Hero Secrets – Dark World Edition

Dark Hero Secrets

Hero Secrets 2.0 (Dark World Edition)

As Eos forays into the Dark, we see that it is cold and unrecognizable. However, you don’t need to worry since this guide will help you forge your path into the Dark World. With this, you will see that the best secrets are kept in the Dark.  

*******TIP: This guide is pretty lengthy, so if you’re looking for a particular hero and level, use the handy tab at the top right of your screen.*******

This guide will help you get the most out of your hero levels and skill points. Remember that you can change up your skills at any time by resetting your Hero or Mastery Skills or simply removing points whenever you need them. You could go so far as to use a Skill Preset! 

 

 

 

Efficiency and Speed

These words are repeated many times throughout this guide, and many players are confused about what exactly they mean. Surely a 100% T4 Construction Cost Efficiency means that you wouldn’t need to use any RSS to build your 265 Hospital Ward? This is where it gets tricky since efficiency is just a way to say how efficient you are at using RSS—still, confused? Let’s work with Speed instead: Imagine driving at 25mph and driving 100% faster (50mph). Does that mean you get to your destination instantly? No, it just means you will arrive there in half the time. So efficiency and Speed work the same way! 

If that still doesn’t make any sense, here is a mathematical formula:

Original Cost/(1+Speed/Efficiency) = Your Cost 

Secret Dark World Initiation

When Dark World first comes to Eos, each hero has an extra skill in their Mastery Tree. These skills can be activated as long as you have that hero unlocked. So, if Dark World has just arrived or you are expecting it soon, this will allow you to get an extra boost right off the bat.

If you haven’t noticed already, many of the secrets held by our heroes have mostly been Mastery Skills. Since they are passive, the skill will apply no matter which hero you have active. While this might take the whole strategy out of the game, it makes life much easier! For example, remember when we would activate Ravus to collect from expansions to increase production? Mastery Skills mean that you won’t have to do that again. 

Noctis Lucis Caelum

Power of Kings

Level 301-400

• The jack of all trades, Noctis offers Dark T2 Cost Efficiencies for both construction and research. 
• Tier 6 Dark Troop Training Speed (300%).
• Unlock Premium Noctis Gift Tiles
  • This triggers the Noctis Gift Tiles to drop T2 Armaments instead of T1 only.

Level 401-500

• Charismatic Leader  – The following halls will give Recruitment Initiatives chests when you run with Noctis.
  • First, Charismatic Leader I – T10 and T11 Dark Core Troops
  • Also, Charismatic Leader II – T11 and T12 Dark Core Troops
    • Challenge of the Hexatheon, Resourceful Retreat, Tonberry Troubles, Mines of Darkness, Gilgamesh’s Trial, and Gems & Gears Galore.
• Dark T3 Construction Cost Efficiency and Research Dark T3 Cost Efficiency and Resplendent Speed. Note: There are no Dark T3 Construction Speed skills!

Pro-Life Tip: If you’re running out of RSS and your needs are under your empire capacity, keep Noctis as your active hero to increase your RSS buildings’ productivity. 

BONUS Tip: Use the 24 Hour (RSS BUILDING) Boost to increase your production by 25%. These can be found in the Guild Store and purchased with 50,000 Loyalty.

Prompto Argentum

Power of Kings

Remains one of the best hitters in the Guild Adventure Hall. Only topped by Kingsglaive Noctis and Iris.

Level 301-400

• Dark Troop March Speed – Gathering (100%), Attacking (50%), and Rallying (50%). As you know, every little bit of Speed helps!

Level 401-500

• Fishing – Unlocks and increases bonus rewards when catching (Dark Adventurer’s Research also unlocks and raises the same bonus rewards).

Luna Nox Fleuret

Power of Queens

Level 301-400

• She is well known for her double and quadruple Luna Gifts. She continues with her generosity in the Dark World with the Offering of the Hexatheon Unlock. A daily Hexatheon Chest gift that is quadrupled drops excellent loot.

Level 401-500

• Luna’s daily Hexatheon Chest gift gets additional rewards when you unlock Empowered Offering at the bottom of her Mastery Skills tree.

Ignis Scientia

Power of Kings

Level 301-400

• Ever so studious, Ignis boosts research speed for Dark Research (5,000%), Dark T2 Research, and Infused Dark Research (250% each).
• Dark Troop Capacity (3.2B), Dark Mercenary Capacity (1T), and Max Trap (100M).

Level 401-500

• Imbued Dark Troops Research Tomes Efficiency (20%). It looks like there’s not much for this release.

Aranea Highwind

Power of Queens

Level 201-300

• Combat gets a boost with increased Dark Rally Capacity (150M), Dark March Size (50M), and Dark Troop Capacity 5B).

Level 301-500

• There is not much to note besides the Dark Troop Cripple HP node is unlocked without any prerequisites when Aranea 500 drops. So enjoy your free stats boost!

Gladiolus Amicitia

Power of Kings

Level 301-400

• Note that all the skills are unlockable at any level. If you have any extra skill points, you can add them to any node at any time!
• Troop Supply increases March Size, Rally Capacity, and Troop Capacity of all Troop Supplies.

Level 401-500

• Increases T13 and T14 Mercenary Cost Efficiency and Training Speed with Gladiolus active. 
• Troop Supply (a different one than above) increases March Size, Rally Capacity, and Troop Capacity of all Troop Supplies.
• Dark T4 RSS Cost Efficiency for Construction (500%).

Ravus Nox Fleuret

Power of Challengers

Level 301-400

• Dark Empire Expansion Speed (250%) and Dark Expansion Blueprint Cost Efficiency (250%).
• Even more Dark March Size and Hospital Capacity increase.

Level 401-500

• Be sure to have Ravus active to increase Radiant Expansion Construction speed. But, he does also have Mastery Skills for Dark Expansion Speed and Dark Expansion Blueprint Cost Efficiency! In addition, there is also a skill for Basic Expansion production and cost reduction (5%).
• Hospital Capacity gets a boost and various Dark March Size increase in two different skill nodes.
• Get more drops from the Mines of Darkness Arena in the Guild Adventure Hall in Ravus’ Mastery Skills.

***BONUS**
Prisoner boosts have increased with the Prison building level, and using Ravus will increase the number of prisoners for which you can have boosts (they stack!).
***As of Citadel 420 release.***

Cindy Aurum

Power of Queens

Level 201-400

• You will find yourself stuck unless you can get an Instant Cindy Hero 350 token since there are no medals to be seen to get her from 201-300.
• Increases to Dark March Size, Elemental March Size, Rally Capacity, and Troop Capacity.
• Cindy still boosts Expansion building, but now they are Mastery Skills, so you can set it and forget it. Basic, Royal, Exalted, and Dark Empire Expansion Blueprint Cost Efficiency and Basic up to Dark Expansion Construction Speed.

Level 401-500

• Disputed Oasis Unlock – allows you to control a Disputed Oasis Fort in the Disputed Realm. It can only be captured with Cindy active!!
  • Check out the Disputed Realms Tips below!
• More Expansion skills, this time Radiant Speed and Attuned Blueprint Cost Efficiency. These skills are tiny, however.
• You’ll find more March Size and Rally Capacity increases with these levels.

Iris Amicitia

Power of Queens

Not only is Iris the second-best attacker in the Guild Adventure Hall, but she also heals guild members and refills their stamina.

Level 251-350

• Pre-Dark Troop Troop Crystal and Empire Intimidation. Any marches with Pre-Dark Troops will march significantly slower towards the Crystal or your Empire.
• Dark March Size increase and Hospital Capacity.

Level 351-500

• Nothing to note, except all her combat Mastery Skills cannot be used until she is leveled up to 450! 

King Noctis

Power of Kings

Our first Dark Hero, King Noctis, is the second version of the original Noctis. If you look through his skills trees, you will notice that they are very similar to Noctis.

Level 1-100

• All these skills are Hero Skills, so they need to have King Noctis active to apply.
• RSS Reduction, Production Speed, and Dark Food Upkeep.
• Dark Research Speed (the original kind before we knew of any Resplendent, Luminous, etc.)
• Reduction for Dark Troop Training.

Level 101-250

• More Dark RSS Production Speed and Food Upkeep Reductions in the Hero Skills tree.

Level 251-400

• Increase the number of Astrals you can send in marches by 1. This is at the very bottom of the Mastery Skill Tree.

Ardyn

Power of Challengers

Level 1-100

• Increase March Size with Ardyn active.

Level 101-400

• I guess these levels jump like crazy to catch him up with other heroes.
• More March Size increases in the Hero Tree only apply when Ardyn is active

Level 401-500

• Finally, the March Size increase is in the Mastery Tree!
• A skill node significantly increases the Order of Heroes Verstael Boost, so add Verstael to any Order and make sure this skill is unlocked and points applied.

King Regis

Power of Kings

Level 1-100

• Neutral City Lucky Loot nodes increase the drops from PvE empires. This skill doesn’t work on PvE that drops tokens for the Moogle Market.
• Extreme Combat Massacre skills remain relevant for a long time as they reduce your opponent’s combat stats by a certain percentage. Although the exact calculations are unclear, the Massacre boosts are pretty lovely when you add them all up.
• Even more Dark March Size and Rally Capacity increases

Level 101-400

• Just like Cindy, you won’t be able to find the Heroic and Regal Medals you need to get from 101-300, so you’ll need to get an Instant King Regis 350 token to get past this hurdle.
• More Lucky Loot from PvE cities.
• Even more combat Massacre bonuses!
• March Size increases in this part of the tree, too.

Gentiana

Power of Queens

• Dark March Size and Dark Troop Capacity.
• An INSANE troop train queue boosted in the billions of percent. I’m pretty sure this will be a virtually unlimited Troop Train Queue that is only restricted by your RSS on hand.
• A few Guild Adventure Hall Limit Break skills (Enchantments in the Arcanaeum).

Levels 201-400

• Hexatheon’s Persistent Favor – Unlock this skill, and you will get the new Flaming Energy Reagents and Bottled Petal Reagents from Luna’s daily Hexatheon gift chest.
• Dark Monster Troop March/Rally – Increases your Dark Monster Troop March Size and Rally Capacity.
  • Gentiana also unlocks three new Limit Breaks:
• Astral Attunement – Royal Dark Astral Attack and Armor.
• Monster Fervour – Royal Dark Monster Attack/HP/Armor.
• Crystal Focus – Royal Dark Crystal Attack/HP/Armor.

• ***As of the writing of this guide, the tiles do NOT drop a worthwhile amount of Reagents, so don’t waste time and chests to collect them until this has changed.*** This was fixed! Now tiles are collected quicker and are generously filled with many Enchantment materials.

Veteran Prompto

Power of Veterans

Level 1-100

• Increase to Dark March Speed and Rally March Speed (100%).
• March Size and Reinforcement Size increase.

Level 101-200

• Same as 1-100!

Levels 201-400

• • As of his level 400 release, he has become the biggest hitter in the Guild Adventure Hall! His base attack of 4500 combined with the most Physical Damage Bonus of any hero makes him an absolute beast.
• Reagent Repository skill unlocks new tiles spawned on the Realm Map. You can find the Spawn Gift Tile: Reagent Repository in Luna’s Hexatheon Gift daily. Unfortunately, *the drops from the Hexatheon chests are random, and you might need to open more than one to get them. 

• • ***These Reagents can be found in the Hexatheon Chests as well as from unique Reagent Repository tiles when you unlock the special skill in Veteran Prompto’s Mastery tree. However, the tiles aren’t as lucrative as they should be at the moment.*** Now you can get plenty of Enchantment materials in the loot tiles!
• Dark Elemental March & Rally increase your Dark Elemental March Size and Rally Capacity.
• Now you can unlock and use up to three brand new Limit Breaks:
  • Mount Attunement – Royal Dark Mount Attack
  • Elemental Fury – Royal Dark Elemental Attack/HP/Armor w/ hero.
  • Fort Decimation – Royal Dark Fort Attack/HP/Armor

• • ***These all use the new Flaming Energy Reagents, which can be found in Luna’s Hexatheon daily gifts when you unlock Gentiana’s Hexatheon’s Persistent Favor skill.***

Veteran Gladio

Power of Veterans

Level 1-100

• Dark T3 RSS Construction Cost Efficiency (25%).
• Unlocks more rewards in the Offering of the Hexatheon – T3 RSS (Luna’s daily gift).

Level 101-200

• Dark T4 RSS Construction Cost Efficiency (500%).
• More T13 Merc Cost Efficiency (75%) and T14 Merc Cost Efficiency (75%).
• T13 Merc Training Speed (1,000%) and T14 Merc Training Speed (1,000%).
• While Veteran Gladio is active, you can also get Dark Warrior, Dark Mage, and Dark Cavalry training time reduction (5%).

Levels 201-400

• Dark Core Troop March/Rally increases March Size by 100B and Rally Capacity by 500B.

• Now you can enchant your Body Armor with Veteran Gladio’s Limit Break. Veteran’s Resolution. 
  • Royal Dark Astral Attack
  • Royal Dark Astral Armor Piercing
  • Royal Dark Astral Attack Resistance
  • Royal Dark Astral Armor
    Uses Essence of Preternatural Resolve

Veteran Ignis

Power of Veterans

Level 1-100

• Dark T3 Cost Efficiency for Dark Advanced Mercenaries (75%) and Battle Marks Research (75%) ONLY.
• Resplendent  Research Speed (100%) and Infused Dark Research Speed (150%).

Level 101-200

• In Veteran Ignis’ Hero Tree, a skill increases Ignis’ Order of Heroes bonuses. This ONLY applies if Ignis is in an Order (it doesn’t matter) and if Veteran Ignis is your active hero.
• Dark T4 RSS Cost Efficiency for ALL Research (75%).
• Luminous Research Speed (150%).

Levels 201-400

• Dark Merc Troop March/Rally increases Mercenary March Size by 100B and Rally Capacity by 500B.
• Don’t forget to enchant your Footwear with Veteran Ignis’ Limit Break Veteran’s Reflex.
  • Royal Dark Core Troop Attack
  • Royal Dark Core Troop HP
  • Royal Dark Core Troop Armor
  • Royal Dark Core Troop Attack Resistance
  • Royal Dark Core Troop Cripple HP
  • Royal Dark Core Troop Armor Piercing
    Uses Essence of Preternatural Awareness
    

Umbra

Power of the Wild

Level 1-100

• Increases to Dark Gathering March Speed (100%), Attacking March Speed (50%), and Rallying March Speed (50%).
• These levels make Mirror Heroes relevant again by upgrading their boosts through Umbra’s Mastery Skills.

Level 101-200

• Even more increases to Gathering March Speed (150%), Attacking March Speed (100%) and Rallying March Speed (100%). 

Levels 201-400

• Not much for these levels, but there is an increase to Dark Elemental March Size and Rally Capacity in the tune of 300B and 1.5T, respectively.

Pryna

Power of the Wild

Level 1-100

• Unlocks these special boosts, which activate under particular circumstances. They can last up to 180 seconds, depending on skill level.
  • Loyal Defender – Activates when you lose a battle defending your empire.
  • Blitz Drive – Activates whenever you take hostile action against another player (scouting, attacking, or even reinforcing your guildmates). NOTE: You will not be able to activate an empire barrier during the boost! However, you can remove points from this skill if it is a problem.
  • Crown Assault – Activates whenever you take hostile action against the Crystal.

Levels 201-400

• Blitz Drive, Loyal Defender, and Crown Assault make a comeback to boost your empire while engaging in different types of combat.
  • Royal Combat research and previous Mastery Skills will increase the timer for these boosts!
• Dark Core March Size and Rally Capacity increase by 150B and 750B, respectively.

Gilgamesh

Power of Challengers

Level 1-100

• Adds additional boosts to the Blitz Drive boost provided by Pryna. These boosts are for Capitals, Disputed Realms, and Vaults. See Pryna’s secrets to find out more information.

Levels 201-400

• Nothing of note with this release.

Cor Leonis

Power of Challengers

Level 1-100

• Increases Rally Capacity with the last skill, Blade of the Immortal.

Levels 201-400

• Increases the boosts provided by Kingsglaive Ignis in the Order of Heroes. This is a Hero Skill, so Cor must be active to get this boost!
• Increases Dark Core and Dark Mercenary Rally Capacities up to 480B each.

Glauca

Power of Challengers 

Level 1-100

• No actual items of note, but he has a lot of enemy debuffs in his Mastery Skills that should be useful after he is released.

Level 101-200

• Increases to Dark March Size and Rally Capacity and Dark Mercenary March Size and Rally Capacity in Glauca’s Mastery Skills.
• This is the second time that two heroes were increased in level simultaneously, the first time being Gladiolus and Veteran Gladio. In addition, glauca and Nyx got level 200 released, and you can check out Nyx’s Secrets below.

Levels 201-400

• Has Mirror Hero: Glauca skills in both of his Skill trees.
• Increases Dark Core Troop and Dark Mercenary Troop March Size and Rally Capacity.

Nyx

Level 1-100

• Increases boost provided by Luna, King Regis, and Glauca when placed in any Order in the Order of Heroes. However, these boosts will only apply when Nyx is your active hero.
• Dark Troop March Size and Rally Capacity increase in the Mastery Skills tree, so these are passive and apply with any hero.

Level 101-200

• Increases to Dark March Size and Rally Capacity and Monster Troop March Size and Monster Troop Rally Capacity are found in the Mastery Skills.
• This is the second time that two heroes have been increased in levels simultaneously. The first was Gladiolus and Veteran Gladio. This time Glauca also leveled up to 200 with Nyx.
  • They have some similar and contrasting skills. You can check (LINK: Glauca’s Secrets) above.

Levels 201-400

• Boosts Kingsglaive Gladio, Kingsglaive Ignis, and Cor while they are in the Order of Heroes. Only applies while Nyx is your active hero.
• Increases both Dark Core Troop and Dark Monster Troop March Size and Rally Capacity. 

Verstael

Level 1-100

• Significant increases to Max MP and MP Regeneration when released, but they only apply to Verstael.
• Adds Daemon Cores in the Offering of the Hexatheon Chests provided by Luna’s Mastery Skill. Daemon Cores are what you will use to craft the Magitek Chests shown below.
• Unlocks 12 Magitek Recipes that you can use to craft various Magitek Chests. These chests will help many people catch up and get more materials to train troops.
  • Masterwork Magitek Gear Material – materials to craft and upgrade the Masterwork Magitek Gear Set.
  • Dark Magitek Infantry Troop – Drops Dark Magitek Infantry troops (not helpful, so don’t worry about this if you are at this point).
  • Kings of Lucis – Empowerment Sigils for Kings of Lucis.
  • Mount – Signets for your Mounts, plus materials for Power of Mounts.
  • Troops – Troop training resources and troops, including Command Center Chests, Chaotic Essence, Food, and Armaments.
  • Blueprints – Blueprints for buildings and expansions, even the Auxiliary buildings!
  • Research – Materials useful for research like RSS, Speedups, gemstones, and the Tomes you need for uncompleted research.

    • WARNING

      • Completing the last node in the Empowered Mirror Hero Research tree will completely stop the Empowered Mirror Hero tomes from dropping from these chests, even if all the other nodes are not complete. Ask me how I know…
  • Gear – Materials needed to craft and upgrade many gear sets, including Nyx, Dragon Knight’s, Gilgamesh, Glauca, and Monster Stalker’s.
  • Gems – Lots of different gems! New Hero gems, Dungeoneer’s, Halloween, Behemoth, and MORE!
  • Hero – One of my favorites, these chests drop Medals, Hero Exp, MP, AP, and Mastery Points, plus materials needed for Powers of Kings, Queens, Veterans, and Challengers.
  • Astral – These chests are Astral Sigils and materials for Power of Astrals, unlocks, and upgrades.
  • RSS – Resources, gemstones, and speedups galore!

Please note that these chests drop valuable items when Verstael is unlocked. Additionally, these chests usually vary based on your level and needs. They are also updated when Kingsglaive Noctis is released, so check out his secrets to find out more…

Aldercapt

Level 1-100

• Nothing to note so far…

Level 101-200

• Again, nothing special for Aldercapt.

Crowe

Level 1-100

• Unlocks the ability to attack and capture Fort Crowe in the Disputed Realm. You can only use this skill if Crowe is your active hero, so when the Fort is safely in your hands, you can change your hero.
  • Check out the Disputed Realms Tips below!

Level 101-200

• You can find Cost Efficiency and Training Speed for Tier 18 Dark Mage and Dark Guardians in her Hero Skills. Of course, this means she must be your active hero for these to apply!

Kingsglaive Noctis

Level 1-100

• Introduces a new type of combat stat: Royal Dark Troops. This new stat is an effort to decrease the vast numbers we currently use for combat stats. For example, a 1% Royal Dark Troop stat equals a 1T% Dark Troop stat. 
  • Combat debuffs and multipliers for Dark Troop Stats will not apply to these new, reduced numbers.
• Ruthless Monsters is a new type of monster invading Eos, and Kingsglaive Noctis is the first to attack them.
  • Future hero releases and new levels for current heroes will also add this ability to their Hero Skills.
• Remember the Magitek Chests from Verstael? They get an upgrade with Kingsglaive Noctis’ new skills! All but the Dark Magitek Infantry and the Masterwork Magitek Gear Chest, but there is a NEW recipe unlocked: 
  • Magitek Dark Monster Slayer Gear Chest – these chests drop you need to craft the newest Dark Monster Slayer Gear.

Kingsglaive Luna

Level 1-100

• Unlocks the ability to attack and capture Fort Kingsglaive Luna in the Disputed Realm. So make sure you have Kingsglaive Luna ready to be activated when you want to grab one of her Forts! Max of 3 unlocks in her Hero Skills tree. 
  • Check out the Disputed Realms Tips below!
• Increases your Injured Dark Troop Hospital Capacity by up to 3T. This is a Mastery skill, so it is persistent and applies no matter which hero you have active.

Kingsglaive Prompto 

Level 1-100

• Upon the release of Kingsglaive Prompto, he becomes the best hero to use in the Guild Adventure Hall. So move over, Kingsglaive Noctis and Iris. There’s a new slayer in town!
• Unlocks the ability to capture three Kingsglaive Prompto Forts in the Disputed Realm.
  • Check out the Disputed Realm tips below.
• There is a Mastery Skill for T16 Dark Troop Cost Efficiency and Training Speed up to 100% each!

Kingsglaive Ignis

Level 1-100

• Unlocks the ability to capture three Kingsglaive Ignis Forts in the Disputed Realm. So be sure to have Kingsglaive Ignis active when you send your march.
  • More Disputed Realms tips are below. Check them out!
• Research efficiencies are found in Mastery Skills.
  • Luminous Speed and T4 Cost Efficiency up to 100% each.
  • Opulent Speed and T5 Cost Efficiency up to 100% each.

Kingsglaive Gladio

Level 1-100

• Unlocks the ability to attack and capture Fort Kingsglaive Gladio.
  • This is the first time you’ll see this skill in the Mastery Skills tree! Since it’s a passive ability, you do NOT have to have Kingsglaive Gladio as your active hero to capture this Fort.
  • Check out more tips below for the Disputed Realms events.

Libertus Ostium

Levels 1-200

• The first hero to be released with 200 levels at the start! 
  • Technically, Iris was released STARTING at 200 but only had 50 levels that you would level up. 
• Unlock Fort Libertus, found in his Mastery Skills Tree!
  • Check out more tips below for the Disputed Realms events.
• Increases Dark March Size and Dark Rally Capacity in the Mastery Tree with a separate node for Dark Mercenary March Size and Rally Capacity.
• There is also a new Enchantment Limit Break: For Galahd, which enchants a helmet with boosts for The Tall. Lasts for up to 3 hours. Uses Galahd Glass to enchant.

Titus

Levels 1-200

• Titus takes the lead when attacking in the Guild Adventure Hall with his 5000 base attack and additional 9M% Physical Damage Bonus in his Hero Skills. He even has a chance for an extra 1000 base attack.
• Fort Titus unlocks available in his Mastery Skills. 
  • Check out more tips below for the Disputed Realms events.
• Dark March & Rally increase March Size by 400B and Rally Capacity by 1.2T.
• Dark Monster March & Rally increase Monster Troop March Size by 2B and Rally Capacity by 6B.

Loqi

Levels 1-200

• One Fort Loqi unlock is available with his Mastery skills. This goes along with the new Forts format. 
  • Forts are now located in home realms, and this skill also increases Fort Combat stats. 
• Dark March Size and Dark Rally Capacity increased by 100B and 500B, respectively.
• Also, it increases Dark Elemental Dark March Size and Rally Capacity by 100B and 500B, respectively.

Clarus Amicitia

Levels 1-200

• Unlock the ability to capture a Clarus Fort, along with other Fort boosts. 
• Increase Dark Mercenary March and Rally Size (max 100B and 300B, respectively)

Snow Aranea

Levels 1-200

• The only hero who doesn’t have an accompanying Mirror Hero. 
• Unlocks the ability to capture a Snow Aranea Fort.
• Check out the tips to Forts below!
• Increases Dark Elemental March Size and Rally Capacity.

Tips for the Disputed Realms

Since several Forts require certain heroes to be active to capture them, you will want to ensure you have all the relevant heroes ready to go! 

• Remove the heroes for each Fort from the Order of Heroes, so it won’t take you as much time to switch between them.
  • Cindy, Crowe, and Kingsglaive Luna are the current heroes with their Forts.
• Dress them in the appropriate attack gear, using that hero to capture or hold the Fort.
• You don’t have to use a special hero to defeat your enemy and kick them out, so you can use the current attack hero you prefer. Then, you will need to switch to the hero needed to take hold of the Fort.
• Need an extra march or two? Add a hero in the Order of Kings slot for an additional march. Also, you can use Noctis as your active hero for the additional march in his Hero Skills. Just be sure to have points applied to that skill.
• Put your best in the Forts that you want to keep. However, remember that Fort Oasis blueprints are hard to come by…
• “Capture early and pray for the best.”
  -Ron Jeremy

Forts Tips and Tricks

The Forts event has significantly changed since it was first released. They are no longer held in a special Neutral Realm but are instead placed in our home realms. 

• Since Fort Skills are now located in the Mastery Tree, you don’t have to worry about which hero you have active to capture and hold a Fort.
• Realms will go into protection for a short period while Forts are spawned throughout the realms. 
• Sometimes, Luna is generous enough to gift players a Permanent Realm Port so you can realm hop to find the best place to babysit a Fort.

• • To get back to your home realm, you will need to use an additional Permanent Realm Port!

• • These Luna Gifts are NOT guaranteed, so don’t hold this article as proof that you should get them!

• New Forts are usually released alongside a new Hero and you will need to unlock the Fort Mastery Skill to capture one of those new Forts.
• Kingsglaive Champion Forts are a free-for-all, and anyone can grab them no matter which heroes they have. 
• Check out the newest guide on Forts and get the latest information about what to expect in Hold the Fort!
• Last but not least, the best tip of all:

“Capture early and pray for the best.”
-Ron Jeremy

What Are Majestic Forts?

• Majestic Forts: These are special, more powerful Forts that you can only capture if you have the prerequisite number of smaller Forts held. 

• Majestic Forts are more rare and valuable than the other types of Forts, so expect a battle if you plan on trying to grab one!
• If you hold a Majestic Fort and lose any of the other required Forts, the Majestic will remain in your control. However, if you lose the Majestic Fort, you will need to recapture the other Forts to reclaim the Majestic!

Power of:

Just like Mastery Skills, the Power Of skills are persistent and will apply no matter which hero you have active. Some of these skills are still beneficial even if the combat boosts are no longer relevant. March Size, Guild Adventure Hall boosts, Enchantments and increased drops in the Hexatheon chests are several benefits to these skill trees.

Kings 

• Dark March Size, Dark Rally Capacity, Dark Reinforcement March Size, and Dark Training Queue increase.
• Noctis: Dark T6 Troop Training Speed and Dark T2 Construction and Research Cost Efficiency and T3 Construction Cost Efficiency. Just to be a little extra, he also has more March Size boosts.
• King Noctis: Increases Hospital Capacity, Merc March Size, and then decreases Hospital healing time.
• Gladio: More Dark Troop March Size increases.
• Ignis: Dark Elemental March Size increase (did you expect anything else?)
• Prompto: Dark Mercenary March Size increase.

Queens

• Updates to the Power of Queens’ Mirror Hero stats for each Power of Queens upgrade level.
• March Size increases in each Queen’s tree, plus a significant rise in Dark Troop Capacity (9T each Queen, which is substantial at this release).
• Update to the Offering of the Hexatheon chest drops with Power of Queens level 60’s release.

Veterans

• Each hero has their own March Size increase type. Veteran Prompto: Dark Elemental, Veteran Gladio: Dark March Size/Rally, and Veteran Ignis: Dark Mercenary.

Challengers

• If you wondered how other people are hitting harder than you in the Guild Adventure Hall, look at increasing these heroes’ Power of Challengers Dark Dungeon skill. 
• Updates to the Power of Challengers Mirror Heroes boosts.

The Wild

• There are even more Dark Dungeon bonuses here, so get your Guild Adventure Hall attack and kill those monsters!
• Unlocks even more Limit Breaks that you can activate in the Arcanaeum. Each hero has tIn addition, each Enchantments to unlock.
• Updates to Umbra and Pryna Mirror heroes. Why not Carbuncle? Maybe MP Regeneration isn’t good enough for us…

Most of these skills are combat-related, but they are pretty significant when released. So upgrade these ASAP to get the most use out of them. Although, if you don’t, you can use the Magitek Chests to upgrade them to be ready for the next release!

More Secrets to Come

As each hero gets new levels, we uncover more skeletons in their closet. But, these aren’t the scary ones and only serve to help us along our journey. This guide will be periodically updated to reflect new tips, so keep it bookmarked! You never know when you will be a hero when someone asks for help on getting a specific type of reduction or march size increase!

What Secrets Do You Know?

If I missed anything here that you believe should be added, by all means, add me on Line (tylianna) or Discord (Tylianna#9474) and let me know! Our objective is to help players of all types, and I would love to hear your feedback.

What to Read Next

I have an original Hero Secrets guide that has many tips from before the Dark World dropped. Many of them are still relevant today! 

Check out the Secrets of Astrals, Mounts, and Kings of Lucis guide.