Elevation

Elevating, is basically being able to go up to level 21 on certain buildings.

In order to elevate, you will first need to have your building up to level 10 (which can only be achieved using divine inspirations, which are either won through events or from merlin, or are bought.

Once a building is at level 10, in order to elevate you will need crystals.  An elevated building is shown using an asterix mark with the number *.  There are three types of crystals:

• Mystic - to go from *1 to *4  (2, 10, 50, 250 crystals for each lvl)
• Enchanted - to go from *5 to *7 (10, 50, 250)
• Wondrous - to go from *8 to *10  (10, 50, 250)

You will need a divine elevation to go to *11

Not all buildings can be upgraded, and some need elevating to unlock ability to elevate other buildings to a certain level.

Some popular elevations:

Rally point - extra 2k per level increase in troops to send
Barracks - ability to train T4 troops (see more below), speed up training
Cottages - extra 150 to population per level (note: higher levels require castle elevations)
Storehouse - protect extra 100k per level

Barrack elevation is best for increasing speed. If you do it to be able to train T4, then note that it takes a lot of resources (especially gold) to train T4 and requires level 10 of certain research and buildings.  Different cities allow ability to train different troops and a different elevation level is required:

• City 1 - Supply caravans (*4 barrack (also lvl 10 geo, feather, blacksmith))
• City 2 - Siege tower (*7 barrack (also lvl 10 geo, pois edge, blacksmith))
• City 3 - fire ballista (*10 barrack (also lvl 10 geo, fletch, workshop))
• City 4 - War wagon (*11 barrack (also lvl 10 geo, alloy hs, stable))

Kabam occasionally allow the ability to convert gems earned through surveying wilds into crystals (in the round tower). As such it is worth surveying wilds. This is achieved by leaving some troops at your captured wilds and hitting the survey button. It is however a slow process, and make sure you do not craft your gems. You need to keep them flawed (kabam currently have not given any benefit to crafted gems).

• Grasslands give you rubies, which can be converted into mystic crystals
• Woods give you emeralds, which can be converted into enchanted crystals
• Hills give you sapphires, which can be converted into wonderous crystals

Note: mountains give you diamonds. Can't currently do anything with them.