Mary Talent Tree Build & Guide Rise of Kingdoms

Mary is an engineering commander in Rise of Kingdoms with engineering, versatility and skill talent tree. Mary is designed for range combat where she boosts DOTs and puts debuffs. Her skills are more for supporting instead of doing instant damage.

Should you invest in Mary?

If you are free-to-play player or do not play range combat then 100% skip and do not invest in Mary. Reason is that she is a range combat commander that is useless if you do not have other range combat commanders and gear for her. On top of that you have to love range combat playstyle.

• Reliable DoT: applies ranged additional damage for 4s (up to 1,200–1,800 total depending on distance).
• Solid stats for siege: +20% attack, +10% march speed, +10% defense (from another skill).
• Works both at range and when pressured in melee (higher DoT per tick up close + 5% dmg taken debuff).
• Damage is DoT-centric (no big nuke); slower payoff than bursty ranged primaries.
• Value gated by expertise (the 15% skill dmg & 30% extend chance are huge).

Mary Talent Tree Build

Mary Pairings

Archimedes: Archimedes is best commander that you can pair with Mary. Together they have great synergy that will allow them to deal a lot of damage.

If you do not have Archimedes feel free to pair Mary with any engineering commander that you have like John and Steven.

Mary Skills

Fidei Defensatrix

If this commander’s troop is not within melee range of its target, the target takes ranged additional damage every second for 4 seconds (Damage Factor 300). If their troop is within melee range of its target, the target takes ranged additional damage every second (Damage Factor 450) and takes 5% increased damage for 4 seconds.

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Damage Taken Increase: 1% / 2% / 3% / 4% / 5%
Ranged Additional Damage Factor (Ranged): 100 / 140 / 180 / 220 / 300
Ranged Additional Damage Factor (Melee): 150 / 210 / 270 / 330 / 450

Back Into the Fold

This commander’s siege units gain 20% Attack and 10% March Speed.

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Siege Unit Attack Bonus: 8% / 10% / 12% / 16% / 20%
Siege Unit March Speed Bonus: 2% / 4% / 6% / 8% / 10%

Tudor Cannons

This commander’s troop deals 10% more ranged skill damage. If their troop’s target is currently receiving ranged additional damage, ranged basic attacks from their troop have a 15% chance to extend the ranged additional damage by 1 second.

Cooldown: 7 seconds.

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Ranged Skill Damage Bonus: 5% / 6% / 7% / 8% / 10%
Trigger Chance: 5% / 7% / 9% / 12% / 15%

Iron Queen

This commander’s siege units gain 10% Defense. Whenever this commander’s troop uses an active skill while in ranged mode, it increases the target’s ranged skill damage received by 10% for 3 seconds.

Cooldown: 10 seconds.

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Siege Unit Defense Bonus: 2% / 4% / 6% / 8% / 10%
Ranged Skill Damage Taken Increase: 5% / 6% / 7% / 8% / 10%

Fire and Faith

This commander’s troop deals 15% more ranged skill damage. If their troop’s target is currently receiving ranged additional damage, ranged basic attacks from their troop have a 30% chance to extend the ranged additional damage by 1 second.

Cooldown: 7 seconds.