Edward of Woodstock Guide & Talent Tree Builds | Rise of Kingdoms (2024)

Edward of Woodstock is exclusively available for kingdoms over 120 days.

• Edward has the highest damage per skill in the game, it is extremely high damage.
• He is a versatile archer commander thanks to his march speed, great resistance (health) and attack that he offers to his units.
• Good against any commander thanks to its high DPS. Better yet against infantry.
• Great commander for PVP.

• It does not have a healing factor.
• His role as commander is only primary, secondary loses much of his skill damage.
• The cavalry will be its main weakness, its powerful attack will be very effective against the little defense that Edward imposes.

Skill	Description
Archer’s Honor Active	Deals massive damage to a single target (Damage Factor 1500, 750 if this commander is serving as a secondary commander). Once used, it will reduce the rage of Edward’s troops by 300 (cannot drop below 0 rage). Upgrades: Direct Damage Factor: 1500/1700/1900/2200/2500 Damage Factor (When Secondary Commander) 750/850/950/1100

The active skill has a high damage factor, so it’s best to use Edward as a primary commander to maximize his high damage factor.

If he is used as a secondary commander, the damage factor is reduced by a lot.

What is unique about Edward is his high rage cost to activate his active skill with high damage factor as a primary commander and he will reduce his own rage of 300 per skill cast.

Skill	Description
Vengeful Crusade Passive	Increases archer units health by 10% and march speed by 10% while troops are on the map. Upgrades Archer Health Bonus: 10%/15%/20%/25%/30% Archer March Speed Bonus: 10%/15%/20%/25%/30%

Increasing up to 30% of Archer’s HP + March Speed at level 5 is literally a lot! Edward is made to go crazy with Archers!

Skill	Description
Crecy’s Campaign Passive	When the army led by this commander contains only archer units, increases skill damage by 5% and increases damage dealt to Infantry units by archer units by 1%. Upgrades Skill Damage Bonus: 5%/10%/15%/20%/25% Damage To Infantry Units Increased By 1%/2%/3%/4%/5%

So make sure you have only archer units, no mix troops in here to make the most of him. You need to, also, focus on the Archer path in the talent tree to boost the Archers furthermore.

Initially, Archers are already stronger than Infantry. Here, you will get even more power against the most used type of troops, the Infantry.

Skill	Description
Limoges’ Ambush Passive	When army led by this commander is at 70% strength or higher, increases attack of archer units by 15% and decreases defense by 10%. Upgrades: Attack Bonus: 15%/20%/25%/30%/40%

The way you want to play with Edward of Woodstock is not going to go too deep down to the enemy territories.

If you want to maximize this skill, you want to always have your army at 70%+ of HP percent.

A trick for you to use is to go is in and out of the city or the flag to refresh the army health bar. This way you will always have the HP staying above 70%.

Skill	Description
All or Nothing Expertise	Increase normal attack and counterattack damage by 50% for 2 seconds after using a skill.

Versatility Talents

• This time we will not use any of the talents of “Versatility”

Skill Talents

• Heraldic Shield: Reduces skill damage taken by 6%. Any damage reduction we have will be good for our battles, it will make us much more resistant.
• Burning Blood: Normal attacks grant an additional 9 rage. By focusing on our damage per skill, this talent will regenerate our rage much faster to reuse our active skill.
• Tactical Mastery: Increases active skill damage by 3%. Important for our damage skill increase.
• All for One: After the primary commander uses a skill, active skill damage of the secondary commander is increased by 6%. Any secondary commander with Edward will have an extra percentage of damage skill, this talent is great, it increases the damage of our army in general.
• Latent Power: Enhanced additional skill damage by 6%. “Latent Power” + “Tactical Mastery” = +9% additional skill damage. Great!
• Clarity: After using an active skill, increases skill damage by 6% for the next 6 seconds. Edward has an active skill that requires a lot of rage thanks to its massive damage, however, this talent will be ideal because before restarting the buff that guarantees us, he will have time to launch “Archer’s Honor” again this time with 6% extra damage..
• Rejuvenate: Instantly restores 60 rage whenever a skill is used. Important talent for the reuse of our active skill and take advantage of the talent “Clarity” safely.
• Feral Nature: Normal attacks have a 10% chance to grant an additional 100 rage. Its probability is very important, if we are lucky we can connect Edward’s massive attacks much faster and take advantage of any of the buffs per seconds like “Clarity”.

Archer Talents

• Arrows Nocked: When the army led by this commander has been reduced to 50% strength, increases all attack troops by 9%. “Limoges’ Ambush” Edward’s passive skill when combined with this talent increases + 49% the attack of archers by reducing 50% strength.
• Rapid Fire: Increases normal attack damage of all troops led by this commander by 1.5%.
• Armed and Armored: Increases health of archer units by 3%. Our archers will be much more resistant.
• Thumb Ring: Archer units led by this commander deal an additional 9% damage to infantry units. Edward is a powerful commander against the infantry as he is an archer and has his skill “Crécy’s Campaign”, if we add this talent it will be a nightmare against these units.
• Razor Sharp: Grants an additional 9 rage after launching a normal attack. Any gain from Rage to Edward is important.
• Venomous Sting: Increases active skill damage of primary and secondary commanders by 8%. “Venomous Sting” + “Latent Power” + “Tactical Mastery” + “Clarity” = 23% Additional Skill Damage. Incredible!

Versatility Talents:

• This time we will not use any of the talents of “Versatility”.

Skill Talents

• Heraldic Shield: Reduces skill damage taken by 6%. When attacking in rally it will be important to have this talent to reduce the damage of commanders caused to Edward.
• Burning Blood: Normal attacks grant an additional 9 rage. Very important talent.
• Tactical Mastery: Increases active skill damage by 3%. Excellent!
• All for One: After the primary commander uses a skill, active skill damage of the secondary commander is increased by 6%. An important talent for our secondary commander.
• Latent Power: Enhanced additional skill damage by 6%. “Latent Power” + “Tactical Mastery” = +9% additional skill damage.
• Clarity: After using an active skill, increases skill damage by 6% for the next 6 seconds. Like our open field build “Clarity” it will be very effective when attacking garrisons by rally.
• Rejuvenate: Instantly restores 60 rage whenever a skill is used. Excellent talent to continue taking advantage of “Clarity” during battle.

Archer Talents

• Arrows Nocked: When the army led by this commander has been reduced to 50% strength, increases all attack troops by 9%. By losing 50% of our troops, we will gain 9% damage in the remaining ones, thus balancing our attack-loss.
• Rapid Fire: Increases normal attack damage of all troops led by this commander by 1.5%. Good.
• Armed and Armored: Increases health of archer units by 3%. More resistance for units commanded by Edward.
• Thumb Ring: Archer units led by this commander deal an additional 9% damage to infantry units. Edward will deal much more damage to infantry garrisons.
• Venomous Sting: Increases active skill damage of primary and secondary commanders by 8%. “Venomous Sting” + “Latent Power” + “Tactical Mastery” + “Clarity” (Passive Skill) = 23% Additional Skill Damage.
• Phoenix–Tail Arrows: When the army led by this commander contains only archer units, normal attacks have a 10% chance to trigger an additional attack (Damage Factor 200) on target. Good talent for probability, it deals extra damage to any garrison attacked by Edward.
• Whistling Arrows: When the army led by this commander contains only archer units, normal attacks have a 10% chance to increase all damage dealt by 25% for the next 2 seconds. This probability is great, when attacking a garrison during the 2 seconds Edward will cause a lot of damage.

	Legendary archer commander, Edward’s best choice, his tough ultimate skill and DPS will be essential for any form of PVP attack that Edward imposes, both rally and open field. Both will be a powerful mix of archers.
	Another one of the good archery commanders. His AOE damage is excellent both in open field and rally, in addition to having an incredible skill damage increase, he will boost each Edward attack in high numbers.
	One of the most coveted archery commanders in the game for having a healing factor in addition to many statistics such as defense, attack and march speed that will make them an extremely strong pair for open field or rally.
	El Cid is a commander who does not have much damage skill, however, the statistics to archer units that he provides are very useful for Edward, they increase even more the resistance and attack of each bow directed by both commanders.

Recommended Equipment for Edward of Woodstock

	22 Days	Cavalry Defense +3% Infantry Defense +5% Archer Defense +5%
	3.5 Days	Infantry Health +2% Archer Defense +2% Damage to Barbarians +3%
	14 Days	Infantry Attack +3% Archer Health +3% Commander EXP Gain +3%
	10 Days	Cavalry Attack +2% Archer Attack +1% Commander EXP Gain +3%
	14 Days	Infantry Defense + 3% Archer Defense +3% Commander EXP Gain +3%
	0.75 Days	Archer Defense +2% Gathering Speed +1%
Total	64.25 Days	Attack + 1% Defense + 12% Health +3%

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