Protection & Buffs

Buffs

Keep your item buffs running while Evonex plays.

What it does

Keeps your item buffs running in the game: Attack, Defense, HP, March speed, Gathering speed and Resource production. It renews a buff only when it is about to run out.

Where

Instances ▸ open an instance ▸ Duties ▸ Buffs (the last shelf)

You need

Buff items in your bag, or gems if you allow them. Except for Resource production, the task a buff helps must be in your plan and switched on.

When it runs

Just before a task it helps starts, and while that task runs, but only when the buff is nearly out. Resource production runs on its own clock.

An item buff such as All Troops Attack lasts only a short time. Each row on this shelf keeps one kind alive. Evonex opens the game's City Buff window and reads how much time is left. It puts up a new item only when the buff is about to run out.

Nothing is in use out of the box. A fresh row spends nothing until you choose its items.

The six buffs

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1. 13 of 6 on Count how many of the six buffs are switched on.
2. 2ON / OFF Switch a buff on or off. A buff that is off never runs.
3. 3Attack buff Click the name to open the buff's settings.
4. 4Status Read the time left on the buff. It turns orange when the renewal window opens.
5. 5Summary line Read the setup at a glance: tasks, items in order, spend cap and gem rule.
6. 6⚙ Open the same settings window as the name.
7. 7Skipped See that the buff ran but had nothing to put up. The reason follows on the line.

1. 13 of 6 on Count how many of the six buffs are switched on.
2. 2ON / OFF Switch a buff on or off. A buff that is off never runs.
3. 3Attack buff Click the name to open the buff's settings.
4. 4Status Read the time left on the buff. It turns orange when the renewal window opens.
5. 5Summary line Read the setup at a glance: tasks, items in order, spend cap and gem rule.
6. 6Skipped See that the buff ran but had nothing to put up. The reason follows on the line.

1. 13 of 6 on Count how many of the six buffs are switched on.
2. 2ON / OFF Switch a buff on or off. A buff that is off never runs.
3. 3Attack buff Click the name to open the buff's settings.
4. 4Status Read the time left on the buff. It turns orange when the renewal window opens.
5. 5Summary line Read the setup at a glance: tasks, items in order, spend cap and gem rule.
6. 6⚙ Open the same settings window as the name.
7. 7Skipped See that the buff ran but had nothing to put up. The reason follows on the line.

The line under each name sums up the setup: its tasks, its items in order, its spend cap and its gem rule. A fresh row reads With Rally Setter & Solo Hunt · no items in use, so it will skip · no spend cap. Once a row is on, its status shows Not checked until Evonex has read the buff once.

Set up a buff

1. Open Instances, then open your instance, for example Northwatch.
2. Open the Duties tab, press Buffs to jump to the shelf, and click the buff's name or its ⚙.
3. Under Runs with, pick the tasks this buff should help. March speed buff starts with none picked.
4. Under Items to use, click each item you own to put it in use. Click again to hold it back.
5. Drag the grip to put your favourite item first. Evonex uses the first item in your order that you have.
6. Only if you want it, light the gem button of an item. That lets Evonex spend gems on that item when your bag is empty.
7. Optional: set a Spend cap, and shorten or lengthen Renew early.
8. Press Done, switch the row ON, and press Start.

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1. 1Runs with Pick the tasks this buff may help. It is only used alongside them.
2. 2Items to use Click an item to put it in use, and drag to set the order.
3. 3Spend cap Limit how many items and gem buys one game day or task run may use.
4. 4Renew early Drag the flag to set how many minutes before the end Evonex renews.
5. 5Check again at every Start Turn on to read the real countdown at each Start. Use it if you cancel buffs by hand.
6. 6Retry when it fails Set how many times a failed visit is tried in one game day.
7. 7Reset schedule Put these settings back to their defaults and close the window.
8. 8Record line Read the countdown Evonex last saw and how much it has spent.
9. 9Reset records Forget that countdown and the spend count, so Evonex looks again.
10. 10Done Save the window and close it. The ✕ or Esc closes without saving.

Choose and order your items

Each item is one rung on a ladder, named as the game names it. A fresh buff has every rung held back, and its window says so.

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1. 1A held-back rung Click a rung to put it in use. A dashed outline means held back.
2. 2Nothing in use Read what a buff with no item does: it skips, and the task runs unbuffed.

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1. 1Grip Drag the grip to move an item up or down.
2. 2In use Click to hold it back. The disc shows its rank, and the lit gem button lets Evonex spend gems on it.
3. 3No gem button Notice there is no gem button: the game does not sell this item for gems.
4. 4Held back Click to put it in use. The dashed outline means Evonex never uses it.

• Click a rung to put it in use. A round disc shows its rank, and 1 is tried first. Click again to hold it back. A held-back rung has a dashed outline, and Evonex never uses it.
• Drag the grip on the left to reorder. With the keyboard, Space or Enter turns the focused rung on or off, and Ctrl+↑ or Ctrl+↓ moves it.
• Evonex uses the first item in your order that you have in your bag. When you run out of it, Evonex tries the next one.
• The gem button sits before the name of an item the game sells for gems. Lit means Evonex may spend gems on it when your bag has none. Dark means never. You can click the button only while the rung is in use.
• The game does not sell the Adv and Super troop items for gems, so they have no gem button. The 8 Hour gathering item has none either. The button appears only on the 1 Hour troop items, both March speed items and the 24 Hour gathering item.

Settings

Attack, Defense, HP, March speed and Gathering speed share one window. It has one page, headed Schedule.

Resource production settings

Resource production has its own window. It has no task to run with, no ladder, no gem buttons and no cap.

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1. 1Resources to keep buffed Pick the resources whose production buff Evonex keeps up.
2. 2Renew early Drag the flag to set how many minutes before the end Evonex renews.
3. 3Gems note Read why it never spends gems: these speedups are not sold for gems.
4. 4Record line Read when the soonest of the picked buffs will run out.

How a buff runs

• When. A buff that runs with a task waits until one of its tasks is running or is next in your plan. Then it goes just before the task starts, or at a safe moment while the task runs. If a task hands its work to the game's own Auto-Join, as Rally Joiner can, the buff renews on its own clock instead.
• Not earlier. Evonex comes when the buff has less time left than Renew early, and not before. A new item restarts the timer instead of adding to it, so arriving early gains nothing.
• Look first. Evonex opens the game's City Buff window from the button at the top left of your city or the world map. It finds the buff and reads Remaining Time. If more time is left than your margin, it spends nothing.
• Then your ladder. Otherwise it tries your items in order. An item you have run out of vanishes from the game's list, so Evonex moves on to the next one. Items the game sells for gems stay listed with a gem price. Evonex buys one only when its gem button is lit. The first item that works ends the visit.
• Confirmations. The game asks you to confirm when an item replaces a running buff, and when it spends gems. Evonex confirms the replacement. It confirms a gem purchase only for an item whose gem button is lit.
• Proof. After an item is used, the game locks the window for about a minute. Evonex reads the countdown back to check that the item worked. It never assumes.
• Nothing to use. If no item works, the row shows Skipped with nothing left to put on it, and Evonex looks again after an hour.
• Back where it was. Evonex returns to the city or the world map, whichever it started on.
• Evonex touches only the buffs on this page and the Truce Agreement bubble that Protection keeps up. It never uses items from other sections of the City Buff window.
• To watch it work, open the Activity Monitor on the Overview tab. It shows one row per buff window, such as Keeping All Troops Attack up. The Buffs readout on the Plan tab shows each buff that is on, with its time left or the reason it is waiting.

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