don't get it: How do I build a team???

[ninja85]

I'm confused. I thought like, I could build my own team or something. Instead, only thing I am doing is playing the same team over and over and also starting at level one with only Bruenor all the time. That's super lame!!!

How do I get a different team? Is there any way to start at a higher level? Or is it always from scratch?

[Kyouko Tsukino]

You unlock new champions trough Time Gates, Events, Season rewards, buying them or in certain adventures.

If you're in a hurry, you can actually buy champions. Otherwise, in one month or less you'll find yourself with a dozen extra champions, or more.

I've been playing for... Well, around half a year now, and have over seventy champions, never spent a single coin in this game (or any other "Free to Play" game ever created, actually.)

EDIT: As for "starting from a higher level" the champions' levels reset when you end of an adventure (but not the gear or items you obtain through chests,) and except from some specific (event/time gate) adventures, you'll always start with the last "slot 1" champion you had selected, which for a new player will always be Bruenor.

[ninja85]

alright. Thanks for the answer! How about the season pass though? I don't really understand what it would get me. Are champions (one would keep permanently) included?

Also I read that one should buy "auto-clickers" - otherwise the game can't be played effectively. Having taken a look at the shop, I don't get what the auto-clickers should be...

[Kyouko Tsukino]

You get champions through codes, and during the season there's codes to unlock them.

Check the guides section, there should be at least one guide (or ten) with codes that are up-to-date, look them up and you'll find several codes to unlock champions that are still active (mostly the current season ones.)

EDIT: The season pass, like in every other game I've seen that has them, is just a way for the developers to try to entice people into wasting real money in virtual trinkets. You can get a lot of advantages and rewards without buying the Season Pass, and while the rewards are purposefully better, I've not been affected much by not having them.

For example, last season I got to level 128 before it ended, twice as many levels as the season pass has, and got the "Acquisitions Inc" champions up to a point where a couple of them are still my best DPS champions. In the current season I'm level 70 right now, and the five seasonal champions are getting pretty impressive numbers now.

So yeah, despite all the whining from the whales (as in every F2P game ever,) this game can be played for free, and you can unlock all champions for free. But being an idle game, it will take you a while.

[kab_reg]

Before buying the season pass make sure you actually like the game and won't stop playing it in a week or two. Season pass provides quite a lot useful bonuses for a newbie, therefore buying it is potentially a good idea. However, you won't get these bonuses automatically, you have to clear quite a lot of very specific tasks to get them, therefore don't bother if you aren't ready to invest A LOT of time into the game. Idle in its title is mostly a misnomer, especially for newbies :(.

Auto-clickers = familiars. There are quite a lot of them in the shop. Apart from a couple of very minor gimmicks, all familiars are equal and fully interchangeable. Familiars are actually one of the best long-term investments in the game until you get 20-25 of them. As a rule, it is possible to buy about 15 cheap discounted familiars in a year, and get 3-4 of them for free as gifts in various events. Some familiars can also be purchased in the gem shop.

[ninja85]

Wow. Thanks for the answers! Helps a lot!

Also, I got 108 chests now in total. Any reason to keep them? Or should I just go ahead and open everything? Some seem to be for specific chars.

[kab_reg]

It is better to keep gold chests for champions you don't have yet for later. Otherwise, open them in silver -> electrum -> gold order.

One minor recommendation: don't open electrum chests until you have at least about 10 non-starting champions because it's much easier to get gear for default champions than for event champions.

https://ic.byteglow.com/champions

Default champions are in the top row.

[Kyouko Tsukino]

Silver chests have gold, gold gives you favor which makes it easier to "level up" your champions within adventures, so some people say it's better to save them for when you hit your "wall" (highest level in a campaign you're trying to gain favor for) so you get maximum gold from them (the gold you get depends on the zone you're at.)

Gold chests can be opened at any time, but there are seasonal quests for opening champion-specific chests, so if you don't have a champion, or any of your non-basic champions have all their gear, saving them up can be wise. Those gold chests also have a chance to have some of the larger potions, which can be useful, but there's no part of the game that requires using potions.

Electrum chests give gear for any champion you already have. Some people say you should keep them for when you unlock a new champion. Me, I just open them because I am not going "munchkin" on this game, I'm raising almost all champions equally (except Valentine, Omin, Jim, Zorbu and Jarlaxle, who I consider very useful for varying reasons.) Besides, "new champion" doesn't mean "good champion," there's been plenty of events with mediocre-to-useless bench-fillers and gear can't make up for their pathetic, gimmicky mechanics.

Edit: One potentially mediocre champion is going to show up tomorrow in a new event, so you can get a champion (or probably up to three if the event has all three slots full.) Whether any of them will be better than the starters is always a matter of what you want to do - Jarlaxle is quite an average DPS but I geared him up because I saw the potential use he had in the Trials of Mount Tiamat ("End game" content which is actually not as challenging as "end game" makes it sound, you can solo it with enough preparation.)

[kab_reg]

Originally posted by Kyouko Tsukino:

There's no part of the game that requires using potions.

Apart from dealing with armored bosses with AoE attack at z2000, but that is not an issue for newbies. Coming Shadowheart can potentially solve this problem, but that remains to be seen.

[Kyouko Tsukino]

Eh, I'm still barely scrapping z1200 here, and only in the Tomb of Anihilation. I suppose "Tomb of Easy Favor Gain" was too long for the campaign selection box? :)

But yeah, potions are very optional in early game. Speed potions can save you time, but there's champions that will speed things up in other ways, like lowering area requirements, or debuffing enemies, or making more enemies appear (letting you get area requirements or quest requirements quicker,) there's even some champions that can skip areas (bosses and all,) but my one champion that does that is... Underwhelming at that, and not that good at buffing or tanking, either, so I have her sitting in a bench.

[kab_reg]

Past z1951 all attacks against your champions are instakills by default (with a few exceptions like Krydle, Djinn's protection etc.). That's why fire breath potions are almost a must there while the team deals with armored bosses with AoE attacks.

[JC]

There is an event starting tomorrow i think that will have 3 new characters. Check out Gwaar's guide too. He has a list of all the heroes you can get, and right bellow the Starter heroes there is a list of the ones that unlock in missions. It will take a while though.

For starters you should try doing missions to unlock Dritz. Basically, keep going on missions, skip the variants for the time being and just keep unlocking the main story line missions. You can always go back and do variants when ever, and many you need to wait because you won't have enough heroes to run because of restrictions.

Btw season passes are pretty nice if you like the heroes in the season. They also come with a familar which typically sells for 2.50-5 dollars, and they come with modron Chests which is helpful later. But the season passes really help you lvl up the season heroes, giving them a really nice boost. You also need to unlock the stuff so for a new player at this point with a month left i'm not sure it would be worth getting, But if you make it a good way into the season you could always pick it up later. Only you will know if it's worth it.

the other nice thing about a season, though you don't need the pass is the time gates for them are only 3 pieces vrs 6, so half the cost. Unlock them all. also this season has a modron core around lvl 20 something. So try to unlock that at least. If you have questions about the season unlocks just ask, but basically you need to unlock the characters then use them in a group. The nice thing about them is you could use them to really help you move along with getting new characters to use. So between the season and the event, you should have 8 heroes added to your roaster.

[kab_reg]

Modron Core is available in the free portion of the current Season, pass is not necessary to get it.

[JC]

I meant the chests for the cores, which with the pass you get a lot more. Though this season not as many as another. I think there were over 40 chests in the one this past summer.