Depending on the hero’s innate rarity, they’ll only have up to a maximum of four unlockable active or passive abilities that will level up whenever they are awakened. For example, Priests will usually have abilities that buff their allies or recover a portion of their HP, so that everyone can stay alive as long as possible. Depending on the hero’s class, they’ll have skills that will complement their role in the team. Hero skills play a big part in gauging if a unit is strong or not. Having a balance of these five units is essential to teambuilding. Priests are supportive units that strengthen allies or heal any damage the team takes so that they won’t expire as quickly from the enemy team. Rangers, mages, assassins are heroes that deal a huge amount of damage to the enemy team from strategic positions, but often die too quickly if enemies manage to target them. Warriors are tanks that play the role of soaking up damage from the enemy units to keep the rest of the team alive as long as possible. There are two ways a faction affects how a hero functions in a match, and that is by having weakness or resistance against an opposing faction, or through faction aura. Factions don’t simply affect a character’s aesthetics they also play an important role in the gameplay itself. Each hero is separated by which faction (Forest, Legion, Undead, Light, and Shadow) they are loyal to as we’ve mentioned in our Valor Legends: Eternity Beginner’s Guide. One of the most important traits of a hero is the Faction.

It’s easy to go online to check out other player’s preferences, but that makes one reliant on third-party information without truly having any knowledge of why they choose to do so in the first place. Competitive players want to have the best units at their disposal, but the biggest problem is that some of them don’t know how to gauge if a specific unit is weak or strong. The importance of understanding how a hero works lies in the competitive aspect of the game, namely – PvP.

Company of heroes factions guide