Beginner Guide - Hero Role Part 3 (2015/09/23)

Today, we will cover the DPS classes with growing importance as you proceed in the game.

DPS squads are those which can deal high and consistent physical damage from hero's and minions' auto-attack. In higher PL, minion outputs become very significant while Casters' skills become less significant.

But don't worry too much about it. @PL30-50, you definitely should focus on training the Casters. Just have a few DPS heroes in your mind and start saving money to train their minions later on.

Range DPS
Range DPS stays behind tanks or melee DPS to perform normal attacks in range, dealing physical damage.

Musketeers are the best range DPS in v1.8 as they do bonus damage to all types of minions, despite they are short-ranged. Mages can be potent range DPS as mage minion has the 2nd highest damage among all minion types.

In v1.8.5, things might change as archers, arbalists and mounted archers are buffed. I am not going to include these changes here as I have yet to know the impact of the change. You can find more about the buff here.

Great and easily obtainable Range DPS @PL 30 - 50

1. 3* musketeers, great Range DPS and great Caster 
2. 3* polymage, good DPS and great Support

4* heroes recommendation @PL30 - 50

1. Sarky, best Range DPS + great Caster
2. Edward, great Range DPS in v1.8.5 (with Heavy Musketeers)
3. Belthor, stronger than 3* polymage

Terim might be a good range DPS but people don't like him too much due to his hero skill (summoning squishy mechanical dragons).

Melee DPS
The melee version of range DPS. They do way more damage than range DPS due to superb hero skills but die quicker as they have to be in frontline. If you cast morale skills on them, they can perform really well in general.

Pikemen are the classic melee DPS class with super high damage but very squishy. Never put them in the frontline but behind tanks (unless you are playing them as Tanks).

Infantries can be potent as melee DPS at higher PL (such as Octavius) while having a certain tanking ability. Cavalries can also be good in DPS but they are used as Tanks in higher PL.

Great and easily obtainable Melee DPS @PL 30 - 50

1. 3* Spartan, great Melee DPS due to hero skill enabling both hero and minions to do critical damage (2X)
2. 3* Old Cavalry, cavalry has good HP and damage as Melee DPS, Charger and Tank @PL30-50 as long as they don't run into pikemen

4* heroes recommendation @PL30 - 50

1. Ignatius, best Melee DPS from PL40 onwards. His skill enables his minions to deal bonus true damage (damage that ignores target's defense)
2. Leonidas, great Melee DPS, stronger than 3* Spartan
3. Achilles, great Melee DPS, strongest hero in Mist or versus dodge hero (to be released in v1.8.5)
4. Hyacinth, good Melee DPS, great Tank and Healer (one of the best)

You might not be able to get Octavius @PL30 - 50 so I don't include him here. He is very strong if you can babysit him with morale skills. If you want to know more about his skill, you can see the post here.