IMPORTANT - WATCH THIS BEFORE You EMPOWER EPICS! 

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I'm just glad almost every Sacred shard is actually useful again

Ash looks like he was celebrating HARD before the video 😂

4:43 - Ash: "Let me take a look, I have a champ READY for the comparison" **Proceeds to take 3 days to find the champ**

I have 560 epics.. hated using them as chickens so I just stored them for a rainy day.. well hording has finally paid off

Great vid guys ! Poor Ash, looks like he just got home from an all night Diddy party.

Yes I have dupes. I've had dupes but used them as food or books.

A fully empowered Vergis will have over 23k HP and 1700 defense, not counting ascension stats. He could very well become a solo king once again. Vrask's base HP will now be over 33k to power his healing ability. Toragi becomes a much better ally protection champ. Skullcrown, Sinesha, and Fahrakin just became a nasty combo again. Anchorite becomes a viable campaign farmer in addition to his utility elsewhere. And of course, Maneater...

I just filled out Factin Gaurdian and started using dup epics for food. Definitely gonna miss some of them for awhile especially the Genobo/s I fed

I actually 6 starred my vogoth based off your video ash because i literally started with no healers. I had shaman for her revive in a shield set and kunoichi in life steal for her leech to try and carry me through most content starting out, then pulled a vogoth and omg I loved him lol. He helped me so much so thankyou again for shining the light on less utilized champs because lots of us don't have the Metas, but teaching us how to use what we have means so much.

Honestly I think they need to open empowerment to all champs period. For armiger that could be really helpful

The value of a Sacred Shard just went up.

3.5 month old player here, ftp. Last 2x ancients my first 3 epics (out of 5 total) was 3xsanguinia. So it most def happens. I think one of the CC pulled tripple Miscreated Monster during the hell hades ftp challenge. For the most part i'd say its more valuable in most cases to fill out faction guardians. Atleast until you get to do a +2.

Gala Longbraids smirking in the corner of the room 😎...

i wish they would have said something months ago before this came out because they flat out said that we would not be getting epic empowerment so most of the epic dupes that i pulled was used for food

Prism shard pools (the white one?) will be a lot more appealing when it's got a good Epic in the pool.

Hey Ash, You’ve touched on how the team filters been a great source identifying faction specific champions , debuffs, etc. Thoughts on the filter adding which champions have complete artifact sets? More so complete curse sets, provoke to minimize the back and forth from collection to quick team builds. Appreciate everything you do for the raid community, more importantly the upmost respect to what you bring back into the world.

+4 Oboro and Uugo for Hydra would be huge. I have a lot of criodan and a 6 star blessing for him. With crushing rend and a bit of dmg he could be help vs the fireknight waves. Royal guard, aniri, Shamael, Venom Mage, Vergis, Farakin and the list goes on. A +4 Criodan with 6 star blessing with full faction guardian is better than many baseline legendarys without all those stats.

Awesome content as always! I’ve been playing for about 6 months, account level 57, 100% f2p. And I personally have a Gorlos Hellmaw ready to empower +1 the moment this goes live. He’s my best epic, and my only champion with a 6 star blessing. I’m beyond excited for that.

I have been playing since Sept 7, 2022. Without touching my faction guardians, I have the following dupes of (imo) noteworthy epics: - 7 seekers (I run 2 in my 3:1 CB team) - 4 Taogor (top 5 epic EASILY imo) - 3 Demytha - 5 Meaneater (I have 3 built tho) - 4 geomancer - 3 Fenax - 2 Gorgorab - 4 Seer (excited for this one for sure) - 3 Genbo - 4 captain temilia (for whoever she will empower) - 3 Faceless - 4 Whisper - 3 Uugo (3 built) - 3 Alure (3 built) - I have several dupes of other epics (some as many as 3. But they are not used anywhere near the ones I mentioned)

I have 5 seekers that I've been holding onto for a seeker speed dream team but I might consider combining them for a MEGA seeker

At Champ Training events,I sometimes level Epic dupes that are in the Ring.When I pull duplicate Epics later,I check if there are leveled ones of the same Faction there.If so,I exchange them with the new one to level him on the next Train Event.The one already leveled gets to get leveled more to become a Chicken.So I never have the same Champs in there ....

I started playing Raid when Madame Serris came out, and I went over 1000 void shards dry before I ever pulled her. I was so frustrated and mad that I decided I'd just never use one as a chicken and thus I have 47 Madame Serris just sitting in the vault waiting to empower a good chunk of my 12x Madame Serris 3v3 defense team lol. It'll be nice to get that vault space back finally.

Also - even the extra stats may cause the clan boss stun target to change....

+4 Fenax is in my near future for sure! I've kept every copy of him for as long as I've been playing and my faction guards for sacred order are already filled out. I'm PUMPED!!!

Been playing since the end of 2019 and I do have some duplicate epics sitting around (especially MVPs like geomancer), but unfortunately I used quite a few as chickens over the years.

Agree for areas in DT for rare only rooms. Rare empowerment would be awesome too

Love the FENAX shoutout. He's actually become my #1 Arena nuker with his A1. I pair him with Armanz, Cardiel & Padraig and he takes out everyone. I have 1 dupe & unfortunately fed the other dupe I had. But He's definitely my #1 Epic to empower. I did just pull a 4* Soul for him as well!

they should definitely add rare empowerment. just based on the fact that soooo many teams use ch, renegade, pain keeper, ect. these are champs that would be easier to build and fit better into teams if you could ease up the requirement for getting them to survive while still being able to do their jobs. sure some of them fit just fine but for early game/new players it would ease their burden just enough.

I started playing after the tormin fusion, so about 3 and a bit years.. do i have epics hanging around? Yes, was i stockpiling no. I also used many as 4-star chickens and books. Space is definitely a problem. I'm not sure how many useful epics i have for empowering bc i tended to use the "crap" ones as chickens. I'll have to check what I've got. GREAT psa about the empowereing vs. faction guardians AND the "this will screw your speed tuning" (same thing applies to getting a 6* from a shard or the shop. I just had to regear my Heiress bc i found her 6* split in the shop and figured why not. Did my cb key, then went to the optimizer/calculator regear).

The moment they announced legendry empower, I kept every epic I pulled since then as it was a no brainer that epics would be next. I have 456 dupes and I'm going to make sure that all my best champs are sitting in the guardian ring and I'll be making a whole lot of space as I enjoy making a bunch of +4's. What's left will be food or books.

2 years in. I did not save Epics, so I'll be raiding my own Faction Guardians here and there to make a few empowered champs. The only two who I really care about are my 6-star Fenax and 5-star Whisper. They already hit like trucks, and all those stat boosts will help... sadly though, I only saved a single copy of each!

i watched alot of your vids when i first started out, about 1 year ago, and you talked about wanting epic empowerment, so i saved every single epic i pulled, and around 3 weeks ago i had alot of space issues so i got rid of all my dupes coz i didnt expect plarium so give us epic empowerment at this point. feel so bad

I was about to go mad empowering Epics; but, with only 1 dupe of most of them, I had to think about Faction Guardian bonuses. I then decided to only empower Epics not used as FGs. Sidebar: who's sacrificing Oboro for Taya?!? Great video Guys, thank you.

New drinking game! Every time Ash says, "To your point," viewers must down their favorite adult beverage. Just teasing, Ash. Awesome collab, and congrats on finally having your epic empowerment wish come true.

Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: What a filthy job. Igor: Could be worse. Dr. Frederick Frankenstein: How? Igor: Could be raining. [it starts to pour]

I have a lot of dupes, due to doing training tournaments to the bare minimum. I tend to use rares more if I can help it, and luckily I have a tendency to feed the better epic dupes last so I have few stags, deacons, etc. I don't think I'll have many at +3 or +4, but I'll have a fair amount of +2

Probably this is not the best place to talk about myself, but I have decided to quit Raid "Shadow of its former self" Legend because Plarium's greed is increasing month over month...I would like to take this occasion to thank Ash for his entertaining and informative content :D...Thanks mate !!

think what could happen for new players if they were to empower uncommon champions as well such as Armiger, Shieldguard and Zephyr Sniper to aid dungeon areas for progression, this could also help new players in campaign.

Since I'm not at the stage where I can empower leggos yet - is there any event that gives points for Empowerment? Wouldn't want to waste CVC or other points. Thanks for the vid guys! Would you recommend keeping a dupe of Stagknight? He's really good, but I don't remember anyone recommending to keep dupes of him in any videos I've watched - maybe good for some Sintranos stages?

I had a good amount saved, got Fenax and Genbo to +4, have enough for Fayne and Seeker but won't mess with their speed today, plus a bunch of +3 and lower. Had saved only for the ones u se the most or like a lot tho haha

Been playing around 1.5 years, and I am so ready to empower Miscreated Monster, Quargan the Crowned, and Stag Knight! I also have a spare Jarang, but not nearly as excited about that, lol.

I don't have permanent epic faction guardians because of the whole space issue. Dupes end up used as food or books as it stands.

i got zero dupes right now aside from the ones on my faction guardians... i think i didn't even heard about they changing their mind about empower epics... so i used all of my epic dupes for either books or chickens... but as a f2p player you always get enough dupes thanks to going for the fusions so i am not really punching myself about it...

I once pulled 3 Deacon’s within 20 ancients, and that was after I already had one maxed. Finally I have a use for the extra 3

Great vid fellas! Love the shout out about not empowering faction guardians. Would actually love your thoughts on a list of epic champs (if there are any) you would prioritise building multiple of before empowering!

I have a ton of Duplicates. I even have Triples of some Epics. But I never sacrifice Duplicate Epics or Legendaries. I use them for Faction Guardians or Empowerment.

Absolutely LOVE your videos, you are dang near my one stop stop for raid! My question is "is there any epic that you'd empower before closing out epic faction guardians

I hate to say it, as I love HH Gaming, but Saph is very much talking end game when he says it's not going to be a big deal. I am level 100, but a very low spender, and I am thrilled to get this. I don't have any mythics, so him saying those are were the game is, is very narrow minded. But I have tons of dup epics and now I can turn some of those from holding down my vault, to being must use champs for my account. I don't have any meta nukers for arena, but I have a pretty good build for Genbo. Making him +4 is going to be awesome! Royal Guard at +4 is going to be a factor in Hydra (I think), because now he won't be so squishy. Burangiri stat requirements for solo are suddenly a lot easy to reach. This is going to be huge for people, unless you are a whale and very endgame.

I've been playing 3 years now, and free to play the whole time.. keep up the good work.

Playing 3.5 years and I don’t use epics as chickens, I was using some for skill ups early on but with over 200 epic skill books sitting around I’ve been hoarding epics for this someday and now I’ll be able to +4 over 60 epics right away

Of course they finally rolled this out after I cleared out all my piles of dupes for skill ups last CvC lol. I don't see it so much as a method to keep up with higher tier champs and more like a solid reason to not be upset about a dupe epic. The bonus stats are just a nice little bonus to make what was a useless pull into something more valuable. I'm hoping a few choice empowerments will push me finally for the last 4m or so on clan boss for 1 key ultra nm personally.

Ash tell Saf this is the way 1 Whisper + 4 copies = Legendary 🎉

Ash before the video:” tonight will be the night “ 🎉 😂

I have +2'd Dark Kael, Sammael, Royal Guard, and Zargala. +1's Geomancer, Uugo, and Mordecai I will absolutely +4 all those as soon I can. I can name a dozen others I will be doing as soon as I get dupes as well.

I am on day 181, and I have already pulled 4 Magnarrs and 3 Vogoths

I'm still progressing as in no dungeons complete faction wars incomplete and can't even finish hydra easy. I have 3 rearward sergeants and I am thrilled to get 20% extra stats on her

You move Saph offscreen to do the MATHS?

On a champ like wuji with that low hp even a +4 wont do much for you, like almost 3700 health for the +4, its like nothing. On champs with thrash base stats, unless they are damaged based, this actually does nothing in terms of survivability, mostly useful for supports (acc) and damage dealers

Fenax was my only block revive champ for ages. I love him.

Royal knight, Fenax, Husk, Genbo, Seer, Madam, Deacon, Shamael, Skullcrown, Neldor

"Back in our day..." loved that:)

So I've been really smart and have never used epics to lvl up anyone. So I've got 10 chaps I can take to 4* empowerment. Also say your pulling 100 ancient shards you could easily get 3 of the epics you need. When they do there progressive chance.

That Archmage might be key for the Cursed City level your working on!

The dude popping over Saphs shoulder is great 💚

does the stat bonus' from classic arena(great hall) carry to other areas of the game or just arena?

I find my Fenax useful in arena still. His A1 hits very hard and prevents revives. My opponents will try to stop his A2 or A3, but his A1 is where he excels, you can't stop him.

I've been playing for about a year and a half and I still don't even have faction guardians filled... So no dups to spare right now lol

I think empowering epics will help more with PVE stuff. However old school arena teams with sine and skullcrown could be ok. I’ve got a 6 star blessing Geo waiting to be a +4.

Playing for 4 years now. Pulled Only ONE Geomancer, Seer, Aniri, Fenax. The higher number of Dup epics I have is 3, which is Tallia. So I believe as F2P all of people would have terrible luck like me and wouldn't be able to +4 any epic for now. Plus alot of people have been sacrificing these epics, the introduction of Sintranos curb that a bit.

I was thinking about how are they going to monetize this and now I know, progressive chance. People will buy chards to empower the epic they want

I built Gerhard a long time ago but once Archmage was introduced to the game his increase crit buff is redundant.

playing since the deliana freebie, I have never once fed an epic, I have 900~ champ slots open, I knew they would do something at some point, I cant wait for champion leveling to not be a nightmare of dealing with 8 open slots again.

im still early-mid game so dont have many dupes but i do have 3 orns and was looking at eventually just having him as a solo dungeoneer for when i want to just do runs while i work so this is great :)

Damn....and I had recently cleared all my Epic dupes.

4 years, pulled 10 Geos, crunched 8. 5 Godseekers, 7 Stags, 3 Seers etc etc. S O B!!!

Well Plaruim finally heard us saying we need more 5 star chickens, they said how about a 6 star chicken. ..

I've been playing just under a year. Artak was my login bonus when I started. I will be able to +3 Seeker and Uugo. Aside from that I don't have many I'd empower. Is Giscard worth am empowerment? 🤔

I have some dups ready now, but other than faction guardians, I wasn't stocking them up.

Ich spiele jetzt seit etwas über ein Jahr. Habe die Fraktionswächter noch nicht voll. Und bisher nicht einen Epic als Hühnchen missbraucht. Was ich sehe, ist das die Gruft zwischen f2p und p2w wieder etwas größer werden wird. Bein PVE nicht so schlimm, aber beim PVP.. Was Plarium sich mal überlegen sollte, wären mehrere Server. Als Neuling gegen jemanden anzutreten der bereits 2 3 usw Jahre länger spielt kann sehr frustrierend sein.

For new and mid game players ...they don't really have enough dupe epics to empower. For late game it is not as impactful. Also, any benefit from empowerment needs to be countered by missing your faction guardian bonus if you are not maxxed in your faction guardians. I still think it's a general good thing though.

Fayne!!! She's my clan boss everything!!

For rare empowerment they should give similar stats but just require more copies to reach those stats. Like to empower Kael maybe you need 4 copies to get to +1?

Genbo is my gold5 nuker with a 6star crushing rend. Will most likely be the first to empower. Has the juice to win most matches as is.... fully empowered should be insane.

Excited about this update. Do you know when they will be adding it in?

Looks like my inability to use my dup epics for food or skill upgrades has finally paid off 😂

TBH im shocked they did the same empowement as LEGO's i thought it was going to be limited to +2 for epics instead of +4. SO GLAD they gave it all! NOW JUST ADD RARE EMPOWERMENT!

SUPER HAPPY/EXCITED for this….shoulda been dome ALONG time to go but better late than never! Just sux I’ve used SOOOOO many Epics for food etc over the last 3-4 years that I’ve prolly missed out on 10-15 +4s that i coulda had

would love to see a list of epics that you might ant a second copy of VS empowering

do we know if we get cvc points for empowering

I have saved a few epics. Not because of empowerment hopes, but they are great as 4 star chickens and I used them for fusions.

Congrats on 200k subs!

Glad to see that Maeve can be used for djamarsa, got 3x Maeve and a 6* awakened djamarsa

The only duplicates i get are rares, uncommon and common...

I will instantly +1 my Fenax (dam, wish I'd saved more dupes!), and +4 my Seer, Madame & Geo. (Luckily I kept every dupe of these I ever got!)

i have 4 geos, would you empower them? i have 1 at 60 fully done and 3 at 50

Hey Guys, What am I doing wrong, I battled on dragon dungeon hard 10 and also hope to get points for Dungeons divers but I hardly see getting much points there? What do you guys do?

Yes, I had a ton of dupes ready to go. I did so really hoping this day would come. Lots of +4s on day one.

new account started with Decon and pulled him as my 1st epic did save him for guardians just over 30 days

The epic empowerment will help FTP a little. FTPrs may not have enough dupes for guardians and empowerment. Rare empowerment would help tremendously, I have 7-8 rares of fully upgraded rares I'm lucky if I have 2 epics.