War Inc: Rising Troop Recruitment and Mastery Guide

To maximize your army's strength in War Inc: Rising, save recruitment currencies for multi-pulls on targeted banners, promote lower-rarity duplicate cards early, and prioritize universal offensive stats within troop mastery trees. Troop mastery converts broad card collection and promotion progress into permanent, account-wide bonuses that enhance your units across Arena, Co-op, Clan Wars, and Infinite War.

How to Manage Recruitment Currencies

Recruiting troops provides duplicate cards needed for both unit star promotions and global mastery progression. Summons cost summon scrolls, recruitment tokens, or premium gems.

Apply these rules when spending recruitment resources:

• Save for multi-pull batches: Avoid spending currency on single summons as soon as you meet the minimum cost. Batch summons yield more consistent results and advance milestone meters that grant bonus recruitment chests.
• Reserve gems for targeted banners: Do not spend premium gems on standard summon pools. Hold them for rate-up events or banners with active wishlist features.
• Target core roles first: When wishlist options or rate-up banners become available, focus on primary frontline tanks and core backline damage dealers to secure your main formation.
• Retain bench duplicates: Lower-rarity pulls that never enter your active combat deck remain valuable. Every duplicate card generates mastery experience and progression tokens when upgraded.

How the Troop Mastery System Works

Troop mastery is an account-level progression system. Standard troop leveling improves only the specific card deployed on the battlefield. In contrast, troop mastery applies passive stat multipliers across your entire lineup or to specific unit classes.

Mastery Priority Across Unit Rarities

Directing all mastery resources exclusively toward Mythic and Epic units slows account progress. High-tier cards have low drop rates, making their milestone progression slow and expensive.

1. Advance Common and Rare units first: Low-rarity units drop frequently from standard recruitment pools. Upgrade them through their early mastery tiers immediately to secure fast, account-wide Attack and Health boosts.
2. Identify diminishing returns: When a low-rarity unit reaches high duplicate thresholds for small percentage gains, pause its mastery investment.
3. Transition to high-rarity units: Shift secondary resources and tokens into key Epic and Mythic units once your accessible units have cleared their early milestone thresholds.

A roster that completes mid-tier masteries across common cards gains consistent base stats, outperforming a top-heavy roster waiting on rare duplicates.

How to Allocate Mastery Stat Nodes

When mastery paths present branching nodes, invest in universal output and survivability before selecting narrow defensive bonuses:

1. Raw Attack and Attack Speed: Prioritize damage early to help your main carries clear campaign stages and eliminate threats in PvP before your front line breaks.
2. Universal Health and Damage Reduction: Invest in flat durability once basic damage thresholds are met. This keeps fragile ranged units alive against splash damage and backline flankers.
3. Situational perks: Avoid conditional perks that require low-health triggers or specific enemy matchups until core stat nodes are completed.

For class-specific mastery trees, reinforce each role's primary function:

• Melee Mastery: Select maximum Health, physical armor, and crowd-control resistance to maintain a sturdy front rank.
• Ranged Mastery: Select Attack Speed, flat Attack, and Critical Hit chance to maximize backline damage before enemy forces advance.
• Support Mastery: Select cooldown reduction, energy regeneration, and aura radius expansions to maintain continuous buff and healing uptime.

Recruitment and Mastery Pitfalls

• Summoning right before events: Timed recruitment events feature secondary milestone tracks that reward mastery items, bonus summon currency, and unit chests. Summoning outside these events wastes potential duplicate yields.
• Ignoring bench unit promotions: Cards outside your active deck still generate mastery experience when promoted. Regularly check your inventory to claim pending promotions on non-meta units.
• Spreading mastery tokens too thin: Do not distribute high-tier mastery tokens evenly across every unit at once. Pick your primary damage dealer and main tank, push them to their next major milestone tier, and then allocate the remaining tokens to support units.