Currency

**Currency** is the means by which players can buy crates and purchase from stores, but some currencies have multiple uses aside from the store.

## Bucks

**Bucks** are the primary currency in the game. They come as rewards for successfully completing missions, from Daily Quests, ranking in events, and completing Gauntlet rounds. The player has the option to exchange 25 Gold for Bucks as well. They can also be up for sale in the various stores.

The biggest use of Bucks are to craft gear for ranking up Heroes, or to increase their star level - because no matter how many fragments of a hero you have, they receive no benefits until they are starred up. If the player chooses to they can buy Silver Crates for 6,500 Bucks each.

## Gold

The standard premium currency of the game. Gold can be awarded from Daily Quests, can be awarded in certain crates, and can be received from watching videos. The Daily Quests gives the player the choice to watch an ad for 2 gold, and a subsequent video for an additional three. Completing a Hard or Extreme Campaign mission gives the player 5 gold automatically, with an additional 15 gold for the first-time 3 star, and with the option to obtain 5 more by watching another video. Hothead also supports TapJoy, awarding the player with more gold by completing offers such as visiting sponsored websites, and downloading other games and making sufficient progress.

As for using gold, they can be utilized for much the same thing Bucks are, but can also be used to refill Stamina of all types (Campaign, PvP, bounty) and restocking the stores.

## Gems

Gems come in multiple types. They can only be obtained from engaging in certain modes and are only used to buy items from their respective shops. All these shops have limited stock that is rerolled once per day, but the player can spend gold to restock the stores with more items to buy.

### PvP Gems

   The player receives 20 PvP Gems for every enemy hero the player downs in PvP mode; win or lose. The PvP store contains exclusively Hero Fragments in quantities of 3, 5 or 10 with the price scaled at 100 gems per fragment.

### Gauntlet Gems

   Every 3 wins per day in the Gauntlet Mode gives the player a cache with Gauntlet Gems inside, scaled to their team level and bracket. There are 7 caches that can be opened per day, but progression past the 5th Sector requires a Gauntlet Token. The Gauntlet Store has 3 slots of Hero Fragments to buy, 2 slots of XP and 5 slots of various gear items, ranging from 250 gems to 1,250 gems in price.

### Alliance Gems

   By completing Patrols, the player gets Alliance Gems and alliance gains Patrol Points. With enough Patrol Points, the alliance's Patrol Crate is upgraded and rewards even more Alliance Gems. In the Alliance shop there are 4 slots of Hero Fragments, one slot each Skin Tokens and Hero XP, 4 Core fragments and another 4 slots of various gear.

### Heronium Gems

    These likely won't be available to the player until very late-game. The only way to receive Heronium Gems is to acquire fragments of a hero already at 10 stars. In the Heronium store, there are 3 fragments for Heroes, slots for each of the Elemental Fragments including the Universal Fragments, two slots for Skin Tokens, one for Hero XP and three for Platinum gear.

## Skin Tokens

    These are used for buying Skin Crates, and have a secondary use in upgrading skins the player has unlocked. 200 are required for each crate. Upgrading skins require an investment of Skin Tokens as well as Bucks, starting at 50 for level 2 and 75 for level 3.

### Nanodust

    Nanodust has no use in purchasing anything from stores or crates, but are instead used for purchasing skins the player doesn't have. Common skins cost 150 dust Rare skins cost 500 and Legendary skins require 2,000 Nanodust to buy. The only way to get Nanodust is by unlocking skins from the Crate that you already have. Common skins give 100 and Rare skins give 300 Nanodust.