Part of the Sea of Conquest Heroes Series:

Heroes Hub: Slots, stars and roles (Start Here).

Hero Tier List: Who to spend them on.

Codes Guide: Conches are what codes actually pay.

Collab Heroes: The banners worth saving for.

Quick Answer

Conches are the hero summon currency, and there are three kinds:

Conch	What it does	Where it comes from
Echo Conch	The common summon currency	Everywhere — events, dailies, and most gift codes
Gold Conch	The premium summon currency	Events, shops, milestones
Hymn Conch	Rare, and notable for being obtainable without paying	Showdown o' Gangs

Ophelia's banner has been reported with an 80-conch pity, which is the number to plan your saving around if you are targeting a specific hero.

The single most useful habit: do not spend conches as they arrive. Bank them, decide on a target before a banner goes live, and pull with intent.

Where Conches Come From

Gift codes. Almost every working Sea of Conquest code pays an Echo Conch — SOC777, SEAOFCONQUEST, MEBOOTY and SOC888 among them. It is not a large amount, but it is free and it costs a minute — see the codes guide.

Events. The main source. Event tracks pay conches at milestone tiers, which is one more reason to clear two tracks fully rather than five partially — see the events hub.

Showdown o' Gangs. The notable one, because it pays Hymn Conches — one of the few sources not gated behind spending. If your gang participates in Showdown, that is meaningful free summon currency, and the event is decided by fleet sequencing rather than raw power, so a mid-sized gang can genuinely compete. See the Showdown guide.

Daily commissions and login rewards. Small, constant, and worth collecting.

How to Spend Them

1. Decide on a target before the banner opens. Once a banner is live, the pressure to pull is real, and unplanned pulling is how months of saving evaporates on a hero you will bench.

2. Prefer the standard pool for your first Legendary. Ophelia is the usual recommendation — Artillery is the most broadly useful damage type, so she is never dead weight. Old Ahab is the other standard-pool pick and unusually valuable because his shards keep circulating, which means you can actually star him up.

3. Understand what pity buys you. An 80-conch pity means a guaranteed result at 80 pulls. It does not mean a good result at 40. If you cannot reach pity, you are gambling rather than planning.

4. Do not chase newest-Legendary banners with partial savings. This is the most expensive mistake available. A 6-star Epic beats a 2-star Legendary, so pulling once on a meta hero and stopping produces a worse account than saving for a hero you can finish.

The Investment Rule That Governs Everything

Stars beat rarity. Consistently, and by a wide margin.

Which means the correct question is never "who is the best hero?" — it is "which good hero can I actually finish?"

That question has a reliable answer for free accounts:

Cursed Ed — an Epic universal damage amplifier, farmable, and the best Epic in the game
Madame Lulu — free from the 7-day Pirate King's Trail
Will — free from Azure Promise day 2
Old Ahab — the Legendary from the standard pool

None of those require a banner. Conches then become a bonus rather than a lifeline, which is a much healthier place to play from.

Saving Strategy

Bank continuously, spend deliberately. Conches arrive in small amounts from many sources; the only way they add up is not spending them.

Watch announcements, not launches. Collabs and new heroes are announced ahead of time — see the collab heroes guide. That is when to decide.

Count to pity before committing. If you cannot reach the pity threshold, wait for the next banner.

Take every free conch. Codes, dailies, event side-tracks. They are individually trivial and collectively the difference between reaching pity and not.

FAQ

What are conches in Sea of Conquest?

The hero summon currency. Echo Conches are common, Gold Conches premium, and Hymn Conches rare — the last obtainable from Showdown o' Gangs without spending.

How many conches for a guaranteed hero?

Ophelia's banner has been reported with an 80-conch pity. Check the current banner's stated pity before saving.

What should I spend my first conches on?

Ophelia or Old Ahab, both from the standard pool. Artillery is never dead weight, and Ahab's shards keep circulating so you can star him.

Do gift codes give conches?

Yes — most working codes pay an Echo Conch alongside speedups and resources.

Should I pull on collab banners?

Only with banked currency and a plan to reach meaningful stars. A 2-star collab hero loses to a maxed farmable Epic.

Where do Hymn Conches come from?

Showdown o' Gangs, which makes it one of the few non-paid sources of premium summon currency.

Key Takeaways

Three conch types; Hymn Conches come free from Showdown o' Gangs.
80-conch pity reported on Ophelia's banner — plan around the number.
Bank continuously, spend deliberately, and decide before a banner opens.
If you cannot reach pity, you are gambling, not planning.
Stars beat rarity. Build the good hero you can finish.

Sea of Conquest Conches and Summoning: How to Spend Them