Really? Weve been waiting for this?

[MisChief]

so do gear and runes transer to the reserve heroes or do you need to have extras for them

The reserved spaces are for heroes that will drop into battle as ones in form die, during battle, so they would need to be equipped, is my best guess at this point. You don't have time to stop and change things. I can only assume they are besides the 9= 5 in form, 4 in Inn. The ones in Inn might be Calvin for banish, for example, you can switch him out twice a day, or some for HR, some for labyrinth, etc.
Oh, and the slots open by level/power/ or which heroes you kill. Something determines, that. So lower level accts can't open them yet.

[Herby]

I noticed that when you drop a new hero on top of one that already is in the formation, the equip will switch automatically onto the new hero.
It would be plausible to think the same happens when reserves come in.
Since reserves only come in during a fight and are gone from formation after the fight is done and since at those times I cannot acces my profile; how do you know they need equip?

The runes did not get swapped to the new hero btw, so that seems like a definite need for the reserves.
Curious as a kitten!

so do gear and runes transer to the reserve heroes or do you need to have extras for them

The reserved spaces are for heroes that will drop into battle as ones in form die, during battle, so they would need to be equipped, is my best guess at this point. You don't have time to stop and change things. I can only assume they are besides the 9= 5 in form, 4 in Inn. The ones in Inn might be Calvin for banish, for example, you can switch him out twice a day, or some for HR, some for labyrinth, etc.
Oh, and the slots open by level/power/ or which heroes you kill. Something determines, that. So lower level accts can't open them yet.

Defeating General Mulan opens the first reserve slot.

And NO, EQUIPMENT AND RUNES DO NOT GET TRANSFERRED OVER.
You have to put new equipment and runes to the substitute heroes.

It doesn't make sense for new equipment and runes to transfer to substitutes since the heroes they came from are already dead.
Also, rune slots, class changes, and other things don't match automatically.

[goffdoffing]

Defeating General Mulan opens the first reserve slot.

And NO, EQUIPMENT AND RUNES DO NOT GET TRANSFERRED OVER.
You have to put new equipment and runes to the substitute heroes.

It doesn't make sense for new equipment and runes to transfer to substitutes since the heroes they came from are already dead.
Also, rune slots, class changes, and other things don't match automatically.

*Busily starting three sets of gear bottom up* Wish I had done something earlier, I have had an abundance of stamina trying to break through HR Veleno!