To unlock reward chests during the Thursday Alliance Duel in Top Lords, save and spend your hero progression materials exclusively during the event window. Thursday's duel phase focuses on hero development, awarding event points for recruiting heroes, ranking up star levels, spending Hero EXP, and upgrading hero skills.
Thursday Alliance Duel Scoring Sources
Thursday's scoring depends entirely on hero development actions. Free-to-play and low-spending accounts often miss chest milestones because they spend growth items during the week instead of waiting for the event.
Points are awarded across four main categories:
- Hero Recruitment: Summoning heroes in the Tavern using normal or advanced recruitment tokens. Advanced tokens grant higher point yields per pull.
- Hero Star Upgrades: Increasing a hero's star rating using duplicate hero shards or universal shards. High-rarity units (Legendary and Epic) award significantly more points per star promotion than Rare units.
- Hero Leveling: Spending Hero EXP items to raise hero levels.
- Hero Skill Upgrades: Using skill points or skill books to improve active and passive hero abilities.
Weekly Resource Preparation
Reaching the higher chest tiers requires holding materials in your inventory until Thursday's reset.
| Resource Type | What to Save | What to Avoid |
|---|---|---|
| Recruitment Tokens | Normal and Advanced recruitment tokens | Spending single summons throughout the week |
| Hero Shards | Unopened shard chests and ready star promotions | Upgrading star ratings between Friday and Wednesday |
| Hero EXP | Bundled EXP items from tasks and campaign stages | Leveling secondary heroes immediately upon obtaining them |
| Skill Materials | Skill books and accumulated skill points | Spending skill materials incrementally for small interim stat gains |
Before spending any resources on Thursday, verify your Alliance Technology tree. Nodes that increase Alliance Duel point multipliers boost the points earned per action, reducing the total items required to reach each chest threshold.
Step-by-Step Scoring Order
Spend materials in a phased order to avoid wasting resources once you clear your target chest milestone:
- Perform Tavern recruitments first: Claim your free daily recruitments, then use your saved tokens. Duplicate pulls generate additional shards and skill materials that immediately feed into the next scoring categories.
- Execute planned star promotions: Upgrade your primary march commanders using accumulated character-specific shards. If you use universal shards, verify you have enough to complete a full star level; partial progress toward a star awards zero event points.
- Fine-tune score thresholds with Hero EXP: Star promotions award large, rigid point values, while Hero EXP can be applied in small increments. Use EXP items to bridge the remaining point gap toward your final target chest.
- Stop at chest nine: Guaranteed personal milestone rewards cap at chest nine. Unless your alliance is competing for a close leaderboard rank that requires maximum contribution, save any leftover hero materials for the next weekly cycle.
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Emily Johnson
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Good guide for Top Lords players. The heroes part was useful.
This helped me understand heroes much better.
I tried this today and it worked better than my old setup.
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