Kormerant's New Players Guide

Hi, I'm Kormerant. You may recognize me from the Recent Changes section on the right-hand side of this very wiki.

I see a lot of the same basic questions asked in General Chat in game on a day to day basis, so this is my attempt to answer as much as I can as concisely as I can so that you can get back to playing more confidently.

But the most important thing you should know is: **You can't screw up. There's no way to ruin your progress here.** So take a deep breath, you're safe. And have fun.

That said, continue reading, and enjoy!

## Game Basics

There's 3 pillars of activity currently in this game:

1. Campaign - In this mode, your team challenges multi-stage dungeons to earn XP, Gold, and Evos
2. My Dungeon - In this PvP mode, your team challenges other players defenders to earn Gold and Trophies.
3. Tower of Pwnage - in this pseudo-PvP challenge mode, your team challenges randomly assembled teams of heros to earn Pwnage Points, XP potions and Diamonds.

## Just starting out

### Farming Quickly

To get the resources you need to advance, you'll want to get heros that can quickly clear Campaign levels.

These three heroes have First Special Attacks that deal damage to all enemies, and all get the Trait Battle Surge, which gains them energy when they kill. This lets them clear wave after wave of enemies in a dungeon very quickly and efficiently.

* Ignus the Mad has Flame Nova. It requires 4 energy, so he needs 3 kills to use it again next turn.
* Masuta Kira has Death Blossom. It requires 5 energy, and therefore needs 4 kills to recharge. But, Masuta is also FAST, and this is important when farming PvE levels with Fast enemies, (or when getting XP for other Fast heroes) who will otherwise slow down your farming by attacking before Ignus can. He has Assassinate to recover Energy faster after small packs.
* Kobal the Pestilent has Plague Swarm. It requires 5 energy, and needs 4 kills to recharge. He has Magic Missiles to recover Energy faster after small packs.

### What to Farm

1. Treasure Goblins - These are new to Dungeon Boss: Respawned, and a great way to get Celestial Evos and Gold.
	1. You can get the rewards for at most 10 goblins a day. After that, they stop spawning. Runaways do not count.
	2. Goblins can spawn in every level, in every chapter. It doesn't appear to matter where. If you want to find your goblins faster, run dungeons with fewer floors.
		1. See Campaign for a chart of all dungeons, along with their floor count, and evo dropped, to pick good farm spots.
	3. This is the best way to get celestial evos to ascend your Heros, which otherwise are impossible to get before Chapter 16 (and frustrating to get there, because of low drop chances)
2. Evos
	1. Evos can only spawn once per dungeon per type of evo, so you'll want to run the shortest dungeons you can to maximize your evo finding.
	2. One exception to the above: if you specifically need lots of types of the same element of evos (i.e. Water Larva, Water Evo, Water Monarch... to ascend a specific element of hero) then it can be worth farming Epic Dungeons for the chance to find multiple tiers of the same element of evos.
	3. I'm a big fan of Farming exactly the evo you want - if you want a Light Monarch, find a short zone in Chapters 11-15.
		1. But... the spawn chances are low, and if it drives you crazy to only get a drop every 50-100 runs, farming Larva is an option. They drop much more often, so you'll feel like you're making more progress. You do have to pay Gold to combine them into higher tiers, but you will eventually have more Gold than you can spend, so have at it.
3. Storyline - You can get any hero you want, in just 5 dungeon runs. This is a change from the original dungeon boss, so you may not know about it even if you came over from the old game.
	1. Open the Heroes menu, scroll through it to find the hero you want, and click on them.
	2. Click on their Story tab on the far top right.
	3. This will show you a list of quests you can complete in exchange for tokens for that hero.
	4. Doing these quests, its possible to get any hero up to Star Rating 5, without relying on any random number generators.

### An Easy team for starting out that you won't regret spending resources on later

There are a few answers, but mine is:  Ignus the Mad,  Rogar Stonecrusher,  Sir William,  Chief NubNub. (You can also replace either Rogar or William with  Ekko). This gives you a well rounded team with good damage, who are all Bronze heros (and therefore inexpensive to Ascend) and who all will still be useful later in the game when you're using the Legendary Heroes you worked so hard to power up through Storylines.

### The Big Questions

##### What are the longest grinds in this game?

1. Ascensions - I had all the evos needed for ascending all heros (with minimal shop purchases) done by player level 65.
2. Storyline Quests - I finished all my storyline quests by player level 75.
3. Gold - You'll go through a phase in your 45-60s where it feels like gold is harder to get than XP. That will change after 65, so keep buying those XP pots in the Shop daily.
4. Hero XP - This is a huge grind. You likely won't be able to keep more than 10 heros at the same level as your account. Once you cap out at 80, you can go back and max out the other 60+ heros.
5. Hero Tokens - Getting those legendary tokens is likely to be the grind we will all finish last - so buy those legendary tokens in the daily shop, event shops, and pay to reset Event dungeons for Legendary Tokens when you can. They're so hard to get through the Portal.

##### What should I spend my Gems on?

1. The Heroic Portal -
	1. Early game this isn't the best way to spend your gems. You can get to 5-star with any hero just by doing the storyline quests.
	2. Later game, once you've ascended all your heros and you're grinding tokens and XP, then you'll come back and blow your gems here for the chance to get Legendary Tokens.
2. The Shop - Buying the extremely rare Legendary hero tokens here is something you should look for daily, because they're so rare. You can also buy Gold tokens, and even Silver ones for heroes you use or like, at your option, but once you start buying Portal Summons (see 1.2) for Legendary Tokens, you'll get all the Silver and Golds you'll ever need, and won't need to buy those here, even though this is a better deal.
3. Evos
	1. This one is hit and miss for me - a lot of players recommend it, so I will, but the grind to get your heros to 80, and to finish all the level 5 Story quests for hero tokens, will be so much longer than the grind to get all the Evos you need, so while you can finish off an Ascension for someone you really want here, you probably don't need to just buy all the Evos you can.
	2. Evos can be bought at a discount from the daily shop, but you can also buy any you want at full price by clicking on the Evos you need for an ascension from a Heros page. Use this sparingly, because the prices are bad.
4. Gold
	1. Don't do this. If you're buying gold to combine an evo, just wait and buy the Evo in the Shop. If you're buying gold for anything else, just wait. Gems are way too valuable to spend on Gold.

## The Meta Teams

These teams are widely agreed upon as good by most of the player base, and even if you don't plan to PvP, they can help you progress in the game and get farther in tower by powering them up.

### The Light Team

The core team is:  Reyla the Lightbringer ,  Ekko, and  Lorelei. The main strategy with this team is using Ekko and Lorelei's energy gain skills to get to 100% uptime on Reyla's third skill, Ambush Tactics. This makes Reyla Invincible, and Shrouds all her allies, (preventing them from being targeted) It's a very safe team to use for any game mode, because most enemies can't hurt you. It's not very high damage, but that doesn't matter when you don't die.

There are several good, situational fourth members for this team, including:  Zen,  Grettle,  Masuta Kira,  Archon

### The Construct Team

The core team is: Agnon,  Bauble,  The Furnace, usually led by  Niveous. The constructs are tanky, immune to most debuffs, and deal solid damage in return, with Bauble being the only healer currently in the game that can heal constructs. Niveous is also immune to debuffs on her first turn, and benefits from Agnon's Dark Skies ability to deal more damage to non-Flying enemies. She also resurrects herself, and is just a strong hero overall.

## Farming the Tower of Pwnage

The Tower of Pwnage is a great place to earn daily Gold, Gems, XP Potions, and Pwnage Points, which can be spent on Evos for Ascension and Hero XP. This is the best place to get Rare Celestial Evos for Second Ascensions.

That being said, it's very difficult, especially at low levels, to complete the tower for the full reward. Tower enemies have random levels of ascensions, so they can have more abilities that you do at low levels.

The Meta teams above are both great for clearing the tower - and ascending these characters to be able to complete the tower is the only time i'd recommend spending gems on Evos.

But your basic strategy, no matter what team you use, is going to be spiking down two enemy characters quickly, to reduce the damage your team takes or remove their healers, then slowing down your damage so your heros can recharge their abilities for the next fight. Your heros Health and Individual Skill Energy Levels carry over between floors, so Basic Attacking the last alive enemy to recharge your skills is a must. Especially with the Light team above, whose strategy depends on your being able to start the fight with Ambush Tactics.

## Some More Advanced Stuff

1. Turn Order - The order in which you add heros to your team affects the order in which they take their turns. (see Attack Speed for more detail)
2. Get the most out of the weekly Events to advance quickly
	1. Weekly Season Events
		1. If it's a Gold or Legendary Rarity hero, it's probably worth grinding your way up to Legend 1 in PvP, for the 50 hero tokens that would otherwise be very hard to get. This also gives 2,000 gems, so it can be worth doing even for common heros.
		2. Guild Crown contribution is also worth 50 of that heros tokens - so try to be in a pretty active guild, or encourage your guildies to do their dailies. It's 250 tokens to go from 5\* to 6\*, and you could get 100 tokens just from this weekly event. That's 40%.
	2. Special Events
		1. There are event quests to earn Tokens for these heros, and their Skins are available for either Event Tickets or Gems in the Shop, under Events.
		2. There are repeatable instances available to grind each heros tokens, which can be valuable for high rarity heros in order to get that 6\*. I'm not sure where the math works out on paying for token resets here, so use your best judgment.