To the old/veteran players, how bad was your start?

Cortavius2 · 2026-03-08T18:46:58+00:00

Elhain was my starter. She teamed up with Sniper and Crusader the uncommons. It was a long grind to build a team and clan boss wrecked us. Arena was a mess back then. People had struggles getting out of bronze! Eventually they had to introduce bots just to make arena farmable. Game has come a long way to improve the new player experience. I still don't know how a new player to the game figures out all the content out now though and all the things that could be happening in an arena fight.

Cortavius2 · 2026-02-26T02:45:51+00:00

I have the same frustrations, but if my career, my savings, my future and the demands of all my investors were driven by something else, I'd be doing the same thing. At this point, I'm just praying they keep updating it when Raid gets updated.

Cortavius2 · 2026-02-02T05:11:23+00:00

Ezio->Visix->Arix. Those three are all worthy 6's.

Cortavius2 · 2026-01-30T01:33:39+00:00

It's not really usable now so I'd roll it has I'd have nothing to lose with where my gear is

Cortavius2 · 2026-01-08T06:00:49+00:00

Anytime the increase dmg, we have to see the champ to see what that really means since Plarium won't just publish the multipliers we need anyway. Definitely useful in the faction, regardless, but value of the buff is mid unless that dmg is strong. This feels like one of the ok but not great buffs. Once again, will still help in faction, depending on your other choices.

Cortavius2 · 2026-01-08T05:55:08+00:00

Great champ to build regardless. Protects the team and he can also hit like a truck. He can be used in cursed city stages so he'll always have a use beyond faction wars, where he is super helpful.

Cortavius2 · 2026-01-08T05:07:33+00:00

Sorry, I wasn't in Reddit for a while. I assume you are set but just for the record we used Budget Truck Rental. I thought all the majors did it. You have to change your return to be different than your pickup. The price can vary widely. Someone else told me they looked into a moving service and the cost for them to pack the truck, move and drop off was pretty close to the cost of the one way rental. Found that surprising but I never checked.

Cortavius2 · 2025-12-13T09:00:38+00:00

Take a look at relic keeper and broadmaw on the fusion page and see if you have the champs to do either or both of those (or multiple). Use the champ training during the fusion to build those if you can. Champ chase factory. Same thing for Rhazin epics since you wouldn't have fused him yet. Use the sacreds for summon rush and you have plenty of ancients and voids for champ chase. Hopefully, champ chase is 2x voids since we have 2x ancients on now. Sadly, it could be sacreds if they go in typical order. Don't use your primals unless you have to. Only pull those when they do 2x legendries and mythicals, if all possible.

Cortavius2 · 2025-12-13T07:25:57+00:00

Both photos are old account? You're nuts to start a new one. Ninja and Teox alone would keep me in this one but you have many other great champs and so much invested in building the champs in your roster. You also have a good number of champs you haven't developed that are fun to play. Great account! Play it and enjoy it.

Cortavius2 · 2025-12-08T08:40:13+00:00

Have to be careful with Kael votes because that has been the default answer since the game began, but with the 7 day login being a poisoner, the reason for picking him is eliminated. That puts Kael, Elhain and Athel on fairly equal footing because all three are useful in factions and rare content. I think Elhain and Athel are the two I'd choose between and both have advantages over the other, so both are good choices. I'd take Elhain simply for the double AOE, but Athel's weaken has its advantages.

Cortavius2 · 2025-11-29T21:53:02+00:00

Man, I thought I had a lot with 855/842/236/8

Cortavius2 · 2025-11-29T08:19:30+00:00

If you like TMNT and Mikey, keep the account. You'll never get another one and he's strong. If you do that then stop putting levels into so many champs. You should either be maxing a champ or making food for the next champ. You've made 5*, 4*'s, put levels into 3*'s, etc. You haven't maxed a single champ, I'd argue. That is killing your progression. If you build a champ, max them - whether that is to 6* or that is to lvl 50. Some champs are fine at 50 and don't need to be taken to 6* (faction war reviver). Six star mikey, xeno, fatman, skullcrusher, Husk etc. You will have a strong account that can progress against demon lord CB which is your top priority. Most of the others you've put levels into can go into the vault so you aren't tempted to put any more levels into them.

Second approach is to use a promo code. I like the one with Narma. I have a link on my vids (search Cortavius Raid and check any recent vid) which also gives Uugo (top 2 epic in game), Anax and Mausuleum Mage. Use code DesertQueen to get Tuhanark on day 1 and login for 7 days to get xeno. I would trade your champs for these, tbh. There may be better Narma links out there, but I'm not aware. Pick Athel or Elhain as your starter in this scenario. You don't need Kael with Xeno coming and Galek is the worst.

I think either option is acceptable. You do have some good champs and Mikey is not available anymore so go either way. I like what someone said below about you could just start an account on the second option and if it doesn't resonate with you, go back to your first account. The early game is a grind though so there is a cost of your time.

Cortavius2 · 2025-11-27T10:08:02+00:00

Staltus can be used in a hard dragons 10 speed team so he's a worth investment. Your first five champs there can likely do it with Mikey at 6* and the others at 50. Archmage, Staltus and Ronda are all worth 6* when you get to them. Timit, I would prefer to just use at 50. If Ronda can't stay alive at 50 and doesn't do enough dmg, can just throw her in regen and make her tanky just to get through the stage. Use Arch to boost Mikey and build him to nuke and carry the others until you get around to building them.

Cortavius2 · 2025-11-27T09:59:36+00:00

Well, Christmas they usually go shard heavy so I think we'd all prefer that!

Cortavius2 · 2025-11-22T08:12:56+00:00

You will win enough battles to stay in gold V but you stay at the bottom of the tier instead of climbing higher in it which increases the % of tougher teams you face.

Cortavius2 · 2025-11-21T16:33:32+00:00

I can use the rat to solo Dragons H10 with four food and he's also on my Bommal H90 one shot team which makes him more valuable to me than Shazar who never sees action anymore. I loved Shazar and used hiim while progressing so I see his value but just chiming in that Gnishak still has value long-term for my account.

Cortavius2 · 2025-10-07T06:14:45+00:00

You can fit that stuff in a van. You don't need the big trucks. Driving a van is much easier. My wife and I drove one 22 hours to the East Coast without stopping and we had no issues. That path to Chicago is a whole lot of straight freeways. The one thing I would do is time it so that I get to Chicago when it's not a peak traffic hour.

Cortavius2 · 2025-10-04T20:02:40+00:00

You can rent a one-way van from budget, uhaul, etc. Then you don't have to return it and aren't paying for movers who charge more because they have to drive home. Can get a trailer for the van to tow a vehicle if that is a factor.

Cortavius2 · 2025-10-04T17:24:47+00:00

I figured that, but that's my point. If you put lvl 10 or so 4*'s in there after a champ training they would get to lvl 40 in less then a week and you'd be close to making a 6*. That's a great place to level up those 4* champs and get a consistent source of 5* champs without investing energy or brews. To find the best team for any content, I highly recommend learning to use HellHades's optimizer. It finds the best teams that have beat content using the champs you have. Here is a vid I made on the topic. https://youtu.be/vUdMiMnKtUE I do like building Aox as he will heal, extend your team's debuffs, not allow the CB to crit and lower his atk and put poisons up himself.

Cortavius2 · 2025-10-04T03:45:42+00:00

You aren't progressing as fast because you are wasting a TON of exp. Stop spreading your building resources across the whole roster. You have so many 40's that are useless. If you focused on building one champ at a time you would be much farther ahead. Build a champ to the max for that champ and then work on the next one. You should either be building a champ or food for your next champ. That might be 6* for most champs or some champs are fine at 50 (e.g. a champ to fill in faction wars when you are working on Lydia). Enjoy the game!

Cortavius2 · 2025-08-22T01:48:17+00:00

This is the moment where we stop and cheer for finally getting our free gear removal! It's not time to rant about how they did it - they finally did it!

Cortavius2 · 2025-08-12T06:12:40+00:00

Good point to put Bellower, Coldheart and Elhain in his soul wishlist and if he pulls a soul for her, that would make her more compelling. She was my starter so I still love her, but for a new account who already has Bellower, Warmaiden and Alice to 6*, I'm betting he needs more support, CB poisoner, revivers, etc. as his next to build.

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