By fine-tuning the way you upgrade Hera’s Conquest and Expedition skills you can save yourself quite some Manuals in the process and as not all skills have the same amount of impact but have the same amount of costs leveling up, fine-tuning them is worth it in the end.
Important! If you want to check how well Hera does in the current meta of all heroes in Lordrush, please check out my current tier list of all heroes here.
Tier S+Here is a quick overview of the rankings of Hera for the different modes of the game. Please refer to the full tier list linked below to see the ranking of all heroes in Lordrush and full evaluation and priority.
Hera’s Optimal Gear Setup
Now we have to take a look at the gear setup, as it takes a lot of time and resources to craft higher rarity gear and not all gear is as impactful as the other one and you have to gear a couple of heroes in Lordrush. Also upgrading gear gets very expensive and you simply can’t just pump all your Upgrade Ore randomly on gear + there are diminishing returns on Ore spends (the stats you gain on higher levels is a lot less per Ore spent than in the lower levels). Long story short, there is a lot of room for optimization to save resources and get the biggest bang for your buck (Ore)…
- +1Tap a slotEvery gear slot around Hera can be tapped. Empty slots pulse until you set them.
- −Lv 22+2Set what you have nowPick the item that's equipped in your game and its level. Nothing equipped? Choose "None yet".
- ▸ Upgrade next12 → 203Follow "Upgrade next"We compare your gear with the ideal order and show the one upgrade that gives the most power right now — plus the steps after it.
- ✓ Saved4Come back & updateYour gear is saved on this device. After upgrading in-game, update the slot and you get your next step.
Minimum, Sweetspot and Optimum under Hera show how far your gear is. Upgrade the exclusive weapon once you can unlock it — it never holds up your build.

Hera’s Skill Upgrade Order
In the first section you find the optimal upgrade order for Hera’s Conquest Skills + Expedition Skills. You can’t max out all heroes in Lordrush and this strategy makes your heroes progress with the biggest return for each Skill Manual spent since higher upgrades have diminishing returns and we all know how easy you can reset heroes (not!). Progress faster and spend less manuals without needing to if you follow our detailed skill upgrade order step by step. Below you will find the best order to unlock and level up skills by how useful they are so you don’t have to level the skills up one by one and spend a lot of extra Manuals on it. This will let you save important Universal Manuals in the long run:
ActiveActive
Passivepassive
Passivepassive
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Passivepassive
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- 2
ActiveLv 1 to Lv 2Start hereRequiredNext up: Active, Lv 1 to Lv 2. Don't spend Conquest Skill Manuals on other skills until then.Pause at Lv 2. You'll come back to this skill after the upgrade to 3 Stars. - 3
PassiveLv 0 to Lv 2RequiredPut your Conquest Skill Manuals into Passive until it hits Lv 2. Everything else waits.Lv 2 is enough for now. The next levels come after the upgrade to 3 Stars.
Low investment and nice improvement accross the board here that absolutely is worth it before starting to get more seelctive on what skills you actually upgrade next.
- 2
PassiveLv 0 to Lv 2Start hereRequiredNext up: Passive, Lv 0 to Lv 2. Don't spend Expedition Skill Manuals on other skills until then.Pause at Lv 2. You'll come back to this skill after the upgrade to 3 Stars. - 3
PassiveLv 0 to Lv 2RequiredPut your Expedition Skill Manuals into Passive until it hits Lv 2. Everything else waits.Lv 2 is enough for now. The next levels come after the upgrade to 3 Stars.
Low investment and nice improvement accross the board here that absolutely is worth it before starting to get more seelctive on what skills you actually upgrade next.
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- GOAL
- MAX
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Conclusion
I hope this guide helped you to build your Hera without just pumping your manuals into the skills. I assure you this will make your progress in Lordrush a lot faster and get the biggest bang for your buck in terms of making the skills rock that really make a big impact espcially as costs get higher and higher.