Get familiar with the game’s UI and Strategy.

Note:

This guide is abandoned since Saturday, November 7, 2020. This content is all I could prepare as a guide while I played, but I’m not playing the game anymore.

Chests and Decks

Chest 1- Deck 1

• Requires Gold to give out fireflies.
• Duplicates will be turned into Leafs.

Most Important cards:

(Make golden from 3)

1. Cockatoo x2 (Bonus from Toads)

2. Huner x4 (+Leaf drop)

3. The Chieftain (Physical DPS)

4. Desert Warrior (Physical DPS)

5. Boletus Mushroom x2 (Poison DPS) (Important only after unlocking the 3rd deck.)

Chest 2- Deck 2

• Requires Gold to give out fireflies.
• Duplicates will be turned into Blue Spheres.

Most Important cards:

(Make golden from 1)

1. Cingulata (%Physical DPS)

2. Shark With Hands x3 (%Gold from monsters)

3. Ice Sword x3 (Physical DPS)

4. Bandit Fish x3 (%Physical DPS)

5. Marsh Hut (Poison DPS) (Important only after unlocking 3rd deck.)

6. Prepared x2 (+Gold per sec)

Chest 3- Deck 3

• Unlocked by sacrificing 10 golden cards from Deck 1 (It consumes 10 golden cards at once; No cancelling/Crystals needed.)
• Requires Gold to give out fireflies.
• Duplicates will be turned into Skulls.

Most Important cards:

(Make golden from 4)

1. Sphere Collector x2 (+Sphere drop)

2. Tungus x2 (+Magic duration)

3. Scaredy (-%HP monsters)

4. Hollow x3 (Physical DPS)

5. Egg Carrier x2 (%Physical DPS)

6. Crayfish Blood (Poison DPS)

7. The Swamp Troll x3 (%Poison DPS)

8. Kroplin (%Poison DPS)

9. Gold Coin (%Gold from monsters)

10. Prepared 2.0 (+Gold per sec)

VIP Chest – Deck 6 (Not Recommended)

• Requires x50 Crystals to give out fireflies.
• Duplicates will be turned into Orbs. (I guess)

Most Important cards:

No idea.

DailyChest – Deck 7

• Requires 24 hours to give out fireflies.
• Duplicates will be turned into card enhancements.

Most Important cards:

(Make silver and golden from 1)

1. Hero Egg (%XP for Heroes)

2. Vesuvius (%Poison DPS)

3. Hellhound (%Gold per monster)

Currencies and Resources

Leafs

Usages:

• Upgrading the Green Magic Sphere.
• Opening Bag 1

Spheres

Usages:

• Turning Cards into silver in all decks.
• Opening Bag 2

Skulls

Usages:

• Opening Bag 3

Gold

Usages:

• Turning cards golden in all decks.
• Opening The 1, 2, 3, 4(?) 5(?) Chests.

Crystals

Usages:

• Buying permanent/temporary upgrades, currencies and time warps.
• Dodging some restarting penalties.
• Canceling golden and above cards.

Card Types

Silver Card

• Made using Spheres.

Gold Card

• After all cards in the current deck are silver, you can upgrade one of them to golden.
• These cards remain open, even after restarting. (You can cancel them by spending 50 crystals.)

Note: After upgrading a card to golden, all silver cards will be converted back to commons.

Ethereal Card

• After all cards in the current deck are Golden, you can upgrade one of them to Ethereal.
• To transform a card, you will need certain amounts of Ethereal Potion, which is made using Green Reagent from 2nd location’s boss. (First Cauldron will time out for 5 hours after production)

Note: After upgrading a card to Ethereal, all Golden cards will be converted back to commons.

Enhancing Cards

Enhancing adds small icons on top of the enhanced cards; These cards receive a mild power up, but it’s not very effective.

It is done when a firefly falls into a slot that is already occupied by a Card, or it’s done manually by player if they click on Bags.

Note: Daily deck has no Bag and the cards automatically get enhanced as soon as a firefly is a duplicate.

Heroes

Every hero has 5 temporary skills and 5 global permanent skills that always stay active.

Perks under this are global ones :

Note:

• The leftover lifetime experience will be reset after leaving a guild, so if you want to upgrade a global perk to level 2, you have to reach level 10 with the hero in a single run.

Hero Experience Requirements:

Lvl26: 5.04e7 / 50.40M

Lvl27: 7.55e7 / 75.54M

Lvl28: 1.13e8 / 113M

Guild Master

• Only affects Guild Multiplier earning bonus.
• All perks are permanent

Hunter

• Multi-Purpose
• Deck 1 Dependency

Wizardess (Princess of the Sea)

• Massive Magic Sphere Power Increase
• Deck 2 Dependency

Guilds

Multipliers

• Every Guild has a multiplier for a specific thing (DPS/Gold/Magic/etc), and it stays if you choose another guild next time.

Loyalty

• All guild multipliers will be reset (unless you spend Crystals) if you use this feature, which is done to increase the claimable rank bonuses a Guild gives. (Doesn’t increase the amount of “pcs” you get.)

Restarting System

Restarting is done by joining and then leaving a guild; It applies the increased multiplier for the guild you just left, and not all of them.

What will be lost/reset afterwards:

• Cleared monsters (Location)
• Common and Silver cards
• Card enhancements of deck 1, 2, and 3.
• Green Magic Sphere level
• Gold, Skulls, Leafs, Spheres
• Raw materials gained from bosses.
• Potions
• Claimable guild bonuses
• Hero’s temporary level/experience
• Hero’s leftover lifetime experience
• Selected Guild (You will be guildless! until you select again.)

What will remain afterwards:

• Crystals
• Artifacts and their boosts
• Purple Magic Sphere level
• Gold and above cards
• VIP cards
• Daily cards
• Card enhancements of VIP and Daily cards
• All Guild multipliers
• All Heroes’ global perk upgrades

 

Spending Crystals

• Spending Crystals for boosting artifacts is the most effective way at the moment.
• It takes 13200 Crystals to completely boost one artifact, that’s almost 1 year.

  Which is 198000 Crystals gathered in 15 years for all 15 of them.

This is a checklist for spending your crystals:

(Buy only once of listed upgrade, unless stated otherwise.)

1. The first level of Purple Magic Sphere. (100)

2. For +20% Hero Experience (500)

3. Boost 1 Piggy Bank artifact (400)

4.Boost 1 Purple Magic Sphere Reset artifact (400)

5. Boost 1 Green Magic Sphere Resetartifact (400)

6. Another level of Purple Magic Sphere (225)

7. Boost 2 Piggy Bank artifact (800)

8. Boost 1 Scythe artifact (400)

9. Boost 2 Scythe artifact (800)

10. For +1 firefly from Chest 3 (1000)

11. Boost 3 Piggy Bank artifact (2000)

12. For +1 firefly from Chest 4 (1250)

13. Boost 3 Scythe artifact (2000)

14. For +1 firefly from Chest 5 (1500)

15. Boost 4 Piggy Bank artifact (4000)

16. Boost 4 Scythe artifact (4000)

17. Boost 5 Scythe artifact (6000)

18. Boost 5 Piggy Bank artifact (6000)

Total of Non-artifact spending: 4575 (~4 Months)

Notes:

• Avoid spending crystals on temporary upgrades like the “Weekly Gold Membership”, time warps, and such.
• This Checklist may be changed as the Game receives updates and I progress.

 

Game-play Tips

• It is better to use Guild Loyalty every day and not miss one; If you can, do some full runs to increase the boost of it and then use, but if you can’t, just use it to get the base bonus and restart the timer for tomorrow.
• Make sure to choose a hero before going to bed, so that you can have enough Lifetime Experience for Global Skills, in morning.
• Before collecting resources such as skulls, collect enough money (by rushing stages in the same location) to unlock a few cards from 3rd and above decks to boost your resource drop chances.
• Not in every restart you should collect resources such as Skulls! Just rush locations as far as you can for a few runs to raise the multiplier, then start clearing completely once your progress slows down.

• Once the 3rd deck is unlocked, you can use spcs from Merchant’s Guild after every restart to open cards in that deck! Even with low multiplier and no gold to manually open cards, this will be a great boost.

 

Card Transformation Costs

Golden Cards

(Transformation costs will be increased more than ever if you have an Ether or above card in your deck.)

Deck 1

Increases by e6

1st: 1e33 / 1Dc

2nd: 1e39 / 1DDc

3rd: 1e45 / 1Qd

4th: 1e51 / 1SxDc

5th: 1e57 / 1OcDc

6th: 1e63 / 1Vi

7th: 1e69 / 1DVi

8th: 1e75 / 1QVi

9th: 1e81 / 1SVi

10th: 1e87 / 1OVI

11th: 1e93 / 1Tg

12th: 1e99 / 1DTg

13th: 1e105 / 1QaTg

14th: 1e111 / 1SxTg

15th: 1e117 / 1Otg

16th: 1e123 / 1Qd

17th: 1e129 / 1DQd

18th: 1e135 / 1QaQd

19th: 1e141 / 1SxQd

20th: 1e147 / 1OQd

21st: 1e153 / 1Qq

22nd: 1e159 / 1DQq

23rd: 1e165 / 1QaQq

24th: 1e171 / 1SxQq

Deck 2

Increases by e18 (Not Confirmed)

1st: 1e45 / 1Qd

2nd: 1e63 / 1Vi

3rd: 1e81 / 1SVi

4th: 2e99 / 2DTg

5th: 2e117 / 2OTg

6th: 2e135 / 2QaQd

7th: 2e153 / 2Qq

8th: 2e171 / 2Sxq

10th: 2e191 / 200DSg

Deck 3

Increases by e54 (Not Confirmed)

1st: 3e81 / 3SxVi

2nd: 3e135 / 3QaQd

3rd: 3e189 / 3DSg

Silver Cards

(These are the Blue Sphere costs)

Deck1: Increases by 2 starting from 1

Deck2: Increases by 8 starting from 7

Deck3: Increases by 100 starting from 200

Ethereal Cards

Deck 1

1st: 1 Potion

Qestion & Answer

Q: Is it worth building on Poison DPS?

A: Only after the 3rd deck is unlocked.

Q: If I have +300% Sphere drop chance, does that mean I will get 3 Spheres for each kill?

A: Yes, resource drop is not limited by 1 per kill.

Q: Is it worth to sacrifice golden card for unlocking decks?

A: Absolutely.

Q: Will the price for turning cards golden revert back to normal after sacrificing cards?

A: Yes, you will be able to turn the same amount of cards into golden again, in no time.

Q: If I make Big Foot’s Den Golden, what happens?

A: That and 4 Bigfoot cards at 2nd deck will be transformed to Golden.

Notes:

• Bigfoot cards will remain Golden even if you cancel the “Bigfoot’s Den”.
• 2nd deck’s transformation costs will raise as if you manually made 4 Golden Cards.

Q: I’m stuck, what to do?

A: Increase the guild multipliers of all guilds, or keep using Guild Loyalty until you can progress again.

Q: Is it worth to buy crystals with real cash?

A: Not at the moment, as you need more than hundred thousand Crystals to have them affecting the game!

Q: How many Crystals do I need to make all VIP cards golden?

A: More than 130000 (8 Years and 9 Months). (1 year for all silver.)

• Crystals Earned Per Day: ~40 (~5 Crystals from daily deck, 5 from saving, 30 from quests)
• Didn’t calculate duplicate fireflies that fall onto filled slots.
• Didn’t calculate price risings.
• Didn’t calculate price of transforming cards.
• Didn’t calculate achievement Crystal earnings. (No more than 12 days difference)

Q: What is the game’s ending?

A: 42

I hope you enjoy the Guide we share about DPS IDLE – Gameplay Tips + All Card Types + Guilds + Heroes Info; if you think we forget to add or we should add more information, please let us know via commenting below! See you soon!