At a glance
Focus EXP and gear on a single team of five heroes before building another.
Construction, research and training should always be running.
before every Gem purchase (see below).
Priorities, in order
- Secure your account: link it to a sign-in method and note your player ID and kingdom number (#108).
- Follow the tutorial and main missions: they unlock systems one by one and give lots of resources.
- Aim for the next Castle level: check what it requires and upgrade those buildings first, rather than a bit of everything.
- Keep your queues busy: start a construction, a research and a training before logging off.
- Join ArS and stay active: help members, read the rally and attack rules, join the Discord.
- Collect everything daily: completed missions, mail, daily rewards and event milestones.
Building a solid team
One team first
EXP and gear are scarce early on. Spreading them over every hero means having no strong team at all.
Read the skills
Power numbers don't tell the whole story. Check what each hero does and how they work with the others.
After a loss, find the cause
Damage taken on the route, a front line that fell too early, or not enough damage on the boss? Change one thing at a time and try again.
Before spending Gems
Understanding speed bonuses
A speed bonus makes the work faster; it does not remove a percentage of the timer.
A 10 h upgrade takes 10 ÷ 1.2 ≈ 8 h 20.
The same upgrade takes 10 ÷ 2 = 5 h, not 0 h.
The formula: actual time = base time ÷ (1 + bonus ÷ 100). Alliance helps come next, then speedups.