Almost A Hero: Artifact Guide and Optimisation

Almost A Hero has a unique artifact system, it doesn’t cripple players for having bad luck. So here’s an artifact guide to help beginners with some tips and advice for more experience players as well. If you’re not familiar with the artifact system in games like Tap Titans 2 then here’s a quick summary of how it works. The cost of getting an artifact scales exponentially with every new artifact you get. You can use the premium currency to reroll an artifact but it’s really hard to come by and often times pretty expensive to purchase. All of this would be fine except that the random artifact you get can be completely useless for progression.

For Tap Titans 2, an artifact that everyone wants is Book of Shadows. It increases the total number of relics you earn every time you prestige, allowing you to eventually earn several times more relics than a player who doesn’t own Book of Shadows. Relics are the Mythstones of Tap Titans 2.

But then we take a look at Almost A Hero, we are met by an artifact system which doesn’t cost any premium currency to reroll. Premium currency does limit the number of artifacts you can own but as we’ve discussed in our guide about spending your gems. Gems are easy to come by and you’re bound to unlock all artifact slots sooner or later.

Earning enough Mythstones

Starting out fresh you’re going to run into a lot of walls where you might have to prestige a couple times before being able to reroll artifacts or purchase new ones. Gems might be an issue but just remember to spend them only on artifact slots for now. Mythsones on the other hand need to be maximised as soon as possible. This means grinding your way past your previous wall every time you upgrade your artifacts.

Avoid these QP gaps at all costs. It would have been much more efficient to simply have all the artifacts around the same QP. Instead of dropping all of our Mythstone on a single artifact

Getting unlucky is fine, everyone gets a bad roll every now and then. Remember you can always choose to keep your previous artifact if you love it so much but unless you’re at your artifact quality capacity, don’t. It’s much better in the long run to get all your artifacts to the highest QP possible. This capacity is 15k without any Mythical Artifacts. We’ll get to Mythical artifacts later.

There aren’t a lot of ways to increase the number of Mythstones you earn in Almost A Hero. Unlike other games, there is a limit to the Mythstone multipliers from every prestige. The maximum possible prestige bonus is +1500%. While the maximum number of bonus Mythstones you can get from epic bosses is just +300. The Prestige bonus also applies to Mythstones earned from epic bosses. Even though the bonus name doesn’t make it obvious. So all the more reason to keep every artifact with that bonus around.

Artifact Optimisation

This is where things starts getting interesting. Often times frustrating for players who aren’t familiar with min-maxing. There is a limit to most of the bonuses you can acquire in Almost A Hero. These are hard limits which can’t be crossed, meaning there’s no reason to have all of your artifacts focus on a certain stat.

The two most important bonuses you will be optimising as a new player are:

• +Mythstones from Epic Boss – Maxmium is 300, insanely helpful early game
• % Prestige Reward – Maximum combined bonus is 1500%

The first of these is pretty simple. You might have noticed that some bosses will drop Mythstones when you kill them. Well this bonus makes sure that those bosses drop even more Mythstones upon being killed. The second bonus effects the total number of Mythstones you earn from every Prestige. Up to 1500%, meaning for every 100 Mythstones you earn from a Prestige. Having this bonus at its limit would earn you 1500 extra Mythstones. So instead of 100 Mythstones, you will be earning 1600 Mythstones from every Prestige.

These two bonuses are your bread and butter. Cherish them, take care of them, and make sure that you don’t reroll them. Especially in the early game.

There are other bonuses you need to keep an eye out for but most of them aren’t going to be of much help until later on. Another important artifact is the one which reduces your free chest cooldown. At max cooldown reduction, you will be getting a free chest every where. Giving you a healthy supply of scrap and the occassional equipment upgrade for your heroes.

Late game optimisation

Spending Mythstones on regular artifacts will become a ‘cheap’ expense. Feel free to re do your artifacts and group them up together in order to stay organised. Not everyone is a fan of it but having a row of +300% Prestige Bonus artifacts means that you’re free to reroll most of your other artifacts without having to keep track of where all your important ones are.

Eventually you’ll have to optimise your damage artifacts as well. Heroes will almost always be your primary damage source. Rings will be helpful if you’re feeling lazy and use the auto tap after a prestige to rush your way towards your highest stage. But in the long run, heroes beat all.