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Are you planning to or already running Cyrus the Great in Rise of Kingdoms in one of your marches and want to see how you should invest the talent points, what equipment works best and what other commanders you should pair with? Well, then you’re in the right place, below you will find answer to each one of those questions and this will help you make your Cyrus the Great perfrom as strong as possible in all situations.
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Skill Order
Skill 1
Skill 2
Skill 3
Skill 4
Expertise
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Cyrus is about archers. His 2nd skill favors archers in term of march speed and attack and his 3rd skill that is really important for his overall performance requires only archers. To finish this route, most of his talent builds rely heavily on the Archery Tree so make sure to run only archer units with him.
Best Commander Pairing for Cyrus the Great
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Ramesses has a good synergy with Cyrus as they will boost their active skills vice versa so you will deal a ton of damage. The only downside here is that this pairing will favor only single-target damage so bigger brawls in the open field will not work that well with this setup. Nebuchadnezzar will turn this pairing into a great setup that deals area damage as well as adding a good amount of march speed so you will have a great setup in the open field. Yi-Seong Gye (YSG) is also in interesting pair that will deal insane amounts of damage but turn out to be kind of a glass cannon as they lack survivability. The extra rage of YSG will, however, contribute really well to the mechanics of Cyrus. Still, I’d only recommend this for Ark of Osiris where you don’t have to pay the repair bill – in KvK this can turn out really expensive. El Cid is a pairing that works with the disarming skill of Cid but away from the tankiness and the possibility to get out of tricky situations will, this won’t give as much synergy as the other pairings I have above. – -.
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Best Equipment Forge Order
In terms of equipment, here’s what I recommend to use as the route for Cyrus the Great. I have tailored this priority order that you can follow step-by-step to prevent forging and running equipment that is not useful or only provides a very small improvement. Follow the equipment path step-by-step and you will have the best and most economical gear:
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And for the artifacts I have tested the different ones here so you can see which ones perform the best (of course I only tested/list the ones that make sense):
Ring of Doom simply increases her damage by a percentage and is one of the legendary accessories that make a lot of sense with Cyrus.Horn of Fury let Cyrus cycle through his skills a lot faster and is a great legendary accessory to run with him.
Best Builds For Cyrus the Great
Below you will find the talent tree builds for Cyrus the Great that make sense when running as the primary commander in any march in Rise of Kingdoms. Please also refer to the description below each talent tree as I explain a general route on how you should spend your talents there + some additional background for each talent build that I very likely will appreciate.
The Versatility Tree is a talent tree you will not use with Cyrus, so you can decide whether to go through the Skill Tree or the Archery Tree. The main difference is that the Skill Build will give you a ton of rage or the Archery Build for a little more survivability.I personally would recommend the Skill Build over the Archery Build as it will boost Cyrus’ damage so much that it’s absolutely worth it. Here’s the build and the best order how to build this setup:The Skill Tree is obviously the first step when creating this build and Rejuvenate should be the first talent you’re aiming for. Then I’d get Latent Power as this will give more extra skill damage that favors Cyrus mechanics really well. From here, closest route towards Feral Nature, this will give Cyrus 150 extra rage each time he uses his skill and makes his rage generation roll faster and faster, apply damage over time more and more and snowball into insane damage output.The Archery Tree is the place where to spend the next points, with Venomous Sting and the 8% extra skill damage of him and his secondary commander the most valuable one to get next. Last points then spent as shown above and you have a crazy damage output talent build for Cyrus.
Here’s the alternative setup that will give him less energy and let him roll his skills less, but will help adding survivability with more march speed and buffing march stats. Here’s the best order how to build this setup:Skill Tree is, as with the build above, the first step to get. You want the extra rage as it will help Cyrus so much. Also Latent Power is a must-get then, it’s simply too good and the 3 talent points are really well-invested.Archery Tree from here with Venomous Sting first and then the fastest route to Whistling Arrows. You will get a good bunch of nice stat boosts doing that.Full Quiver and Razor Sharp then in the Archery Tree before you will spend your last points on Herladic Shield and Tactical Mastery in the Skill Tree.
Conclusion
I hope this guide for building Cyrus the Great helped you investing without wasting much time and resources. If you liked it or you further questions (or maybe also annnotations that you believe should be added here in this guide), please don’t hesitate to post them below in the commen section. Thanks for reading and have a great day and see you out in the kingdoms.
