Thursday — Hero Day: The Jackpot Day Maximize Thursday Hero Day by focusing upgrades on your main formation, saving Orange Hero Equipment promotions, prioritizing hero stars and skills, using the Prime Recruit trick, and timing your resources with the two Full Preparedness Hero Progression windows. Hero Day Jackpot & What to Save Thursday is Hero Day, and according to the State 775 guidance, this is where one of the biggest scoring opportunities of the entire week appears. The Jackpot: Orange Equipment Promoting Orange Hero Equipment is the jackpot. The supplied guidance states: One Orange Equipment promotion is worth more than 50 Orange Hero Fragments. If you have Orange Equipment ready to promote, don't promote it on another day. Hold it for Thursday. This is one of the most valuable actions you can prepare ahead of time. What to Save, Starting Now Hero Day preparation should happen all week, not just Thursday morning. Save Every Hero Fragment Keep Hero Fragments of every color. Don't spend them randomly throughout the week if you're preparing for Thursday. Save Exclusive Equipment Fragments Hold your Exclusive Equipment Fragments for Hero Day. Save Power Cores You'll need Power Cores for Orange Equipment promotion, so stockpile them instead of spending them as soon as you receive them. Save Orange Skill Books Hold your Orange Skill Books for Thursday and use them on heroes you're actually building. Save Enhancement Alloys Save your Enhancement Alloys for your Orange Equipment. Above All — Save Promotable Orange Equipment If an Orange Equipment piece is sitting ready to promote: LEAVE IT THERE. Don't give away Thursday's biggest scoring opportunity by promoting it early. Page 1 Rule SAVE ALL WEEK. SPEND THURSDAY. Fragments • Equipment Fragments • Power Cores • Skill Books • Alloys • Orange Equipment Equipment, Stars & Skills Now that you've saved your resources, Thursday is when you put them to work. Equipment: Level First, Then Promote Gear can move between heroes. That means you're building the equipment piece, not permanently building it for one particular hero. Orange Equipment Strategy 1. Use Enhancement Alloys only in Orange Equipment. 2. Take the Orange Equipment to Level 20. 3. Save the promotion for Thursday. Spread Your Power Cores When you promote Orange Equipment, don't immediately dump every Power Core into the same piece. The supplied guidance recommends spreading promotions because higher promotions become increasingly expensive without providing the same relative increase in power. Stars: Everyone to 4 Before Anyone to 5 Stars come from Hero Fragments. The supplied guidance describes the approximate fragment values as: Orange = highest value Purple ≈ 1/3 of Orange Blue ≈ 1/10 of Orange But there's an important progression breakpoint: 4 Stars unlocks your Hero's FOURTH SKILL. That's the major jump. According to the supplied guidance, moving from 4 Stars to 5 provides much less benefit than unlocking that fourth skill. The Strategy GET YOUR IMPORTANT HEROES TO 4 STARS BEFORE PUSHING ONE TO 5. Skills: Small Points, Real Power Orange Skill Books level your Hero Skills. Skill Books and Alloys don't provide many Alliance Duel points compared with something like an Orange Fragment. But the supplied guidance recommends using them Thursday anyway because they provide zero Alliance Duel scoring on the other days. Focus on Your Main Five Put your Skill Books into: THE FIVE HEROES IN YOUR FIRST FORMATION Don't spread valuable resources across heroes you don't actually field. Page 2 Rule LEVEL → PROMOTE → 4 STARS → SKILLS Build the five heroes you actually use. The Prime Recruit Trick Prime Recruit gives Thursday another way to squeeze more value from the same resources. Recruit on Thursday According to the supplied State 775 guidance, doing your Prime Recruits on Thursday allows you to score from two related actions. First — Recruit Perform your Prime Recruit on Hero Day. You receive scoring from the recruit action. Second — Spend the Fragments Your recruit gives you Hero Fragments. Instead of saving those newly obtained fragments for another day: Spend them Thursday. That gives you another scoring action from the resources the recruit just provided. The Prime Recruit Trick PULL → GET FRAGMENTS → SPEND FRAGMENTS The supplied guidance describes this as scoring twice from the same sequence: Once from recruiting. Again when spending the Hero Fragments you received. Where Should Those Fragments Go? Don't spend them simply because you have them. Keep Thursday's other major rule in mind: Focus on your first formation. Your most valuable resources should strengthen the five heroes you're actually using. If one of your main heroes still needs to reach the important 4-Star breakpoint, that should be considered before pushing another hero farther ahead. Page 3 Rule PULL THURSDAY. SPEND THURSDAY. And strengthen the heroes you actually field. Hero Progression Windows & Final Checklist You've saved everything. You've prepared your equipment. You've decided which heroes you're building. Now comes the final piece: WHEN TO SPEND IT. Your Two Hero Progression Windows According to the supplied State 775 guidance: Full Preparedness runs HERO PROGRESSION TWICE on Thursday. Whenever possible, you want your Thursday spending to occur during these windows. Find Your Own Times Open the: EVENT CALENDAR Then tap: LOCAL TIME The calendar switches to your time zone. There's no need to manually convert somebody else's event times. Find both Hero Progression blocks and plan your major Thursday spending around them. Why? When applicable actions overlap, your spending can contribute toward: Alliance Duel and Full Preparedness ONE ACTION → TWO REWARDS Thursday Final Checklist Save During the Week ✓ Hero Fragments of every color ✓ Exclusive Equipment Fragments ✓ Power Cores ✓ Orange Skill Books ✓ Enhancement Alloys ✓ Orange Equipment ready for promotion Prepare Before Thursday ✓ Know which five heroes are your first formation ✓ Get Orange Equipment to Level 20 ✓ Leave promotable Orange Equipment waiting ✓ Identify heroes that still need 4 Stars ✓ Hold Prime Recruits you intend to use Thursday On Thursday ✓ Open the Event Calendar ✓ Select Local Time ✓ Find both Hero Progression windows ✓ Promote saved Orange Equipment ✓ Use saved Hero Fragments ✓ Work toward 4 Stars on important heroes ✓ Use Orange Skill Books on your main formation ✓ Perform Prime Recruits ✓ Spend the fragments you receive ✓ Keep resources focused on your five main heroes The Thursday Rule ORANGE EQUIPMENT IS THE JACKPOT. SAVE ALL WEEK → BUILD YOUR MAIN FIVE → SPEND THURSDAY → USE THE HERO PROGRESSION WINDOWS.