Might as well start a discussion for this. For anyone who just started playing since seeing these fanarts, lemme break down what this game is.

Lord of Heroes is a mobile turn-based RPG where you play as the monarch of a country called Avillon. The game starts with you being betrayed by one of Avillon's nobles and continues with you finding out it's a conspiracy done by a neighboring country. There's a bunch of regions that you fight your way through as you find out more about what's going on.

You discover that a lot of chaos is happening in the west and central continents, all done by a country in the east known as Gallus. The story is you helping the nations across the continents and making an alliance to deal with Gallus who are trying to subjugate all other countries and rebuild their empire. There's more to it than just that though, and the story continues in the hard and extreme modes (extreme mode story is going to be released early 2021 for global).

The gameplay is turn-based and each hero has a basic attack, a skill that goes on cooldown, and a burst skill that requires burst points to use.

Heroes are unlocked through various ways. You get some automatically by playing through the story while others you need renown or crystals to unlock in the Chronicles area. There are contract heroes that you can get by just logging in everyday, which you can pick 2 out of 3 from each rotation. It takes 15 days for your first hero, and then 30 days for each subsequent one. There are also paid heroes you can buy from the store, but you don't need them to beat the game.

There's 5 classes: warriors, guardians, strikers, snipers, and clerics. Warriors have high attack and high hp, strikers are main dps types, guardians are tanks, snipers are burst gauge fillers, and clerics are healers. Each class has its own special set of gear with set bonuses that you should aim for. For new players, you should get striker gear first, then sniper gear, and then cleric gear after. With the recent update, the next one you should look for is the bulwark set for guardians and then warrior gear can be last.

The gacha in this game is all gear gacha. You basically want to aim for artifacts, both purple and gold ones. You want them specifically for the set bonus and then you can look at what stats they have. You only need to build your dps units for atk and crit, and every other unit will be built tanky.

An example is my Lucilicca who's fully geared with all +15 gear. She has the striker set and the precision set. Strikers are main dps because their artifact set bonus ignores defense while increasing their damage.

Anyways, the game itself is really fun as a casual game and there's features like a PvP coliseum, guild raids, and dungeons. The story is also honestly really charming. I just finished hard mode like yesterday, and the story there made me feel emotional at some parts. I think it's a really solid mobile game you can play that doesn't take too much investment. There's also a good amount of yuri fanart on Twitter from Korean artists if you can find them. Lucilicca and Fram are the two most popular ships with Fem!Lord.

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Here's the section where I give advice as someone who's pretty familiar with the game.

1. Earth Charlotte is a very good F2P cleric.
2. Fire and Water Vanessa are both really good clerics. Fire Vanessa gives a party invincibility buff with her burst while Water Vanessa revives the whole party with hers. You can unlock them in the Chronicles,
3. Water Helga is a good dps to invest in for F2P.
4. Water and Fire Schneider are both good strikers that are cheap to get. Water Schneider is better, but Fire Schneider is still good for raid.
5. Pick Water Krom for your first contract, his skill to fill action gauge basically gives your party the initiative in battle. Build him for speed and tankiness.
6. Your second contract can be either Fire Lairei or Earth Lucilicca, it doesn't really matter. Fire Lairei is an AoE warrior, while Earth Lucilicca is an ST striker. Lucilicca is better for raid while Lairei is better for story. You can pick which you prefer.
7. Promoting heroes to 6 stars is way better than ascending, and it's not necessary to ascend them either. You can do it if you want to give them a boost in stats, but it's more worth it to save your renown for new heroes.
8. A good target to recruit is Earth Laphlaes who costs 3 million renown. Everyone will tell you that he's meta as fuck, so yeah, get him if you want a top tier hero. He's especially good for raid.
9. For PvP, you want speed + high atk. Dark Mikhail is very good for PvP.
10. The story quests you have at the bottom left of your screen in the main menu should be done in order. Don't rush to do all of the story stages because you need to follow the story quests in the correct order or you'll need to redo stages.
11. Don't spread out your resources too thin and focus on only the units you know for sure you're going to use for a long time. The most important unit to focus on is your main dps, which will always be a striker so pick one and stick with them.
12. For alliance raids, you'll get alliance tokens and you should use them on the weekly reset items of the replica artifact, exp potions, and elemental stone. The rest you should spend on the monthly renown and save the remainder for Water Nine.

This last part will be my unsolicited advice on which contract heroes to pick.

1. Water Krom and your pick between Earth Lucilicca and Fire Lairei
2. Water Lumie and Fire Alev
3. Earth Lairei and Fire Krom
4. Fire Lumie and Earth Alev

If you want a Lucilicca, then it's best to just get Earth Lucilicca cause Water Lucilicca sucks ass.

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EDIT: I forgot to mention you can choose the gender AND appearance of your character. I personally really like the aesthetics of the main character and that's pretty much the reason why I even started playing this game.

P.S. You can join the Eire alliance if you need a guild to join. It's the one I'm in, though no one talks and it's pretty much just a casual alliance to do raids.

last edited at Dec 15, 2020 12:48PM

I downloaded this game based on your description in this post and yeah, it's pretty fun. I had no idea about the aesthetics of the Lord either; they're very cool. Having an actual voiced protagonist with their own personality seems like a rarity in gacha games so that's neat. I also joined the Eire alliance, though I probably won't do much in the raids for a while.

Just finished the Lumisade levels on normal. I can see why you like Lord x Lucilicca; there's some great interactions and banter there.

last edited at Dec 16, 2020 3:37AM

^ Nice. Btw you should try and rush through normal story until the last region. It's actually not too hard to do, the only REALLY hard content is the final boss so up until then, you can manage with the people you get at the beginning. My advice would be to have a team of lv40 with Earth Charlotte, Water Fram, Water Helga, Dark Mikhail, and Fire Zaira. You should do alliance raids as soon as you can since you can bring 3 supports per team, and they can carry you until you get well geared heroes.