⚡ How to Boost Might Quickly: Formulas & Strategy

🗓 Updated: 2026-09-14

Many commanders make a critical mistake in Last Asylum: Plague: they chase raw profile Might by training endless hordes of low-tier soldiers. The result is what seasoned players call “Paper Might” — an impressive number on your profile that collapses in seconds against a refined combat squad, sending hundreds of thousands of troops straight into permanent hospital overflow death.

Here is the breakdown of the official Might formula and the most resource-efficient growth path.

1. The Official Might Formula

Total account Might is calculated from five distinct pillars:

$$\text{Might} = \text{Heroes} + \text{Raven} + \text{Troops} + \text{Technology} + \text{Buildings}$$

Priority Investment Hierarchy:

1. Hero Might (S-Tier): Directly powers your damage output, sustain, and troop leadership in all battle modes (Arena, KvK, garrisons, rallies).
2. Raven & Epigraph Might (A-Tier): Provides persistent global percentage buffs to all deployed units.
3. Military Technology (A-Tier): Multiplies ATK, DEF, and march velocity across entire unit classes.
4. Buildings (B-Tier): Sanctuary level dictates level caps for all other structures and unlocks higher tier systems.
5. Troop Might (Caution!): Only train as many top-tier troops (T7/T8/T9) as your march queues and Hospital capacity can safely accommodate. Excess troops are free points for enemy raiders during Kill Events.

2. Hero Cultivation: The 4 Pillars

Individual Hero Might follows: $$\text{Hero Might} = \text{Level} + \text{Star Rating} + \text{Skills} + \text{Gear}$$

1. Hero Level & Antitoxin

Hero levels scale base attributes (HP, ATK, DEF) and amplify percentage gear stats:

• Antitoxin: The primary fuel for hero leveling.
• Pro Tip: Press and hold the [Upgrade] button to trigger smooth automatic leveling without hundreds of repetitive taps.

2. Star Rating Breakthroughs

• The primary inflection point for any UR hero is 4 Stars. Reaching 4 stars unlocks game-changing team passives and substantial stat scaling.
• F2P Golden Rule: Prioritize taking one core carry hero (e.g., Marlena or Arthur) to 4–5 stars before spreading shards across multiple 1-star heroes.

3. Gear Promotion (Up to Lv. 60)

• Gear consumes Blueprints to promote at key milestones: Lv. 10, Lv. 20, Lv. 30, Lv. 40, and Lv. 60.
• Upgrade Order: Max out the weapon and accessories of your primary backline damage dealer first, then bolster your frontline tank’s armor.

4. Exclusive Weapon Smelting (10-Star Milestone)

• Reaching 10 Stars on an Exclusive Weapon unlocks the Smelt mechanic, granting powerful secondary stat rolls (DEF Pierce, Crit DMG).

3. Top Antitoxin Sources

4. Raven & Epigraph Progression

• Raven Gear Fusion: Craft and fuse gear pieces to trigger the Night Raven Mask and Raven Feather Cloak set bonuses.
• Epigraphs (Up to 6 Stars): Upgradable to 6 Stars. The UR “Guard of Nature” epigraph activates an opening battle shield followed by damage mitigation upon barrier destruction.

📚 Reference: Might: how it is counted, price and benchmarks

Source: wiki-last-asylum.com, client v1.0.87.

Might folds everything a player has built, hired and upgraded into a single number, and it is what players compare each other by. It comes from fourteen sources: soldiers, hero levels, buildings, curios, gear, skills, stars, the raven, technologies, survivors and awakening. Those sources are priced very differently, and the conclusion of this page is that hiring troops buys Might by far the cheapest while holding on to it the worst.

How it is counted

Some sources store a ready number, while others convert hero stats at a shared rate. That rate varies a great deal between stats, with ATK weighing the most.

Only three groups of percentages convert at all, and they convert expensively: damage taken reduction and damage resistance at roughly a million per point, crit chance at a third of that, damage dealt at half again less. The rest weighs nothing. Percentages to hero and soldier ATK, HP and DEF carry a factor of zero, and so do most squad-wide and situational bonuses.

The price of one point

Out of that comes the number that decides where resources should go. The same resources buy very different amounts of Might depending on their destination, and the spread runs into thousands of times rather than percent.

Hiring beats research by around fifteen hundred times and buildings by twenty-five hundred. The rate for troops stays nearly flat along the way, so tier one and tier ten cost about the same per point.

The catch

That cheapness is paid for later, because Might from troops dies with the soldiers. A figure built up by hiring is wiped out by a single lost battle, while Might from buildings and research stays forever. Hiring lifts the number before an event, yet it cannot make a city stronger for good.

Benchmarks

To tell a healthy total from a lagging one the game keeps a reference figure for every Sanctuary level, from 85,000 at level one to 94,620,000 at level thirty. A second reference splits that total across the fourteen sources and shows which of them actually decide the outcome.

Soldiers and hero levels make up nearly two thirds of the reference between them: at level thirty, over a third of it is soldiers and about as much is hero levels, while the bottom seven rows together stay under a tenth. The per-source figures add up to 85,002,000, some nine and a half million below the overall reference, so the two are not meant to match exactly.

Might in the Arena

The most common first squad in the game is Claire , Harper , Marlena , Daskal and Arthur . Squad Might does not decide an Arena fight on its own, though: how the heroes match up against the opponent’s lineup matters more.

In the screenshot below the player replaced Claire with Red Lady and still won the fight despite a sizeable Might gap, with both players fielding the same Raven and T7 troops.

This is a good example of why the Arena is not about fielding the five heroes with the highest Might: the squad has to be picked against the opponent’s lineup, and staying flexible with compositions pays off because every hero’s skills work differently.

A closer look at that fight:

• Red Lady has the Crimson Rose skill , which deals damage to the two enemies with the highest Attack and has a chance to stun both. That lets Red Lady shut down Marlena and Cynthia right away, which easily becomes the deciding factor.
• This does not make Cynthia weak; she can take Red Lady’s place as well. She is at her best when the enemy runs a fairly even tank lineup and the squad simply needs heavy area damage: her skills hit random targets, so her strength is hurting several enemies at once.

That is why an opponent’s total Might is no reason to avoid a fight: learning the heroes’ skills and practising team building pays more. The Arena section helps pick heroes against the opponent’s squad.

📚 Reference: Troops: tiers, tier ten and priorities

Data verified against the game client (v1.0.87, source: wiki-last-asylum.com).

Troops make up the striking force of a march, and heroes lead them, with the hero’s leadership setting how many soldiers go out. There are ten tiers, each unlocked by a Training Ground level, and the tenth needs a separate technology on top. The conclusion of this page is that the highest available tier is the one to recruit, because it gives more Might per minute of training.

Tiers

All ten tiers sit in one table: the Training Ground level that unlocks each tier, the Might and the load of one soldier, the training time and the recruitment cost.

Tiers compare by Might per training time rather than by Might per soldier. A T1 soldier gives 38 Might per minute and a T10 soldier gives 450, 12 times more for the same place in the squad. Resource cost per point of Might is about the same, so pushing to the highest available tier almost always wins.

Load grows from 400 at tier one to 2,200 at tier ten, so gathering on the map depends on troop tier as much as on troop numbers.

Healing beats re-recruiting: it costs 30% of recruitment in both resources and time, on every tier, which makes infirmary space part of the war economy alongside the army itself, see Shields and city safety.

Tier ten unlocks separately

Training Ground level 30 alone does not give tier ten. It also needs the “Lv.10 Soldier” technology, a single-level node costing 194,697,000, 194,697,000, 584,440,000 and granting 36,810 Might. Nearly a billion resources land on one indivisible step, which is why players start saving for it well in advance.

There are no counters between troop types

This one is easy to get wrong, because the genre trains players to expect rock-paper-scissors. A counter table for three types does exist: a full circle where one type hits another at a 1.5 multiplier and takes 0.7 against the third. The problem is that those three types do not exist in the game.

There are only two soldier types, Frontline and Support. All ten tiers a player recruits are Frontline and differ from one another only by tier. Support covers enemy and monster troops, which cannot be recruited. Not a single soldier of the second or third type named by the counter table exists, and the table itself is never applied anywhere.

The practical conclusion is simple: there is no need to build a composition balanced by type, because the game never offers that choice. One meaningful composition question remains, and it is the question of tier. The twenty per cent edge that mixing types buys in other games lives here at the level of hero factions, not soldiers.

What to upgrade first

Combat technologies from research give percentages to the whole army at once, while a new tier needs Training Ground levels and time to train every soldier again from scratch. Per unit spent, technology almost always wins.

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[0:00] So, guys, I have played this game for 7 months and today we're going to discuss my top five regrets that I didn't do from the start of this game. Uh you guys

[0:11] know what to do. If you like these contents, smash that like, hit that subscribe, and let's get straight into it. So, of course, my first regret is

[0:21] that what I do at the start of this game, I have bought these curio chest instead of going straight for the gear blueprints. So, if

[0:30] you're a new player, uh don't do the same thing. Save up your honor coins or honor tokens and start buying these gear blueprints and never ever buy the gear

[0:42] curio chest or the UR hero uni shards uh whatsoever. You only want to buy the gear blueprints cuz these will really help your account. Up to my second

[0:54] help your account. Up to my second mistake.

[0:55] My second mistake uh was as followed.

[0:59] Um I have pushed a lot of my UR shards into uh Arthur and that was really uh bad one to do cuz you really want to show use your UR shards only for Milena

[1:15] to get her to the 10 red stars cuz she is going to carry your warrior squad all through the first 30 to 60 days. And, of course, the other uh thing I did here

[1:28] was uh I invested into all my stuff in the warrior squads when I should have really went straight for the ranger squads to

[1:37] really uh get ahead of the pack. So, uh for you guys that are going to start and you're going to be a medium spender, get

[1:46] those ranger squad heroes and you can ignore the warriors. Only Milena is worth upgrading here. So, my third mistake that I did was I started really

[1:58] late with the smelting workshops. So, uh my advice is to really don't ignore the smelting workshops.

[2:07] Get them uh to level 25 as soon as you can to really start upgrading your gear as well and to really get into it.

[2:19] And of course, we are not stopping with the gear. The fourth mistake uh that I made uh was upgrading the wrong gears and also really spending a lot of my uh

[2:33] gear stones on purple gear. Uh of course, that was that was a mistake. You should always focus on the right gear for the right hero. For DPS, it's swords

[2:44] and gloves and the boots. And for the tanks, it's going to be the chest plate and the boots only. You don't want to invest into gloves or sword. Some tanks

[2:56] do require good gloves, but that's it.

[2:59] And uh you don't definitely don't want to upgrade the sword for the tanks. That is not necessary.

[3:06] And of course, uh what everyone did when they started playing is upgrading uh the wrong hero skills. There are some purple

[3:15] hero skills that you can upgrade like Ash uh focus to increase the damage done to world boss. And uh Cecilia uh for some extra resources you get from

[3:29] uh for some extra resources you get from uh world bosses as well.

[3:32] But you don't want to upgrade anything else from the purple heroes. You really want to focus your skill stones on the UR heroes and definitely on the

[3:44] UR heroes and definitely on the Marlena um of course and uh Cynthia, the main DPS. So, you want to start uh spending your skill stones on that and what you

[3:54] don't want to do is upgrade skills like attack skills for your tanks cuz that's not necessary.

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