Friends are extremely useful in this game and it's easy to add more, even if you don't have real life friends playing Battle Breakers. Just go to the Social and start adding those recommended friends. Not only that you can use their heroes in battle in most cases (sometimes giving you massive bonuses and advantages), but you can also receive all sorts of gifts from them which help you progress faster. Remember to send gifts as well (the game will remind you daily) and set your best hero as the one that you share with friends - this can also be done from the Social tab.
Additional tips to win your battles
Since you'll spend most of your time on the battlefield, here are some additional tips and tricks to consider when fighting against your opponents. Make sure to also keep in mind the second advice I gave you in this article, the one about the color match bonus!
- don't forget to activate pets: I usually forget about them, and pets can be really useful. So keep an eye on their fill meter and bring them into battle when they are most helpful: usually when fighting against multiple enemies or bosses.
- take advantage of the elemental bonuses: an element is strong against another and weak against a third. So make sure that you always attack with heroes that have an actual advantage in order to deal more damage. If you can combine this with the crystal color bonus, even better!
- timing is everything with your special skills: you can activate them, usually, even when the mana bar is not completely filled up, so always consider using them against your enemies at the right time.
Even more, some might require preparation: for example, the Special Skill of Mad Trox is Berserk, which not only offers solid bonuses, but also stacks. However, if you activate it during battle, he loses his move, so it's better to prepare in advance and activate when your tapping/clicking crystals
- take enemies out one at a time: I know that the game tells you to take out bosses first in fights, but that's not the best approach in my opinion, especially if they have multiple other allies around.
Bosses have more health and are more difficult to beat. Therefore, you should focus on taking out all the other minions, one by one, in order to reduce the actual damage when they start attacking. This is pretty simple: instead of having 6 heroes dealing damage to your team, you have just the boss doing so. Still a win!
- don't forget to use your special items: there are various items that you can find during battles and they can provide a lot of help. Make sure to use them at the right time in order to keep your heroes alive or turn the odds of the battle in your favor.
- keep an eye on the level requirements before each battle: even though these are generally correct, you can still beat the stage with slightly lower heroes. For example, if the requirement says level 20, it doesn't mean that you need all your heroes at your level. If you have a few there and a few a bit below, you should still be able to beat the stage.
Areas and Stages to Farm Gold
If you somehow run out of gold and you want more of it, there are some areas that I've seen to give you more than others. I would still recommend to complete the Stages from the XP category in order to shoot two rabbits with one shot, but here are some others that seem to give more money than others:
Stage 2-4: If you want to go through something that's really fast and offers a decent amount of money, choose this one. Not extremely rewarding if you're a higher level, but gets the job done
Stage 6-2: For when you get a bit more advanced, complete this stage over and over again for nice amounts of money (and also a bit of XP).
And these would be my farming recommendations for now. Do you have other areas that you found to deliver solid amounts of XP or gold? Share your findings with us in the comment section below.
Areas and Stages to farm XP
Farming XP is probably the most important type of farming in the game, because you want to level up in order to increase your HQ level, which in turn allows you to further level up your heroes. Most areas give you decent amounts of XP actually, but when I really want to get some additional XP, here is what I do:
First of all, complete all the other star challenges that I can. This is extremely important because you get those first time rewards which really help in the long run. I didn't really pay attention to see if you do get XP as First Time rewards, but you might (still useful if you don't). If you hit a wall and you no longer have regular stages to complete, start focusing on the ones that are fastest to complete and give you a ton of experience points. The ones that I recommend focusing on, depending on your level, are:
Stage 3-8, which always gives a decent amount of XP early on.
Trials: Go for the highest level Trial that you can easily complete. You get a lot of additional bonuses from them.
Building your perfect team
Not only that the game allows you to select one of three heroes in many instances, but it also does some other things differently when compared to other similar RPGs. And one of the most important is team building.
Although the game does have the traditional classes: tanks, damage dealers, support units, its approach to how battles are played makes some of these classes less important.
And the class that's the least important and least useful right now (on general terms, because there are still good heroes there) is the Tank.
Even though frontline heroes do protect the ones directly behind them, there are some opponents that can target those in the backline anyway and you can still have some solid characters in the first row, with high health, without them being tanks.
Sure, they have bucketloads of health, but they deal so little damage that they are almost useless.
But what you should look at when building your perfect team in the game are these two important things: character's skills and their element. This is all that matters and roles are nothing but fancy names you shouldn't bother reading. And yes, you could still have a solid tank with great skills - so don't ignore them all by default!
What matters the most is having a really solid team, built with various elements to take advantage of the elemental strengths, but also with solid skills that deal massive damage and, ideally, offer some extra support.
My approach was to go head first into battles with the most offensive units I had (this after going for a more conservative approach, with tanks and heavier supports). But no, what you really need is some beasts that cause a ton of damage! So go for the most offensive skills possible and you won't regret it!
You can also ask the game's opinion - it seems to be pretty good at recommending a solid team setup, actually. Simply hit the "Hero Helper" button in the heroes tab and the game itself will recommend a team setup, but also Elixirs to use (don't rush to listen to the second recommendation though and use the Elixirs as you see fit).
Collect the from the buildings you have unlocked
Even though slow to produce something useful, the buildings you unlock when playing the game help you progress faster. So don't forget to keep an eye on them and visit them constantly in order to get some goodies from there as well.
Color match when attacking
I want to say this early on, because it took me a while to realize that I was missing out on some very important boosts during the battles. And that is attacking with heroes that color match the tiles on the field. Each time you tap a tile (or crystal or whatever) to reveal what's behind it, the color of the other diamonds changes. In battle, this means that if you attack with a character of the same color (aka element), that hero will get a boost in damage when attacking, but they will also recover health and mana. For example, if the crystals are green and you're attacking with a nature element hero (which are the green heroes), you will get the benefits. This is something extremely important to know, as it helps you make better choices in battle.
Elements should be considered as well
Since the game follows a rock - paper - scissors mechanic, meaning that one element is strong against another and weak against a third, when building a generic team, you should try and mix up as many elements as possible. I repeat - this advice doesn't go well for when you try to specialize, but specializing early on is risky because you will face various types of enemies throughout the stages and generally, especially early on, you won't have a lot of great heroes in each element to choose from. So instead I would say that it's a lot better to build a team with one of each elements, selecting the best hero from each. In reality, you will probably end up having two out of your starting five of the same element and the other three different. If that's the case, make sure that you get the wildcard (the second commander which is usually coming from a friend) of the element you don't have.
How to Farm Gems
Gems are the premium currency and farming these is not possible by grinding on stages. However, if you complete an entire area in the game (for example, all the stages of chapter 6), you are rewarded with 100 Gems. So simply completing all these zones as quickly as possible will help you gather more gems faster. But there's no actual way I found (at least for now) to really farm these. Also, make sure that you complete all the stages that you can in order to get additional stars. Most of the times, you will get at least some Gems as a first clean reward.
How to unlock more heroes
There are hundreds of characters that you can unlock in Battle Breakers, but getting them all is definitely not easy. However, you will be rewarded with various heroes for completing specific stages in the game, reaching specific levels or as various daily rewards. You can also unlock heroes from the Shop, which will basically be the easiest (although most expensive) way to get heroes: spend diamonds to get them, purchase a Premium Pass to receive them as various rewards... there are lots of options there. You will also get some chances via the special events in the game, or from the Skybreaker which will reward you with heroes when you reach certain milestones on each map. IMPORTANT: Unlike most other games of its kind, Epic Games' title will usually let you choose your hero out of three options. This offers a massive advantage, as you can select one that better suits your team and can fill gaps in your current setup. So make sure to always take advantage of this and when you're offered a choice, check all options out and decide which one would be the best for you.
Improve your top heroes
With hundreds of heroes to unlock, it's pretty obvious that some will be much better than others. And since you can only use a limited amount of heroes in each battle - and XP points are scarce, you should make sure that you're always improving your top heroes only.
This means that you should go for as long as possible without spending XP points - and especially elixirs early on. Go as far as you can by investing as little as possible.
This way, you will unlock more heroes and you will have more to choose from. Select your best then (you can generally understand what your best heroes are in the current setup when unlocking the second stage) and focus on upgrading those.
Usually, the best heroes are those with the highest number of stars. Heroes have a rarity and a total number of stars that can be unlocked: the more, the better. So always try to use the rarest heroes that you have, since those will generally be more useful on the long term.
Keep an eye out for special events
The special events are extremely important in the game because they have amazing rewards. For example, at the moment of writing, there are several events available, one of them being created specifically for new players and rewarding them with top loot and goodies. So make sure to always look at the Events tab and do your best to get as far as possible there in order to take advantage of all the freebies offered.
List of Pets
If you're curious to check out the names of the pets that are unique (so not different elements), I have it for you below:
If you end up getting stuck and unable to progress, set the game on auto battle and play and replay previous stages. You will earn all sorts of rewards from there, loot that will allow you to increase your heroes' levels and make them better and stronger. The game is actually built nicely and you will rarely have to replay a stage in order to progress: completed stages have increased difficulty ratings available after completing them on the previous difficulty setting, so make sure that you check out all options before deciding that there's no new battle that you can take on.
Respect your skills
Every now and then, after completing a stage, you will have another choice to make - and that is choosing one of two skills that improve either your defense or attack, health or mana and so on. The good news is that you can simply reassign those points if you're not satisfied with the picks you have made! Simply hit the button that shows your current player level (in the upper left corner) and hit "Respec" - arrange the skills as you see fit!
Skill Upgrades
You can further improve your heroes by increasing their skill. This only affects their Special Skill and you see the effects each upgrade has before upgrading. In order to increase the level of your heroes' skill, you need SXP books (skill XP books) which can be found in hammer chests and obtained as various in-game rewards. The skills are also difficult to level up, so make sure that you're spending the resources on heroes that you are going to use often.
The rarity of your heroes matters a lot
In most cases, rarer heroes are better than more common ones. The rarities are: Common, Uncommon, Rare, Very Rare and Super Rare. IMPORTANT! The rarity is different from the number of stars. While usually the rarer heroes have a potential of more stars, you can still have a more common one that could reach the same amount of stars. For example, Smasher is a very rare hero which can get to 6 stars, even though most Very Rares are capped at 5. So just looking at the number of stars could be a bit misleading. And this would be the most important rule to have in mind: rarer heroes are better than more common ones: they have better starting stats and also better skills in most cases.
The skills of your heroes makes them or breaks them
Many consider the main roles as the most important factor when deciding what to do with a hero, but that's just a general indication of what to expect. Sure, when you see Mage or Warmage or anything like that, you know already that you're talking about a damage dealing hero with tons of mana. But the skills vary from hero to hero and you have to keep them in mind at all times. Even more, you must make sure that they are useful for your particular team setup. For example, Silent Blade (screenshot above) is a really good Green hero with an apparently amazing Commander Skill: +30% Attack and max HP to its allies, plus other bonuses. The problem is that this only applies to other Green Heroes - so if he's the only Green one in your team or you only have one other Green Hero in your setup, the benefits you're getting are not as great. But Commander Skills are not all: you have to consider all the other skills (mainly the Special Skill which is basically their special attack that you trigger when they have enough mana) and the Passive Skill. And here you have just as many options as heroes exist. Try to find a balance here: while it's usually a good call to focus on choosing heroes that can really pack a punch and destroy opponents easily, you shouldn't ignore the power of support-type skills.
