Ballad of Heroes

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Soooooo, time to copy the stuff to here! A truly Heroic guide begins!

Time to start with the Classes!

So, assuming you have all the gods, let's start with the Adventurer. The Adventurer focuses on speed, and buffing itself with an AGI buff with a relatively short cooldown. Its other ability makes consecutive attacks (Referring to both auto-attacks and abilities,) deal more damage. So, the best way to capitalize on that is quick auto-attacks and similarly quick abilities, both represented by Hermes and Poseidon respectively. Hermes gives a huge AGI buff, perfect for the Adventurer, as well as allowing several auto-attacks to happen at once with Special Delivery. Hermes's passive reduces cooldowns by a flat amount after each auto-attack, made even better with the aforementioned Special Delivery. Hermes also gives an AGI/ATK buffing ability, and auto-attack reduction if you have him equipped. Poseidon is much of the same boat, giving an AGI bonus if you have him equipped. All his abilities just deal damage, but are more effective if the prior ability was a Poseidon ability. His passive makes water damaging abilities used immediately after other water damaging abilities get an immediate cooldown reduction. So, now that the basics are down, we'll talk about how these work together. Hermes makes Poseidon's abilities trigger more, and if you have the Liquid Saber or Poseidons Trident, all abilities get a cooldown reduction, since Hermes and Adventurers abilities are elementless, and thus are changed to water abilities. All of which is boosted by Thousand Cuts, making this quick barrage of attacks more and more powerful after each attack. I recommend the Poseidon set for equipment, giving extra water damage, ability and auto-attack cooldown reduction, and the 5 set bonus giving each water ability (ie. all your damaging abilities) a 10% chance to activate twice. For gems, I recommend opals for damage, or topaz's to deal with their low health pool. The Adventurer works best with Monk/Priest using Apollo/Hermes, in which case replace Hermes on the adventurer with Artemis, and add rubies instead of topazes.

Next! The Archer! Best way to describe them: Debuffs and crits! The passive ability makes enemies with a status effect applied by the Archer take extra damage. Their abilities, understandably, apply a DOT effect, and stun the enemy. For gods, the first tip is never remove Artemis from the Archer. They complement each other perfectly. Artemis increases crit chance and damage on debuffed enemies, and two of her abilities debuff the enemy, while the third is insanely powerful damage-wise, and increases debuff duration for all debuffs on the attacked enemy. The next god is Ares, another obvious choice. All his abilities apply DOT effects, which are counted as negative status effects/debuffs. His passive increases DOT effectiveness per DOT, synergizing with Archer's ability. Recommended gems are rubies or opals, and the Ares set is recommended due to the 5 set ability allowing DOT's to critically hit. Archer pairs well with the Priest/Monk using Dionysus & Hermes, instead of what they would normally use.

Next up is the Warrior! The Warrior focuses on being a tank. Their first ability draws attacks & increases thorn damage taken by the effected enemy, and his second does extra damage based on defense. Capitalizing on his DEF & HP pool is the best way to build them, making him draw as many attacks as possible, dealing back thorns, or giving him self-sustainability, which is where Athena and Nemesis come in. Athena's passive and first ability self-heal, her second ability reduces damage and increases healing, and her third applies blind to all enemies, along with holy damage. She gives a ton of DEF and HP just having her equipped as well. Nemesis gives a lot of HP, DEF, and RES as well. Nemesis is the best fit for the Warrior, similar to Artemis with the Archer. Her passive makes abilities deal more damage after taking damage, her first ability reduces damage from attacks and initiates a counter-attack, her second ability makes an enemy only attack the Warrior, similar to their own ability, with the downside of forcing the Warrior to only attack that target. Her third ability is a huge damage output, and it doesn't reduce the damage bonus granted by Nemesis's passive ability. Recommended gems are emeralds or the jagged/pointed stones. Using nemesis's equipment is the best choice, as it gives thorns, increases the effectiveness of thorns, and the 5 set bonus makes Nemesis's passive give both extra damage, and extra thorns. The Warrior works well with the Monk or the Priest, to offset how many attacks they'll be taking.

Fourth, but not last in either the order or usefulness, is the Priest! The priest heals and applies barriers! That's about it! There's not a lot of god combos you can do with the Priest, but Apollo is one of the best gods to have on them. He gives extra healing through Ostinato, and buffs. For the other god, anything would work, though if Hermes isn't in use, I'd recommend him. I go over him more in the Adventurer section, but here his main purpose is to reduce the cooldowns on Apollo and the Priests abilities, allowing for more healing or buffs. Amethysts are the recommended gem, and for equipment Apollo's set is the best, giving more buff time, healing, and giving Ostinato a chance to activate a second time for reduced effect. The Priest can work with anyone, though it's recommended to avoid the Adventurer or Monk, since they also use Hermes.

Sorry for the delay, but next up is the Monk! They got an update recently, just before I got them, so I'll be covering the new Monk, not the old one. They're kind of an all-rounder, mixing up the previous classes into one abomination of a class... In a good way! Attack speed of the Adventurer, debuffing ability like the Archer, healing like the Priest, and the HP of the Warrior. However, just build them almost exactly like the Priest (See above), but replace Apollo's armor with Hermes's for extra attack speed. You want as many auto-attacks as possible, so Insight, their passive, heals as often as possible. Works well as a support for the Warrior, Archer (Although Hermes/Dionysus is the build for that), or as a support for the Thaumaturge's abysmal health pool. Running them with the priest can work as well, giving a lot of survivability. For that, run Monk (Hermes/Poseidon (With Poseidon's trident)) and Priest (Dionysus/Apollo).

Finally, the Thaumaturge! The one I currently have as my main DPS! They focus on dealing elemental damage! Their passive grants additional elemental attack and resistance after using an elemental attack, corresponding to the element used. Their first ability deals damage with a random element, and the second deals more damage per different element used since the last time it was used. The best gods to use are Hades and Zeus, since they both deal elemental damage. Zeus's passive increases ability damage after dealing lightning damage, and Hades's increases LUK & ATK after killing something, stacking up to three times. Hades's first two active's deal elemental damage, and his third deals damage an amount of times equal to how many elements you've attacked with since the last time it was used, so it synergizes well. Zeus's abilities just deal a ton of damage. Recommended armor is Zeus's set. as it increases lightning damage, makes non-elemental attacks lightning, and gives each ability a 20% chance to repeat it's damage after 20 seconds. Only use opals on the Thaumaturge, as no amount of other gems will increase their abysmal HP pool. Pairr with Monk or Priest only, as Thaumaturge needs to be supported. The Apollo on them will help DPS as well.