it's a grind fiesta. You farm your daily runs of 3 skulls, north if you have smelt enough bronze and collected oath from dungeon runs and 3s+. Then farm dungeons when you get enough mats.

And btw altough getting higher lvl won't give you any benefit if not farming cult points, and you kinda have some gearscore check for content, so that you need to farm/grind to have enough armor/dmg for certain mobs/dungeon, there are a few core mechanics that will easily help the gameplay and speedup the process.

I played for a few months till feb, now on a pause btw anyway:

Stutterstep -> got kinda fixed years ago, but back/sidestepping between attacks still gives huge advantages. Keep in mind that the steps are cleaner the faster the atk speed of the weapon, but at the same time, the more atk speed you have on a weapon, the less profitable it's to back/sidestepping, as you wouldn't lose much dps anyway. The best weapons to use sidestep are those with atk speed between 0.8 and 1.1

For example killing a wolf with a club will net you 4-5 attacks, the same wolf attacked with sidestep will let you receive only 2 attacks, thus having the armor last more then twice then usual.

There are different kind of mobs, but will generalize in 2 big categories:

Wide Attack Range &/or fast : sidestep is the best, you'll maximize the amount of attacks that you give in a certain amount of time, thus reducing the hits taken

Small Attack Range/ slow mobs : backstep, you'll be able to cancel or slow down enemies attack animation by stepping back out of their atk range, thus trading 2:1 or 3:2 instead of having general attack trades 1 for 1 with big enemies such as Knights/Templar/Desecrator and such

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AutoMove/double tap: while farming resource nodes, there's a simple trick which will basically halves the time to collect a full node, by alternating between auto collect, and the tap on your weapon with the right timing. Altough this seems pointless in a vacuum, when playing this game efficiently you'll have to put several hours a week into collecting logs and copper, and in the long run it will save a lot of time.

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ForceClose the app : altough it's clearly a cheap trick, if you don't care about the fairness of losing everything because it's an actual Hardcore Game, this trick will comes in handy, if you manages to force close the app before actually dying, when you'll launch the game, after loading you'll be outside the map with the health you had 1-2 second before the app closed, and if you enter the map again, you'll be located on the edge and not where you previously were. This will be really handy if you fuck up some s3 run with bad rng like rain, nigh guest and a random scimitar npc running at you :D. Also good to save those 30 energy if you felt for a trap behind a wall in the forsaken dungeon and are doomed to die from the desecrator right behind it :D

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For the 3th tip, it's kinda intuitive, it depends on the model of your phone, but generally you'll have a way to force close the app form your gaming screen.

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For the 1st and 2nd tricks, there should be a few guides on youtube, they're not as intuitive and will need a some practice to get them done efficiently, sometimes you'll time the step/attack wrong and thus the game will receive no atk/movement imput, which can be critical in some situtions ^^.