New player Guide

[AngryPancake]

Disclaimer
This is meant to be a guide for new players. Not a review of the game. I will try to explain the game in the most neutral way possible. If anyone feels the need to crap on the game, please use a different post. If you notice any typos or mistakes in this guide, please let me know below and I will try to correct it. I will also not go into absolute details, as I am trying to keep this fairly short within reason.

Basic overview
Raid is a gacha game. That means that the games champions used to play the game are almost all locked behind an RNG system. If you are not OK with this, it might not be a game for you. It is also autobattle game and while it can be played manualy, it is not the preffered way to play for most players. The main focus of the game is in creating and preparing your team before the fight and then trying to optimize your team to be as fast as possible in a given fight.

Starter champion
First thing, the game will ask you to do is to select one out of four rare champions, to start the game with. These champions are Elhain, Galek, Athel and Kael. All of them are similar and fulfil the same role. That being a damage dealer. (also refered to as Nuker). While all of the starter champions are perfectly viable, there is objectively a best choice to make. If you wanna have fun, pick whatever champs you find fancy and you will be just fine. If you wanna minmax the game, pick Kael.

Champions overview
The heroes, that you will use in raid are refered to as champions. They come in 6 different rarities. Champions of better rarity are generaly (but not exclusively) better, than champions of lower rarity. The rarities of the champions are:
Common (White) < Uncommon (Green) < Rare (Blue) < Epic (Purple) < Legendary (Gold) < Mythic (Red)
Each campion will have a type assigned to it. These roles can be:
- Attack - These champions scale their damage with the Attack stat and generaly have much better damage scaling for high damage numbers, than other type of champions while not being able to take much damage themselves.
- Defense - These champions scale their damage with a Defense stat. They do not deal as much damage as attack champions (with few exceptions), but they can be very tanky.
- HP - These champions scale their damage with their Maximum HP and usually have other mechanisms in their abilities, that benefit from their high HP pool.
- Support - These champions usually dont scale their attack very well, and focus on buffing / debuffing / reviving.
- Hybrid (combination of any of the above)

How to get champions
You can get champions via multiple avenues. The most common is through Shards, that you will get as a reward for clearing content or buy with real money. There are multiple qualities of shards. Each gives different odds to different champions.
You can also get champions as a reward for achieving milestones in the game or from daily login reward.

How to level up and ascend champions
All powering up of champions (except for leveling) is done in a Tavern building in your city screen.
Every champions portrait will have a certain number of stars in it. Common champions will start with 1, Uncommon with 2, Rare with 3 etc. Multiplying the numbers of stars by 10 will give you the maximum level the champion can currently have. So a champion with 3 stars can have a maximum level of 30. However the number of stars a champion can have can be increased, up to a maximum of 6 stars. Therefore every champion can have a maximum level of 60.
In order to increase the number of stars on a champion, you first have to level that champion to its current maximum level. Then you have to sacrifice a number of champion based on the star level of the champion. These sacrified champions also have to have the same number of stars.
Example: I want to power up my starting champion from 3-star to 4-star. I first need to level my starting champion to level 30. Then I have to sacrifice three 3-star champions (of any level or rarity). After the sacrifice is done, my starting champion will become a 4-star with level 1.
Then I want to power up this champion from a 4-star to a 5-star. I will need to have my champion a level 40 and then Sacrifice four 4-star champions of any level or rarity. etc.
note: DO NOT SACRIFICE EPIC CHAMPIONS OR BETTER. Use your common or uncommon. Level them up and then sacrifice them.
You can also improve champions skills by using skill books for champions in the tavern. Books come in 4 qualities. Rare, Epic, Legendary, Mythic. Only use those books to the same rarity of a champion as they are. i.e. Rare books for Rare champions, Epic books for epic champions etc. Never use a book for a lower rarity champion.

Stat Overview
There are 8 different stats, that each champion has. These stats are gained in two ways. First way is to increase the champions level and rank. Generaly also refered to as Base stats. The second way to inscrease stats in via equiping the champion with a gear. Equiping a gear on a champion has no visual representation and only serves as a stat stick.
The different stats are:
- HP - Increases champions max HP and increases damage for HP type champions
- Attack - This stat is useful ONLY for Attack type champions and increases their damage. Defense or HP type champions DO NOT benefit from this stat AT ALL.
- Defense - Decreases champions damage taken and increases damage for Defense type champion
- Speed - Determines how fast the champion acts in combat. Champions with high speed take turns before champions with low speed and more often.
- Critical chance - determines a chance, that the champions scores a critical hit
- Critical damage - multiplies the damage of a critical hit
- Resistance - Increases champions chance to resist debuffs*
- Accuracy - Increases champions chance to place debuffs*
* Placing debuffs is a multistep process. Here is a siplified example on how it works:
Champion A has a 50% chance to place Decrease Attack debuff with his attack on Champion B. When the champion attacks, the game will check, if the debuff will be placed. There are 2 possible outcomes:
1) Champion A has failed the 50% debuff check -> Debuff is not placed
2) Champion A has succeeded the 50% debuff check -> Compare accuracy of Champion A with Resistance of Champion B
2a) Champion As accuracy is higher enough, than Champion Bs resistance -> Debuff is placed on Champion B
2b) Champion Bs resistance is higher enough, than Champion As accuracy -> Debuff is resisted by Champion B

Gear overview
Each champion except common champions can be upgraded with 9 different pieces of gear. 6 pieces of main gear and 3 pieces of accessories. Each piece of gear has 1 main stat, and can have up to 4 substats depending on how much the gear is upgraded. Each gear can be upgraded up to +16 and every 4 levels gain 1 new substat or 1 bonus to an existing substat.
Gear can have many different stats, with some exceptions. Gloves, Chest and Boots can have a main stat with % increase, while other types of gear can only have flat stat bonuses.
For example a Weapon can have +200 attack as main stat, while a Chest piece can have +50% Attack bonus as main stat.

Main gear
- Weapon - Allways has Attack as main stat and cannot have Defense as substat
- Helmet - Allways has HP as main stat and can have any substats
- Shield - Allways has Defense as main stat and cannot have Attack as a substat
- Gloves - Only piece of main gear, that can have Crit chance or Crit damage as main stat.
- Chest - Only piece of main gear, that can have Accuracy or Resistance as main stat.
- Boots - Only piece of main gear, that can have Speed as main stat. And in most cases champions should be equipped with Speed boots.

Accessories
Require a champion to reach a certain level of ascention to be equipped
- Ring - allways has flat stat bonus for main stat
- Necklace - allways has flat stat or Crit damage%
- Banner - can have Accuracy or Resistance as main stat

For a new player, I would recommend to focus your stat priority on Accuracy = Speed > Defense > Damage

Game mode overview
There are multiple different game modes in the game, that will unlock as you keep leveling up your account. The game will throw these types at you fairly quickly without explaining the benfits and players will generaly start participating in a content, that is not really usefull to them at this stage of the game.
- Campaign - The games version of story mode. Campaign has 4 difficulties. It is the best place to level up your champions and make them stronger. Campaign gives the highest amount of XP out of any game mode in the game. As a new player you should spend 99% of your time in the campaign, until you get your first champion to level 60.
- Dungeons - Dungeons are separated into 3 different types.
- Potion dungeons - used to farm potions for champion ascention
- Gear dungeons - Ice Golem, Dragon, Fire Knight, Spider
- Used to farm gear for champions
- Miscelaneous - these are really end-game dungeons. As a new player you should not even care about them.
Early game, dungeons dont have much value for you, except for potion keeps to ascend your starting champion to level 3 of ascention. Keep your focus on progressing through campaign.
- Faction wars - game mode, where you can only use a champions of the same faction to clear stages for rewards to improve stats on your gear. I.e. only Undead champions or only Demon champions etc.
- Arena - PvP mode, where you fight other players teams controlled by AI. Except for live arena, where you actually play against other players. Normal arena is very important, as it gives your currency, that is used to upgrade your great hall, which gives permanent bonuses to all your champions.
- Clan boss - special bosses, than you can fight with your clan for daily / weekly bonuses depending on how well you do. You should do this every day / week for rewards.
- Doom Tower and Cursed City - This is a late / end game content, that really doesnt need explaining here.

Goals for a new player
1) Get your Starting champion to level 60
2) Get 1 full team of 5 champions to level 60
3) For a long term goal, you should aim for making a team, that is able to farm Ultra-nightmare clan boss daily. This will really open up the game for you, because you will have a steady income of Shards to summon new champions.

Where to get more info
If you wanna get more informations about raid. Check out these content creators on youtube:
Hellhades: https://www.youtube.com/@HellHades
Ash: https://www.youtube.com/@ASH-RAID
DeadwoodJedi: https://www.youtube.com/@DeadwoodJedi
YST: https://www.youtube.com/@YST_Verse
Nub Raids: https://www.youtube.com/@NubRaids

[eqalidan]

for starter champ, I would say elhain and kael are about equal, kael require acc so he is harder to build for early game while elhain is pure damage.

for champ assertion, do not sacrifice any rare epic or legendary champ till you understand the game, odds are you will be using alot of rares eirly on and which ones are good or bad doesn't make itself clear till you play the game for a while, hell, what makes some champs good doesn't make itself clear even after playing for over a year, some you have to take to 60 and use to understand what makes them good.

I would say keep 2 armigers locked and feed armigers into them for skill ups, you wont use them for a while but when you need them they will likely be max skilled, it takes VERY specific champs to out right replace armigers.

for champion stats, any non attack champion is usable at 50, they will just be squishyier and do less damage, for attack champions, the only reason they exist unlocks at level 60, acc is required for champs who debuff, a good saftey number is 200 for doungeons before hard mode, 350 for doomtower hard, and 550 for iron twins and sand devil alon with ice spider in doomtower, phantom shogun requires a different stratagy to beat and can be done with rares with no acc. for resistance, its near worthless outside of very specific scenerios and sets, toxic and regen are good for resistance, so make note of those, but till you REALLY need it its a worthless stat.

for gear, you are going to want to aim for around 170 speed, this is about the level of speed you have without speed boots in ok gear, because you are going to use speed boots, you want to aim for around 200 with 200 acc on your debuffer.

for goals, you want them to be

1) stage 12-3 brutal, this is the exp farm stage, you want to be able to solo it, you starter is able to do this, dont bother with nightmare till you can 2 man it and you arent doing this for a long time.

2) getting a team together, this will most likely have warmaiden as a defense down champ, so farm her and feed copies into her to book her

3) when you get a team together, and you starter is 60, go over to minotaur and see how high you can go before you die, DO NOT KEEP DOING IT, just poke it
likely you will need to gem masteries on your starter, you should be given enough gems to both buy the gem mines and masteries,

4) after getting masteries, see if you can get further in minotaur, if you can see how high you go, if you get to 15, mintaur is your life now till everyone on your team is full masteries,

5) if you cant, you are going to go to dragon and see how high you can go, and spider, if you can get to spider 10, stop and farm out an acc banner for each character that needs acc, ANY banner works at this point with acc as a main stat, stage 10 rewards you a stange amount of higher end gear, to the point its better to do 10 than any other stage till I think 17 or 18, but you likely wont be able to do that till you make a specific spider team, thats future you problems.

6) if you cant get to spider 10 or you can and already got the acc banners, you next goal is dragon 20, you will stop at stages 7,11,16 to farm, these are optimal stages to farm till you hit 20, do the highest one you can 100% finish.

you will unlock doomtower at some point, you can not do doomtower when you unlock it unless you know exactly what you are doing so dont bother beyond pokeing at it,

you will join a clan/team, this will unlock clan boss and hydra, you can not do hydra when you unlock it, but poke it till you can get a chest on normal, this will eventually get you one of the best champs in the game,

clanboss/demonlord is where you get all your resources to do fusions from, up to nightmare you are able to do it just by brute forcing better gear, unm requires specific types of champs, but you can use a vast aray of champs as succeeding here is more about sustain than it is actually doing damage.

[Desher]

where is the promo code for monkey?

[Ruinous]

Desher, use promo code MonkeyKing for that within 3 days of starting your new account. Only one 'new player' type promo code can be used, but that guy is the best thats on offer for that.
After you've used that, the other active promo code at the moment is ILoveRaid, that'll get you a rare champ and some other goodies. Any account can use that though, not just new players.