He is Coming: Kingmaker Guide

Kingmaker is an asynchronous pvp game mode in the game “He is Coming”. That’s it. You can close the guide now.

Simply put, it’s really fun. It puts your deck building abilities against other players. It lets you experiment with items of the 2 different zones. There are also item sets only available here. Wins gives you crowns. Which you can use to obtain skins (that you can’t use in pve sadly).

Much like the pve gamemode, the gameplay loop consist of exploring the map, gather items to prepare for a fight every 3 nights.

The main difference is that instead of fighting monsters, you are fighting other players. Or should I say, their ghost. How this works is that, when you start a loop, the server sends you the build of a previous player of that phase as an opponent. This way, you have a fair fight without having to wait for another player to be ready for a fight.

Game are much longer as you’ll be facing 5 players, with an optional sixth. After defeating 5 players, you gain 1 crown and have the option to face a champion. Facing the champion doesn’t have any down sides, you still keep the crown you got. You start with 4 inventory slots. And gain 2 slots after each time to a maximum of 12 total slots.

Champions are late game builds that haven’t been defeated yet. Defeating a champion creates a champion with your build. Your champion gathers crowns for every player they defeat.
Your champions can be seen by clicking on the “view champions” button. This list shows the champions’ number of wins against player, if they are still in the champion pool (active or defeated) and what their build is. Once your champion is defeated, you can claim the crowns they gathered. Once you’ve claimed your cowns, you can see a replay of the fight that killed your champion.

Unlike the pve game mode, in kingmaker, you have some control over the item pool. This comes in the form of the bundle system. Weapons, items and edges from both woodland and swampland are separated into different bundles. Before starting a game, you have to choose 3 bundles out of the 6 to form your item pool. Different combinations will allow for different builds or play styles. Since you can use food items from both woodland and swampland you have access to new cauldron recipes!

Like the woodlands, kingmaker takes place on a big circular map filled with waypoints. It is really useful to know what areas contains what kind of ressources.

The golem glade is this grassy area with no trees. You will find there the golem. With his help, you can combine 2 of the same common item into a golden. Or 2 golden items into a diamond one. Golems can be used any number of times.

Fairies can be seen here. They transform an item you give them into a random item of the same rarity. Can only be used once.

This biome is really easy to identify with the tall grass, rocks and petrified trees. This place is where you will find the merchant.

Always surrounded by gold tiles, the merchant, like in the other game mode, will sell you 5 rare and 1 heroic item with one of them being on sale. Rare cost 5 at full price and 3 on sale. While heroic cost 10 gold and 5 on sale. You can also re-roll for 1 gold. The price increases by 1 every time it is used. The current re-roll price is shared among all merchants. A re rolled shop never has sales.

If you have the yellow woodland bundle activated, you will also be able to find jewellery boxes in this area.

The forest biome that always contains a cauldron. It is always surrounded by tiles that kinda look like dead bushes. The cauldron works like in pve. You input 2 different food items and get a powerful cauldron item. There are many more cauldron items as their are more food combinations possible in kingmaker. Note that you can’t use golden, diamond or cauldron items in the cauldron. Cauldron can be used any number of times.

You can also find bonfires there. They are campfires that fully replenish health instead of healing for 10.

If you see tombstones and crosses on a dark ground, you are in the cemetary, Surrounded by skulls lies the hero grave. It contains 3 random heroic item to choose from. If you have the yellow swampland bundle, you can find ancient tomes. When you find one, you can chose 1 of 3 random books to add to your build. There’s also more enemies here for some reason.

Swords on the ground, red flags and rocks. That’s all you’ll see in the battlefield. The main tile you’re looking for in this area are the weapon pile. They function like in the swampland. Giving you the choice between 3 random weapons of any rarity (except mythic).

The other thing you may find is the forge. Which lets you apply an edge on your weapon. Each anvil has 2 random edges. Applying an edge on a weapon that already has one overrides it. Using an anvil is free when your weapon has no edge and cost 10 gold when it has one. Anvil can be used multiple times.

Farmland field is an area without any enemies. The main point of interest is the farmer. He offers you to take one of the 3 random food items he has. They can be common or rare. Can only be used once.

This is the zone you start from. Grass, some trees and brown rocks(?) are the tiles that covers the area. There’s not much here. There seems to be less enemies. There are treasure chests like every where else. There is some of it between the other biomes.

Common events are common tiles scattered on the map that can be interacted with. The common events are the following:

Like in woodland, you can teleport to any activated waypoints. To activate it, you can just walk over it. Can be seen regardless of if it was discovered or not.

Can only be used at night. Skip the rest of the night and heals the player for 10. On the very first night, campfires reveal an area around them. Making them useful to see different biomes from afar.

When a lookout tower is activated, it reveals the area around it.

The woodcutter will combine 2 of your items into a random heroic item.

Horses are exclusive to kingmaker. When interacted with, the player can choose 1 of 3 random tiles from this list:

• Golem
• Merchant
• Cauldron
• Hero grave
• Weapon pile
• Farmer

Then, the horse transport you to an undiscovered tile of the selected option. Moving with the horse discovers tiles on the way. Each horse can only be used once and can be seen regardless of if it was discovered or not.

Bargaining tents are small shops that contain 2 rare items. You can haggle to have a chance to reduce the price by 1. You can haggle multiple times. The minimum price seems to be 3. Failing to haggle increases the price by 2 and prevents from haggling further. This shop can’t be refreshed.

Using a scrying orb reveals the location of a random rare event. Can only be used once.

Although there is only 1 of each rare event, there are many different rare events. They are the following:

The gemstone event had no random element to it. Going over the tile opens a screen where you can take 1 of the 4 gems.

Always surrounded by honey crazed bears and honey bees, looting the beehive can be dangerous during early game. Like other common enemies, they reach level 3 (level max) after the second player encounter. Reaching the beehive gives you a honeycomb. Which can combined with another food item at a cauldron to obtain a powerful cauldron item.

The fairy queen is a very particular kind of evil demon cool npc. If you accept her vicious deal, you will lose the game your items will be replaced with other random items of a higher rarity. Common are turned to rare, rare to heroic, golden to diamond. Heroic, diamond, cauldron and cursed items are changed to another random item of the same rarity.

The large golem can upgrade one of your non unique items. Giving him a common will return it as golden. And a golden returns a diamond. Can only be used once.

The rune let’s you choose one of the 3 runes.

Crone spawns with 3 random cursed items. You can take 1 of them. Can only be used once.

The junksmith is a very powerful npc that can duplicate 1 of your non unique items. Can only be used once.

The alchemist can grant an additional effect to 1 of you potions. The effect changes based on the potion. Can only be used once.

The wealthy merchant is a special merchant that sell 6 random heroic rarity items. All of the item are on a discount for 5 gold each. Unlike regular merchants, the shop of the wealthy merchant can’t be refreshed.

The beekeeper is a special merchant that sells 2 random honey items. They cost 25 gold each. This shop can’t be refreshed.

This concludes my kingmaker guide. If you haven’t already, you should give this game mode a shot. I am open to feedback. If you see any mistakes, or if there are things you think I should cover, let me know.