The Lord of the Rings: Heroes of Middle Earth – Tips and Tricks for New Players
The global launch for Electronic Arts latest mobile game LoTR: Heroes of Middle Earth is drawing close. Players around the world are excited to try out the officially licensed Lord of the Rings franchise game. Players can expect a unique art style, strategic turn-based combat system, multitude of original and recurring cast of characters, and tons of game modes for players to enjoy. Players can currently pre-register for LoTR: Heroes of Middle Earth on both Google Play Store and iOS App Store.
Table of Contents
- Tip #1. Re-rolling for the Best Start
- Tip #2. Combat Tips – Power is Key!
- Tip #3. Don’t Waste your Precious Gold and Gems!
- Tip #4. Make sure to Complete Daily Missions for Character Fragments
- Tip #5. Spend your Gems the Right Way!
In this article, we will be providing some of our personally observed and community driven combined tips and tricks for LoTR: Heroes of Middle Earth. As the game is still not launched, most of the information gathered is from reputable sources such as LoTR.GG, and the official website for LoTR: Heroes of Middle Earth. The tips mentioned in this article are particularly going to be helpful for new players who have never played fragment collector games like such.
Tip #1. Re-rolling for the Best Start
Re-rolling is one of the only processes by which a new player can get some advantage as soon as they start their account. It is a common practice in gacha games where an efficient start leads to an easier time as you progress. Gacha games are reliant on lucky pulls, however, the same cannot be said for LoTR: Heroes of Middle Earth. This is due to the fact that the game only allows you to get fragments of characters instead of entire characters like majority of the gacha games. Hence, the re-rolling process is not entirely recommended for all players. Still, for players who like to min-max on all resources, it would be efficient to start the game with extra shards of the best characters in the game.
The re-rolling process refers to creating multiple accounts in hopes of getting your desired hero at the beginning by making use of the pre-registration rewards. Rerolling can be quite time-consuming and not recommended for all players. With the help of BlueStacks Multi-Instance manager, the process time can be reduced significantly as players can play multiple accounts at the same time without the need of spending 10-15 minutes on each account simultaneously. In the long run, methods like re-rolling don’t really give a huge advantage as players can recover many of the resources spent if they actively every day.
Tip #2. Combat Tips – Power is Key!
LoTR: Heroes of Middle Earth is a turn-based game that takes into account the simple mechanics associated with such games. On the exterior, it may seem simple but when you come to understand the different buffs, debuffs, and effects that take into play during battles, it will seem a bit more complicated. To put it simply, the entire battles revolve around clearing multiple waves of enemies and not letting your characters die in battles. There are no particular requirements when it comes to clearing battle stages except to win till the end.
One big advantage that will help players in their battles is to consistently upgrade their heroes. Being a power-hungry game, LoTR: Heroes of Middle Earth is going to throw tougher enemies as you progress through the campaign. Apart from increasing your character power, you should also create different teams for different factions and elements. For example, you should be having a separate Light and Shadow teams consisting of characters exclusively from Light and Shadow elements. Here are some good F2P (free-to-play) team examples:
- Lady Eowyn, Strider, Eothain, Eomer, Pippin (LIGHT TEAM)
- Ghazh Ironhide, Ugluk, Mauhur, Dunhar, Nurraz (SHADOW TEAM)
Tip #3. Don’t Waste your Precious Gold and Gems!
One of the biggest mistakes a new player can do is to immediately spend their resources on summons. It can be quite attractive to spend them in the beginning as you might feel the need to collect more characters as soon as possible. However, that’s where LoTR: Heroes of Middle Earth differs from similar gacha games. It is a fragment collector, where fragments of characters can be farmed simply in-game by repeatedly battling different stages. Gold is one of the biggest bottlenecks in later stages of the games and should be consumed very judiciously unlike other similar games. The costs of upgrading levels of characters skyrockets massively as they are progressed well above 3-Star.
Hence, bide your time and do not level up every character you own. Focus on a specific set of characters once. Also, do not waste Gold on upgrading gear. Instead, you can purchase supplies from the Arena or Guild shop. Small mistakes such as forgetting to complete dailies can also be punishing in the long run.
Tip #4. Make sure to Complete Daily Missions for Character Fragments
There is no other way in the game to consistently get resources apart from completing daily missions. They are quite easy to complete, taking on average 15-20 minutes every day. As the name implies, they reset every day after server resets.
Sadly, there’s no easy to get more currencies and character fragments. Here are the all the daily missions that are available every day for players to complete:
- Complete 10 Guild Battle(s) – Player EXP x 10 + Character EXP x 20
- Play 2 battle(s) in Arena – Character EXP x 30 + Gold x 500 + Arena Tokens x 250
- Win 3 Shadow Campaign mission(s) – Player EXP x 100 + Character EXP x 50 + Gems x 15
- Win 3 Light Campaign mission(s) – Player EXP x 75 + Gold x 500 + Campaign Energy x 60
- Level Up Character(s) 1 Times – Player EXP x 50 + Character EXP x 120 + Gold x 500
- Win 10 mission(s) – Player EXP x 75 + Gems x 10 + Gold x 500
- Equip 1 Gear item(s) – Player EXP x 50 + Gold x 500
- Auto win 3 mission(s) – Player EXP x 60 + Gems x 10 + Gold x 500
- Complete 2 Challenge(s) – Player EXP x 100 + Gems x 10 + Gold x 500
- Claim 1 Bonus Chest from the Store – Player EXP x 100 + Gold x 500 + Campaign Energy x 25
Tip #5. Spend your Gems the Right Way!
Many of the veterans have shared their disappointment regarding Gold and Crystal income disparity. Hence, it is advised to use them judiciously as we have stated before. To summarize, here’s how to spend your Gems in a more efficient manner:
- Gems are the premium currency in LoTR: Heroes of Middle Earth. They are primarily obtained from Arena, spending money and other rewards throughout the game.
- Make sure to spend Gems on 3x 50 Energy refreshes per day!
- You want to save cores to make sure you have enough to continue doing your 3 times Energy refreshes a day.
- You can also do 3x Guild Campaign Energy if you need Gold/ability materials.
To play LoTR: Heroes of Middle Earth on a bigger screen of your PC, it is highly recommended to use BlueStacks along with your keyboard and mouse.
