Heroes

Heroes are the main component of parties and come in five different classes.

## Fighters

Fighters are sturdy tanks with high base defense and health that deal melee damage. They have a wide range of abilities to boost their armor and have access to abilities that buff the whole party. Fighters can be very useful to protect weaker allies and are basically a supporter class. Surprisingly, with the right setup, they can dish out significant area of affect (AoE) damage, potentially killing every enemy on the board. This strategy involves abilities like Kill Streak, Vehemence and Blood Rage. *A more detailed version of this strategy will be explained in the future.*
Currently, the following fighters are in the game:

## Archers

Archers are heroes that have average health and armor and deal high ranged damage. They have a big arsenal of abilities and buffs that they can use to their advantage. Archers can buff the range and crit chance of themselves and allies, use a stealth ability or even use broken abilities like Trophy, which allows them to kill all enemies in a single turn. As of now, the following archers have found their way into the game:

## Mages

Mages are fragile heroes with low health and armor that deal high ranged damage. Their main strength is that they can deal AoE damage and use abilities like Chthonic Tremors, one of the best abilities in the game and the main component of well-known boom-build, *which will be explained in more detail in the future*. Mages also have useful abilities like Transgress, which allows them to strike from afar. One of their best abilities - especially for beginners - is Blizzard, which enables you to beat most challenges in the story with ease. In fact, it is one of the first epic abilities anyone should craft. These are the current available mages:

## Priests

Priests have similar stats to archers with slightly lower range and movement. One of their strengths is that they can deal both melee and ranged damage without any penalties. They have a variety of support relied abilities that can buffing stats and granting additional attacks, boosts, as well as healing. While they are not meant as damage dealers, they have abilities and gear that allow them to deal respectable damage. Priest have access to many cards that boosts deck consistencies. One of these cards is By the Sword, which can be casted on any hero and lets them draw a class attack card, like Chthonic Tremors, good for Farming. The following priests are currently implemented in the game:

## Rogues

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The cold-blooded rogues are those with high mobility and access to the Stealth mechanics of the game. The stats and passive abilities between rogues differ massively, but all of them have a passive ability that grants them stealth under certain conditions. Their best cards include Blackjack, Backstab and Sneak, which are all easy to get. Other useful cards are Vanish and Cover of Darkness, which grant stealth. Rogues are mainly used to kill their enemies with a single hit or have secondary goals of debuffing enemies. The following rogues can be played:

## Which hero should to buy first?

The following heroes can be bought for 100 gems:

* Achae
* Laarn
* Rosaria
* Morverro
* Violeta

No matter if you are a beginner or veteran, the general advice is to buy either Achae or Laarn first. If you want to focus on boom-builds and good PvP-decks, you'll definitely need to buy Laarn - just be aware that Laarn's main strength is his passive ability that is unlocked with level 15 and allows him to draw 2 class cards at battle start on maximum renown. Achae's main strength is her survivability in Gauntlet and PvP.

The remaining heroes are more gameplay depending on how you wish to play.

Morverro allows certain strategies to be utilized better with the extra mana and removing debuffs giving certain harder story mode stages an easier time.

Violeta allows you to have access to stealth mechanics and play Rogues without having to have a fully upgraded or access to stealth cards in order to take advantage of stealth-attacking abilities such as Backstab.

Rosaria has the most potential and sometimes easier story mode clearing capabilities due to her ability to ignore obstacles with some targeting as well as 'Hex' being a good overall ability to stack damage.