Guide #6 - Using Merlins Items

How to use items from the store, or that you get from Merlin.

GENERAL

*Merlin’s Magical Token / 5 Gems
Click to use item in My Items, then click Play Merlin’s Magical Boxes. Your token should be there.

*Dragon’s Stomp / 9 Gems
Click on a building or resource field that you want to destroy. Click “Destroy” instead of “Deconstruct” and it will use the Dragon’s Stomp and immediately destroy the building or field.

*Rose of Charisma / 40 Gems
Click on your Knight’s Hall, and go to your knights. Choose your Foreman Knight and underneath the stats on Politics, click “Boost”, then you can use your Rose of Charisma. This boosts for 7 days.

*Gauntlet of Courage / 40 Gems
Increases a knight’s combat by 25% when rewarded, lasts 7 days. Click on your knight’s hall and go to your knights. Choose your Marshal, click “Boost”, then you are able to use your Gauntlet of Courage. You may also select to use your Gauntlet of Courage from your March Troops page on the right hand side.

*Mirror of Knowledge / 40 Gems
Increases a knight’s intelligence by 25% when rewarded, lasts 7 days. Click on your knight’s hall and go to your knights. Choose your Alchemystic, click “Boost”, then you are able to use your Mirror of Knowledge.

*Gloves of Gathering / 40 Gems
Increases a knight’s resourcefulness for 7 days. Click on your knight’s hall and go to your knights. Choose your Steward, click “Boost” then use your Gloves.

*Blood Lust / 10 Gems
Click “My Items” and choose “Blood Lust” OR you can choose it from your March Troops page from the list on the right hand side. Easy to use as you just click it and your troop’s attack is increased by 20% for 24 hours.

*Blood Frenzy / 60 Gems
Click “My Items” and choose to use this, or you can choose it from your March Troops page from the list on the right hand side. Easy to use as you just click it and your troop’s attack is increased by 20% for 7 days.

*Barkskin / 10 Gems
Click “My Items” choose to use this OR you can choose it from your March Troops page from the list on the right hand side. Easy to use as you just click it and your troop’s defense is increased by 20% for 24 hours.

*Stoneskin / 60 Gems
Click “My Items” choose to use this OR you can choose it from your March Troops page from the list on the right hand side. Easy to use as you just click it and your troop’s defense is increased by 20% for 7 days.

*Fertile Winds / 50 Gems
Click on this in your “My Items”, and it will increase your population instantly. – but not over your pop limit.

*Mass Hypnosis / 100 Gems
Clicking on this in your “My Items” causes your happiness to immediately increase to 100. I do not know how long this lasts, I think it's just instantaneous so if you levy until your happiness gets real low you could use this to bring it back up suddenly. (not something I would ever buy)

*Train with Kay / 8 Gems
Click on your knight’s hall and go to your knights. Pick the knight you want to increase their experience, then click “Increase Experience” under their level/experience block. Choose Train with Kay. Increases knight’s experience by 1,000 or 8% of current level cap.

*Train with Galahad / 30 Gems
Click on your knight’s hall and go to your knights. Pick the knight you want to increase their experience, then click “Increase Experience” under their level/experience block. Choose Train with Galahad. Increases knight’s experience by 10,000 or 30% of current level cap.

*Train with Arthur / 100 Gems
Click on your knight’s hall and go to your knights. Pick the knight you want to increase their experience, then click “Increase Experience” under their level/experience block. Choose Train with Arthur. Increases knight’s experience by 100,000 or 100% of current level cap.

*Divine Inspiration / 50 Gems
Absolute necessity to upgrade any building or resource field to level 10. When you go to build a level 10 building or field it will automatically show up if you own any.

*Dove of Peace / 30 Gems
Click to use this in your “My Items” stash, and it will automatically grant you 12 hours of peace (no one can attack you – you cannot attack others). Can’t use if you are currently being attacked or your soldiers are marching.

*Portal of Refuge / 30 Gems
Click to use this in your “My Items” stash, make sure you are in the city you want to move. You will be able to choose which province you want to move to, but not the coordinates, so scouting the provinces ahead is helpful. Choose which province then click and your city appears in a random spot in that province.

*Portal of Order / 90 Gems
Click to use this in your “My Items” stash, make sure you are in the city you want to move. You are able to choose the exact coordinates where you want your city to go using this portal.

*Merlin’s Cloak / 90 Gems
Click to use in your “My Items” stash, and you are given the prompt to change your lord or lady name.

*Renaming Celebration / 10 Gems
Click to use in your “My Items” stash, and you are given the prompt to change your city’s name – make sure you in the city you want to change the name when you click it. One of these is given to you at the beginning of the game, probably in case you didn't pick a decent name for your city.

*Aura of Command / 30 Gems
When attacking, you can apply Aura of Command while on the March Troops page, you’ll see it pop up under the amount of troops you are sending, you can click it to use. It increases the limit of troops by 25%.

*Fountain of Youth / 20 Gems
Go to your Knight’s Hall, and go to your knight’s. Choose which knight you wish to redistribute their experience points. Click “Assign Skills”, and you will see the little button to redistribute their skills. Click that and you will be prompted to use your Fountain of Youth. You will need 1 Fountain of Youth for ever 10 points you want to allocate.

SPEED-UP

*All Hourglasses – Choose to build or research, and when it pops up on lower right hand you are able to click “speedup”. This allows you to choose all the different hourglasses that you can use depending on how much time you want to shave off the building/researching process.

*Siege Master’s Tools / 35 Gems
Use this while building siege weapons. Click on your wall, and choose which siege weaponry you want to build, click to build. You will see the option on the pop up at the bottom to use your Siege Master’s Tools. It will tell you how much it will reduce the time.

*Lancelot’s Tutelage / 30 Gems
Use this while training your troops. Click on your barracks and decide which troops you are going to train. Click to train and you will see the option on the pop up at the bottom to use your Lancelot’s Tutelage, it will tell you how much time reduction occurs.

*Caravan Portal / 5 Gems
After purchasing something from the market, if you want it to arrive instantly instead of in 30 minutes, then click “speedup” on the market tab at lower right corner. Choose then to use it when the pop up shows.

*Green Griffin Wings / 8 Gems
Use this from your Rally Point when you click “ March Troops” or any time the March Troops page comes up. On the lower left hand side you are given the option to use the wings to shorten your march time by 25%.

*Red Dragon Wings / 8 Gems
Use this from your Rally Point when you click “ March Troops” or any time the March Troops page comes up. On the lower left hand side you are given the option to use the wings to shorten your march time by 50%.

PRODUCTION

*Day of Prosperity / 45 Gems
This supposedly increases tax revenue to 100% for 24 hours. Click in “My Items” to activate. The jury is still out on whether this does anything useful.

*Week of Prosperity / 280 Gems
This supposedly increases tax revenue to 100% for 7 days. Click in “My Items” to activate. The jury is still out on whether this does anything useful.

*Harvest Prayer / 8 Gems
Click in “My Items” to increase food production by 25 % for 24 hours.

Harvest Sacrifice / 50 Gems
Click in “My Items” to increase food production by 25 % for 7 days.

*Druidic Blessing / 8 Gems
Click in “My Items” to increase wood production by 25 % for 24 hours.

Druidic Ceremony / 50 Gems
Click in “My Items” to increase wood production by 25 % for 7 days.

*Gnomish Stone Cutter / 8 Gems
Click in “My Items” to increase stone production by 25 % for 24 hours.

*Gnomish Quarrying Team / 50 Gems
Click in “My Items” to increase stone production by 25 % for 7 days.

*Dwarven Mining Tools / 8 Gems
Click in “My Items” to increase ore production by 25 % for 24 hours.

*Dwarven Assistance / 50 Gems
Click in “My Items” to increase ore production by 25 % for 7 days.

CHEST

Click in “My Items” for any chest to be opened. It’s containments will move to the correct tab in your “My Items” tab.

Also note that you can get these things from Merlin--

Siege Volunteers -Gives you 100-200 Ballistae, 100-200 Battering Rams, and 150-350 Catapaults
Requires food upkeep of up to 117500 per hour

Veteran Volunteers- Gives you 100-300 Cavalry, 100-200 Heavy Cavalry, 200-450 Supply Wagons
Requires food upkeep of up to 16900 per hour

Experienced Volunteers - Gives you 200-250 Scouts, 200-300 Pikemen, 150-250 Swordsmen, and 100-200 Archers
Requires food upkeep of up to 6600 per hour

Young Volunteers - Gives you 100-250 Supply Troops and 100-250 Militiamen
Requires food upkeep of up to 1250 per hour