Idle Heroes Starwish Guide: Best Early Wishlist Priorities

To maximize the Starwish system in Idle Heroes, place Eloise in your primary slot until you secure all nine copies needed to reach E5, then fill your secondary slots with complementary support units like Tix and Carrie. The Starwish system skews summon portal odds toward selected targets, enabling you to build a focused carry instead of waiting on random summon luck.

Starwish Hero Priority List

Focus your wish slots exclusively on heroes that directly accelerate your first E5 clear and unlock the Void, Aspen Dungeon, and Seal Land 20. Spreading choices across multiple factions or damage dealers slows down your account.

1. Secure Eloise First

Eloise is the primary early-game anchor for non-spending accounts. Her block-based counters and self-healing allow her to clear Shadow Seal Land 20 and progress deep into Aspen Dungeon with minimal team support. Keep Eloise in your first Starwish slot until you own nine total copies across your hero inventory and bag shards.

2. Lock Down Tix and Carrie

Once Eloise is underway, use secondary wish slots for Tix and Carrie:

• Tix reduces incoming damage by stealing enemy attack and inflicts heavy burst damage upon death, solving difficult campaign waves. He also serves as a direct Cloud Island tenant for Eloise.
• Carrie prevents opposing heroes from using active skills through energy drain and provides stall utility with her revival mechanic.

Managing Slots and Copy Limits

Avoid "roster broadening," which happens when you target multiple damage carries simultaneously, such as Eloise, Penny, Garuda, and Inosuke. Splitting slots leaves you with several unfinished 8-star or 9-star heroes that lack the stats to clear late-stage content.

Follow these rules when managing your wishlist:

1. Count stored shards: Before pulling, check your bag for unsummoned 5-star hero shards. Count these toward your nine-copy E5 target.
2. Swap immediately at nine copies: Leaving a completed hero in the Starwish pool wastes higher summon rates on surplus copies that do not speed up your immediate progression.
3. Exclude standard fodder: Never place easily acquired support heroes or units available in regular guild shops into Starwish slots. Reserve slots strictly for elite heroes.

Aligning Summon Resources with Starwish

Targeted odds do not eliminate the need to save resources for major reward thresholds.

• Heroic Summon Scrolls: Save scrolls for cyclical or holiday summon events that offer auxiliary milestone rewards such as Sublimation Chests, Artifact Selection Chests, or Soul Symbols. Pulling outside of events solely to trigger Starwish odds sacrifices essential meta-progression items.
• Prophet Orbs and Branches: Match your Prophet Orb spending to your primary Starwish faction. If you are targeting Eloise and Tix, spend your Prophet Orbs in the Shadow tree. Unwanted 5-star Shadow pulls provide immediate promotion fodder, while Prophet Tree branches offer direct reroll attempts for your remaining carry copies.

Post-E5 Transition and Transcendence Prep

After your Eloise reaches E5, your Starwish priorities shift toward maximizing her stats as a Cloud Island homeowner and preparing for your first Transcendence hero:

1. Rotate to Cloud Island Tenants: Replace Eloise's wish slot with Onkirimaru, Jahra, or additional Carrie copies. Leveling these tenants directly boosts Eloise's attack and HP, improving clears in Realm's Gate and Void Ark.
2. Stock Base Copies for Transcendence: Once direct tenants are stable, use Starwish to gather nine copies of a base hero (such as Aspen or Vesa). Having a fully prepared E5 base hero ensures that the moment you accumulate 5,000,000 Crystals of Transcendence, you can convert the unit immediately without waiting on hero copies.