Conqueror's Blade New Player Guide

Choosing your class in Conqueror's Blade is like any MMO: go for something you enjoy, not just what's meta. Think about what kind of playstyle excites you: do you want to chase down heroes, frontline, or support units? Start with a strong temporary class that's viable regardless of the meta thanks to its strong base kit, then, once you have a feel for the game, take time to pick a main using the hero weapons tierlist. You can test classes with the Master-at-Arms NPC.

Once you're ready to lock in your main class, check out the hero guides forum from top players of each class (on Discord). Since there's limited customization and no unique build, following these top players' builds closely is recommended to make the most of your hero.

From levels 0-200 you'll primarily engage in tutorials and easy matches, often against bots (typically 5v5, with bots filling empty slots). While teaming up with higher-level players can bypass bot matches, these low-pressure games offer valuable advantages: they let you build a strong warband, easily complete seasonal challenges and quests, achieve high scores for substantial XP gains, and prepare for full 15v15 matches starting around level 200.

You'll max out your hero's attributes quickly, usually by level 80-100. How XP flows into your units, the shared XP pool, and the fastest ways to farm it are all covered in one place:

As a new player, one of your main goals is to build a functional and versatile warband by level 200. Like hero builds, there isn't a lot of diversity, but you do have options, so select from meta units while prioritizing those you enjoy. Flexibility is crucial in Conqueror's Blade: adapt your units based on your team's needs, map, and meta.

Take this path, in order:

1. Absolute rush the mission unit: Berserks for 22,500 honor. This unit doesn't need a full set of T5 doctrines to perform, and it will help you FARM bot-lobbies. Focus on their mastery!!
2. Go for Zykalian Militia and Rattan Pikes. Both are first in their category (lowest honor spent) and don't require doctrines to be playable. After the Berserks, focus on getting mastery for the Rattans. Zykalian are fine without mastery until you've done every other recommended unit.
3. Back to the Berserks tree: now focus on getting Claymores and mastering them.
4. Filler time: grab either Rattan Vipers (need mastery to perform) or Coutiliers (need doctrines to perform).
5. After that, I'm not gonna lie, the rest is pretty underwhelming. You can go for Iron Reapers, as the unit is pretty good on some maps!

Free starter units: keep 3

Another system to know: new players get a lot of units for free early on. You can play them, level them up and put doctrines on them, but at level 200 you only keep 3 of them (don't panic: any unit you put XP or doctrines on and don't keep gives every resource back).

Be aware: pick the 3 units you will keep as soon as possible, and don't go for them in the honor tree, because this system gives them to you anyway, so reaching them there would be pointless. For example, if you want to keep Spartan/Flamers/Shenji, don't go for Shenji in the unit tree!

For now (until the units or the meta change) I recommend picking Spartans/Shenji & Flamers if you like exotics play, otherwise Silahdars: focus on the T5, it's the best value/time wise. If this advice starts to feel old, check the tierlist and the units you like to make your choice; as always, try to skip ranged that aren't exotics.

Good seasons after all of this

Priority is top to bottom. Go look at gameplay for each unit and decide what you like.

• Roses: Yorkist cavalry is very good and can be rushed.
• Dynasty: Modao Battalion, great anti-cav while still able to fight infantry!
• Sparta: go for the T5 Spartans: meta, beginner-friendly, high carry, strongest frontline right now.
• Scourge of Winter: Liaos is a very OP and easy cav right now, but by this point you may already have a lot of cav.
• Alexander: T4 Companion Cavalry, T5 Phalanx (okish cav plus one of the best anti-cav in the game).
• Eternal: T5 Yanyuedao (best special cav in the game, usually meta in every situation thanks to their passive dealing 70% damage that ignores the enemy's damage reduction).

Additional tips

• Free Leadership doctrines at level 100 and 300 (EU/NA only).
• Fame Envoy (capital cities) gives +732 leadership worth of gear (can't be repaired) for blue and purple locks.
• Use the T4 box from the new player quest on a current T4 meta unit: check the tierlist first.
• Join a house for mentorship, bonuses, and faster progress.
• Final warband planning: this walkthrough (on Discord).

There's no magic set of instructions that'll make the game click instantly. There are too many variables in every situation. I can't just say "shields in front, DPS follows": it's far more complex than that, and that kind of advice is useless most of the time because so many factors come into play. What I can give you is the approach I'd take to learn the game if I were starting fresh today.

Record and review your games, yes even as a casual

Reviewing your own gameplay speeds up your learning curve massively. Just one game a day, and you can watch it sped up so it only takes ~10 min. Grab something like Medal or Nvidia ShadowPlay (if you have an Nvidia GPU), both clip with minimal performance hit. Then look at your fights and ask: "Why did I die there? Could I have played it differently? Should I have taken that fight at all?"

Information is king

Every 15 to 20 secondsPress Tab. Check the map, look around, ask "do I have the right unit and position?"

From there, knowing how to take fights comes naturally. It shifts a lot with the meta and feels overwhelming at first, but your game-reading builds from experience faster than you'd think: you'll instinctively feel the difference between a good and bad fight, and even when you mess up you'll learn from it.

Where to grow next