Upgrade buildings and technologies, train troops, gather resources, expand your territory. Command your dragon and lead your allies to victory in massive fantasy warfare.

Reaching the T4 Troops and 3M Power goals is achievable, so a possible $196 in rewards, before expenses.

Complete stated goals in 30 days to earn up to $1,406.20. (https://www.swagbucks.com/games/apps/1666338/call-of-dragons?rb=69384823)

My Progress

Day 26

I made it! Tier 4 Troops are unlocked. When I submit my ticket, I will claim credit for the T3 and T4 ($112) goals. I will wait a day, to give time for it to credit normally before sending a ticket.

I ran out of speedups and had to keep chasing all the weekly events to get small boosts and Gems to spend on speed ups in the Goblin Merchant, Alliance Store, and the VIP store.

I maxed out the Titans Legacy pack at level 80, which unlocked a perpetual reward that cycles between speed boosts and Gold Keys.

Titan’s Legacy is a season long growth pack not included in the required purchases for this offer. It has a free tier and a premium tier for $4.99.

I decided to spend the extra money because it included many speed up items and would be active for 60 days, more than covering the time I would need to finish the offer.

Day 23: I managed to upgrade the citadel to a metropolis (level 21), this unlocked several rewards from the Growth pack, Titan’s Legacy, the Great Halls event, and construction goal rewards. Over 10k gems were included and also several days worth of upgrade speedups.

I forgot to check which researches would be needed to get the Tier 4 troops and so I am behind on the research. There is maybe a months worth of upgrades I still need to finish, so I won’t likely get to T4. In hindsight I should have been researching those items up to this point weeks ago.

Day 16: I’ve reach 2M Power and have started the Citadel 19 upgrade (5d 8hrs). I quit CS alliance and joined Gaia after a lot of toxic behavior by leadership. I’m not the first it seems; I’ve found a bunch of comrades with similar experiences. I got to join and complete an Elite ROC raid. Nice prizes and bounties.

Day 10: I messed up. I misunderstood the VIP levels and I was already at 7 when i spent an additional 17.5k Gems to upgrade it.

The Honor chest was $19.99. I had read it was good to get to VIP 8, but I think I would have preferred to use those Gems on resources or speed ups.

Reimbursement on the Honor chest was $25, so a $6 profit. I hit the 1.5M Power goal. Level 3 Troops still hasn’t credited.

Day 6: Power is 1.2M currently, I should have T3 Troops ($12) in the next 2 days. That should put me above 1.5M ($5) for the goal, I need 4k more Gems to reach VIP 7 to get the Honor chest ($25).

Day 4: Closing in on 1M power now. It looks like the VIP 7 honor exclusive will be around $25, considering the increase in cost from ranks 4-6. My Alliance mates have posted several good guides that I have included here. Best Pet, Commander Pairings, and HQ Requirements.

Day 3: I went ahead and made two additional purchases. I bought a 99 cent pop up deal and the 9.99 Insight Rune for Titans Legacy. Unfortunately, these purchases did not count towards the Purchase Payback, so I did not get more Velyn tokens. I am up to VIP 6 now.

Day 2: I am on day 2, with 380k Power. The 1M power objective is unlikely. I’ve spent $20 and received $19 in reimbursement. I still need to buy the VIP7 chest, but that provides $25 in reimbursement. My goal will be 3M power and Tier 3 Troops.

1. My Progress
   1. Day 26
2. Offer Terms
   1. Strategy
      1. Key Strategies for High Power Growth
      2. Offer Spending
3. Power Levels
4. Using Gems
   1. Farming Gems
   2. Events and Quests
   3. Buying Packs
5. HQ Upgrade Requirements
   1. HQ Upgrade Rewards
6. Guide to Creating a Farm Account
7. Community
   1. CoD Redemption Codes
8. Heroes
   1. Hero Specialties
      1. Fighters
      2. Gatherers
9. Campaigns
   1. Expeditions
   2. Behemoth Trials
   3. Tournament of Champions
   4. Roots of War
      1. Roots of War Guide
      2. Roots of War Rewards
10. Wall Map
11. The Best Pet for your Hero
    1. Mages
    2. Infantry
    3. Marksmen
    4. Cavalry
12. Commander Pairings
    1. Magic Legions
    2. Infantry Legions
    3. Cavalry Legions
    4. Marksmen Legions
13. Beast Battles
    1. Thunder Roc
    2. Hydra

Offer Terms

• Must be installing Call of Dragons for the first time to receive SB.
• In-app purchases and upgrades are available.
• Award will pend for 10 days

*It is likely impossible to complete the 10M/20M goals in the timeframe given. Engage at your own peril.

Strategy

Some players, on Reddit, report being only able to reach 5M power after 30 days of game play and heavy spending, while others have said they reached 1M+ in 3-4 days.

Reaching 20 Million Power in Call of Dragons involves massive troop training (especially T5), completing all research at the College of Order, upgrading buildings to high rank (Level 25), leveling heroes, acquiring War Pets, and maximizing speed-ups and resources.

This was my status sheet on day 26 of play, having managed to unlock T4 troops in research, but not having converted all my units.

With full conversion, my power level would have been 4,012,136.

Tip: New players are encouraged to build out Magic Heroes and Units or Marksmen for ranged DPS. They can be used to support melee armies in your alliance, while also being easier to maneuver away from combat if you are targeted. The Fire/Frost legendary heroes are easily acquired.

Just focus on a primary unit type for combat and use the Arms Exchange feature in Events to swap other units types for your primary. This way you can produce all unit types and then convert them into your primary.

I had 100k mage units on Day 10, and 37k Work Elks. I later swapped 15k Mages to Infantry to help the Alliance for some challenges.

The only exception to this are the Work Elks. Keep them for gathering.

Armies are limited to a single unit type and will typically synergize with the abilities of the hero and deputy hero. Multiple armies can be deployed in unison covering each type (infantry, archer, tank, cavalry).

Cavalry units don’t become become available until Sanctuary level 10. They can however be gained earlier by trading with Camps (Work Elk). These initial cavalry units are meant for gathering and have a high load capacity.

In the event panel, you may swap units of the same tier. I swapped my infantry/tank units for the Tier 1 Cavalry to increase my gathering efficiency.

Key Strategies for High Power Growth

• Troop Training: Train high-tier troops (T4 & T5) for massive power gains; T5 troops give 100 points in events like Strongest Lord.
• Research: Finish all research in your College of Order as quickly as possible, as this adds significant power.
• Building Upgrades: Upgrade every building in your city to level 25 for substantial power boosts.
• Heroes & Pets: Level up your heroes and acquire powerful War Pets.
• Resource Management: Use speed-ups and resources efficiently to accelerate all these processes. 

This video goes over all of the methods for increasing your power rating.

Offer Spending

Some of the goals require a purchase, which may be a good choice given the limited 30 day offer terms.

The Honor Exclusive may be a bit costly. Typically, high VIP levels in mobile games is one of the most lucrative avenues for monetization.

At each rank of Honor, you are prompted to purchase an exclusive pack that includes Liliya’s Tokens. This is the method to upgrade the Legendary starter hero from the First Purchase.

A workaround will be logging in daily to receive a small amount of Honor points, and by swapping your Gems for Honor experience points.

Any remaining levels may be acquired through the extra worker and growth fund purchases.

Purchasing the extra worker will fulfill the requirements of “Purchase Payback” which provides an additional legendary hero (Velyn), and 20 Keys to summon more heroes.

Power Levels

Power comes from Buildings, Heroes, Pets, Artifacts, and Research. Your basic recruited hero and their equipped pet and artifact will provide a moderate amount of power.

• The Citadel provides 91,451 Power at level 16.
• Resource Buildings are worth 10,181 at level 16 (4 each = 162,256).
• Tier 5 troops are worth 10 Power each (2M Tier 5 = 20M Power).

At high ranks (4 Stars), a legendary hero may provide a power score around 100k. It will would likely be difficult to gain such powerful heroes in just 30-days. Blue heroes were around 30-40k power at level 30s and 4 stars.

While a building at max level can provide around 725k power, we will not be reaching those levels in the course of this offers timeframe.

Our first mission will be to complete the level 8 town upgrade on the first day. This can be achieved by using some of the free resources and speed up items new players receive.

On the first day we can also buy the extra worker and the growth pack to clear both of those objectives.

Strategy 1 (Long-term): Save your gems for purchasing VIP points. At VIP level 8, we get a permanent 2nd research slot which will speed up our power gain.

Strategy 2 (Short-term): Gems should be used to exchange for Gold Keys. In the early game the fastest way to reach 1M power by day 3 is to summon heroes.

Upgrading the castle from 8 (town) to 16 (citadel) takes 385 hours or 16 days. You will need 6,072,100 Gold and Wood, and 2,507,790 Stone to complete the upgrades to the main building alone.

There will be additional resource requirements to upgrade pre-requisite structures. Expect to have all other buildings upgraded to level 15.

Buildings do not provide much power until they reach level 21. At levels 20+ buildings provide 30-50k power each when fully upgraded.

Using Gems

Farming Gems

Farming gems can be easy or hard, based on how many players are on your server.

After you learn Gem Prospecting in Internal Affairs, you can send heroes to gather gems. But with many players, competition can be tough.

New players should focus on permanent technologies and other resources first, and start gathering gems once they reach max technology and city hall levels.

Events and Quests

Many events and quests provide gems as rewards. To gather gems over time, it’s important to complete as many of these as possible.

Examples include special events, NPC battles, and daily quests. Joining a whale alliance, where spenders buy bundles and give out free chests with opportunities to win gems, can also help.

Buying Packs

Spending real money on packs usually includes gems. Bundles like Growth Fund, Monthly Pack, and first purchases in the Gem Market can give you many gems. Growth Fund is especially good as it offers a large number of gems, but you need to reach upgrade milestones to receive the rewards.

• Growth Fund $9.99
• Monthly Pack $2.99 or $4.99
• First Purchase $0.99

HQ Upgrade Requirements

• ◈ CH2–3: None
• ◈ CH4: Lv.3 Wall
• ◈ CH5: Lv.4 Wall, Lv.4 Mint
• ◈ CH6: Lv.5 Wall
• ◈ CH7: Lv.6 Wall, Lv.6 Swordsmen Camp
• ◈ CH8: Lv.7 Wall, Lv.7 Alliance Center

(Unlocks T2/Unlocks 3rd Legion)

• ◈ CH9: Lv.8 Wall, Lv.8 Lumber Mill
• ◈ CH10: Lv.9 Wall, Lv.9 College of Order
• ◈ CH11: Lv.10 Wall, Lv.10 Ballista Factory
• ◈ CH12: Lv.11 Wall
• ◈ CH13: Lv.12 Wall, Lv.12 Alliance Center
• ◈ CH14: Lv.13 Wall, Lv.13 Mana Refinery
• ◈ CH15: Lv.14 Wall, Lv.14 Storehouse
• ◈ CH16: Lv.15 Wall, Lv.15 College of Order

(Unlocks Flying Unit/Unlocks T3/Unlocks 4th Legion)

• ◈ CH17: Lv.16 Wall, Lv.16 Abbey (3d 17hrs)
• ◈ CH18: Lv.17 Wall
• ◈ CH19: Lv.18 Wall, Lv.18 Storehouse (5d 8hrs)
• ◈ CH20: Lv.19 Wall, Lv.19 Alliance Center
• ◈ CH21: Lv.20 Wall, Lv.20 Alliance Market

(Unlocks T4/Unlocks 5th Legion)

• ◈ CH22: Lv.21 Wall, Lv.21 Knight Camp
• ◈ CH23: Lv.22 Wall, Lv.22 College of Order
• ◈ CH24: Lv.23 Wall, Lv.23 Celestial Temple
• ◈ CH25: Lv.24 Wall, Lv.24 Alliance Market

(Unlocks T5 Units)

HQ Upgrade Rewards

Guide to Creating a Farm Account

by (GAIA) Atenea.

What is a farm account?

A farm account is a secondary account whose main purpose is to produce resources (wood, gold, mana, and food) to directly support your main account.

1️⃣ Creating the farm account
Create a new account from the Settings → Character management.
Choose the same kingdom where your main account is located.
Try to join a nearby alliance, preferably one located in your same region.

2️⃣ Faction choice
The best faction for a farm account is:
🏹 League of Order (Humans)
Balanced development.
Efficient buildings.
Ideal for accounts focused exclusively on economy and gathering.

3️⃣ City development (priority)
Upgrade only what is strictly necessary to produce resources.
Key buildings
🏛️ City Hall
🌲 Lumber Mills
🌾 Farms
🪙 Gold Mines
🔮 Mana buildings
Research
Prioritize only Economy and Gathering research.
Avoid military or defensive research.

4️⃣ Recommended commanders
Use gathering commanders only:
🔹 Invest only in Gathering and Economy talents.
🔹 Do not spend experience on combat commanders.

5️⃣ Proper troop usage
Train only the troops needed for gathering.
Keep low-tier troops.
Do not develop advanced military structures.

6️⃣ Efficient gathering
Keep your marches always gathering.
Take advantage of resource nodes within alliance territory.
Use gathering boosts only if they are free.

7️⃣ Protecting the farm account
Place the city inside alliance territory.
In case of conflict:
Withdraw troops from nodes.
Avoid confrontations.
Prioritize not losing troops.

8️⃣ Resource transfer
To transfer resources to your main account:
Both accounts must be in the same alliance.
Use the Alliance Bazaar to transfer resources safely.

Community

The Facebook and Discord pages will often feature contests and game trivia. It is easy to get small rewards for participating in these activities.

This was my entry for Ruby’s Christmas Outfit.

CoD Redemption Codes

Codes expire 7-30 days after being released. Check the official Facebook page for new codes.

TIP: The codes are not case sensitive.

Heroes

Call of Dragons was developed by the same company as Rise of Kingdoms and the heroes in both games are essentially the same. The combat system is also the same.

You will have a primary hero that leads the army and a deputy hero that provides Skill (attack) based bonuses. The deputy hero does not lend their talents to the fight, only their skill effects.

Make sure you save the Blue Tokens to improve the skills of your lower tier heroes. New skills unlock every 10 levels.

Upgrade Legendary heroes first to improve your battle efficiency, but afterwards upgrade the blue heroes. They can provide around 70k Power each with maxed out skills and artifacts equipped.

Hero Specialties

Each hero has 3 specialties which may include:

• Gather
• Support
• Overall
• Marksman
• Peacekeeping
• Precision
• Magic
• Skills

Fighters

Combat Heroes excel at PvE and PvP combat. Their skills deal direct damage to foes and include a finisher in most cases.

Gatherers

These economic heroes get a bonus to gathering specific resources and these bonuses can be improved upon in the Talent Tree.

Heroes with the Gather specialty, will have a skill that improves gathering speed in general and also boosts a specific resource gathering speed.

For example, Pan’s Tier 2 Skill, “Secret of the Trees,” provides the following bonuses when upgraded.

Campaigns

Expeditions

This is the idle reward portion of the game. It includes a mini auto grid-battler system with room for 6×6 fights.

Each squad can have two heroes, a pet, and a single unit type. The units should complement the heroes being deployed.

At mission 11, players can activate the double speed option. At mission 30, the multi-battle option can be toggled, which automates the expedition. It will keep fighting until you lose a battle.

The chest on the main screen can be tapped to claim current accumulated rewards which include gold, wood, stone, exp tomes, and hero tokens.

Expeditions are independent of world map battles and can be completed while heroes are out gathering or fighting.

Behemoth Trials

This is a mini battle campaign trail with manually controlled battles. Some trails use tactics and will require some thought on how to advance.

After clearing a Main Stage, you will receive 1-3 star rating, along with corresponding Loot bonuses. You will receive rewards for clearing a Main Stage for the first time.

In Main Stages, you will use your own Heroes, combat units and buff effects. In the Side Stages you are only able to use preset Heroes, combat units and buff effects.

The higher your Loot bonus and the longer you wait, the more Loot you will receive (idle rewards). Loot will accumulate for up to 24 hours, so remember to claim it in time.

The first time you beat Main Stage 5, you will unlock the Auto-Battle feature. Auto-Battle cannot be used in Escort, Tower Defense, Boss, or Side Stages.

The first time you beat Main Stage 10, you will unlock the Multi-Battle feature. Multi-Battle cannot be used in Escort, Tower Defense, Boss, or Side Stages.

During Behemoth Trials, feel free to allocate your Legions as you please, as they will not die or have their numbers reduced. Trial Store items will be refreshed at midnight each day.

Trial Coins can be used at the Trials Store to buy various Hero Tokens and items.

Tournament of Champions

This is an Arena for PvP. You can create a team of up to 5 legions (HQ dependent) and battle other players lineups.

First start by setting a defense team to handle opposing attacks and then create an offense team. You get 3 attempts each day to battle other players and can spend Gems for extra attempts.

Reaching higher tiers will provide rewards.

Roots of War

Roots of War Guide

This is a mini map battle with set regions to fight over. The goal is to collect energy from the map by gathering resources.

Special mana stones will spawn at set intervals. A team member will pick it up and then walk slowly to a central drop off location. Team members will need to escort the caravan to the location to prevent attacks by the opposing team.

If your team does not have a sufficient number of players present, you can get blocked in by a strong enemy and prevented from accessing the map for the duration of the event.

Roots of War Rewards

Wall Map

The floating compass above the city wall takes you to the storyline game. This works similar to the expedition but requires you to navigate the heroes on a mini-map and battle enemies in real-time.

You can use any of the heroes you have unlocked and raising their levels will improve the success rate for these missions.

Missions are gated by the level of your Sanctuary (Citadel).

The Best Pet for your Hero

Since War Pets unlocking, wanted to share this guide to help you choose the best pet for each legion.

Mages

Recommended pet: Sapphire Faedrake

Reasoning:
The Sapphire Faedrake’s spell fires a large beam that hits the target and nearby legions. Its secondary skill (available in the shop) can increase damage output by up to 40% with one star. Overall, this is the most efficient pet for mages.

Stat priorities: Intelligence and Luck

Infantry

Recommended pet: ice bear & orange bear

Reasoning:
The Ice Bear is good because it offers a shield and damage when it breaks, which can be combined with Eliana or Madeline. The orange bear is good because it offers healing and sustainability, making it good with Garwood and  mu hsiang . Sand Lizards might be better for mages because they heal per second, which is good for continuous DPS and not for tanks.

Marksmen

Recommended pets: Shadow Manticore, Snowpeak Roc, Berserk Faedrake, or Golden Roc

Reasoning:
The Snowpeak Roc’s talent skill works with marksmen but only when paired with Nico or an awakened Kinnara.

Stat priorities: Strength, Agility, and Luck

Cavalry

Recommended pet: Golden Roc

Reasoning:
The Golden Roc’s passive skill provides rage accumulation and additional damage once rage is active. It synergizes perfectly with Emrys and Bakshi, both of whom benefit from rage gain, amplifying overall damage. Combined with defense ignore, physical damage, and HP ignore effects, this setup becomes extremely powerful.

Stat priorities: Strength, Agility, and Luck

Commander Pairings

In this decree, the best hero pairings are listed. Feel free to do your own research as well on google.

Note: An “x” in the number of the skill means it doesn’t matter since the skill is not relevant to the open field.

Tip: Pressing the Lock button when viewing skills will allow you to select which skills to allow to be leveled up. Otherwise, point distribution will be random.

Magic Legions

✿ 5×51 Liliya + 5111 Velyn
✿ 5×51 Liliya + 5111 Waldyr
✿ 5511 Waldyr + 5111 Velyn
✿ 5511 Waldyr + 5111 Alwyn
✿ 5511 Waldyr + 5111 Theia
✿ 5111 Hosk + 5555 Liliya (for the whales)
✿ 5511 Atheus + 5111 Theia (flying units)
✿ 5511 Atheus + 515x Kregg (flying units)
✿ 5111 Theia + 515x Kregg (flying units)
✿ To make any magic march a bit more tanky, you can add a 5×22 Eliana as a secondary.

Infantry Legions

• ✿ 5×11 Garwood + 5×22 Eliana
• ✿ 5×11 Garwood + 551x Bakhar
• ✿ 551x Bakhar + 5111 Nika
• ✿ 551x Bakhar + 5×22 Eliana
• ✿ 5111 Kregg + 55×1 Ordo (only for engineering purposes! And make sure to have Kregg with engineering talent tree)
• ✿ I don’t add Madeline here because we haven’t had her Fortune Wheel, but she is OP, if you do get her at a later stage, use her as primary with any commander above or Hosk.

Cavalry Legions

• ✿ 5×11 Emrys + 5×11 Bakshi
• ✿ 5×11 Emrys + 51×1 Alistair
• ✿ 5×11 Bakshi + 51×1 Alistair
• ✿ 5×11 Bakshi + 5×11 Emrys
• ✿ 5×11 Alistair +5×22 Eliana
• ✿ Sorry cavalry mains, there are not many options for you to use.

Marksmen Legions

• ✿ 5111 Kinnara + 5×11 Gwanwyn
• ✿ 5111 Kinnara + 5111 Nico
• ✿ 5111 Nico + 5×22 Eliana
• ✿ 5111 Nico + 5511 Kregg (good for pvp and engineering!)
• ✿ 5111 Nico + 5111 Hosk (for the whales)
• ✿ 5×11 Gwanwyn + 5511 Kregg
• ✿ 5×11 Gwanwyn + 5111 Nico

Beast Battles

I missed the bear fight, but I did take part in the Thunder Roc normal battle. I died in the water during the first fight, but survived during the second normal battle. I did not have time to join the Elite Roc fight.

Different time zones were a difficulty in this game. Most players were 5-9 hours away.

Thunder Roc

The strategy uses two teams Sun and Moon. Use Discord for voice chat and party management (alliance chat if you can’t use Discord).

Members will send their best legion to participate in the battle. For Normal Roc, T2 and T3 units are fine. But for Elite Roc, only T3’s should be used and you want a minimum of 45k units.

Teams are divided evenly between Sun and Moon with designated Tanks and DPS members. The Roc battle area is a circle divided by land paths in a quadrant.

The Roc will target different quadrants during the fight.

During the fight, if your legion gets targeted by the Red ball (Roc’s attack), your screen will flash red. When this happens, walk your legion to the middle. When the Red ball touches the water, it will become electrified and do heavy damage to any legions present in the targeted quadrant.

Multiple legions may be wiped out if players are not properly coordinated.

During the fight, Dispel stones will appear that will remove the shock from the water, heal members legions, and stun the bird. For the Normal Roc, 8 players are needed to activate the stone. In Elite Roc, 13 members must activate the stone.

After the Roc has been stunned, players can safely attack it.

Tank role during the raid: Tanks will need to keep the Roc in the center of the field. Don’t let it get into the puddles of water. It the Roc does its charge in the water, it will kill half of the people in that puddle.

Multiple rounds of avoiding the Red ball, running from shock water, activating dispel stones, and attacking the Roc will occur. After the Roc has been defeated, players will purify it by targeting the body.

Individual rewards are issued for the top 5 members who deal the most damage during the fight. Alliance-wide rewards are issued regardless of member participation in the event.

Hydra

Mana Stones

• Has a timer.
• Green Stone
• Used for healing.
• Use when necessary to restore the squad’s health.

Poison Cracks

• Circular cracks will appear under players’ feet.