All Factions Overview and Analysis! | Hero's Hour

Hero's Hour is an accessible, yet-deep and content-rich Strategy Roleplaying Game. Take control of your hero, explore the world, build up your town, fight fast-paced battles, level up your hero and amass an army large enough to take out the opponents - before they take you out.
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00:00 Intro
1:38 Order
10:19 Wild
24:00 Arcane
34:04 Decay
44:50 Pyre
58:19 Horde
1:09:46 Enclave
1:22:48 Lament
1:33:42 Tide
1:43:45 Earthen
1:58:55 Outro
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[@bustavonnutz]

Still in my Horde playthough, this game is insane and I can't wait to wrap this up to tackle the other factions. Haven't had this much fun with a game since I first downloaded EUIV.

[@twistedmezelf]

Im loving the horde with my 500 goblin legion army haha

[@dac314]

Thanks for the solid examination, you really nailed a lot of the details and gave important and useful information. Especially ANY ways to make free, non-limited units, which is KEY in this game.

[@Jyotish108]

Only after viewing more of this video I realized how great and informative it is. Great game, great video!

[@viker1260]

Very good video, and one of the only ones of its kind and with thorough explanation, thanks

[@sterben.7059]

Looking forward to this game. love this style. Thank's for that! Really well presented.

[@Sifd]

Glad you enjoyed it! :D

[@JamesBond-ux1it]

game is epic and so is this video.. thanks for the breakdown.. subbed! :)

[@smartcakes303]

Thank you so much for this video, I've been wanting to pick this game up and not only has this video helped me decide to buy but also what factions I must play

[@Sifd]

Have fun! :D

[@ThingOnItsOwn]

Wow, I'm jumping into watching this now! Can't wait to go hear this analysis!!

[@ThingOnItsOwn]

Yea, maaaaaybe, despite all the observations to the contrary, the Monument and Temple of War are actually balanced. I'm happy you at least tested your hypothesis and found out they were okay. Though your point about being forced to spend the money on them is both true and fair. Good analysis!

[@Sifd]

Thank you :D I mean the problem with this game is that *a lot* of stuff is really dependent on the numbers for being good or bad... And we don't have the numbers... That bothers me more than anything to be honest :P

[@ThingOnItsOwn]

@@Sifd in the case of the Monument and Temple of War there actually is a clear number. 250 gold per day. And the units you get is what can be afforded by the gold paid

[@ThingOnItsOwn]

@@Sifd but generally, yes, that needs to be fixed. At least in the cases where the numbers aren't a whole pile of spaghetti

[@cyruslupercal9493]

I think the extra units you get with Earthen's two buildings is ok if you can turn them into elementals. Basicly you'll re use them. If the buildings gave you more it might be overpowered. Extra growth comes at a premium.

[@sheepriderkiller1181]

imagine people watching this now, when most units got buffed and saying this is not a good examination.

[@DrageDragonfly]

Good review of the factions, i hope the game gets expandet alot in the future since the potential is great and its already a very nice Game in memorys of HomnM from back in the Days. So far my favorit faction is the lizards - it was really fun having a ridiculos amount of beats called in every fight with full call beast artefacts ^^

[@Sifd]

I like the lizards the most too! :D

[@DrageDragonfly]

@@Sifd The archers - the lifeleeches - the hydra - the mechanics - well ok tier 6 is just a Dino but kinda fun too ^^

[@benh6835]

Thanks for the outline. I felt it was too in detail as I was just looking for a general 30 second intro into what each faction is about. Also you said you'd provide a tier list in the first quarter of the video I listened until the end for that and am not sure of your thoughts on which factions are stronger overall.

[@Sifd]

Yeah you are right, I was all over the place on some things, I didn't do a tier list and was thinking about doing another one of these just shorter (all factions done in 5-10 mins) but I didn't get around doing that... Might do it one of these days, will see...

[@robertkruk8754]

Thank you, very helpful.

[@elios7623]

man, you really know how to put guides together, so much in fact that now i wanna play lmao

[@Sifd]

I'm just speaking my mind and analyzing what I think about stuff :D

[@whatislife3645]

@@Sifd Yeah so put "overview" instead of guide in the title then

[@RyanJosepher]

Pillar is best. You have access to every unit in the game. You have an "Oh shit" button every week.

[@kalolofw9093]

Over all a really good overview of the factions that I am sure will be helpful for a lot of people. The only major thing missing is regarding the Arcane faction where I think it is important to point out that their tier 2s and 3s cost ore, making them very expensive for what they are. And while their tier 1s are quite strong as you said, they really need a front line of something more durable. This I feel is the most immediate hurdle for the faction and pretty much the first thing you must figure out how to solve when playing the faction (probably with a unit generating hero skill such as Creation). Other than that there is nothing major. I do feel a bit sorry for you though, since this game is under such active development a bunch of what you mention is bound to be outdated after not too long. In fact, if I'm not mistaken, the permanent fire elementals from the Tide faction's Conflux ability are already removed.

[@Sifd]

Ooooooh, I forgot to mention that!!! That ore cost is a real hurde that even I had to face... :P Yeah I expect a lot to be outdated but the basics might stay the same :P Oh... very nice... (about the tide faction changes)

[@warriorfire8103]

I played the tutorial. It was a bit tricky getting the cryo mages up and going so that I had a front line as the gargoyles were too squishy to keep recruiting. I learned Cryo mages get wrecked by flanking so a few gargoyles did well in the back.

[@thomasneal9291]

they changed the artisan hero to generate stone instead of aether, which solves this issue nicely. also makes him extremely powerful towards the endgame, since you can get massive stats, luck, and moral just by pumping him up with stone on the forge. If you focus on boosting archery, all you need is mages and titans and you can spend your stone buffing your hero. titans doing 100 points of damage each is pretty awesome.

[@thomasneal9291]

they changed the Artisan to use stone instead of aether for his abilities, so not only can you amass huge amounts of stone as he fights, but you can just buy stone when your economy gets rolling and basically give him near infinite turns on the aether forge without even having to fight. this makes him a more balanced choice versus the mage now.

[@MettaKing]

Dragonslayer + arbalist and halbedier is actually really if you positioned them right. Halbedier as the rearguard and dragonslayer as the vanguard. The rear guard stops charging enemies that got past the vanguard’s knockback wall and the arbalist protected by the halbedier focus on raining fire from long range thanks to their long-range skill+range which is op if used right. Best hero to use this with is Cazard that focuses more on luck, morale, true strike, and midas touch. Arbalist attack incredibly fast when they’re not disturb by falling back and with each hit it could proc midas touch which is an instant kill

[@WhatWillYouFind]

Wont watch the video because I plan to do a full guide after delerium release, but nice drop man. best of luck, if I remember to come back to the video ill send another comment with my thoughts :)

[@Crysis051264]

Can you do a Hero's Hour Unit tier list? There doesnt seem to be one on youtube ;)

[@Nortrin]

You gonna do the updated version with the new races?

[@AZ-rh4yf]

Really good game. Made me play throw the night and feel like a kid again. I like horde and undead the best at the moment.

[@jasonpadgett6371]

Kop Laka for tide faction is my go to hero for difficult challanges, if you can get 3 pieces of mesmer set and a wizard tower he gets insanely powerful. I have made him 200+ knowledge and spellpower and summoning 1200 fire elementals in one cast adding 600 elementals to his army, just stupid op.

[@kamk7465]

I would say you are right with the ,,magmaral“ Unit in the ,,Tide“ faction but you can built 3 instead of the other one which can only build 2 Units. I think it dosnt rly. matter that mich in end-Game but they are also not a terrible choice

[@carlmalheim7161]

I won’t post 1,000 things this time. At 1:04:20 the Bloodwarper. This unit is really cool, but when you think about how the faction works it is even cooler. Benefits of Upgrade mechanic 1. Less buildings to buy (gold saved, other buildings built sooner) 2. Units only have initial cost (gold/resources saved) 3. Don’t have to go home to upgrade (movement/time saved) Negatives of Upgrade Mechanic 1. Your army is initially weaker (takes more time to reach full potential) 2. You have to fight while weaker/unupgraded to get stronger/upgrades (the fights are harder) 3. You might end up going home as often for reinforcements as you do for upgrades because of higher initial casualties (need more units, not better units) Once you have Bloodwarpers they can be used as the strong unit to carry weaker armies solving the these issues. They counteract the the fact that weaker units means more casualties by getting stronger when your weak guys die. So the battle field effectively loses less Power. Then they resurrect them not just returning the lost Power, but retaining their buff, effectively increasing your strength without increasing the field cap. Less units lost means having to go home less often, and more units eventually upgraded. But even when he resurrects an upgraded unit, it is even better, because not only is it does it save you the gold you’d spend and the time traveling home, it is saving you the time investment/risk involved in having to field an unupgraded unit. So they’re still great units even in an upgraded army, but they’re fucking amazing in unupgraded armies. If these eventually spawn in Hordes (not sure how that works) they’d make a Horde infinitely better!

[@Sifd]

Good analysis on the Bloodwarper! :D If I play horde again I will try to point out what you said :D

[@samuelcarter2624]

Where is Pillar??

[@xFallenRagex]

Is there a way to get rid of or sell artifacts?

[@Sifd]

You can keep them in your bag with right click, selling does not exist, but you can sacrifice them for a great hydra if you are in the Enclave faction :)

[@bcpond]

I think we should we talk about the meta together before the tournament :D

[@Sifd]

We can do that if you want, although I still am not sure if I will play in the tour :D

[@bcpond]

@@Sifdthat is ok, I think it would make good content regardless

[@xenogromp2754]

Sifd do the next update guide please

[@DrageDragonfly]

2 Hours even tho i already know so much about the game and played so much.... hm well ill take i as a podcast in the background and do some stuff i delayed the last week ^^

[@Sifd]

I mean... you are not forced to watch it :P Hope you liked it if you did :D

[@DrageDragonfly]

@@Sifd i enjoyed it ^^