Beginner Guide

This guide is meant for new and returning players who intend to be efficient with their playthrough. It is recommended to read through it once before applying it.

## What content does KoH offer?

Before investing into the game you might be interested in what Kingdom of Heroes offers:

Similar to Epic7 or Summoners War, this game's loop is based on the RNG reliant Rune grind
* The 12th floors of Rune Dungeons have a high chance to drop Legendary 6★ Runes
* Rune stats can be customized via Rune Gems

Heroes can grow in strength by Awakening them and unlocking their Hidden Strength (HS), which needs four duplicate heroes
* This HS upgrade increases stats and improves skills up to four times

Players can create their own banners and summon every hero in the game easily.
* There are two types of own banners:
	+ Select Summon allows to pick one , or  5★ and pull for it once a month
	+ Spirit Summon allows to pick one  or  5★ and two , or  5★ heroes, as well as one  or  4★ and four , or  4★ heroes.
* There is a pity-system for Divine scrolls, guaranteeing any 5★
* Mirrors can be farmed which allow to pick random or specific 4★ or 5★ heroes.

Content in KoH encompasses
* Rune Dungeons to grind for runes
* Awakening Valley to grind for awakening material
* Chasm of the Abyss to grind for EXP cards to upgrade Artifacts
* Tower of Arrogance with 100 floors in two difficulties
* Elemental Tower with 400 floors for each of the five elements
* Alter Realm to grind for valuable resources with a raid team of 6 heroes
* Labyrinth to grind for valuable resources by climbing floors exclusively in auto-battle
* Arena against AI controlled defenses and Real-Time Arena against real players
* Guild Raids to play with other people
* and much more!

## The Start

For the more experienced gacha player, here is a TL/DR:

1) Go through the tutorial and summon the hero Donovan and the artifact Novacula of the Alter Realm, as well as Titania as your  event summon.

2) Progress through the story and quests to gather resources.

3) Stop at Adventure 7-7 to receive the 5★ Vampire Rune set.

4) Use all resources, awaken and equip the Vampire Runes and Novacula of the Alter Realm to Donovan. Upgrade him to 6★.

5) Create a first Fafnir12 (F12) team with Freyja, Donovan, Titania and any Continuous Damage applying hero.

6) Work on ToA and your first Alter Realm team.

7) Do whatever you like from there!

For the new players, or the ones that want more details, here you go:

* Start the game and play through the tutorial.
	+ Switch the gamespeed to x2 as soon as you can. Adventure 13-7 unlocks x3 speed.
	+ Use your current team and play until you beat Normal 1-4, at which point you unlock the autobattle feature. This will make playing the game easier. *Tip: Killing a boss completely clears a stage.*
	+ After Normal 1-4, return to the home screen. Here, accept every reward you receive from events,
	+ In your Mailbox, collect Freyja,  and . Pick Titania from the Light & Dark Ordeal Event and check into your Kingdom Bass, the monthly battlepass for this game.
	+ Go into your Item Depot and use the  to summmon Donovan. Use  to summon Novacula of the Alter Realm, which pairs well with Donovan. *Tip: Only awakened heroes can equip Artifacts.*
	+ Continue with the story. Focus on Normal first and finish Kent. Collect the rewards for scoring 21★. When the game asks you to beat the first stage of Tower of Arrogance, just press the top left button to return to the story.
	+ Send out friendrequests to as many people as you can. High level supporter units will help clear some stages later on.

Notes: There is no need to reroll in this game. KoH is designed in such a way that active players can collect each hero in the game, even  and . The rewards new players receive at the beginning, as well as the choice in Donovan, make the early progression easy. If you still decide to reroll, make sure to reroll on a useful banner. It is recommended to hunt for Donovan and Esperanza because both of these Fighters are the best units in the game, who are frequently used even by late game players. If you are lucky enough to own both, consider Prey.

## Early Game

* Continue with the story by autoing with Arthur, Freyja, Titania and Donovan. Ignore the rewards at the end of stages and appearing Rifts.*Tip: In KoH, damage fluctuates by roughly 10%.*
	+ After beating Normal 3-7, return to the homescreen to collect more rewards and upgrade your heroes. Use the Request system to begin gathering some resources, prioritizing  over EXP.
		- Go into the Achievement tab. Both Main Quest and Path Guide yield valuable rewards for new players. As you progress, you want to finish as many of these as you can. *Tip: Some quests in KoH don't count retroactively. Keep this in mind when working on your Path Guide.*
		- Pick up the 2★ Life Rune Pack in your Item Depot. Put it on Donovan and EXP transfer all 1-2★ heroes into him to raise his level. *Tip: Rune stats don't matter in the early stages of the game.*
	+ Now prepare to continue the story.
		- Enter the Trial of the Ancients located in the Rift. Repeat the highest stage you can beat and feed the EXP fairies into Donovan.
		- Buy the Fire Awakening Special Pack located in Store > Package > at the bottom of the offers. Awakening Donovan unlocks his second skill and allows you to give him Novacula.
		- Activate the EXP Booster (3H) from the pack from your Item Depot to level up faster.
	+ Continue progressing through the story and quests until 4-7, unlocking Awakening Valley.
	+ Go into the Events tab and reach 5 points to acquire the Legendary Havoc Rune set. Equip them to Donovan and upgrade both of them to +9.
	+ Continue with the story until you beat 7-7, which will yield a 5★ Vampire Rune set. Equip them to Donovan next to your previous 4★ Legendary Havoc Runes. Upgrade all of Donovan's Runes to +12.
		- If you struggle to beat stages, consider farming and upgrading Runes for your other heroes from story, awaken them by running Awakening Valley or progressing through quests to gather upgradematerial. Friend's units can also accelerate your progress.
	+ Your next goal is to upgrade Donovan to 6★.
		- Go back to Adventure and clear every Normal stage with 3★ until you hit a wall or reach 7-7. Followed by the same stages on hard difficulty.
		- Work on the Path Guide and Main Quest as you clear the story. Collect all rewards without spending any of them for now.
	+ Closely follow the 6★ Hero Promotion Path Guide to upgrade Donovan to 6★. Feel free to use all scrolls to summon heroes to progress further. At this stage, all 1-3★ heroes you pull should be fed to 6★ Donovan. **Do not use any of your  just yet.**
		- You likely have to grind EXP in Story 7-1 by using Donovan and three low level units to promote them. *Tip: You can use Donovan to clear to 7-1 hard for higher EXP gains*
		- Finish some missions in the Kingdom Pass to reach level 3. The EXP booster you receive from level 3 stacks with the yellowish 1 day EXP booster you likely already have running. Use it to grind EXP faster.
	+ To 6★ Donovan you want to collect five 4★ max level Promo Fairies. Two come from the 6★ Hero Promotion Path Guide, one comes from a Light & Dark Ordeal mission and the last two come from the Rune Dungeon Path Guide. Collect all five 4★ max level Promo Fairies and upgrade them to 5★. Use those to upgrade Donovan to 6★.

## Mid Game

Now that Donovan is 6★, your next goal is to create a team to reliably beat the 12th stage of Fafnir.

* Open the Summon tab and choose your Spirit Stone banner. Pick Nocturne, Esperanza and Prey or Claudia as your 5★ heroes. For 4★, pick Jack O'Lantern or Apollon, Theia or Lucifer, Amon, Media and Anubis.
	+ Finish more quests and gather as many Spirit Stones as you can. Use them on the newly created banner and hope for the best. Also use all other summons you own.
		- Hopefully you were able to pull something useful. Idealy, you own a hero that can apply Continuous Damage. Because early on, DoTs deal more damage to enemies than raw damage due to poor Rune Quality.
* The most basic F12 team consists of Freyja, Donovan plus any hero that can apply Continuous Damage. Idealy we use Lucifer or Theia because both are also combineable. *Tip: Combination unlocks at 13-7.*
* You should be able to clear up to F9 just with Freyja and Donovan. Add Titania and Theia or Lucifer to that team, upgrade them if needed and give them some runes. With them you should be able to clear F12 now.
	+ If you still struggle to clear past F9, consider the following:
		- Progress through the story and give Theia or Titania the Regen Runes from clearing 8-7,
		- Awaken the other three heroes and upgrade them to 5★,
		- Consider switching out Titania for someone else.

This should be enough for you to clear F12 reliably. If you struggle with beating it at all or with reliability, consider repeating the steps mentioned just above or take a step back to grind 5★ Runes in F9 or F10. From here on out it is up to you to decide what to focus on.
Natural progression makes clearing ToA normal a logical next step, as it also offers valuable reawrds while being relatively easy to clear for beginners.

## What to do after?

* With your F12 team up and running it is now the time to grind runes. Your first goals should include improving your rune quality for your current F12 team. This will be a gradual process so prepare to work on it for a while.
* Finish the story stages and try the highest difficulty.
* Finish ToA normal and start your first stages in ToAH
* Join a guild to work towards Lakshmi, who is exclusively sold in the Guild Store.
* Get into Labyrinth, Guild Raids, PvP, Alter Realm and enjoy the game!

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