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.

The Lions of Tsavo - new player tips

These are tips I picked up along the way. Focus on new players.

DIAMONDS: Starting out you will earn a ton of diamonds for almost no effort. This is a pusher getting you hooked on free samples. Don't blow them on extra tries at a chest or for boosters. Everything at these levels is crap anyway. Except...

SPEND EVERY DIAMOND ON EXPANDING YOUR INVENTORY

This is no fun at all, nope, but it will give you so much freedom now and later. First buy ALL the spaces in your "backpack" then the whole first page of your town chest.

HEALING POTIONS: The higher the level of the potion the faster it works. I've read that the potion strength should be 10x your hit points for maximum immortality.
Have you noticed how low level healing potions lazily fill up your globe? Often this is not fast enough to save you. Upgrade your potions as often as you can. Expensive and time consuming but it will keep you off a slab.

UPGRADES: An upgraded uncommon (green) is often more useful than an unupgraded unique (purple) Look at the max upgrade #, how many stars, extra abilities or modifiers. I favor speed, attack, move, any kind I can get. Speed is the best combat multiplier for any class. You attack faster and you can get out of the way of area attacks in time! Do not sweat green and blue equipment, use whatever you get to your advantage and COMPULSIVELY UPGRADE EVERYTHING.

Power level is about upgrades, period. XP raises your base HP but upgrades drive your progress.

DID YOU KNOW that the shop sells a booster pack every 10 hours for mana, not diamonds? I played for two weeks before I learned that.

Enough for now, DM me with questions in game and leave a comment with any tips you have picked up. We all support each other's progress.