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Trial of Knights: Planning Ascension Spending
How to align Blood of Ares and fragment spending with Trial of Knights rewards instead of ascending generals on a random Tuesday.
Learning Objectives
- Prepare ascension projects before the event.
- Spend only on generals with long-term roles.
- Stop at efficient milestones.
Why This Matters
Trial of Knights is one of the best examples of event stacking. The account already needs ascension, and the event returns additional rewards for doing it at the correct time.
The trap is ascending a poor project merely because the event is active. Rewards do not make a bad general investment good.
How Evony Actually Works
Ascension consumes general fragments and Blood of Ares. Event milestones reward spending during the event window. Fragment availability often becomes the real bottleneck.
Step-by-Step Walkthrough
- Maintain a list of approved ascension projects and current fragment totals.
- Save Blood of Ares between events.
- Before spending, confirm the general remains part of the long-term roster.
- Calculate the exact milestone you can reach.
- Ascend only to the planned stop point.
- Collect event rewards and update the project list.
Optimization by Spending Style
Free-to-Play
Use repeatable-fragment generals and stop at reachable milestones.
Low Coiner
Buy only when a small gap reaches a high-value milestone.
Heavy Coiner
Do not spread Blood across every new general; finish priority projects.
Common Mistakes
- Ascending outside the event.
- Spending on temporary assistants.
- Starting without enough fragments.
- Chasing a reward tier that costs more than it returns.
Elphi's Recommendations
The event rewards good planning; it does not replace it.
Quick Reference Checklist
- Projects approved
- Fragments counted
- Blood saved
- Milestone calculated
- Stop point defined
- Rewards collected