Several.

1st Don't spend all your mana on upgrading runes, I suggest 3 upgrades per day tops.
2nd Pool your crystals to regularly buy the 11 mystic scroll pack until you have a good number of 3 and 4 star monsters.
3rd Decide on a 3 or 4 star monster to be your dedicated farmer (a monster strong enough to clear a scenario map on his own, so you can carry fodder monsters to level up).
4th Pool your mana over time.
5th Only upgrade 1-3 star runes to level 6, 4 star runes to level 9, 5 star runes to level 12 and 6 star runes to level 15.
6th Spend your initial glory points on maxing your energy/mana regen and storage buildings, once maxed work on level 5 speed, atk% and crit damage% buildings till level 5 then again till level 10.
7th Participate in the regular events as they give strong rewards.
8th Pool the energy you get from events that provide you with lots of energy, there will usually be a event right afterwards that requires lots of farm/energy.
9th Regularly check the shop and use your stored mana to buy mystic scrolls, 5 and 6 star runes.
10th Be patient, it takes a long time to make any meaningful progress without forking up money upfront.

A priority of things to do should be.
Get a strong group of 3 and 4 star monsters > Awaken and 5 star 4-5 of these reliable monsters > settle on a monster to be your farmer (a easy to get 2 star monster is Ramagos, the wind warbear) and 6 star him > Use your farmer to 6 star the rest of your monsters > Build a Giants B10 team > Build a ToAN team > Build a Dragons team > Build a Necro team > Build a Raid team > Build a unstoppable pool of Arena monsters.

Wineandbread

United States2065 Posts

August 29 2016 04:53 GMT

#264

Done for fusions. Hopefully forever.

Till the light fusion comes out ;P

But really. Pls com2us have mercy.

NrG.NeverExpo

Canada2114 Posts

August 29 2016 21:33 GMT

#265

^ I like how baretta is showing too, well done lol. just beat ToA90 for the first time, what a struggle.

Wuster

1974 Posts

August 30 2016 05:15 GMT

#266

But did you get a light Inugami from the LD scroll?

Seriously though, gz, still plenty of time to push 100 too!

rsvp

United States2266 Posts

August 30 2016 18:32 GMT

#267

gz guys

more hype for upcoming update!! http://m-mercury.qpyou.cn/custom_board/board_view/23/en/1/

DuB phool

United States1003 Posts

September 07 2016 04:21 GMT

#268

IT'S TOMORROW??? HYPUUUU
https://m.withhive.com/customer/notice/17718

Homunculus will be miiiine~!

Wineandbread

United States2065 Posts

September 07 2016 14:57 GMT

#269

On September 07 2016 13:21 DuB phool wrote:
IT'S TOMORROW??? HYPUUUU
https://m.withhive.com/customer/notice/17718

Homunculus will be miiiine~!

Only gotta farm a ton of essence

Some good changes in this patch though. New raids are pretty interesting, combining the world boss scoring with composition strategy.

And crafting! They made a sink for low essences :D

DuB phool

United States1003 Posts

September 10 2016 05:56 GMT

#270

... yeah, homunculus will not be mine. Not for a while at least.

Gotta build up WAY better raid teams first. It's given me a lot to aim for though, I'm hype!

rsvp

United States2266 Posts

October 10 2016 19:46 GMT

#271

New raids are tough! It's been over a month since their release and I still don't have any teams for any of them that can consistently clear.

Slightly worried about the HoH this weekend. Lots of people think Hwahee is a possibility, and I just fully devilmoned her...

DuB phool

United States1003 Posts

October 10 2016 22:11 GMT

#272

I would go HARD on a Hwahee HoH, need skillups for both her and mihyang. ^_^

Smokey seems very likely though... and I've had him almost as long as I've had my original Lapis!

Wuster

1974 Posts

October 12 2016 23:24 GMT

#273

And Smokey it is. Not a great monster, but not as garbage as some people would say. I've had one for a while too and will probably grab a couple for skill-ups just because.

Wineandbread

United States2065 Posts

October 13 2016 22:22 GMT

#274

Well the new nerfed raids still doesn't let me clear them

More people here should play :O

rsvp

United States2266 Posts

November 15 2016 23:13 GMT

#275

World Arena has been announced. ESPORTS, here we come!

http://m-mercury.qpyou.cn/custom_board/board_view/31/en/1/

Wineandbread

United States2065 Posts

November 16 2016 23:49 GMT

#276

Cross-server PVP was a nice touch!

On another note, our guild has merged with Kindred, so our members have dispersed into a few different guilds.
However, if anyone is interested in playing and wants some advice, please feel free to join our discord (o:

NrG.NeverExpo

Canada2114 Posts

April 02 2017 18:39 GMT

#277

Hey guys anyone still playing? I went MIA really hard after some stuff came up which was preventing me from putting much time into it but I'm back now and enjoying it again

just checking for signs of life

rsvp

United States2266 Posts

April 03 2017 03:57 GMT

#278

Most of us are still playing! We've joined up with another guild but are still active in our old Discord channel: https://discord.gg/0xokWb1hqeRL6uZF

NrG.NeverExpo

Canada2114 Posts

April 03 2017 04:29 GMT

#279

Oh wow awesome I'll have to join you guys on discord! I saw most ppl hadn't logged in for a while so I decided to make my own guild lol, we'll see how that goes... rsvp you have homonculous yet??