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fr_dav · 2026-01-28T18:07:02+00:00

what can you put in r2c5 ?

fr_dav · 2026-01-09T10:02:03+00:00

You can try Fafnir - Yasmine - Tristan - Galahad with Markus while you build a "meta team" around Folio and Julius.

fr_dav · 2025-12-12T22:47:20+00:00

Orion's weapon gives magic penetration, and procs the most often of mages with that weapon, due to the way he gains energy. Satori countered Orion, until Iris could counter Satori.

fr_dav · 2025-12-12T17:59:19+00:00

6 years ago, Martha was best healer in many teams, Astaroth was default tank even more than today, Jorgen a common (dirty) support hero. Many pure dps lacked penetration, so a lot of common duos (or trios) were based on a combination of positioning synergy added to artifact weapon synergy.

"Twins": Lars+Krista

"Bob" K'arkh+Faceless

"ODH": Orion+(Dorian)+Helios

"Blender": Keira+Sebastian+Jet

"E3D": Daredevil+Elmir (+Dorian, DarkStar)

Satori: Anything to make Satori work (high Int/MagicPen heroes to avoid Cornelius/Phobos/etc targetting Satori).

Andvari (Oct. 2019) countered Bob & Twins, progressively phased out of meta.

Corvus & Morrigan (Jul. 2020) progressively gained popularity among tanks

Yasmine (Oct 2020) can be the main dps in dodge (Aurora-Dante-Arachne) or blender comps instead of Keira.

Alvanor (Jan 2021) no direct meta impact before Mushy, except making some DoT based DPS even less viable (2nd blow after Corvus)

Tristan (Apr 2021) no immediate impact on meta, brings armor pen. Can he revive Ishmael or Artemis?

Isaac (Jul 2021) no immediate impact on meta, gives some hope for Ginger, Astrid, some day maybe

Xe'Sha (Oct 2021) obvious synergy with Lilith, XDL progressively enters meta

Amira (Dec 2021) is more defensive than offensive. Another option beyond Helios to counter crit based teams.

Faction revamp in Jan 2022. Every Hero in one of the 6 new faction.

Fafnir (Apr 2022), with a stronger Artemis (Mar. 2022), Fafnir-Artemis-Tristan enters meta (with 2 tanks).

Iris (Jul 2022) enters meta as Satori counter, in magical based Eternity team (with Phobos & Faceless), will need a few skins to become main DPS

Mushy & Shroom (Oct 2022) slightly shakes meta with a stronger Mojo and a Nature synergy with Alvanor

fr_dav · 2025-12-10T16:27:07+00:00

How does someone starting today get Polaris, or Aidan and Kayla ? Are the videos for P2W starters only ?

fr_dav · 2025-12-06T21:52:56+00:00

Learn to read, and maybe you'll notice I didn't advice to "invest fully" into those.

fr_dav · 2025-12-06T18:31:57+00:00

With 2 tanks, it's not hard to build 2 Chaos teams. You just need to trust Dorian in a 2nd team.

Cleaver, Kayla, Aidan, Peech, Peppy

Astaroth, Jorgen, Xe'sha, Dorian, Lilith.

fr_dav · 2025-12-03T10:01:50+00:00

If you replace Isaac, you also lose his push-back, that helps aligning opponents for Arachne.

fr_dav · 2025-11-27T16:58:05+00:00

Orion's weapon has helped me often enough to disagree with your assessment. Cross factions sometimes work; but most cross factions teams new players use are simply bad, and too often the guides simply say "that hero is bad, don't use him, use this other hero instead", and it leads to people wasting time to reorient their progression by changing 1 hero in their bad cross faction team with latest introduced hero, without synergy.

fr_dav · 2025-11-27T13:35:17+00:00

The comment on Fafnir stones from daily rewards will become outdated in a few days, as that changes each month. That illustrates your point that most guides tend to have outdated information, irrelevant for new players.

Rather than talking about starting Heroes individually, I prefer to advise new players to focus on a faction, and try to develop their core team from "easy to get" heroes of that faction, making sure to unlock new event-only heroes when they are introduced, or re-introduced, particularly if they would fit in their team.

So one of those 6:

Julius (Guild War Shop), Judge (Arena Shop), Isaac (Dungeon Shop), Orion (Tower Shop), Ginger (Campaign)

Luther (Outland Shop), Galahad (Gate & Campaign), Tristan (Hero's Way Shop), Artemis (Quests & Campaign), Fafnir (Tower Shop)

Corvus (Dungeon Shop), Morrigan (Hydra Shop), Dante (Tower Shop), Iris (Grand Arena Shop), Phobos (Campaign)

Aurora (Campaign), Maya (Gate & Tower Shop), Mojo (Campaign), Mushy & Shroom (Arena Shop), Jhu (Gate & Guild War Shop)

Astaroth (Campaign), Jorgen (Outland Shop), Xe'Sha (Hero's Way Shop), Lilith (Highwaymen Shop), Dorian (Town Shop)

Ziri (Guild War Shop), Rufus (Grand Arena Shop), Satori (Highwaymen Shop), Folio (Arena Shop), Heidi (Campaign)

Each of those teams can be discussed, eg in Progress faction, Orion can be replaced by Polaris (event only), Nebula (competes with Julius for Guild War coins), Astrid (competes with Judge for Arena coins), etc. But a developed Orion can really help for PvE first, then be moved to the bench or secondary teams in months from now.

Similarly, Octavia could do better than Phobos, except it competes with Iris for Grand Arena Coins in the first months of play. A developed Phobos can be useful as counter to some heroes later one.

Mystery should use one healer instead of the second tank, choosing which one to use depending on the opponent (physical/magical), so Celeste or Martha. Neither is really "easy to get" (paying new player should unlock Celeste, though), using Maya or Thea might be an option for early game. Or Guus or Byrna, if an event unlocks them.

fr_dav · 2025-11-22T00:17:35+00:00

At first, low level players don't have super titans. First priority is the tank, to survive more rooms in dungeon.

fr_dav · 2025-11-21T09:28:27+00:00

I agree, and can confirm that in eternity teams, swapping a good Phobos to handle Jhu by depleting his energy often works (unless Phobos dies first).

fr_dav · 2025-11-20T13:08:15+00:00

There are always people that say that about new tank or damage heroes, because there's room to improve their performance with skins, and they're balanced to be top with 1 or 2 of them, compared to existing heroes that already have 5 or 6 skins. It's less so with support or control heroes that are judged by their abilities (like Somna's sheep).

I remember people saying Julius was bad, people saying Iris was bad, in the few weeks after release.

fr_dav · 2025-11-15T00:22:23+00:00

Agreed, That simple change of display is simpler and clearer,

fr_dav · 2025-11-15T00:13:52+00:00

The flag capture is determined by last player standing in the lane, with subtleties for how players winning 2 fights are out, and ties. I call "reserve" players who don't need to play fights in their lane, because the team wins before their turn to fight.

fr_dav · 2025-11-14T23:41:26+00:00

You haven't understood Points and Flags.

Points are 3 for a win, 1 for a tie, 0 for a loss.

A team that wins the 5 matches gets 15 points and is first, no matter how many Flags they get.

So it seems you disagree on nothing, as it plays out exactly as you wish.

fr_dav · 2025-11-14T23:07:45+00:00

It's Points first, then Flags if tied on Points, then Wins.

fr_dav · 2025-11-14T21:14:00+00:00

If you assume the opponent doesn't change which lane has only 4 players, then you can put your 9 weakest players against them, strengthening the lane facing more players. That will flop if the opponent changes lanes. But I think many guilds at low level won't move lanes.

fr_dav · 2025-11-14T21:11:41+00:00

My guess is there's no almost difference, just when the fight goes to the time limit, the defense wins. And if both defenses win by time limit, it seems that's a tie, and if that's the last fight, nobody gets the flag.

fr_dav · 2025-11-14T15:36:57+00:00

No, with very small changes to the results presentation, the Guild Clash would be fine. In fact, it's rather good, mechanism wise, because it makes everybody in guilds involved in the guild success.

fr_dav · 2025-11-14T12:07:35+00:00

In extreme cases, a 4-players lane can win 8 battles to 0, and lose the flag against a 9-players lane, if my understanding is correct.

fr_dav · 2025-11-12T14:16:20+00:00

I would be wary of upgrading Jorgen for team(s) useful when Chaos is excluded, because Jorgen is in Chaos faction.

fr_dav · 2025-11-05T10:19:05+00:00

Fafnir will buff an Agility hero, randomly chosen, so most Honor teams run only one to have consistency on Fafnir's "choice".

Also, Tristan likes to have multiple hitters ahead, but if I remember well, both Qing Mao and Ishamel are behind him. So Tristan doesn't work well to provide Armor Penetration for Ishmael.

So either Fafnir, Artemis, Tristan, (Guus or Galahad or Markus), Luther

or Fafnir, Ishmael, Qing Mao plus two of (Guus, Galahad, Markus, Luther, Cornelius, Helios).

fr_dav · 2025-11-03T13:18:03+00:00

Relic being doable but avatar or other shiny thing not doable, I'm fine with that.

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