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 3M goal is achievable, so a possible $69.20 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 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.
- My Progress
- Offer Terms
- Power Levels
- Using Gems
- CoD Redemption Codes
- Community
- Heroes
- Expeditions
- HQ Upgrade Requirements
- The Best Pet for your Hero
- Commander Pairings
- HQ Upgrade Rewards
It is likely impossible to complete the 10M/20M goals in the timeframe given. Engage at your own peril.
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
| Objective | Reward |
|---|---|
| Upgrade your city to level 8 | 0.70 |
| Reach Power 300k | 2.00 |
| Reach Power 500k | 2.50 |
| Purchase Efficiency in Market’s Worker Support (5 Days to complete) | 6.00 |
| Bonus: Reach Power 1M (3 Days to complete) | 10.00 |
| Reach Power 1.5M | 5.00 |
| Purchase Growth Fund (10 Days to complete) | 10.00 |
| Reach Power 3M | 30.00 |
| Make First Purchase | 3.00 |
| Purchase Honor Exclusive after reaching VIP 7 | 25.00 |
| Reach Power 10M | 300.00 |
| Reach Power 20M (30 Days to complete) | 900.00 |
| Reach Tier 3 Troops (30 Days to complete) | 12.00 |
| Reach Tier 4 Troops (30 Days to complete) | 100.00 |
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.
Tip: New players are encouraged to build out Magic Heroes + Archers 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.
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. 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.
| Objective | Reward | Cost (USD) |
|---|---|---|
| Efficiency in Market’s Worker Support | 6.00 | 4.99 |
| Growth Fund | 10.00 | 9.99 |
| Reaching VIP 7 | Daily Prize | Spend Gems |
| Honor Exclusive at VIP 7 | 25.00 | ? |
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.
| Rank | Honor (Cumulative) | Exclusive Cost (USD) |
|---|---|---|
| 0 | 0 | Free |
| 1 | 200 | 0.99 |
| 2 | 400 | 1.99 |
| 3 | 1,300 | 1.99 |
| 4 | 3,500 | 4.99 |
| 5 | 6,000 | 4.99 |
| 6 | 11,500 | 9.99 |
| 7 | 17,500 | 9.99 |
| 8 | 35,000 | |
| 9 | ||
| 10 |
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.
- Tier 5 troops are worth 10 Power each (2M Tier 5 = 20M Power).
At high ranks (4-5 Stars), a hero may provide a power score around 250k. It will would likely be difficult to gain such powerful heroes in just 30-days.
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
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.
| Code | Expires | Contents |
|---|---|---|
| CODTHX1127 | 12-31-25 | 1x Universal Artifact Key, 2x 60-Minute Training Speedup, and Level 2 Choice Resource Chest |
| SSSVIP8888 | 2x Silver Key, 150k Gold, 150k Wood, and 112.5k Stone. | |
| SSSVIP7777 | 60-minute speedup, 60-minute building speedup, 150k Gold, 150k Wood, and 112.5k Stone. | |
| SSSVIP6666 | 1x Silver Key, 60-minute training speedup, 8-hour enhanced gathering, and 1 Epic Medal. | |
| PLAYCODPC | 30-minute training speedup and 8-hour enhanced gathering. | |
| SVIPDRAGON | 2x Silver Key, 150k Gold, 150k Wood, and 112.5k Stone. |
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.
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.
| Gather Speed (%) | Wood Gather Speed (%) |
|---|---|
| 1 | 4 |
| 2 | 6 |
| 3 | 8 |
| 4 | 10 |
| 5 | 12 |
| 7 (awaken to unlock) | 15 (awaken to unlock) |
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.
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).
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
- ◈ CH18: Lv.17 Wall
- ◈ CH19: Lv.18 Wall, Lv.18 Storehouse
- ◈ 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)
The Best Pet for your Hero
Mages
Infantry
Marksmen
Cavalry
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.
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
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