attack you. 
• The Earth Ability is used for the Knight Talent Skills.
• In the Knight Talent Tree, there are 4 Knight Parry Damage projects, that increase the Parry Damage and Earth Ability. 
• There are two Troop Health projects that provide Troop Health boosts for combat outside of the Labyrinth. The Talent Skills are Knight Recovery I and II (increasing Earth Ability and recovering Health based on the Earth Ability) and Iron Sacrifice (reducing the attack to zero while increasing defense hugely)

• Mage

• The Mage focuses on doing damage via magic.
• The corresponding equipment has a high Wisdom, Physique and Mana, but are relatively low on Health and Strength. 
• The equipment has as extra boosts the Spirit Mana Recovery, Spirit Fire Ability and Spirit Arcane Ability. 
• The Fire and Arcane Ability are used for the Mage Talent Skills. 
• Mana Recovery influences the amount of Mana that is Recovered after each battle. 
• In the Mage Talent Tree, there are 3 Mage Magic Attack projects, that increase the Magic Attack, Fire Ability and Arcane Ability. 
• There are two Troop Damage projects that increase the damage of your troops for combat outside of the Labyrinth. The Talent Skills are Flame of Fury I and II (increasing Fire Ability and doing extra damage) and Dragon Terror (increasing Arcane Ability and doing extra damage).

Here is a text that I found on a possible strategy for your dragon spirit so I will just copy-paste it in here: 

Best Focus Until Dragon Spirit XP Level 27

If you compare Berserker to the other two types, the others are significant less in Attack (Knight) and Strength and Health (Mage) in return for some benefits that are mostly relevant when you can combine it with the Talent Skills. Since the first of these Talent Skills only becomes available when you have reached Dragon Spirit XP Level 27, it is best to focus on Berserker early on.

Actually the three Talent Trees are very similar, and if you focus on being able to carry a lot and visit a lot of screens, you can take the bottom part of a tree, and until you reach the first Talent Skill (when your Dragon Spirit XP level reaches 27), the bottom part of the tree is the same for all three trees.

Focussing on Rugged and later Wild equipment set will give you very good values for the basic boosts such as Health, Attack and Defense, which will allow you to benefit most from the research you have done to increase these with a percentage.

I have had a complete Rugged Equipment Set, but that provided me with no extra set resonance boost. I have reported this to the support, they eventually wrote me a complicated reply that I don't fully understand. It might mean that set resonance boosts only work for the Warmonger set. In my eyes this is set up very misleading in the game.

As soon as I replaced one of the Equipment Pieces of this Blue set with a Sorcerer (Purple) piece I performed better in the Labyrinth, so don't worry about getting a complete set with all pieces enhanced to level 5 or higher.

If you look purely at the key stats (Attack, Defense, Health) the Mage sets are actually a much better match for the Berserker sets than the Knight sets, so if you cannot get complete enhanced Rugged/Wild Sets, consider replacing pieces with Shaman/Sorcerer if you have more scrolls. I am trying to provide as much information about the gears in the Data section on this website, as I can find, so check it out. If you have more Shaman than Rugged scrolls of certain pieces, it might very well be that your enhanced Shaman piece is better in (almost) all regards than your non (or lesser) enhanced Rugged piece.

Best Focus After Dragon Spirit XP Level 27

Once you reach Dragon Spirit XP Level 27 you can unlock the first Talent Skill and at that stage it might become beneficial to switch your focus from Berserker to either Knight or Mage. The amount of scrolls you have of the different types might play an important role in this choice as well.

Ideally, you have complete sets, but looking at the boosts certain pieces of equipment are less crucial than others. For example, a Sorcerer set with a Wild Helmet will still work quite well, since the Sorcerer Mask only provides the Spirit Mana as the Mage specific boost. Spirit Mana increases the size of the Mana bar, and has some value, but is much less important than Spirit Mana Recovery and Spirit Fire Ability.

Similarly for the Berserker sets Earth Ability and Parry Damage are important, so a Noble Set without the Noble Breastplate and Noble Helm can still work ok, especially with an enhanced Wild or Sorcerer alternative, while the other pieces of the Noble set are more crucial to its success.

I am just collecting purple scrolls and am no way near to having enough to doing comparison tests. Ideally, I would like to do some labyrinth runs with a complete Wild, Nobel and Sorcerer set. If I ever get a chance to do that, I will report my findings here. It is relatively easy to switch both Equipment sets (if you have the scrolls...) and Talent Trees.

When it comes to my strategy, I use the knight class and I can see both advantages and disadvantages stated above. While having enormous health, the attack is relatively low which consume a lot of time to clear a higher level of the dungeon. However, you can recover health so you have to use a lot of strategies to clear levels such as healing just before you kill certain monsters so you can get a maximum amount of health back. 

Arena

And now, for the end, let's give a quick overview of a repeatable event called the Dragon Spirit Arena which is similar to the Royal Arena. While, in the Royal Arena, you battle with your Lord and army stats, in the Dragon Spirit Arena, you fight with your dragon spirit against other players' dragon spirit.

You can fight up to 5 times per day for free and gives you small material chests, while every next battle costs 10 golds. By defeating other players, your score increases (and you go up on rankings). After achieving a certain score, i.e. 1100, 1200, 1300, etc., points, you get rewards which include resources, gold, dragon/hero experience packs, etc. 

Which class to select for arena? It is a very good question and I will be honest - I have not really focused on this aspect of the dragon spirit, but my logic and experience tell me to focus on the attack of your dragon spirit. Therefore, I should say that you will always achieve higher ranks with berserker and mage. I can agree on that since I have not even achieved the first reward for 1100 points with my knight class dragon spirit while being 7-9 in the dungeon. The reason behind this is that battles can finish without the winner in which you do not get any points, as well as that the knight class does not have high attack and cannot really do much, especially not vs other knights. On the other hand, berserker and mage classes with their dragon spirit talents can do a lot of damage and completely outburst you in only several attacks. 

That's it!
If you have any suggestions, feel free to tell me so I can completely ignore them ;)

Take care and have fun!
Cay