Skills

Air attack

This Epic Skill increases damage dealt by aviation by 2% per level. This can especially prove useful for sniping enemy buildings which sometimes survive with just a few percent of HP.

Attack of the Heroes

This Epic Skill increases damage dealt by heroes by 2% per level. This can especially prove useful when trying to kill enemy unit with their active or passive abilities.

Boost Duration

This Epic Skill increases the duration of Boosts by 2% per level. Which means that the overall number of Boosts used per battle will decrease, which in turn will decrease the cost for boosting.

Boosts Conversion

This Rare Skill reduces the cost of Boost Conversion by 5% or 1 Boost per level. This allows the exchange ratio to increase from 20 Blue / Red Boosts for 1 Red / Gold Boost to 10 to 1.

Building Attack

This Common Skill increases the attack of defensive buildings by 2% per level. This means it does not affect Superweapons like Space System and Nuclear Launcher. Furthermore Bunker or Sniper Tower rushes on small Maps can also profit from this Skill.

Building Durability

This Common Skill decreases the damage received by all buildings by 2% per level. This is especially useful for defensive buildings which usually take the most damage from enemy attacks. It also enables more buildings to survive the attack of a Space System or Nuclear Launcher as the damage dealt by them decreases with distance from the attack point. Furthermore it helps you stay safe(r) from building snipes from Vertex or Hawks.

Command Points

This Rare Skill increases your total CP by 2 per level. This is independent of your HQ level and even allows you to build units worth between 2 and 20 CP (depending on the level of the Skill level) without having a HQ. This makes it especially valuable for defending against rush-attacks.

Construction speed

This Common Skill increases the construction speed of all buildings by 2% per level. This makes it especially valuable for getting specific production buildings like the Shipyard on water maps quicker. It can also help you to get last-minute defensive buildings built just in time for the enemy attack. This bonus stacks with the construction speed upgrade of the Construction Yard.

Container Capture Speed

This Common Skill decreases the time needed for units to automatically pick up containers by 5% per level. This can prove to be especially useful at higher Skill levels where it can allow you to pick up containers, while moving, without manually tapping them to collect them. This bonus stacks with the container collecting time reduction of the infantry scout Boosts.

Contract Reward

This Rare Skill increases the amount of Credits gained from completing Contracts by 10% per level, but it does not increase the amount of War Points gained. This means this skill is useful to permanently increase your income.

Daily 1st Victory Bonus

This Rare Skill increases the amount of Credits gained from winning the first battle on a day by 20% per level, but it does not increase the amount of War Points gained. This means this skill is useful to permanently increase your income.

Deployment Duration

This Common Skill increases the duration of Deployment Mode by 2% per level. This Skill stacks with the duration increasing upgrade in the HQ, making it even easier to build mid-tier technology while still in Deployment Mode.

Deployment Speed

This Common Skill increases the construction speed during Deployment Mode by 4% per level. This Skill stacks with the Construction Speed Skill as well as the construction speed upgrade of the Construction Yard. This Skill doesn't increase the speed of building upgrades though, as Deployment Mode only affects newly built buildings.

Flag Attack Bonus

This Common Skill increases the attack bonus given by Flags by 10% per level which makes holding flags in Domination, Maneuver or certain Tournaments a lot easier. This bonus is multiplicative. This means a 10% bonus on 5% attack bonus would mean 5% * 1.10 = 5.5% bonus attack instead of 5% + 10% = 15%.

Flag Capture Speed

This Common Skill increases the speed of capturing a flag by 5% per level which decreases the time units need to remain on flags to capture them.

Free Case

This Common Skill decreases the cooldown of the Free Chest which initially has a cooldown of 4 hours by 3% per level. This increased frequency of free chests can, depending on how often you login every day, increase your income.

Guaranteed Credits

This Epic Skill increases the amount of credits you receive from all chests by 5% per level, therefore aiding your longterm economy.

Infantry Attack

This Common Skill increases the damage dealt by infantry units by 2% per level. This is especially useful for infantry rushes and container gathering.

Naval Attack

This Rare Skill increases the damage dealt by naval units by 2% per level. This will help you gain dominance on water. Deltas, the Tier 1 Confederation naval units are still affected by this this Skill when they are on land.

Penalty Cooldown

This Rare Skill decreases the cooldown of producing a hero after it gets defeated. This is especially helpful when the army composition of a player is centered on supporting a hero unit.

Protection of the Heroes

This Epic Skill reduces the damage that heroes take when attacked. This will help them more easily retreat from the the enemy line as well as protect them from sniping attempts with avia.

Resource Containers

This Common Skill increases the resources received from Containers collected during a battle by 10% per level. These extra resources allow you to directly go for a higher tier of technology at the beginning of a battle.

Resources income

This Epic Skill increases your total resource income by 1.5% per level. Back in a old version of the Skill System, where players could freely choose which Skills to improve, this was the sole Skill that almost everyone had maxed which should clearly illustrate its overall usefulness.

Skirmish Battle Reward

This Rare Skill increases the amount of Credits gained from defeating the AI in Skirmish Mode by 10% per level, but it does not increase the amount of War Points gained. This means this skill is useful to permanently increase your income.

Starting Resources

This Rare Skill increases the amount of resources you start each battle with by 2% per level and stacks with the Deployment Storage Upgrades which also provide extra resources at the beginning of a battle. This skill makes technology rushes, where your aim to get to a high HQ level faster, easier.

Tournament Battle Reward

This Rare Skill increases the amount of Credits gained from winning Tournament Battles by 10% per level, but it does not increase the amount of War Points and Skill Cards gained. This means this skill is useful to permanently increase your income.

Unit Durability

This Rare Skill decreases the damage received by your units by 1% per level which stacks with other damage reductions like from the Energy Shield. It basically increases the survivability of units significantly.

Upgrade Cost

This Epic Skill decreases the Credit cost of all upgrades by 2% per level therefore allowing a player to spend less on an upgrade. This skill is an investment into a better long-term economy. Note that upgrades does not refer to other skill card upgrades and only to those found in the upgrade menu.

Uranum Recovery

This Common Skill increases the speed with which Uranum is recovered. This allows the player to use heroes again faster without having to manually replenish the Uranium.

Uranum Supply

This Rare Skill increases the maximum Uranium that a player can store. This helps with providing enough Uranium to last multiple battles in a row.

Vehicle Attack

This Epic Skill increases the damage dealt by Vehicles by 2% per level and is the most useful out of all attack bonuses, as the vehicle Class which includes both Assault Vehicles and Special Vehicles is the one with the highest number of units. This also means, that this Skill can prove useful for Air defense as both the Typhoon and Porcupine are classified as Vehicles.

War Points

This Rare Skill increases the amount of War Points you receive from all sources by 3% per level which makes reaching the Secret Chest of the War Point Chests easier.

War Points limit

This Common Skill increases the daily maximum amount of War Points you can receive from all sources by 3% per level.

WW Battle Reward

This Epic Skill increases the amount of Credits, but not War Points, received from World War Battles which also includes 2v2 games by 5% per level. This stacks with other Bonuses like the ones a player gets by having Premium.

Skill Cards Upgrade Costs

Art of War 3 Upgrades