New Players Guide

The game was released to some countries only in May 2021.  It had a global release on Jan 11, 2022. The main community is on the Ubisoft-run Discord server at https://discord.gg/clashofbeasts

Here are some answers to some of the most frequently asked questions by new players.

### God and Colors

There are 5 gods, each matching a color.

* Vorm - Red
* Halla - Yellow
* Slern - Purple
* Theras - Blue
* Gaia - Green

Every beast will align to a god/color. Towers can be set to affinity to a god/color.  A group of 4 towers can have affinity to the same god.  That group now has a defensive bonus if a beast of that color attacks (the beast has -25% attack and no mana regen).

Make every section (group of 4) affinity to a different color.  When you choose a beast to attack, avoid using beasts that match a color to the base you are attacking.

### Towers

There are 5 types of "god towers" (one for each, and they are always aligned to that color).  To complete Chapter 3 you will need 2 god towers, do not make more.  Put them in different sections that then have different affinity.

The razor/barrel towers are the main defense and do the most damage.  Ideally in your first eight buildings, at least five or six should be razor/barrel.  Stun is also good.   In general, every section should have one god tower and three razor/barrel/stun towers.  Do not build any other tower types.

Until you get to around level 50, defense will not matter than much. You will be attacked, your base will be destroyed, that is life. There is not much penalty for being destroyed so don't worry too much. As the base can be changed at any time, there are no mistake you make in early game that cannot be corrected later. A lot of players in the first week want to focus on how to make the best defensive base. Don't worry about trying to get precisely the best. Just build. One god tower per section, razor and barrel with a few stun.

### Attacking

The base you are attacking will have affinity colored sections.  If you can you should attack with a different color, to avoid the damage penalty.  A weaker beast of a different color can be better than a strong beast of the same color.

Attack with every beast and level up every beast.  For Tier 1 most beasts needs to be minimum level 4 for forging, but you can keep grinding them their their maximum level.  You want variety in color choice when you attack and you will need them to be forging level to make new beasts.  Later tiers have different forging levels for different qualities of beasts.

When you select a beast there are boosters (attack and HP).  When you start out you may have limited quantity so turn them on for your weakest beasts, turn them off when they are strong.  As you play more you will collect enough boosters you can leave them on permanently.

### Object drops

When attacking, destroy all structures that you can.  They will randomly drop objects like chests, speed ups, boosts, season tokens, etc.  If you do this, you should always have so many consumables  that you'll never need to worry about using them up.

### Gems

You will gets lots of gems (premium currency) in the game. There are also a lot of places in the game to spend gems that are bad value. Here are the key things:

* Buy extra roster spaces for your beasts
* Buy extra building queue spaces
* Buy Gold Chests
* Buy the beast Slughorn
* Transferring XP

After you get the extra roster and build queue you basically have a choice. Either save your gems to get Slughorn later or spend them on Gold Chests.  If you buy Worton you won't be able to afford Slughorn unless you are also putting money in the game.

The thing is that for the gem cost of Slughorn you can buy 74 gold chests.  That is a lot of high value stuff. So if you want to play with a cool beast, save your gems and get Slughorn.  If you want to progress through the game faster, buy gold chests.

The last thing you can spend gems on is transferring XP that you have gained on a beast with max xp onto another beast.  The gem cost is fairly low and it is good value.

### Builders and Speed ups

When you start you will get a 3 day "Beastmaster Pass" which gives you a second builder. After that the second builder goes away and you need to pay $ into the game to get another builder. The Beastmaster Pass is the best value-for-money in the game, however this game is very free-to-play friendly.

When you are starting out (not yet in to Tier 2 beasts) you can use speed ups as needed so that you can start the next Forge Fiesta event with a city and buildings enough to forge Tier 2. This is slightly dependent on when you join during the 3 week event cycle.

However after that you should never really spend speed ups, except in order to make sure your builders are never idle (eg setting up an overnight build).  Save them for the Building Boom event which happens every three weeks.

### Building

Story quests will guide you what to upgrade.  They are important to do in order to unlock Tier 2 beasts.

If story quests tell you to upgrade a specific building, do that.  If story quests says to reach a city level, upgrade towers.

In general you should be doing the long slow city upgrades when it is not the Building Event, and upgrade towers during the Building Event.

Do not evenly upgrade your towers.  Focus on getting some towers to the max level allowable by your city level.  You can even leave new towers at level 1, focus on getting a razor to your max level.

### Gaining XP

Find a base that gives lots of XP that you know you can beat, make it a favorite and keep attacking and healing.  Farming bases can get lots of XP and items, but not resources.  Because there is no downside to being attacked it is more acceptable to farm.  If you want to be nice, only farm bases who are offline.

Join clan members in attacks.   Destroy all the towers but not the city.  Click Swap and the other player will  finish the job.  You both get bonus XP by sharing a kill.

### Seasonal Beasts

When you get season tokens you can spend them in a path in the season menu.  Choose one of the seasonal beasts (all choices are good) and focus on that one beast only.  Only if you get it completely should you work on another.

Remember that you need to level up your Tier beasts to at least forging level (and ideally max level), so do not use the Seasonal beast exclusively.

### Workshop

Your workshop can build things, specifically it can build speed ups.  Filter by speed ups.   The 3 hour speed up takes 12 hours to build, the 15 min speed up takes 1 hour - those are the most efficient to build.  You can open up more slots so that you are always building something.

You can also use the workshop to spend guild coins to buy speed ups.  Do this during the build event.

### Research

Once you get research building and soul dust, you can research Beast Insight for more XP and Rage Proficient for more mana.

After that, the next thing to spend your soul dust is within Contracts.  You want to upgrade your contracts (10% more rewards for the same difficulty).

Never speed up research.

See Research and Soul Dust for more.