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Chrono Astraea is an idle gacha RPG where you collect legendary heroes and epic loot to strengthen them and allow you to tackle harder challenges and various game modes. As you collect more heroes, managing them becomes a major task in ensuring that they’re combat-ready for the challenges ahead. In our Hero Management Guide, we will discuss the various ways you can manage your heroes.


You can obtain most heroes through summoning, combining Soul Shards, and low-level heroes are included in idle rewards. Of course, you’ll normally keep a handful of them, usually your favorites and/or high-tier ones to make up your main team, as well as having reliable reserve units. The other heroes can either be retired for Sunstones or combined as evolution fodders. Regardless, you’ll have to manage your hero roster one way or another, and we’re here to help you understand the different aspects of Chrono Astraea’s hero management. You can see all heroes in your inventory by tapping the Heroes icon in the bottom menu.

Team Lineup

From this screen, you can see your team line up on the top of the screen. If you tap edit, you’ll be able to manually select your active team members. You can have up to five different teams, which is ideal if you’re planning to follow a theme or just want to have dedicated teams for different modes in the game.

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Next, you can try out the various formations available. Choosing the right formation can give you an advantage in battle, depending on your team lineup. Obviously, we would want your defenders and physical attackers in the front line, while your vulnerable units like healers, support, debuffers, etc should remain in the middle or rear positions.

Finally, we can set the Leader. Each character has a Leader Skill. You’re free to select which leader skill to activate. While leader effects normally apply to all allies, you have to take note of certain leader effects that are only applied on allies with certain attributes (e.g. Light Allies, Dark Allies, etc) You can also level up these skills using Sunstones, as you would do with ordinary attack skills.

Level Up

Leveling up a hero is pretty straightforward; you just need to use Gold and Elixir of Experience. These are pretty common materials that you can get easily from idle rewards, quests, and other simple gameplay tasks. You can only level up a character based on her Max Level cap. This is initially determined by the character’s grade/rarity. For example, 2-star heroes have a level cap of 40, 3-star characters up to LV60, and so on. This “hard cap” can be increased by increasing the character’s star through Evolution (please refer to our dedicated page for this process).

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There’s also another limiter called a “soft level cap”. You’ll know when you reach this spot once you’re also required to submit Soulcruxes to level up the character, on top of the standard gold and elixir of experience requirements. This is considered a soft level cap because even if your character has a max level limit of 100, you can still encounter this soulcrux requirement as you increase the levels, and you won’t be able to level up without the required amount of soulcruxes anyway. Similar to gold and elixirs, you can gather soulcruxes from idle rewards and other sources of rewards since they’re not entirely rare but instead come in smaller amounts. Obviously, the amount of gold, elixirs, and soulcruxes required will increase as you gain levels.

Evolution

Evolution is the process of permanently increasing a character’s grade (star), increasing their hard level cap while also boosting all stats. Evolution is permanent; even if you reset the character, their latest evolution stage will remain the same. You can evolve a character right from the start. This is somewhat refreshing since normally in other games, you have to max out at least the character’s level (until a certain point) before you can evolve them. This early access to evolution gives you a lot of options and you don’t have to waste your time and resources leveling up a hero you want to evolve. As mentioned above, we will discuss this on its own page.

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Gear

Each character can equip up to four equipment pieces: headgear, armor, footwear, and weapon. Some of these equipment can only be used by specific character classes but nevertheless, always ensure that at least all your main characters have a full set equipped. Each equipment piece will also come with their own set of skills and effects. As of this writing, I haven’t discovered or unlocked yet a method of modifying/rerolling/changing these built-in effects.

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Additionally, you can also enhance your equipment up to +20. To do this, you’ll need gold and Nether Embers. The latter can be obtained from Idle Rewards but in small numbers. The amount of gold and embers needed will increase as you gradually increase the equipment’s level. So far, I don’t see any way to reset or recycle unwanted weapons and gears as of this writing.

Skills

Each character has five skills available to them; four are combat skills while the last one is a Leader skill that will only get activated if the character is chosen as a team’s leader. The other four skills are combat skills, two of which are already unlocked from the start. The other two will be unlocked once the character reaches Resonance 5 and Resonance 15 with their Astral Gears.

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You can also Enhance (level up) skills to increase their effectiveness and base stats using Sunstones. You can get this material from idle rewards but you can get a large chunk of it by retiring heroes and completing quests. You should consider enhancing skills first that will complement the hero's intended role. For example, if you’re leveling up the skills of a healer, focus on enhancing the healing skills first instead of their basic attack.

Astral Gear

These are special sets that are unique to their respective characters. Each hero has a unique astral gear set. If you open the Astral Gear screen you’ll find different colored slots. You can insert various Regalia into these slots, as long as they match the colors. Each regalia has specific bonus stats and effects, which you can further enhance/evolve by feeding it another regalia. Red, green, and Blue regalia can be socketed into their respective identical-colored slots. On the other hand, yellow slots can only accept Elder Regalia while Prismatic slots can accept ANY colored regalia except Elder ones.

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Each slot also has an arrow, indicating the next slot that will be unlocked once you have inserted a regalia into that slot. For each inserted regalia, the character’s Resonance is increased by 1. After reaching Resonance 5, the hero’s Might Skill will be unlocked, and at Resonance 15, their ultimate skill will be unlocked. We have more information about Regalias and Astral Gear in their own dedicated page.

Golgotha

This is not really part of the main hero screen. Instead, you have to take Arkenvale then tap the Golgotha icon. This facility allows you to Retire extra heroes that you have to free up some space and convert them into Sunstones (that you can use to upgrade hero skills). You can also press the R button to automatically select all (unlocked) R heroes in your roster and retire them all in one batch.

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Additionally, you can use the Quick Evolve section to easily all heroes that can be evolved, with the consideration that you have enough resources. Always review the pre-selected heroes before going through this process to avoid accidentally using a hero you don’t want to lose. Finally, we can Reset a hero back to default level by paying some diamonds. You’ll recover all gold, soulcruxes, and elixirs of experience used to level them up. The hero’s grade (stars) will not be affected by this action.

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That concludes our Hero Management Guide for Chrono Astraea. Please check out our online guide for the game and other articles for moreChrono Astraea content!



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PaulVhayste started writing free guides and walkthroughs in 2006 for several online gaming sites. He has written hundreds of guides covering games from a wide variety of genres across different platforms. He's an avid JRPG and mobile gaming fan, and regularly plays games on the PC, Steam Deck, PS5, and mobile platforms. He strives to continue making comprehensive and easy-to-follow guides for his readers.

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