Tavern of Legends Quest Guide: Empires & Puzzles: Match-3 RPG

To complete the Tavern of Legends quest in Empires & Puzzles: Match-3 RPG, build your roster backward to field 50 distinct heroes across all 10 stages. Because any hero used in a victorious battle is permanently locked out of future encounters for the remainder of the event, reserve your strongest 15 legendary heroes strictly for stages 8 through 10, relying on lower-rarity rosters and battle items to clear earlier tiers.

Roster Allocation and Stage Brackets

The Tavern of Legends requires 10 separate five-hero teams. Deploying elite raid or defense heroes in early levels leaves players without the durability and raw damage needed to survive the end-game bosses.

Organize your roster into three distinct deployment tiers based on required team power:

Stage Bracket	Recommended Team Power	Roster Composition	Primary Focus
Stages 1–3	2,200–3,000	Maxed 3-star heroes, bench duplicates	Fast match-3 tile clearing; save items
Stages 4–7	3,200–4,000	Maxed 4-star heroes, utility supports	Sustained healing, debuffing, mana management
Stages 8–10	4,200–5,000+	Ascended/Limit Broken 5-star heroes	Boss burst damage, taunts, heavy item support

Stages 1 to 3: Budget Clearing

Enemy mobs deal minimal damage in the opening three stages. Fast-mana 3-star attackers such as Bane and Tyrum, supported by basic healers like Hawkmoon, can clear enemy waves with routine tile matches. Avoid using battle items here so inventory remains stocked for later encounters.

Stages 4 to 7: Mid-Tier Attrition

Boss health increases significantly in the middle tiers. Form rainbow or 3-2 color-stacked teams utilizing reliable 4-star utility heroes like Rigard, Boldtusk, or Kiril to maintain team health and remove debuffs. Bring defense-reduction specialists to speed up boss eliminations before they cycle through multiple special skills.

Stages 8 to 10: High-End Boss Waves

The final three stages feature past Heroes of the Month (HOTMs) acting as bosses with dangerous special skills and accelerated mana generation. Deploy your primary ascended 5-star heroes, prioritizing mechanics like overheal, minions, and taunt to absorb heavy hits while targeting bosses with single-target snipers.

Consumable Item Loadouts

Battle items are not restricted in the Tavern of Legends, providing a direct way to protect lower-level rosters on intermediate stages and neutralize lethal boss specials later on.

Stages 5 to 7: Equip budget offensive consumables such as Minor Mana Potions, Minor Antidotes, Arrows, and Bomb Attacks. Triggering attack-down items like Arrows or Bombs as soon as the boss wave starts reduces incoming slash damage, keeping fragile 4-star heroes alive to charge their specials.
Stages 8 to 10: Equip high-tier crowd-control and burst consumables:
Time Stops: Fully drains the boss's mana bar and delays normal attacks for one turn, preventing team-wiping special skills.
Tornadoes: Shuffles the puzzle board to clear dead colors while instantly granting 50% mana to all living heroes.
Bomb Attacks and Dragon Attacks: Deals immediate direct damage to all enemies, cutting down boss health pools before matching tiles.
Super Mana Potions: Instantly charges crucial healers, dispellers, or taunt heroes if the starting board lacks their element.

Summon Portal Economics: Legends Summon

Completing the 10 quest stages rewards free Legends Coins, but spending valuable purchased gems on the Legends Summon portal requires caution.

The portal features past Heroes of the Month alongside rare appearances of the Secret Hero, Myztero. Base appearance rates remain low, with non-featured 5-star HOTMs hovering around 1.3% and featured heroes around 0.6%. Because base-stat inflation leaves older, uncostumed HOTMs vulnerable to modern threats like Horace or gargoyle defenders, drawing uncostumed legacy heroes yields diminished returns unless heavily upgraded with Master Emblems and secondary Limit Breaks.

Save your earned Legends Coins for event rotations that feature top-tier costume upgrades, such as Costume Frida. Her Ice elemental defense reduction provides essential utility against Red Titans and in mono-blue war attacks. For gem expenditures, reserve currency for modern summon portals with higher floor values, relying solely on free Tavern of Legends coins to target featured costumes.