Optimizing Boosts

Boost Contributors

Boosts come from several sources:

1. Buildings (e.g. Villas increase troop training speed, Barracks give you defense bonuses)
2. Research (which is done at the academy and will guarantee Nirvana if your patience makes it to maximum mastery level)
3. Hero boosts (from skill points allocated)
4. Hero equipment and gems which are embedded on them 
5. Temporary boosts (which you can buy and apply for periods of time)

The most malleable & reversible types of boosts are the hero boosts (you can reallocate these points using a special store item if you felt like you didn't optimize the points the first time round), and hero equipment (which you can take off and swap for something else anytime you are going for a different goal).

Optimizing Boosts for War

When you want to optimize your boosts for a warring account, the tendency is to maximize boosts on a single type of troop. The reason for this is because at mastery level, you will get a significant % increase in boost). By focusing on one type, you can have extremely powerful e.g. Infantry and that means you will get a lot more power out of your troops than if you had spread the points/research equally over 3 troop types. This also means you should specialize your troop type as well by building e.g. 50% infantry if you had invested your boosts in infantry the most.

You will also want to have a piece of equipment that significantly boosts the troop type you invested in and lends some support to the other types of troop as well. Look into crafting armour or accessories that help to achieve this goal.

Optimizing for Peacetime Growth

During peacetime, it is not necessary to rearrange all your skill points but wearing the right equipment certainly helps to boost productivity. Choose equipment which speed up research and construction, or boost food and silver production. You can always keep the War equipment for later use.

Optimizing for Farm Account

Your farming account is one that does not require the same firepower boosts as your warring account. If that is the case, it also means that the points should be allocated towards boosting production. Likewise, your hero for this account will not require equipment with high attack - rather, focus on items that get you higher food production, silver production and speeds up research, construction, gathering and load increase.