The flagship feature of the new 1.0 version of Clicker Heroes is Transcendence. It’s a meta-version of ascending. When you transcend, you sacrifice all of your hero souls, ancients, relics, and gold, keeping only rubies, mercenaries, and clan immortal damage. You gain ancient souls which are spent on Outsiders, the new meta-ancients. This guide will help you determine when to transcend and help you make the necessary preparations to get you back up and running quickly.
The Flow of Transcendence
The idea behind transcendence is to start over with a generous boost every time your progress comes to a halt. In previous version of Clicker Heroes, the end game was all about grinding a small range of levels for a very small gain each time. In version 1.0, transcendence changes all that. Once you’re making very small gains from one ascension to the next, it’s probably time to transcend and do it all over again; progressing farther and farther each time you transcend.
Earning Ancient Souls
Each ancient soul costs about 58% more than the one before it, which puts a soft cap on how many you’ll earn each time you transcend. When you transcend, you’ll spend several ascensions building back up to where you were previously until you start earning ancient souls. Once you get to that point, you’ll earn several ancient souls quickly until it starts to slow down. Which brings us to the #1 question…
When Should You Transcend?
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While the number of AS you’ll gain when you transcend is a useful piece of information, the most important thing you need to look at is how long the next one will take. On the Outsider tab, it will tell you “Next AS” which is how many HS you must earn to get the next AS. Divide that by the number of HS you get in one ascension (use the Quick Ascension amount in the ruby shop for a good estimate) and you can determine how long it will take to earn the next AS.
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If you can get another AS in one ascension, then earn it before transcending. In the example above, the next AS will take 70 HS to earn. The Quick Ascension value from the shop gives us a value of 196 which is higher than 70, so doing one more ascension will give the 14th AS.
If the next AS will take 4 or more ascensions to earn, then it’s a good time to transcend (if you have 50 rubies to spare.) If your ascensions take an hour or less, it is worth doing 2-3 more ascensions for 1 more AS, but later on you’ll want to transcend once you can’t get an AS in one ascension.
Preparations For Transcendence
Having 50 rubies and a couple of clan rewards available will help get you off the ground a lot quicker after you transcend. You can use the 50 rubies to buy a Quick Ascension at the start, and you can save two days worth of clan rewards to collect as well – the current day, and the previous day. This will give you a total of 15 Hero Souls toward purchasing Siyalatas or Libertas (or Nogardnit if you have 2 or more autoclickers.)
In addition to rubies and clan rewards, saving gold quests from mercenaries can help boost you through the slow points while you’re leveling to 130 the first time after you transcend. Relic quests can be helpful for starting off your new transcension, but they are RNG-dependent and won’t always contain useful stats.
Which Outsiders to Level with Ancient Souls
When you’re ready to to transcend, learn more about the Outsiders and how to level them with my Clicker Heroes Outsiders Leveling Guide.
