Who to Rank Up First

1 Rank Ena first

Ena Hawkeye is the go-to first hero to rank up. How far you take her depends on your server.

1. Unlock Ena.
2. Spend 125 Emerald Shards to raise her to Rare.
3. Spend 75 Magic Bottles to rank her up to Legendary 1.
4. From there she can kill the Daily Boss, so keep raising her levels and rank from its rewards.

2 Don't build around these

• Feralheart — no.
• Sun Zi — questionable at best as a long-term pick.
• Nushkilan — old meta and situational at best. With leagues she helps early, but she doesn't reach the Space heroes.

Midas Trick: hire your top hero fast after a portal jump

Use it once you travel with the portal. Set the portal about 1,500 levels below your highest level.

1. Turn off auto-progression on the map.
2. Go down to a level where you can kill enemies (the down arrow steps down through the mines).
3. Hit enemies until you can hire King Midas. Turn auto-progression back on: the next kill takes you back up to the portal level.
4. Use King Midas's skill. You can also hire your own click hero first for its click skill.
5. Spend the gold on your top hero.

You may need some gold artifact levels; artifacts for the skill and for gold income help. A portal at a level ending in 434, plus 21 levels from the pocket teleportation device, lands just before a level ending in 456, where the special loot starts (every 1,000 levels).

Three-hero rule for rarity upgrades

Before anything that can give a rarity upgrade (the daily boss, Mythic or Big arena chests):

1. Do a Dark Ritual.
2. Hire at most 3 heroes, including the one you want upgraded.
3. Open the chest or kill the boss and choose the upgrade.
4. Then hire the rest.

Your personal hero and Galactic X heroes do not count toward the 3.

Shard conversion

• Inside one class: 1 shard for 1.
• Between classes: 5 shards for 2, and it costs Holograms. Players spend Holograms only on Soul Eater to Necro Trooper.
• Class order: Kerth; Space Scout, Space Warrior, Space Trooper (convert any time); Star Ranger, Star Hunter, Star Wanderer (convert any time); Soul Mauler, Soul Eater, Soul Reaper and Necro Mage, Necro Trooper, Necro Warrior (wait for the full set before converting).