Hero Siege – Complete Beginner’s Guide 2023 (Season 18)

Welcome to my Hero Siege beginner’s guide for the year 2023! Whether you’re a seasoned adventurer or brand new to this action-packed game, this guide will provide you with all the essential information you need to navigate the treacherous world of Hero Siege and climb the leaderboards in Season 18.

Hero Siege Basics

If you’ve ever played a game from the Diablo series, Hero Siege’s 2D, top-down hack-and-slash gameplay will feel familiar. In Hero Siege, you’ll encounter menacing bosses with unique affixes and abilities, swarms of enemies, and a plethora of loot to power up your character.

Hero Selection

Your journey begins with hero selection. In the hero selection screen, you’ll see all available heroes, with open slots for creating new ones. Heroes with a yellow border have been created during the current season and will compete on the leaderboards by gaining wormhole levels.

Once you’ve created your character, you’ll enter the lobby, where you can access global chat, trade chat, and guild chat.

To start playing, click “create game.” Initially, you can only select “normal mode,” but you can unlock higher difficulties by progressing through the game. Adjusting the difficulty level affects enemy strength, rewards, and experience gain. Finding the right balance between difficulty and efficiency is key to leveling up quickly.

While creating a game, you can choose to set a password to restrict access or leave it open for other players to join freely.

River of Inoya (Tutorial Level)

Your journey kicks off in the River of Inoya, a tutorial level that provides you with a weapon and essential guidance on gameplay mechanics. Follow the linear path, read the signposts, and get acquainted with the game’s controls.

Hero Siege supports both mouse and keyboard and controller input, so choose the control scheme that suits you best. However, for tasks like trading and managing your mailbox, a mouse and keyboard setup can be more efficient.

Talents

As you level up, you’ll gain talent points. Each talent point can be spent on abilities, and you’ll receive one point per level. Hover over a talent to see details like damage output, active or passive nature, cooldown, and whether it benefits from strength, energy, or both. Talents become more potent as you progress down the talent tree.

You can reset your talents for free in the early levels, so don’t hesitate to reallocate points to abilities you use frequently.

Control Configuration

Efficient control configuration is essential for smooth gameplay. Each talent is bound to a specific key, allowing you to cast skills while moving. Holding down the talent key will automatically cast the skill when it’s off cooldown. For convenience, you can map all skills to a single button if it aligns with your playstyle.

Hero Stats

Your hero’s stats are crucial for success. Early on, focus on equipping gear that boosts your primary damage stat (strength or energy), enhances experience gain, increases speed for map traversal, or provides bonuses to all talents. As you progress, you’ll need to fine-tune your stats to optimize your character’s performance.

Dropped Items

As you defeat enemies, they’ll drop various items, including gear, gold, rubies, and health/mana orbs. Equipped items will automatically replace those in your inventory. Items come in different tiers, from common to satanic (Nightmare or Hell difficulty), each with varying power levels. Early on, prioritize acquiring rare gear to give your character a strong start.

To manage dropped item clutter, adjust your in-game settings to filter out undesired item drops. Additionally, you can filter the number of sockets on common items, which is useful for crafting Runewords.

Runewords (Strong Common Items)

Runewords are powerful items crafted from common base items with the right runes. You can access the Runewords menu from the main menu, where you’ll find a vast catalog of common items that can be significantly enhanced through crafting. To create a Runeword, you’ll need a specific common item type with the correct rune slots. Some Runewords are available from level 1, making them valuable early-game enhancements.

Quests

Throughout your adventure, you’ll encounter optional quests that can lead to valuable rewards. These quests might involve defeating bosses, collecting items, releasing prisoners, or destroying portals. To unlock quests in a new act, you must complete all quests in the previous act, typically culminating in a boss battle.

Your first quest will be to defeat Captain Bonesword before reaching the Town of Inoya. Speak to the Mayor and other NPCs for valuable information and quest instructions.

Mining

Mining is a skill in Hero Siege that allows you to gather ore. To collect ore successfully, wait for the outer circle to shrink inside the green circle and then press your action button (default is “F” on the keyboard). Ore is used for crafting items and relics at the blacksmith. Keep an eye out for Jade Ore, which is used for crafting upgrade tokens, re-roll tokens, ability tokens, or satanic dice.

Jewelcrafting (Act 4)

In Act 4, you’ll receive a quest from the jewel crafter to prospect ore at his station. Jewelcrafting enables you to socket your items with powerful gems, enhancing your hero’s abilities. You can only equip one of each unique gem, and they provide significant benefits, including elemental damage, stat boosts, and additional talents. Mining is essential for acquiring the ore needed for gem crafting.

Act Zones

As you progress through the game, you’ll explore different zones and encounter various challenges. The minimap provides valuable information about points of interest. To advance to the next act or dungeon level, you must find and unlock the waypoint in the current zone.

Monster levels increase as you progress, so avoid fighting enemies that are significantly above or below your hero’s level to ensure you gain experience consistently. Each zone is randomly generated but retains thematic elements like dungeons, unstable rifts, chaos towers, eternal battlefields, and small puzzles.

Dungeons

Dungeons are compact areas filled with enemies and often contain valuable loot and resources. The layout remains consistent each time you enter a unique dungeon, making them excellent sources of experience and items. Some dungeons may also house relic or ore deposits, so explore thoroughly to maximize your gains.

Unstable Rifts

Unstable Rifts transport you to various locations and are surrounded by chasms. Most commonly, you’ll face five waves of enemies in the Unstable Rifts Room, providing substantial experience points. These rifts offer an excellent opportunity for leveling up quickly. Be cautious and keep moving to survive the onslaught.

Rare Drops

Defeating enemies can yield rare gear drops, including Legendary and Mythic items. Your chances of obtaining these items increase as you progress to nightmare mode, with the potential for Satanic gear drops. While leveling, a good rule of thumb is to grind continuously until your inventory is full, then return to town to equip and sell items. When comparing gear, focus on the specific stats that benefit your character’s build rather than the generic power, health, and defense indicators.

Conclusion

This comprehensive guide covers the fundamentals of Hero Siege to help you embark on your epic journey. As you reach level 100 and enter the end game, remember that this is just the beginning of your adventure. To climb the leaderboards and become a formidable hero, you’ll need to focus on acquiring better gear, such as Angelic & Biofrost Keys, mastering Chaos Towers, efficient Hell Mode Level 5 farming, and collecting tier sets.

Luck plays a role in this loot-driven game, so stay persistent, and your character will become a true legend in Hero Siege’s ever-evolving world. Good luck, hero!