Are you planning to or already running Tokugawa Ieyasu 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 Tokugawa Ieyasu perfrom as strong as possible in all situations.
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Best Troops
As garrison troop types isn’t something he actually cares all too much about (depending where you use him). Ideally you want as much infantry with you as possible because of his 2nd skill, though
Best Commander Pairing for Tokugawa Ieyasu

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Gorgo for mixed garrison you for sure want to pair him up with Gorgo and you will have quite a nice setup going on that will be hard to crack. Heraclius is an altenrtive for mixed garrison pairing if Gorgo is not possible for you. – -. – -. – -.
Find out more about the most useful commander pairings here.
Best Equipment Forge Order
In terms of equipment, here’s what I recommend to use as the route for Tokugawa Ieyasu. 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):
Horn of Fury is a very important accessory for Sargon as it will allow him to get his active skill going quicker, making normal attacks deal skill damage and stacking up the skill debuff from his 2nd skill. Now that the enemy takes 30% more skill damage, cycling through his active skill gets even more important.Ring of Doom is probably the other best choice to increase the damage as you will gain more damage without requirements.
Best Builds For Tokugawa Ieyasu
Below you will find the talent tree builds for Tokugawa Ieyasu 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.If you’re actively using him for garrison, this is the talent build you want to rock him with
This talent tree here is for using him primarily for the sake of boosting Smite damage, which is often not the optimal situation but I feel I still want to show it
Conclusion
I hope this guide for building Tokugawa Ieyasu 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.