General Information About Heroes

The tutorial presents you with your first heroes. You can obtain other heroes and their Soul Stones at the Soul Atrium, by completing heroic missions, etc. Learn more about where to get Hero Soul Stones here.

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Role

There are seven roles in the game:

1. Tank characters have more health and are more resistant to damage than other roles. Tanks usually stand on the front lines to absorb more damage and protect their team members. Some of them have special skills that allow them to attract the opponent's attacks. 
2. Warrior characters specialize in dealing damage to the opponent in close combat.
3. Marksman characters also deal damage but use ranged attacks.
4. Mages deal magic damage.
5. Support characters give their allies an advantage in battle. For example, they can remove negative effects, give a shield, resurrect, etc.
6. Control characters inflict control effects on the opponents to make them less effective.
7. Healers have abilities that restore health. These characters typically stand further away to avoid attacks.

Special

Some heroes have an additional stat, a special trait. There are five specials in the game. ​

1. Blessed: Galahad, Markus, Tristan, Luther.
2. Grove Keeper: Thea, Alvanor, Kai.
3. Undead: Phobos, Corvus, Morrigan, Keira, Lyria.
4. Engineer: Ginger, Isaac, Fox.
5. Fire Heralds: Kayla, Aidan.

Each special trait has heroes with unique skills. In battle, these abilities grant bonuses to all characters with the same special on the team. For example, Corvus and Morrigan have the Undead trait. Thus, their skills are synergic.

Currently, there are six heroes with special skills: ​

1. Corvus's Strike of the Damned and Unity of the Damned skills boost the Undead heroes;
2. Morrigan's Bone Armor and Moonlight skills boost the Undead heroes;
3. Alvanor's Rune of Life and Harmony of the Grove skills boost the Grove Keeper heroes;
4. Tristan's Righteous Zeal, Serving the Light, and Blessed Vanguard skills boost the Blessed heroes;
5. Isaac's Drone Swarm skill boosts the Engineer heroes.
6. Lyria's Bonds of Alliance skill boosts the Undead allies. Besides, the aura of her fourth skill, Shackles of Doom, scales with the number of Undead allies in the team.

Level

Hero level determines a hero's power. The maximum hero level is 130. The higher the level, the more experience you need to raise it.

To gain hero experience:

• complete Campaign missions using heroes you wish to upgrade;
• use EXP potions.

You can buy EXP potions at the Town Shop or receive them by raiding missions.

The game has two different level systems: team level and character level. Up to team level 28, your heroes’ level can be higher than your team level. Your heroes might be at level 17 when your team level is still 13. So, if you cannot level up your heroes further, increase your team level first.

Press your avatar in the upper-left corner of the main screen to check what is the maximum level of your heroes.

Starting from team level 28, the hero level cap is equal to your current team level and cannot be higher than it. For example, if your team level is 28, you can upgrade your heroes up to level 28 at most. To level up your heroes further, increase your team level.

Skills

Each hero has four skills. You can manually activate only the first one. To do so, press the hero icon when it starts glowing, and the energy bar is full.

The second, third, and fourth skills activate automatically according to their recharge period, i.e., cooldown time. It means you have to wait a certain amount of time before a hero can cast these skills again.

You can learn the timings of skill casts by observing battles or by asking fellow players on our official communities. Also, check out the official Hero Wars Universe website; it describes all heroes and their skills in detail.

The maximum level of the first two skills is 130, the third is 110, and the fourth is 90. To level up a skill, you need both Skill Points and gold.

After you use Points, it takes time for them to restore: you get one Point every five minutes. You can get a maximum of 20 Skill Points this way. To get more Points, press the plus icon next to the Points counter and buy them with emeralds.

Hover your mouse cursor over the name of the skill to read its description. To learn more about the skill, turn on the detailed skill description:

1. Go to Settings by pressing the gear button in the lower-right corner of the main game screen.

   

2. Switch the Complete Skill Info setting on.

   

Rank and Equipment

There are 18 ranks in the game: White, Green, Green+1, Blue, Blue+1, Blue+2, Violet, Violet+1, Violet+2, Violet+3, Orange, Orange+1, Orange+2, Orange+3, Orange+4, Red, Red+1, and Red+2.

When you level up a hero's rank, you improve their stats and unlock skills and Glyphs.

To upgrade a hero to the next rank, you can:

• use Gifts of Dominion;
• purchase upgrades at the Rairy Fair;
• collect and craft all required items.

You can gather items and their fragments by completing Campaign missions. The rarer the item, the lower its drop chance. You can also purchase items and their fragments in various game shops.

If it is not possible to equip an item, it means that a hero's current level is not high enough to equip this gear item. You need to level up the hero. You can check the required level in the item creation menu. The items on the right side usually need a higher hero level.

Evolution and Soul Stones

Evolution increases the hero's main stats. The maximum evolution is six stars. To level up your hero's evolution, you need gold and Soul Stones.

The number of Soul Stones required for an upgrade:

• 1st star — 10 Soul Stones;
• 2nd star — 20 Soul Stones (or 30 Soul Stones if you summon the hero for the first time);
• 3rd star — 50 Soul Stones (or 80 Soul Stones if you summon the hero for the first time);
• 4th star — 100 Soul Stones;
• 5th star — 150 Soul Stones;
• 6th star — 300 Soul Stones.

You can earn Soul Stones:

• at the Soul Atrium;
• by completing special event tasks;
• by purchasing a bundle with hero Soul Stones;
• by buying in one of the Shops.

Skins

Skins increase hero stats and change their appearance. Each hero has a Default skin that boosts their main characteristic: strength, agility, or intelligence. Additional skins upgrade secondary stats.

You can purchase skins with Skin Stones, buy them in the Skin Sale tab, or get them during special events.

You can level up skins with Skin Stones. The maximum hero skin level is 60.

Glyphs

Each hero has five Glyphs. They boost main and secondary stats. To unlock Glyphs, you need to upgrade the hero's rank.

To level up a Glyph, you need emeralds or runes. From the beginning, you can upgrade a Glyph only to the 30th level. When a hero reaches level 60, you can boost the Glyph up to level 40. Glyph levels 41-50 become available when your hero gets to level 100.

Gift of the Elements

Gift of the Elements allows you to upgrade three main stats of a hero. To level up a hero's Gift of the Elements, you need gold and Sparks of Power that you can get for upgrading titans, their skins, and artifacts, or buy them in the Titan Soul Shop.

The maximum Gift of the Elements bonus is 720 to the hero's primary stat and 360 to the other two stats.​

How to Learn More About a Hero

You can find detailed information about a hero in their Stats tab. There, you can learn about their background, position, main and secondary stats, and role. To open the Stats tab:

1. Press the Heroes button at the bottom of the main game screen.

   

2. Select the required hero.

3. Go to the Stats tab.