Hi,
Maximum allowed purchase it is the monthly 2.99 payment and one 4.99 – if there are offers from ucool / Ember. So 7.98 usd max, or free. Do not post here please if is suggested to pay more, thanks.
There are many good guides already.Some are made by users, who has spent a lot on game.They truth it is not your truth, because you can’t spend the same amount of the money like they, this is the reason for a new thread.
Expected time to reach level 40 as free, active user it is around 7-10 days. As free user you will not be he top in arena, that is for heavy cash shop users, not for you.
Number of heroes as free user at level 40: 8 or 9. It is plenty already! Later having problem to upkeep. If you make a payment with 4.99 you got 1 or 2 more, depends.
Gears in Blue+1. So the epic spell of heroes doesn’t affect you. Completely different set needed at this level at Arena, Crusade then at level 50+ with epics and other heroe unlock.
The first 5 hero you get very soon Admiral in first step and in tutorial phase A bronze chest will give 1 hero and a gold chest another: Emberstar and Leaves Shadow( if I remmeber)
Completing a few more tutorials you get 2 more hero: Lightening master and Chaplain, thats 5. If you read this post you maybe are already here, if con can be archived in 1-2 hours.
Opening the second gold chest in 48 hours it will give a RANDOM 3 star hero giving the fake feeling it worth to top up and open a couple of 3 star heroes at each opening.
When you open the Crusade (team level 30) you can get another hero: Commando with some coins earned there.
At this point you have already 7 heroes: 6x 1 star and a random 3 star. Later or on other guides you can see as free user is hard to upkeep the 7-8 heroes.
You don’t need to ask what hero should I use in … because you have your budget and hero limited. No way to trade heroes. The standard set and +1 x random, thats all.
As random 3 star hero I got: Brute ( the most usefully at this level a great tank and Admiral it isn’t tank) Wind Master ( great dps, but later more usefully not now) Professional Killer ( later maybe or not at all), wind Master again, Brute again. This from different accounts.
To have the second 3 star hero from chest need to open 20 more chest! That require payment and that is in another thread.
The Ice mage offer and the Arcane Sapper offer (the 4.99) can be skipped in my opinion. Right now there are better heroes, which can be unlocked and need to use those, everybody do like that or fail.
At beginning (until level 40) not even needed the 2.99 purchase either, because you get enough from in game. But that gives the most gems / usd spent. So if you ever think to buy gems from shop that should be!
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The problem in this image is the 295/60 stamina.
The 60 stamina pool it is filled and you don’t get any more free stamina in each 6 minute. That is a huge waste and it will block your game progress. As free user you get 24×60 / 6 = 240 stamina free, but only if you pool has room for 1 more. There are 3 daily events to get 3×60=180 stamina but you have to collect it in 2h interval or it is gone. A daily 420 stamina it is given for an active user by the system.
There is another trap for us at daily quests:
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Since you earn gems with unlocking new stages and there is a quest to spend it, in fact you shouldn’t use at all.
For 10 gems I can get 23700 gold coins, when I have 146k, of course not!
Below the Crusade unlock again not needed to spend a lot. Use the spells improvement as how your money allows it, do not overspend, like in real life!
There is a thread here when is a suggestion made already to change how Midas should work. At beginning is a great boost a lot of money ever skill cam be upgraded, but later it is just 5% of your income.
Use it ONLY if the team exp needed to reach a new level with this reward and you don’t have stamina and you have purchased the 120 stamina today, because you get stamina with raising team level.
Do not overspend at skills upgrade. and you don’t need Midas.
Remember the beginning heroes, will be replaced later, only the healer not and only used at Crusade. – at Arena is useless.
Below level 20 you should’t use the 50 gem for 120 stamina either, because: if you take care on quests and do dailies and upgrade the heroes gear it will give team exp. Levelling team it will give stamina. You should be above 30 stamina, when levelling, sometimes I had 140/70 or such like that.
If you missed your quest chain or you got a software bug ( like me today ) use all stamina and pay the 50 to get 120 more, but then use 5 raid cards and “burn” 60 stamina instantly on a hero souls / drop needed.
The software bug: when you do a new elite stage on chapter..1-3 .. something low you will get a quest to do it twice more and you get a Leaves Shadow soul as reward from quest. I have finished the stage with 3 star and didn’t clicked to get the 10-20 gem as reward, but very fast I did a raid 1 or 2x. In the software are triggered some event there are queues with different priorities: event dispatch, background and so on. Just be calm, patient and take the unlock reward, do the X at close dialog and click again at quest and make sure the new quest is already there and go back to elite stage and do 2 more times.
If you rush over elite stages: chapter 1-3 later you receive the gems reward, for all. but if you did a soul farming and you got a quest to do it 2 more times for Leaves shadow, then you suck for that day and remember this and next day you will follow the quest line.
To unlock a desired new hero we have to use: coins from Crusade. I can do 6-12 stages from 15, it depends if missed gearing up and spending on the hero spells or not, if I am in a guild with lot of people heroes shared and at level I can buy 1 as Mercenary or not and so on.
Coins from Arena: you can really count in on as free users.
For example Death Knight require 8000 coins and I have 200, maybe if I would focus on arena I would have 2k, but not 8k to unlock it or Old Curse, Poisoned One, Ferryman they are good and based on other guides pick on and stick to collect one, but needed 8k coins, not 200.
Coins from guild: none. We don’t have a chance at this level to make raid and earn 1000 more coins, first because we are to low level, second the first 3 (cash shop users) are in top not we, so we earn less then 1k, but only later.
40 gems needed for 1 soul of the hero.
Usually a desired hero unlocks with 80 souls. There are others with 10 or 30, but they aren’t the desired ones.
40 x 80 = 3200 gems and here it comes the monthly card as help. It gives a total 4230 gems, but you have to collect in 30 days and I don’t know in 30 days what level can I be, but at level 40 you may have maybe 2k gems only.
I have farmed the elite instances to make a statistics about soul drop rate. It is 37-38% with more or less errors, so we can compare with spending on stamina!
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Maybe I was already tired and didn’t record correctly a few tentatives, but for long time it was around the 37% the result. For our calculations lets take that now.
100 elite instance with 37% probability will give 37 souls.
100 elite instance needs 1200 stamina ( and gives 37 souls )
Since the FIRST payment with gem is 50 gem for 120 stamina, it require 500 gems for 1200 stamina ( which gives the 37 souls)
At Merchant and Goblin if you see a desired soul you will see at 20k gold or 40 gem. 40x 37 = 1480 gems for 37 souls.
So it is 3x more cheaper to “farm” souls from elite stages ( but you have to unlock) then buy it from NPC.
If you make a purchase with 2.99 payment and maybe the 4.99 payment for the hero you will receive: 300+150=450 basic counted gems for VIP and that leads to VIP3.
VIP3 allows to purchase Stamina 4 times. The 4th time for sure it is not 50 gem for 120 stamina, but 100.
100 gem for 120 stamina it is 1000 gem for 1200 stamina, which is less then 1480.
It worth to pay even with VIP3 ranking the 100 gem for 120 stamina and farm the elite stages for souls instead to buy it from NPC with 40 gem / soul. – until the drop rate of souls it will not be lowered…
Choosing the Priority
There is a daily reset. For me with GMT+2 it is at 5 AM, for you I don’t know, maybe the same or maybe is different, but you still have a daily reset.
For references I have the free Stamina at 12:00, 18:00 and 21:00.
At 21:00 it is the arena reward.
Until we are on the newest server : 24th Ice mage and not the oldest one: 1st Cleric we have a little chance to earn some coins from Arena and purchase a few souls and earn extra gems, just need to be very active. Later no chance, just go to other new server as free user.
Here I will present a kind of a day, where is optimised for arena reward.
At daily reset we start counting the day and play.
First take the Sign in reward, no stamina needed.
After this check the stamina pool and your team experience.
At level 37 I have 624/1100. So it is 476 team exp needed to level up. That is limiting my heroes max level.
Look at Daily Events which has TEAM EXP as reward.
Instance killer 0/10, 120 ( Campaign or elites counts too)
Elite instance killer 0/3, 150 ( Just with those Elite – with souls)
Lord of time 0/2, 80 (rift: you can choose exp potion or items for gold, choose exp potion)
Trial of the king: 0/3, 100 Material for gear
This is 450 team exp.
+ doing instances it will give 6/12 team exp. So this will make the team level up, which will give stamina. Take in consideration this at the free stamina pool when is the team level up.
Not needed stamina:
Arena Lovers: 0/3, 100 use it later, before reward with 1h, not now!
Skills upgrade: 0/3, 60 – use now if you have gold or skills available point at your hero ( max is 10 points for us)
Enchant equipment ( 0/1 ) , 50
Midas !!! DO NOT USE, resist. Do not spend gems for gold at this level. First it will not help a lot, second, better keep for eli