AFK Journey Characters info

If you've played AFK Arena, you will see a lot of familiar faces in AFK Journey, but the character system has quite a lot of differences between the games.

• Characters belong to one of 6 factions:
  
  Maulers
  
  Lightbearers
  
  Wilders
  
  Graveborn
  
  Celestial
  
  Hypogean,
• 
  Celestial
  
  Hypogean are the 'Angel / Devil' faction of the game and they are harder to obtain and ascend,
• Characters belong to one of 6 classes:
  
  Mage
  
  Marksman
  
  Rogue
  
  Support
  
  Tank
  
  Warrior,
• Characters in this game are split into
  
  A-Level and two
  
  S-Level,
• 
  A-Level characters are easier to obtain from gacha and also cost less in various shops compared to
  
  S-Level ones,
• But this doesn't make them weaker - among the
  
  A-Level characters you can actually find some of the best characters in the game,
• Both
  
  A-Level and
  
  S-Level can be ascended to the highest tier (Supreme +),
• The fodder system has been removed and instead, you just need dupes of the character you want to ascend or Acorns (faction-tied currency that you get from shops and pulls),
• Each character has 3 skills which will automatically level up whenever they reach the required level,
• A character needs to reach the Legendary+ tier to unlock Hero Focus that gives them bonus to one of their stats or gives a brand new effect,
• A character needs to reach the Mythic+ tier to unlock Exclusive Weapon which gives them a new passive skill (that can be upgraded up by leveling the EX Weapon),
• A character needs to reach the Supreme+ tier to unlock Skill Enhancement that give an additional effect to one of the their skills,
• Characters don't need to be equipped with gear anymore, as the system has been replaced by Class-based Equipment system - you simply gather gear that the Class can wear and every character within the Class will automatically wear it in the battle,
• Thanks to the Resonating Hall, you just need to level 5 characters and automatically every other character on your account will be leveled up to the lowest level among those 5 - no need to reset characters or switch them around with limited spots like in AFK Arena,
• Also at any point, you can change the top 5 characters in the Resonating Hall by simply dragging them around.

Here's some more information about each of the six available factions.

The class categorizations only loosely define what kinds of abilities the characters will have. Tanks for example, are usually durable front liners designed to take a brunt of the damage, but there are a lot of categories also within the classes themselves.

If you want to check all characters that are available in the game, go here:

Characters in AFK Journey don't need to equip gear anymore, as the system has been replaced by Class-based Equipment system - you simply gather gear that the Class can wear and every character within the Class will automatically wear it in the battle. This makes gear management not only much easier to handle, but also it allows you to try different characters and easily swap them before the battle when you need their specific skillset.

To find out the best priority of equipment upgrades for each class and more information about the Equipment, check our other guide:

When you upgrade a character to their Mythic+ tier, their Exclusive Item becomes available to unlock and upgrade. This Exclusive Item grants a set of stats tailored towards the character it is for and unlocks a 4th ability in their kit (known as an EX or Exclusive Skill).

The Exclusive Item can be upgraded using special Stones, but depending on the level of the EX weapon you will have to find higher rarity versions of them and reach higher tier for the character:

Before 240

• To level up a character you will need
  
  Gold and
  
  Experience - both can be obtained from AFK Stages and as various rewards,
• Still, every 10 levels, on top of
  
  Gold and
  
  Experience you will also need
  
  Essence. And Essence will usually be the material you will lack the most and you will have to 'idle' for hours (and later days) to obtain enough of it to push a character through the level 10 upgrade.

Post 240

This system changes once you reach the 240 level cap on your top 5 characters and now instead of leveling them, you will level the Resonance Hall. And the level cap will increase by 5 for every Supreme+ character you posses. You will also need only

Essence moving forward and on top of that you will obtain Diamonds every time you level past level 300.

In AFK Journey the concept of fodder has been removed and the whole Ascension system has been simplified. Now, to ascend a character you either need to gather their dupes or faction-tied Acorns (which can be obtained from various shops or from pulling). The table below shows all the currently available tiers in the game and the requirements to reach them.

To learn more about the Ascension system, check this guide: