Upgrading Heroes

## Upgrading Your Hero

There are two ways that Top War allows you to increase your heroes level. The first is their numeric level, ranging from 1 to 120. You increase this level by applying Skill Books of various values to your hero. The second way to level up your hero is to increase their Star level. Each Star level has five sublevels, called Ranks. You increase this level by collecting Hero Shards. Your hero starts as a 1 Star Rank 0 hero and can be leveled up from there. Once your hero gets to 1 Star Rank 4 the next level is 2 Star Rank 0, and the pattern repeats until the hero reaches 5 Star Rank 0. Each Star level has a number of Hero Shards per rank that must be used to upgrade to the next rank. Star level 1 requires 4 shards per Rank to upgrade for a total of 20 shards to get to Star Level 2. Star level 2 requires 12 shards per rank for a total of 60. Star level 3 requires 24 shards per rank for a total or 120. Finally, Star level 4 requires 48 shards per rank for a total of 240. That means it takes 440 shards to upgrade a hero from Star level 1 Rank 0 to Star level 5.

### Hero Star Upgrade Shard Cost

Purple Hero Star Levels
per Rank
per Star Level
 2-0 thru 2-4
 3-0 thru 3-4
 4-0 thru 4-4
 5-0

Gold Hero Star Levels
per Rank
per Star Level
 2-0 thru 2-4
 3-0 thru 3-4
 4-0 thru 4-4
 5-0

### Hero Level Upgrade Cost

Your hero also has a numeric level that is analogous to their experience level. You increase this level by acquiring Skill Books (also called Military Manuals or XP books) and applying them to your hero. Each level costs an increasing amount of skill points.

### Hero Statistics

Heroes have 3 statistics that increase as you upgrade the hero.

*WAR - War can increase the ATK of Expedition Forces and Base Defense Forces that the Heroes lead. The higher the WAR, the stronger the units.*

*DEF - Defense can increase the HP of the Expedition Forces and Base Defense Forces that the heroes lead. The higher the Defense value, the stronger the units.*

*CMD - Command can increase the amount of Expedition Forces that the hero can lead. The higher the Command, the stronger the units.*

*Upgrading the hero level and star can improve the attributes of War, Defense, and Command.*

War and Defense increase as you increase the hero's level. Command increases as you increase the Star level to the next full Star level. The values for command are different for each rarity type of hero (Blue, Purple, Gold)

Hero Command Values
 2 Star
 3 Star
 4 Star
 5 Star

The amount that War and Defense increases as a hero levels and star ranks is based on a specific value for WAR and DEF and a formula. Each hero starts with a basic set of statistics at level 1 and Star level 1, rank 0. Bob as an example. His base stats at level one, Star level one rank zero are WAR 77 and DEF 72. His command (as listed above for all Blue 1 Star heroes is 200.

When you upgrade Bob from level one to level two his WAR increases by 15 (we'll call this w) and his DEF increases by 14 (we'll call this d). Every time Bob increases his level, his WAR and DEF increase by 15 (w) and 14 (d) whether it's from level 2 to 3 or level 119 to 120.

The Star level increases the values of w and d based on a formula however. When a hero increases his/her Star Rank from 1-0 to 1-1, the value for WAR increases by the formula w\*r. At Star level 1 the value for r is 4. In Bob's case that means the result is an increase of 60. The formula for DEF is d\*r and again for Bob that results in a DEF increase of 56. This formula is used for each 1 Star Rank from 0 through 4. When Bob goes from Star Rank 1-4 to 2-0 however, the formulas are multiplied by 3. So the formula for WAR increase is w\*r\*3, (15\*4\*3=180) and the formula for DEF increase is d\*r\*3 (14\*4\*3=168). When Bob gets to Star Rank 2-1 the value of r changes to 8, and when he gets to 3-1 the value of r is 12, and finally, when he gets to 4-1 the value of r is 16. So for Bob we get the following chart:

This means that once you have the correct values for w and d, you can use these charts to calculate the WAR, DEF, and CMD of any Hero at any level. These values will be added to each Hero's page in the Hero List as it becomes known. It also is available in this spreadsheet.