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heroic

heroic

2 6.8
Is a more difficult game mode for experienced players
  • adjective
  • /həˈroʊɪk/
  • Jargon
translation icon : heroico
  • Many players enjoy the additional challenge of the heroic mode, which requires strategic teamwork to defeat powerful foes.

Examples

  • To succeed in the newest expansion, players must complete the heroic raid that offers the best rewards.

  • You beat the heroic Spine encounter by killing three Burning Tendons.

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  • Instead of being limited to daily quests and heroic dungeons, they also get a raid made for them.

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  • Run normals until you're comfortable in your role, then go get some heroic gear and start getting ready to raid.

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  • Bungie has always emphasized the Heroic difficulty for their Halo titles.

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  • Complex's writer and yours truly breezed our way through enemies on the Heroic, cooperative campaign.

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  • The game features a variety of challenges, but the heroic dungeons provide the toughest enemies for experienced adventurers.

Synonyms

mythic
vsheroic
  • Jargon
1 7.2

The game's hardest mode that needs a group of very skilled players

is a very hard mode but below the absolute top difficulty

Antonyms

1.0

Not hard to do, understand, or achieve

19 2.8

Happening only sometimes and not regularly

Compounds

heroic tale
  • Literature
1 4.3

A story about a brave person who faces danger, for example a knight fighting a dragon

heroic poetry
  • Literature
1 7.6

Poems that tell the brave deeds of heroes from old stories

mock-heroic
  • Literature
9.3

A poem or story that copies heroic style to make it seem funny

heroic meter
  • Literature
9.7

A fixed rhythm used in long poems about heroes and grand events

heroic poem
  • Literature
7.4

A long poem that tells the brave deeds of a hero

heroic stanza
  • Literature
9.9

A four-line stanza with ten syllables per line and an abab rhyme used in epic poems

heroic verse
  • Literature
9.7

A pattern of long lines in poetry used for grand stories like epic poems

heroic couplet
  • Literature
8.8

Two rhymed lines with five beats each, often used in formal English poems

How Difficult

mythic
  • Jargon
1 7.2
heroic
  • Jargon
2 6.8
hard
1.1
normal
1.0
easy
1.0

Surface Forms

heroic positive
heroical positive

Morphology

heroic = hero (semi-transparent) = hero + ic

Built from 'hero' + '-ic' but used as a domain-specific label in gaming (metaphorical extension), making the meaning partly nonliteral for learners.

Etymology

Heroic in games uses the idea of a hero to mean a 'harder' mode for experienced players. So choosing heroic mode means tougher enemies but better rewards.