I do agree with you on maxing out your tower. It won’t hurt you one bit its the resources you need.
Myth or facts – is there any truth in you should not upgrade your Watchtower (WT) past levels 10-12?
The difficulty of teams that you go up against is +/- ~300 cups vs your cup score. Your watchtower level and team power don’t have anything to do with it.
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Why would someone want to lose cups on purpose? I’m kinda new to the game so I don’t really see the purpose of cups at all.
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I agree with this. In diamond the higher you get, the faster and further you fall. I generally stop between 25-2600 and if I press further than that things get crazy. The very high diamond are now in your radar and they raid like crazy.
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Some people drop their cups to get in a lower arena than they supposed to be in based on their heroes. And in that lower arena they can easily fill their raid chest because they have much stronger teams than most of the players in the given arena. However the raid chest gives loot based on your arena so dropping into a lower one does not worth it IMO. Some time their drop to fill their chest in the lower arena but they climb back and open the chest in the higher one.
Thanks for the info. I didn’t even know that this was a thing.
There is NO TRUTH in it at all by NOT doing it you are LOOSING out on ham and iron
Lvl 15 Watchtower is the best place to be. 14 to 15 is a HUGE increase in production. Combined with most of the main story completed and you have one heck of an iron producer. (Food also, but who cares about food?)
What is this lower and higher arena you speak of? I don’t understand anything you just said. What arena?
I understand rank and team power as well amount of cups one will have. I for one don’t do cups. Have not been attacked over a week and I am soooo…HAPPY!!!
When raiding the arena tiers are Bronze, Silver, Gold, Platinum and Diamond.
You are matched against people close to your cups within your arena. It used to be very lucrative to drop cups, get into a lower arena, and have an easy time killing the other team, because you could loot ALL the watchtower. Now people still do it, but since you only get a percentage, they do it less, because now all you get is an easy time filling the raid chest by killing other heroes easily.
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I’d like to point out a couple things about cup dropping, and why it makes sense for a lot of people.
When you first can start filling chests at 1800, you are a loooooong way from the next tier at 2400 - as far as 1200 is from 1800. I’m not just talking about team power, but also the depth of your developing roster - some heroes help against specific often-used heroes.
The 2400 (Diamond) league is the highest, which means that every single player with an all 5 star team is expecting to open their chest with cups over that amount. If they don’t have a great defense team, they can expect to drop down to around 2200 overnight. Since you’re matched with teams that are +/- 300 cups, teams that have 1900 cups are fair game for that team.
So, it makes sense for someone who can easily maintain 1800 cups to keep their cups as low as possible, so they can fill their chests without constantly being matched with teams that fill their chests at 2400.
From my own perspective, I can fill 2 chests daily at 1800, or 1 at 2400. The rewards aren’t that much better, so I’d rather get 2 OK shots at AM than 1 slightly better one.
That’s why I put my ‘in training’ team up as my defense team, and drop cups. It’s easy fodder for people in that rank to fill their chests, so why would anyone mind?
Upgrading the WT has nothing to do with the raids. And it should go all the way up to get the iron and ham it produces. And the good thing about the WT is that its only body that still produces while being built. Also, it is the only other building outside of the mines that uses ham to upgrade instead of iron. So my advice is get the mines up to 20, then go ahead and max the WT.
I agree with keeping the watchtower as high as your base level allows. Also it is worth progressing in the main story to get additional percentage increase in production for Watchtower.
There is no longer any reason to keep your watchtower level low.
It is now an excellent producer for resources.
As a new player, I purposely left the watchtower unleveled after being raided a few times.
I thought invaders could crash my base, pillage & burn, etc. & was quite afraid that my farms & houses would be destroyed .
2 years later, I became the raider. I leave the watchtower unleveled to discourage hungry raiders.
I have a feeling that there is a minimum amount of resources that an attacker gets that is partly based on level of watchtower (based on the fact that you always collect a few thousand food). In my experience I’ll be attacked regardless of how much I have, but that I look especially tasty the more resources I have.
So maybe in some minimal way, the higher a WT goes, the higher that amount is… but maybe also doesn’t mater as long as you’re constantly collecting
For f2p WT20 is free 30 gems.
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I was trying to puzzle this out so should specify, its 30 free gems for completing the MISSION 
not 30 gems regularly like in the VIP pass
It’s a myth, watch tower itself has nothing to do with it’s how much you’re raided, that’s really a cup thing primarily. Your WT should be as high as your SH because it produces resources.
My watchtower is at level 20 and has been since my SH was levelled to 20. I truly don’t think it matters in raids as to how much loot they get.
If people don’t want to waste time attacking folks with less food/iron. Then keeping a lower tower, which produces that food /iron that people get from raiding you, kinda makes sense, in a strange way.