Dark Exile Newcomers' Guide: How to upgrade a hero?

The basics of pumping

Each hero develops separately from the others, so all heroes must be pumped evenly. New heroes start their journey with minimal characteristics and skill levels, so you shouldn’t save up resources, direct them to the development of a new hero. First of all, gold coins must be used to pump skills and wings, thus, you will quickly increase the indicator of the hero’s strength.

Skills

They are unique abilities that must be pumped to increase the strength of the hero. The maximum skill level depends on your profile level. Skills are pumped for gold coins, with the Upgrade All button you can immediately pump all skills evenly.

Backpack

The Backpack section contains all the earned items and items of equipment. This also includes items that bring additional resources, such as chests and scrolls. The volume of the backpack is limited, so you need to purchase additional space with diamonds.

Liberation

The backpack fills up very quickly, so you need to empty it in order not to miss out on a new reward. Use the Smelt button to get rid of unnecessary equipment and get gold coins and leveling materials. The higher the level and class of items, the more resources you will receive for dismantling it.

Equipment

Items of equipment can be obtained as a reward after defeating monsters and bosses. In the Character section, you can equip each hero and thereby increase his characteristics. The higher the level of equipment, the higher the overall indicator of the hero’s strength.

Acquisition

By clicking on the Open button, you will be taken to the equipment section. In this section, for diamonds, you can purchase sets of items for creating and pumping equipment.

Forge

In the Forging section, 8 items of equipment are pumped, each item is responsible for its own characteristic indicator. For pumping, a special item is used - seduction crystal, the cost of each subsequent increase is always higher, so it is necessary to develop all the elements evenly.

Gems

Gem Essences are used to pump gems, which you can get by passing Material instance tests. Each gem is also responsible for its own stat.

Additional equipment

Orbs, Curse, Esoteric Gem and Shield can be obtained by completing story quests or in the mystical store. Each element is responsible for its own characteristic, for example, the higher the level of the Sphere, the stronger the hero’s attack. All materials for pumping are mined in the Material instance tests.

Artifacts

Obtaining an artifact allows you to further improve the characteristics of your heroes. Each artifact increases a certain indicator, for example, you can increase the strength of the hero, or get additional bonuses when completing game activities.

Wings

The level of the wings is determined using stars, the maximum number is 10. This type of equipment is pumped using gold coins and a special item - Feather, which can be purchased at the mystical store. After filling the development scale, the characteristics indicators increase, and the wings receive an additional star.

Pets

The heroes have faithful companions who appear after reaching a certain level of development. With the help of special trainings, you can upgrade your pets and increase their combat characteristics. The cost of each workout is 10,000 gold coins.

Pet rank

In the treasure section, you can launch the wheel of fortune for 1,000,000 gold coins and win special stones to increase the pet’s rank, and therefore its characteristics. The pumping takes place in the Tier tab, here you can set the automatic pumping of the pet after the required amount of resources has been accumulated.