Well, I'm really loving this game, diamonds (premium IAP) come in a good pace, and you can watch ads for it as well for free, developers weren't stingy in this particular game. I'm level 28, almost 29 and I never hit a paywall, and it doesn't seem I will, because I unlocked MANY houses with diamonds, equipment slots and I'm almost unlocking all final dungeons and will start hunting more of those elusive 5 star heroes soon. It's a "collect rare heroes" pokemon style, applied in a different gameplay. If you can play games for short 15 minute bursts or have a lot of friends (you can add ingame friends or use FB), you'll get very far in a timely fashion. My nick there is SubZero if anyone wants to add me and play.
I like what I've seen so far, and haven't felt like I missed anything not using FB integration. If that changes it will get deleted pretty fast. Update: Wow, rare items are "sealed" and to unlock them you need to harass people on Facebook. Considering this game already has IAP and ads, the FB stuff just seems extra aggressive, even for a freemium title. The game itself is a pretty generic freemium title, only with an 8 bit fantasy theme. You set guys in dungeons on timers, which can all be speed up with premium currency, and they fight automatically. There is a building aspect to the game, but as it is 2D, don't expect to form your ideal looking village. There is a questing mode which you have to be present for, but your input is limited to clicking rewards that come out during fights and activating the same 3 power ups when they are charged to your liking. Overall, it's kind of a neat looking game, but one without much substance and riddled with ads, IAP, and FB integration. I will say as an upside, it does seem like premium currency is not impossible to come by for free, especially if your willing to download other Apps and watch ads. While that's not for me, early on anyways, premium currency is also handed out just from doing quests in the game.
It looks like there was a new version update with a slightly different icon. But the biggest deal with the update is that you no longer need to bug your facebook friends for unlocking gears or beds and you can ask your in-game friends. This is good news as I was sick of looking for friends who play this game but now I can ask any of the friends on my list and ask without going through facebook! I started to play again this weekend and got the epic ramses hat! My warrior now has a doggy face. I will definitely continue playing for a while.
I have a question for anyone else enjoying this game; is there any way to rank up the stars on heroes or weapons? Or is a 4 star epic hero stuck at 4 stars? I've upgraded an epic hero with a rare one and just the stats went up, figured I would ask before testing random weapons
I highly doubt this is possible, every hero is unique to its own and meant for what rarity level/stars it is. I also tried to level 5 an equipment and there's no option afterward, I thought it'll have an option to make a epic equipment after adding two +5 rare equipments. I haven't tried to do this on heroes but I'm pretty sure it's same. You can only combine two hero with same rarity like rare + rare or epic + epic to work (you basically need 16 heroes for 100% successful rate to a +5 hero, and it requires same hero of same rarity). Though you'll probably wanting to have epic hero rather than rare one(normal hero just sucks all the way). Epic hero not only has additional stats but has 5 more maximum level compare to their rare counterpart, plus additional bonus in weapon/shield in their respective equipments. I know few way to get heroes so far: 1. Summoning: -normal summon: usually rare heroes but has slight chance of epic here -premium summon: either epic or rare -premium summon(Epic): always epic 2. Inn:there's always a random selected rare hero offer on the inn every hour, but there's a slight chance a hero will pop-up outside your castle that's a rare or even an epic hero( only happens once to me and it cost 10 diamonds to hire) 3. Raiding: there's a rare and epic hero here and differs on what dungeon you're raiding, there's actually special dungeon as well which grant specific hero. There's a world boss as well but so far there's no event happen there yet. I'm really enjoying the game so far, reminds me of nimblebit's tiny game series but what I like is the fantasy theme that quite reminds me of jrpg characters.
I'm kind of enjoying this little game in little spurts. Any tips or strategies? For example is it better to just build the free/cheapest house or use build the diamond ones? My ID is Wasabininja.
Save your gold and pick the free one, wait until level 38 that grants +2 elemental stats and 275 taxes. Protip: organize your hero in a house with same elements like fire element heroes at the same house, you better start earlier so you'll save lots of diamonds.
Thanks for the reply Zentatsu, you've helped me through some tricky dungeons already wazzuupp wasabi! Adding you now! Also why is it good to organize your heroes by element in the houses? And do you know which dungeons have chances of dropping epic heroes and loot? My only 5 star epic is the cupcake guy so far Also there's a subreddit at /r/farawaykingdom for any Reddit users, must be run by a developer as they've answered a lot of my questions! It's very dead so far but we'll see what happens with the worldwide release
Once you hit level 38 and able to buy the pantheon(the house) which will let you pick a +2 element a house, for example you pick a +2 fire element to your first pantheon house(or any house with element bonus) then you need fire heroes for that house(totally optional but most beneficial). For example an epic fire hero has 13 fire element stats, by putting it in a pantheon house with fire bonus makes it 15 fire elemental stats or with a complete rare armor set makes it 16 ES or 17 ES for epic armor set. You may visit my kingdom to see how My setup looks. Every raid dungeon has a chance of epic hero or equipment, so far the best is jafar a mage hero and sally salt a priest hero both a 3 star heroes. You can hunt them at 27th(creatures of wonderland) or up to any higher level raid dungeon, not quite sure though but nonsensical epic is a good place to grind since that's the only dungeon where I got 6 loots(either chests or heroes). You can sell the loots on that dungeon for gold and complete a jafar/sally salt set there. Wait for special dungeon though, there's a special dungeon that last for 4 days last week that gives4 stars epic heroes(from the temple of death dungeon) which really has good stats even at rare equipment set. The 4 star mage I got there beats my level 20 5 star epic mage slightly. Note: bear with all the wrong grammars )
Oh yeah that makes a lot of sense with the houses! I'm working my way there so that's good to know which bosses to grind How is the last boss for loot? I'm assuming you would just want to grind him away?
Not at all, he basically drops same epic heroes/equipment(jafar/sally salt/scheherazade set) on 27th raiding spot or any dungeon in between. Maybe a bit different in rare equipment/heroes drop but at lower drop rates.
Oh that's too bad then, maybe the world boss will drop better things. You've been playing this since the soft launch started I'm guessing, how many 5 star epic heroes have you gotten? I saved 200 gems for 11 and didn't get any
