Monthly Card Guide

[MarcifieD Strategy] Monthly card players' survival tips:

Before starting the journey as a monthly card player, you should understand what privilege you actually have. Upon purchasing your very first monthly card, you will earn 300 VIP points, which accumulates to a VIP3 status (if purchase during 2xVIP EXP you will be VIP4 instead)! As a VIP3, you will have the following benefits:

1. Free 30 passes: This is essential as it will save lots of time trying to clear the various stages through campaign or even dojos. That extra time can add up to more than an hour of your daily DotArena routine, which you can earn a monthly card with a part-time job.

2. Reset Heroic Campaign twice: Resetting the dungeons (3 entries per reset) allows you to hunt for more important soulstones for your favourite heroes or hunt for more awakening fragments and be ahead of the non-VIP players who can only do 3 times per day. That's triple the speed! Imagine a VIP0 player who took about 1.5 months to awaken just 1 hero, you already have 3 awakened heroes by then!

3. Golden Gauntlet 30 times (Actually once is enough): Exchanging diamonds for gold is not really worth it. However, for the first try of the day, it fulfills the dailies, which gives EXP and extra gold. Just do it once daily, unless you are in need of gold.

4. Purchase Energy 4 times (50 each for 1st 2 purchase, 100 each for next 2): We only need to purchase twice daily, don't try to compete against those rich players with powerleveling! That 240 energy can give you enough EXP to level up faster than VIP0 players, and also hunt for more stuff that you need, not to mention that you contribute to the guild's GP for every energy you spent, raid dungeons can be opened earlier than expected!

5. Buying Arena/Epic arena tickets once (50): Unless you see your sworn enemy or you have 100% confidence winning your opponent, 5 attempts per day actually is enough.

6. Reset Arena/Epic arena cooldown time (50): Not worth it, spending cash for time isn't what monthly card players should do.

7. Purchase skill points (Essential for first few tries): Whenever you get a new hero, you will find a lack of skill points (especially Simon...), you can speed up the training progress.

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Rule 1: How to earn diamonds
1. Completing certain Campaign/Heroic chapter maps: As you progress further into the campaign, the rewards you obtained will increase, this is also one of your main source of diamonds.

2. Highest arena ranking: This is a one-time reward for every rank you climb, whenever you reached a better rank, you will have a large amount of diamonds coming in. You can use a guildmate's help with this.

3. Rank rewards @9pm: Try to push up your ranking in arena/epic arena. It is advised to use your 5 tries after 8pm, to prevent using up all your tries too early and getting your rank pulled down by other players.

4. Pray for maintainence or patch: Whenever this happens, they will compensate with diamonds. Other than praying, there's no other way for this to occur.

5. Events: Any public holiday has a good chance for the server to release rewards full of diamonds. During certain events, they will release promo codes instead.

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Rule 2: How to spend diamonds

1. Purchase energy TWICE: This prevents you from lagging behind. 240 energy is enough to hunt for a good amount of soulstones and fragments.

2. Golden Gauntlet ONCE: Just complete for the quest. If you get critical, then just be glad that you are lucky.

3. Buying Skill points TWICE: Actually you don't have to purchase skill points if you are patient enough to login every hour to add that 10 points. However, if you are busy, 20 diamonds for extra skill points isn't that costly too.

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Rule 3: Earning and spending gold

1. Keep at least (10,000 gold/level, E.g. 900,000 for level 90) for emergency use, like buying fragments, promoting heroes, adding skill points, etc. When you find yourself penniless when you have capped the skill point limit, you will know how important it is to at least keep some gold. If you don't have that much gold don't attempt to spam the 10 EXP salves.

2. If you can don't use, try not to use it. Recommended once daily. If you are really in need of gold, CoF is the answer for you, clear all waves give you about 1m, even getting to wave 12 also gives you about 600k.

3. Buy everything from shop (except EXP potions and soulstones that cost diamonds), for enchantment. Enchanting is essential as lots of heroes will need the bonus stats.

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Rule 4: How to clear Crucible of Fire (CoF) efficiently

1. Prepare 3 tanks to interswap within your main team.

2. Must have healing heroes!

3. Use the first few waves to charge up important heroes like Eva or Lokz. Stable charging method is by 3 charged and 2 uncharged.

4. Do not use your ultimate if it doesn't kill your enemy, it charges them up and might turn the tide. Keep control heroes' ultimate to break enemy's fatal attacks.

5. You can use sacrificial tanks if your enemies are too tough to defeat without any deaths, only do this if you are sure you have enough heroes to survive until the end.

6. If all else fails, restart the battle, then pray for luck. Like how raff's illusion or lokz' ulti might be landing somewhere else which prevents a fatal attack.

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Rule 5: How to train heroes effectively

1. Draw your very first EXP Mozarella with both 288/2590 diamonds. Don't think that if you didn't get medusa or any strong heroes then everything will fail. Remember, you are here to play the game, not being played by the game.

2. If you are stuck at certain campaign stage, when spending energy, take note of your main heroes, get their items up and ready. Remember, energy is for you to hunt items, not to power level.

3. Clear all the tries in Dojo and Caverns of Time. you will find the fragments from those stages important when you are lacking them later on.

4. Try to be active and login every hour to add skill points, you can save diamonds this way. Also, the additional skill points will prove useful when you need to clear certain stages.