Which heroes are best/most effective to level?

[DazoftheShire]

I've not gotten to Dread Knight yet - dam he seems SO out of reach at the moment! But i'm trying to get as many as i can to 1K for damage. I've noticed after many ascensions that some of these Heroes are stupid expensive, and some are cheaper. Is there a known list of heroes that will give you better damage per gold, or am i going about this the wrong way altogether?

Please enlighten me! I appreciate it =)

[Intra]

Treebeast, Ivan the Drunken Brawler, Brittany the Beach Princess, and Masked Samurai are what you'll be leveling a lot. When you are fairly far away from getting the next level on those, you can buy some Wandering Fisherman and Frostleaf levels to make do until the next level of those four are within reach. Eventually you can afford Dread Knight, then this cycle repeats. Basically, your best ones to level are:

A. The ones with damage modifiers equal to or above 400% total in their skills
B. The ones you can afford to buy in sets of 25. (hold z when buying to buy in sets of 25 levels)

Eventually you stop leveling Frostleaf completely because he doesn't have good damage modifiers, so he stops being worth anything.

[DazoftheShire]

Thanks for the info! I've been relying on Frostleaf a lot, probably because i'm still at the beginning essentially. I'll take your advice into account. =)

[Intra]

Originally posted by Daz of the Shire:

Thanks for the info! I've been relying on Frostleaf a lot, probably because i'm still at the beginning essentially. I'll take your advice into account. =)

Once you get to level 1000 with the characters I mentioned, Frostleaf will really stop being worth the money you put into him.

(Characters get 10x damage at level 1000)

DO NOT I repeat, DO NOT buy character levels in single levels anymore. Only aim for the next level that multiplies damage, which is every 25.

(Until you can afford Dread Knight, that is!)

[DazoftheShire]

Yeah, i got Treebeast to 1K a few hours ago, and just now Ivan too and realised i was playing this all wrong. Which is why i posted. Again thanks for your input, it's much appreciated!

[DripleD]

First getting heros who don't have 3x100%+150% upgrades, are worthless for you. FOr example betty klicker.

Treebeast, Ivan Betty Clicker and masked samurai (+Forest Seer) are enough.
Masked Samurai has the best Damage/Gold Ratio but you should get the first three to ~1075/50/25 then samurai 1000 and then add +25 down that list.

When you got enough gold, get Forest Seer to 1000 and just level these five in x25 steps until you are earning U Gold.
Masked Samurai 1100 should be enough and then save for Dread.

[Nergal]

they're right the earlier stuff scales faster, i find that damage sources up to bobby are most worth leveling early (first few ascensions) after that the heros taper off (exponentially, if you haven't noticed, all exponential and logarithmic math)

[DazoftheShire]

Originally posted by DripleD:

First getting heros who don't have 3x100%+150% upgrades, are worthless for you. FOr example betty klicker.

Treebeast, Ivan Betty Clicker and masked samurai (+Forest Seer) are enough.
Masked Samurai has the best Damage/Gold Ratio but you should get the first three to ~1075/50/25 then samurai 1000 and then add +25 down that list.

When you got enough gold, get Forest Seer to 1000 and just level these five in x25 steps until you are earning U Gold.
Masked Samurai 1100 should be enough and then save for Dread.

You meant NOT Betty Clicker right? Just the ones that have the nice % bonuses?

[DazoftheShire]

Originally posted by NergalElite:

they're right the earlier stuff scales faster, i find that damage sources up to bobby are most worth leveling early (first few ascensions) after that the heros taper off (exponentially, if you haven't noticed, all exponential and logarithmic math)

Yes i've noticed that, which is why i felt hopeless 2 days ago =P But now i have 2 ancients and 100+ hero souls i'm beginning to see how it all works. It's a great game i have to say and i never thought i would about a "clicker"!

[Crusaderkvw]

i recommend you read the FAQ on the reddit clicker heroes page. it has already been said multiple times that DK is NOT for early game. you probally need to ascend some 20+ times before you can even think of getting him. meanwile, get frostleaf to 100 and as soon as you can do that with ease switch over to treebeast, samurai, ivan and brittany. level those heroes to 1000+, once you can do that with ease you can start thinking about Dk. remember to regild if you got lucky and got treebeast gilds. if not, then just leave the gilds where they are and keep on killing. as a last note: DK is not as powerfull as you think, he quickly loses his value. this same thing happens to frostleaf. http://www.reddit.com/r/ClickerHeroes/

[DazoftheShire]

Originally posted by destroyer of worlds:

i recommend you read the FAQ on the reddit clicker heroes page. it has already been said multiple times that DK is NOT for early game. you probally need to ascend some 20+ times before you can even think of getting him. meanwile, get frostleaf to 100 and as soon as you can do that with ease switch over to treebeast, samurai, ivan and brittany. level those heroes to 1000+, once you can do that with ease you can start thinking about Dk. remember to regild if you got lucky and got treebeast gilds. if not, then just leave the gilds where they are and keep on killing. as a last note: DK is not as powerfull as you think, he quickly loses his value. this same thing happens to frostleaf. http://www.reddit.com/r/ClickerHeroes/

OK thanks for the link - I was frustrated for like 2 days coz i couldn't get past 140 without using all my skills together, but now i can idle him. I am starting to get this game but i know i'll need to use some brains to continue. I'm on 180 and counting... (i know it goes to 4K+)

[liosalpha]

If i'm lucky i can buy the Dread(ed) Knight tomorrow morning. I wonder if he will be very effective. My under powered little army is doing 2.586e35 dmg on its own. He is adding a 3.572e35 to it. ^^'

A good tool to help pick what units to level up is this: http://vikestep.github.io/Clicker-Heroes-Calculator/ . Just level stuff up until you have all the upgrades (up too Frostleaf.)
It really depends on what stuff is doing (like ancients/gilds) to know what unit will be giving the most dmg per level up.
Mine seems to like Beastlord for he has 5 gilds on him and i have Argaiv boost the gilds 10%.
Same as Natalia who has 3 gilds.

[DazoftheShire]

Thanks for the tips - i was getting between 8-12 souls - i just ascended with 48 :D

[liosalpha]

Yea i hated those small runs but they are good for progress. Used to get 10/18
Now I'm doing a deep run ad the moment, got 61hs ready. Those help with getting gilds and achievements.

[richttaylor]

Put your save file in to this calculator and it will tell you what to level for optimizing your run.
http://jsfiddle.net/tvvvbhfg/embedded/result/

And.. before you have a ton of gilds you can use this tool and follow what it tells you to degild your heroes for 2 hero souls each and move them to the top ancients for beginning levels.
http://theriebel.de/gilding/

After following the initial degilding this page suggests you'll want all your gilds on only 1-2 heroes. By the point you want them all on one hero you should have enough souls to do it with the 80 souls each time option. Cost me around 8k souls when I was ready to move everything from brittany/ivan to samurai. Eventually they'll all go to one of the ring bearers but that's going to take a while..

[DazoftheShire]

Degilding? What is that? And - 8K souls?! Whaaaaa - i think you are WAY ahead of me sir ^_^ 8K souls, wtf - really?! I have 128 LOL