The Lunar New Year season is ongoing and it seems Lord of Heroes is showing no chance of wasting this opportunity to introduce a new update. Lord of Heroes is an anime-stylized turn-based RPG that features rich animations and full 3D models for their characters in-game. Players can deploy different strategies to clear different types of PvE and PvP content available in the game. Lord of Heroes is a free-to-play game that is available to be downloaded on both the Google Play Store and iOS App Store.

Table of Contents

1. Light Rashid – New 4-Star Hero
2. Summoning Banner Re-Run – Astrum Aurorae
3. Avillon Income Statements
4. Balance Changes January 2023
5. Avillon Events for January 2023

One of the newest heroes being released with the new update is none other than Light elemental version of Al Rashad. Being teased in this month’s Avillon times, players in the community expected this fully well. A new feature called as Avillon Income Statements are also being added that will replace the existing Cannae’s gifts system to make it more streamlined and rewarding for players. Apart from the new features, some of our favourite existing heroes are also getting balanced further to make them more inclusive in the current meta of the game. A slew of new Avillon events are also planned for the month of January 2023. The new update is set to be quite content heavy that will keep the players entertained for a long time. Let’s check out all the new things coming to Lord of Heroes with the 26th January 2023 update.

Light Rashid – New 4-Star Hero

Light Rashid, the light elemental version of the hero Rashid is coming to Lord of Heroes as the latest addition to the ever-growing roster of heroes. Dark Mei Ling is a great hero as she provides a ton of healing to allies in addition to buffing their base attributes. Light Rashid is a 4-Star hero that is classified as a Sniper in-game. Players can recruit Light Rashid after the patch goes live through his own special in-game purchasable package.

Light Rashid’s hero description reads “One can summarize a large part of Rashad’s life in just a few lines. He has lived what people consider the picture-perfect life of a genius. Despite not having the gift of the gab, his talent alone was unrivaled. In other words, he was the perfect tool for the Gallus Empire’s high-ranking personnel. After all, he was a second-to-none cog in the wheel. He had not a single ounce of interest in neither politics nor diplomacy, and followed orders to a tee without question. Sometimes he would malfunction and come up with weird ideas—and the empire made a deadly mistake by overlooking this quirk that Rashad had.

Despite being the Minister of the Ministry of Arcane Engineering, in reality, he was the most ostracized person there. He had strange peculiarities and would say things that no one else could even attempt to understand. At times, he would also stay up all night for multiple nights in a row at the lab. No one ever thought strange of him. But one night, after the last scientist in the lab headed home for the day, Rashad quietly headed to the central control room. He then enacted his plans just as he prepared. He first disabled the central security system and then unlocked access to all the barriers and gates of the inner sanctums of the laboratory.”

Take a look at Light Rashid’s abilities and passives in detail:

Arcane Discharge: Attacks the selected enemy. Fills the action gauge of the ally with the highest attack power by 20%. Additionally removes 1 of the most recent debuffs from the ally with the least health.

Lv.2: Burst Gauge Gain + 20%

Lv.3: Damage + 10%

Lv.4: Debuff Chance + 10%

Lv.5: Damage + 10%

Lv.6: Debuff Chance + 10%

Tachyon Impulse: Reduces all enemies action gauge by 20%. 50% chance to increase all allies resistance and speed for 2 turn(s). If the effect doesn’t trigger, reduces all enemies resistance and speed for 2 turn(s).

Lv.2: Damage + 10%

Lv.3: Damage + 10%

Lv.4: Cooldown -1

Lv.5: Damage + 10%

Lv.6: Cooldown -1

Refractive Destruction (Burst Skill): Attacks all enemies. 50% chance to fill all allies’ action gauges by 35%. If the effect doesn’t trigger, reduces all enemies action gauge by 35%.

Lv.2: Debuff Chance + 10%

Lv.3: Damage + 10%

Lv.4: Debuff Duration + 1

Lv.5: Damage + 10%

Lv.6: Spirit Cost -1

Researcher’s Conviction (Passive): Increases health by 5% / 8% / 11% / 14% / 17% / 25%

Disguised Innocence (Passive): Decreases damage from dark-elemental enemies by 5% / 7% / 9% / 11% / 13% / 20%

Summoning Banner Re-Run – Astrum Aurorae

Featured summons is the only way to summon heroes. With this new update, a previously released hero will be making a comeback with her own featured summoning banner. The featured summon banner is titled “Astrum Aurorae”. Players will be able to recruit Light Syphfride only through this featured summoning banner. Players can make summons on the Astrum Aurorae banner using either linkstones or Featured Summon Tickets. Keep in mind that the pity on the previously featured banner “Eternal Outsider” is carried over to this new featured banner.

Hence, they both will have separate pity counters. The banner will be launched on 1st February 2023 after the maintenance has ended and ends on 1st April, 2023. Here are the following heroes and artifacts available in the banner:

• Summonable Heroes: Light Syphfride, Earth Ondal, Dark Brandon, Water Dragon Knight Helga
• Summonable Relics: Syphfride (Light) / Ondal (Earth) / Dragon Knight Helga (Water) / Brandon (Dark) / Astrid (Dark) / Astrid (Fire) / Astrid (Water) / Astrid (Earth) / Olivia (Light) / Olivia (Water) / Olivia (Earth) / Helga (Fire) / Helga (Dark) / Helga (Water) / Zaira (Earth) / Zaira (Light) / Zaira (Fire) / Laphlaes (Earth) / Laphlaes (Fire) / Schneider (Earth) / Schneider (Water) / Schneider (Fire) / Schneider (Dark) / Mikhail (Earth) / Mikhail (Dark) / Charlotte (Earth) / Charlotte (Water) / Charlotte (Dark) / Johan (Light) / Johan (Water) / Johan (Fire) / Fram (Light) / Fram (Fire) / Fram (Water)

Avillon Income Statements

Avillon Income Statement is a brand-new feature coming to the turn-based RPG. Using this new feature, players will be able to stack up their rewards and collect them in one go when they are filled up. Like a true lord in action, consider these loots as a form of tax collected from your citizens. Keep a track your income generated by kingdom activities and earn accumulated rewards. This feature will replace the existing “Cannae Gifts” feature that is located in the main menu of the game.

Players can access their Kingdoms Income Statement through a tab of the same name in the main menu where the Cannae’s Gift were earlier present. Simply tap on the Income Statement to view all the accumulated rewards so far. These rewards can be considered as AFK resources as their intensity and nature will greatly increase the more time has passed. The rewards will be full after 24 hours, after which they will not accumulate any more. The menu will have 2 options – “Time Skip” or “Collect All”. Collect all will just provide you with all the resources accumulated so far in the Income Statement. Players can also make use of the Time Skip option to get more resources but by paying a price in the sum of Crystals. Players will need to pay 20 Crystals to time skip 2 hours’ worth of resources and they can do this up to 5 times per day.

Balance Changes January 2023

A host of new balance adjustments are set in motion to start the new year 2023! Heroes in Lord of Heroes have always been the main target of discussion as the game has little to no changes to them in recent years. Balance patches are quite non-existent in Lord of Heroes but when they are implemented, they sure come in handy as a lot of new heroes released over the years have pushed the usage and significance of old heroes backward. This is also called “power creep” and it naturally happens when stronger heroes are released to keep the meta of the game interesting and innovative. Here are the heroes and the changes being made to them with this update:

Dark Dhurahan

Phoenix Rush (1st Skill) – Attacks the selected enemy. 75% chance to inflict petrification for 1 turn(s) if the attack is a critical hit. Additionally, the damage increases by 100% if the target is petrified.

Groundsplitter (Burst Skill) – Attacks the selected enemy. Ignores defense. Additionally, the damage increases by 300% if the target is petrified.

Staying true to the theme of this hero, both of his skills are being upgraded to deal more damage to enemies that are inflicted with the petrified debuff.

Light Solphi

Magnetic Shock (1st Skill) – Attacks the selected enemy. Increases the user’s attack power by 25% (Stacks up to 3 times). This effect expires after defeating a wave of enemies. Heals the user in proportion to the damage dealt.

After the update, Light Solphi will be getting a massive Attack boost of 25% for each time she uses her basic ability, up to a maximum of 75%! This is massive compared to the previous 50% in 5 turns. Her viability as a solid main DPS will increase with this balance change.

Dark Solphi

Plasma Rain (Burst Skill) – Attacks all enemies. Ignores defense. Damage increases according to the user’s speed. 30% chance to inflict the user with a confusion debuff for 1 turn(s). Confused characters may attack/heal either friends or foes.

Lv.2: Damage + 10%

Lv.3: Damage + 10%

Lv.4: Damage + 10%

Lv.5: Damage +10%

Lv.6: Debuff Chance – 30%

After the update, Dark Solphi’s burst skill will overall do more damage compared to the previous numbers but only after skilling her up. This is because the debuff chance in the skill-ups is getting pushed to Level 6 at 30% while at Level 2 and Level 4, the damage dealt is increased by 10% each.

Fire Alev

Ignis Buster (2nd Skill) – Attacks all enemies. Heals the user in proportion to the damage dealt.

Health: 3875

Attack: 428
Defense: 314

Speed: 101

After the update, Fire Alev will now heal from the overall damage dealt by his 2nd skill instead of only the critical hit damage previously. Her stats will also see a massive boost.

Water Alev

Reverse Slash (1st Skill) – Attacks the selected enemy. Heals the user in proportion to the damage dealt. Deals up to 3X additional damage depending on the enemy’s maximum health.

After the update, Water Alev will now deal more damage according to the max health of the enemy which will make her a great boss killer in PvE content.

Earth Vanessa

Battleborn Faith (1st Skill) – Attacks the selected enemy. Deals damage based on her Defense to the enemy. 60% chance to provoke them for 1 turn(s). Increases the user’s defense for 2 turn(s).

Health: 2702

Attack: 200
Defense: 263

Speed: 102

After the update, Earth Vanessa will now deal more damage according to her Defense stat with her 1st skill. Further, her base stats are also getting a slight improvement.

Earth Nine

Blade Storm (Burst Skill) – Attacks all enemies. Increases the user’s attack power and generates a shield for the user based on their attack power that lasts 1 turn(s). Deals up to 100% additional damage when there are fewer targets.

After the update, Earth Nine will now deal more damage with his burst skill if there are fewer targets in the enemy team.

Dark Aslan

Call to Arms (2nd Skill) – Heals the ally with the highest attack power by 100% health and also boosts the ally’s action gauge to 100%. If the ally with the highest attack power has already fallen in battle, revive said ally with 100% health and 100% action gauge.

Lv.2: Burst Gauge Gain +10%

Lv.3: Burst Gauge Gain +20%

Lv.4: Burst Gauge Gain +30%

Lv.5: Burst Gauge Gain +40%

Lv.6: Cooldown -1

After the update, Dark Aslan’s 2nd skill will get its cooldown increased from 4 turns to 6 turns. In return, the total burst gauge from the skill will also increase from 50% to 100%.

Light Johan

Crusader: Dual Exelion (Divine Relic) – Upon attacking, 40% chance to deal up to 2x additional damage depending on the enemy’s maximum health.

A new Divine Relic for Light Johan is being adjusted to deal more damage to enemy’s based on their health.

Earth Lairei

Dragon Fang (1st Skill) – Attacks the selected enemy. Increases the user’s critical hit damage by 25% (stacks up to 3 times). This effect expires after defeating a wave of enemies.

After the update, Earth Lairei will be getting a massive Critical Hit damage boost of 25% for each time she uses her basic ability, up to a maximum of 75%! This is massive compared to the previous 50% in 5 turns.

Fire Rosanna

Dragon Leap (1st Skill) – Attacks the selected enemy. Increase the user’s speed and attack power for 1 turn(s). Deals up to 5X additional damage depending on the enemy’s maximum health.

After the update, Fire Rosanna will be dealing more damage to enemies according to the enemy’s maximum health with her basic skill.

Avillon Events for January 2023

• Ad Gifts (31st January – 28th February) (Daily Event) is a reward program where players will be rewarded based on the number of advertisements, they watch on the event page. The rewards and milestones to get the rewards are as follows:
  • 2 Advertisements Watched – Temporal Thread x 1
  • 4 Advertisements Watched – Temporal Thread x 1
  • 6 Advertisements Watched – Temporal Thread x 1
  • 8 Advertisements Watched – Temporal Thread x 1

• Calamity’s Bane (30th January – 12th February) (Term Event) is an upcoming event that rewards players for participating in Raid Battles in the Calamity Bane. The rewards and milestones to get the rewards are as follows:
  • 2 Raid Battles Completed – Energy x 3000
  • 4 Raid Battles Completed – Elixir of Insight x 30
  • 8 Raid Battles Completed – Renown x 30000
  • 12 Raid Battles Completed – Gold x 100000
  • 16 Raid Battles Completed – Alchemy Ticket x 10
• Obelisk Ascension (2nd February – 5th February) (Daily Event) is a new event that rewards players based on the number of battles played in the Obelisk. The rewards and milestones to get the rewards are as follows:
  • 5 Battles in Obelisk – Renown x 30,000
  • 10 Battles in Obelisk – Elixir of Insight x 10
  • 15 Battles in Obelisk – Renown x 30,000
  • 20 Battles in Obelisk – Sigil of Bravery x 5
  • 30 Battles in Obelisk – Contract Hero Relic Box x 1

This concluded everything new that is scheduled to come with the 26th January 2023 update. Feel free to read the official notes to get more in-depth knowledge about the upcoming update. To play Lord of Heroes on PC using keyboard and mouse, get the most optimized and lag-free experience on BlueStacks.