I have 2 4* purple, blue, green and 1 4* yellow and red. So far I have been levelling 1 of each 4* for every color. Is it better to first max 1 of each and then do the others, or should I try to focus also on the rest of the troops? I know having more than 1 levelled troops is better for color stacking but is it worth? It surely slows down a lot the levelling and I would like to have powerful troops for my main team (which is rainbow).
What is your strategy? (sorry if the question has been asked, I tried to browse a few posts but I couldn’t find an answer to my question)
I have 3 of every color 3* and 3 of each 2* (and the 4* I mentioned in the post)
I’m undecided on whether to keep levelling just the strongest of each color or start levelling also the other 4* and 3*. This would give me more than 1 strong troop but would slow down the levelling of my main troop. Still confused
I originally though I would stick to one (as you use it far more so the incremental benefit of the 2nd and later troops drops) however as the cost grows exponentially, I think the best strategy for newer players is to bring up 4*s to around level 6-7, then level a second troop of the same colour to 2-3 and progressively move up. Eg. Imagine this scheme (1st troop-2nd-3rd) per colour
Then level something like this:
5-1-1
6-3-1
7-3-3
7-4-3
8-4-3
8-4-4
I’ve found this to be rather self regulatory; it’s so expensive to level troops that I can barely use 1* feeders anymore, so whichever colour I happen to pick up 2 and 3* feeders for get the level that day.
Also, I’m focusing on mana troops but have taken the crits to at least lvl 2 via the above concept. And kept a leveled 3* for every colour.
Feed 1* to 2*,
2* to 3* and
3* to 4*,
except another troop can be fed to reach the next level.
Focus on the strongest of each color, but keep at least 3 of each color and tier. They could be locked by clicking the question mark and then closing the lock.
There are certain steps for 4* troops, where they level up their ability. 7, 11, 17, and 23. If you reached those, focus another for leveling.
Wow. I use exclusively 1* feeders as long as the cost is at most 45k food per troop.
[Yes. So around level 7 for a 4* and level 10 for a 3*. Could push it further really.]
You mean 45k per feeder? For a lvl7 troop it’s 49k/feeder… getting barely half a level using 10 1* costs approx 500k. I’m always ham-challenged due to constantly leveling multiple heroes and reluctant to part with even the smallest piece of pork for anything else. Ah, the choices.
If you level your camps to 11, you can spam 8,7 over and over and use EXTRA LOW COST. You’ll have more 1 and 2* feeders than you know what to do with.
I only use corresponding colors for feeding.
You have to work for your Epic Troop Tokens to get the desired amount of 4* mana troops. ETTs are 100% guaranteed only from four souces - Challenge Event top 100 k rare 50k epic 10k legendary, Alliance quest top 10k alliances (I think) ,Mythic Titan top 1% best and total attack damage, or the Find Recruits II quest (50% chance).
Other sources are unreliable with very small chance of getting one are mystic vision, top 5%/top 1% of raid tournaments, all wanted missions with biggest chance from Wanted: Titans, Elemental or War Chest loot.
It’s currently best to pull from the Tower of Magic troop summoning portal since you can get additional mana troops - Wizard troops - which are inferior in the long run since they have reduced attack and defence % compared to the mana troops, however for a beginner player they are fine.
Other than that, you can use Hero Academy level 9 which allows you to Re-Train one kind of 4* troop into a different (random) kind of 4* troop. The only guarantee you get is that you can’t receive the same troop you are retraining. So for example if you retrain a Purple Critical 4* troop, you can get a random troop amongst the other 4 colors of Critical troops (Red, Green, Yellow or Blue) or a mana troop of any of the five colors, making this retraining practically a very very high chance of getting a random mana troop in exchange your critical troop (chance is approximately 60%). Sadly that level of the Hero Academy is extremely long to reach in terms of upgrading your Improved Food and Iron Storages (you need both of them to be at 10-10-9, so nearly maxed) which takes a ton of time unless you get a second builder from the ViP pass. Without ViP, you will get there approximately in 2 and a half years…
Edit: Also it is not needed to have all of your mana troops at level 17 if you go mono. For example, my red mono has troops level 17-11-5 and this is still enough to achieve tile break of three average heroes, who of course have some mana bonuses from another source (emblem path Mana talent or Costume mana bonus).
