Tipps and Tricks

GOLDEN RULE: Normally obtain 100% on attacks, as 100% adds 100 points. Check your ego at the door. Exception: low mights profit sometimes from 50% attacks on high might opponents.

SCOUT: Scout the opponents early. Test the bases first.  Drop a solo hero and test the defenses, then plan your attack. Look for high leverage attacks early.  It is better to know you can get through their skull knight, ghoul, aries combo with all your heroes intact than having to come to it when you're at 51%. If after backing out of an attack several times with little expectation of future success, choose another base you can confidently clear 100%. The difference in points gained between 100%'ing a weaker base vs 90%'ing a stronger one is substantial.

ATTACK WITH HEROES: Watch your heroes' health closely. Be ready to back out if on one of your probing attempts, your heroes are showing signs of excessive early damage. You have unlimited opportunities to 100% a base as long as you quit before 50%. Take your time. If you're stuck trying that high leverage attack, try a different hero mix. Heroes to kill first, in order:  cupid, skully, vlad, dread drake, arctica, aries, ghoul, warlock, molti, then whatever. Set off all the 4/5 and 5/5 revites. Remember to get their cupid first.  Always keep 8-10 Ornis just for this purpose.

ATTACK WITH TROOPS: Use your troops. Troops can be almost as effective as magic we cannot use in guild wars. Release Ornis to force revite opponents to proc before you drop your heroes. If you are having particular problems with lightning towers and enemy troops, drop all your troops at the same time as your heroes. PD will charge them up and you can make it through entrances that were previously inaccessible. Keep watching that progress meter though and back out if things go south. Your troops will not be dead. Have mixed troops available, ground pounders are the most efficient but get hung up on walls, a mix of ogres, dragons, mechas and ornis are always useful. ave a little for later. Always save a nice group of troops in case you clear the entire base out except for one remaining building hidden on the perimeter. All your heroes are dead, all their heroes and buildings are gone save for the guild hall in the corner of the screen. Maddening and costly if it happens to you so don't let it. Use warriors to destract magic towers.

TEAM-SETUP: Focus your attacks. These heroes such as Santa Boom or Mino are notorious for pushing you over the 50% threshold and ruining your attempt.

DEFENSE: Make your base easy to start an attack, but hard to finish. The goal is not to defeat them with as little damage as possible, it is to defeat them the moment they go over 50%.

PROFIT OPTIMIZATION: Raise your might a bit. If both you and another player 100% the five strongest bases yet you have 20k less might, you will score less. Inscribing extra legendary heroes is the quickest way to increase your might.

REWARDS:

* created by HeathCairns

Upon entering Heroes altar, players may find two different ways on Hiring a Heroes: Item Mode and Hero Mode. By default, you’ll be in Hero Mode.
If you use the Hero Mode, you lose a lot of shards and skill-points. That is why you always shall use the Item Mode. Everything hired from the three hiring methods will be stored in the Warehouse as items. Hired Heroes will then be converted into Hero Cards, while Sacrifice Heroes will be converted into their respective Essences. 

The Hero-Cards should be used as follows:
Ordinary Heroes shall be unpacked and sacrificed to increase the skill level of other heroes.

Elite Heroes shall be sold for shards.

Legendary Heroes shall be unpacked, at least be leveled till Tier 4 and then be sacrificed for the same hero if possible. Tier 4 heroes then give 10.000 skill points to the identical hero.

Exceptions: If you want to level up the skill of normal and elite heroes always consume the same type.

Know how many shards or slimes you need to level up a skill of a Legendary Hero.

• The total amount of the obtained EXPp is spread across the heroes placed in the hero bases and in garrison as well. Those heroes are not taken into account when you sweep HBM or Dungeons.
  
• Place heroes with AoE-damage (e.g. Thunder God, Immortep) on the bases, heroes that are weak or only attack one target can easily upgraded within the towers.
• Your base should have the design of a death box. That increases a lot the chances to win.

• If you place only one hero in your defense-team, your rank will fall regularly and you will win more battles due to weaker opponents which brings you 40 honor bagdes per victory (additional 200 honor badges every 2,5 hours). Once you get 70 or even 80 HB per hour this tactic might be useless, of course.
  
• Remember the players’ names you can beat and how. You will encounter them quite often.
• Succubus makes a lot of damage when she reaches the altar. She is one of the most important heroes for Arena and will always be in your team.

• Boss fight: Champion is great, as he will stun the boss and succubus makes 35.000 HP damage when she procs.
• Your druid will always be in your team. He should be one of the most powerful heroes you have.
• Use gems only for hiring heroes and buying builders. Bear in mind that IGG launches the 'Uncover the Treasure'-Event that gives u one chance to win a hero for every 2.000 gems you spend.
  
• Only upgrade your town hall if necessary. Otherwise your targets for raids will be more difficult.
• Might: Your might should be in accordance with your actual power. Don't inflate your might by leveling too many random heroes. This means on the one hand, it’s not good to have too much might but your heroes are to weak compared to other players on the same level of might. On the other hand your might shouldn’t be too low, as you then get less rewards from quests and expeditions. As it is hard to downgrade your might - level up magic, troops, heroes and buildings wisely.
• Magic Spells: Focus on buffs for your heroes: Restoration, Ares’ Fervor, Guardian, Ares’ Frenzy and as soon as possible Snowstorm.
  
• You need all 5 builders to get 6th hero base as soon as possible. Focus from the beginning on the preconditions for it. Have all 5 builders working 24/7. If you dont have 5 builders stop gem-rolls and buy all 5 builders first.
• Walls: Always upgrade ur walls.
• Hero-Team: You want a well balanced team, don't level only 3 heroes, as otherwise you don#t have the power to support ur favorites get familiar with specialists like succubus in arena  or thundergod in expeditions and guild wars. Have at least one sniper such as aries or reaper.
• Bosss 3: champion, druid as well as heavy blow crests and talents are must haves to survive 3 min.
• Troops: focus on ornicopters.
• Don't sell stuff u get from daily quests and from lost battlefield. You will need it later.
• Dungeons: Try to complete normal dungeon 8 and sweep only dungeons with blue rooftops.
• Warehouse: never buy hero cards, but always buy hero slots and hero refresh cards as u then get 300 gems. never buy honor badges.
• Do only lost realm with full gold vaults to buy everything you can get from merchants.
• If you buy gems, buy only when you have 35% sale bonus.
• Garrison: always have 4 normal and 4 elite heroes to garrison the towers for guild wars, HBM and hero trails. garrison level mostly relates to skill-level of the hero (suscription has no effects).
• Do every day after boss mesa 4 with us. The best spots are for weak teams is in the corners. Stronger players will be next to you.
• If you need help or if u have questions: Don't be shy and ask!