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Gamerscore: 50
Achievement Description: Defeat the 7th Hero in Legendary Mode

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For this achievement you need to purchase the single player Challenge Pack DLC. Start a new game and choose Legendary difficulty. The enemies are much tougher and your Overlord is much weaker, but the types of enemies and the layouts of the levels remain unchanged from original game, so all of the strategies for defeating bosses and moving through the game still apply. The exception to this is that its much harder for you to single-handedly take down enemies even in the later stages of the game, so proper minion management is crucial. To this end, life force farming is absolutely imperative and the game is much, much easier is you choose to play as the corrupt Overlord. This has two advantages.

The first is that you can use Spree and Heavens Peak to farm for brown life force. Killing all the sheep and peasants around and in Spree will net you around 80-90 life force each time. Given the fact that even beetles seem pretty strong early in the game and that youll be very dependant on your browns for the first half of the game, this option is invaluable. Secondly, the corrupt pathway allows you to choose Velvet and subsequently upgrade your green and red minions. The last stretch of the game where you fight Kahn and the Wizard is almost laughably easy with these upgrades. Additionally, get your smelters as soon as you can and at least upgrade your weapon as you go along. I didnt do any major upgrading until I got the Arcanium smelter, at which point I made a fully imbued set. A powerful weapon in your hands and armor that allows you to regenerate health can make the game much less frustrating.

Finally, the achievement is just for killing the Wizard at the end of the game, so you can avoid going out your way to pick up gold bags, spells you won't use, or exploring unnecessary parts of the map, like the Abyss levels. Just do whats necessary to get to that final battle. The achievement will unlock during the cutscene after you strike the killing blow.