[Guide,Leveling] Always level the costume outfit first or partially leveled base hero or leveling a X* b1.1 base hero with a X* c1.1 costume outfit

[Gryphonknight]

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[Guide,Leveling] Always level the costume outfit first or partially leveled base hero or leveling a X* b1.1 base hero with a X* c1.1 costume outfit

Partially leveled base hero

@Question

If I level base hero Melendor to 4* b4.1, and level his corresponding costume outfit to 4* c4.70, will Melendor’s costume outfit have maxed stats?

If I don’t intend to use base hero Melendor, only Melendor’s costume outfit version, is this the most efficient way to do it?

Answer:

Yes and No ( see below).

Level costume first

But.

Unless someone knows better, this is a great LEVELING strategy.

If you use only MATCHING colors to level a costume outfit, it gets a 1.5x CXP bonus instead of the 1.2x HXP bonus for same color leveling a base hero.

Add the 2x CXP bonus for leveling costume versus base heroes and you can level a costume 2.5x faster than a base hero using MATCHING colors ( only 2.2x faster than a base hero for rainbow leveling).

This matters because you will get a costume outfit leveled ( 4* c3.60, 4* c4.70, 5* c3.70, and 5* c4.80 ) faster than the base hero leveled ( 4* b3.60, 4* b4.70, 5* b3.70, and 5* b4.80 ).

So you can use the leveled costume outfit while you wait for the base hero to reach the same level.

If you level the base hero first, you will have to wait 2.5x as long for same color leveling ( or 2.2x for rainbow leveling) before you have a usable hero ( of that tier / ascension/ ^).

Example

Boldtusk 4* h4.1 / c4.70

can be used as a 4.70 hero 2.5x faster ( 2.1x for rainbow leveling) than

Boldtusk 4* h4.70 / c4.1

Food

This 2.5x faster also translates into a huge savings in food. 66% (versus 54% saving for rainbow leveling ) a costume outfit.

So I strongly recommend same color costume outfit leveling.

Leveling a 5* costume outfit with same color heroes costs 1.836 m food less than rainbow color leveling.

So leveling 2.1x 5* costume outfits with same color leveling saves you the same as leveling a BASE hero from 4* b1.1 to 4* b4.70 .

4* b3.60 / c3.60

Some heroes are good, some suck, but most are average.

@Gryphonknight

4* 3.60 heroes are the most powerful with farmable ascension items.

Unlike emblems, costumes can be used for 4* 3.60 heroes.

This makes duplicate 4* 3.60 heroes with costumes the most efficient use of costumes.

Example

2x Boldtusk 4* 3.60

2x Sonya 4* 3.60

Not necessarily the best use. That ( as always ) depends on your roster.

5* b3.70 / c3.70

Some heroes are good, some suck, but most are average.

Depending on the 5* hero, 5* b3.70 are good.

For the same heroes that are good at 5* b3.70, 5* b3.70 / 5* c3.70 are better.

X* b4.1 / c4.1

Non farmable ascension items

Once base hero, and costume, are maximum tier ( 4* b4.1 / c4.1 and 5* b4.1 / c4.1 ) you have already spent maximum non farmable ascension items on both.

Non farmable ascension items are a huge bottle neck in leveling heroes.

Emblems

I am a big fan of class emblems X*+1, X*+2, X*+15, X*+18 for heroes ( see notes ).

Emblems require the base hero to be 8/8 special skill, maximum tier and maximum level.

However, you cannot do that if you are out of 3* / 4* non farmable ascension items.

So every hero you take to X* c4.1 you should consider taking to 4* b4.70 or 5* b4.80 since this gives you 200% value for your emblem use in class quests ( use emblems to get more emblems ).

Notes

Click for notes

Math

( ( 1.5 / 1.2 ) * 2.0 )= 2.5x faster same color costume outfit versus base hero

( 3.0 * 0.2 ) + ( 2.0 * 0.8 )= 2.2x faster rainbow color costume outfit versus base hero

Food

@Gryphonknight

3* 3.50= 1.0 m food + 0.38 m food = 0.69 m food average

4* 4.70= 5.8 m food + 2.2 m food = 4 m food average

5* 4.80= 22 m food + 8.6 m food = 15.3 m food average

-66% minus -54% = -12%

0.12 * 15.3 m= 1.85 m food

2.1x 1.85 m food = 4 m food

Emblems

Costume mana

Mana bonus is now a consideration with costumes.

@Gryphonknight

@zephyr1

I’m mixing and matching.

I like this option.

But lately I am being swayed by the “share the emblems” strategy.

As Kerridoc has said, there are some natural break points.

X*+1 for strong talents or talents that match special skills.

Attack X*+2 for color stacking heroes.

X*+15 for 5/5 talents

X*+19 for non Paladins

X*+20 for good Paladin heroes like 3*+20 Tyrum and 4*+20 Guardian Falcon.

Emblems to get emblems

@Gryphonknight

@zephyr1

use Sabina anywhere near as much as Proteus, Wilbur, Boldtusk, Grimm, Melendor, or Scarlett.

None of these heroes can do Sorcerer class quests. Which gets more sorcerer emblems.

Except for self heal / minions / random boy there are no other Sorcerer healers. And 42% Heal is powerful.

Delay is especially useful against reflect damage, and other defense buffs, so it goes well with Fog of the fallen ( looking at you rare tiger titan ).

I will probably take Sabina to at least Attack+HP 4*+15 for color stacking and Delay 5/5.

But yeah, there are a lot of good 4* purple heroes to level for challenge events, class quests and rumored challenge raids.

Notes

Click for proc rate discussion

@Gryphonknight

Edit:

The Best Heroes in Each Class guide

I laughed out loud when my - then 4*+1 Rogue Scarlett - evaded Sartana’s Deathstrike which I then cleansed with my fully charged Rigard.

Probability

A Scarlett with zero emblems can not Evade.

But a Scarlett Rogue 4*+1 has a chance. Given …

FIN