Last Beacon: Survival: How to Increase Combat Power

To increase your Combat Power (CP) in Last Beacon: Survival, funnel your upgrade materials into a single core squad, enhance offensive gear slots first, and keep your central facility and military research queues constantly active. Spreading resources across your entire roster dilutes your combat strength and stalls campaign progress. Concentrating on your primary march ensures you meet the stat requirements necessary to push campaign milestones, complete defense stages, and farm higher-tier nodes.

Focus Hero Investment on a Core Lineup

Spreading Combat EXP and breakthrough materials evenly across every unlocked character slows overall CP gains. To build momentum, invest exclusively in your main team, leading with your primary damage dealer and frontline tank.

• Break Level Caps Early: Hero levels frequently halt at star advancement thresholds. Prioritize farming character shards and breakthrough insignia so your main units do not sit at experience caps.
• Unlock Multiplicative Skills: Star promotions provide substantial CP increases because they upgrade active and passive skills in addition to boosting base attack and health.
• Cap Levels to Base Progress: Always raise your primary damage dealer to the maximum level allowed by your current account and facility limits before spending leftover EXP on secondary supports.

Optimize Gear Enhancements and Sets

Equipment provides direct, predictable stat increases across your lineup. Because campaign stages often feature strict time limits or aggressive damage checks, prioritize offensive gear slots over defensive ones.

1. Enhance Offensive Slots First: Upgrade weapons and gloves before armor and helmets to maximize offensive CP and clear enemy waves faster.
2. Equip Matching Sets: Match equipment pieces from the same set to trigger flat and percentage-based synergy bonuses, which raise your CP without additional upgrade costs.
3. Target Enhancement Milestones: Enhance gear in increments that trigger milestone stat bonuses—such as levels 5, 10, and 15—before shifting resources to auxiliary squad members.
4. Prioritize Rarity: Higher-grade equipment (Epic and Legendary) features higher base attributes and better scaling per level than lower-tier gear.
5. Salvage Old Equipment: Use the gear salvage and transfer systems when replacing outdated gear to reclaim spent upgrade components for your new items.

Align Military Research and Facility Upgrades

Your central command facility dictates the level caps for production and training structures. If your base infrastructure falls behind, hero and troop progression will stall. Keep your central facility upgrading continuously, and schedule longer construction projects overnight.

In the research lab, prioritize technologies that directly increase combat output:

Global attack and defense percentages raise the effective power of every deployed unit, elevating your overall rating across all game modes simultaneously.

Upgrade Troop Tiers and Formation Synergy

Raw hero levels account for only part of your combat strength; the tier and quantity of soldiers in your march heavily influence total CP.

• Promote Unit Tiers: Higher-tier military units significantly raise the baseline power ceiling of your march compared to lower-tier troops.
• Activate Faction and Class Synergy: Pair commanders that trigger formation resonance buffs, such as increased critical hit chance, damage mitigation, or energy regeneration.
• Maintain Full March Capacity: Always field the maximum number of troops allowed by your current command limit, and check your barracks regularly to ensure lower-tier units are replaced with your highest-tier soldiers.

Establish a Daily Progression Loop

To prevent mid-game bottlenecks, cycle through a daily maintenance routine:

1. Claim Idle Rewards: Collect shelter generation before resource storage caps out.
2. Spend Daily Stamina: Run limited-attempt material trials, elite campaign nodes, and boss challenges to collect hero breakthrough badges and gear enhancement stones.
3. Eliminate Queue Downtime: Start new building construction and lab research before logging off to ensure your base gains power continuously.