This is the first raid where you will find weapons and breastplates for your heroes and the guide I have seen for it are not that helpful for several reasons – one is that for earlier players you only see heroes recommended there that you probably don’t have and also a lot of heroes are recommended that are not that easily obtainable altogether.
But here is the good news… even epic heroes can work here so you don’t need the latest or event heroes to actually beat these stages if you use the heroes that excel here!
Important tip here: if you see your team being quite alive well but simply not being able to take down the enemies before they cluster up too much, you very likely don’t need different heroes you rather need to build your heroes up higher for that stage. Sounds lame but the reality is that the power levels make or break you in Gear Raid I.
If you’re looking for the other raid teams and other team setups, please check out the full overview of them here and here you will find the guide for the map of Stage 1-18.
Best Heroes for Gear Raid 1
Here are the heroes that work so go through your roaster and pick the ones that are available to you.
Healer/Support Heroes for Gear Raid 1
Not just your melee heroes will suffer damage here and you also need to keep your mages and ranged heroes alive by constant healing and also buff their damage output. Your heroes dying or not dealing enough damage to the waves is the make-or-break point here. Also, boosting your heroes is mandatory so you need support heroes to really pack the punch and enable the heroes hitting their ultimates as hard as possible and often enough you have to time your ultimates well – let them charge up and then use the support ultimates and then activate ALL DPS heroes ultimates right after to get the most out of it.
Melee Heroes for Gear Raid 1
You can hit through the wall but unlike on the map of Stage 1-18, you don’t have two walls so as soon as your wall is down, your battle is pretty much a lsot cause! Fighters that can hit through the wall are useful but with the way their range works and the mobs line up here (compared to the map of Stage 1-18 where they lined up in 2 tiles you now have to cover 3 tiles), fighters and melee heroes lose effectiveness a lot! The only REAL powerful heroes here are the ones that you can place in front of the wall where they deal damage while dying.
AoE DPS Heroes for Gear Raid 1
And now the heart of it, filling your team with the strong AoE DPS heroes that will do most of the work here. Make also sure to place them in range of your healer/support heroes to keep them up and make sure that they deal as much damage as possible. Ideally you place them on the side of your healer as they have a range that is also behind them so you can place your heroes comfortably in their area.
Team Setup in Gear Raid 1 – Stage 19-21 Map
So, this guide gives you different heroes for different positions and roles and I also ranked them by how well they work. Still, if you pack 3 healers in there you will very likely will lack DPS and if you only put AoE damage dealers in there you will lack support and stopping heroes and range will become an issue.
As a general rule you want to have 2-3x support/healers + 1x melee + rest AoE damage dealing heroes and here are the ones with my recommended positions:
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Conclusion
I know there is no one-fits-all setup here so you have to adapt the heroes with your roaster and see how they work together – bottom line I feel this is still a much bigger help than the guides you see inside the game which I have a couple of throughts on that I rather keep to myself why certain creators are constantly listed there and why certain heroes are pushed in the recommendations. Feel free to interpret that however you want but even more important, just let me know in the comments if you have questions or think I should list other heroes as well.
