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HJW Gaming breaks down five common traps low-spend Game of Thrones: Dragonfire players fall into, from heirloom priorities to PvP and gold spending.

## Key Takeaways

- Low spenders should not mimic high spenders' heirloom and PvP priorities; early XP growth investment can give a competitive edge.
- Focus resources on one main formation rather than spreading thin across several.
- Save gold for high-value purchases and use event timing and shared chests for efficiency.
- Accept a supporting role in alliance PvP and avoid fights that waste troops and resources.

## What the video covers

- Low-spend players often copy high spenders' heirloom priorities (PvP damage and damage reduction), which puts them at a disadvantage; prioritizing XP growth amplifier early can speed dragon leveling.
- Spreading legendary cores and habit upgrades across many dragon formations leaves them poorly performing; focusing on one main PvP formation (e.g., Malachite, Riserion and Veiga) is more efficient.
- Shared event chests, such as Malachite and Riserion sharing one chest in season 1, add value to resource efficiency.
- Spending gold on low-value items like 20 Syrax relics for a non-core formation is wasteful; gold should be saved for valuable items such as gold dragonfire keys or relics for the main formation.
- Purple relic cores can be farmed through the Hunting Wild Dragons event, so buying them with gold is generally unnecessary; legendary cores are scarce and should be prioritized.
- Saving cores and keys and spending them in one go can help hit maximum event levels and accelerate progression.
- Trying to PvP higher-spending players is a major trap; low spenders should accept supporting roles such as scouting, pathing, and cleaning up, which are valuable to alliances.
- Compare dragon power, heirlooms and star ranks against opponents before engaging to avoid losing troops and resources.

## Chapters

1. 00:00 Introduction: Common Low-Spender Traps
2. 01:07 Trap 1: Heirloom Prioritization and XP Growth
3. 03:10 Trap 2: Spreading Across Too Many Formations
4. 04:16 Trap 3: Spending Gold Badly
5. 07:06 Saving Cores and Keys for Event Efficiency
6. 11:07 Trap 5: Trying to PvP Higher Spenders
7. 13:00 Accepting Your Role and Supporting the Alliance

Answers

## Questions about this video

Why does the video recommend prioritizing XP growth amplifier early for low spenders?

The presenter argues that higher XP bonuses let free-to-play players level their dragons faster than high spenders early in the season. That gives them higher dragon levels, more troops and better stats during early PvP.

What is the recommended approach to dragon formations for free-to-play players?

Pick one main PvP formation, such as Malachite, Riserion and Veiga, and direct all habit upgrades and legendary cores into it. Spreading resources across five formations leads to several weak dragons instead of one strong one.

Why should low spenders avoid buying purple relic cores with gold?

Purple relic cores can be farmed through the Hunting Wild Dragons event by spending resolve, so buying them is unnecessary. Gold is better saved for gold dragonfire keys or relics for the main formation.

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00:00

Speaker A

The top five traps low spend players fall for. If you're a low spend player, you're probably walking right into some of these traps and costing yourself massive progression without even realizing it. Let's break them down so you can finally get the most value for

00:15

Speaker A

your money and hard-earned time. Now, the first of these is probably very expected and it's going to be talking through heirlooms. Now, for most players, they already know where to focus their heirlooms, which is usually around the dragon growth section. The

00:39

Speaker A

problem for free-to-play players is always going to be that you're going to be focusing and progressing on kind of the primary PvP heirlooms, things like damage and damage reduction. The problem you're going to be having is you're going to be doing exactly the same thing

00:54

Speaker A

as most spender players will, who can push their PvP heirlooms all the way to the max and get massive benefits as a result. And as a lower spender, you are not going to be able to match that. So,

01:04

Speaker A

by following exactly what they're doing, you are naturally going to be at a disadvantage. So, instead, it's probably better to instead change up what you're doing and where your prioritization is.

01:15

Speaker A

I personally feel that for low spend players, the early prioritization should actually sit in some of the early trees, particularly with the XP growth amplifier. So, the reason why I think this is beneficial is because what this will give you is it will allow you to

01:30

Speaker A

level your dragons quicker and quite a bit quicker than a lot of high spend players. As as most people who watch the channel know, I am a reasonable spend player and I don't have this maximized, but I'm kind of guessing around 28, you

01:42

Speaker A

know, 28% extra experience. If a free-to-play had this maximized and had potentially 50% bonus XP, they could level their dragon significantly quicker than mine. What this means, early season PvP, they'll be higher level than me and able to actually deal quite a bit of

01:58

Speaker A

additional damage to what they would otherwise be able to do because of the fact that they're higher leveled.

02:03

Speaker A

Therefore, they have more troops and higher stats on their dragons as well. I actually think this is really underrated as far as kind of PvP meta for free-to-play goes. So, I'd recommend kind of changing up the way you think

02:14

Speaker A

cuz if you do exactly the same as everyone else all the spenders are doing, you are going to get caught out.

02:19

Speaker A

That's not to say don't upgrade these at all. You are going to need these to progress kind of little by little as you're never going to catch up in the future, you know, when you want to get a

02:28

Speaker A

couple of seasons down the line and potentially have some of these close to maximized, which will then benefit you in PvP massively. I'm just saying that prioritization, I think prioritizing experience early on could really benefit free-to-play players.

02:41

Speaker A

The second trap I think most free-to-play or low-spend players fall in fall into is prioritizing too many dragon formations. Now, I see so often in my comments people asking, particularly free-to-play and low-spend, how do I use these these these these

02:57

Speaker A

dragons to make five PvP formations? How can I going to be as strong as possible and have all of these formations available for PvP? And the reality is as a low-spend player, you're just not going to be able to do that. Every

03:10

Speaker A

single formation comes with extreme amounts of cost to get it to its strongest point. First up, of course, you have relics and star level progression, which you need to push as far as possible cuz the benefits of this

03:23

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are enormous. You know, higher star levels don't just come with the additional habits, they also come with uh troop number increases. They come with um additional stats for your dragon and basically they have a massive bearing on how strong your formation is.

03:40

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But on top of that, you also have habit levels, which can be incredibly expensive for low-spend. The expectation to have thousands of legendary cores available is just not realistic. So, you are going to have to chew, pick, and

03:52

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choose which habits you want to prioritize. And if you spread yourself kind of too thin in this area, what's going to happen is you're going to find you have a lot of kind of poorly performing dragons rather than one

04:04

Speaker A

excellent performing formation. So, instead, what you should do is you should pick one main PvP formation. And then instead, focus, you know, your legendary cores, habit upgrades, your chest pulling as well to get the best out of this formation.

04:21

Speaker A

In a previous video with a tier list of the best free-to-play and low-spend formations, I recommended a formation that consisted of Malachite alongside Riserion and Veiga. And I gave it several reasons for why to do this, but there are massive, massive benefits for

04:36

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doing so. The main thing, of course, being that having one of the main things being that having an epic dragon means that you can use those cores there, and then you can focus your legendary cores where they're needed, likely around Veiga and his kind

04:49

Speaker A

of tanking abilities. But, you also have the benefit of Malachite and Riserion in season 1 sharing the same chest. So, one thing that doesn't get spoken about enough, I think, in a lot of low-spend free-to-play guides is efficiency with

05:04

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what keys and resources you're able to earn. And the fact that Malachite and Riserion share an event chest makes this fantastic value to open cuz whether you get the pity epic pull or legendary, you're going to be boosting up the

05:17

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you know, the strength of your main formation. So, pick one formation that you want to use. Check out, as I said, my free-to-play tier list if you want some advice on best formations for this.

05:28

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And then really focus that. Make sure all of your habit upgrades go into only this formation. And make sure you're really focusing all of your resources in making this as good as possible.

05:38

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And this kind of flows quite well into my third trap. And that is spending gold badly. When you come into the gold store, there will be immense temptation to pick up a lot of the items on here.

05:49

Speaker A

You can see as a high spend player, I have picked up for example, the purple epic cores as well as the legendaries here as well. You will often see gold dragon fire keys silver here as well, the the dragon glass keys and you'll see

06:03

Speaker A

relics for legendary dragons. And as a free-to-play or low spend player, you might see 20 legendary relics as a great spend for your gold. However, if that is those relics are not part of your main formation, then you should realistically

06:17

Speaker A

consider them wasted and you should preserve your gold for something more valuable, such as the gold dragon fire keys or even relics for the formation you're using.

06:26

Speaker A

You probably also shouldn't buy the purple relic cores primarily because these can be farmed and earned in the overworld through spending your resolve when the hunting wild dragons event is available.

06:38

Speaker A

In instead, focus on just the legendary cores cuz this is where you're going to be diminished compared to high spenders who can buy the legendary core packs to upgrade their best dragons best habits.

06:50

Speaker A

Legendary cores are going to be very, very limited as they can only be farmed from the level 50 hunt wild dragons event which kind of comes quite late on in the season and even then you don't even have a guaranteed to get one. You

07:03

Speaker A

have around a 50% chance to get one core per sweep. So you're going to be very limited, particularly when late habit upgrades cost, you know, 500 legendary cores.

07:15

Speaker A

You can see how long it could take to get to this point. Instead, if you have gold available when these come up, you can then pick them straight up from this um straight up from this gold store.

07:25

Speaker A

Similar, I guess, with the campaign store as well, which I've done videos about in the past. Yeah, I think with low spenders, the main thing is just not spending your gold willy-nilly. It'd be so tempting if, say, 20 Syrax relics pop

07:37

Speaker A

up in here for 1,000 gold to just slam that 1,000 gold straight in. Great, I've got potentially a star upgrade on my legendary dragon. But if you're not using Cyrax and you don't have, you know, heirloom upgrades or you don't

07:49

Speaker A

have dedicated resources available to upgrade a habit, so you're not going to be using her, then it is essentially a thousand gold wasted. You should instead save it for when things that will benefit your account do become available.

08:02

Speaker A

My fourth trap I think most free-to-play players fall into is not thinking long-term. Now, things like heirloom materials, habit cores, and keys are going to be burning a hole in your pocket, but in my opinion, you should save these to make

08:16

Speaker A

sure you get maximum value from featured events. Now, this will be time-consuming and it means you'll get low to no rewards for several cycles of events and that'll feel gutting cuz you'll be thinking, "Oh, I could have got breed marks from

08:30

Speaker A

spending a few habits here or there or I could have got some purple cores." But instead, if you saved these and then spent all of your cores in one go, you could potentially hit the maximum level on each event. Similar with keys, if you

08:43

Speaker A

save them up, you could potentially open them all in one go and then instead of getting a couple of purple cores and dragon glass keys, if you saved up 250, you're getting a legendary core, so you're getting amazingly valuable dragon

08:57

Speaker A

fire keys which could change your account massively. So, I think taking a long-term view with all of your resources and just accepting the fact that it's going to be time-consuming, you're not going to see the benefits straight away, but you will get enormous

09:10

Speaker A

value in the future will benefit your account substantially. I see so many people kind of spending and upgrading the habits, getting to maybe this point and getting a couple of legendary cores in and then doing it every week, you

09:21

Speaker A

know, every time the event cycles and doing so. When if they'd waited a couple of weeks, they could have pushed all the way to here and had the massive value that comes as a result. And then that kind of cascades as well cuz once you've

09:32

Speaker A

done now you've got more cores which then means you're going to be quicker hitting the next event cuz you've got more cores and breed marks available for the next one. And the same applies to the heirloom event as well. So, if you take

09:43

Speaker A

a really long-term view on spending your resources and understand that as a free-to-play low spend player, you're not going to be able to match up against the high spend players immediately.

09:54

Speaker A

Particularly at the beginning of season 1, I see so many saying, "I can't compete with so you know, this person and this person because of their spend." That's what they spent the money for.

10:02

Speaker A

They spent the money to cut that time, you know, to get the short cut way there.

10:06

Speaker A

As a free-to-play or low spend player, you have to take a long-term view on all of your resources and make sure you're spending them as efficiently as possible so that you get that maximum value. Cuz for all you know, from one of these

10:18

Speaker A

dragonfly keys, it might have taken you, you know, a whole season, potentially longer to get 250 event keys. But when you get there, you could see yourself get enormous enormous value. Say you open this and you get a 2,000 relic

10:32

Speaker A

opening for Vega, for example, and you take him straight to take her every time, take her to eight stars.

10:40

Speaker A

Your account is suddenly changed forever. You suddenly have a great strength account out of nowhere. So, I think taking a real long-term view is one of the main things that free-to-play and low spend players really struggle with because those resources do burn a

10:53

Speaker A

hole in your pocket. You do want to spend them straight away. You do want that little bit of advantage when you get into your next PvP fight.

10:59

Speaker A

But if you do take a long-term view, you will see the benefits start to stack as you take more and more time.

11:07

Speaker A

And lastly, and I think this is potentially the biggest trap I see most free-to-play low spend players fall into, and it's trying to PvP higher spend players. Now, this applies to almost any spend level you are. You know, even myself as a relative spender,

11:21

Speaker A

there's always a bigger fish. Do you know what I mean? Is PvPing with the wrong players can cost you an enormous amounts of troops and resources. The game has huge advantages, as I said, for higher spend. You've got the airlooms as

11:33

Speaker A

I mentioned earlier with those maxed out. You have the dragon upgrades with the star ranks that that brings and the advantages that I said earlier such as increased army size, increased dragon stats. They'll likely have higher habits than you as well. So, by chucking

11:48

Speaker A

yourself into those kind of fights, more often than not all you're doing is making sure that you lose your resources and lose your troops and essentially losing value cuz if you end up spending say gold to get more troops back, you've

12:01

Speaker A

instantly lost value from your account as a result of poor efficiency. So, instead, what you should make sure to do is change your kind of PvP mindset to suit that maximum efficiency goal that you have as a free-to-spend or low-spend

12:14

Speaker A

players. And this does mean changing up your mannerisms a little bit. Now, the first of those is kind of accepting your role within the team. May- maybe whilst others are pushing objectives and doing PvP, the value that you have actually is

12:28

Speaker A

helping to protect those players. So, things like cleaning in the term sense of taking enemy tiles so they can't jump over here and then start attacking your faction's tiles. I don't think any no matter how what spend level you are, I

12:41

Speaker A

don't think you're exempt from this and it is a highly valuable task. But as a high-spend player, you're expecting those players to drive straight in at the enemy and do the PvP. You know, they're going to be the anchor points

12:52

Speaker A

for your team that will, you know, determine how successful you are in a PvP skirmish. But things like this where opponents can jump straight over and instantly attack without having to take, you know, key points like bridges and

13:07

Speaker A

can just jump straight over and then progress on you and potentially lose your team days worth of progress.

13:13

Speaker A

I think being able to solve that is a great great output for a free-to-play or low-spend player. It might not be as flashy, it might not be as ego-boosting as hitting an opponent and you know, smashing their army to pieces, but it

13:26

Speaker A

doesn't mean it's any less valuable. It's definitely, definitely valuable. Whilst your big PvP, you know, heavy hitting players are spending their stamina taking out the opponents, they're spending their troops, you know, losing in PvP or you know, losing troops

13:41

Speaker A

in PvP and potentially spending gold replenishing them for the benefit of the team, you should potentially also be picking these kind of things up and for the benefit of the team helping to progress your team's objectives.

13:54

Speaker A

Um outside of that, there are things that can be done in PvP that hold extreme value. Things like bouncing and tiling and by what that by that I mean, if an opponent is going to land on a tile, you can capture it first, which

14:06

Speaker A

will bounce them in the sense of they won't be able to capture the tile, so they'll be sent marching back the way they came. This wastes their time and their stamina. Every 10 stamina, you know, every one march that you waste

14:18

Speaker A

from a very high spend opponent's player, that means that those aren't that march is not going to be hitting one of your team, so you've potentially saved your one of your teammates 30,000 troops, you know, 150 or whatever gold to regenerate

14:30

Speaker A

those troops. You could be doing immense value for your team. Whilst it may not benefit you yourself directly, you are benefiting your team's objectives huge, hugely. So, I think changing the mindset here is extremely valuable. That doesn't mean um

14:46

Speaker A

you don't do any PvP or hitting any opponents at all. Now, you can see within your own power level, you can see what your stats are and where your heirlooms are at and things like that.

14:56

Speaker A

So, what you can do is when you're going to hit an opponent, you should also click on them and look at their stats.

15:02

Speaker A

You can do so by clicking on the tile where the opponent is. If you click their name off to the left, you'll see their power level will be available and you can click it and then compare. And if you see that your power level likely

15:14

Speaker A

primarily around heirlooms because heirlooms are such a big decider in the battle here, but also dragon power cuz that will that will be, you know, star ranks and habit spent. You can compare yourself to the opponent and if you

15:25

Speaker A

decide, you know, this could be a successful encounter for you, then go ahead. By taking out that opponent, you'll be saving stamina again from high spend players that maybe needlessly would be smashing an opponent they're far superior to and instead could be

15:39

Speaker A

saving their stamina for a more similarly leveled opponent. So again, it's about more about picking your battles, making sure you pick the right battles so that you can ensure that you get victories and keep your team progressing. And outside of that, doing

15:51

Speaker A

a little bit of the dirty work and helping your team keep progressing those objectives as I keep saying.

15:56

Speaker A

There's so many ultimate methods that that people I think really don't value enough. But if you've ever kind of led and ran a team, you'll understand just how valuable these things are for the progression of the team as a whole.

16:09

Speaker A

Having great activity, great pathing, you know, great cleaning is all a huge huge asset to a team. I see so many free-to-play players in some of the biggest spending alliances in the game.

16:19

Speaker A

And they're some of the most valuable players in the game. So try and position yourself in that place and you can find your place amongst some of the best alliances. Now with that, that's everything for me. Is there anything

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Speaker A

here you disagree with? Are there any of these traps that you fall into yourself?

16:33

Speaker A

If you if you have, let me know down below. And yeah, thanks to everyone for watching, particularly my free-to-play audience. I do respect and thank all of you immensely.

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Speaker A

And without further ado, I really hope to see you on the next one.

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