Ace Defender: Dragon War is a captivating new real-time adventure game that combines elements of tower-defense and SRPGs. Heroes are the core component of the game, enabling players to build their teams and take on gruesome PvE and PvP challenges. While you can get unlucky in the gacha system and end up with low rarity heroes, do not fret as this guide will show how you can even make the weakest heroes stronger with the right processes. Let’s begin!

Understand the Hero Roles

In Ace Defender: Dragon War, heroes are categorized into four main roles: DPS (damage dealer), Tank, Support, and Healer. Here’s a breakdown of each role:

DPS (Damage Dealer): These heroes specialize in dealing damage, either through single-target attacks or area-of-effect (AoE) skills. DPS heroes are essential for clearing waves of enemies and dealing significant damage to bosses. These heroes are further classified into Marksmen and Warriors. 

Tank: Tanks absorb damage and protect your team. They have high health and defense stats, making them ideal for the front line. A strong tank is vital for surviving prolonged battles.

Supports/Debuffers: Support heroes provide buffs to allies, debuff enemies, and offer crowd-control abilities. They can enhance your team’s damage output or reduce incoming damage from enemies.

Healer: Healers restore health to your team, helping you sustain through tough battles. While not necessary for every encounter, they’re invaluable in long fights and boss battles.

Levelling Up your Heroes

Players can indulge in the various empowerment systems to ensure their heroes stay strong and healthy. Levelling up is the core process by which you can strengthen your heroes and see a direct improvement in their base stats. For those unaware, base stats refers to the heroes base attack, defense, and HP. By leveling up, you can increase all these stats, which in turn, results in higher damage output and survivability in battles. To level up your heroes, all you will need is experience and gold. Both the resources are abundantly available via the daily tasks and expedition stages.  

After leveling up your heroes a certain amount of times, you will hit a blockade. You will need to promote the heroes in order to further level them up. This process is crucial and takes us to the next growth process.

Hero Promotion

Like we mentioned in the previous section, your heroes can only be levelled up a certain number of times before they are up for promotion. Promotion means increasing your heroes level cap and also improving their skills. Yes, the hero’s skill growth is tied with the promotion system, making it more lucrative to empower your heroes. Not only do you get a better stat line but also improve their skills, leading to better utility in battles. For promotion, you will need experience, gold, and breakthrough stones. These stones can be farmed in the expedition stages, dungeons, alliance shop, idle rewards, redeem codes, events, and quests. 

Equipment

Equipment plays a major role in deciding your total hero power. You should see a solid number besides your hero when you click on them. This is called “CP (Combat Power)” and is a cumulative number based on their stats, abilities, and rarities. Equipment can enhance your additive stats, providing your hero with more health, attack, and defense to work with. Additive stats are different from base stats, as these stats are based off the heroes base stats. In short, these stats are artificial and can be changed with better quality equipment but base stats are fixed and cannot be changed. 

Equipment also comes in different rarities, just like heroes. The higher the rarity, the more stats and substats they will provide to the hero. Sadly, they cannot be upgraded. Equipment primarily come in 5 different forms:

• Weapon

• Armor

• Boots

• Rings

• Exclusive Equipment

Players can get more equipment via dungeons, expedition stages, idle rewards, and events. Exclusive equipment are special gear that are limited and exclusive to the hero itself. Once you clear expedition stage 8-50, you will be able to unlock this feature. 

To summarize, there are numerous ways to enhance CP, and all of them include improving your hero stats. This entails either improving your heroes with more powerful equipment, promoting them, or leveling them up. This is a continuous endeavor that players will most likely want to achieve during their time in the game. Never underestimate your combat power because if you fall behind in the race, it will be tough to catch up with the more experienced players in the game.

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