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with tacticus being such an amazing
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strategic and tactical game filled to
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the brim with features and goals that
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you can be setting yourself it can also
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get a little bit overwhelming today
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we're going to be helping you shape your
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goals with tips for both beginners and
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Veterans of the
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game welcome to tacticus this amazing
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Warhammer 40K game is really deep with
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many overlapping features and a really
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tight gameplay Lop even if you're not a
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Warhammer fan then you're still in for a
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real treat here once you get into it
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I've been playing for well over a year
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and it has never once felt boring or
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dull to me it's always felt like I'm
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some Commander strategically setting
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goals for my troops and then tactically
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helping them to get there I treat it
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like a big war campaign where I am one
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piece on the board working alongside my
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guild mates to keep progressing and
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improving and of course sometimes even
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winning however if you're at the
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beginning of your tacticus career all of
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the features will be completely
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overwhelming and so we're going to set
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some easy early goals for ourselves so
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first we will just start simple by
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collecting some new characters we're
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going to do this by leveling three
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characters from the same campaign to
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Silver one we're going to use those
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characters to open up new characters and
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campaigns and then we're going to level
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another three characters from another
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campaign to Silver one and these three
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goals will help set you on your way and
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let you learn about the features of the
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game as you go one thing I want to say
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is that unlike other other games at the
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start of tacticus there are no wrong
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choices so don't worry about picking
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this character or that character as you
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won't regret it later they will all
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become useful at some point in different
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modes however even with that said there
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are definitely some choices that are a
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bit more efficient in the early stages
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when focusing on these goals rather than
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others so let's Deep dive into them
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together so starting with the first goal
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which was to level three characters from
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the same campaign to Silver one as you
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begin the game you will see that there
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are four normal campaigns and then four
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mirror campaigns with each campaign
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there is always three main characters
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that you need to play in every battle
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sometimes they're joined by one or two
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others in battles but you'll always need
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these core three they are as follows for
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the indomitus campaign it's varro cerus
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and Bellator for the indomitus mirror
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it's motep ospc and alfl for full of
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Cadia it's angra archim Matos and harken
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world claimer or full of kadia mirror
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it's cut scodon Cil Divine and thadius
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Noble for the arus campaign it's gibas
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scraps snapa and boss Garts for the
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actarus mirror it's Brother butchard s
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brother godsell and ancient thorad for
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Sam Han it's Kandis athana and eldrion
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and finally for Sam Han mirror it's
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yazor Toth and abraxis and wow that's
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already 24 characters so where should
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you start well the simple answer is just
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pick three that you already have from
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that list and play with them initially a
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good starting point is varo cus and B as
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you will definitely have them if you do
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pick them then just start playing
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through the indomitus campaign as far as
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you can get upgrading them along the way
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and when I'm talking about upgrading
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characters there are actually five
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different ways that you can improve your
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characters you can level up their XP by
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collecting and using XP tombs this is
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actually only a dependency for the next
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four ways to improve your character it
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does not improve your damage
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survivability or functionality of your
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character in any way basically each of
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the following things can only be
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improved once you've got your XP at a
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certain level so you can give them
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weapons and armor and then you can level
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those this will increase their damage
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and survivability you can increase their
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character progression by collecting
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character shards and orbs in order to
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add more stars this increases their
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survivability damage and skills power
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and you can increase the level of those
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passive and active skills this increases
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the character's functionality in battles
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so for example A Healer will be able to
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heal better or someone that spawns in
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other characters will be able to spawn
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in tougher characters and finally you
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upgrade their Rarity by adding upgrades
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this again increases their damage and
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survivability so if you hear me talking
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about bringing a character to Silver one
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that just means you go to their
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character sheet you find these upgrades
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and you add them in and once you've got
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all six completed your character will
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level up from Stone one to Stone 2 to
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stone three and then to iron 1 2 3 then
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through bronze 1 2 3 and finally to
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Silver one here I've already pushed
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Bellator to Gold three but that'll take
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you a little while to catch up with
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because each character will take you
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between 5 and 8 Days the silver one so
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just take your time and push them up bit
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by bit I personally would focus first on
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the upgrades as they give you the
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biggest increases early on I would then
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equip some basic weapons and armor and
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then look to level the passive and
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active skills that I find useful but
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that's a whole video in itself it's only
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at that point that I would consider are
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touching the character progression and
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increasing its number of stars think of
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the stars as more of their Mastery level
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as you go finally I would then level up
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my weapons and armor once I understand
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how the game works once you have your
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characters ready at some point you're
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going to be ready to fight a boss in the
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campaign if you're doing the indomitus
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campaign the first boss is motep and a
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few things will happen when you finally
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beat him you will get a very important
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24-hour mission that you should make
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sure you complete as it gives you a
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requisition scroll and that gives you a
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chance to open more characters you will
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unlock the next campaign page with a
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whole new boss and you're going to be
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able to play or Raid this boss battle
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again to collect some more character
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shards for him so let's move to goals 2
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and three they were use the characters
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to open up new characters and campaigns
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and level another three characters from
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another campaign to Silver one and these
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go hand inand together first keep
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playing as much as you can beating
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bosses and playing that campaign as far
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as you can get while trying to open up
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more bosses grinding character shards to
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get new characters then completing their
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important 24-hour Mission and eventually
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you'll open up some new campaigns and
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you might be wondering why do you need
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to open up new campaigns what is the
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difference between the normal campaigns
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like indomitus the mirror campaigns like
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indomitus mirror and the elite campaigns
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well there are three main differences
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firstly you're going to get to unlock
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different characters from each different
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campaign that you start the elite
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campaigns are also more difficult
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versions of the ones you've already
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played and finally a really important
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difference is how easy it is for you to
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get upgrades from them I have done deep
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Dives in this before in other beginner
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videos so I'll keep this last Point
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quite high level for now but let's say
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we want to get this item we can see that
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it comes from a few different places if
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we go to one of those places and click
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on the little dice above the item you
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can see that it tells you the percentage
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chance to get it I've compiled all those
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together into an easy to check table
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that you can now see on screen and
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you're General looking to see what's the
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lowest average energy cost for each
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Rarity of upgrade for the indomitus
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early missions and those are all the
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missions from indomitus 15 up to
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indomitus 29 that only costs five energy
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well they are the most efficient for new
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players to get started at least until
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they opened an elite campaign and for
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the rest of them this table might be a
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little bit overwhelming for you the easy
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thing is this for all type of upgrades
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and character shards it's best to farm
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in this order you farm the elite
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missions which are better than the early
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indomitus missions which are better than
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the mirror missions and finally the
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normal campaign missions are the worst
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and of course those are the ones you
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start with so it's very important to be
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getting further into the campaigns as
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quickly as possible already this is
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quite a lot to remember so I've built a
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free Google sheet planner that many
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people are already using it is linked in
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the comment below and it helps you to
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plan your teams understand roughly how
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long it'll take to level them as well as
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covering many of the more Advanced
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features for later it's not necessary at
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all but it has helped me when I was
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getting started to sort my head out and
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remember what I was doing the reason
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it's very useful is that even if you're
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just planning out the leveling of three
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new characters to Silver one then that
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already takes 15 days when you start to
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grow your collection then that is even
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more complexity to try and remember so
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having an easy to ous Tool there helps
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massively I keep it regularly updated at
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least once a month with all the new
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character and feature releases so it's
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well worth picking up and in the
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meantime if you want to earn some free
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black St to help you on your way you can
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use my refer friend code in game today
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to get 100 free Blackstone just note you
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can only use one refer a friend code so
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make sure you make the most of it and I
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think this is a good point to bring up
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goals four and five which are all about
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collaboration and so here you want to be
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joining a guild and join the official
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Discord server because playing this game
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with companions is so much better than
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doing it solo here you can find a guild
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that really matches your goals and helps
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you to level in the game they will help
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you grow you can share items and you
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also get access to extra modes and
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rewards from The Guild raids and Guild
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Wars one of the great things about
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tacticus is that there isn't the same
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pressure as in other mobile games with
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alliances where I've always felt I
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needed to be doing Lots every day or I
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fell behind so find a guild you like and
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just go in and say hello and get going
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with him the other thing that's an
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amazing tool for learning about the game
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is to join the official Discord server
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if you've never used Discord before it's
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simply a place that you can meet other
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players and chat to them you also get
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regular competitions and important
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announcements from the developers
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themselves I just like to drop in every
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now and again ask a question or see what
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people are talking about it's really
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interesting well worth checking out so
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you've got the beginning of a team
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starting to shape up you're in your new
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Guild you already have a fair few silver
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ones ready to roll what is the next step
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that you should make the next big
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milestone for you is to grow your power
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and you do this by building an imperial
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team a zenos team and a chaos team and
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then you bring them up to gold one
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Rarity and these are going to help you
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in all the different modes including
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Arena tournament Arena Onslaught Salvage
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runs character events and legendary
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character release events because gold
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one is such a milestone early on in the
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game just so you understand in terms of
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timelines now you will see this game for
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what it is it's a long-term set of goals
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building up over time because if you
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want to bring a brand new team of five
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characters up to gold one then you're
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talking about 2 to 3 months per team so
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it takes a while but you just sit back
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enjoy enjoy it and don't be frustrated
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with the time it takes but let's take a
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look at what the ideal team here is to
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pick well this really depends a lot on
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who you've been lucky enough to open
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with in your requisition pools but at
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this moment in time I would be trying to
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get a Healer or a tank a support
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character that Buffs your other
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characters and then I fill the rest with
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damage dealers or characters that spawn
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in other characters so let's start by
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picking up an imperial team as this is a
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great starting place and it'll help you
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to push through the early campaigns I
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would recommend going with the following
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characters or the Healer Isabella or the
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buffer marus calgar or the damage
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Bellator brother brard varo and a good
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substitute here is cus if you don't have
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those characters then the fallbacks
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would be inisis instead of Isabella
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Ragnar for calgar Celestine for Bellator
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koden for burchard and Thaddius Noble
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and then a good substitute is sword
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brother godswill and some of these
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characters are legendary characters so
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it's very unlikely that you'll have all
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three of Celestine Ragnar and calgar but
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don't worry put together the team that
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you can put together cuz any of these
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characters are incredibly powerful and
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they're going to be useful for you deep
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into the game getting any of them to
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gold one will be a benefit for you in
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the long run and that doesn't mean that
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any of the others are less powerful by
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any means so if you have a favorite dark
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angel or adeptus mechanicus character
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then go for it just that these are
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probably as as good as you can get to
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start with again for your first zenos
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team it depends on who you have but for
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me this is a really solid leveling plan
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for the Healer it's motep for a buffer
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it's eldrion for damage it's Alf null
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Kandis and revas good substitutes here
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are Emos speec and aana and if you're
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missing any of them then a Healer is
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gias scraps the buffer is Tyrant guard
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although he's actually protecting people
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rather than buffing them a damage is
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snappa boss Gort mgan ra and a
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substitute to snot floger and again any
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of these will set you in good stead if
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you manage them all then it will open
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three campaigns for you and push you
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deep into the game finally let's take a
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look at your first chaos team I would be
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aiming for something like this your
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healer is nauseous Rod bone the buffer
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is a bad in the despoiler the damage is
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angra archim Matos and harken World
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Climer and the substitute is madis or if
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you're missing any of them then the heal
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would be Toth who's self-healing rather
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than healing anyone else rather than a
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buffer I would be taking combination of
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yazor and the damage of abraxis and
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these two work very well together where
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yazor basically slingshots abraxis into
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the enemies and then abraxis spawns lots
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of characters around him tyus vul and a
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good substitute as codius the chaos team
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currently have much more limited choices
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available so any of the above will
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definitely help move you forwards at
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this point you should be in really great
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shape and able to do a lot in the game
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your next set of goals is really about
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expanding your character pool even
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further and so here you're going to be
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focused on collecting you're going to be
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able to get your first character from a
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character release event get your first
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legendary event character and open the
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Rogue Trader shop by bringing a
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character to winged Mastery so starting
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with the character release events you
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should be able to open your first
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character from a character release event
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and if you take a look at the calendar
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posted by snow print in their official
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Discord you'll see when they come up
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I've also linked a beginner's guide
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video below telling you all about how to
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make sure you get the character it's
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quite easy to do but it does take a
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little bit of preparation and effort
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during the event then you'll be starting
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to work on legendary events these are
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endgame events that allow you to open
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legendary characters like Ragnar there
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are three events per character and it's
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even possible to open them with as few
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as six gold one characters in the recipe
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in silver so this is quite achievable if
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you plan properly and especially if you
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have healing characters like Isabella
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nauseas rodone or Alf null I'm always
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releasing more videos around these
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events to help you plan so hit that
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subscribe button and watch out for those
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too the road Trader shop is a mid to
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late game shop where you can buy
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character shards legendary weapons and
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armor and the most important thing here
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is XP tombs which if you remember back
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they allow you to level up your
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character you actually open up the Rogue
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Trader by bringing a character all the
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way to winged Mastery my recommendation
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here is that you start by gaining
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Mastery with characters that give away
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free shards because then you can use
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that as currency in the Rogue Trader
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shop so a good current examples of these
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are snot flogger from the Salvage runs
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snaper Rea from the arena crates aana
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from the daily crates and Kandis from
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the tournament Arena and now we're
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really getting into long-term goals and
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so let's take a look at some of these
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last goals that are all around
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specialization at this point you're
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going to need to decide what you want to
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be doing do you want to be the best
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pvper in the game in which case
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specialize your tournament Arena Team
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maybe you want to collect all the
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characters at a high level as you
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possibly can which case you're going to
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need a wide selection of characters so
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that you can level legendary event
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characters as high as possible before
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the event ends or maybe you want to help
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your guild in Guild rides by scoring as
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many points as you can but the full list
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is build a tournament Arena Team improve
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your legendary event characters build a
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good raid team build up a good defense
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team for Guild Wars and build up a good
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attacking team for Guild Wars and so
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let's start talking about building a
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tournament arena team I want to be
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really clear that you should be jumping
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into tournament Arena right from the
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very beginning of playing because in
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each one you're going to get great
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rewards as well as learning Lots each
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time every loss should be looked at as a
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learning experience and they're also
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capped to different Rarities which means
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it's possible to participate even while
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having a pretty new set of Champions
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however as you progress you'll want to
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get into higher levels of the tournament
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Arena for better rewards and so you'll
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be trying to find a team that really
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suits your play style whether that's
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tanky damaging supportive or something
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in between then you will want to level
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all your characters to at least silver
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one level your important active and
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passive skills to at least level 27 and
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equip weapons and equipment that are at
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least rare quality and then level them
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up to level 9 this is the max cap for
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tournament Arena currently so it's
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definitely achievable by everyone if you
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want to improve the characters you get
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from legendary events then you can build
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out a very wide team you're going to be
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looking at getting as many gold one
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characters as you can and some of the
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best surviving characters in the game
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even higher than that these are
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characters like Isabella Tyrant guard Al
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null revas nauseous rot bone and more if
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you want to help your guild get further
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through Guild raids then you're really
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going to to focus very narrow and have
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two or three teams that are very highly
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powered usually Diamond characters the
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main ones here currently are eldrion
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Ragnar m raw thadius Noble and more but
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maybe you want to be helping your guild
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to defend and attack in Guild Wars as
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best you can here you're going to need
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again quite a wide range of characters
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usually at least gold ones and then
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maybe some highly leveled ones and so in
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terms of options for defensive
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characters it's really similar to the
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best ones from legendary events for any
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attacking characters it's anyone that
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you actually find fun to play it's more
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important to have a wide range of them
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as you can only use each character once
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in defense and once in attack and so
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let's put all of that into one big
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summary for you here is 15 amazing goals
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to set you up for Success you'll be able
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to take a really easy screenshot in
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order to remember them so they are start
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simple by leveling three characters from
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the same campaign to Silver one use
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those characters to open up new
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characters and campaigns and level
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another three characters from another
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campaign to Silver one then you want to
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look into collaborations by joining a
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guild and join the official Discord
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server next you're going to be growing
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your power by building an imperial team
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zenos team and Chaos team and bringing
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them up to gold one Rarity after that
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you're focusing more on collecting and
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so you're getting your first character
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from a character release event you're
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getting your first legendary event
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character and you're opening the Rogue
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Trader shop by bringing a character to
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winged Mastery and finally you focus
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around specialization here you're going
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to be choosing whether you build a
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tournament Arena Team improving your
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legendary event characters building a
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good raid team building up a good
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defensive teams for Guild Wars or
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building up good attacking teams for
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Guild Wars and all of this will really
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help to put you on the path and that's
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everything for today if this helped you
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or you have any feedback then please let
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me know in the comments below and if you
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have any other questions feel free to
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ask here or on Discord in the official
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channels good luck on your tacticus
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adventure
