Where next?

I have come to a decision point in CC.  (Here's my latest progress post.)  I have finished Heartbreaker experience-wise; she's now at 200ee.  She still needs a good talent, but experience-wise she's done.  Meanwhile, I have built up a sizeable reserve of experience books.  So, I can bring up quite a few heroes quite a bit quite quickly.

My shard reserve is about 100000 right now.  My fame is 25000.  Herowise, I have 9 useful devoes (I also devoed Succubus for books), and another 12 useful evos.

I need to make a decision as to where to focus resources.  As I see it, there are basically three alternatives.

First, I can continue pumping resources into my LBF team.  I score above 900 most seasons but have never broken 1000.  I am hoping that with HB and some other recent additions, I will be able to do that.  My team is currently limited by the lack of a Revite 5 Aries; on the last few days of a season it is hard to win 2 of 3 when you lose one almost automatically.

The gain from increasing LBF is marginally more fame, about 100 per week perhaps if I can normally break 1000, and an additional 190 gems per week.  Pretty low rewards, but on the other hand it's fame, and the cost of doing this is low.

Second, I can built out my base to do Challenge III in HBM.  This may need Vlad (who I have now and a dupe for, so I can single evo him).  Mainly it needs blue and green heroes.  It's not clear to me whether you might get by without them, so I am assuming I need at least level 4 garrison levels, and perhaps level 5.   Currently I have two blue heroes and one green hero well above that (the useful ones, Ice Demon, Shaman, and Frost Witch).  The other heroes have skill 3 and level 50-60 for garrison 2.  So it will take 62600 shards to get to a full level 4 garrison.  (Here's the wikia on Garrison.)  If I need level 5, it will take a lot more: 117600 shards and 990000 honor badges.

The gain from increasing HBM (assuming I can get through AF, which is by no means certain) is better sweeps.  Currently I sweep T, getting 90 shards and (on average maybe) 900000 experience per sweep.  AF gives 120 shards and perhaps 1.2m per sweep.  The increase in daily income would be 180 shards and 1.8m experience per day.  So, a decent increase in both things, but nothing to write home about.

My remaining option is to attempt again to push to Insane Dungeon 5-10.  I tried this about a month back, and was shut down over many attempts by ID 5-9.  I was close a few times though usually slaughtered with 12%.  It's really hard, and it appears you need a Skull Knight to tank the enemy SK.  Al_fun used a SK and says it takes a lot of tries.  I still have no SK so I can't do what he did.  What I might do is evo my Santa.  I am not really keen on this, since I have but one dupe for SB.  So it requires 40000 shards, and I don't use SB that much.  I can also possibly sub in a different 6th hero.  (I assume PD/Cupid/Druid are required for amp-up, SB for damage, and a tank to, uh, tank.)  One DPS slot is potentially changeable.  Currently using TG for this.  I could try my shiny new HB here, or perhaps some other hero.  PK?  I could also try increasing a few heroes' skills.  All of them are at least at 8, but I might buy a 9 for Druid, or TG.  And I could potentially buy a 10 for DD, Cupid or SB.

So what would it get me?  Currently I sweep ID 4-10 for 88 shards/HB and 113610 EXP.  If I can get to and 3-star ID5-10, that would increase to 96 shards/HB and 138010 EXP.  I use most dungeons per day, and my amount will increase with the new compendium bonus.  Assuming I get to 66 of them, my daily income increases by ~158 shards/HB and 1610400 EXP.

UPDATE: Consulted with reddit, and their assessment is that Vlad is not needed for HBM.  So, decided to go after HBM using level 4 garrisons.  I figure the experience the garrison heroes will get doing the HBM tries will help bring them to 140, so I can go after level 5 garrisons on the cheap.

Mid April Progress

My Heartbreaker is now almost done with experience, currently at 199ee.  So it's time for a progress post.  Here's the last progress post.  Two days after that post, I rolled this:

Heartbreaker goes to college.

Oh my!  My Heartbreaker had a mediocre talent and I was bringing her up anyway.  So, obvious place to put it.  (As I said before, HB is now almost done.  Got a lot of books from this enlightenment.)

I went ahead and spent big fame to bring Harpy Queen's scatter talent to 8.  This prepares me for HBM III when I am ready for that.  Meanwhile, it's useful in LBF.

Ready for demon scattering.

Also I evo'ed and booked her to 180e.  Later I brought her up to 181e so she'd be easier to find among all my other heroes at 180.

Literally the next day, I rolled this:

Grimfiend gets more dangerous.

Another Scatter 5!  Nice.  I wish I'd have rolled it before spending all that fame on HQ.  But oh well.

There have been three Spend Gems and Win events.  In the first, didn't get much.  I did get a Pixie dupe:

Spare Pixie #3

This is my 3rd Pixie dupe, so now I can double-evo her without paying shards.  Not sure I will do it, though, because fame is quite finite and she seems distinctly C grade at this point in the game.  I no longer snipe much, so I see little need for her.  Currently I use her only as bait for the Rage Goblin.  This does use her scatter, but otherwise could be many heroes.

In the second SG&W, I rolled an Aries:

Aries dupe.

This was my third dupe.  So, given the books I was getting from HB I went ahead and devo'ed Aries.

Another day, another devo.

Aries is now 199ee.

Here's a roll from the most recent SG&W, last Monday:

Double purple.

The GF is my first dupe for him (he's already evo'ed though; paid shards).  So that's nice but won't be used for some time.  The Vlad is a first dupe and my Vlad is still non-evo level 1.  So that is quite welcome, assuming I do bring him up.  Not sure I will yet.  Vlad seems nice but rather outdated.  I'd use him in HBM for sure.  Not sure about LBF.  And pretty sure nowhere else.

On the talent front, I got a Revive 4 which I put on my Valentina.  I have a level 4 Revite crest set on her, and she is now helping me in Arena (go ahead and laugh) and the Lost Battlefield.

Valentina ready for battle.

I got two Level 5 Talent Chests.  One was from the Lucky Goblin (in Castle Crisis) and the other was from a Fortress Feud.  The first contained Lifedrain 5.  This is not an awful talent, but all of my top guys already have a decent talent.  Except my Aries, with Lifedrain 3.  Lifedrain 3 really is enough for most of my uses.  Still, what the heck, it doesn't hurt him.  

The second Level 5 Talent Chest yielded up Tenacity.  Also pretty crap as talents go.  On the other hand... now that I live by cheese alone in GW, I was reasonably content with it:

Ghoulem gets 30% more hitpoints.

Corrode was always a placeholder on my Ghoulem.  Tenacity is not GH's best talent, but it's quite decent on him.  I have not decided whether to spend the 3000 fame for 15% more hitpoints.

I did a quest in between writing this.  Heartbreaker made it to 200ee.  And look, I just happened to have a level 5 talent sitting around!

I didn't tell you about this level 5.

Well, it's something.  Enlightenment is nothing at this point.  So on it goes.

One other thing worth mentioning: my highest GW score to date by far:

Cha-ching.  Cheesing FTW.

This is purely due to cheesing.  This is one of the rare GWs when I could cheese many bases well above 200000 might, and I cheesed all five bases successfully.  (That is, all three stars.  It's easy to screw it up and get two.)

Late March Progress

Last time I wrote, I had started bringing up Valentina, who I had just rolled.  She's now at 180e, capped:

Love trumps lack of energy.

Since I have a new use for honor badges (read on), she'll probably stay where she is a while.  I'll put a decent talent on her if I roll one.  But possibly she's still have Enlightenment when I get back to her.  I have put her into my LBF lineup.  I'm very hopeful that I'll break 1000 for the first time with this addition and another...

Ghoulem is now 198ee, having gotten all the experience when Val was blocked on honor badges.  I'll take him though 200ee eventually.  No real rush on that.  It's good to have a place to dump experience when HB are lacking.

The first big news since last time is I rolled this guy, who has eluded me since I started over two years ago:

He's still at level 1, because Val was already past 180 when I rolled him.  I have no immediate plans for him.  Mid term, I'll get him to 180e and that should be enough for him to help me through HBM III.

Vlad was going to be next on my to-give-experience list after Val, probably Val to 200e since there's no huge hurry on him.  But then yesterday there was a "Spend Gems and Win".  Rolling time!  And I rolled this lovely girl:

Nice hero, crap talent.

Yowza!  My buddy has a Heartbreaker, and from his experience I want her ASAP in my LBF lineup and perhaps also available for GW.  She's definitely A list, right up there with SK, DD, Ghoul, etc.  On her own she can (a) keep many enemies from proccing, and (b) heal herself.  Not to mention being the most damaging single target hero in the game other than Trixie.  [UPDATE: that last sentence is incorrect.  Still, she's as damaging as PK, and that's quite good.]  I'll definitely put her in my Challenge a Boss lineups.  A bit low on hitpoints, so not really a tank.

I think HB might work well in a brute-force sort of attack in GW.  The plan is HB, DD, Ghoulem, Grimfiend going straight into a HtH with enemy heroes, with sniping support from Cupid and Aries.  (I'll definitely post about it if it works.)

One other big event since last time.  I rolled an A grade talent!

Scatter ninja!

This was a tough one to place.  According to the wisdom of reddit, the placement for Scatter 5 is PK, Grimfiend, and HQ -- other things equal.  But I have several scatter 4 sets, so I can crest that on PK and Grim.  And I have no Molt, so I want HQ for pushing HBM.  I asked for advice at reddit and got people recommending all three choices.  (Sigh.)  As always, you can't push responsibility away easily.  And then the very next quest board, I got a talent refresh quest.  Had to decide.  Some of the names I recognize as old timers seemed to go with HQ, and I was leaning that way anyway.  So...

HQ is now at scatter 6.  I suppose I should just go ahead to 8 since I have more than enough fame, and I will upgrade to scatter 8 anyway eventually.  Also I am not going to be double-evoing many heroes for quite a while.

That's a lot of fame.

One benefit of blogging.  It makes you think.  I still have 26000 fame left, which is four devos and a bunch of evos as needed.

So, right now I have an embarrassment of riches.  I want to pour experience/honor into five different heroes, all of them at least B grade: Ghoul, Val, HB, HQ, Vlad.  All of them need at least single evo, and HB should be double evoed ideally.  And I have a C-lister -- Revenant -- still waiting also.  Not sure if I'll ever get to him.

March Progress

Time for a progress report.

I have been pouring all experience and HB into my Ghoulem.  Have not rolled any dupes for him, so double evoed him using shards.

Costly, but it's Ghoulem.

Had to pause giving him experience only a few short times when low on HB.  Still not selling anything other than greens.  Gave Druid a level or two instead.

Ghoulem is now 187ee, with skill 8.  Put Corrode 5 on him that I rolled soon after he was born.  Not as good as Bulwark, but certainly useful for the time being.

Formidable.

Ghoulem has made a significant difference in my game.  I have him in LBF now, and I have been flirting with breaking 1000.  Sad story: I was at 988 last Saturday.  Was guaranteed to break 1000 on Sunday.  Except... not if I forgot to play.  Oops.

But Ghoulem's main effect is in GW.  He's quite helpful with a sniper team as the "send in someone for that last DD."  But also he opens up a new strategy: cheesing.  Now I can do DD-cheesing in GW reasonably effectively.  So I have been looking for opportunities to do that.

For those who don't know, the idea in cheesing is you isolate an enemy tank who can withstand very large amounts of damage, but whose damage you can tank also with the right team.  Then you put in your own heroes on him, and use remote damage output of your heroes' procs to win the battle.  (I plan to make a "how to cheese" post here eventually.)

I am still getting the hang of DD-cheesing.  I failed a few times where I got 50%+ and then something happened: my heroes kill the enemy DD I am keying on, or my heroes get killed.  You really want to be sure the situation is stable before you pass 50%, which is kind of hard to do.)  But that was last week: got a rotten GW score, about 1800 IIRC.  Anyway, last night I finally got a cheese really working well against a supertanky enemy DD:

Cheesing, cheesing, over the bounding main...

You can see my Ghoulem, Aries, DD, and Treantar in there if you look hard.  I tried doing a sniper-cheese, but the enemy has a Bubblow (you can see it above) and I was not making a dent.  So, it's a building-cheese.  DD and Doom Balloon, with other heroes there to keep them alive.

Result: all buildings dead, no heroes killed on either side.

Take that you buildings!

Took down a ~220000 might base, worth 511 points.  I finished in my guild's top 5.

Ha.  Extra HB.

In other progress news... heroes.

No really interesting heroes rolled in a while.  Got a Beast Tamer dupe last night.  This may have some value in the very long run, but my BT is already single evoed.  (I did this because I am using him on archdemons, and I wanted him to wield an artifact.)  His priority for 2evo is way, way down unless IGG adds some new boss with really good rewards that he is needed to get.

My plan was to keep pouring all experience in Ghoulem.  He's mostly done, but getting him to 200ee will help a little bit.  Still, I was starting to look at my options for bring up other heroes.  I have 2 Aries dupes, so maybe double-evoing him.  (I also have many other heroes at 200e that I'd like to 2evo, but they have either zero or one dupes.)  Or maybe bringing up Revenant for LBF.  (I rolled a Rev a month or two back, don't recall exactly.  It's just been sitting at level 1 in my altar.)

Then I rolled one hero for a quest this morning:

A late present for February.

OK, Val is now top priority.  She was born with flameguard 3: meh.  Fortunately I had an enlightenment 1 talent sitting around unused from a talent roll last night.  Here she is now, after the morning's experience:

That skill needs work.

She's inscribed to level 63.  I actually care about mana for another day.

Ghoulem!

I got two blue slimes in one gem roll!  Mwahaha!

And that guy in the middle.

Here he is now:

Not a Jedi yet.

Obviously not ready for primetime.  He was born with a 5/8 talent! ... deadly strike.  Actually negative for some uses...  Oh well, replaced it with Berserk 1 (how often is that an improvement?), and will be hoping for that Bulwark 5...

January Progress

Not that much news this month, but since it's almost over it's time for a report.  (Here's the last report).   Last month I got a new Grimfiend and a new Trixie, so I had a lot of bringing up to do.

This month I rolled about 10000 gems without getting any new heroes.  Makes up for my good luck last month.  Best hero I got was an Orksbane dupe.  Whoopie.  I also got this, which is at least funny:

Better than most rolls.

I finished Grimfiend about a week ago; he's now 200e.  He had Enlightenment 2 when I was training him, and then in quick succession he had Blade Shell 1 (booyah), Scorch 2, and now Flame Guard 2.  Obviously this won't last very long.  It's kind of nice having a place to put crappy talents when I roll them.

Grimfiend with decidedly weak talent.

Now I am training Trixie Treat.  She is currently at level 197, non evo.  Like Grim, I plan to bring her up to 200e and then stop.  Unlike Grim, she has Enlightenment 5, so I may leave that on her for a while.  We'll see what talents I get.

Trixie, about to evolve.

After Trixie finishes, my current plan is to double-evo my DD.  He's currently at 199e, but he's a brawler and double-evoing is very important for brawlers, since their hitpoints are key.  I have 1 dupe for him, so the double-evo will be expensive.  Still, he's an A grade hero and it is worth it.

My pets are coming along.  With the bonus from Yulephant, my egg stockpile is slowly decreasing.  When he was released I had about 50 green eggs stored up and a bunch of blues and a few purples.  (I saved blue/purple for a week or two before Yule was released so I could have chances to get him ASAP.)  Now I am down to 15 green eggs.

My non-rare pets are starting to hit level 16.  This gets this nice bonus:

Pets 16 -> better boni.

Finally, I beat HBM T.  I got the idea maybe I am ready when I accidentally triggered T using my normal base and heroes.  (I meant to sweep S).  I got almost through wave4:

Better than expected.

Then today I read on reddit that one can deal with the wave 5 bosses without scatter, using silence (from Aries, Aviar, and Garuda).  So I tried it.  First I had to re-make my corner base for the Nth time.   Then I carefully plotted my team, it's crests/pets/artifacts, and set it up.  It worked!

HBM AA unlocked.

I tried AA and got wiped.  Maybe I'll wait on that for my DD to be double evoed.

Now I can sweep T.  Being on AA is actually a bit annoying because it's another click each time to sweep. Still, what matters is I'll get more experience, or at least I can if lucky.  I assume that means the average is higher.

Corrode 5

Got a talent re-roll on a quest today...

Grimfiend and a Corrode 5 talent

Corrode 5! Yow!  But who to give it to?  Here's reddit's stickied article on this topic to read and think about: Guide, Where to Put Yalents.

First choice would be a Skull Knight if I had one.  I don't.  Second choice would be Death Knight.  I have one, but I already have a Stone Skin 5 on him, and that's pretty good especially considering that I use him only in Lost Battlefield.  Next is Dread Drake.  Mine already has Lifedrain 4, which is pretty good.  But I can crest that, so, not a bad place for it.  Also in the running, my new Grimfiend, currently sporting Enlightenment 2.  I have him up to 155e, and I'd really like to keep the Enlightenment through 200e.  But we take these things when they happen.

All things considered, since Grim lacks any damage reduction I think he'll just get killed fast in spite of Corrode if I try to wade into a group with him.  So, I'll put it on my DD.  Unless I can roll a SK soon.

Today happens to be the second and final day of the latest "Spend Gems and Win", and I am planning to roll enough gems to get to 8000 total.  So, there's a slight chance I'll roll a Skull Knight, and make the decision an easy one.  I am waiting for that.  Also I have one more quest today, and there is always a chance that I'll get a hero roll there, or another talent roll.  But for now, I am putting off the decision until I am forced into it, or I have completed by last quest and rolled my gems.

Later on...

Gems rolled.  Nuthin'.  (Well -- one Cupid.  Mine is evo2 and I had 2 dupes.)  And the LHC got me a Thunder God dupe.   I guess DD will get it, but I'll hold off until my next talent reroll hoping for a super-lucky SK first.

Three Flamed Insane 2-1

I haven't pushed dungeons in a while.  But today I happened to see on reddit some dude boasting about doing Insane 2-1 with "non evo" heroes.  Some of his were zero evo; others were evo1.  But mine are much stronger: I have all evos of the relevant heroes, and some of them are double evo.  And I have better crests and better talents.

So I decided to run it.  If he can do it, I can do it with stronger heroes.  But it is going to take time to set up.  (Which is the main reason I have not done it yet.)  OK, check crests.  Check pets.  Check artifacts.  Twiddle twiddle.

Go time.

This is going down.

Looking good...

Insane 2-1 three star.

First try.  Didn't lose anyone.

Here's the Goblet.  For some reason I had thought that it only had one slot, like the Blitz Scroll or Garuda.  But no, it has three.  That is very convenient.  Just enough for my latest evos.  (If I had known that, I would have tried for it two months ago.)

Goblet of Life

I have lots of merits piling up since I do Boss 5 and don't buy LHCs any more.  (The odds of getting a hero I need are negligible.  Even getting a dupe I need has very low odds.)  So now the Goblet is level 5.

I need to figure out who to put on it.  Probably snipers since they need healing.

Bonus!

Oh look.  300 gems for unlocking 6 artifacts.

New Year Progress

As an addendum of sorts to yesterday's report...

Today I got a roll a hero quest, and rolled this guy:

Grimfield!

Huzzah!  During the same quest, got a talent reroll and rolled this:

Grim enlightened.

Perfect.  Now I have him at level 140, where he is waiting on honor badges to move up.

Yesterday was the end of the latest "Spend Gems and Win".  Since I had a big pile of gems, I decided to roll up to the 8000 level to get the LHC.  I'd spent just over 1000 gems over the two days that it ran, so I needed to roll 7000 gems.  That meant 47 hero rolls.  I got a Paladin, a Warlock, four Legendary Slimes... and not much else.  Boo.  I guess that makes up for the luck of rolling Grim.

But don't forget the LHC!  I collected my winnings, then rolled the card.

Druid.  Ugh.

Still.  Good day, overall.

Year End Progress

Christmas has come and gone.  I only started paying attention to the various FtP specials about six months ago.  But clashers were excited about Christmas, saying that's when the best specials are.  Well, there were indeed a lot of pretty nice looking gem buying specials.  But there were no gem-spending specials beyond the normal ones.   So I really did not spend anything.

Now we have a "Spend Gems and Win", and I have over 19000 gems saved.  Almost 20000.  I could roll up to the 20000 level for SG&W, but the rewards there are pretty meager.  I plan to just roll to 8000.  You get a legendary hero card.  It's not great -- will probably get another ninja.  But still, there are dupes I could get that I want, and who knows whether I might be able to roll a new hero.  Can you get Ghoulem from a LHC?  Dunno.  But that rolling will happen tonight, after my last quest for the day is done.  I am hopeful.

All of that is way of saying, not too much progress in terms of new heroes.  And in particular, not the one I want most: Ghoulem.  Right now I can run one lava3 team out of four in my guild's lava3 setup: I could run three of four with Ghoulem.  (Need SK for the fourth.)  Ghoulem would also be nice in other game modes too.

But back to the progress I have made since the last report.

First, I finished up leveling my Grizzly Reaper.  He's at 199ee.

Grizzly Reaper getting beefy.

Not all the way to 200 because I raid with him, so he gets experience, and I dislike wasted experience.  His talent is still at 8, but I will take it to 9 soon I think.  This will make him hit 6 heroes per proc, up from 5 at level 8.  It will help modestly in raiding and also modestly in lava3.

After Griz was done, I started in on my Death Knight.  I had a dupe, so evolving him was "free" beyond the rune and of course the many honor badges needed.  I don't use him much; currently I use him only in WG3.  But I figure he could be useful if I ever do start hand-to-hand raiding, and I didn't have anyone else obvious to dump experience on.

So now he's level 175e.

Death Knight getting beefy.

I didn't complete him to 180e, though I probably will in the not too distant future.  Instead I changed course.  I realized that I need to improve my sniping much more than my WG3 (which is already nearly perfect, at least in my quadrant.  Some of my guildmates less so, but I can't easily improve that).  Now, I don't really want to be using sniping so heavily (pets are starting to make it harder), but I still perforce have to do it.  I just don't have the hand-to-hand heroes that you really need.  While I do have DD (and I'm thinking about paying shards for the double evo), I don't have SK, Vlad, or Ghoulem.  I probably will continue to snipe almost indefinitely.  Certainly sniping (if at all possible) is the best way to deal with expeditions in particular, and those matter since they are the main source of HB.  And sniping is still how I deal with Guild Wars fights, and since these yield fame they are important to optimize for.

Of the snipers, I already have TG at 200ee and now Griz at 199ee.  They can't improve levelwise.  My Warlock and Aries are both at 195e: they could improve a little bit with experience, but I don't have the dupes to double evo them.

The main way in which I could improve my sniping was leveling my Pixie, who was at level 163 (no evo).  Even though I had no dupe for her, I finally decided to pull the trigger and spend the 20000 shards for her evo.  I did that Saturday.

Pixie getting beefy.

Now she's 165e and climbing.  I'll stop at 180e due to HB.

Last Thursday I was doing a quest and got a hero roll, and got a new hero:

Rolled Trixie Treat.

I took her to level 120 with books, and inscribed her to 80.  This just added might, but it does prepare her for serious leveling and use fairly rapidly if I wanted.  I don't see a huge need for her yet.  She seems good for damaging bosses, and in various hand-to-hand situations (lost battlefield), but beyond that, not particularly wonderful.

Then, last Sunday, on a talent reroll for a quest, I got this:

Rolled Englightenment 5.

Well.  Trixie got it, obviously.   Now I have a great reason to level her, irrespective of her own inherent value.

Trix gets enlightened.

She's heading for 180e, eventually, unless I roll a dupe or two pretty soon, in which I case I might go for 180ee.

Now I have Trix at level 160 capped, but after two evolves and one new hero in less than a week, I am really crunched for HB in a way I have not been in a very long time.  So, I have resumed giving experience to Pixie while I accumulate HB.  It's actually going to be a while before I can fully exploit this enlightenment.

One other funny thing.  I evolved Pixie on Saturday.  Then on Sunday, I got this in a quest gem roll:

RNG taunts me.

Thanks RNG!  Seriously, it's almost as good now as it would have been before I evolved her, since I'll need at least on more to make it worthwhile to double evo.  Still, I really wish it could have come a day earlier...

Might Pump Complete

Aaaand... it's done.

120000 might.

I had some spare time yesterday so I spent it raiding for mana.  I got all my Ninjas to 120 and 80 inscription, and I was about 1500 might short... so leveled and inscribed a spare Snowy I've had since way back when.  Here's the might section of my altar now:

Ninja dojo.

This morning, I got my first "do insane dungeon" quest item.

Do insane dungeon quest.

Nice reward.

That's a team dungeon card.

Pumping Might

I rolled a level 5 talent with a talent reroll quest last night.  What was it?  Bulwark?  No, scorch.  Scorch?  Basically useless.  Only good for increasing might.  I looked around for a scrub to put it on to boost might, and I didn't really find one I wanted.  My blue/green heroes I want to put Enlightenment on, so that it's cheaper to level them later on when I want to increase my garrison quality.  I already have level 3 talents or higher on my three legendary scrubs.  (These date from before I figured out to how to turn all hero rolls into cards.)

So, I finally decided to pull the trigger on pumping up my might.

Everyone says you should do it: pump up your might using spare heroes in your altar.  I've always resisted it for several reasons, laziness not the least.  But now I am up over 100000 might -- 105000 actually.  So I am in striking range of 120000 might.  There's a nice quest board item (do insane dungeons) at 120000 might, so it seems like it's worthwhile going for it.

The best heroes to pump might with are those heroes where you'll eventually want high level dupes that you use in different game modes.  But I don't have any such.  I suppose if I rolled a series of Revite 5 talents, eventually I'd run out of better places to put one, and maybe make a PD dupe.  But I'd rate Aries, Medusa, Treantaur, and Atlanticore higher.  Probably also Candy Kane.  So: not gonna happen.

I have seven Ninja cards, and Ninja, being fast, is the best choice for pumping might among heroes that you'll never use.  So my plan is to roll out Ninjas and level them, and inscribe them.  Taking them to 6 star 100 allows inscription to level 60; this gives 618 might for the hero (plus 20 per talent level > 1) and another 471 for the inscription.  The cost is 664,300 experience and 64,000 HB.  That's a bit painful, but right now I have over 500000 HB with plans to use only a modest number in the near future.  (My Medusa still needs 82m experience to hit 200e.)

Benchwarmer with nice talent.

 Going to 7 star 120 allows inscription to level 80, and adds 100 might for the hero and another 405 for the inscription.  The cost is 50000 more HB.  The total might per Ninja will thus be around 1500.  Seven of them, just over 10000 might.

I figure by that time, I may have gained the remaining 5000 in other ways.  Or I'll create some scrub Druids; I certainly have plenty of them.

Waterboy, hold this for a sec will ya?

One good thing about having lots of inscribed scrubs on staff is that I can use them hold spare crest sets.