Quick Guide: Resources

Given the nature of idle/incremental games, resources are a constant issue. Thus, the question, "Where should I spend my resources?" is very important to most people. This quick guide highlights some of the most common resources and what the best places to spend them are (generally).

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Note: This is not meant as a guide on the best, most optimal way to spend each resource. The goal is to help you to make better decisions with your resources.

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Before we get started, here's a few things that are good to know:

* In the "Crafting Materials" tab, you'll find several items that seem to not have any purpose. That is because they don't have a purpose. They were originally meant to be a part of the crafting process, but that was never implemented. However, we still have the items. You can safely sell them since they don't have any other purpose. It gets you extra gold too!
	+ These items are the "Developer" items ("Developer's Bone Powder", "Developer's hair", ect.) and the region resources such as "Wood", "Pearl", "Steel", and "Silk"

## Gold

Gold is the most basic resource. It is used mostly as a common currency in the shop or as a sort of "pay wall" when upgrading things. As a general rule, you'll only have to worry a ton about spending too much gold during the early game.

### Where do I get it?

You get gold from doing pretty much anything. Your main income will come from farming tiles (the "idle" part of the game).

The most important thing to mention here is to make sure that you have the right tile set to "Auto-Hunt", which means your team will automatically hunt on that tile while you're offline. To do that, you'll first need to measure/time some tiles (at least one). Once you do that, you select the tile on the map and select the "Auto-Hunt" button and hit "Apply".

You can only farm one tile at a time, so making sure you have the right tile selected can feel a little stressful. Fortunately, early-game, there's an easy way to tell what tile is better than another, other than the tiles marked "best", obviously. Basically, until you get to mid to late game, when you're worrying more about certain items than things like gold, the "estimated gold per hour" is a really quick and simple way to rank tiles. As a general whole (for early-game), the more gold per hour you earn, the better it will be for you.

## Rubies

Rubies are the premium currency of the game. The quickest, most reliable way to get a ton of rubies is through (nearly) any pay-to-win aspect such as passes or buying them straight out. However, p2w is a touchy subject and that would ruin the purpose of this guide. Fortunately, despite being the premium currency, you can still get a good amount

### How do I get it?

The most consistent and reliable way to get a good number of rubies would be the daily 3 ads, giving you 150 for each. Another good way is through the daily and weekly task rewards for completing 10 (daily) or 12 (weekly) tasks. That gives 300 and 500 rubies respectively. You can also get rubies from daily quests, but that generally isn't the best thing to use your 30 daily quests on since each only gives 10 rubies. As you progress, you'll want to clear tiles and register your times. Doing that will give you assorted rewards alongside some rubies, and that can add up fast. However, you only get those rewards once. You'll also earn rubies from the free part of the passes, but that just comes naturally as long as you collect the rewards.

### What should I spend it on?

Firstly, as a general rule (especially early-game), you should try to save as many rubies as you can. When I first started, I remember having 10-20 thousand rubies stored up which I unwisely wasted on random things. My first recommendation if you are starting off is save your rubies. You will use every single one of them once you get to mid/late-game.

That being said, there are still several things that are good to spend rubies on anyways.

1. Expand your bag size (Just go for the max)
2. The first few warehouse upgrades can also be useful, but aren't necessary until later-game anyways. (I wouldn't bother with this until then)
3. Premium company tasks (requiring rubies to complete) are something most people will spend rubies on.
4. The "Dragon Mountain Shopping Center" has a ruby shop where you can get some really good things. However, I would recommend saving your rubies until mid-game when you better understand which items you want and when it's wise to use rubies there.

Late-early-game to early-mid-game, you'll start finding more things that cost rubies. The biggest, and perhaps most important use of rubies is the character's relics (unlocked at 8★) and the Enhancement Stones needed to upgrade them.

## EXP Potions & Carrot Juice

EXP Potions and Carrot Juice are used for essentially the same purpose, though in different cases. That purpose is to level up your team. The EXP Potions are used for the heroes while the Carrot Juice is used for pets.

### How do I get it?

EXP Potions are one of the easiest items to get, right next to gold. You get EXP Potions when defeating monsters. So tasks like dungeons or farming tiles will be your main source of them. You can also get them from quests, but that isn't recommended since you can get more valuable resources such as Bloodstones and Runestones from quests as well.

Carrot Juice is only found in the carrot farm in the Pet Growth Site. Everyday, you get 2 free runs/sweeps of the carrot farm.

### What should I spend it on?

EXP Potions are only used to level heroes, which is generally more limited by the number of cards you have rather than the number of EXP Potions you have. So, you can spend these pretty freely. If you do find yourself coming up short on potions, spend them primarily on the heroes you're using starting with either your healers or damage dealers.

Carrot juice is much more of a precious commodity. Generally you should select one pet (*you might be able to get away with 2 at a significantly slower progression speed*) and focus leveling their skills, leaving all the other pets alone. Somewhere around 3-5★, you'll be more limited on Carrot Juice than you are pet cards. If you don't know which pet you want to use, I would recommend just saving your carrot juice until you figure that out.

## Dragon Mountain Currencies (Medal, Quest & Dungeon Coins, Company Cards)

### How do I get it?

Medals are earned through the PvP arena (both 5v5 and 10v10).

Quest and Dungeon Coins are earned from quests and dungeons (respectively).

Company Cards are earned through company tasks.

### What should I spend it on?

I would recommend just saving these until you understand what you're spending them on. That will happen a little after you start transcending equipment (★6+).

Generally Company Cards are used to buy bricks for the artifact chests. However, once I had a team, I started buying thumbs up coins for the costumes and to level them up since that's basically the only free place to reliably get them, then I switched back to buying bricks.

Quest Coins, unless you're going for something very specific, you should stick to the Bloodstones and/or Runestones. You could also get the EQPT Enhancement Scrolls and/or the Equipment Tier Scrolls until they're no longer useful.

With Dungeon Coins, you can buy equipment. Don't bother with the equipment unless it has the purple anvil (meaning it can be transcended).

Medals are more open. You can generally get these pretty easily, so what you spend them on matters a bit less. Same guidelines apply to gear here (from Dungeon Coins). If you see cards for a hero you are using/upgrading, that is also a good investment.

## Scrolls (Enhancement, Tier, Attribute Change, & Dismantle)

### What should I spend it on?

Save these until you start transcending gear (★6+). If you use them before that point, you'll lose any changes when you craft it into anything else (including the next star rank). Transcending, on the other hand, keeps all of the stats/changes you've made (Tier, Bonus Attributes, Enhancement Levels, ect.)

Dismantle scrolls aren't commonly used, but are nice to have around in the few cases that you actually need to use them. You'll understand when to dismantle gear once you start transcending equipment.