By fine-tuning the way you upgrade Tristan’s skills and gear, you can save yourself quite some Skill Books and Universal Shards 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 Tristan does in the current meta of all heroes in Dark War Survival, please check out my current tier list of all heroes here.
Tier B+Here is a quick overview of the rankings of Tristan for the different modes of the game. Please refer to the full tier list linked below to see the ranking of all heroes in Dark War Survival and full evaluation and priority.
Tristan’s Team Setups
Use our new squad planner to see how your ideal lineups look like not just with Tristan. It also let you exclude heroes you haven’t built or mark heroes as not fully built and you can see how that changes your ideal lineup:
Tristan’s Optimal Gear Setup(s)
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 Dark War Survival. Also upgrading gear gets very expensive and you simply can’t just pump all your Upgrade Ore randomly on gear.
- +1Tap a slotEvery gear slot around Tristan 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 Tristan show how far your gear is. Upgrade the exclusive weapon once you can unlock it — it never holds up your build.
Tristan’s Optimal Skill Upgrade Order
Upgrading skills is possible after you get Tristan to 1-Star and then you will be able to upgrade each skill in 5-level increments. While the first skill levels are rather easy and cheap, it will start to eat quite a bit into your Skill Books and as you can’t produce them, you might end up with half-built heroes. So, here is the order you should work on the skills for Tristan so you only spend the Skill Books where they actually provide good value.
Attention!Skill Reset Penalty: You can reset a hero’s skill levels, unlike character experience resets, you lose 10% of the invested Skill Books in the process, so plan upgrades carefully
Activeactive
Specialspecial
Factionpassive
Exclusiveexclsive
- 1Upgrade to 1 StarRequired
- 2ActiveLv 1 to Lv 5Start hereRequiredTake Active from Lv 1 to Lv 5 before you touch any other skill.Lv 5 is enough for now. The next levels come after the upgrade to 2 Stars.
- 3SpecialLv 0 to Lv 5RequiredNext up: Special, Lv 0 to Lv 5. Don't spend books on other skills until then.Lv 5 is enough for now. The next levels come after the upgrade to 2 Stars.
- 4FactionLv 0 to Lv 5RequiredPut your books into your passive Faction until it hits Lv 5. Everything else waits.Lv 5 is enough for now. The next levels come after the upgrade to 2 Stars.
- 5Upgrade to 2 StarsRequiredUntil this upgrade, keep Active, Special and Faction at Lv 5.
- 6ActiveLv 5 to Lv 10RequiredPush Active to Lv 10 first. No other skill upgrades before that.Pause at Lv 10. You'll come back to this skill after the upgrade to 3 Stars.
- 7SpecialLv 5 to Lv 10RequiredAll books go into Special here: Lv 5 to Lv 10. The other skills stay where they are.Stop at Lv 10 for now; the rest comes after the upgrade to 3 Stars.
- 8FactionLv 5 to Lv 10RequiredUpgrade your passive Faction to Lv 10. Only move on to other skills once it gets there.Lv 10 is enough for now. The next levels come after the upgrade to 4 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.
- CORE
- GOAL
- MAX
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Tristan’s Exclusive Weapon
Exclusive is absolutely a good invest when it is realased just for the powercreep
Conclusion
I hope this guide helped you to build your Tristan without just pumping your books into the skills. I assure you this will make your progress in Dark War Survival 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.
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