Awakening Heroes

UPDATE: In Jan 2016, the missions for A to S awakening has been modified, hence the Stage Task Breakdown is no longer accurate. However, you still can farm Adventure Hearts from A heroes before swapping to your S hero, you just need to note that the sequence of missions of A to S is now different, and there may/may not be possible changes in future. Nevertheless, the general strategy for hearts farming remains the same.


Hello all PlusOPers (and dp3d stalkers) its been a while! Since SS awakening is such a hot topic and everyone asks the same questions, I’m going to compile all of them here.

Things you need to know

Minimum level required for each hero to do Awakening is Lv80. If you can’t find your desired hero in the list, check your hero again. 

Awakening tasks generally follow the same pattern. S to SS heroes have roughly the same sequence, while A to S to SS follows another similar sequence. Occasionally you will find some typos in the task/mission numbering for certain heroes, else they should all be the same. If you have a hero that has a different task/mission breakdown, try not to give up midway to avoid mishaps.

When you choose to "Give Up", Stage progress will be saved. However, Task progress will be lost. This means that you will need to redo the entire Stage all over from the first task.

This means that if you give up on Stage 2 Task 3, you will need to redo missions from Stage 2 Task 1 should you decide to resume your awakening quests on this hero. 

Remember to click on BEGIN TASK before you actually proceed to do your mission. 

Stage Task Breakdown

A to S

S to SS

To avoid referring mistakes, I will not list the specific map stages. You can click on the 'Mission' button and the game will bring you to the correct stage/map. 

How to get Adventure’s Hearts?

You can only farm Adventure’s Hearts if you are AT the task that requires you to turn in the 30 hearts.

You have limited attempts at Heroic stages to farm your hearts, if you want to speed up your progress you need to spend gold to refresh the stage.

Never never never never never neverrrrrrrrr EVER farm your hearts at the 2nd last stage of S to SS awakening, You only have 3 hits at the boss stage, which requires 3 energy per hit, and the Soul drop rate is low. You are only wasting your precious energy, gold for refresh, and prolonging the number of days required.

You can SPEED UP the progress of gathering your Adventure’s Hearts considerably if you farm 29 of them first on Stage 3 Task 2 of A to S awakening (Nami/Sanji/Brook etc). After you collect 29 hearts, cancel the mission and swap to your desired S hero. The hearts will remain in your bag and you can use them for your next mission.

Why farm the hearts from the mission of A to S awakening?

Instead of the Heroic Boss stage, A to S Heroic Adventure’s Hearts gathering is on the first WHITE stage of the chapter. You will have 5 hits instead of 3, for only 2 energy each, plus there is a regular drop rate of Hero’s treasure pack where you can get a bunch of extra items, especially those fishballs! In the long run you will save a WHOLEEE ton of time plus get extra stuff, pretty neat huh?

On top of that, if you cancel the mission of the A to S after your 29th heart, your Stage progress is still saved. This means when you need to farm the hearts again, all you need to do is go back to the same A class hero, hit Franky’s Workshop 10 times (you can also keep re-doing this task for extra gold chests and orbs), and tadaaaaa you are ready to farm them immediately once again~!

IMPORTANT!

Do NOT hit 30 Adventure’s Hearts if you intend to cancel the mission at 29 and swap to your desired hero. If you accidentally hit 30 hearts, the ‘Give Up’ button will disappear. (Thanks Barto!) You will then have no choice but to either proceed or dump/inherit the hero in order to retain your hearts.

If you do accidentally hit 30 hearts, you have a 2nd chance at collecting your 29 hearts at the next task (Normal white stage sailing, approx 100 energy to collect all 29 hearts).

And nope, you cannot farm more than 30 hearts because I've tried it with normal sailing on Nami. *pffffft* (I know what you are thinking there~! xD)

Where to get Marine’s Soul and Pirate’s Will?

They are available for farming at every BOSS stage at 5th, 15th 25th, 35th, 45th, 55th chapters of Heroic Sailing. The drops alternate for each following chapter, meaning:

Animal Island – Marine’s Soul

Whisky Peak – Pirate’s Will

Skypia – Marine’s Soul

Memory Sea 2 – Pirate’s Will

Puffing Tom – Marine’s Soul

Tit for tat – Pirate’s Will

Unlike Adventure’s Hearts, you can farm these items ANYTIME, meaning that you do not need to be at the mission to farm these items.

If you hit all these stages regularly/everyday, you should have no problem having enough items by the time you reach the last stage of your awakening.

After Awakening

The hero's level will be adjusted according to his current EXP pool. You will notice a slight reduction in the hero’s level. 

Potential distribution is also reset according to the new hero's level. A portion of Orbs will be refunded and you need to re-orb the hero from scratch. 

Zeal progress will NOT be affected, unless your hero falls below lvl 39 after the conversion.

Breakouts will be reset and all souls will be refunded. First breakout for SS now requires 68 souls, and 90 for the second. Do not trust the breakout stats shown on the screen because there are a ton of errors. Always look at your stats BOTH before and after breakout to get the accurate numbers.

After SS awakening, you get a new shiny golden hero!! *yayyy*