Last War: How to Get Red Blueprints and Upgrade Gear

To upgrade five-star Level 40 UR gear to Mythic tier in Last War, you must collect Red Blueprints. These materials are heavily gated, requiring non-spending players to save competitive currencies and milestone tokens across multiple weeks. Once secured, your immediate action should always be upgrading the offensive weapon of your primary squad's main damage dealer.

Primary Acquisition Channels for Red Blueprints

Red Blueprints cannot be easily farmed from standard stage grinding. You must gather them systematically through permanent currency shops, cross-server milestones, and seasonal event centers.

Competitive Shops and Milestones

Honor Shop: Reserve Honor Points specifically for high-end bottlenecks. Avoid spending Honor tokens on basic speedups, standard recruitment tickets, or common resources, as those are widely available through daily play. Purchase Red Blueprints or blueprint chests whenever they appear in the shop rotation.
Arena Token Shop: When weekly arena payouts arrive or an arena season ends, check the store inventory before buying hero shards. Treat blueprint chests as your highest priority purchase.
Warzone Duels: Active participation in weekend server clashes and capital wars yields milestone crates. Being in an active, top-ranking alliance ensures your alliance reaches the upper reward tiers that distribute blueprint fragments and completion chests.

Seasonal Campaigns and Timed Events

Limited-time campaigns—such as Season 1, Season 2, and seasonal carnivals—provide the largest influx of prints for free-to-play commanders.

Event Type	Acquisition Method	Blueprint Allocation	Priority Action
Seasonal Exchange Shops	Completing seasonal alliance objectives and territory captures	Fixed stock (typically 1–3 per phase)	Purchase all available Red Blueprints before redeeming secondary materials or cosmetics.
Carnival / Milestone Draws	Accumulating event tickets or gems on milestone tracks	Milestone threshold rewards	Hoard draw items until you have enough to guarantee reaching the specific blueprint milestone.
Cross-Server Invasions	Server-wide damage rankings and boss participation	Ranking and reward chests	Coordinate rallies with top alliance members during active damage buff periods.

If you cannot reach the guaranteed blueprint milestone in a draw-based carnival event, save your currency for a future rotation. Spending partial resources on low-tier filler rewards stalls your long-term progression.

Radar Tasks and Weekly Routines

Legendary Secret Tasks: Use your free daily refreshes on radar secret tasks to hunt for orange and red-bordered tasks. When alliance members initiate rare material tasks, assist immediately to secure cooperative reward chests.
Arms Race and Alliance Duels: Reaching stage nine in daily and weekly Arms Race cycles awards equipment component chests that gradually accumulate the materials needed to support gear promotions.

Spending Strategy: Premium Bundles

If you spend real currency, avoid standard daily resource packs, which offer poor blueprint-per-dollar value. Focus your budget on:

Tiered holiday event passes that guarantee a Red Blueprint at an intermediate milestone.
Limited Black Market discounts offering direct blueprint purchases.
Special bundles that pair prints with exclusive weapon shards or drone components.

Gear Upgrade Priority Order

Red Blueprints deliver substantial attack, survivability, and damage reduction boosts, but misplacing them slows your squad's combat scaling. Apply your prints strictly in this sequence:

Main Attacker's Weapon: Upgrade the primary offensive weapon (such as Kimberly's gun in a Tank lineup or DVA's cannon in an Aircraft lineup). Boosting raw Attack on your primary carry allows you to break through high-defense frontlines in PvP and PvE.
Main Frontline Armor or Radar: Upgrade the defensive chest piece or radar on your primary tank (such as Murphy or Carlie). Boosting frontline survivability keeps your blockers alive long enough for your backline attackers to trigger their skills.
Secondary Attacker's Weapon: Promote the weapon of your second damage dealer only after your main attacker and primary tank have their core Mythic gear equipped.

Never divide blueprints across secondary squads or spend them on support hero gear early on. Concentrating your initial Red Blueprints on your main carry yields the highest combat return in Warzone Duels, Desert Storm, and Apex arena matches.