In this post, I will provide a detailed explanation of the hero Jacob, covering how to obtain him, upgrade his skills and talent tree, and integrate him with other heroes.
How to get Jacob?
The only way to obtain Jacob is by acquiring 10 of his fragments during the Ranged Top Commander Event. This is the only method, and the Top Commander is a challenging competition where you need to rank at least top 15 to obtain 10 fragments.
Talent Tree
Jacob is a ranged-type hero with secondary talent trees in Garrison and Defense. You can use Jacob on the field or in garrison. I recommend using Jacob as leader with the Defense talent tree and some points in the Ranged Squad talent tree. You can have a pretty tanky ranged squad with AOE damage. His build for field would look like this:
You can also use him as your garrison captain if you’re mainly focused on ranged troops. My garrison build for Jacob looks like this:
Skills
- Bird Of Prey: Deals damage to up to 3 squads in a fan-shaped area with a damage factor of 12,500. The damage taken by each enemy squad reduces by 15% for every additional target. The damage factor for one squad is 12,500 , for 2 squads 10,625 so a total of 21,250 damage, for 3 squads 8,750 so a total of 26,250 damage. This is the one of the highest damage factor in the game and the highest damage on 3 squads. It also increases the counter damage by up to 23% for 3 seconds.
- Earth’s Champion : Increases Ranged squad HP by up to 20% and when used in garrison it also increases all damage by up to 7.5%.
- Dance With The Eagle : Deals damage to up to 3 squads with a damage factor of 2,000 every 8 seconds and if in garrison it also reduces the attack of these squads by up to 17%. This is an extra 2,000 damage factor at every round. The total damage factor if we include the first skill, goes up for 1 squad to 14,500, for 2 squads 25,250 (21,250 +4,000) and for 3 squads 32,250 (26,250 +6,000)
- Son Of The Wind : Increases all damage by up to 16% if the remaining squad size is below 50%. The increased damage increases to up to 20% if the remaining squad size is below 30%.
- Eagle Strike : This is a skill enhancement of the first skill. The damage increases for one squad from 12,500 to 13,750 , for 2 squads from 10,625 to 11,688 so a total of 23,376 damage, for 3 squads 9,625 so a total of 28,875 damage. The counter damage increases from 23% to 28% for 3 seconds.
How to upgrade his skill?
For every fighting hero, you need to upgrade the 1st skill, the raging skill, first. I recommend upgrading the 3rd skill next, followed by the 2nd, and finally the 4th. The suggested order would be 1, 3, 2, 4. The extra 2,000 damage factor on 3 squads is of course the second most valuable skill then choose the 2nd skill because the increase HP happens all the time and finally the 4th because that skill is only useful when your squad size is below 50% where you already make less damage so not very valuable.
How to combine Jacob?
Although Jacob doesn’t have a skill talent tree I think he can be used as the leader of the squad or as the assistant. Jacob is a ranged hero and therefore best combined with another ranged hero.
The best options to pair Jacob with on the battlefield are as follows:
- Julia/Jacob: Great damage dealer on multiple squads.
- Chun/Jacob: Also great damage dealer on multiple squads
- Louis/Jacob: Best option for maximum damage on multiple squads
- Nakano/Jacob: If you don’t have any other good legendary her
- Lynne/ Jacob: To have a more tanky squad if your squad is targeted.
If you feel that your squad is melting too fast you can also use Jacob as the leader of the squad.
In garrison, you can use him as the assistant with any good garrison captain, see my article: Best Heroes for Garrison. If you’re focus on the ranged troop and you want to have garrison heroes for your ranged troop, you can use Jacob/Louis or Victor/Jacob (or Jacob/Victor).
Conclusion
I think Jacob is one of the most underrated hero in the game. I wish I had more fragment to spend on him because he would add more game play and variety. His defense talent tree makes him a unique ranged hero and I really want to test how he would perform with Louis. I think he is a must have hero if you don’t want to spend money on Louis and in some situation he might be better than Louis. I recommend using your legendary fragment on him.