2. Mid Game (Lv32 - 50)
This is where the fun and strategic part of the game starts to kick in, with lots of decision to be made and a drought of lv 44-50 whereby you cannot equip any new equipment (for most heroes). In this period, spend most of your energy farming purple fragments, like ultimate orb as you need many of them for fusing. 10 runs give about 2 fragment and 20 fragments to complete 1 piece.. 100 runs -> 600 energy worth!, now you understand why you must buy from trader also start early, before you can equip them.
2.1 Goblin Peddler and Black Market
Unlocks at completion of Chapter2, lv 30 and 40 respectively. Goblin Peddler and Black Market are similar to trader but offer better items (and more expensive of course). They appear randomly when you spend food.
Golden Tips: Always keep about 50-100k on hand once you unlock Goblin Peddler
Rationale: Same as trader, but the merchant offer better gears and are more costly. You don't want to regret not being able to buy them when you encounter them since they last 1 hour only.
2.2 Guild
Unlock at lv 32. Other then being part of a community in game and awaiting for future patches for more functionality, there are still a couple of things that help you. 1, you can give props to a higher level player for energy 2, you can hire and dispatch heroes to mercenary camp that can earn money. Hiring mercenary helps for CoF
2.3 Crucible of Fire
Unlocks at lv 32. Best gold farming activity. You use your entire arsenal to clear the 15 stages. Hp and Power are carried over battles to battles and died heroes cannot be revived. Difficulty of stages increase along the way and it is random who and what heroes you fight. Dragon scales can be earned and used for exchange, use them for heroes first! Crucible of fire will get a lot more difficult as you level up. This is because you can start facing opponent with higher level then you at about the 10th stage. When you are nearing lv 50, you get to fight heroes that have purple fusion and you are not even there yet! Thus proper planning and strategy is important for max clearance.
Golden tip: Do crucible later in of the day after you have gain some exp/lvl or equipped with better gears. This little boost might win u an extra battle!
Also, if you clear CoF you get 1300 scales, you can refresh the shop for 10 scales and buy your choice of hero twice if you want. Example: Buy jugo = 500 scale, refresh shop = 10 scale, buy jugo again = 500 scale. Hence in 2 days, you get 2600 scales > 500 + 10(1st reset) + 500 + 500 (day 2) + 10(1st reset) + 500 + 10(2nd reset) + 500 meaning you can get 25 SS in 2 days!!!!