The Castle gate gives a bonus to the defense of the front of your Castle. Every time you upgrade the gate, gate protection is increased by 20%. When you begin, you start with a Level 1 gate.
Statistics
Image | Building level | Level required | Resources | Experience points | Defense bonus | Time with (hh:mm:ss) | |||||
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Wood | Stone | Keep Level 1 | Keep Level 2 | Keep Level 3 | Keep Level 4 | Keep Level 5 | |||||
File:Gate .png | Level 1 | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | 20% | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A | N/A |
File:Gate lvl2.png | Level 2 | 11 | 502 | 384 | 11 | 40% | 03:33:00 | 02:50:24 | hh:mm:ss | hh:mm:ss | 01:46:30 |
File:Gate lvl3.png | Level 3 | 24 | 2539 | 3051 | 23 | 60% | 14:44:00 | 11:47:12 | hh:mm:ss | hh:mm:ss | 07:22:00 |
File:Gate lvl4.png | Level 4 | 50 | 4640 | 9631 | 40 | 80% | hh:mm:ss | hh:mm:ss | 30:21:41 | hh:mm:ss | hh:mm:ss |
File:Castle gate level 5.png | Level 5 | 69 | 31720 | 43510 | 49 | 100% | hh:mm:ss | hh:mm:ss | hh:mm:ss | 38:20:00 | 33:32:30 |
Increasing Gate Defense Bonus
You can further boost your Gate Defense Bonus in three main ways:
- 1:Review your Castellan's equipment such as helmet, artifact, armour and weapon and swap them out for any items that have 'increase gate protection by....etc'. This is a useful thing to do anyway once you've captured an outpost as items that were good for attack ie: 'occupation time decreased' are now pointless if your castellan is now going to defend the outpost.
The picture below has the mouse hovering over the castellan and you can read +10% gate protection plus all his other attributes. (He has a weapon that gives him 5% gate protection and armour giving him another 5% Gate Protection). This outpost has a Level 3 gate giving a gate defense bonus of 60% (see table above) and adding the castellan's equipment you can see the total gate defense bonus is 70%.
You can boost equipment further by visiting Technicus when he drops by and upgrading whatever it is you want to boost (gate, walls, speed etc) to increase the %.
- 2: Buy a portcullis from the Armorer when he visits (rubies) or grab them when they come up as nobility prizes or from the Mercenary Post. Portcullis adds 75% gate protection when you add this item to a castle gate slot. It does not matter how many portcullis's you add on a single gate slot - the bonus for this tool is still 75% (though you can have 2 for defending for one wave, for a total of 150&)- but as they get destroyed with each WAVE of an attack it's sensible to buy a few at a time. If you have more than one castle gate slot (from Level 24) add mattresses to the other gate slot. Mattresses add 60% and, as the portcullis, it doesn't matter how many you add - it will always be +60%.
The pic below shows the gate on a Level 37 player OP with a level 3 gate at 205% . Here's the sum: 60% Gate Defense Bonus (Level 3 gate) + 10% from the Castellan's equipment = 70% + 75% for portcullis = 145% + 60% for mattress = 205%
- 3: If you are a Legendary Level player with the Hall of Legends building, you can also increase gate protection with the skill of "Gatekeeper", which can get you 30% bonus gate protection.