New Player Guide

## Main Objective

In this game, 2 factions are fighting against each other, the Empire (Light Forces) and the Dark Forces. The forces of the Dark have a slight advantage at the beginning and this advantage is growing all the time.

To compensate that, you will play a Hero of the Empire that can level up, gain / improve abilities and equip stuff (like a M.O.B.A.).

Your main objective is to protect your Castle against the Dark Forces and to destroy the ennemy Citadel.

## The Map

The map is divided in 4 big areas :

* The city of the Empire (Navy zone)

Where you can find the Shops, the Castle to defend, NPCs...

* The city of the Dark (Red zone)

Where you can find the ennemy Citadel and where each Dark Forces unit spawn.

* The Four lanes (First Lane at the left, Fourth at the right, Central Lane is the Third one)

* The Jungle (everywhere else)

You will mainly spend your time on the several Lanes but when in mid-game you will travel between the various Jungle zones and finally attack the ennemy Citadel.

## Starting Out

You start the game with 780gold to spend and you should spend it on what items you can so that you can be as safe as possible in lane. Two good options are the Leather Helm (400g) or the Low Quality Armor (700g), both of which are sold at the Marketplace.

The Leather helm will help to heal you up after you are hit by enemies while the Low Quality Armor will help to reduce the damage you take while also giving you 150 extra health.

If you purchase the Leather Helm you will be left with enough gold to also purchase a Pack Horse, a slow, controllable unit that has inventory slots. This can help you purchase items without having to leave lane and miss out on experience.

You can also have access to you character's color Horn of Cenarius Pedestal that can allow you to survive a bit longer when beginning the map.

## Farming

Hero of the Empire has no passively generated gold so all of your income comes almost entirely from farming enemies.

Moreover, the only way to get gold from ennemies is to kill them by dealing the final hit / last hit on them. This can be very difficult at first due to the low amount of damage most heroes do early on.

You can also get extra gold from items dropped by ennemies. Only Bosses and neutral creeps can drop items, not lane creeps.

When an item is dropped it will appear as a chest on the floor :

Potions dropped have a specific chest color, green for health potions, Blue for mana ones and purple for replinishment potions (both mana and HP). Those kind of potion may be sold to the Goblin Merchant shop to gain some extra gold

## Buying and upgrading items

You can purchase your first items and Horse Pack at the shops at the spawn zone.

    You will quickly figure that you can make higher tier items if you are curious and clicking on the buildings into the city of the Empire.

Those advanced item are obtained by combining several other items and buying the recipe linked to it. To obtain the advanced item you need to have the recipe and the required items in a same inventory (it could be your Hero inventory or a Horse inventory). The required items will desappear and the recipe will be transformed into the real item.

There is also secret reciepes that are not mentionned in the game. But not for beginners because those are about very high tier items.

## Healing / recover mana

You can heal and recover mana by several ways:

* By waiting and counting on your HP regen/sec and Mana regen/sec to restore them.
* By going near the Fountain of Power (Spawn zone).
* By consumming potions.
* By using the **Recover** spell of your Horn of Cenarius Pedestal (only works 3 times).
* By using a Hero active skill
* By leeching life to your ennemies (Hero passive skills, items like Mask of Death or Vampire Fangs...)

## Death

Dying in hero of the empire can be extremely detrimental but isn't the end of the game. After dying, you will respawn after a short time which increases as the game goes on and lose 20% of your current gold.

## Other pages to see

If you are new to the game, I strongly advise you to also visit those 2 pages :

* The Beginners Tips page, wher there is crucial tips and tricks for new players as well as Heroes Guides.

* The Beginners Heroes page to get some Heroes that wont be too hard to play when beginning your journey on this game

Also if you want more pricise information about how the game works, you could also visit the Global Knowledge page.

Have fun!! *The wiki staff*