The Most IMPORTANT Tier List of 2022 | Relics  

shoulda said what each relic does before rating it i'm to dumb to know all of them

While i totally agree on most of the list, i am really surprised about the nose of the sphynx being only B tier. I've had games where it saved tcs from falling (420 hp is A LOT), and late game it makes all your buildings feel indestructible. You basically become hades, at the cost having a hero to walk for a bit to grab it. I would have put it to A tier when considering classical and heroic age situations, and S in super late game.

Great timing! Well done! Just some small corrections for anyone interested: Bast's Sacred Cats (+10% Laborer farm gather rate) works with Plow (+10% Villager farm gather rate, except +22% for Eggy Laborer), the excel guy just forgot to test it. It's just harder to see because it is a "half" upgrade. Blue Crystal Shard (+5% Villager gold and wood gather rate) rules in short... Greek: Only boost for ShaftMine. Eggy: Delay Handaxe/ShaftMine. Dwarves: Irrelevant for gold; boosts all dwarves on wood except Thor Dwarf with no/Handaxe. Atty: Always good. This relic is only SITUATIONAL, so not that good. Harmonian's Necklace (+10% Villager gold gather rate) rules in short... Greek: Always good. Eggy: Always good, now rush Quarry. Norse: Always good. Atty: Always good. This relic is ALWAYS good, thus S tier. Staff of Dionysus (+20 Villager food carrying capacity) is not worth in the earlygame because your vils drop off resources too infrequently for constant production. It is a nice lategame boost for farms, though. Trojan Gate Hinge (+20% Wall Hitpoints): Indeed not that great with regular walls. But it is a percentage increase, so it scales immensely with your lategame wall upgrades. Scales of Catoblepas (-20% Myth Unit crush vulnerability) has a niche just like Boots of Kick Everything: In a titan vs titan fight, the one with relic wins with 1000/7000 HP remaining! Also makes myth units and siege weapons less effective against the Titan.

Fun fact, in the fiesta AoM there was a relic, Reed of Nekhbet, which doubled the dmg of water myth units, that the developers exculded in the titans bc they think it was too op

Shingles of steel, house HP, has to be one of the highest in alot of situations. It gives your house like extra 1,000 HP. Basically stops EQ on your base and tornado. Stops a rush and raids. Most civs with this relic are scary but trying to penetrate eggy base with this relic and houses around towers seems like it would be impossible. I reckon it shifts the balance in a game for sure.

Whenever my opponent captures Shingles of Steel, Pygmalion's Statue, and/or Tusk of the Iron Boar, it instantly demoralises me and feels like the opponent becomes immune to certain strategies. My favourite relic is definitely the 'Pelt of Argus' one - 6+ LOS for all units has always helped me similarly to an S tier relic.

Harmonia's necklace for Greek gives a 20% increase to gather rate with no upgrades, Egyptian gets an instant 16.67% increase, Norse Dwarves benefit 14.29%, and Atlantean gets a straight up 10% increase. I think this relic is easily at least mid S tier. Staff of Dionysus sucks because it makes your villagers drop off too infrequently causing you to constantly need to force drop to continue military and villager production. D tier, I purposefully never want to get this relic even if a teammate drops it in my temple. Bridle of Pegasus I would say is mid B tier. I really like being able to have a scout to just hover over key locations where the enemy will do something in the future and I would like to know exactly when. It also comes in handy when placing certain god powers since it can fly over everything. Who cares about 1 pop when info can literally win games by itself. Nose of the Sphinx I would put at least in mid A tier. It's just super useful in holding any type of push or any late game building spam situation.

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Statue is so fucking good on atlantean, game winning really

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I feel like you miss the point of going all in on something you already have Having a high hack armour and getting more hack armour always tends to be good. But then again diminishing returns might not be wroth it.

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does the list take into account in hunting some avarage distance to a granary or something?

1 minute into the video and I'm already enraged, Golden Lions easy S+ tier

Great topic idea

Are artifacts nerfed or buffed on voobly ?

Is the sistrum of Bast noticible after Rag?

You got something wrong. I looked up Blanket of Empress Zoe and it gives you additional 20% crush armor for all buildings, not 5% as you said. Knowing that in what tier would you place it then?

I wish the archer ones effect throwing axemen

Does someone know, why AoM is not in the sale for a long time please?? 😏😏

I have no idea what each relic does

Share the doc with the RU-vid family please Boit!

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@10:41 the free pegasus doesnt take up population

can u give me the link for google doc ?

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I think it would be cool to see a myth unit tier list. More so their level of utility at the stage of the game they become available (so there's less bias for mythic age units).

Highly agree with most of the list but i definetly disagree about shingles of steel or nose of the sphinx. My argument being that getting this relic basically means that certain strategies are completely unviable. imagine for example baiting someone into going EQ by not getting the relic until they hit mythic and immediatly grabbing it before they EQ rendering their entire all out basically useless.

I know i'm almost a year late to criticise you, but here i go. First: you should know or have written all of the relic effects AND say them to us. I played this game more than 15 years ago by now and can't remember much about it. I also didn't play the chinese expansion, just the titans one. Second: Do not assume we know everything in the game, a lot of terms and names of units that you used i'm not familiar with. Third: Thanks for the video.

Ehm. I have played aom for quite a long time, but I have not memorized every relic in the game lol. You act like most viewers here know almost all relics by heart. You should probably explain a bit more context in future videos imo.

Your analysis of the Armor of Achilles is flawed. Since armor in AoM works by percentages (i.e. reducing vulnerability), the higher armor you have, the MORE you benefit from further increases. You should think of it in reverse. For instance, 99% armor is twice as effective as 98% armor, because you have 1% vulnerability compared to 2% vulnerability. Here is a quick example, assuming 10 damage. A unit with 100 HP and 10% armor will die to 11,11 attacks. With 20% armor you need 12,5 attacks (+1,4 attacks required compared to 10%) With 30% armor you need 14,3 attacks (+1,8 attacks required compared to 20%) With 40% armor you need 16,6 attacks (+2,3 attacks required compared to 30%) With 50% armor you need 20 attacks (+3,4 attacks required compared to 40%) With 60% armor you need 25 attacks (+5 attacks required compared to 50%) See how the relative durability boost of the unit increases with each increment (+1,4; +1,8; +2,3; +3,4; +5)? The higher your armor, the greater the effect of an additional boost. So going by your argument that infantry already have high hack armor, then the benefit from getting better hack armor is actually making a bigger difference compared to if infantry had low hack armor. Any civ that already has bonuses to hack armor (e.g. Thor) would benefit even further.