Have you ever heard of a saying “I am not rich because I have a lot but because I need little”? This one applies 100% for new players of MSF. So please read the other guides to minimize the amount of characters you invest in to avoid spreading your resources to thin on awesome characters that will get you nowhere.
Good resource management will get you ahead faster. Knowing which characters to invest in, when and when to stop is the most important to know. Next most important thing is knowing the value of those resources so you could focus on obtaining them.
Resources are obtained in different game parts and events that require different characters. These events have different amounts of rewards. This guide will teach you which events are more worth the investment.
You gather the resources to progress your characters but not all characters are made equal and you may want to invest in some more while others get left behind.
One more thing to keep in mind is that while there are many bad paths you can take in the game, there is no single best path. The path chosen here is to use the minimum amount of resources for the characters that will be most useful even at later stages of the game.
General rules of resource management in MSF
Plan ahead – it is important to know when certain events happen and what their requirements are so you can restrain from spending resources needed for the event on things that are of less importance.
Best place for checking out characters is your roster. But you may get some more information on these links as well
Be picky – invest most in characters that have most use long-term. On all the others, only essential to get the task at hand done. If you have doubt on which characters to use first, please check this guide.
Focus – focus on one team until you complete all the green gear and abilities
Vertical progress – continue progressing as few teams (characters) as possible to desired potential with blue and purple.
Horizontal progress – once you have completed green materials on your first team, move on and add them to your second team being mindful on your gold
Repeat – you will need many teams to be successful.
Restrain – restrain yourself from using all your resources all at once or only on one team. If you are a starter and have barely reached blue gear, save purple gear orbs for a time when you need them. There could be an orb opening event. Also, don’t over-invest in a team you are in love with so you could save gear that may be used more efficiently elsewhere. Defenders are a prime example of this. I have seen Defenders as main teams for some people with 500k strength that loose out to teams of 300k power.
Play! – playing various content of this game will get you the most rewards to progress your characters. If I would choose the priorities of what to do the it is spending campaign energy, challenges, arena, raid and blitz (though this one may shift based on the character)
Resources
Character Shards
These are most important in early and mid game all the way up until you have unlocked every character needed to unlock game content like campaign, challenges, monthly events etc. After that they loose on the importance.
How to get
Campaign nodes you can get anywhere between 0 and 10 (on events x2) shards for 60-100 energy depending on node requirement. I found this to be an average of 2.5 shards. Doing this you also get gold and gear materials both of which are very important. You get 1 energy every 5 minutes or a maximum of 288 throughout the day. You can also collect 240 energy every day from daily tasks. And if you buy for 50 power cores you can get an additional 480 energy. That comes to a more than 1000 energy.
For one that amount of energy you can get about 25-40 shards on average plus 85k-215k gold. Daily!
Orbs are really important in the early game as in many cases they will instantly unlock a character you need for a challenge or progress in the campaign. Orbs can be obtained in challenges, blitz, raids, campaign. Be sure to play all parts of the game not to miss out on any.
Legendary events are something a new player will not experience soon but should be very mindful of them when selecting characters. Be sure to select characters that will unlock more game content.
Blitz provides character shards through milestones and rewards twice a week. So be sure to play as much as possible when a character you want is featured. Blitz also provides premium and red orbs as well as red star orbs once a week. Initially premium orbs will be most important so focus on them as well as characters you want. This is a great way to get gold, blitz orbs and credits for blitz store.
Stores. There are 4 main stores where you can get characters. Blitz, Raid, Arena and War store. Until level 50 you don’t need to worry about war store. Blitz store is least currency constricted and character shards are cheap so you will get your characters fastest there. Raid store offers good deals for gear but if you are looking for characters, go for the orbs first. Early in the game this one will be most constricted as raids don’t provide that many orbs and there are no greek raids. Arena store is the most constricted and will remain so depending on your arena success. Many great characters can be unlocked there.
What characters to get first
First few days you won’t have a lot of choice and you will progress what heroes and villains you have just to make progress in the campaigns. Next go for the team that is cheap and easy to farm that will also serve you in the long run. Please check the guide here.
Gold
This is the worst bottleneck in the game as you will always be constrained with this. One character needs 5.5 million gold just to level to 75, 1 million to rank up to 7 stars and, there is the ability cost and gear cost which can amount to 2 million. Meaning you would need 8.5 million per character to fully upgrade or 42.5 million for a team. And that is without buying gear in the store (which is not worth it).
How to get
Challenges
Challenges are a very regular way of gaining resources. The table below shows daily gold contribution per day per tier
| Tier | k gold | Gold orb fragments | Average daily gold contribution (k) |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 22 | 115 | 41,22 |
| 2 | 36,8 | 130 | 61,94 |
| 3 | 41,6 | 140 | 69,24 |
| 4 | 46,4 | 150 | 76,53 |
| 5 | 51,2 | 160 | 83,83 |
| 6 | 56 | 175 | 91,69 |
| 7 | 60,8 | 190 | 99,55 |
| 8 | 65,6 | 205 | 107,41 |
| 9 | 70,4 | 220 | 115,26 |
| 10 | 78 | 240 | 127,29 |
| 11 | 88 | 265 | 142,96 |
| 12 | 100 | 300 | 162,32 |
Blitz
Blitz rewards are hard to determine as new players get lower rewards and the amount depends on how active you are and how many teams you have but the maximum you can get is 242k gold per week or about 35k per day for new players but that maximum is highly unlikely and will most probably be around 15 k per day. This will steadily increase over the course of time. Later you will have no problem clearing all milestones and that will give you about 74k daily.
There are also blitz orbs which are an awesome value for the new player. each one gives about 3500 gold plus 5 character shards. If you complete the blitz milestones you can get 1,7 orbs every 3 days (for a new player) and 1700 blitz credits which, if you choose to open up orbs with, will give you in total of 7000 gold every day on average if you complete all the milestones.
Once you are no longer a new player, the milestones will be much higher and so will be the rewards.
Campaign
This is the best place to get gold throughout the game. Along with the gear materials and character shards you can get anywhere between 85-215k gold from all the energy you can get daily and the one you buy with cores.
Payday
Monthly event that requires 5 mercenaries with appropriate star rank per tier.
| Tier | Gold | Gold orbs | Daily contribution |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 225 | 7,5 | |
| 2 | 450 | 15 | |
| 3 | 750 | 25 | |
| 4 | 1050 | 4 | 58 |
| 5 | 1400 | 5 | 74 |
| 6 | 1800 | 6 | 95 |
| 7 | 2400 | 7 | 121 |
Raid
Raids provide an small amount of gold once you clear a node. The amount depends on the amount of nodes you are able to clear and the raid tier.
| Ultimus | Gold / node | Max gold daily |
|---|---|---|
| 1 | 500 | 3000 |
| 2 | 1000 | 13000 |
| 3 | 1250 | 17500 |
| 4 | 1500 | 19500 |
| 5 | 2000 | 30000 |
| 6 | 4500 | 58500 |
| 7 | 6000 | 78000 |
Summary
In order to obtain gold, your priorities should be campaign, challenges, blitz, payday and then raids.
Ability materials
Abilities really unlock the fun bits in your characters. Green and blue you will probably have excess of later in the game. Until you do, stick to general principles on how to manage them. Purple will be constrained and orange you will want to save for very very special characters and abilities.
How to get
Challenges
Just like for all other materials you will ever need, challenges are a very regular way of gaining resources. The table below shows daily ability materials per day
| Tier | Green | Blue | Purple | Orange |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 12,9 | |||
| 2 | 19,3 | |||
| 3 | 19,3 | 3,9 | ||
| 4 | 19,3 | 6,5 | ||
| 5 | 19,3 | 9 | ||
| 6 | 19,3 | 10,3 | 3,9 | |
| 7 | 19,3 | 11,6 | 9 | |
| 8 | 19,3 | 12,9 | 15,4 | |
| 9 | 16,7 | 19,3 | ||
| 10 | 16,7 | 32,1 | 3,9 | |
| 11 | 18 | 32,1 | 3,9 | |
| 12 | 19,3 | 32,1 | 3,9 |
Block Party
This is another event that comes every month and requires 5 characters with City and Hero traits.
| Tier | Green | Blue | Purple | Orange |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 1,5 | |||
| 2 | 2 | 1,5 | ||
| 3 | 4 | 4,5 | ||
| 4 | 6 | 4,5 | ||
| 5 | 7,5 | |||
| 6 | 10,5 | |||
| 7 | 13,5 | 5 |
Ultimus raids
| Tier | Green | Blue | Purple | Orange |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 18-33 | |||
| 2 | 24-94 | 6-31 | ||
| 3 | 60-160 | 10-45 | ||
| 4 | 40 | 20-55 | 0-30 | |
| 5 | 20-95 | 10-65 | ||
| 6 | 40-145 | 20-140 | ||
| 7 | 50-230 | 0-10 |
Campaign
Campaigns are only good for green ability materials and for blue ones in later game when you no longer need them. You can get about 50 daily just by farming characters.
Summary
Your priorities depend on the material you are aiming for.
Orange materials are probably be best in Block party event and least challenging to achieve. Then challenges and lastly raids as they require some of the hardest characters to obtain.
For purple and blue the best are raids, challenges and lastly Block Party event.
For green ones you should get what you need from using energy in campaigns.
What to invest in
This depends on the team but with ability materials you should not be afraid to invest green or blue materials following general rules as you will not be sorry using them in the long run. Purple materials will be far behind your unlocked characters needing them so choose only abilities that provide most to the team, that unlock most useful synergies and on the teams you plan on using long-term.
For starter players please read the post about your first team. For others, i will be making investment guides on a team basis.
Gear materials
Gear boosts your character’s stats and it is required for Dark dimension 2 and 3. Bio, Mutant, Tech Mystic and Skill all require different types of materials. Catalysts use varies between characters and only basic catalysts are required by all characters.
Priority is to select the best team but where possible avoid teams members with same material type so dont starve yourself of one type of materials while having a lot of others that you won’t be using. Shield minions are a good example where you have many skill characters and it makes sense to replace trooper with a bio character to (i.e. Captain America) to release the pressure from obtaining skill gear materials.
How to get
Campaigns
Best way to gather gear is the campaign, so make sure you progress in campaigns so you have more selection. Just By farming character shards from the energy you get and buy with cores you can get up to 75 gear materials depending on your luck. This is tricky though as you may not always get the materials you need but with all the other benefits character farming in campaign provides, this is an easy choice. You can also choose to farm materials instead of character shards which can also be a rewarding option.
Catalyst challenges
In this challenge you only get catalyst which are a kind of universal materials that are needed on all characters. For a new player this may be a bottleneck unless you are really focused on 1-2 teams.
| Tier | Improved Basic Catalyst | Improved Catalyst | Advanced Basic Catalyst | Advanced Catalyst | Superior Basic Catalyst | Superior Catalyst |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2 | |||||
| 2 | 3 | 1 | ||||
| 3 | 4 | 2 | ||||
| 4 | 5 | 3 | 2 | 1 | ||
| 5 | 7 | 5 | 3 | 3 | ||
| 6 | 7 | 5 | 5 | 5 | ||
| 7 | 6 | 8 | ||||
| 8 | 6 | 12 | 1 | |||
| 9 | 6 | 12 | 3 | 4 | ||
| 10 | 6 | 12 | 6 | 12 |
Relic Hunt
Much like the catalyst challenge but this only provides basic catalysts. Don’t invest in Hand too much because of this event because you will have sufficient amount of basic catalysts in the mid and late game.
Dark Dimension (DD)
In DD you get orange gear materials and gear. This is end-game content that requires either 5 6-star characters, 5 Tier 13 geared characters and 5 tier 14 geared characters depending on the level of DD. This is why this guide doesn’t cover it in detail For those of you that are at that stage now, do not use the gear straight away on your best team! Rather you may want to choose characters that will serve you in DD3, Ultimus 7 and arena.
Milestone Orbs
With the available energy daily you should be able to clear Save the World milestones and High Roller milestones up to 6 or 7 which should provide you with one blue and one origin specific purple gear orb. Open the blue ones as you will probably need them anyway and keep the purple ones until you need them or until there is an orb opening event.
Raid Store
When it comes for purple gear this store is king of value, but not so much for blue gear. Therefore a new player may want to spend raid credits on character orbs or shards and buy only the rarest purple items required by the team you are focusing on.
War store
As this store becomes available only once you reach level 50 and you only get credits for it once your alliance starts wars, I will not recommend newer players getting materials there. Also, this store has some character shards that are required to unlock game content, you will want to spend your credits on those and some certain gear tier 14 specific gear materials.
Main Store
While a good selection of materials is always available, it is costly and you want to keep spending in this store to a minimum.
Raids
Raids provide different gear orb fragments depending on the raid you are doing. Their amount depends on your alliance’s success and your personal contribution. I have calculated this to a minimum amount of materials you get from opening an orb if you do a raid daily.
| ULTIMUS | BLUE | PURPLE | ORANGE |
|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 4-5 | ||
| 2 | 6-8 | ||
| 3 | 8-14 | ||
| 4 | 10,5-23,5 | 2-4,5 | |
| 5 | 12-29,5 | 4-9,5 | |
| 6 | 30-40 | 9,5-18 | |
| 7 | 18-24 | 3,5-35 |
Daily tasks
If you fight in raids 2 times, you can get a daily blue gear orb which will get you most often 11 blue materials.
Summary
Campaigns and raids. Challenges for catalysts and Relic hunt if you have a Hand team.
Red stars
Red stars are a the single best way of progressing your characters beyond gold stars and provide a percentage increase to a character’s stats. These are not as important in the early game so I would just tell you to focus and premium orb blitz and leave red orbs blitz for when you have sufficient characters to clear all premium milestones and then do red star blitz.
You can also get promotion credits from daily tasks by donating in guild once the feature is unlocked at level 50. Using them you can promote 1 character from 3 red stars in 15 days, 4 in 65 days and 5 in 7 months. Promotion credits are sold in a special store. Don’t buy 1 or 2 stars unless absolutely necessary as you will get them (or even higher) soon anyway from orbs. Best candidates for red stars are the ones that have an ability based on their base stats. And the ones you use.
The only other place where you can get these is the monthly event that requires Wakandans which are obtained only later in the game. please read the Chaos Theory guide to find out how to progress fastest in this event.
IMORTANT – having more red stars than gold stars will provide NO benefit!
Energy
As stated earlier energy is very important and will be used to get characters, gold, gear and ability materials but can only be bought with cores, so keep getting better in arena and do dailies. Unless you are a top arena player I recommend buying only 4 energy refills daily for 200 power cores. You will recover the cost throughout the milestones and daily tasks. Save the rest for special offers and events.
Power Cores
They are a form of currency in the game that will help you get energy, character shards, materials and many other things. Be very mindful on how you spend them as they are not easy to come by. You mostly get them by doing arena, daily tasks and milestones. Best use for this is buying energy. Do not use this to buy premium orbs ability materials in the game store.
Store currency
I have described the stores in other sections and the currency you can obtain by playing their respective game content. Blitz for blitz store, raid for arena store, arena for arena store and alliance war for war store.
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