For New Players Who Want To Try !!READ THIS!!

[Terente22CmRecords]

This is going to be a long post, also will be my rewiew for it.

You are going to enter in one of the most pay to advance game (p2w to considering arena and live arena), if you are not wiling to spend houndreds or a few k`s in this game be ready for years of grind. People telling you you can play this witchout spending money are right, they just dont tell you the grind is measured in months and years, just to get to a mid level.
As you can see in my screenshot, i am lvl 55 after 110+ days, what do you get after that time? Mostly nothing, not even some champs or items to let you advance a litle further. Lets take the game part by part.

1. Champions and shards: you will be flooded with commons uncommons rares and ocasionaly some epics, legendary drops? In 110+ days i got one single legendary drop! 1. People will say to you to save for x2 events, you wont get anything there to, to imagine the rates, you just need to know that plarium is owned by a GAMBLING australian company. You will get tons of green shards, and some blue ones, the rest, from quests, wich require a lot of dayly time, and time in general, even then be ready for a epic.

2. Events and Tournaments: you WILL NOT BE ABLE, to get all the rewards AS F2P, not even after a few months, to get all the rewards you need to spend, or save gems a few weeks and spend em on energy to grind like hell that dungeon or what you need to do, non stop or nothing, the points needed for even a semi decent reward are insane, meaning youl see legendary books, mythyk books, orange shards, if youre f2p just get over it, youl never get em, same for those events with ladders, you wont be able to get even 30% of em as f2p even if you save energy and gring like hell, the company will simply not let you!

3. Plarium Points: youre f2p? foget about those rewards from start, just look at the dayly rewards and make some math, you get 9 points per day and second one is already 350 third one 1250 4th one 1,4k and so one, so yes you will not get em! Not even as a casual spender!

4. Dungeons: after youre first week the potions dungeons will close, and you will have one opened per day, except the white one wich is opened all the time, if you need potions badly, just spend 200 gems. For the bosses, well youl just get destroyed after stage 11-12 of em if you dont have decent heroes, forget about hard, spider is very frustrating, for exemple i needed a banner for sacred order i spended 7k energy and still didnt drop one, NOT EVEN ONE, also youl say hey but you drop the set items, yea you do, but those stats yould drop probaly wont be good for what you need on youre heroes, also for the potion dungeons and the souls one, just forget it, i was luky to get 2 free legos i have 3 now all lvl 60 good items good sets, some masteries, you wont even do half of the boss damage!

5. Factions: nice rewards, grind like hell, since it require good teams formed from a single faction, have fun tryng to do them with the curent state of the drop rates!

6. Arena: here the game truly shows hes p2w nature, you will fast get gold 1, and youl stay there, you will simply have only whales as oponents, if you have time, just log in from 15 to 15 min and youl be able to get a few wins per day from there, youl see a solo lvl 40 champ with red stars and purple ones? well it is posible to be a whale who will just one shot youre entire team, it happen that a sole lvl 50 epic one shoted 3 of my tanks. From arena you get medalions, 2 per win in gold 1 and 2, let just say you need 200 of em for a lvl 4 upgrade in the hall, have fun farming em, same thing aplies to live and tag team arena!

7. Clan Bosses: you will strugle in the first months to do dmg to the demon lord, forget hydra, you wont scratch it!

8 Doom Tower: if you dont have a dt special team dont even try it, be happy if you manage to beat the first normal boss and farm a few materials!

9. Cursed City: you need tons of champions, specidic factions or styles, dont try it, youl get stuck

10: Items upgrades: you can spend 5 milion silver and it will still fail the upgrade to lvl 16, i remeber back in teh days after a number of fails it will get 100% chance it got removed!

11: Booking champions, forget about legendaries, youl be lucky if you max a lego champ skill in 2 or 3 months as a f2p.

12: Masteries: you either spend 800 gems for a full sett, of farm the mino like a madman, youre choice!

This is what you will face as a new player, especialy in the first 6 or 7 months! As many people sayd in rewiews, plarium has one of the worst anti consumer and unfriendly policy towards the f2p comunity!

[Xenu89]

Now don't get me wrong Plarium (raid developers) are not amazing however I do not feel this description of the game really reflects every F2P's Journey.

My background on the game, I am F2P I have been playing littler over 1.5 year. I am currently able to compete in the arena at high end Gold 5 and low end Platinum ranks, I Would say I'm mid-late game in terms of the PVE content.

Regarding points made on this post

1: Yes you are right Ancient shards (blue shards) have a 0.5% chance to give you a legendary champion which is a 1% change on a x2 event. however if you also get free Sacred shards which have a 6% change to get legendary which is a 12% chance on a x2 event and if you are a patient player and don't yeet all your resources as soon as you get them you can save for guaranteed events where you might have to pull 60-100 ancient shards to get a legendary champion. There is also a mercy system built into shards where if you have not pulled a legendary champion in 200 ancient shards your odds are increased by 5% for every shard used until you get a legendary champion. You might be thinking 200 shards sounds like a lot however you get free shards through Weekly quest, Daily login rewards, Dungeon rewards, Campaign rewards, weekly arena rewards, Faction wars, missions, clan shop and daily clan login, 1 weekly free ancient shards in shop, 5 ancient shards in market place which only cost 200k silver to buy. You can also buy ancient shards with Gems which are obtainable free in the game.

Every play gets a new 7 day login reward legendary champion every 3 months, these tend to be OP champions that help you in many areas of the game.

You can grind for a Fusion champion every 6-8 weeks and this can be F2P.

As you progress though the game you also have clan boss demon lord rewards you get 4 keys a day and can either put them all in 1 to get max chest, however if you can 1 key the required damage then you can get 4 separate rewards these rewards are DOUBLED if you clan kills the boss. You also have the doom tower where there are 120 floors with 12 bosses all and 2 levels normal and hard you get 10 keys a day giving you ability to do 10 floors per day on a 1 month rotation giving you 300 keys to do 240 floors you go rewards for every floor with a premium reward for the boss. You also have clan boss hydra rewards which you can gain fragments to summon Mithrala who is a Void legendary champion.

2: First of all when it comes to boss tournaments like dragon, fire knight, spider ect if you are able to do stage 16 dragon and above its 1-1 energy to points if the reward requires 2k points you need to run as many runs as it takes to use 2k energy.

You get free daily energy refills from the shop that go to your inbox these last for 99 days so you should only redeem them as and when you need them to maximise your energy regain.

Tournaments, Events and Fusions can be done even after a couple of months of playing you just need to make efficient use of your resources.

3: Not much to to say here Plarium points are just for whales and krakens.

4: You can run many dungeons with epic and rare champions, It really comes down to knowing the champions skills and pairing them with champions that work well together. In fact the best dungeon champion is an epic champion called "Seer" better than any legendary to clear dungeon waves I've had 4/5 copy's of this champion since playing.

5: Finishing faction wars is considered by a lot of people end game, so this will be difficult however you do get good free rewards as you go though this with one of the best legendary champions in the game as the final reward.

6: Arena can be difficult at the beginning however lots of people put in 1 man defence's to keep from going up to close to platinum and you can refresh the arena list every 15mins to look for easier opponents. If you can not compete with a speed team use a different strategy for arena you can build a go second team with a tanky reviver who can pick up your team after the speed team has gone first.

7: I've done free to play challenges where I have started and 1 key easy and normal in the first week just like any game you need to work out how to do this. There are you tube guides and clan boss guides online. early clan boss damage can be obtainable easily with poison, if you pick Kael as your starter champion he brings poison in his skills you can also pick up a rare champion called frozen banshee who brings poison sensitivity which Increases poison damage by 25%, find a champion who brings decrease attack and a champion who brings increase Defence on your team which will help you survive while the boss takes poison damage.

8: Doom tower unlocks at level 40 by this point you should have 6 stared a couple of champions. Normal can be tackled with your starter champion for damage and use sets like Regeneration on your support champions to keep them alive and stun sets on champions with AOE Ability's to help control the waves. This can be done you just have to think about what champions your putting in. You can't just chuck in a bunch of attack champions and hope for the best.

9: The Cursed City of Sintranos has 2 difficulty levels normal and hard it does not open until you hit level 55. By this point if you are playing correctly you should have 6/7 6 star champions and a roster of 5 star champions you have been building for faction wars. If this is the case you should be able to progress though some of normal planning your route through Sintranos is key, unlike doom tower you don't have to complete every stage and there is multiple routes you can take.

10. The gear levelling mechanic is one of the most annoying in the game however I can say I've never had to pay over 5 million silver to max one artefact or accessory I think at most 3-3.5million for a 6 star legendary item.

The cost increases with the rank and rarity of an item and there is RNG to the success rate of each level. You get additional rolls or extra stats every 4 levels of the item. The best advice I can give is to be frugal with items only upgrade gear to 16 you are going to keep long term and roll it to 8 first make sure you get the sub-stat rolls your looking for if you are happy with first 8 rolls then roll to 12 and then to 16 if its got the right stats.

11: You can acquire legendary quiet a few legendary books free through the campaign, missions and advanced daily quest. Legendries can have low or high book value I would use website like hellhades.com to see if the champion benefits from being booked. In most cases people save their legendary books for CvC (Clan vs Clan) these give you a lot of points if you upgrade their skills during these events and and the more points you earn as a clan the more rewards you unlock.

12: It is only worth gemming masteries on a 6 star champion and It is wise to save your gems for your first set of masteries. Once you have 3/4 champions with masteries it does become more efficient to grind minotaur as you get experience for your newly 6 stared champion, Silver and it would cost less energy than what you can buy with 800 gems. however it does take time roughly 140-150 runs 4-5hrs of auto runs. if you play on PC you can download programs like RSL Helper that can auto run until completed and turn off your pc which means you can run it over night and not have to worry about the pc being on all night.


Plarium is a business at the end of the day and they can not run a free game like this if you want to rush to the end game as quick as possible and you have deep pockets then you have that option on this game.

However if you are a patient player who doesn't mind the grind there are plenty of freebies on this game with log in rewards, in game content, promo codes and amazon gaming collaborations so if you have or a friend or family has a prime account you can get free rewards from this too.

If you are interested in playing Raid there is an group of content creators that are running a F2P Challenge on You tube right now this is run by Hell Hades, watching some of these creators videos would prepare you very well for starting your own journey though the world of Telearia

[loroku]

> 8: Doom tower unlocks at level 40 by this point you should have 6 stared a couple of champions.

Oof, no, this is definitely not true. You might be close, and maybe this was true ~a year ago when this was written, but even starting out with a free 5*, you will not have two characters at 6* by level 40. I'm not saying the OP was perfect in their description but neither is this post defending the game.

This game is SUPER grindy - period. And it's full of traps designed specifically to make you waste resources, and hateful, evil sinks (like the tiny % chance to upgrade artifacts - ouch) that don't "feel good" because it's a massive waste with no stacking chance to win. It's probably just slightly worse than the "average" similar style FtP game, of which there are like a billion now, and Raid is clearly old and showing some age.

All that said: like the billion others like it, it's still a fun game with lots of strategy and lots of tiny dopamine triggers sprinkled all over the place, and not too bad for a game without an existing IP. Just for the love of god don't spend money: it is NOT worth it, and all money does is speed up progress in a game that you can spend infinite time playing to achieve the same result.

[Scrambled onions]

Do save for 2x events, no point in being impatient

[H3llF!r3]

this game is all about patience especialy if ur a f2p. always keep ur mats for events. shards for x2 % drops events.

[Superczar]

OP makes some good points but at the same time comes off as being upset over RNG. I have quickly realized that this is a grinder of a game, but I am not quite at 60 days yet and have managed to save 60 shard for the current 2x event and am fairly pleased with my success, pulling one legendary (Dutchess) and several epics I haven't even begun to look over (that other than Miscreated Monster), but no matter what for a 60 day low spending account (I only bought the daily gem pack, the forge pass, and some cheap energy deals), these epics i have obtained at this point will only help my account.

[Zero McDol]

It's a typical free-to-play, always-online, pay-to-win grind-or-payfest, no different than the last 30 to 100 mobile games that have been released on Steam as of late.

I'm definitely not going anywhere near it, but was curious to check the forums after seeing that it's now on Steam. Anyways, enjoy anyone who's playing and remember, this game is designed to eat at your wallet, and then shutdown when it's no longer profitable.