Top 5 GBs MOST & LEAST Vulnerable to Power Creep | Forge of Empires (2024) FoE

Since we've all been playing Forge of Fragments, the Blue Galaxy has probably become my most useful building.

Traz is not just 70 tiles, it's 70 tiles PLUS the units building you need to also have in your city for the Traz to actually work.

I would caution viewers as I have my guild. How long before Inno buffs Great Buildings? It would be a terrible feeling to delete a high level Traz or HC only to have it buffed 6 months down the road. It would be an easy decision if you could store them. But you cant. So if you ever want to rebuild your starting from scratch.

love the personal touch you add to the videos, and the enthusiasm :) It was also nice to find out FoE-Info video went viral :D Can't wait for V2 complete rework to be completed, that solves many issues of it :) eager to show you future direction of it as well :)

I'd replace SV with CF, but other than that I fully agree :) great video as always!

Thank you for a new video❤ I will not deliberate about any individual GB you put on the list, just share a general thought: the game delivers considerable updates these days (cultural settlements, QI, GBG etc). I would be patient this year, not disposing any of the GB and just waiting😉😘

Traz is 70 squares PLUS the size taken by the Military buildings. Mine is only at level 25, so if needed again it can be raged up to that level pretty easily.

Interesting idea for the video, power creep is definitely the hot topic of the moment in the game. On your most vulnerable list, I think you've got that about right, although I'd say the HC is still worthy of it's place due to the high supplies production and those days when you get the Spoils of War bonus of 200FPs land multiple times are pretty sweet (450 FPs+ some days). With all the fragments in the last year or so, the BG is now one of the must have GBs in the game, certainly, as chasing all these sets is a lot easier with one. You are right to highlight the situational nature of the CF, but ultimately it's still pretty much a must have for anyone past the early game - with all the new quests in each era, the CF's multiplier on all the goods and more importantly diamonds is critical. I realise you've stated that it's based on what you've built, but I think you've got to get yourself a SV and that probably goes in the top 5, and bumps the Zeus to maybe 6th. Ubernerd has done a couple of videos on GBs and which is the best for whichever metric you care to examine, and a high level SV comes in fairly close to top for goods and diamonds compared to other GBs. I'm a fairly recent convert in the last 6-8 months or so (same as BG), but for the amount of stuff you get back just for aiding people (and with auto aid it's 3 clicks and a few adverts per day), it's a really valuable GB nowadays.

You talk about the devaluation of GB's and how Arc may be less important. No as you described some GB's are more valuable, especially BG and the SAT GB's. Some are less valuable but GB's will always have value it just may be different ones. So FP's will always have value. BP's and medals will have value and having a lv180 ARC will always be valuable. What kind of sucks is having to delete lv100+ GB's because what was once good is no longer good and the city space is better used for something else.

Great video... good points, in the back of my mind I thought the same, but never really acted on it, but I will now refocus my investing in GBs a bit more. Oh, and, I have been using the FoE Helper for some time, never noticed the event building helper. Best tip of the week! Thanks.

#1 building other than the Arc is definitely the Blue Galaxy. always rush it to level 55. Aachen is the worst attack/defense building now

I have all the GB's you have with one exception. I recently removed my ToR only because after three years it was only at level 4 because I wasn't getting BP's.

Power Creep is the end stage of Inno's strategy for forcing you to spend MONEY! It happens with every single one of their gaming properties. It happened with Grepolis a couple years ago...if you want to be a champion, you have to spend real money. That is what Power Creep is about.

In the first few days of QI, I did all the battles manually. But later, when I started accumulating troops, I switched to auto battle. Right now, for example, I have 100+ ballistas, so I don't see the point of doing manual fights, since I'm losing only 1 troop per fight and I can recruit at least 40 every day. About your list, I think you made good points, although I think that Traz is still relevant for fighters and ToR is kinda needed if you have a diamond farm (ok, I know that at most you'll get maybe 2 FoY per month at level 100 doing all 5 levels of GE, but that still something). Zeus still being this efficient is the reason I only built this GB on my new diamond farm world. Blue Galaxy, it's funny because I took a long time to finally build it, but now is one of my faves together with The Arc. Great video as always, Bardo 😁

With the change coming of the Antiques Dealer that is live on beta right now the TOR actually becomes more valuable again becaue it can generate a decent amount of stuff to sell at the trader to win more auctions for those finally good kits that they will add once this is live so I think considering that recent change I will have to disagree with you on that building. Before this change I 100% agree with you, now it is just looking brilliant again because the new meta will certainly be completing sets you couldn't from previous events via the antiques dealer.

Top3 GB’s in this age of FoE, imho: Arc lvl180, it’s a no brainer ever green GB Blue galaxy, it’s buffed by power creep but doesn’t make much sense to level it too far, making it a bad fp-sink but an excellent overall GB Arctic orangery level 201, at that level it has 50% critical hit chance and is an awesome fp-sink giving fps too. Past that level it still improves the critical hit chances slightly The situation for the above 3 is for any age you’ll stay in for years to come. Potentially till the day you’ll stop. From that perspective it actually can still make sense to level your AO. As a means to “dump” fps while still getting some benefits out of it. Even past level 201. Although it’s unlikely you’ll hit that level in the first place. It’s imho worth considering when picking GB’s nowadays

good video. Yes, i also like my chateau frontenac and spend a lot of fPs building it up.coz i like the extra diamonds....since i have no intention of ever spending money.....)))...fallen into the money pit trap before on laptop games and will not do so again!....its insane in games like world of tanks for instance.......serious money needed to be competetive....they are only pixels!!)))

Got Ride of TOR aboyt 7 mobths ago. And it was the best decision ive ever made. i forget it exists from time to time.

The updated main settlement buildings makes these effects worse. I'm going to keep my Traz (hoping they update the GB rewards or give us a way to store GBs) but it's almost worthless now. The Royal Bathhouse now gives 20 units and the unit emissaries changed from giving 1 or 2 units to giving 13 units each. So, the supply of troops (as you mentioned) has greatly increased. But, the need for troops also has greatly declined. QI doesn't use any troops from your city...but GvG did. GvG had a tremendous need for troops....attacking used some troops but DA (defensive army) needs were horrendous for guilds that were actively fighting in GvG. One great thing about the Traz (again, as you mentioned) is it's ability to target what troops you get...even earlier age troops. Now, all our troops needs are for current age only...further reducing the need for a Traz. My L6 Mughal's Temple gives 107 FP (130 FP with a Forgotten Temple and potentially doubled with the BG) which now overshadows my L100 CC. When the SG came out there weren't a lot of buildings producing previous age goods. So, at the time, it was worthwhile planting. My L70 SG produces 145 goods, but my L9 Sun Temple produces 310 previous age goods and my L9 Shinto Temple produces 365 previous age goods. The power creep in special buildings and settlement buildings made this fairly worthless. Although the SV isn't impervious to power creep, it has been hardly effected since it produces so many goods and it produces diamonds...like an entire WW/FoY farm all in one building.

I want to see players fighting above attrition 150 everyday without the Alcatraz. My attack is 5.3k/4.3k in GBG and it costs me around 2k nailstorms on each season, because I autobattle until 160 every day, and then I mix auto and manual above it. That means about 1.5k diamonds profit per season. I don't really want to earn less diamonds. How much land I must fill with random buildings to support this demand? 4 months producing onlly nailstorms in my traz level 100 and my rogues dropped 10k. So from where am I getting the rogues I need? And for those in SAT thinking about the Ethereal Airship, don't forget that each of them burn 4k of your population. Which means that you must keep crappy buildings that give you population to support that. And once Space Age Hub comes out with a different demand, what you'll do? Build the Traz again? Delete the Alcatraz and you'll never be a top fighter. That's the biggest mistake a player can make.