Heroes2
Getting Heroes
There are a number of ways to gain heroes and these are listed below
- They can be bought from the Tavern in the Black Market
- They can be given by getting favor from a God (small % chance)
- A high level hero (20+) can be obtained by getting into Lucifer's Most Favored List
- Love Potion #9 and Lipstick of Enslavement are unique items that can grant you one hero
Hero Experience
With every turn you spend, your hero gains experience points. When you collected enough experience, your hero raises a level. The latter may switch on new abilities and increase the effect of already acquired abilities.
Experience gain
Battle Heroes:
- Slow servers (Apprentice): 12 experience per turn + 24 experience for leading a stack in a battle (win or not)
- Normal servers (Guild): 8 experience per turn + 16 experience for leading a stack in a battle (win or not)
- Fast servers (Blitz): 4 experience per turn + 8 experience for leading a stack in a battle (win or not)
Non-Battle Heroes:
- Slow servers (Apprentice): 18 experience per turn
- Normal servers (Guild): 12 experience per turn
- Fast servers (Blitz): 6 experience per turn
Leveling:
The formula for hero leveling is:
- Experience_For_Next_Level = Next_Hero_Level*1000 Experience
- Experience_For_Next_Level = Next_Hero_Level*1000 Experience
Section 7 - Heroes and Heroins of Alzorath's FAQ v0.2 shows a table format of the hero levels from zero up to 40; however, the lowest level heroes available start from level 8 as most heroes have thier first abilities when they reach level 9.
In Battle
Heroes will lead stacks according to their power, so the highest level hero in your army will lead your most powerful stack and so on; however, heroes will lead units that are the same race and color (for instance, even if you only have a Berserker, it will lead Dwarven Deathseekers even if Red Dragons are your top stack). Heroes will die in battle when the stack that they command is completely destroyed.
If a Hero commands a stack of the same colour and race as the hero this stack recieves a bonus to efficiency equal to the heros level in percent.
How Heroes are Lost in Combat:
Stack wiping the hero led stack will usually kill a hero but...
MikeClough:
- For the hero to die, there needs to be enough damage left over after the stack is killed, to kill the hero also. It is possible to have a hero-lead stack completely die, but the hero survive, provided the damage left over is not enough to kill the hero also.
Hero Abilities
The hero and the level of the hero when the ability of gained is listed in the parentheses next to the ability.
When an ability is denoted as (Does Something/LVL), it does mean the hero level, but the level of the skill. EXAMPLE: A level 10 Alchemist has 2 skill points in Alchemy. The easy way to derive the skill level is to take the level of the hero then subtract the level that you get the skill, then add one. Back to the alchemist, Level 10 - Level 9 (Skill onset level) = 1. 1 + 1 = 2. Thus level 2 of Alchemy. (Edit:jaspian. Edit:jurito. Someone is fucking up the pages... can someone IPcheck this guy and ban his range?)
Hero abilities can also be turned off by accessing the audience link from the main menu page of the game.
- Increases geld income by 0.054% + 2.125%/lvl.
- Reduces MP income by 0.051%/lvl.
Animal Taming (Shepherdess 14):
- Reduces Primary and Counter AP of all enemy Animal units by 5%/lvl.
Animate Dead (Crypt Keeper 9, Necromancer 16):
- Resurrects 1%/lvl of your slain undead units at the end of each battle.
Arcfire (Fire Elementalist 9):
- Deals 1k/lvl FIRE damage to one random enemy stack.
Beast Master (Amazon 14):
- Increases Primary and Counter AP of all your Animal units by 5%/lvl.
Berserk (Berserker 14, Amazon 18):
- Increases Primary and Counter AP of all your units by 10% + 5%/lvl.
- Decreases HP of all your units by 5% + 1%/lvl.
- Generates items based on the number of guild. (Anyone know how it works?)
- Increases building rate by 6% + 3%/lvl.
Channeling (Shaman 16, Crypt Keeper 18):
- Increases MP income by 2% + 1%/lvl.
Charisma (Bard 14, Warlord 16):
- Increases recruit rate by 2% + 1%/lvl.
Chill Touch (Soul Reaper 9, Necromancer 9):
- Deals 4k + 2k/lvl COLD damage to one random enemy stack.
- Reduces Primary and Counter AP of the damaged stack by 2% + 1%/lvl.
- This ability can be resisted.
- Reduces Accuracy of one random enemy stack by 2% + 1%/lv.
Demon Hunter (Vampire Hunter 18):
- Increases damage dealt by your units to enemy Demon units by 10% + 5%/lvl.
Dragon Rider (Dragon Knight 16):
- Increases Primary and Counter AP of all your Dragon units by 5%/lvl.
Dragonslayer (White Knight 20):
- Increases damage dealt by your units to enemy Dragon units by 10% + 5%/lvl.
Enchant Item (Enchantress 18):
- Generates lesser items. The generation rate is independent of the number of Guilds.
Enchant Weapon (Enchantress 14):
- Increases Accuracy, Primary and Counter AP of one of your stacks by +5% + 1%/lvl.
Firestorm (Fire Elementalist 16):
- Deals 40k/lvl FIRE damage to each enemy stack.
Healing (Priestess 9, Shieldmaiden 14):
- Resurrects a number of units worth 4k + 2k/lvl HP in each of your stacks at the end of each battle.
Honor (White Knight 16):
- Creates 1-2 Knight/turn at lvl 16
Ice Shield (Valkyrie 16):
- Increases all your units' FIRE resistance by 5% + 1%/lvl.
- Deals 10k + 5k/lvl COLD damage to one random enemy stack. (can anyone confirm?)
Illusion (Illusionist 18):
- Creates a stack of illusionary units worth 200k NP/lvl.
- The illusion stack contains the same type of units as one of your real stacks chosen at random, and can be affected by spells, items, and abilities in the same manner as real stacks.
- The illusion stack is never commanded by a hero, and does not count towards total army power or total power loss.
Leadership (Mercenary 14, Veteran 14):
- Increases Primary and Counter AP of all your Mercenary units by 5%/lvl.
Mind Blast (Illusionist 9):
- Deals 20k/lvl PSYCHIC damage to one random enemy stack.
Mind Shield (Illusionist 14):
- Increases all your units' PSYCHIC resistance by 5% + 1%/lvl.
Necromancy (Necromancer 14, Crypt Keeper 16):
- Reduces upkeep of your undead units by 2% + 1%/lvl.
Peace With Nature (Shepherdess 18):
- Increases Food Production per Farm by 50 + 15/lvl
Plant Control (Shaman 14):
- Increases Primary and Counter AP of all your Treefolk Units by 5%/lvl.
- This bonus adds with the effects of plant growth.
- Turns around 2000 enemy recruited units into frogs. (Exact numbers and formula?)
- The created frogs temporarily join your army as an additional stack for the duration of the battle.
- Polymorphed units are considered killed in battle and cannot be resurrected.
Rally (Shieldmaiden 9):
- Increases HP of all your units by 3% + 1%/lvl.
Researching (Sage 9):
- Reduces research cost of each spell by 6% + 3%/lvl.
Selfressurection (Priestess 17):
- If the priestess is killed in battle, she loses 1 level and resurrects.
Shepherding (Shepherdess 9):
- Summons sheep into your army.
- (anyone know how much/lvl?)
- (a < 334 < b) at lvl 8
- Increases Primary and Counter AP of all your units by 2% + 1%/lvl.
- Reduces Primary and Counter AP of all enemy units by 2% + 1%/lvl.
Soul Devour (Soul Reaper 14):
- Reduces HP, Primary and Counter AP of all enemy units by 2% + 1%/lvl.
- Increases HP, Primary and Counter AP of all your Demon units by 2% + 1%/lvl.
Spell Lore (Sage 16):
- Reduces casting cost of each spell by 2% + 1%/lvl.
Squirrel Dance (Summoner 9):
- Summons a stack of 20 + 10/lvl squirrels which lasts for the duration of each battle.
- The squirrel stack can be affected by spells, items, and abilities in the same manner as real stacks.
- The squirrel stack is never commanded by a hero, and does not count towards total army power or total power loss.
- Increases amount of units summoned by 0.125% + 3%/lvl.
Tactics (Warlord 14, Shieldmaiden 16):
- Increases Accuracy of all your units by 2% + 1%/lvl.
Terror (Dread Knight 18):
- Reduces Accuracy of all enemy units by 5% + 1%/lvl.
- Increase Geld Income by 20k + 20k/lvl.
Turn Undead (Vampire Hunter 9, Priestess 14):
- Deals 5k + 2k/lvl HOLY damage to each enemy Undead stack.
Unholy Aura (Dread Knight 16):
- Increases all your units' HOLY resistance by 5% + 1%/lvl. (?)
Valor (many at level 9):
- Increases Primary and Counter AP of all your units by 3% + 1%/lvl.
Vampire Hunter (Vampire Hunter 16):
- Increases damage dealt by your units to enemy Undead units by 10% + 5%/lvl.
Wall of Thorn (Shaman 18):
- Reduces Initiative of one random enemy stack by 1.
- Deals POISON damage to the affected stack. (Higher levels may have better chance of success and greater poison dmg)?
