Getting started

Beginner guide: what to do in your first two weeks

Nearly every mistake a new player makes comes from the same instinct: spreading resources across too many champions. This guide is mostly about resisting that.

By Nancy Scott, editor · Published 23 September 2026 · Editorial policy

The one rule that matters

Build a small number of champions properly rather than a large number badly. Upgrade materials, gear and silver are the real constraints, not champions — you will end up with more champions than you can equip within days. A team of four well-geared champions clears content that a roster of thirty half-finished ones cannot touch.

This is unintuitive, because the summoning system constantly hands you new champions and implies that the new one is the upgrade. Usually it is not, and switching to it means starting the gear investment again.

What to do first

1. Follow the campaign until the game stops holding your hand. It unlocks the other modes and teaches the basics without much risk.
2. Pick a core of four and commit. You want a mix: something that does damage, something that keeps the team alive, and something that applies debuffs to the enemy. A team of four damage dealers dies in the dungeons.
3. Join an active clan immediately. This is the single highest-return action available to a new account. Clan Boss chests arrive whether or not your own teams are good yet, and an active clan will answer questions faster than any guide.
4. Do the daily and weekly tasks. They are dull, they are also where a disproportionate share of your resources comes from.
5. Read the summon chances in the client before you spend anything. They are displayed. Read them while you are calm, not mid-offer.

Understanding gear early saves you months

Each champion has six armour slots and three accessory slots. Each piece carries a main stat fixed by the slot, and up to four substats that roll randomly and improve as the piece is upgraded. Matching pieces grant a set bonus at two or four pieces, depending on the set.

Two practical consequences:

• Substats decide value, not rarity. A piece with useful substats beats a higher-rarity piece with useless ones.
• Do not upgrade low-quality gear. The materials are scarce and not refundable. Upgrading everything you find is the most common way new players stall.

Speed is the stat people underrate

Turn order is decided by Speed. A champion with enough of it acts more often, which means more damage, more healing and more debuffs than a slower champion with better raw numbers. When a fight is failing and you cannot see why, the answer is very often that something acted before you did.

Affinities

Champions and enemies belong to one of four affinities: Magic, Spirit, Force and Void. Three of them form a strong-against cycle; Void sits outside it. Attacking into an unfavourable affinity carries a real chance of a weak hit. This is why you eventually keep more than one team — not to collect, but because a specific boss demands a specific answer.

Common early mistakes

Before you spend anything

The game is rated PEGI 12 and carries the descriptor "In-Game Purchases (Includes Random Items)". That parenthetical is the formal warning that what you buy has randomised contents: you are buying draws, not outcomes. Our spending and safety page covers the practical checks — purchase authentication, family controls, and where a refund request actually goes.