Game of Thrones: Kingsroad Beginner Guide to Power & Gear

Game of Thrones: Kingsroad is an action RPG developed by Netmarble Neo and published by Netmarble, featuring class-based action across open-world Westeros. Progressing smoothly through the story and challenging dungeons requires understanding Momentum, managing stamina-based RP efficiently, and upgrading your personal estate at Renan's Rest.

Understanding Momentum and Power Scaling

In Game of Thrones: Kingsroad, Momentum serves as your total combat rating. Quest progression and dungeon access are strictly gated by Momentum requirements. If your Momentum falls below the recommended value for a quest or encounter, enemies gain heavy damage resistance and deal significantly increased damage to your character, often resulting in one-hit deaths.

Your character sheet calculates Momentum through eight primary systems:

Gear Progression, Reforging, and Set Research

Weapons and armor span multiple tiers and rarities, progressing from common drops to Tier 4 and Tier 5 endgame equipment. Maintaining full set bonuses (such as the early Savant set) provides substantial stat perks, so equipping a mismatched higher-rarity item can occasionally reduce your overall Momentum if it breaks a key set threshold.

How to Reforge Equipment

Reforging allows you to upgrade gear stats and unlock random skill traits.

1. Obtain a duplicate piece of equipment that shares the exact same tier, rarity, and item slot as your target gear. The set name and class origin do not need to match.
2. Blue gear allows 1 reforge, purple gear allows up to 2 reforges, and legendary gear allows up to 3 reforges.
3. Complete the reforge at the blacksmith or equipment menu to gain bonus substats and skill-enhancing perks.

Managing Set Research

Never sell armor or weapons early on. Instead, feed excess equipment into Set Research:

• Feeding equipment matching the specific research set provides bonus experience.
• Reaching level 10 in a research category allows you to equip that set's secondary effect alongside your active gear set.
• Popular combat configurations include equipping Brute or Savant gear while running Champion in Set Research for critical strike stacking.
• Level sets evenly across research categories to maximize raw Momentum gains per item invested.

Estate Development and Daily Economy

Early in the storyline, you unlock your personal estate at Renan's Rest. Speak to Meri in the Audience Chamber to upgrade your estate level using Building Materials (lumber) and Copper.

Key milestones in your estate include:

• Level 3 unlocks Artifact Expeditions through Lyra.
• Level 14 unlocks Manor Management and hourly resource trading.
• Level 16 unlocks a second Artifact Expedition slot, requiring a cumulative total of 303 Building Materials.

Essential Currencies and Shop Purchases

Golden Dragons represent your premium earnable currency. Priority spending includes:

1. Inventory slot expansions in the convenience shop (240 Golden Dragons for 20 equipment slots).
2. Daily RP energy recharges (40 Golden Dragons for 30 RP on the first purchase; 80 for the second).
3. Estate Building Materials in the Special Shop (15 Golden Dragons for 30 lumber).
4. Keeping a working reserve of 1,850 to 3,000 Golden Dragons each week to fund entry count refreshes and time-sensitive materials.

Copper can run dry quickly due to artifact enhancements and estate upgrades. Reliable income sources include clearing town weapon racks in the Stormlands, running daily Reach trials across alternate characters, and selling duplicate jewelry enhancement boxes for 1,350 copper each.

Efficient RP (Stamina) Farming Strategy

Recharge Points (RP) limit how many dungeon chests, beasts, and map rewards you can claim daily. Managing this resource determines how fast your account matures.

• Avoid claiming low-tier map points of interest: You can complete bandit camps and points of interest to earn ranking points, character experience, and field mob loot, then press the cancel icon above the claim bar to skip spending RP. The objective enters cooldown and respawns later.
• Ferocious Beasts: Farming the high-level boar in the Stormlands awards pelts for targeted crafting, artifact wax materials, and Stormlands regional tokens.
• Regional Token Priority: Regional tokens are earned at a rate of 1 token per 1 RP spent in that zone. Save 3,500 North or Reach tokens to buy additional House Sigil advancement boards from regional exchange vendors.
• World Boss Drogon: Spawns every two hours. You can claim rewards up to 7 times weekly without consuming RP, provided you deal at least 1% total damage before he falls.

Combat Mechanics: Combos, Cancels, and Dodging

Kingsroad features deliberate melee combat with active defensive counters across its Knight, Assassin, and Sellsword classes.

• Guard Cancel: Long recovery animations can leave you vulnerable. Press and quickly release your Guard key immediately after the final strike of a combo lands (such as Assassin Rapier Combo 1 or Sellsword Axe Combo 1). This skips the attack's end-delay, returning you instantly to neutral while frequently triggering natural parries against incoming attacks.
• Defense Parry: Investing 3 points into the defense tree unlocks parry counters against non-red enemy strikes. Landing a parry inflicts heavy daze damage against the enemy's stamina gauge and grants brief invulnerability frames.
• Conserving Dodges: Your dodge stamina dots are only consumed when executing a double-tap roll. Single dodges do not consume dodge gauge pips, allowing continuous tactical repositioning during boss fights without running out of stamina.

Early Game Legendary Titles

You can equip three titles simultaneously (one Attack, one Defense, and one Other). Two powerful Legendary Titles can be acquired early via the Maester's Archives in The North:

1. Seeker of Knowledge (Defense): Obtained after completing the 10th recovery under The North Lost Letter Recovery. Requires collecting 80 Lost Letters across field maps. Grants a flat 0.3% Defense Increase Rate upon collection, plus equip bonuses to Defense, Damage Taken Reduction, and Normal-grade enemy damage reduction.
2. Finder of Lost Ore (Other): Obtained by finishing the 10th research stage under Ore Studies in The North. Requires submitting 18 Gold Ore, 23 Silver Ore, 25 Iron Ore, and 21 Raw Peat. Grants Max HP bonuses, Rage Consumption Reduction, and Active Skill Cooldown Reduction.

Frequently Asked Questions

Can I reset my skill points if I make a mistake?

Yes. Distributing skill points can be reset for free at any time from the skill interface. Trait points invested in the trait tree can also be redistributed freely until your character reaches level 30.

Where do I craft and upgrade jewelry?

Jewelry crafting is handled by Garrett. You encounter him during the main storyline in Winterfell, after which he relocates to your estate at Renan's Rest. You can access his crafting interface directly from the estate or via the Messenger Raven menu.

How do House Sigil Boards work?

Sigil boards grant Momentum based on the relationships of the houses you place. Placing a Great House sigil in the center slot and linking vassal or friendly houses yields positive bonus Momentum. Connecting sigil between houses with a hostile relationship may give you less.