How to Level Up, Coin, and Ember Made Easy | Honorbound
To move forward in Honorbound, it’s all about leveling up your heroes while managing your resources in coins and embers. We will go through the basics of how to do so efficiently and fast. This guide will include information to help you gain experience points while having enough resources. If you have found this basic guide helpful, please check out the rest of our Honorbound guides under mobile game guide list.
Leveling Up in Honorbound
Dungeon Crawling
PvP Battles
Raise Your Level Caps
Fortification Ritual
Making More Coins in Honorbound
You will earn coins through PvP battles just like you would for XP. Thus we will not go through it again under this section.
Dungeon Completion
Coin Vault
Coin Scavenger
Banish Ritual
Rogue Steal
Save Coins by Having Cleric
Generating and Conserving Ember
Ember Baron and Ember Vault
Ritual Conservation
Level up Fast in Honorbound
This section of the guide will teach you all the methods to earn more experience points in the game to help you level up faster.
Dungeon Crawling
Dungeon crawling is your basic method of leveling up in the game. Your entire team gains EXP when they defeat the enemies during battle. Note that your dead heroes will also receive EXP even when they are down. However, your team will receive less EXP when they battle enemies that are significantly lower than their levels.
Your best bet to level up efficiently by fighting the dungeons within the recommended levels. Or if you are training a new team of heroes, fight in an area that your newbie team can complete so that your minion heroes can gain tons of experience easily early on. Note that you will need a decent team at least to be able to farm and grind through the dungeons. If you cannot beat a certain dungeon, farm the ones below to level up your commanders and heroes.
PvP Battles
Dungeon PvP Encounter
While exploring dungeons, you are randomly met with PvP fights, always fight in those battles as you will earn EXP whether you win or lose. Even if you are defeated you will recover with all of your HP before the PvP fight. So fight those battles and earn additional EXP points. If you win you will also win some minor amount of coins.
Arena PvP Encounter
You can also earn additional XP and honor points when you win the Arena PvP battles. In general, you should pick to fight the team that is near your level while you know that you can beat. Always fight in Arena PvP battles for prizes and easy XP.
Raise Your Level Caps
One major mistake that new players make is that they fail to research into leadership or class ranks. These research cap the leveling potential of your heroes. Always make sure that you have those researched prior to hitting the cap. Also make sure that actually “train” those stats by going through the heroes stats screen as well. You never want to “lose” exp simply because they cannot receive anymore.
Fortification Ritual for EXP
Fortifying heroes are the best way for you to level up your hero minions quickly in the game. However, fortification requires ember and ember will become one of the hardest resource to come by once you start heavy fortification.
In general, higher star evolution heroes in any tier gives better XP to ember ratio than their lower ranked counter parts. Based on the chart of level 1 heroes in their tier, you can see that heroes give increasingly less XP to ember ratio as they get more rare.
Because evolution cost quite a bit of ember to start with, you should never evolve your heroes to be used as feeder. In addition, Rare (Yellow) heroes are better to be used for fortification as you lose too much efficiency using the epic (Purple) heroes.
Fortification Summary:
When you have lots of Ember: Sacrifice the lesser rare heroes first.
To conserve Ember: Only fortify using 2 star evolution. Use the lesser rarity heroes as sacrifices first.
Note: As you get stronger with higher ability to tank hits while capturing enemies, you will almost always have more heroes available for fortification than your ember production.
Common Hero
2-star heroes: 208 XP = 1.08 xp/ember
1-star heroes: 108 XP = 0.54 xp/ember
Uncommon Hero
2-star heroes: 416 XP = 0.832 xp/ember
1-star heroes: 316 XP = 0.632 xp/ember
Rare Hero
4-star rare heroes: 828 XP = 0.828 xp/ember
3-star rare heroes: 728 XP = 0.728 xp/ember
2-star rare heroes: 628 XP = 0.628 xp/ember
1-star rare heroes: 528 XP = 0.528 xp/ember
Epic Hero
4-star epic heroes: 1240 XP = 0.62 xp/ember
3-star epic heroes: 1140 XP = 0.57 xp/ember
2-star epic heroes: 1040 XP = 0.628 xp/ember
1-star epic heroes: 940 XP = 0.528 xp/ember
Making More Coins in Honorbound
Money makes the world go around, in Honorbound. You will mainly be stuck with coins when you are saving up for further research. We will go through some basic ideas on how to make more coins Honorbound.
Coin Vault
One of the most common ways for you to “lose” coins is when you have reached the coin cap. To avoid this, always make sure that you are up to date with your research from your resources. Never ever lose out on potential coins simply because your vault is too small.
Coin Scavenger
This research boot your coin rate when you complete dungeons. Always research on this skill as your top priority as you can generate enough coins to hit the cap much faster.
Dungeon Completion
You will earn coins when you complete each battle. In addition, you will win a “lump sum” of coins when you complete a dungeon. Always farm dungeons that you know that you can complete instead of dying and losing on the coin gain.
Banish Ritual
After you have unlocked the banish ritual from research. You can turn your heroes into coins. The best ones to be turned into coins are the rare and epic ranked. Consider to capture them with your commanders to further improve your coin making ability.
Common (Brown): Base 450 coins with 50 per additional star.
Uncommon (Silver): Base 600 coins with 100 per additional star.
Rare (Gold): Base 800 coins with 200 per additional star.
Epic (Purple): Base 2,000 coins with 500 per additional star.
Legendary (Orange): Base 5,000 coins with 1,000 per additional star.
Rogue Steal
Rogues have an ability to steal an item or coins from enemies during battle. You cannot steal from other players in PvP settings. Each of the normal monster can be stolen only once in the game. The rogues can help you with 50%~100% more coins per dungeon runs. They can be quite helpful especially during the beginning of the game. So have a rogue in your team to steal as much as possible.
Save Coins by Not Using Store
Grind the dungeons where you can complete them without using potions. This way you will conserve your coins. In addition, toward the middle of the game you want to have a cleric in your party. Having a cleric can heal you up so that you do not end up spending coins on potions.
Generating and Conserving Ember
Ember Baron and Ember Vault
Like coin vault, always make sure that you have enough research upgrade to avoid hitting the cap too early. You can never have too much ember so upgrade those. The rule of thumb is to keep the level capped at the leadership so that you will always have enough ember generated to upgrade your heroes.
Ritual Conservation
The biggest place where you will spend your ember is through hero sacrifice or fortification. To conserve your ember count while getting the most XP, always only fortify heroes using feeders with at least 2 stars.