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Beginners guide: how to start

Heroes MMO beginners guide: make your hero, pick a class, finish the tutorial, reach the Village and get through your first quests.

Make your account and hero

Open heroesmmo.com/play in your browser, there is nothing to install. An account only needs a username and a password. Then you make your hero: pick a name, a look and one of 5 classes. The class stays with that hero, so take a moment here. If you cannot decide, the Swordfighter is the safest start, and the best class guide compares all of them with real numbers.

The tutorial

Your first hero starts in the First Ring, a short private map. Follow the hints on screen.
A and D or the arrow keys walk, Space jumps and F talks to Ranger Lina.
J attacks. Press it several times for a three-hit combo. L rolls and makes you invulnerable for a moment.
A slime drops a Ring weapon for your class with 6 attack, better than the 4 of your starter weapon. Pick it up, open your bag with I and equip it.
Beat the Rot Core, then step into the ring with F. Already know all this? The Skip button takes you straight to the Village, and you still get the Ring weapon.

The Village

The ring brings you to the Village, the hub of the game. No monsters live here and your HP refills much faster than outside. Merchant Mira stands on the ground. Captain Alva waits on the upper ledge, next to the ring to The Cave, so zip up with E to reach her. The portal on the right leads to Waterfall Gorge. The portal on the left stays closed for a long time.

Your first quests

Talk to Alva with F. Her first quest sends you through the right portal to defeat 6 Rot Slimes in Waterfall Gorge. Back at Alva it pays 80 XP and 40 gold.
Next she wants 5 Forest Goblins, then 4 Goblin Brutes. The Brute quest also rewards a Steel Cuirass, so you get your first real armor for free.
After the goblin quest, Seer Nyra in The Cave offers a second quest line.
From level 7 Alva sends you to the Root Cave, behind the far end of the Gorge, to stop Bandit Captain Kael. Goblin Chief Grukk guards that part of the Gorge, so bring potions.
Q opens your quest list. Quests pay far more XP than single monsters, so never skip one.

Moving with the zip rope

Do not walk everywhere. The zip rope reaches about 21 tiles and is ready again after about half a second. W plus E shoots straight up, and Space ends a zip early. You can fire it in mid-air, so a rope, a jump and another rope carry you over gaps and past monsters.

Potions and staying alive

Every hero starts with 5 health potions and 5 mana potions. Key 1 restores 35 percent of your HP, key 2 restores 50 mana. Each kind has a 3 second cooldown.
Mira sells them for 25 and 20 gold, and monsters drop them too.
Hold H to block, blocked hits only deal 20 percent damage.
If your hero falls, you return to the start of the map a few seconds later with full HP and mana. You lose no XP and no gold.

Spending your first rewards

You get one talent point per level from level 2. Open the talent window with the star button and spend them right away. Then look at the shop: Mira sells a level 3 weapon for every class for 1200 gold, and armor fits every class.

What to do next

Join a party. Click another hero to invite them. Up to 8 heroes can team up and share XP on the same map.
Follow Alva and Nyra in parallel. From level 8 Alva also offers daily contracts.
At level 15, once Kael is beaten, take your class trial and unlock the second form of your class.
Keep saving gold. From level 18 you can found a guild.

Data from patch 0.11. Stats may change during the alpha.

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