This is a summary table only — full per-skill numbers (auto-attack/active/ultimate/passive at every star breakpoint, targeting behaviour) are in the companion hero/squad builder tool.

Full roster — all 31 heroes captured (13 Warrior, 9 Ranger, 9 Warlock), matching the cover sheet's faction counts. Two heroes carry alternate names between the roster sheet and the per-hero detail cards: Joker is called "Jester" in his own flavor text, and Ulfrid is called "Brian" in his — both are shown below with both names.

Warrior

Ranger

Warlock

PvE tier list

Hero names in this source are explicit text labels, not read off unlabeled portrait icons, so identification here is direct rather than inferred.

Griffith and Louis are absent from this list entirely — not placed in any tier, rather than ranked at the bottom. Not clear whether that's an oversight or a deliberate omission; Griffith already carries a weak verdict above ("no real tank utility"), while Louis's own verdict is more mixed (strong once invested, weak and outperformed by Shadow at low stars). Both are, notably, the two Ranger tank heroes — every other UR hero on the roster does appear somewhere in S or A here, which is broadly consistent with the individual verdicts above rather than contradicting them.

Every hero listed here shares the same Tenacity support skill (ATK/HP/DEF% plus, for UR heroes, skill cooldown speed), unlocking at Hero Lv.30 and 8★ — effect size scales with rarity (SR +5%, SSR +10%, UR +20%) and isn't repeated per-hero above.

This percentage table comes from an unattributed excerpt with no visible author, logo or date — the weakest sourcing on this page, and it should be treated as provisional. Where it overlaps with the game's own Quiz of Wisdom answer key it's corroborated; where it goes beyond the quiz, it stands alone.

Fielding heroes of the same type in one squad triggers additional attribute boosts to HP, ATK and DEF. The more matching heroes, the larger the bonus — and the curve is steep enough that a partial stack is barely worth having.

The fourth hero is the one that matters. Going from three to four triples the bonus, from 5% to 15%. Going from four to five adds only another five points. So a squad with three matching heroes has taken almost none of the available gain, and the useful decision is whether you can reach four — the fifth is a smaller top-up than the jump that precedes it. No bonus is listed below three, so a two-hero pairing appears to give nothing at all.

The 3+2 row is a separate squad shape, not a step on the way to 4-same — it is what you get for keeping 2 slots on off-faction heroes (for buffs, a needed role, etc.) instead of chasing a same-faction 4th and 5th. Source: a player-written PvP Team Guide (credited [S1 HELM] Iniuria), which also independently labels the trigger as same faction in its own captions — corroborating evidence toward the "faction" reading already favoured in the conflict block below, though the two texts still aren't identical sources and the conflict is left open.

What the game’s own quiz says

• Asked how to maximise overall damage when building a lineup, the answer key gives “5 members from the same faction” — which matches the 5-hero peak above and is the strongest corroboration available.
• Asked what the advantage of a same-faction team is, the answer is “damage increased by faction bonus”.
• The faction bonus feature unlocks at the first Royal City Scramble, so on a young server it is not yet active and none of this applies.

Faction counters apply on top

Stacking one faction also fixes which enemies you are strong and weak against, because faction restraint runs in a closed triangle: Ranger beats Warrior, Warrior beats Warlock, Warlock beats Ranger. The quiz answers “when is faction restraint applicable?” with all of the above, so it is not confined to one mode. A mono-faction squad is therefore a trade — up to 20% attributes in exchange for a predictable weakness, which is why a second squad of a different faction is worth building before a third of the same one.

The clearest place this pays out is the Demon King Blight, where sending the countering faction is worth +50% damage — far more than any lineup bonus. See that section for the daily rotation.

Positioning

Two further points from the answer key, both about placement rather than composition: putting a tank hero in the back row is explicitly marked incorrect, and asked what the roles of the different hero classes are, the answer is all of the above — that is, tanks, damage and support each have a distinct job rather than being interchangeable stat blocks. Detailed per-hero placement lives in the companion hero and squad builder rather than here.

Spreading your strongest heroes — alliance opinion

How to test it.Spookz pointed out that Demon King fights can be replayed, which makes this one of the few claims on this page that can be checked directly rather than argued about: run the same squad twice with the corners swapped, watch both replays, and compare which flank breaks first and how long the support survives. Because Demon King ranking uses your single highest hit, a controlled comparison costs only two of your ten daily attacks. If anyone runs that test, the result belongs here and would move this block up a tier.

First test run, 4 Aug 2026 (William's account, Ranger Blight). Comp A — Arthur/Lucius/Claire/Harper/Marlena, all Lv.114 — hit 172,969,497 (new personal record) and 172,560,574 across two runs. Comp B, swapping in Sivir for Lucius, hit 166,573,671 once — about 3.7% lower. Confound: Sivir was Lv.80 versus Lv.114 for every other hero in both comps, a 34-level gap, so this doesn't cleanly isolate the carry-vs-tank question — it mostly reflects Sivir being far less invested than Lucius, not necessarily the role swap itself. Not treated as a resolved result. More runs planned once Sivir's level catches up (estimated a few weeks).

Worth noting why this is plausible rather than treating it as folklore: the game already rewards positioning elsewhere — the quiz answer key marks putting a tank in the back row as outright incorrect — so the engine clearly reads formation, not just totals. Whether it reads left and right flanks separately is exactly the open question.

Presented as a progression through hero availability — earlier rows use heroes obtainable sooner — rather than a strict power ranking.

Both tracks build toward a full same-faction squad as more heroes become available, rather than jumping straight to one. Where a slot lists names joined by OR, those are interchangeable options.

F2P progression

P2W progression

Rows 8 and 9 are the same faction-counter mechanic already documented in the Demon King section above (Ranger beats Warrior, Warlock beats Ranger, Warrior beats Warlock) — independent reuse of the same triangle here, not new information about it.

The source's own caveat: performance varies with Tech, Gear, Hero Level and Star ratings, so this is a general guide rather than a fixed ranking — some B-tier heroes can still be highly effective with strong synergy at higher stars.

7 of 31 heroes are absent from this list: Kesso, Hastar, Zoya, Louis, Bell, Billy, Nicole. As with the PvE tier list above, not clear whether this is an oversight or a deliberate omission for heroes the author considers untested or out of scope for PvP specifically.

Internally consistent — every per-level figure is exactly five times the per-section figure, and the running totals all add up.

Red-star rows are shaded. Reading the table: each star costs the same in each of five sections, so per-level is always five times per-section.

• Stars 0–5 are gold stars and consume gold-star shards; 6–10 are red stars and consume red-star shards. They are not interchangeable.
• Every star costs the same amount in each of five sections, so the per-level cost is always five times the per-section figure.
• The curve breaks at the 6th star. Sections cost 2, 3, 4, 6, 8 and 12 shards up to that point, then jump straight to 25 and keep climbing to 60. Budget for the jump before you commit to a hero.
• Taking one hero from 0 to 10 stars costs 975 shards in total, and two thirds of that is spent on the last four stars alone.

• Open the Gear Workshop in your city.
• Dismantle unwanted gear to get materials. Lower-tier and unused gear is the fastest source.
• Fuse materials together to produce Tempered Steel.
• 750 Tempered Steel crafts one UR piece, and you choose the slot. The Craft tab has a row of four slot tabs — sword, armour, gauntlets, boots — and you pick which one to make. Nothing about it is random.

Craft cost by rarity

The SR and SSR crafting materials and the resource spent on the Craft button weren't legible enough to name, so they're described rather than guessed. Craft times are as displayed and may already include construction bonuses.

Each rarity uses a different material — only UR consumes Tempered Steel, so dismantling and fusing feeds the top tier alone. The jump from SSR to UR is roughly 5× the material, 5× the resource and 25× the time.

What each piece gives

SSR is monster gear; UR is combat gear. Every SSR bonus on every slot is either DMG to Monsters or Monster DMG Taken — nothing SSR unlocks helps in PvP at all. UR bonuses are the general ones: attack, crit, damage resistance, HP and defence. If you are gearing for Blights and monster events, SSR is not merely a stepping stone; if you are gearing for PvP, it does nothing once the base stats are surpassed.

Might is a poor guide to usefulness here.UR Gauntlets show the highest might of any piece at 34,585, ahead of the UR Sword at 30,890, while UR Boots sit at 13,458 — but the sword is the only piece carrying Crit Rate, and boots are the only piece carrying Energy damage resistance. Pick on the stat you need, not the number on the icon.

Build order — the shape of it

The community guide’s ordering front-loads the two DPS heroes, then tanks, then support, and advises raising everything to Lv.20 before taking any single piece deep. The craft panel explains why that advice works: additional stats unlock at gear levels 10, 20, 30 and 40, so the first two thresholds are where the cheapest gains sit. Because you choose the slot rather than rolling for it, the order below is a genuine plan rather than a way of coping with randomness.

The order as published: DPS 1 sword, DPS 2 sword, DPS 1 gloves, DPS 2 gloves, tank 1 boots, tank 2 boots, tank 1 chest, tank 2 chest, DPS 1 boots, DPS 2 boots, DPS 1 chest, DPS 2 chest, support boots, support chest, tank 1 sword, tank 2 sword, tank 1 gloves, tank 2 gloves, support sword, support gloves.

Then upgrade and star priority: both DPS swords to 2★ in parallel, both DPS gloves to 1★, DPS 1’s sword to 4★, then DPS 1’s sword to Lv.60 and gloves to Lv.48, then DPS 2’s sword to Lv.52 and gloves to Lv.48, then both DPS heroes’ boots to Lv.40, then both tanks’ boots to Lv.40.

This ordering is one guide’s opinion, not a game rule. It is recorded because it is specific and internally coherent, not because it has been verified as optimal.

Gearstone cost: UR gear

Cost is stepped every 4 gear levels rather than changing every level.

Star promotion cost (past Lv.40)

Once a piece is maxed at Lv.40, further improvement is by star promotion (1★–5★), each costing a Blueprint on top of gearstones/herbs/tempered steel. The pattern is four repeated upgrade steps building toward each star, then the promotion itself.

The 5★ row is marked differently in the source (highlighted red rather than the yellow used for 1★–4★) and its Blueprint requirement is labelled “10 (MR)” rather than a plain number — likely a rarer or different blueprint tier, but the source doesn't spell out what MR stands for. Reproduced as published rather than guessed.

• Hero-specific weapons that are not interchangeable — each belongs to one hero only, and not every hero gets one.
• Claimed to give permanent ATK/HP/DEF boosts, enhance existing skills, unlock new skill effects, and raise the skill level cap.
• First wave named as Louis, Brian and Daskal.
• Investment advice given: build one weapon fully before starting another, and pick the hero already carrying your main squad.

Once a hero reaches 10★, it is placed in the Hall of Honor, gaining 10 shards, 1 level, and all Hero Bonus stats.

Hero level — Antitoxin cost by tier

149 individual levels (Lv2–150) were captured; rather than list every row, here is where the per-level cost step changes — each tier's per-level increase holds steady until the next row.

Lv55 and Lv65–80 break the pattern. Lv55 costs 1,050,000 (a +102,100 step rather than +90,000). Lv65–80 is genuinely irregular in the source — it does not follow a single step size, cycling roughly between +500,000 and +900,000 per level (observed values: 2.5M, 3.0M, 3.6M, 4.2M, 4.8M, 5.5M, 6.0M, 6.7M, 7.2M, 7.8M, 8.4M, 9.1M, 9.7M, 10.2M, 10.9M, 11.8M for Lv65–80) rather than a clean tier, so it is reproduced as its own list rather than folded into a range above. There is also a one-off jump between Lv131 (100,100,000) and Lv132 (108,000,000) of +7,900,000, roughly double the surrounding step — reproduced as published, not smoothed.

Skill level — Medals, Stars and Shards

Past Skill Lv30, the source only lists Star and Shard values, with no further Skill Lv number or Medal cost shown: 6.0★=12 shards, 6.2–7.0★=25 shards, 7.2–8.0★=35 shards, 8.2–9.0★=40 shards, 9.2–10.0★=60 shards, then Hall of Honor at 10★. Whether Medal costs simply weren't captured for this stretch or stop applying isn't clear from the source — flagged rather than guessed.