Keep your friends close and your enemies closer.

The friend in my adversity I shall always cherish most. I can better trust those who helped to relieve the gloom of my dark hours than those who are so ready to enjoy with me the sunshine of my prosperity.  Ulysses S. Grant

Care and feeding of your friends team

• Always invite friends that are 1 or 2 power levels above you. They will last longer and are more likely to hire you. Much more and you are no use, much less and they will die in the first area.
• Try to hire all your friends every day. They will see your name more often and are more likely to hire you as well. I wish I had 50 friends.
• Only keep friends that regularly hire you. Once the "i" disappears next to their name they have not hired you for a WEEK. If they are above your level, let it slide. If they are equal or below, drop them like a bag of dirt.
• Invite friends that compliment your class. As a warrior most of my friends are archers or mages. If a particular area is hard, see if the abilities of a particular friend will help. This is like choosing the right golf club.
• When hiring from your friends in the tavern, ALWAYS click show and check them before you part with that gold. If a player left a bunch of things with the blacksmith or the White Wizard when they went offline they will be no good to you. I have gone into battle with friends who could only punch for 8.
• Two reasons to remove a friend. They are not hiring you or they die in combat. Don't be sentimental. 
• If a friend is guildless, drop them a quick chat that your guild has openings. Many people are unsatisfied but don't want to have the hassle of guild shopping.

Guild Leader Evil Betty shown here coaching friends in the tavern.

Quick ways to guild badges and dailies

Stolen from Baltar, MUAHAHAHA!

• Ways to complete requirements fast and cheap. 
• These tasks DO NOT have to done at your level
• You will not get lots of money or XP but you will get the minimum to check off the boxes.

Run the Farmlands/Windmill on Recruit - 9 minutes flat
You get:
Gremlin kills
2 Campaign locations completed 
2 Green abilities that can be upgraded for almost nothing or turned into dust
Many green items for scrap
Lots of stuff to sell to the merchant 
Chests to open

Foreboding Burrows dungeon - 4 minutes 
You get:
Gremlin kills
Dungeon rooms complete
Chests to open
Items to sell to the merchant 
Blue items that can be upgraded cheaply or that you can add low level ability runes to for rune upgrade tasks.

OTHER TASKS:

Mana stone: Save 1 or 2 cheap ones, use as needed
Tower levels: You can go back to previous levels that are Very Easy with keys
Kill X# of spiders/ gremlins / orcs etc... Run one of their areas on Recruit
Kill a certain campaign area beastie: Run with a higher level partner, it's faster 

MONEY TIPS

Only keep friends that regularly hire you. This is great source of no effort income. Once the "i" drops on their listing drop them as soon as you can find a replacement. Also, you will have to make an effort to hire them as well.

The gold listing at the top left has a + next to it. Anyone can go there 4 or 5 times every 15 hours to watch ads for substantial GP.  I restart/clear cache after each 2 to minimize freezing and kicks.