UR Gear Upgrade
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There are 4 types of Legendary (Gold) weapons that each hero can wield. Each weapon can be upgraded to Mythic (Red) with enhanced bonuses.
 | Cannon (or railgun) – Damage and Critical Damage |
 | Chip – Damage and damage reduction |
 | Radar – Defense and energy damage reduction |
 | Armor – Hit Points and Physical Damage Reduction |
Each weapon is geared either for attack or defense, or a mix of both. Therefore, it is not easy to find your way around, and what to prioritize is that the improvement process is very costly, and you have to choose the right development axis to get the most out of your equipment.
The different gears can be classified into 3 categories
- Defensive gears
- Offensive or attack gears
- Hybrid gears
Team structure
First, you need to consider the team’s structure, between the front line and the back line. This structure applies to all your teams. From there, you’ll sort through the different roles and types of teams.
Example of an Airplane Team
Frontline
The front line is composed of the heroes who are at the front. These are defensive heroes who are better at absorbing the damage with maximised defense and health attributes to ensure the team’s longevity in combat.
Therefore, it is crucial for these heroes to develop as a priority weapon or equipment with defensive vocation such as
Backline
The backline is the heroes placed at the back. These are offensive or support heroes whose goal is to destroy enemies by inflicting maximum damage or by supporting the team.
Therefore, it is crucial to develop weapons or equipment with offensive vocation as a priority, such as the
Defensive gears
There are two types of equipment that can be used to improve your defense. However, they each have different specificities. These two types of equipment are vital for your team’s frontline but are also very important for the backline.
Radar
The Radar is an item that improves defense and energy damage reduction stats, as well as critical damage. It’s a must-have item against heroes who deal energy damage, such as Kimberly, Stetmann, DVA, and Tesla.
It’s an essential defensive item early in the game, as Kimberly, DVA, and Tesla are heroes available from the beginning or early in the game and are developed first by players.
Therefore, it’s one of the priority items to develop and upgrade.
Armor
Armor is an item that improves health and physical damage reduction stats, and also has a chance of critical damage. It’s an essential item against heroes who deal physical damage like Morrison, Swift, and Fiona.
It’s an essential defensive item later in the game. Heroes like Morrison, Swift, and Fiona arrive later in the game, along with their legendary weapons.
Therefore, it’s one of the items to be developed later.
Offensive or attack gears
Equipment that enhances your attack and significantly improves your heroes’ damage output. Essential for your backline, which is designed to deal significant damage.
Cannon or Railgun
The Cannon is the item that improves attack stats as well as critical hit chances. It’s a must-have item for all heroes who aim to deal high damage, like Kimberly, DVA, Tesla, Stetmann, Swift, Fiona, or Mason.
Therefore, it’s one of the items to prioritize developing and upgrading.
Hybrid gears
The equipment is used to improve both your attack and your defense. It’s important for your front line for defensive bonuses, but also for your back line to enhance your attack.
Chip
The chip is a hybrid item that both improves attack and reduces all types of damage, allowing you to improve your survivability against any type of hero. Therefore, it’s an important item for all the heroes on your team, whether defensive or offensive.
Therefore, it can be considered one of the priority items to develop and improve.
What are the counter bonuses on mythical weapons?
There are 3 types of heroes:
Each team is made up of different types of heroes who have a bonus or penalty against other types of teams. These are called “counter troops.” It’s a bit like a game of “rock, paper, scissors.”
You can view the bonuses or penalties in your garage via this menu.
- Tanks have 20% damage reduction against missiles
- Missiles have 20% damage reduction against aircraft
- Aircraft have 20% damage reduction against tanks
Therefore, the counter bonuses on Mystic weapons allow your heroes to compensate for the penalties against “counter troops.”
- The cannon has a 10% bonus against counters
- The chip has a 5% damage reduction bonus against counters
Gear development
There’s a lot of discussion going on in the Last War community about this, and there’s no single right way to approach it. However, some trends are emerging.
Different development strategies
There are no hard and fast rules on this topic, but there are some trends. Some would say radar is the priority, followed by cannon, while others would say the opposite. It all depends on your preference; whether you prioritize attack or find a balance between attack and survival in combat. Here are some examples of different strategies.
Offensive strategy
A strategy adapted to any situation, prioritizing damage with cannons on the backline, then equipping everyone with radar, then chipping everyone.
Item Priority
- Cannon
- Radar
- Chip
- Armor
Advantage: A balance between offense and defense that can be achieved quickly.
Disadvantage: You’ll have decent damage, but you won’t excel on offense.
Very offensive strategy
A very aggressive strategy where we prioritize damage. We’ll go for the cannons first on the backline, then the chips, and then reinforce the frontline.
Item Priority
- Cannon
- Chip
- Radar
- Armor
Advantage: You’ll deal a lot of damage regardless of the situation.
Disadvantage: You won’t have any defenses, and you risk heavy losses despite successful battles. It will be difficult to chain battles.
Defensive strategy
The strategy focuses on PvP (Player vs. Player), where you try to neutralize heroes like Kimberly, DVA, and Tesla by reducing their damage as much as possible. Therefore, everyone will prioritize the radar, then the cannon on the backline, and then the chip.
Item Priority
- Radar
- Cannon
- Chip
- Armor
Advantage: You’ll have great longevity against Energy-based heroes and good defense.
Disadvantage: Your damage will be low at first, and it will take time to find a balance.
Mistakes to avoid
Regardless of your chosen strategy, you must constantly seek a balance between your defensive frontline and your offensive backline.
Even if you decide to go offensive, you shouldn’t completely neglect your defense, and vice versa.
You must develop the essential items for each of your lines in a balanced and methodical manner without completely abandoning the others.
An example of developing weapons for the frontline and the backline.
Example of the Front Line Hero’s Equipment
Example of Backline Hero Equipment
Cost of improvements
Upgrades are very expensive and require resources such as gold, ore (blue triangles), ceramics, and legendary and mythical scrolls (the latter are very difficult to obtain).
Upgrading weapons becomes very difficult, especially if you are researching level 10 troops or hero technologies.
| Total Cost Gear “UR” | |||
| Lv | Coin | Ore | Ceramic |
| 1 to 40 | 29,0M | 194,0K | 0 |
| 1 * | 93,6M | 62,5K | 750 |
| 2 * | 121,6M | 81,0K | 975 |
| 3 * | 150,0M | 100,0K | 1200 |
| 4 * | 178,0M | 118,5K | 1425 |
| 5 * | 206,0M | 137,5K | 1650 |
| Total | 778,2M | 693,5K | 6000 |
| Legendary BPs : 50 | |||
| Mythic BPs : 10 | |||
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