The purple and blue heroes. Most are early-game stand-ins, but several have jobs that stay useful all game.
TL;DR Keep Jessie (rally joiner) and Patrick/Sergey (garrison joiners) for life. Use the rest for their city skills (research, training, healing, stamina, gathering) with only a couple of stars each.
Epic heroes
9
Rare heroes
4
Keep long-term
Jessie, Patrick, Sergey
Investment
A few stars, not max
🟣Epic heroes
Hero
Class
Best use
Sergey
Infantry
Early free-to-play tank; later a garrison joiner (−20% damage taken)
Cuts stamina cost for beast hunts (handy on SvS Beast Slay day)
Bahiti
Marksman
Early Exploration damage carry
Jasser
Marksman
Research speed, and an attack joiner (+25% damage dealt)
Seo-yoon
Marksman
Healing speed, and an attack joiner (+25% troop attack)
Classes per community hero databases. Ling Xue is written Ling Shuang on some sites.
🔵Rare heroes
Hero
Class
Best use
Smith
Infantry
Iron gathering and Iron Mine output
Eugene
Infantry
Wood gathering and sawmill output
Charlie
Lancer
Coal gathering and Coal Mine output
Cloris
Marksman
Hunting (meat) income
Roles per one community guide. None of them is worth investing in for combat.
📈How far to invest
Early on, a core of Epics around 4★ (Sergey, Bahiti, Gina, Jessie) carries you until your Mythics are built. One guide notes a fully built Epic outperforms a barely built Mythic.
City-skill heroes (Jasser, Ling Xue, Seo-yoon and the Rares) only need a couple of stars for their bonus to be worthwhile.
Jessie is the one Epic worth pushing long-term, for her joiner skill.
Stop starring Epics you’ll replace. Put those shards toward your Mythic core instead.
🎁Getting them
Shards come from daily Exploration, events, recruitment, daily login rewards and the alliance shop.
One event guide lists Walis Bokan, Seo-yoon and Jasser as free from the “Home & Beyond” daily-login event.