[Hero Wars Guide]Weekly Report 2025.Week28/29

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  1. Report
  2. Main Updates and Game trends
  3. Guild DASHIMAKI-TAMAGO 2025.Week28

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Upcoming Events

* Announcements only
**Dates may be subject to change
?? …as the exact date has not been confirmed.

Event Calendar Format: 14 days

Event Calendar Format: July

July Events

Official Message

  • Dominion is about to shine next month and this time, we’ve got something special for you! 
  • Check the events calendar, mark your favorites, and get ready — July is packed and there’s even more to come!
  • Next month brings a new Hero, an epic Adventure, and of course, the long-awaited Summer Festival — stay tuned for updates and the exact dates of these epic events!

Magic Penetration Pattern Introduced

  • A new Magic Penetration pattern is now available in the Mysterious Island event.
  • While it’s not necessary for Orion-based teams, it can be effective against formations featuring Amira tanks or DPS duos like Lylia and Ishmael.
  • Note: This Pattern is currently available only in limited quantities and cannot be upgraded to red rank, making it unsuitable for Banner placement.

Sylva Champion Skin Now Available

  • The new Champion Skin for Sylva grants Elemental Armor stats.
  • At this time, it’s only obtainable through special bundles.
  • As it offers no gameplay advantage beyond cosmetics, it’s considered a low-priority item for most players.

Elemental Synergy Event Revamp

This month’s Elemental Synergy event has been updated with several changes:

  • Non-artifact items are now included in the reward pool.
  • However, rewards are still highly randomized. While a BLP (Bad Luck Protection) system is active, it only applies to reward tiers—meaning players may still mostly receive gold.
  • Further adjustments may be needed to better align rewards with player expectations.
  • This new format is expected to continue in future Elemental Synergy events.

Summer Festival Announcement

  • This year’s Summer Festival begins on July 24.
  • The mobile version will feature new skins for Folio and Phobos.

Lara Croft Returns (Mobile Version)

  • Two new paywalled skins will be introduced.
  • A web version revival is also planned for later this summer.

Video: Hero Wars Central

Lara Croft: New Skins

Official Community Manager FAQ

Titles are tailored to the content.

1. Lara Croft Event Confirmed for This Summer

  • Q. Btw, many youtubers have been saying that Lara Croft event will happen at the same time with the Hero Wars Alliance (13th – for 7 days).
    They said that this collaboration hero will definitely happen in Web/FB too because the contract will be together with HW Alliance.

    Can we please get confirmation for Hero Wars Dominion Era too? Because 13th is just a few days away.
    Please confirm if we will get Lara Croft event this Sunday (13th) at Web/FB.
    If yes, what kind of event is it?
    Because it cannot be a new hero event since we get Guus on 14th.
    Is it a Soul Atrium p2w ems spending for RNG soul stone?
    Is it a brawl event? or what kind?
  • A. At the moment, I don’t have exact dates or information about the format of Lara’s event. All I can say for now is that it will definitely take place after Guus’s adventure, *sometime* this summer.

2. Players Want Brawls Event Layout Reverted

  • Q. I really thought they’d actually fix the missing Brawl indicator in Strongford. 

    Really really sad when Nexters  is no longer living up to even my immensely low expectations of them !

    At first I didn’t notice the Ziri’s Brawls.  Then I went to try to figure out some good teams and then forgot to go back and missed the first day.  Almost missed a second day as well.
    How about fixing this for the sake of your CUSTOMERS?!??!
  • A. I’ve passed your feedback about the missing Brawls indicator to the developers. Unfortunately, it’s not possible to fix this on the fly during the current launch, as that spot on the plaza is currently occupied by the Guus pre-order info point. Most likely, such an overlap won’t happen again in the future.

3. Suggested Improvements to Relic System

  • Q. I said it after Lyrias event already and will say it again today that the new hero event design is really good and creates an experience, that is both fun and transparent – much unlike a lot of other new content (but lets not delve on that now). But there is one thing that still bothers me and that didnt get better from the old versions:

    You still want to wait until the end of the event to play it – when you know what resources you have available to make the right decisions to what levels you upgrade the relics. I dont think this the the intention of the design, but there is an easy solution you might consider for the next event:

    Make the effect of upgrading relic retroactive, i.e.:
    1. when you upgrade the 1st relic after you already spent energy on relics 2 and 3. Example: I upgraded Relic 2 to level 2 (for 10 energy). Afterwards i upgrade Relic 1 to level 2 as well and should now get 10×100 coins retroactively.
    2. Same applies for upgrading Relic 2 after already spinning the wheel a couple times. Example: i did 20 spins first, then upgrade Relic 2 to level 2. I should now get 20×100 coins back.

    This change would let players just start playing and not worrying about making wrong choices based on unavailable information.

    Thanks for considering it.
  • A. Thank you for your feedback! It means a lot to us and the team to hear that players enjoyed this event format. Your suggestions also sound reasonable. I’ll pass them on to the developers for consideration.

4. Skin Upgrade Quest Has Been Nerfed

  • Q. The amount of coins available from skin upgrades was serously nerfed by around 63k (new=45k; old=108k)
  • A. 😔

5. Totem Value Is Dropping While Prices Are Increasing — A Serious Issue

  • Q. The problem is not that F2P can’t get the totem. They shouldn’t in the first place. The problem is paid players can’t get the totem even with the ticket.

    The problem , like in the lyria event, the ticket is more expensive than the previous events (double).

    The problem is , like lyria event, the 500 skin stone chests and the 250 red artifact chest are gone , while the ticket price is double.

    The problem is the grand price which is the totem is losing value because it will become more common. But the ticket price is still double (and you still can’t get it only with the ticket).

    The problem is one of the most valuable things you get from the ticket, the mysterious island moves, are not as valuable anymore because all of the latest maps are terrible.

    All games have special events, which allow players to get things at lower price. Now the new hero event is not special. You can just get the season ticket.
  • A. So, what are your suggestions for rewards on the season map and in the season itself? What resources would you like to see there?

6. Developers Focusing Too Much on RNG Should Be Replaced

  • Q. I 100% approved of Hero Wars Casino Era.

    Take your devs off of Totem Fusion and League Arena and let them work on that standalone game instead.
    I think might even like to play it.
  • A. This is the case where I will NOT be passing your suggestion on to the developers. 😁

7. Lucky Coin Conversion System Under Review

  • Q. Can we keep the lucky coins in our inventory (and spend them during one of the next iterations of the Greedy Elemental Synergy to be able to fulfill the quest chain where you have to use lucky coins)? Or are they converted to something after the event ends?
  • A. Yes, for now, Lucky Coins will remain in your inventory until the next Lucky Road launch. HOWEVER, after the next Lucky Road event ends, a conversion system will be implemented

8. Player Frustration with Lucky Road

  • Q. As I expected, the Lucky Road is the road to destruction. It is theft on a grand scale. I am a proud member of the number one Guild on our server (212), and I am pretty sure that more the half of our 29 players will leave the game in the next 4 weeks. The idiocy with “Catalysts”, “chances”, “bad luck protection” and so called random chance on nice prizes (go back to school and start you math education from day one off) let us stop. We want to play a strategic game, with tactical twists, solo and as a group. In the last 12 months all that was, has disappeared for random mumbo jumbo. And you do not even know how a wheel of chance really need to work…
    I will miss my friends in the guild dearly, but it has no use to go on at this greedy website, calling itself a game.
  • A. Sorry to hear the mechanic didn’t appeal to you. Maybe you have a suggestion on how to make it better? What would make it more engaging for you? A different reward pool? What would you change?

9. Why Players Aren’t Buying Lucky Coin Bundles

  • Q. CMs you dont seem to care much about mid- and long-term players, probably because you earn less from them, BUT you also design your offers for this outcome, because
    – most of your bundle offers offer half useless stuff for mid- and long-term players.

    Lets say i had my elemental titans done but still wanted to gamble with “lucky coins” and “key to success” (i personally dont, but if). in such a situation its far less considerable to pay for your offers because
    – gambling coins (and other things in many special offers) are far more expensive when i cant use the bundled resources and
    – half the prices are completely useless resources, too.

    An easy workaround would be:
    – let us exchange anything for emeralds, “The most valuable resource in the world”, which are quite universally usable.
  • A. I’ve highlighted the key points of your feedback to the developers.

10. Concerns About Bundle Labeling and Transparency

  • Q. btw…. Here we go AGAIN… CMs would you please, kindly explain, how you guys at Nexter$ calculated this 86% discount when this is the first time we have this event and this bundle. Exactly what did you deduct that 86% from?
  • A. This offer window definitely needs a rework.

11. Required Coin Amounts for Conquest Castle Levels

  • Q. You increased the coins needed to upgrade 40+ castle levels in AoC hugely compared to previous event. And without any prior announcements. You promised us to announce such changes in events rewards and again you hugely downgraded the rewards on high levels. What is the excuse for it this time?

    And by hiding the coins required for the next higher levels they are selling things by completely hiding and changing the specs. Now upgrading from 42 to 43 costs 105k. It was about 75k for lvl50. While we can’t even see these numbers at the beginning and when we are buying the ticket. God knows what a huge number is awaiting us this time for the next levels.
    This is beyond unacceptable.
  • A. It was a bug. At certain levels, incorrect values were displayed for some players. This issue has been fixed and won’t occur in future launches.

12. Cheating Guilds in Asgard Raise Concerns

  • Q. Hello.
    I heard that Asgard cheating program was blocked last time.
    The guild that was using the cheating program disappeared.
    However, there are still guilds that use other cheating programs.
    As someone already mentioned, there is only one guild that I know that is still using the cheating program.

    Those who are interested in Asgard will know.
    Even if you attack manually, you need to have luck with critical hits.
    You need to be lucky!!
    But you can’t get that score every week.. every time.

    Even in the case of phantom raids, it is not the critical hit score of the Cornell team that we know.
    It is not a manual attack.
    If you look at the score of that guild,
    It is the score obtained by using the old cheating program to do hundreds of automatic battles and get the best score.

    Those who are interested in Asgard will surely know.

    Are you incapable of stopping such dishonest acts?
    How long will you let it go?
    And have you given them penalties for dishonest acts?
    (I clearly mentioned this before. There are penalties for dishonest acts.)

    If you lack the ability, then say so.
    Maybe another ability user will appear?
  • A. Hi. Fighting cheaters is a kind of ‘arms race’, as soon as one loophole is closed, malicious players try to find another.
    The developers continue working on improving detection systems and anti-cheat measures in competitive modes, and I hope appropriate actions will be taken.
    In the meantime, we strongly recommend reporting players and guilds you suspect of unfair activity to our support team.

13. Totem Changes May Violate EU Consumer Protection Laws

  • Q. Dear Nexters Global Team,

    I am writing to formally express my dissatisfaction with the recent change to the Totem Sphere exchange system on Hero Wars, specifically the removal of the option to exchange excess Totem Spheres for 200,000 Emeralds after collecting the full set of 30 Totem Fragments.

    This mechanic had been clearly established and was a key motivator for my financial decisions in the game. I have consistently purchased Season Passes and participated in New Hero Events specifically because their final rewards included Totem Spheres. The entire purpose of these purchases was to reach the 30-fragment goal and unlock the Emerald exchange feature. With 27 fragments collected, this change directly undermines the value of everything I’ve invested so far.

    I understand that one of the justifications provided for this change is that Totem Spheres will now become easier to obtain, including through free events. However, this does not solve the problem—it only worsens it. Making Spheres more accessible now simply devalues the significant investments made by long-term paying players like myself, who spent with the understanding that these items were rare and valuable.

    If accessibility is the goal, a more balanced and fair solution would have been to introduce two categories of Totem Spheres:

    – Premium Spheres, obtained exclusively through purchases like Golden Ticket in Seasons or Event Pass in new Hero Launches (with option to exchange for 200K emeralds when reached 30 totem fragments), and
    – Standard Spheres, available through free-to-play activities and free events.

    This would preserve the value of past purchases while expanding access for new or non-paying players. Instead, the chosen approach retroactively removes a core benefit that many players were intentionally working toward—an exchange that was never presented as temporary or subject to removal.

    Under EU consumer protection law, specifically the following directives:

    Directive 2005/29/EC on Unfair Commercial Practices:
    – Article 5 prohibits practices that materially distort the economic behavior of the average consumer.
    – Article 6 defines as misleading any practice that gives the consumer a false impression—even if technically correct—about key product characteristics, such as value or pricing models.

    Directive 2019/770 on Digital Content and Services:
    – Article 7 requires that digital content conform to the expectations set at the time of contract or purchase, including advertised features and rewards.
    – Article 8 only permits modifications to digital services if they do not negatively impact the consumer, unless the consumer is given the right to withdraw or is otherwise compensated.

    The removal of the Emerald exchange—without player consent, or compensatory measures—represents a clear deviation from what was advertised and expected at the time of purchase. It undermines the fairness and transparency that digital consumers are legally entitled to.

    I trust this issue will be seriously considered and that appropriate steps will be taken to address the imbalance this change has created.
  • A. Thank you for your engagement and detailed suggestions. They’ve been passed on to the developers.

14. How Catalyst Drops Work at the Elemental Altar

  • Q. It was previously stated in a community post that players with max evolution totems will be able to obtain catalysts as the grand prize in the Altar of the Elements. I have several questions regarding this:
    1. Will catalysts have the same drop rate and bad luck protection (blp) requirement as totems? (about 1 in 5333 and 300,000 emeralds for the last 12 totems)
    2. Currently, when obtaining a totem before blp is triggered, the bad luck protection requirement for the next fragment is raised by the number of additional emeralds required to trigger blp. E.g. if my current blp is 300,000 and I obtain a totem after spending 90,000, the blp for my next fragment will be 510,000. As of now, we can reset this blp by opening a totem sphere. This will not be possible for players with max evolution totems who obtain catalysts before blp since they obviously cannot obtain more totems. How do the developers plan to address this?
  • A. Hello

    > Will catalysts have the same drop rate and bad luck protection (blp) requirement as totems?
    Yes

    > How do the developers plan to address this?
    All previous familiar interactions remain unchanged, everything should work the same way as before. If any new information on this aspect comes up, I’ll let you know.

15. Suggestions for Improving Totem Fusion

  • Q. Its crazy. I woke up today and all i read is from ppl who quit. Never been that way. Today really feels like the end of HW
    One of the biggest guilds in the game – current top 10 CoW – has 10 open spots. What is this?
    I just sent Nexters a huge text via their Feedback form … not sure they read or consider anything. But i will share … Maybe someone here wants to read (its a lot tho):

    This is probably my last attempt to find an ear from designers and devs. I woke up today and was more and more shocked to read from all the big and dedicated players who decided too leave the game today with the end of CoW. It seems more than ever before, that the end of HW is near. And you cannot blame all these players, mates and friends who made this decision, because its totally understandable. It seems like a mix of 2 things: the fear to need to spend more and more money – after buying themselves up into the endgame with a lot of money, combined with less and less joy from the game itself, because its game modes becoming less and less fun (endless CoW draws, RNG lotteries in Asgard and ToE … and ofc the complete crapshow named AoC). I dont know if Nexters management will notice it in time and adjust the game to keep it alive. But there is quite a bit that would need to happen, in order to possibly and hopefully turn the leaving players around again. From my perspective (and it might not even be complete, because i am looking at it as an endgame player), this would have to change to maybe revive the game:

    1. Totem exchange for 200k needs to stay. I completely understand that 200k for a totem sphere is too much considering how much easier it is to get them lately (and thankfully btw!), also with the fair price tag in seasons – compared to even x4-5 Sales. But you have made this decision years ago and you have to stick to it to keep and, well, hopefully regain trust from all players who made a longterm strategic decision to funnel emeralds into totems – in order to use totem exchange as a longterm payout. Resource management and strategy is a main part of the game and thus you cannot change the rules that invalidate these decisions! Its also worth understanding that a player who gets 200k emeralds for 30-40 bucks from a season ticket every 3 months lets you earn more money than a player who quit the game …

    2. Totem Fusion has to be available for a reasonable cost and not look like the next big money sink, where you have to spend thousands (again) in order to be relevant. This is what alienated a lot of old players who already spent a lot of money and dont see the end of the tunnel. There is a few ways to do that:

    2a) Give out a good and set amount of catalysts for free and with fair effort. For example via prestige rewards, maybe a new daily quest, 1-2 events per month (not the type requiring 150k+ ems), mysterious island etc. Make any additional catalysts for ppl who want to push hard extremely expensive. This way you keep the playing field fairly even for most ppl. And those few who actually want to push ahead will have to pay big and still earn you a ton of money.

    2b) Scale the totem fusion skills  different to the regular totem powers. Currently, going from 5 star to absolute star adds 50%, power, making non absolute star totems nearly useless in endgame. Totem Fusion skill levels have to be the opposite, for example:
    Skill lvl 1: 30% power
    Skill lvl 2: 55% power
    Skill lvl 3: 75% power
    Skill lvl 4: 90% power
    Skill lvl 5: 100% power

    This reduces the need to push the skills and increase motivation to delve deeper into the new content and try out more variations (i.e. go for 2 skills on lvl 3 rather than just force one skill to lvl 5 to be relevant). Despite the decreasing power, completionists will still go for the max skill anyways.

    2c) Do not give out catalysts for any existing resources. This way everyone starts at the same level and you avoid huge power leaps on day 1. Which drives ppl away, just like titan lvl upgrade to 130 did within a day.

    Final note: i would prefer a fix cost per level, but the recent change to a BLP is actually acceptable. The BLP levels will be recognized as the de facto costs, just like it is for totem spheres at the altar. Which is widely accepted i guess.

    3. Current game modes have to be made fun and enjoyable again. And they need to feel like its worth dedicating your time into them. This applies to these game modes for various reasons:

    3a) Add more buildings to CoW (with buffs). It will reduce the amount of draws and not make it feel like a waste to spend a lot of preparation into tactics and strategies when at the end of the day you get just another draw. GMs and everyone else leading CoW are just burning out from it.

    3b) Add additional attacks to Asgard to not make it completely (crit) RNG dependent. There are so many game modes where i can buy additional attacks, why not here? Allow to buy an extra 5-10 attacks via emeralds. You gain money and i gain fun – trying out different teams, going again when i am unlucky etc. How about having Osh and Maestro up together every week? I wouldnt care if you reduce rewards for each … i am there to play the game!

    3c) ToE is getting too RNG dependent as well. You could for example buff  lords to add a new challenge and separate players by manual playing skills.

    3d) Rework AoC. Seriously! One of the reasons ppl burn out from the game is the 4 day long exhaustive AoC. Its terrible for GMs commanding 10-15 accounts simultaneously, which is necessary to compete on the top level – thanks to your designers decision to not allow ppl to sleep. Why not make it a 30min permanent mode with 3-4 players (commanding multiple teams) in a 1 month league structure, just like the new league arena. Doesnt need big rewards to be played – just to be fun. As a sidenote: if you for some absurd reasons evaluate AoC based on the money you earn from AoC tickets and think it reflect players acceptance: it does not. Players spend on the AoC ticket because its currently by far the best value for money. Not because AoC is fun. If you want to earn money with a different AoC setup (like above), then just add a ticket there as well. If rewards are good, ppl will spend …

    This is quite the list. But these are adjustments to not yet implemented features (Totem Fusion) and mostly things that can be changed with little dev effort (maybe AoC would require maybe medium effort). Its all doable. Just your decision how you want to go along: safe the game or just milk it a few more months until its officially dead. I will be watching for a bit longer … but i am not far from quitting myself right now.

    TLDR:
    Game is dying more than ever. Nexters needs to turn it around by
    1) keep 200k Totem exchange,
    2) Make Totem Fusion not a money sink but attainable on a good level to anyone and
    3) make current game modes fun and worth the time commitment (again): CoW, Asgard, ToE, AoC.
  • A. Hi! Your long message did not go unnoticed and reached the eyes it was addressed to.

16. Totem Fusion Combat Training

  • Q. It looks like Titan max testing includes only level 1 totem fusion skills. It would make more sense to include max level totem fusion skills – like its for patterns in hero max testing.
    Can you pls forward this to the devs. Thank you!
  • A. You will be able to try the totems’ skills in the battle training at your current level and at the maximum level.

17. Quality-of-Life Features Should Be a Higher Priority

  • Q. Nexters Team. May you focus on some small but very impactful features and fixes in the game? Lacking them is really annoying for almost everyone:

    * In Clash of World battle simulations, the patterns do not set on the defense team automatically.

    * Add this simulations button to the Guild War too.

    Please don’t reply that you will consider it without any timely manner. These are the things which you already developed most of its code. And they are very impactful.

    Thanks.
    From the remaining and still hopeful HW players.
  • A. My colleagues and I regularly highlight the request for these QoL features. I really hope the developers will find time to integrate them into the game.
    I agree, it would be VERY convenient.

18. Dedicated Arabic Language Chat Requested

  • Q. lets please have an arabic-chat. every week some people are asking for it.
  • A. We’ll consider this possibility, especially if we can find a bilingual moderator with the right language skills. By the way, if you have someone in mind or if anyone would like to volunteer, feel free to message us in the DrommBot, and we’ll review the application.

19. Payment Bug on Facebook Version of the Game

  • Hello, Guardians! We’re aware that some players are currently experiencing issues with Facebook purchases – specifically, resources not being delivered after payment. We understand how frustrating this can be and sincerely apologize for the inconvenience.
  • We’re actively working with the Facebook team to resolve this issue as quickly as possible. We’ll share an update as soon as it’s fully resolved. If you made a purchase and didn’t receive your in-game resources, please contact our Support team for assistance with a manual refund. Due to high support request volume at the moment, our response times may be longer than usual.
  • If you’ve encountered this issue, please avoid making additional Facebook purchases – repeated attempts will likely fail and require manual processing by our Support team.
  • Thank you for your patience and continued support!

Main Updates and Game trends

Addendum

Heroes’s Order Rank

Area of Conquest

Elemental Synergy

New

Lucky Road

Elemental Synergy Tasks and Rewards

Guardian of Balance

Brawl Shop (Guardian of Balance)

Ziri Tasks and Rewards

Goose Festival

School of Beak and Feather

Festival Shop (Guus)

Guus

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Guild DASHIMAKI-TAMAGO 2025.Week28

Guild War：Web31-Gold league, Place 1

Guild Raid：Place 55 / 14

CoW : Season 11 Temporary Place 9

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