For archers, PATK, PDEF, and MDEF are most important. Especially at lower levels.
Don't worry too much about your arena ranking under lvl 40. Focus on raising your city building lvls and academy techs.
GEAR: Go to all guild battles(even if you know you will lose) and do all team arena battles if you can. This will give you lots of insignias for lvl 35/45 gear from the arena shop. Buy them early and enchant them to max before you hit 35/45/55..etc.
GEMS: Synthesize PATK/PDEF/MDEF gems to higher levels and put them on all your gear. Convert Block/Charisma/MATK gems to more useful gems.
GOLD: Spend most of your gold either on guild skills for Strength and Defense or playing Astrals for better PATK/PDEF/MDEF astrals.
ASTRALS: lvl 1-40 - focus on getting the best PATK/PDEF/MDEF astrals you can get. Any green/blue astrals should be synthesized into your three main astrals to make them stronger. Any useful gold astrals you get that are not patk/pdef/mdef should be saved for later when you have more slots to use. At lvl 40, add the CRIT astral.
SOCKET RODS: Don't use the Socket Rods you get from early quests for your low lvl gear. Save them for when you get lvl 45 or higher gear since you will end up keeping those a lot longer.
FISHING: At lvl 30(?) you get to play the fishing game. Try to aim for the green fishes near the bottom for the lv5 luck stones. These will help a lot when you are enchanting new gear.
ACADEMY TECHS: If you are not VIP, this will require a lot of patience with all the cooldown time. Try to keep your char and troop attack and def techs at or near the same level. Lancers/Hunters/Paladins/Griffens/Knights/Templars = PATK/PDEF/MDEF. Others use MATK instead of PATK.
CATACOMBS: Do this everyday. You will need lots of crypt tokens for lvl 40/50 rings and jewelry.
Last edited by Kelso; 12-30-2013 at 11:24 AM.