A lot of talk going around about transferring Age 1 accounts to Age 2 so time to weigh up the differences between Age 1 and Age 2 heroes


First difference in levels.

In Age 1 it is unlimited.
In Age 2 levels are capped. A normal hero cannot go past level 100 and historic heroes cannot go past level 150.

Age 1 heroes above level 100 will most likely be nerfed back to level 100 to conform to the rules of Age 2. This can mean up to 700 levels being nerfed from some players. Gone are the days of the 1000 attack hero


Second difference is armor

In Age 1 it doesn?t exist.
In Age 2 armor can be equipped on a hero boosting it by up to 150 attribute points.

An excellent addition to Age 2. You only need 1 set of armor and that armor can be equipped to all your heroes. For example you can have level 10 armor and equip it to a level 100 politician and boost his politics by 150, to a level 100 intelligence guy and boost his intelligence by 150 and a level 100 attacker and boost his attack by 150. The versatility of the armor is brilliant.

Armor goes up to 10 levels and there are 16 pieces of armor. 15 of them increase attributes and 1 of them increases speed. You can boost the foot speed of your attacks by up to 100% which means you can arrive at a destination twice as fast. Armor works as such To wear level 1 armor you must be level 10 or higher. Level 2 armor ? level 20 or higher etc.

Armor also has a star level which means you can boost each pieces attributes by up to 7 points more by playing a game of chance with things called delicate and flawless gems.


Third Difference is the new formula used to calculate troop training, construction and research time.
Much like hero levels this has been viciously nerfed. So extreme is the nerfing on it that the difference between a 100 hero and 300 hero is only 32% as far as troop building goes. It was 172% in Age 1. The advantages of having a high level hero are so minimal it almost is not worth having one in Age 2.

An example of this is imagine having no hero in your inn. You go to build an archer for example and it takes 60 seconds. Now you assign a 300 attack hero as a mayor. In Age 1 this reduces the build time to 13 seconds. In Age 2 the build time is reduced to 40 seconds. In Age 1 the build time is almost 5 times quicker. In Age 2 the build time isn?t even twice as fast between having no hero and a 300 attack hero.


This is what to expect when you move from Age 1 to Age 2 with your hero. Of course another point to mention is the armor is something that you must spend a fair bit acquiring or do a lot of material hunting like medal hunting.


Overall, the Age 2 heroes are nerfed so badly it reduces the game from have a good hero have an advantage to who has the most cities becomes the most powerful