If a Hero is going to lead a stack, having a healing aura ability is a critical first ability to keep your team alive and continuously ready for combat. At this point I think specializing the hero for the role is more important than pumping stats as you should be using your heroes in combats to level them up early against weak neutral camps, and finding lots of items because of it. A Warlord hero is maybe not the best hero to lead a squad of Support units, as his squad-buffs tend to support melee and armored units. Also be aware of what units the hero is joining or leading. Do you want it to lead a stack or support in a stack led by another hero? This comes down to your personal strategy, but building out skills to define an early role are important. Since you pick up armor and items later, or have spells that affect defensive stats, they are easier to pump than HP and tend to scale, while HP does not scale with hero levels.Īfter that, it depends on what you want to do with the hero early-mid game. +10 HP only costs 3 points, and its the equivalent hp increase of a normal unit going from bronze to gold rank. I usually do this when they hit lvl 2 and go +10 HP, +1 Def or Res, and +1 Ranged damage.

I definitely think devoting at least a full levels worth of points into stats early is important.

Age of wonders 3 warlord stacks