This guide will explain how to be the efficient with your Energy expenditure in RAID Shadow Legends when it comes to leveling up champions who you plan to keep and have Masteries on.
The Wrong way
Straight away to say the wrong way: a player gets a new champion they love and they rank it up to 6 star and level it up to level 60 with their campaign farmer or dungeon farmer. Then they gear it and either buy the Masteries with gems or start grinding the Masteries. And finally they have a fully ready champion.
There are many things wrong (in terms of it being inefficient) with the above way. This blog post will focus on the leveling up part:
Experience needed to max a 5* and 6*
- 963,806 Experience is needed to max out a 5 star champion
- 2,010,669 Experience is needed to max out a 6 star champion
Experience we get from Minotaur
- 4,152 Experience for 1 champion with x2 EXP
- 2,076 half without the x2 EXP
Estimating # of Minotaur runs required to max Masteries
- (5 champions) for Basic scrolls: 500 / 28 = 17.9 runs * 14 energy = 250 energy
- (5 champions) for Advanced scrolls: 3000 / 13.5 = 222.2 runs * 14 energy = 3111 energy
- (5 champions) for Divine scrolls: 4750 / 9 = 527.8 runs * 14 energy = 7389 energy
- (5 champions) Total energy cost to have the first 5 champions maxed = 10750 energy
- (1 champion) Energy cost for 1 champion =10750 / 14 energy per run / 5 champions = 153.57 runs expected
* thanks to NODsBlackHand for the energy calculation on Reddit
Number of runs
- 122 minimum runs if one is more lucky with higher scroll drops
- 154 would be expected number of runs in average
Experience we will expect to receive from the Minotaur
- 639,408 for the 154 runs for 1 champion with x2 EXP
- or 319,704 for 1 champion without x2 EXP
That means that since we will get this experience we do not need to farm this!
FINAL CONCLUSION & CHART
Therefore, based on the above calculations we only need to level up our "keeper" champions to:
For champions you plan to keep at 5 Star:
- (with x2 EXP) Level up only to to Level 37 with regular farming and the rest will come from the Minotaur (639,408 EXP).
- (without x2 EXP) Level up only to to Level 46 with regular farming and the rest will come from the Minotaur (319,704 EXP).
For champions you plan to max to 6 Star:
- (with x2 EXP) Level up only to to Level 55 with regular farming and the rest will come from the Minotaur (639,408 EXP).
- (without x2 EXP) Level up only to to Level 58 with regular farming and the rest will come from the Minotaur (319,704 EXP).
Finally, I wanted to show you my chart where I visualize the cumulative experience needed to max out a 5 star and a 6 star champion. You can see that:
- (on the right in blue) a 5 star needs almost a million EXP to max.
- (on the right in purple) a 6 star needs ~2 million EXP to max.
- (in red color) I have shown in red the places where we should stop leveling champions as explained in this blog post corresponding to the levels noted above.
