How to play smart. By JustFx

How to play smart and be competitive.
Disclaimer: this guide is for advanced and new players who spend some cash in the game.
From what I learned so far, you need to play smart so that you do not miss any reward out there.
I’ve set a 20 point routine in doing dailies so that everything is covered up. I will also explain how I think I spend diamonds wisely and manage to be competitive against big spenders further below – this isn’t for “hamsters” 😊
1.      Read weekly notice and plan your resource
2.      Check for daily events (in case there is a new event that you might have forgotten)
3.      Collect & resend units in Shipyard (those barracks resources are really needed)
4.      Make a wish in Guild Wishing Well
5.      Check Guild Rewards for diamonds / stones (if you have nice guildmates) 
6.      Buy the desired units from Barracks
7.      Refresh campaign 
8.      Collect the dailies from Steward (best QOL feature in game)
9.      Farm the souls for current awakening missions (my advice is do not rush refreshing the “nodes” because it will take a lot of time gathering awakening shards that share the same store ex. Conflux plane, and you will lose a lot of diamonds)
10.      Plan your movement carefully in the guild adventure and look for best rewards, do Quartermaster, return in underground (some days it is good to spend diamonds on movement refreshes ex. Sphinx event)
11.      Complete the daily/weekly events missions
12.      Sweep the Dragon Utopia (If you expect to level up in the day and will get a new utopia level wait till you level up and then complete the next level)
13.      Improve the Crypt/Dwarven treasury score or just sweep
14.      Do Trials of Angels or Sweep
15.      Increase the units level / equipment / potential / skills
16.      Increase / sweep the levels in Conflux planes
17.      Sweep & Finish Campaign (be sure that you don’t have a lore or awakening mission requirement)
18.      Complete Duel of Champions
19.      Complete Arena battles – if theres a cat-mouse fight on your server, what I recommend is that you do your battles between 9:00 PM and 9:30 PM server time
20.      Try to find out the lucky spell combo in training grounds. What I do is use each hero on skip mode with Titans Thunder equipped and without (skip heroes that share the same spells ex. Rashka & Luna have 4x fire spells).
I have a tip here for those who really want to get the combo in the day, the game follows a set pattern, you only need to pay attention on few days and figure your server pattern.
The pattern is like this on my server
1st day : Earth X X X
2nd day : Fire   X X X
3rd day : Water X X X
4th day : Air X X X
5th day : Repeat
It is easier to figure out the lucky combo if you know the spell to begin with.
This is my daily routine, hope you like it! Feedbacks are highly appreciated
Now for the 2nd part regarding spending & economy, I have a different approach and until now it worked very good for me in terms of keeping up with the big spenders.
Note: I do not spend diamonds on SSR Altar pulls 
Let’s talk from store to store:
Market – Buy the discounted materials + discounted unit shards with gold
Arena – Buy awakening shards for units you need, you can refresh the store sometimes
Campaign – Buy casting stones (refresh until the cost is 100 and buy awakening shards 1x)
Artifact – Only buy DF pieces at this time, later buy other Premium Orange pieces
Guild – Buy all shards for heroes till they are 4* and mark spell unlocked then move to roster and spell scrolls. Refresh until the cost is 200
Champion – Buy Gelu shards till 4* + mark then switch to universal shards
Plane – Buy the awakening shards for units you need
In campaign buy the casting scrolls from the pixie until the cost reaches 40, this is the best payrate in the game (for 20 diamonds you get from 20-30 stones, the rate is more than 1:1)
Buy artifacts 5x daily – doing so you will complete the “Spend 880 Diamonds” daily mission and you will have a lot of artifact power
Doing the above you will spend a lot of diamonds daily, but it will help you be competitive and get better rewards. Thanks for reading, be safe and play smart !
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