A general overview of many of the basics for new players in English. Heroes At the start of the game you'll get a few basic heroes and start going though the levels. when you go as far as you can you use the dark ritual to start over going though levels As you do so you'll activate collected should increasing your DPS allowing you to go further. You can further increase DPS by investing ranking pint also called gilds into some heroes, which also increases their power in battle as well. You can also use collected equipment to add stars to heroes. The first four levels of star you can collect in levels. The second set of four blue stars requires mythic equipment that you'll likely have to craft and will take some time before you can get the ingredients to craft. The third set of four red stars requires material from the clan holding a lair. Leveling Heroes Low level of leveling can be done with some bottles or shards. But that will get too expensive after legendary. Increasing levels increases dps, max level, and the max gilds that a hero may have. To increase beyond legendary you generally want to only the three heroes that are not at max level when doing a dark ritual and attack the daily boss under the satchel icon. Mythic chest and 8 hour chests in the arena may randomly drop rarity increases as well. You'll get to choose among the three you hired and thus focus your upgrades. As for buffers, you might want to increase them to godlike so they can hold runes. Adding a runes that causes rage along with Rune of the Elves IX that destroys heroes that have rage, with good resurrection support, and Arbiter of nature is a basic combination for greatly increasing the power of a deck. Early Heroes Most of your early heroes and be sacrificed on the alter to get slightly better heroes. Don't sacrifice more than three per reset. heroes hat might be useful in this are Todd, that can be used in Dragon Draft, Nushkilan an early buffer, and two versions of Isolda. One is a human buffer with an innate immunity to debuff and the other a defender, both of which can be useful in different ways. If you don't get one of these you can sacrifice the alternate tat showed up, but don'y try this with any of the other new heroes. Ena Hawkeye and Nushkilan are good heroes to level up early or a scratch deck and early league, but will be replaced in time by higher tier heroes. For heroes that do not have a bonus to science, influence, or events, you generally want to put them in the mines on the map. At level 4000 and every 1000 thereafter until 20,000, you'll get a 500 green shard mine with a longer wait time. They give for for the time, but remove the hero from being changed until they are done. Arbiter of Nature - To get this hero you'll generally want to save 40-60 K bottles and draw from the 800 bottle shad pack until you run dry. If you're lucky you'll get 2-3 arbiters. The extra shards ca be crafted into alternate versions of the arbiters, arbiter of nature should be the first you craft. https://www.dungeoncrusher.win/en/craft/101/Shards:-Arbiter-of-Nature Events Every week there is an even of two different types, you can get green shards, bottle, and even heroes from events even at low levels. If you're in a clan, then every clan member gets rewards based on the collective effort of the clan as well as personal rewards. Science and Influence These events give you reward based on points in the science tabs, and influence you get from winning in the arena. If you max out the timer it can be reset for 200 bottles, increasing by another 100 bottles for each additional reset per day. So if you have a very large bonus, you can manage the top rewards by spending large quantity of bottles. Science gives much more that influence. But you generally want to stop before the time exceeds 5 hours or you'll be locked out until it reaches zero. Even paying in gold can get you rewards if you keep at it. Influence comes from arena battles. before you fight, go to the PvP tab and level up all the power ups there. Then use the succubus blood power on your arrow shower and then activate the other in a clockwise motion right before starting the fight. You can use item in the fight, but you'll want to save them for the level boss. Levels Level events give points for each level you pass after your daily reset. You can also fight a boss for extra points. The 50 bottle boss is generally killed with bombs to get points for the high level rewards, but you'll need a big even bonus for that. The free boss gives far less, but you can hit it much like an arena fight. Special Events Special events happen once per year, but can give special rewards. The Halloween and Christmas events can give low level players a buffer. The vegetable event can get you vegetable and champion heroes, if you can get tomato coins. You then buy pack 1 from the shop with the coins and open the chests. There are other higher level heroes that you can get in each special even as well. Leagues In this mode you make four hero groups and then challenge other players, groups. You'll get more reward the higher you go, with titian shards for the top of the highest league. You get one charge and hour and my attack or be attacked by anyone with in rank range. You'll need a defensive and offensive deck. Multi attacks do better in the league because they can wipe out all four of the opponents heroes in one go. Immunity to debuffs will help prevent them from being silenced. Sieges Early Decks There are two early decks that you want to use. One is for farming shards, You'll want to put in Dendi and Lord Draador when you get them as well as any other heroes you might happen to have with special attacks with burn, devour, corrupt, and decay with four defenders on the front line if you have enough. You use this deck to track the 13 million hp boss, you can get up to three horns per attack. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3563712858 The other is a scratch deck, you generally want to put in four defenders with Ena Hawkeye, Prenax the Deceiver, and full in the rest with heroes with the attack all ability. The goal is to deal 1 damage to a top boss and get enough points for a four million point hero. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3560504238 Weekly Decks After you get a four million hero to galactic x rarity you'll want to put together a deck for the week's siege and rune week. The starter deck has your hero up front, but later you'll want to back line them to prevent opening debuffs from silencing them. The same is generally done with 230 million point heroes, but Kuazzurk uses wisdom buffers https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3567725180 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3567728211 https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3567733525 Siege cannons You can buy siege cannons in the shop or auction house They are reusable and there is a different cannon for each siege. They have the same statistics, but get a bonus for a summoned clan boss that comes from using a demon horn that matches they siege they are in. There's one type for each of the normal eight sieges, but none for rune week. Actually Sieging Hit the track down a boss button and you'll either get a boss someone else summoned or a new bosses. If you find a boss and damage it, you'll automatically get 5% of the points it is worth if it is defeated. If you do the most damage, you'll get a 30% share of the points. The person that kills the boss get 5% as well. The remaining points are divided among all that damaged the boss. Attacking a boss costs one charge and a power attack three. Charges refresh at one per hour and a power attack gives a X5 bonus to all heroes. If you hit the red flag in the corner the boss will be shared on the clan chat player may then enter into a siege with the boss from there. Allowing the sharing of summoned bosses as well as regular bosses. Novice players cannot share or join a siege in this way. The summon a clan boss button uses a demon horn to get a top boss strength boss in most sieges. Special sieges might get and easier bosses worth more points than normal. If you have a siege cannon that matches the siege, the cannon get a big attack bonus and the boss cannot damage it. This is one way that player may obtain 230 million point heroes early. You'll should have 40-50 demon horns to try this. Another way for player to get 230 million point heroes quicker, is the use of a map. Sharing the summon will allow another higher level player to kill the boss after you scratch it or allow another player to share a map or another summon for a kill or scratch. Some summoned bosses require an extra effort to even scratch, such as those with fortitude or guards with defender. Small Siege Chests If you defeat a medium boss during the top boss hour, you'll receive a small siege chest. There is a small chance that these chests will drop star potion and demon horns. They can also drop burners and lock picks. This is one way to get these rare resources in free to play. Wisdom Deck Building After your 230 million point deck, you'll likely want to build a full wisdom deck. You'll need a few things. A strong wisdom attacker. Peechneedle and higher one will work. Good resurrection support, Kulazar the Decayer is the best for this. He'll work better with a sneak rune. Arbiter of Nature, this hero can be crafted after you pull a second arbiter from the 800 bottle shard pack. A good defender, they'll work best with fortitude. You can use runes to imbue a hero with these traits, but if you can get a strong defender or better a titian that'll free up runes slots and reduce the hard to get runes you'll need. And at least two rage killer runes from the elf lair and rage runes for all your buffers. A silence killer rune, four heroes with a natural immunity to debuffs with rage killer runes and rage rune will make it far more stable. Other decks that deal big damage are possible, but they generally require the rage killer runes and resurrection support. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3576720299 Lord Draador https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3572641987 An important rare boss you can find after you have 60K gilds in any siege other than special sieges and rune week. He burns you hero for big damage, so you might want to equip a immunity to burn damage on you main damage dealer. You can track up to five of these bosses per week, as you find more and the week goes on they'll get rarer. If you MVP the boss you'll get a map that can get you large amounts of siege points and star potions. Each can be used to get four bosses with each getting stronger and progressively harder to beat. the third boss has three different versions that can be summoned by crafting the third summon item into other forms. To track Lord Draador you must siege long enough for more powerful bosses to start to show up. there is a slight chance that Lord Draador will show up instead. Event heroes may also show up in a siege, they also carry maps , but are far more powerful. Arena To fight in the arena you'll want to be in a clan to get protection from your heroes dying when you win. make sure you go to the PvP and buying the enhancements before you fight. You'll also want to clear out any idle bonuses you have before you go in. Just before you fight use succubus blood, then arrow shower. after that activate the rest of your combat powers in a clockwise motion. Once you enter tap and try to finish the opponent. many artifacts can help here. Dragon Draft This mode is hard and complicated. I suggest that you search for tutorial videos before trying to draft. If you find you're good at draft you can get a great deal of green shards, bottles, star potions, hero shards, boss summons, and even unique heroes among a few other things. Some of these heroes can be bought in the auction house or directly from player is the seasonal chests, collectors chests, and champion chests. This is the one mode you can play without limit and new players may match older players as you all draw from the same pool of heroes. You'll need to get to know the system, heroes, and strategies to compete Auction House Here you can buy and sell many items with doubloons. the best way to get these is to sell demon horns, crates of bottles, maps, voids, and other rare items in the auction house. You can also get 1000 doubloons for one void in the shop, but they sell for more than that in the auction house. When you put a them up for sale you'll have to deposit some bottles, which you'll get back if the item sell. the system will take some of the doubloons, but return your bottles if the item sells. Lairs Lair are for high level clans. generally there is a social agreement to which clan controls which liar instead of fighting over them. lair rewards go out to all members that are are not at novice rank, so relatively lower level player can get the rewards if they clan agrees to let them join. This is normally done in exchange for voids. Royal Hunt This is special summoned bosses that give hero shards to those that beat them. Rank rewards will go to the whole clan. Labyrinth This mode is for those that has a top boss of the week, or one of the full set o the Chinese, Scandinavian, or sea gods. It works like the siege with much stronger bosses and more hero slots. You'll need to be able to deal pure damage and have heroes with natural immunity to debuff and a special attack to challenge the lab. Tree of Luck For steam only, click once every three or so hours to get a drop. These can be exchanged on steam for special summon tokens. https://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=3549611133 Shop This tab has mainly for pay items, but a few other thing of interest. Currency- You can get some of the in game currencies here. This is where you can buy voids, except on steam. If you link your account across devices or with the browser version, steam players can buy voids as well. Bonuses- You can buy bonuses for bottles her. Except using the bright ritual for quests and low level MVP status, these are not generally worth it. Heroes- You can get a few heroes with green shards here. One for souls, and buy shard pack. You can also buy premium heroes and spend tomato coins from the vegetable events and siege for special packs here. some offers for event heroes, siege cannons, and other things here as well. Invasion pack 1 contains a chest where you can get the champion for the invasion siege. The 800 bottle shard pack is the main why to get arbiters. You generally should save up 40-60 K bottles and draw until you run dry. If you're lucky you'll get 2-3 arbiters. You ca use the shards after the first to craft five alternate versions with other abilities and 6 judges. Offers-On any version other that steam you can get monthly offers for packs of bottles and star potions, demon horns, a siege horns, and a special pack on the web version with a unique hero. Artifacts Artifacts give bonuses and in some way can change how you play the game. A few can be found by looking for caves on the map. Most come from the artifact tab. You can buy them for souls and level with either souls or hearts from the arena. Sands of Time, if you need for time to beat a boss on the map level this. Cursed Doll, Makes bosses easier to beat on the map. Soul Reaper, One of the most important artifacts. It increases the amount of souls you get. Watch not to put too much in this artifact at once as the price scales up. lamp of Spectors, Increases your chance of getting souls. Max it out. Lion's Heart, Basic DPS bonus. It will not be noticeable in the flood of other bonuses you'll get. Katar, Increases crit change. Distorters of Time, Allows you to use heroes power more often. This will let you fight in the arena or attack the level bonus quicker. Amulets, There's one for each power with a time limit. They make the powers last longer, so you can fight in the arena or with the boss for longer. Runestone Axe, Gives a dps bonus when you idle. Pot of Gold, Increases the gold when not clicking you get so you buy more levels quicker. Spratial Portal, Increases you starting level. Increase this to a level you comfortable with. Then when you dark ritual go back on the map where you can get enough gold to hire King Midas. Use his power to collect gold on you max level and hire a hero that is strong enough to start killing enemies. Graceful Dagger, Increases crit damage. Cursed Amulet, screws over other players in the arena. Doesn't help you at all so you won't notice the affect. Rabbit's Foot, Sometimes get more gold. Pot of Gold, Gives gold after a dark ritual. Not really worth it. Amulet of Power, Increase the bonus to dps from gilds invested n heroes. Watch your dps when leveling as it scales up and can cause a drop if you spend too may souls. Midas's Amulet, Give a bonus to gold earned. It'll likely be lost among the other bonuses you get. Bloody Doll, Reduces level bosses HP. Bloody Axe, Another dps bonus. Bloody Katar, Increases crit chance. Bloody Glove, Increase your damage per click. This is the only artifact that does this. Bloody Pot, another idle gold bonus. Mimic, DO NOT BUY. It increases the chance of getting a treasure chance in the levels. Key of Deemons, DO NOT BUY. Increase the HP of chests. Drum of Fear, A two edge sword. It reduced the number of enemies per level, but that reduces the item drops as well. This will let you go through levels quicker, but slow down item collection. Alter and super Alter This option is below your heroes. here you can sacrifice heroes to get shards, or recycle extra shards based on the option selected. You need to buy hero shards from the shop and recycle them here to get soul eater shards. After that these shards may be crafted upward with holograms to necro shards, treeforlk shards, and finally void hero shards. Infinity Gem After level 4000 you unlock this dps bonus. You select one of your heroes and their dps is increased based on he collected shards. Once a gauge is filled with enough shards to activate the hero, the bonus stays even if you craft the shards into another hero. Crafting Items Load two or more items on the grid in amounts ranging from 1 to 100, add some catalysts and hit craft. But it's not as easy as it sounds and there are literally millions of combination and many rare materials. If you successfully craft an item, you'll learn the recipe in whole. For a recipe of four parts or more, if you get three ingredients and the amount right, it will reveal one of those ingredients and you'll get a partial recipe. Doing this many times can compete a whole recipe. In the game code are recipes that are not meant to be crafted, but are included to catch data miners tying to cheat, so be careful trying a non-public recipe from someone you don't know. By hitting the arrow button next to a recipe you can share it on the clan chat, so others can learn it. Also some recipes are limited in the number of people that can learn them. Generally these are found for a coordinated effort by four or five players systematically searching combinations and when found people to not wish to share. Early player are generally best off sticking to crafting essence of luck as a catalyst and bottles. Here's database of most known public recipes. https://www.dungeoncrusher.win/en/craft Summons are included, but not on any list. They can be found by looking up an ingredient and not all are 100% correct. Getting Voids in Free to Play As wish free to play game that are monetized, you can o free to play, but it is a longer and harder road. In this game you'll need to acquire voids to get premium heroes, to craft some important items like summons, and buy into a stay in a lair to get important runes. To do this you need to collect some items that people will be willing to trade for. Demon horns can be got from small siege chests, or be given to a clan leader as a reward for the clan doing well. If you're good at Dragon Draft the seasonal chest can go for several voids each and the top chest goes for much much more. Maps are another valuable resource, as well as rare summons, especially limited craft summons or ones that require resources from the labyrinth. To exchange these, some items, such as voids, can attach some of these to a pm for link a summon in the clan chat. You must be a full member rather than a first week novice to share linked summons or attack a linked boss. Be careful not to take summons meant for others players and make sure the other party is ready when you summon and then link a boss. Be careful when directly exchanging items to avoid being scammed. Another option is to list item for sell in the auction house and buy voids with the doubloons you get. Watch the prices and the rate items sell, as if you overcharge it will not sell and if you undercharge you will not get as much for it. If you item doesn't sell, either because no one wants that item or it's too pricey, you'll lose the deposit of bottles. If the item does sell, the bottles are returned to you.