Best Hero Expedition Skills to Focus on Early

As a new player, it is important to know which hero skills are worth upgrading early on. These are the recommended skill priorities:

• Amane’s first expedition skill
• Chenko’s first expedition skill
• Yeonwoo’s expedition skills
• Diana’s first skill
• Blue heroes’ gathering skills (second skill)
• Gordon’s first skill
• Saul’s second skill
• Fahd and Diana’s second skills

Amane’s First Skill

If you have read my Joiner Hero Mechanics article, you would know that Amane’s first skill gives a bigger damage boost in Bear Trap compared to Chenko or Yeonwoo.

This is because Amane provides DamageUp with ID 102, which is much rarer. Most hero skills use DamageUp ID 101, so having different IDs stack together gives better overall damage.

Because of this, sending Amane in the first slot as a joiner during Bear Trap gives a bigger damage boost to both the rally leader and the joiners. If you have limited purple expedition manuals, Amane’s first skill should definitely be one of your top priorities.

Chenko and Yeonwoo First Skills

Chenko and Yeonwoo’s first skills are also very important. In Bear Trap, you can join up to 6 rallies, so having multiple heroes with DamageUp first skills is extremely useful.

Using the right joiner heroes can greatly increase rally damage for both you and your alliance. Since Bear Trap rewards are very good, performing well in this event can help your account grow much faster.

Yeonwoo’s Research Speed Skill

Yeonwoo’s second skill is another important one to upgrade because it increases research speed by up to 15% when maxed.

A 15% research speed boost may not sound huge at first, but when you look at the total research time over months of upgrades, it can save you weeks of waiting. Keep this skill high on your priority list.

Diana’s First Skill

Diana’s first skill is also very useful early on. You can max her out fairly quickly if you focus on the Desert Trial event.

Her first skill reduces stamina costs, which is helpful in stamina-heavy events like Desert Trial and Cesare’s Fury. Having this skill maxed early will save you a lot of stamina over time.

Blue Heroes Gathering Skills

The gathering skills of blue heroes are some of the most important skills in the game.

A lot of players ignore blue heroes or choose their resource production skills instead when they have limited blue expedition manuals. However, gathering skills are much better because gathering provides far more resources than resource buildings produce.

Always prioritize gathering skills first and leave resource production skills for later.

Bread and Wood are usually the biggest bottlenecks, so focus on upgrading Forrest and Olive first when choosing blue hero skill upgrades.

Gordon’s First Skill

Gordon’s first skill is very important for F2Ps and low spenders because they mostly act as joiners in rallies.

Using the right joiner heroes can make a huge difference in alliance rallies, especially when helping alliance whales. Gordon’s first skill increases Health, which is one of the best stats to boost early on for rally support.

Saul’s Second Skill

Saul’s second skill increases construction speed and reduces resource costs.

It is recommended to get this skill to at least level 3 for the 9% boost. This skill stays useful throughout the game because there are countless building upgrades, especially with Truegold levels going up to TG8 and possibly TG10 in the future.

This skill can save a huge amount of both time and resources over the long run.

Fahd and Diana March Speed Skills

Fahd and Diana both have second skills that increase march speed.

These are nice quality-of-life skills to upgrade once you are done with the more important purple hero skills and have extra purple expedition manuals available.

Faster march speed helps your marches reach targets quicker and is especially useful when using Auto Hunting or grinding Desert Trial.