They have strong area of effect abilities, direct damage spells, unit summoning abilities in combat, and/or powerful battlefield enchantments. Sorceror, Necromancer, and Arch Druid are best suited as caster heroes who can put points into ranged damage and casting points. These units also benefit from a strong starting kit of combat abilities and stats, whether it is bonus armor or Backstab. Warlord, Dreadnought, and Rogue Heroes are not well suited to spell caster roles, as their good spells tend to be cheap and single-target with unique battle field effects your other units are encouraged to take advantage of (buffs, debuffs, and status effects).

This is most common in a stack led by your Leader, using the combat Hero as an elite bodyguard. In either case, their expertise lies on the tactical map and they are generally suited to be placed in a stack with a leader hero who they synergize with. I don't believe Rogues or Dreadnoughts have a healing aura and for that reason, coupled with strong base stats/abilities and poor squad-buffs, I think they make better combat heroes than squad leaders.Ĭombat heroes can either specialize in spell casting, ranged, or melee combat. If a Hero is going to lead a stack, having a healing aura ability is a critical first ability to keep your team alive and continuously ready for combat. At this point I think specializing the hero for the role is more important than pumping stats as you should be using your heroes in combats to level them up early against weak neutral camps, and finding lots of items because of it. A Warlord hero is maybe not the best hero to lead a squad of Support units, as his squad-buffs tend to support melee and armored units.

Also be aware of what units the hero is joining or leading. Do you want it to lead a stack or support in a stack led by another hero? This comes down to your personal strategy, but building out skills to define an early role are important. Since you pick up armor and items later, or have spells that affect defensive stats, they are easier to pump than HP and tend to scale, while HP does not scale with hero levels.Īfter that, it depends on what you want to do with the hero early-mid game. +10 HP only costs 3 points, and its the equivalent hp increase of a normal unit going from bronze to gold rank. I usually do this when they hit lvl 2 and go +10 HP, +1 Def or Res, and +1 Ranged damage.

I definitely think devoting at least a full levels worth of points into stats early is important.

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