Siege Spire

The base of a siege spire

Siege Spires are special city structures that a Guild Leader can place in their city. Their purpose is to broadcast a specific effect across everyone in an entire city (including one's own nation members). Spires can be toggled on or off by their owners, and have an ongoing usage cost of 5,000 gold per 5 minutes.

To activate or deactivate a siege spire you own, Ctrl + Left Click on it and select "Activate/Deactivate Spire". Note that a siege spire cannot be activated if it was placed less than 10 minutes ago.

Placement and Activation

Only builders rank 5 and above sell spires (they can not be purchased from safeholds). Once the building deed is obtained, the building is placed much like any other building. The rank of your city determines how many total spires can exist in the city:

• Rank 1-2 cities may have 1 siege spire
• Rank 3-5 cities may have 2 siege spires
• Rank 6-8 cities may have 3 siege spires

Disabling a Siege Spire

Spires are not infallible. A player who has applied Saboteur discipline rune may disable them for a short period of time. If an enemy city is using spires that prevent access beyond the walls, a player with Sapper has the ability to shield the Saboteur just long enough for them to get inside.

Spire Types

Each Siege Spire has different effects, and some can only be purchased from highly-ranked builders. Siege spires have a very long build time, which means they can not be switched out for the purposes of a new bane on your city. Therefore, a guild leader must choose their spires wisely.

Name	Effect	Builder
Befuddling Spire	Debuff ATK -25% to -50%	R5
Wrathful Spire	Debuff DEF -25% to -50%	R5
Enfeebling Spire	Debuff STR -30% to -60%	R5
Confounding Spire	Debuff DEX -30% to -60%	R5
Confusing Spire	Debuff Mana Recovery -57% to -99%	R5
Wearying Spire	Debuff Stamina Recovery -57% to -99%	R5
Wounding Spire	Debuff Health Recovery -57% to -99%	R5
Distracting Spire	Debuff INT -30% to -60%	R5
Guileful Spire	Decrease Passive DEF -30% to -100%	R6
Chilling Spire	Debuff Cold Resist -30 to -75	R6
Searing Spire	Debuff Fire Resist -30 to -75	R6
Thundering Spire	Debuff Lightning Resist -30 to -75	R6
Unholy Spire	Debuff Holy Resist -30 to -75	R6
Spiteful Spire	Debuff Attack Speed -25% to -75%	R6
Watchful Spire	No Hide nor Sneak	R7
Grounding Spire	No Fly	R7
Binding Spire	No Teleport	R7
Warding Spire	No Summon	R7
Baleful Spire	Debuff Power Damage -25% to -50%	R7
Arcane Spire	Debuff Melee Damage -25% to -50%	R7

Tips

Defending

• Keep a close watch for saboteurs gaining access to your city. In certain circumstances, this could change the tide of the entire bane.
• Change the default name of your spire as soon as you can. An enemy that knows which spires you have will gain a tactical advantage.
• During banes, keep a large amount of gold on your spires' strongboxes, or you may find them running dry when you least expect!
• The most important thing you can do to defend your spires is to make sure they are ranked up so that they have a higher health value:

Rank	Health	Upgrade Cost
0 (building)	7,200	--
1	28,000	264,000 g
2	60,000	440,000 g
3	99,000	616,000 g
4	137,750	792,000 g
5	180,000	968,000 g
6	215,000	1,144,000 g
7	250,000	--

Attacking

• As a Wizard, a Binding Spire will prevent you from using Translocation, even for defensive purposes.
• Have your scouts check out the city ahead of time. You don't want to bring a group of Vampires to a city with a Searing Spire!
• If a city uses a Warding Spire, you may want to keep someone with Summon outside of the city grid.