AFK Arena – Guide for Beginners: Signature Item Priorities

Signature Item Priorities Guide for New Players

Introduction

  • Every time you accumulate 300 red chests, go through this list and think about which hero would be best to SI30 for your account. You should aim to be conservative with your red chest usage.
  • NEVER level up a hero’s SI beyond 20 unless you can send it straight from 20 to 30.
  • Dragons don’t use red/white chests so they aren’t included in this guide.

Early Game SI30 Priorities

Get these heroes to SI30 as soon as you are able to:

  • Ivan, Liberta, any awakened hero.
  • Daemia, Alna, Lavatune. Get the SI30 as you build them. For Alna, wait until you have her 9f (9/9 mythic furniture).

Other Important Early SI30s

  • Albedo: Only start garrisoning her if you are able to SI30 her, preferably using dimensional emblems from the labyrinth store.
  • Naroko: Very strong all-around hero with a great SI30.
  • Tamrus: His SI30 is a very important part of his kit. Consider getting it especially if your Tamrus already has 9f (9/9 mythic furniture).
  • Jerome: His SI30 makes him one of the best supports in the game right now.
  • Emilia: Her SI30 is worth getting with dimensional emblems from the labyrinth store if you have excess tokens.
  • Rowan: Rowan works with SI30 and no other investment forever, making him a cheap and solid choice. He was the number one SI priority for a long time, and it can still be worth getting him fairly early on, especially if you care about campaign and your charm team needs an extra boost.
  • Silas: Solid support/buffer hero still used in most gamemodes. His SI30 gives him a passive team-wide buff.
  • Scarlet: Only get her SI30 if you already have her at 9f (9/9 mythic furniture). She is not one of the highest priority heroes anymore. Good in NC.
  • Thoran: A strong campaign/deficit-mode hero. He is not as important to build as he used to be, but still a versatile hero to have, if you care about pushing campaign as far as you can.
  • Lady Simona: Relatively new hero with high damage and energy control mechanics, making her potentially future-proof. Very versatile hero. Keep in mind that she also works quite well at just SI20.

SI30s that are not worth building early

A lot of the heroes in this list are good, but their SI30 is not an important part of their kit. It’s better to just keep them at SI20 for a very long time, at least until you have all the other priorities done. Even then, it might be better to save red chests for SI40s than to do these heroes.

  • Rem: One of the strongest carries in the game, but counter-intuitively, her SI30 is not an important part of her kit. She can stay at SI20.
  • Mulan: Her SI30 is not worth getting unless you have a surplus of dimensional emblems.
  • Atheus: Extremely strong hero that works just fine at 209e36. If you’re a kraken, you can send him straight from 20 to 40.
  • Oden: His SI30 is strong, but nowadays he is used as more of a utility/side-carry hero, and doesn’t need that extra power.
  • Raku: Once one of the highest SI30 priorities, he has been powercrept and is no longer used outside of some niche places.

SI40 priorities

As of the last update to this guide, silver chests are still extremely difficult to get. Don’t get SI40 on any hero unless you are absolutely sure it’s a good long-term investment. Generally speaking, you only want to do it on carries. Some potential options include Liberta, Awakened Lyca, Awakened Athalia or Awakened Belinda.

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