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      Contents

      1. 6 Proven Ways to Free Your Hero
        1. The Consequences of Losing Your Hero
        2. How to Utilize Your Downtime
          1. Read and Research
          2. Optimize Your Account
          3. Craft New Armor
          4. Change Alliances
          5. Gather Resources
        3. Levels 1-9
        4. Levels 10-14
        5. Levels 15-21
        6. The 5 Options
          1. Option 1: Pity
          2. Option 2: Humor
          3. Option 3: Lie
          4. Option 4: Bribe
          5. Option 5: Be Crafty
          6. Option 6: Hemlock
        7. Attention

      6 Proven Ways to Free Your Hero

      During some point in your Game of War career you will almost certainly lose your Hero. All of the stress you have built up trying to protect your it will be released and replaced with a new stress of how to get it back.

      If you have just lost your hero, don’t worry, it’s really not that bad. You’ll only be set back a few days and lose a bit of experience. What happens to your hero will depend on what level you are at. The safest place to be is below level 14.

      This post was originally published in December 2014 and has updated for accuracy and comprehensiveness.

      Retrieving your Hero before it is Executed will require you to be extremely resourceful. There are a lot of creative tactics and clever mails you can use to persuade you captor. I’ll be mentioning the most popular ones below.

      The Consequences of Losing Your Hero

      When your Hero is Captured you can no longer collect Hero experience. All the XP just gets wasted.explorer_elem_top_hero

      Everything you build, research, or craft gives you an automatic amount of experience, and building and researching gives you an extra collectible amount of experience in the form of a quest reward. Therefore, if you want to be super conservative and not lose any experience whatsoever, you need to stop all those things.

      Still complete regular, alliance, and VIP quests though for the resources and materials.

      Remember, you can save completed quests and open them later. So, if you receive a Legendary or Epic quest I would recommend not collecting the rewards until you get your hero back because they give a lot of Experience.

      Basically, you want to try and refrain as much as possible from gathering any large amount of XP that will be wasted.

      See how long it will be before your Hero is freed.

      How to Utilize Your Downtime

      The first thing I bet you are all thinking right now is, “wow so basically I have to stop playing the game for 3 days.” This is not true at all, here are some things you can do:

      Read and Research

      Read the rest of my blog and learn how to not lose your hero 😉 Do all the research you have been wanting to do on the game, but haven’t had time for. Most people at this point in the game have played for a while but still have a lot questions. Go ask your teammates, search through our site, or make your own calculations to find the answers 🙂

      Go read what the advantage of each Building you have is, maybe you didn’t realized its full potential (or lack of potential) when you first started the game.

      Optimize Your Account

      Go look back at your hero skill tree and see if there is any optimizing you can do when you get him back.

      Craft New Armorcraft top art

      Check if you have combined all your gems recently and look if you should make any new armor for when your Hero is back.

      Change Alliances

      Move Alliances if yours cannot help protect you. Now you have time to use your diplomacy skills and knowledge to get into a bigger one.

      Gather Resources

      Use this time to gather resources you need for your next upgrades

      Levels 1-9

      Your hero cannot be taken yet 🙂 Stay happy while you can.

      Levels 10-14

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      The greatest thing about being level 14 is your Hero doesn’t actually get killed. Use your first Hero Capture as a lesson, and be extremely careful if you do decide to go to 15. Remember you need to always be protecting yourself.

      Always max out your Gymnos ASAP in order receive the most hero experience possible. If you don’t already know, your Gymnos gives you bonus experience on everything, every time you upgrade it.

      In case you didn’t know, you can click the jail cell where your Hero picture was to see when he is set to be released. I would make sure you are online at this time, so your enemy does not recapture your Hero. Also, remember to plan ahead and start Researching, Building, and Crafting so that they will finish right when your Hero returns.

      Pro Tip: Do not attack anyone at this point, without your hero bonuses and gear, you will get massacred.

      Levels 15-21

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      Before moving on with other strategies I want to address a common misunderstanding.

      The Misunderstanding: Your Hero will only lose experience (from it’s total experience bar) if you do not resurrect it during the 7 day period after it is killed. The game gives you 7 days to resurrect your hero after being at only a few thousand gold. So if you are an active player, there’s hardly any consequence to it get killed. However, if you stop playing Game of War and come back weeks later you will have to “Hire A New Hero” and at that point you will lose the percentage of Experience corresponding to the level your Gymnos is. For Example, getting your hero executed at level 15 will take 25% of his XP away. You can never get that XP back 🙁

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      The 5 Options

      Option 1: Pity

      Have one of your leaders message the enemy who has captured your Hero and request it to be returned politely. Requests including pity usually aren’t accepted unless you claim you are a woman or child. It’s true though.

      Option 2: Humor

      Tell you capture a funny joke or story and then ask them to release the hero. In my experience this is the most effective method by far. Even a hilarious threat can release your Hero.

      Option 3: Lie

      Take advantage of the fact that this game is virtual and make up fake stories or lie in order to get your Hero back. Remember that this a game “of War” and anything goes. If you haven’t already been surprised by what people will do to win, soon you will be.

      Option 4: Bribe

      Offer to pay your capture in gold or resources in return for your Hero back, or offer to pay another big player in your kingdom to burn your captor in order to free your it.

      Option 5: Be Crafty

      One of my team members once got his hero back with only 20k T2 troops from someone with 24 mil power.

      What he did was have one of our Members who was zeroed scout the enemy when he thought the enemy had sent out all his troops.

      When the enemy sent out all the Troops from his Stronghold to Gather, the one zeroed teammate who Scouted the enemy recognized minimal Wall Defenses and no Troop Defenses. At that point my teammate ported in and attacked the enemy to free his Hero. My teammate freed 3 Heroes this way and lost nothing. After the attack, my teammate Random Teleported away so he wouldn’t get his Hero taken again.

      When the enemy had sent out his Hero and Troops to gather, his Stronghold was basically defenseless.

      Note: The average power level and troop count of all players eight months or so ago when this article was written was about 20x lower, so these numbers don’t make sense anymore. Now it will be harder to get a power player to send out all their Troops because they probably have millions. Although, decent gear can beat a power player if their Hero is out on a March. So the strategy of tempting a medium sized players to send their Troops out and then attacking them without a Hero is still viable.

      Option 6: Hemlock

      hemlock

      When you use Hemlock you are sacrificing your Hero intentionally in order to get it back sooner. Your Hero eats the Hemlock while he’s in the enemy prison and automatically dies after the time period defined on your Hemlock item. Currently, there are three different time frames for Hemlock: 2 hours, 4 hours, and 6 hours.

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      To clarify, you do not lose your Gear or Gems when your Hero dies, unless you are wearing Cores and the timer runs out (which it will because no Cores last for two hours).

      Something To Keep In Mind

      Usually big guys will hop around attacking people stealing all the good Resources near the forest or in the 4-5 level Resource areas. Scan around every so often and try to find one attacking multiple people with most of his marches out. Then attack. The most active these big guys will be is during the Kill Events, use this to your advantage in attacking them. Often, these guys will scour the map just before the event and plan their attacks.

      Pro Tip: Remember, diplomacy is usually the best answer! You are much more likely to get your hero freed from humorous or kind responses than from threatening ones 🙂 

      How have you been able to free your hero? Post any screenshots and/or stories in the comments below!

      Enjoy!

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      Comments 22

      1. Mimi says:
        6 years ago

        What does it mean when it says “your troops successfully rescued your hero” when u never sent out a march to rescue ur hero?

        Reply
      2. Janna says:
        6 years ago

        Is there any way to get a hemlock it’s not offered in the catalog or anything

        Reply
      3. Ella says:
        6 years ago

        My attacker ask for alter boost to release my hero, what does he mean by that?

        Reply
        • Navi says:
          6 years ago

          You can’t give him an altar boost. The only way he can get an altar boost is by executing your hero.

          Reply
      4. Jason says:
        6 years ago

        I really don’t care if my hero is executed…..500,000 in loyalty gets you a new hero anyways with no loss in XP…I have no problem with waiting 3 days,…..I have had 7 heroes executed and still rolling
        .

        Reply
      5. Craig Sander says:
        6 years ago

        On the Diplomacy angle don’t forget about a trade. I have had growing members of my alliance lose a hero and I will negotiate with the holder and offer them my Farm/Altar boost hero instead. Usually they take that choice as my Farm hero is Level 50.

        Reply
      6. Gerry says:
        6 years ago

        In over 2yrs I have never had my hero executed I have got him out in all sorts of ways never give up

        Reply
      7. Malzarre says:
        6 years ago

        Option #8 take no bs

        I had my hero taken during the last SW. Right after the capture, the attacker sent me a message asking for resources in exchange for my hero. I told them that I didn’t mind waiting the three days for my hero to be executed, but that I was not going to part with any rss, because there was no guarantee that they’d release my hero.

        One hour later, person releases my hero. It could be because they were about to be attacked, and needed to shield; or they realized they weren’t going to get anything from me.

        Reply
      8. Dalek Caan1 says:
        6 years ago

        I have noticed on my farm that the 7day count down doesn’t always start until I log into that account. Just something to keep in mind

        Reply
      9. Nernst says:
        6 years ago

        Option 7: get the player to attack a rally trap then burn them when they lose their hero

        Reply
      10. Kay says:
        6 years ago

        I definitely wouldn’t use that time for researching. Without your hero and gear… Research takes So much longer. But everything else sounds great!

        Reply
      11. ronnie watkins says:
        7 years ago

        Can someone hold your hero indefinitely or will the execution take place after a certain Amount of time?

        Reply
      12. King Woodie says:
        8 years ago

        I go with the diplomatic method. Have lost my hero twice and got him back both times. Tell the person well played and can you send him back before you port please, Its all bout the wording. 🙂

        Reply
        • Robert says:
          7 years ago

          I’ve found a swear word or two with a compliment appeals to the ego. “Well played @#$!er. I should have just shielded.” has worked every time.

          Reply
      13. Daniel says:
        8 years ago

        would like to ask a question, what would happen to an executed hero, would the item be lost if it resurrected?? or would it be still lost?? if its resurrected what is the benefit compared to selecting new hero and using gymnos for experience ??

        thank you in advance for the reply..

        Reply
        • Chad says:
          8 years ago

          If your hero gets executed you can resurrect it with all of its old gear. When you resurrect your hero with your gymnos your hero will have less xp (ie. 65% of the xp it used to have). Does that answer your question?

          Reply
          • Daniel says:
            8 years ago

            Thank you very much ✌️

            Reply
            • Chad says:
              8 years ago

              You do you get your equipment back when you resurrect your hero. There is only one way, which is to resurrect through your gymnos I believe.

              Reply
          • Dartanian says:
            7 years ago

            Correction…. when you resurrect your hero, you get ALL of your XP back. The Gymno percentage only comes into play if you fail to resurrect your hero within the 7-day resurrection period. At that point, you would have to hire a new hero. The new hero will have less XP than your original hero (based on your Gymno level).

            Reply
            • Chad says:
              7 years ago

              That’s what I thought she was referring to. Dartanian is correct. Sorry I read the initial comment wrong.

              Reply
          • Charlie says:
            7 years ago

            What if I join the players alliance would that save my hero from being executed automatically or just boost the chances of getting my hero back?

            Reply
            • Chad says:
              7 years ago

              I don’t think that would automatically release your hero…. but if you made friends with the guy, he might release it.

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