Task Bar Hero Beginner Guide
Understand gear, farming, market value, and the right order to use wiki tools
Last updated: July 2026
Task Bar Hero has a simple loop on the surface: clear stages, collect equipment and materials, improve your character, and return to farming with better efficiency. The important decisions are less obvious: which gear is actually good, which stage is worth farming, and when market value should matter. This guide follows the order a new player usually makes decisions in, so it works as a first-day route through the game and through TBH Wiki.
1. Start with a clear goal
Do not judge progress only by the rarest item you own. Early progress is about stable clears and shorter clear times. Farming efficiency depends on base reward, clear speed, and drop value together. A harder stage with better rewards can still be worse per hour if it takes twice as long to clear.
2. Understand gear quality and slots
Gear value comes from slot, level, rarity, base stats, and inherited affixes. Weapons usually affect damage directly. Armor and defensive slots improve survival. Accessories and special slots can add critical stats, attack speed, cooldown reduction, resistances, or skill levels. Higher rarity is not automatically better if the stat direction does not fit your class.
3. Compare gear by class, not only rarity
Warriors, mages, archers, tanks, and support builds care about different stats. Damage builds value attack, attack speed, critical stats, elemental bonuses, and area effects. Defensive builds value HP, armor, resistances, block, mitigation, and healing. When using the Best Gear tool, choose class and level first, then compare scores.
4. Use the Profit Calculator before farming for hours
After you can clear several stages reliably, open the Profit Calculator and enter hero level, EXP bonus, gold bonus, and chest drop bonuses. Calibrate at least with 1-1 and your highest stable clear. The calculator can then estimate clear time across stages and sort by EXP per hour, gold per hour, boxes per hour, or expected market value.
5. Use Inventory Value to understand your market position
The Inventory Value tool is useful before selling, changing builds, or cleaning storage. It reads SaveFile_Live.es3 locally in your browser, does not upload the file, and estimates the value of tradeable equipment and materials from Steam market prices. The result is an estimate, not a guaranteed sale price, because supply, fees, exchange rates, and market cooldowns can change the final outcome.
6. What should you keep?
Early on, keep items that improve stable clears: main damage stats, HP, armor, resistances, important skill levels, cooldown reduction, or attack speed. Later, filter by class score and market value. If a high-rarity item is hard to judge, inspect it in the Equipment Database first, then run it through Best Gear for your class.
7. Recommended tool order
Start with the Equipment Database to learn the item pool, use Best Gear for class-specific recommendations, check Profit Calculator before farming, and use Inventory Value when market value matters.