Strategy

## Scavenging Strategies

Golem Overlord offers various strategies and different ways you can play the game.

These are three common builds used by players for scavenging gameplay:

1. Attack Build
2. Farm Build
3. Balanced Build

### Attack Build

The attack build focuses primarily on gaining tokens by attacking other players in battle rather than scavenging them directly. Some players refer to this as the "raider" build because gains are made by raiding the stash of other players.

#### Key Player Stats for Attack Build

These are the critical player stats that an attack build should focus on.

* Power: allows you to attack players with higher fortification and increases your win chances.
* Faith: increases the amount of part you steal on successful attacks.
* Golem Charging Station (GCS): reduces battle energy cooldown so you can attack more often.

Note: stats that provide claim bonuses and benefit all builds (such as prestige) are not listed.

#### Attack Build Example

As an example of the attack build, player Guruh ranked 55 on the leaderboard is shown here. This player has 401 power, 183 fortification, 40 GCS, and 628.6 scavenger golems. Although this player may not gain a lot of parts from scavenging, they will make significant gains from attacking other players before each claim.

#### NFTs for Attack Build

Golem Overlord has various NFTs that affect player stats and gameplay in different ways. Attack builds benefit specifically from these:

* Modules: amplifier modules have a chance to roll a variety of stats that improve attacking such as increased power, energy cooldown reduction, chance to prevent repair on failed attack, increased shard steal, permanently see exact win chances, steal ranges, and claim timers.
* Nano Tonic Scouts: scouts provide a temporary boost to a specified player stat or other temporary ability that normally benefits attacks.
* Nano Tonic Potions: both the power and faith nano tonic potions provide a temporary increase to these stats until your next claim.
* Nano Tonic Vigor Vial: the vigor vial gives additional battle energy and increases max energy until your next claim.

Note: NFTs that provide claim bonuses and benefit all builds (such as backgrounds) are not listed.

#### Attack Build Pros and Cons

Some benefits to an attack build are that you do not have to burn many tokens replenishing scavenger golems that decay, or building up a high fortification stat. It also means you are less likely to be attacked by other players during your claim because you will have a low part stash until you begin attacking.

Disadvantages to an attack build include missing out on potential gains from scavenging. From early previews of expeditions, all player stats will have an impact on your expedition stats. Players that ignore some stats could be at a disadvantage in expeditions.

### Farm Build

A farm build focuses on gaining tokens primarily by scavenging them directly from the wastelands. This build has less focus on gaining tokens by attacking other players.

#### Key Player Stats for Farm Build

These are the critical player stats that a farm build should focus on.

* Fortification: determines your strength when attacked which increases your chances to defend against attacks.
* Faith: decreases the amount of part you lose on successful attacks against you.
* Golem Charging Station (GCS): increases the amount of scavenger golems you can build.
* Scavenger Golems: increases the amount of part scavenged.

#### Farm Build Example

As an example of the attack build, player Kn0b0dy ranked 9 on the leaderboard is shown here. This player has 302 power, 780 fortification, 64 GCS, and 5603.1 scavenger golems. Although this player may not gain a lot of parts from attacking, they will gain a lot of parts from scavenging and can only be attacked by a few players with high power.

#### NFTs for Farm Build

Golem Overlord has various NFTs that affect player stats and gameplay in different ways. Farm builds benefit specifically from these:

* Modules: amplifier modules have a chance to roll a variety of stats that improve farming such as increased fortification, short claim timer reduction, and claim cooldown reduction.
* Nano Tonic Scouts: although most scouts benefit attacking, some scouts provide defensive capabilities against other scouts such as the malice scout that increases defense by 10% when active and disables all scouts against you for 3 claims.
* Nano Tonic Potions: both the fortification and faith nano tonic potions provide a temporary increase to these stats until your next claim.
* Nano Tonic Emergency Claim: the emergency claim instantly readies your claim cooldown allowing you to claim immediately.

#### Farm Build Pros and Cons

Some benefits to a farm build are that you do not have to burn many tokens building up a high attack stat, allowing you to be more focused on farming stats. It is also a more passive way to play and takes less time than managing attacks, timing, and related strategy.

Disadvantages to a farm build include missing out on potential gains from attacking. From early previews of expeditions, all player stats will have an impact on your expedition stats. Players that ignore some stats could be at a disadvantage in expeditions.

### Balanced Build

A balanced build focuses on gaining tokens from both scavenging and attacking other players. This build focuses on improving all stats, usually somewhat equally.

#### NFTs and Key Player Stats

For a balanced build, all player stats and NFTs can provide benefit. So we aren't listing any specific ones in this section.

#### Balanced Build Pros and Cons

Some benefits to a balanced build are that you can gain parts from both scavenging and attacking. You can take advantage of all stats and NFTs because anything that benefits attacking or farming also benefits a balanced build. From early previews of expeditions, all player stats will have an impact on your expedition stats. Players that have a balanced build will likely have more balanced stats for expeditions.

Disadvantages to a balanced build are that it is harder to make large gains from either farming or attacking because your part burning will be distributed among all player stats.

## Economic and Earning Strategies

This section can contain strategies for the economy and earning.

1. Selling PART tokens
2. Selling SHARD tokens
3. Selling NFTs
4. Selling services such as offers to attack specific players for a fee