Reasons for boosting your might

[reckoner]

This post is primarily aimed at everyone who is less than 120k might.

Members who keep their might low may be replaced at some point,

for reasons stated below.

Higher might gives you:

More quests on the quest board, and better quest rewards

You earn more HB's, shards, and books in each quest run.

(also gold and mana, but nobody cares about this).

At 120k might, you will start to get quests for Insane Dungeons,

which will give you cards for Hero Trials, Team Dungeons, or HBM.

Easier Hero Expeditions, with better payouts

The higher your might, the more heroes you can deploy at the

same time, and your heroes get a better HP bonus making them stronger.

Expedition rewards also pay off better, earning you more HB's and merits.

Better titles, with better daily rewards

Everyone should get to King (80k) ASAP, which gives 100 gems,

8.8k HB, and 120 shards every day.

Higher titles also give an HP and ATK boost for your heroes in the Arena.

More points in Guild Wars

The points you earn for each raid in GW is based on your might, the

defender's might, and the number of flames you earn (3 flames = 100%).

Boosting your might gives you more GW points, which earns more

points for the guild, which helps us to rank higher, which gets EVERYONE

more fames.

Players who consistently earn more GW points are more valuable to the

guild they belong to, and are less likely to be replaced. This is not only

true for our guild, but for any guild that aims to be competetive in GW.

Also, your GW point ranking in the guild determines your HB reward.

In case you are not aware, the cost for upgrading hero levels (with HB's),

skills (with shards), and artifacts (mertis) increases exponentially.

The bigger your heroes get, the more resources they need to keep growing.

This is especially true after hero evolution and artifacts were introduced.

It is far better to boost your might early and live off the increased resource

income forever, than to struggle to upgrade one hero at a time. If you keep

your might low, you will fall farther and farther behind everyone else, and

you will never catch up.

Examples of daily rewards:

https://www.reddit.com/r/CastleClash/comments/3s1hwe/boosting_might_a_look_at_the_benefits_and_how/

In short: more might -> more resources -> stronger heroes

The downsides of boosting your might

The biggest argument I've heard against boosting your might is that

people think raiding will get more difficult. This is absolutely 100%

NOT TRUE. There are easy raids at every might level. Most people

have an HBM base, which is easily raided with snipers. Many people

also leave just 1 hero on their base since they're boosting it. If you

can't kill 1 hero with your set of 6 (or 5) heroes, with troops, and with

magic spells, you should just quit cc.

How to boost your might...

1. Get 5 builders if you don't have them already.

Forget about rolling for heroes, forget about rolling for talents.

You will most likely get nothing of value anyway, whereas 5 builders

will provide a guaranteed, tangible benefit. The build times keep

increasing the higher level your buildings are, so having more

builders is really important. Getting a hero to 10-stars requires 5m

gold, so more builders will help you to upgrade all of your gold

vaults faster.

2. Open up all 70 slots in your Hero Altar.

Buy the Hero Slot card in warehouse every time you see it, until

your Altar is maxed.

3. Fill your Hero Altar

You should have 5 or 6 blue heroes, 5 or 6 green heroes, and the

rest being legends, leaving 1 slot open for claiming slime rewards

from quests.

Heroes account for more of your account's might than anything else!

Upgrade your duplicate legends, first to level 80, then 100, then 120.

Blue and Green heroes are useful as garrisons (for HBM and WG,

as well as GW bases). Among these should be an Ice Demon,

Frost Witch, and Shaman. Some or all of these are useful in Here

Be Demons (from Lost Realm), Team Dungeons (SM4), and Tier 4

Boss Battle.

If you have a choice among different legendary heroes, keep the

ones with higher movement speed, since those give you more

might than ones with slow movement speeds (keep Ninja's instead

of Paladin's, for example). Of course you should keep any valuable

or hard-to-get duplicate legends since they are useful when you

evolve your main heroes.

Temporarily spending resources to upgrade your duplicate heroes

will pay off in the long run.

4. Along with #3 above, inscribe all of your heroes, even your

duplicates. Get all of your duplicates to inscription 80, which

requires a 7-star hero. This will boost your might significantly.

5. In order to help with #4 above, you should always maximize the

levels of your blue crystal mines in Lost Realm.

You won't need many red crystals, so spend them all to upgrade

your crystal mines. The maximum level of your crystal mines is

the same as your Lost Realm level. For example, if you have

level 23 Lost Realm, your crystal mines can go up to level 23.

Keep upgrading your mines as your LR level increases.

It's also extremely important to do this since the cost of inscribing

a hero past 80 gets enormous as it gets closer to 100, and you

will eventually want to do this for your main heroes.

6. Keep any high-level talents, even bad ones, and apply them

to your duplicate heroes. You will rarely, if ever, use duplicate

legends, so increase your might by applying level 4 or 5 talents

to those dupes.

7. Upgrade the skill level of all of your duplicates to level 2.

The shard cost to do this is very low.

8. Upgrade all your troops and spells.

You will need level 5 Snowstorm for Insane Dungeons, and

possibly level 5 Meteor as well.

9. Upgrade your artifacts (with merits).

This adds a good amount of might, and these act like an extra

talent for your evolved heroes, making them even better.

It's possible I've forgotten to include some points, but the above

should be more than sufficient to convince anyone to boost their

might. Feel free to comment or ask questions.

[reckoner]

addition:

Another nice side-effect of boosting and inscribing your dupes,

is that they can hold crests. This can free up space in your

warehouse, so you won't have to buy more warehouse slots

until later. You don't need to make complete crest sets on

your dupes; you will probably never use them anyway.