Dido is a newly released archer garrison commander in the rise of kingdoms(rok). As garrison leader You are probably thinking if Dido is any good against current rally meta. Well, worry not because in this guide we have everything covered. You will find Dido Talent tree builds, the Best Garrison commanders pairings, the best equipment to use, Formation Guide, and pretty much everything you need to know.
Is Dido Worth Investing?
Yes, Dido is totally worth investing in your legendary sculptures. If you are garrison leader for your alliance or kingdom then you absolutely must have Dido. Why? Well, because currently she is garrison meta and there is no rally option in the game which can get past her, of course given you are using right pairing, equipments, talent builds and formation, something which this guide will help you with.
Jan Zizka used to be the best in the game for a while now, However, our new archer rally meta are just crushing his garrisons. Your best garrison option right now is Dido. She is so powerful that she currently ranks at the top of ROK commander Tier list for garrison.
Dido Skill Overview
Soul of Carthage (Active Skill)
Required Rage: 1000
Deals direct damage to a target troop (Damage Factor 2000). If the target is a rallied army, this skill also reduces the skill damage of up to 5 enemy troops near this commander’s troop by 30% for 3 seconds.
Direct Damage Factor: 1200 / 1400 / 1600 / 1800 / 2000
Skill Damage Reduction: 10% / 15% / 20% / 25% / 30%
Weeping Queen (passive)
Archer units led by this commander gain 20% increased Defense and deal 5% extra damage to infantry. If this commander’s troop contains only archer units, it takes 10% less normal attack damage.
Archer Defense Bonus: 10% / 12% / 14% / 16% / 20%
Archer Deal Increased Damage to Infantry: 1% / 2% / 3% / 4% / 5%
Normal Damage Reduction: 2% / 4% / 6% / 8% / 10%
Queenly Zeal (passive)
Archer units led by this commander gain 20% increased Attack. While garrisoned in a Stronghold or your city, the normal attacks of this commander’s troop have a 20% chance to inflict the Ambushed effect on the target troop for 3 seconds, which prevents the target troop from port benefiting from effect triggered by being surrounded. This effect can trigger once every 8 seconds.
Archer Attack Bonus: 10% / 12% / 14% / 16% / 20%
Probability: 5% / 8% / 11% / 15% / 20%
Beacon of Byrsa (passive)
While garrisoned in a Stronghold or your city, archer units led by this port commander gain 20% increased Health and can reduce incoming skill damage by 15% once every 10 seconds.
Archer Health Bonus: 10% / 12% / 14% / 16% / 20%
Skill Damage Taken Reduction: 5% / 7% / 9% / 12% / 15%
Queen’s Malediction (expertise)
Archer units led by this commander gain 40% increased Attack. While garrisoned in a Stronghold or your city, the normal attacks of this commander’s troop have a 30% chance to reduce the target troop’s Defense by 40% and inflict the Ambushed effect for 3 seconds, which prevents the target troop from benefiting from effect triggered by being surrounded. This effect can trigger once 8 seconds.
Skill upgrade order
5-5-5-5(Expertise)
Dido is great for garrison, meaning you will have to expertise her. Without expertise skill can’t really Garrison. As per the Open field there are better commanders available and you shouldn’t be using her in the field battle. So, upgrade order won’t matter much. As a garrison leader your only option is to max her out.
Pros
- Current garrison meta
- Good synergy with other Garrison commanders.
- Capable of defeating even cavalry rallies
- Makes infantry rallies obsolete for now
- Powerful AOE damage
- Ambush effect and active skill combined prevents swarming of the garrison
- Artemisia and Amanitore finally has new garrison gal to hangout with
Cons
- None at the moment
What is commander Dido good at?
Dido is an archer garrison commander with lots of damage and useful defensive skills. Her active skill and fourth skill greatly reduce the skill damage taken, something that most rally pairing have so much. Ambushed effect prevents enemies from swarming your garrison and top of that she has offensive skills as well as base defense and health bonus. Overall she is perfect garrison commander and currently meta in the game.
Dido Talent Tree builds
Only place where you will be using is for Archer garrison. Below you will find one best garrison talent tree build for Dido. If you are wondering about city garrison, she is decent but there are far better options for city garrison, and she is not worth using for that particular task.
Garrison
Since Dido garrison will only have archer troops in it we are going heavy on archer tree and support tree with some useful skills from Garrison tree. With Dido’s Skills and this talent tree you will be able to hold off your enemy rallies for days.
Dido commander pairings
if you are wondering which commanders, you should be using with Dido for garrison, then below you will find list of all the commanders who has good synergy with her. These pairing will surely provide you good trades against even most powerful rallies.
Heraclius (Secondary)
Heraclius was already being used as secondary commander to Jan Zizka for cavalry garrison meta. He works in same fashion for Dido’s archer garrison. In general, He is extremely powerful secondary garrison commander and provides valuable defensive capabilities to Dido.
Zhuge Liang (Secondary)
Now this choice might surprise you because Zhuge Liang is not really a garrison commander. However, from the reports we have seen Synergy between Dido and Zhuge is great and it’s handling all rallies with ease. Some of the top alliance and kingdoms are already using this pairing and getting really good results with it
Amanitore (Secondary)
Now Amanitore won’t be the best choice for to pair with Dido. But it isn’t totally bad either. if you remeber there was time when Artemisia was being used with Amanitore for archer garrison. Same can be done Here with Dido primary and Amanitore secondary in absence of other garrison commanders.
YSS (Secondary)
Dido isn’t the best choice for city garrison but if you are archer main player with tons of archer troops, then you can surely use Dido with YSS secondary. It will give you some impressive results against city rally.
Don’t forget to check out this best commander pairing guide for 2023 to get most of your commanders.
Dido Best Equipements
Ultimate equipment set
- Weapon: Dragon’s Breath Bow
- Helm: Dragon’s Breath Helm
- Chest: Dragon’s Breath plate
- Glove: Dragon’s Breath Vambraces
- Legs: Dragon’s Breath Tassets
- Boots: Dragon’s Breath Boots
Stat boost from the set:
Archer Attack – 29.5%
Archer Defense – 27.5%
Archer Health – 16%
All troops Attack – 3%
Skill Damage – 3%
Note: Medium and F2P sets are recommended as only players with the best Equipements should be garrison leader.
Medium equipment set
Stat boost from the set:
- Weapon: Dragon’s Breath Bow
- Helm: Revival Helm
- Chest: Revival Plate
- Glove: Revival Gauntlets
- Legs: Revival Greaves
- Boots: Dragon’s Breath Boots
Stat boost from the set:
Archer Attack – 12%
Archer Defense – 42.5%
Archer Health – 0%
All Troop Attack – 6%
All Troop Defense – 3%
F2P equipment set.
- Weapon: Golden Age
- Helm: Revival Helm
- Chest: Revival Plate
- Glove: Revival Gauntlets
- Legs: Revival Greaves
- Boots: Flame Treads
Stat boost from the set:
Archer Attack – 1%
Archer Defense – 28%
Archer Health – 5.5%
All Troop Attack – 3%
All Troop Defense – 3%
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Dido Best Formation
Generally, Garrison commander should use Arch or Hollow square. However, Since Dido has so much skill damage especially when you pair with Zhuge, the best formation for her will be Wedge Formation.
