Use Tavern Defense for survival XP

Tavern Defense, Pure Strategy Survival, after the map’s campaign clear unlocks the modes.

Before you go

Complete Tavern Defense campaign to unlock its Survival and Pure Strategy choices.
Prepare a defense build suitable for the map’s lanes.
Select a difficulty that your defenses can sustain without hero attacks.

Open Tavern Defense in the mission selector and choose Pure Strategy Survival.
Set a manageable difficulty; remember that heroes cannot attack during combat in this mode.
Use the build phase to place defenses around lane approaches and vulnerable crystals.
Start the wave and let defenses handle enemies while you monitor their health and coverage.
Between waves, repair or strengthen the lane that showed the most strain.
Continue through waves that remain stable and collect experience from completed progress.
Leave the run when pressure becomes too high, then return to the mission menu to repeat.

Pure Strategy rewards a tested defense layout because hero combat is unavailable.
Higher difficulty can improve experience, but only choose it if waves still finish reliably.

Repeat Survival sessions for as many waves as your build can safely complete; the run is repeatable, but a failed run may end progress.

Using a combat-dependent plan: Pure Strategy requires defenses to handle enemies.
Advancing through waves without repairing weak lanes: fix observed gaps between rounds.
Starting at an unstable difficulty: step down until the setup reliably holds.

Stop the session when a lane repeatedly fails or switch to a completed campaign map for a shorter, safer experience loop.

Sources & fact checks

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Experience

Tavern Defense Pure Strategy Survival is a repeatable wave route for experience when its defense setup can hold.