Grand Caravan Guide | Hero Wars Alliance
This Grand Caravan Guide covers the second event in this week’s Trade Routes group, and while the format hasn’t changed dramatically since Roads Unlocked, there are a few spots where resource management suddenly matters a lot more. On top of that, something many Guardians have been waiting for is hiding inside this one — and it’s worth logging in for.
Across seven days you’ll work through seven tasks, most of which fold neatly into normal play. However, a couple of them lean heavily on how developed your account already is, which means the “best” approach genuinely changes depending on where you are in the game. So let’s walk through everything first, then talk about where your resources actually belong.
What Is the Grand Caravan Event?
Grand Caravan is the second major event of the Trade Routes group during the Elarite Heat Season. Like the events around it, it runs for seven days and hands out rewards through seven separate tasks. Because those tasks all feed the wider Trade Routes economy, everything you earn here ultimately points toward the same destination — the Sigil Coins you’ll eventually spend inside the Caravan Hall.
That connection matters, because it shapes how you should treat every spending task below. After all, you’re not chasing rewards in isolation. Instead, you’re building toward one shopping trip at the end of the week, and a little discipline now protects your options later.
Grand Caravan Guide: All Seven Tasks
Before breaking anything down, here’s the full picture in one place. Use the table below as your quick reference for what each task asks and what it hands back.
The Tasks Worth Thinking About
Most of these objectives slot into your normal routine without much thought. Even so, a handful genuinely reward a pause before you commit anything, and those are the ones this Grand Caravan Guide will focus on. Naturally, the free tasks come first.
Day After Day is the freebie of the group, and this time it’s more tempting than usual. Simply log in each day to collect Adventure Energy alongside Brawls Coins. Those Brawls Coins are the hook, because the Hero Brawls sitting inside Trade Routes come with a genuinely exciting opportunity attached — more on that in a moment. For now, the takeaway is simple: don’t leave free rewards sitting on the table.
Generous Soul is the familiar VIP task, and our position on it never changes. If you were already planning to spend during the event, collecting extra rewards for something you were doing anyway is a nice bonus. On the other hand, a progress bar is not an obligation. Look at your budget, look at what your account actually needs, and skip it entirely if spending doesn’t already fit your plans.
Sealed Away deserves a quick mention purely for its structure, which is much healthier than the old daily grind. Rather than asking you to open a set number of Artifact Chests every single day, it gives you one overall target of 80 chests. As a result, you know the full requirement from the start, you complete it once, and then you move on. Crow Soul Stones sit among the rewards here, so it’s worth clearing if you have the chests spare.
Trial of Strength rounds out the free side. Fight 30 Arena battles across the week, and critically, you never need Emeralds to finish it. With five free Arena attempts each day over seven days, the maths works out comfortably in your favour. So resist the urge to refresh battles — the event gives you time on purpose, and patience costs you nothing.
Cleaver Brawls: The Part Everyone’s Waiting For
Here’s the reason those Brawls Coins matter so much this time. The Hero Brawls inside Trade Routes let you test the new Cleaver with his fully maxed Relics. After everything we’ve broken down about the rework and those impressive Relic effects, this is your first proper chance to see the complete package in action.
Importantly, testing him here costs you nothing beyond your normal Brawls attempts, so treat it as free research. You get to feel out how the reworked Cleaver performs before deciding whether he’s worth building on your own account. Honestly, that’s a rare gift — a risk-free look at a hero before you commit resources to him.
Value Exchange and Spending Smart
Now we reach the biggest decision of the event. Value Exchange asks you to spend Emeralds, with milestones climbing all the way to 200,000. Meanwhile, the reward list is genuinely tempting: Sigil Coins, Season Pass Points, Adventure Coins, Rune Spheres, Mastery Crystals, Titan Skin Stones, Rune Stones, Orm and Alecto Soul Stones, Elemental Spheres, Adventure Energy, Kendle Soul Stones, and a healthy pile of Red Gear fragments.
Despite all that value, the number itself deserves respect. 200,000 Emeralds is still 200,000 Emeralds, and a good reward list should never make you forget what your resources are worth. Our philosophy stays exactly the same as always: spend where you can win twice. In other words, if you’re going to spend Emeralds, aim them at something your account genuinely needs while the event progress happens as a bonus on top.
There’s also a second angle this week. If your main target sits inside the Caravan Hall and you’re short on Sigil Coins, the Reward Boxes become another route worth considering. Those boxes can drop Sigil Coins, and if luck lands in your favour, you can hit the Grand Prize of 30,000 Sigil Coins and 10,000 Emeralds — a serious boost toward whatever you’re chasing.
Still, one warning matters above everything else: luck is not a plan. Never build your entire strategy around winning that Grand Prize. If it happens, fantastic. If it doesn’t, your plan should still hold together on its own. Plan around what you can control, and treat any lucky pull as the celebration it is.
Where Account Progression Changes Everything
Notably, two tasks hit different accounts in completely different ways, and this is exactly where a one-size-fits-all answer falls apart.
Price of Power asks you to spend up to 100,000 Skin Stones. For Guardians with heroes still waiting on major Skin upgrades, that’s easy value — you were going to spend those stones anyway, so the rewards are basically free. However, some players simply don’t have 100,000 Skin Stones lying around, while maxed accounts may have already finished every relevant Skin and have nowhere useful to put them. Don’t force it if the spending itself doesn’t make sense.
Artifact Empowering follows the same logic in reverse. As a maxed player, this is the frustrating kind of task where you’ve already completed the progression and can’t really benefit. Newer and mid-game Guardians, though, could find this is their moment. If you’ve been sitting on Artifact resources waiting for a reason to use them, now you’re rewarded for improving your heroes while you clear the task — exactly the double win we like to see. Rune Stones, Sigil Coins, Season Pass Points, Adventure Coins, and Kendle Soul Stones all wait throughout.
What’s Next
Overall, this Grand Caravan Guide lands on the same verdict as the events around it: another manageable week, but one where your account’s development genuinely steers the smart play. Ultimately, newer and mid-game Guardians can turn Artifact Empowering and Skin Stone spending into real progress, whereas maxed accounts should be more selective and lean on the free tasks instead.
We’re now very close to the part many of you have been waiting for. Next we’ll analyse the final event of Trade Routes, and after that, the real fun begins. The Caravan Hall is waiting, the Talismans are waiting, and Kayla’s Relic Shards are waiting too — and after everything we’ve calculated, most of us already have a pretty good idea where those Sigil Coins are heading. One event left, then we count the coins and decide exactly where they belong.
While you plan the week ahead, a few of our recent guides are worth keeping open: the Cleaver Relics Breakdown, the Kendle Talisman Guide, the Bountiful Roads Last Guide, and the Roads Unlocked Event Guide.
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