LMAO - please still continue this series as if you're free to play however - I look forward to these as I'm very close to your progression level and it helps me a great deal
Agreed! I started the game about a week after you started this FTP account and have been following it closely. It has been so helpful in decision making regarding what to focus on next.
He could have just not said anything and pretended it never happened, and maybe no one would have noticed. But, he owned it and admitted the mistake. That's respectable and admirable. Good on you, HH.
Everyone noticed though, it was pretty obvious. Not that I care, just saying, people know what a new account looks like when it's 100% F2P even when you try to min/max everything, and some things just didn't make sense in HH account (like gems or the amount of spider gear he got). It's good that he confessed now I just hope that he keeps the spending low so it still makes sense for F2P people to watch his progression. I mean I'm sure a lot of F2P players take the good offers sometimes on anniversary day or whatnot, there are pretty good ones like the 7 void shards for 17€ (compared to the normal 5 shards for one freaking hundred €) , so it's fine.
People noticed and called him out on it in his last FTP video. He said Kael's masteries were, "one of the big grinds I've done over the last week. Spent quite a bit of my energy getting Kael's masteries up." Do I care that he spent money? No. But he told a bold-faced lie to his viewers and is only coming clean after people questioned his claim. That's not respectable at all. He actually lost some of my respect. He could've just owned up immediately but he tried to cover it up.
He still kinda tries to cover it up. That he bought the pack on accident, yah I get that, that's a genuine mistake. But that he then bought the masteries is not a mistake, that's a decision he made. And now he acts like it was a mistake :(
I couldn’t give less of a damn. Keep the account. The mistake gave us this valuable video anyways. Plus I am weirdly attached to this specific account. We’ve watched it grow, we’ve watched it fight its way to Silver 1. It’d be a waste to toss it just because you inadvertently fast-forwarded Mino farming
I said last night on twitch... I think this series is the best and it’s still basically almost free to play! I’ll keep on watching no matter what I love this series and I learn so much! Keep up the great work!!
I got the Silver Raid Card to try it out while also using bluestacks for auto clicking. What I do is I burn my 100 multi battles on champion training since it will auto-sell the junk, refill your energy if you want it to, and swap out champions when they hit max level. Then I'll use the auto-clicker on dungeon runs. I don't think I've ever had a day where I didn't use all 100 multi battles.
Personally i don't feel 1 time purchase compromising the account as a ftp. Like you said it is a boost on mastery, but otherwise notchanging the approach you play it. If you draw a new good hero still you cant push straight to 60 all masteries, all booked, so we will see the struggle prioriztizations. We see sometimes you have to stick with lesser heroes just becase it is already built. We see decisions, when a dungeon hero needs to be pushed instead of arena, as the clan boss team lacks accuracy and need to lvl up spider team etc.
if it was intentional then it would be... since he thought it was on another acc than its not :D there are reasons why there are f2p low spenders dolphins and whales :D every category is different :D but 100% this wasnt anything serious to stop series or smth :D this acc helps a lot of people
@@ferdychuck7134 still has the same issues as any ftp, so its content still very relevant. 1 time purchase wont change that. The approach, decision makings all stays as it is ftp.
@@oleggontar2942 thats not right. He used gems to upgrade masteries, making himself jump few weeks later than he should. Yes, its making difference. Its making him reach things faster than other ftps. I thing this series goal was to show than even ftp CAN reach high levels. We were watching him, as he progresses his account in ftp pace. But now hes not progressing, but jumping. Hellhades wanted to make ftp series yet failed at it. He is nowhere as someone like BGE, who is 100% ftp. If this series is about using medicore champs with medicore gear, he should be able to do it on his main account. Not on fake "ftp" one.
@@ferdychuck7134 Technically of course you are right. Though I think You are wrong about the purpose. The purpose is to show how to do f2p, what decisions you need to make, priorities, when and where to focusing efforts. That won't change because of 1 time purchase. Because of that i feel this series are holding value and still fulfilling its role.
the offers in the store are intentionally bad so that when you see a "deal" that is less bad you grab a bunch of them because who knows when it will be on "sale" again especially things like blue shards and gems
Love the fact that you made this video. I felt really bad when I spent my first dime on the game when I wasn't even a month in. However, as long as I'm making use of the investment by enjoying the game I think the spending is justified. Please keep continuing the series irrespective of the "compromise". I think there is a large enough, nay, huge fanbase who are low-spenders (or pseudo FTP if that's a valid term) like me for whom this series and perspective means a lot. Thanks for the excellent content, and cheers!
Hades owning up to the title is very impressive, he came clean and explained the situation. Easily my favorite content creator for Raid. Keep up the good work man
From my pov, please continue. The issues i had were more about "what should i do now", because i felt i was being pulled in 10 different directions. I did a little bit of everything without focusing on the more important stuff for my level of progression. And following this series already helped me a lot.
Credit to you that you came clean,even though your in a ftp account youve just saved abit of time on masterys,keep going i like watching your different series and being ftp myself it helps watching your videos as i try and progress
Champ for coming clean HH. It’s not a biggie and you have certainly redeemed anything outward by covering the shop in general, especially those awful artifact packs lol. This remains one of the top series of ftp out there and is still top quality!!
I’m a low spender account and I got my Arbiter a few week ms ago! Don’t stop playing your f2p account HH! I love watching your videos for the many of us that can’t burn through a ton of mula.
I was grinding on my low money spent account until this weekend, when I had a few too many beers and started playing late at night. Having my card attached to my phone with facial recognition made it very easy to buy one of the massive shard/gem packs for $100. Got a couple good pulls but not enough to justify the $100. Keep up the top-tier content Hades, I get value from your videos discussing early, mid and end game strategy. Everyone smash the subscribe button. It’s the least we can do as thanks for the time these content creators invest into helping us all. Stay safe and healthy everyone.
Keep on with the FTP account. Everyone slips up and spends a bit sooner or later. The one of the best things about this series is that there is a realistic rate of progress, which is often distorted by those who are moderate to heavy spenders. Love this series! Keep going!
So funny. I'm running a FTP account as well as my main (not FTP at all..) and I almost did this very thing on Friday. Keep up the good work. This game is totally different (and fun) as a FTP player. I like being forced to use champs and not always just pulling shards to get my way out of a bind.
Keep the series running. Still good perspective and info. As a content creator I think it is valuable for you to experience both ends of the spectrum and as someone who can't afford to be a whale it provides us with guidance from our end of the pool.
Yes please keep making these videos. My account level is much higher than where my account is cos I was just logging for login rewards and I didn't know what I was doing to begin with. I was just levelling rares up... Thanks for the spend guide in this video. I been tempted to get those 5 rare books to for my Coldheart & Reliquary Tender.
Totally understandable. As for the shop, Thank you for the rundown. You always go over things that I am wondering about. Great info. I am glad to know I haven't been stupid enough to buy most of the stuff you said were bad value. I always look at the limited special offers. They seem to be the best deals. Also, I personally think spending gems on energy is bad value. That is a lot of gems for very little energy. But oh well.
Since mobile games turned into money grabbing sleaze i always said anyone who spends money on these kinds of games is stupid. I tried raid and on day 2 I spent 30 dollars
Please keep the F2P series going!!! I'm 30 days in (F2P) and this has been a huge help to me. I'd love more of this series and honestly all of your raid content is fantastic!! Keep em coming and all the haters can go straight to the bin!!!!
Please continue this series. Mistakes happen and keeping multiple accounts straight isn't easy. One small purchase does not take away from the premise of the series. :)
I’ll go ahead and speak for the group.. Each one of us who watch your videos everyday don’t want you to stop playing this account and scrap the series. So, please continue your great here work and ignore any haters. Ty, sir
Do not even think about quitting the account, it has been fun to watch you go through the early game and it's def instructive. For anyone in the game. At any stage, keep it up! There is one thing though that i can't wrap my mind around: how the heck did you manage to reach silver1? I am 32 days in my FTP secondary account and I have Elhain60, warmaiden, HK and sinesha50 (working on getting her to 60) but it's impossible. Getting to Bronze4 is already a struggle and average there is people with at least 3 60s and much much stronger teams. Absolutely crazy. They need to sort out these Arena missions or the Arena itself.
Thank you for your honesty , sometimes F2P spent little amounts, rare but it happens. We all been there. Thanks for the suggestions about how to spend and how to recognize the value from the packs
Keep the account as others have said - this is not the end of the world. I still see that account as free 2 play. Also -- your honesty speaks volumes! Love your content, have a good one!
I'm typically a very low spender. I did buy a couple of energy bundles while I was grinding to get Kantra fusion but thats it! I really like this series so PLEASE continue it!
The multi battle attempts are essential if you are not playing on PC. Saves you a ton of time, you can spend your energy at work on grinding, this way you never loose energy, because you are always spending it. A must have for phones. Even if you dont have acces to your phone all the time at work, just press it in your lunch time and there you go, you used your energy, gain some stuff and when you leave work you have another batch of energy ready to blow. The added +20% xp and silver is great, with the battle pass and double xp combo you can level a 1star to 10 in 2 battles on 7-3 brutal. That is huge. The daily gem pack makes the minotaur dungeon completely skippable, because without spening more money you can not get more then 3 champs to 60 in a month anyway and you can buy 3 max masteries with the gem pack.
No worries man. Keep up the good work. Almost no one has done a review of Suzerain Katonn. He is a weaken and decrease defense champ who can remove shield, block damage and unkillable. I’m wondering if he could be good to use in the arena. Thanks!
Genuine mistake and could happen to anyone 👍😆. Fantastic series and looking forward to future content. As a relatively new player I've indulged on a couple of monthly packs and the occasional chicken pack. Lucked out pulling Skullcrown, Trunda, Zargala, RG, MM and Draco so helped to rank them up and get me through sticking points in Arena and Dungeon content.
See man best content creator out there Hades. I appreciate your honesty. Im not a whale or free to play either. I learn from all your content. Keep up the good work my friend.
Thanks for the honesty brother. I don't think it's a big deal. Not like you purchased a legendary. So, you are a few weeks ahead of schedule. This is viable content for F2P, beginner and very soon mid game. Keep the account and keep up the good work.
Hey HH, it's Beege from Discord. Can tell you regret buying the pack but tbh most "free to play" accounts would pick up one or two packs anyways. This series helps is mere tadpoles to keep our heads afloat.
this was very informative, thanks for talking through your thinking on purchases. Do you have any suggestions on how to get void shards if you aren't going to buy them? Being free to play, I have only been able to get them from the mission/campaign milestones.
Quick question - when you are changing gear around to do different areas of the game like arena/factions/campign - aren't you burning through a ton of silver? Or is there something I am missing? Really educational set here for F2P players, great stuff man.
Love this series so keep going Mr H. Anyone can make a mistake and you have shown your honesty and integrity throughout. If anyone is negative about it then that’s their problem. Sorted! Now get Siphie to make a cuppa tea 🍵
Thank god! I AM F2P and have been since the start, I don't watch your youtubes to watch paint dry! I have already done that on my own account as will all f2ps as they slowly progress. Use whatever means of expenditure feels right to speed up the grindy bits and make it enjoyable for you as you show how to develop this account. Use it as a fast track new account to show sensible focus and game progression for newer players. Consider concentrating on mainly level 50 champs and avoid 100 shard pull videos on this account at all costs, it will completely destroy it. Keep using your extensive game knowledge to show in detail "how to use what you have" to beat all aspects of the game, it clearly helps a lot of people.
Easy to do as you have so many accounts that you show us, I'm really liking the progress so far, has taught me how to re-work my early game clan boss champs, AND to do it on normal, not Auto, hoping to see some early game Fire Knight runs against the Force Infinity you were just about to do as I'm too at that roadblock.
I agree that there's still a lot to be gained from continuing the account, and that's not invalidated by the 10 pound purchase. One thing you can do is reset Kael's masteries and keep them at a similar level to your other heroes until they reach that point. (In case anyone chooses to raise a stink about it.) In any case, thanks for the series and thanks for turning an honest mistake into a teaching moment for all, both in terms of which things in the shop are worthwhile and that we should check which account we're on before buying things! =p
Definately don't stop with this account! As a low spender / f2p it's very reflective of how I play this game. Some of the "whale" spender vids are hard to grasp sometimes in terms of progression they have and where I'm at.
I think this is actually very valuable to FTP players deciding how/if they want to spend a wee bit. And yeah the gems for masteries is easily the best value. Mino is a huge grind.
I think that's why so many people pointed out in the last video there was no way he got Kael and Banshee to full masteries grinding mino as f2p, it was literally impossible for him to do so in that time frame and with his current champs. Even grinding the final level (which he probably can't do currently) he's looking at weeks of grinding the 950 scrolls for the final 2 tiers.
with regards to the raid card, it is pretty much a must if you are playing on any mobile platform as it saves you so many hours manually clicking the battles. Easily worth it.
C'omon HellHades this is not a big deal, its 10 quid and mysteries on a Champ which will enable you to show more and continue to help the beginners, I am 60 days in and sitting in silver 1... Please continue this series it helped a ton with my understanding of the game... Continue to progress this account and find a use for Missionary :P
I have accidentally made a purchase on my ftp account. I feel your mistake lol I honestly think that the fact that you did that makes it a real honest ftp account because I'm sure anyone has done it! don't stop this series! Thanks for your content!
I honestly love the more multi battle attempts. It’s great for setting it up and having it cycle through all your 2 or 3 star fodder and then letting that sucker run. The auto clicker method is good and I’ll use it instead for farming areas I don’t have to switch out champs in but the multi battle automatic champ cycling feature is great and I really do appreciate that.
No worries mate.... I really like the FTP series! I honestly wish Plarium would open separate FTP servers to even the playing field. Or automatically move accounts to servers based on their total spent to keep it more competitive. Don't you feel like that would make this game far more interesting?
We were trying to figure out how you got all your masteries and work out your speed farming method. Now we know, thanks for coming clean, we feel less crazy now.
Definitely agree with the general sentiment that this accident shouldn't affect how you procede with this account or stop you releasing these videos which are really useful for new f2p or low spend players such as myself (as well as entertaining to watch, as all your vids are)
I've been playing Raid as free to play for about a year. :) There were so many times I've been tempted to buy those packs though, but I also knew I would regret it if I did.
I was completely free to play until the last week or so of the battle pass when I finally broke and got the pass. It was not a mistake for me, it gave me a lot to progress and help my account out. Originally I intended to stay completely free to play, but have become a low spender, maybe $10-$20 USD a week or so, if that. You made a mistake, one anyone could have made. You have 2 accounts, and I can easily understand the mix up. You owned up to it, you admitted to everyone what you did, and did what you thought was best to rectify the error you made. Using the gems for masteries might not have been the way I would have spent the gems, I may have got energy instead, that way you wouldn't have had the large boost and would have still had to use time to get the masteries, and it may not have progressed your account as much, maybe only a week instead of 3 or so. I admire your honesty and wish you to keep the account, it's an inspiration to players like myself who cant afford the whaling.
I believe a lot of us in a similar situation come to see what our next step should be for our accounts. Probably mention at some point "... and here I'd be doing my Minotaur runs if I hadn't bought some gems" and that would cover it
HH I think it's probably worth mentioning a bit more regarding spending them on the masteries. You've mentioned in vids prior to your FTP series that spending gems on masteries is a waste of time. (which to an extent I agree) - however, the acceleration it provides to an early account to have max masteries on your Arena and CB teams pays back at a better rate than the gem mine if you can suddenly get free books out of CB or boost your arena rank.
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Kind fo tempted to spend a bit on stuff, specially since my Ding-Day [Level-Up Day?] is coming Dec 20, and I usually buy myself a bit of something in my favorite games. Regards from Tabasco, México [Land of The Olmecs] !
Being a free to play player myself, these are the videos you produce that help me the most. Please keep them going. We know masteries are difficult to come by, and some people might get an extra $10 and decide what the hell. Letting people know that $10 is good for gems to max masteries out on champs also helps free to play players. I personally am trying to do it sans spending anything on principal myself, but having a few champs with masteries wouldn't really change much except the ability to do arena easier. That's really the big deal, is F2P doesn't have much of a chance in arena like P2W does, because of masteries. Then again, if you do the math, you will have that many gems in three months saved up anyway, so you can just not spend them if you feel like compensating. I don't think anyone here would want you to STOP doing a free to play focused video series because honestly it's hard to find free to play information with a focus on actually winning at the game and not just messing around.
Sorry to see some of the negativity in the comments... that is disappointing.. In the long run those of us that have played for a while know that a handful of crystals and 2 Leg Books is LITERALLY A DROP IN THE OCEAN of this damn game.. To be honest I'm glad you came clean, but nobody would have ever known if you hadn't of said anything. I for one hope that you continue this series, but if people give you too much crap over it then you can call it base on AyumiLove's criteria, and call it the Minow account LOL
Yah man it's eye opening -- the offers on my free to play account are for such small amounts of money compared to my pay to play. I'm thinking the algorithms are set based on what amounts you have spent in the past, or what dollar value you spend per month. So moral of the story I"m going to try to consciously slow down my spending on my main account in the theory of seeing if the offers I get are more reasonable.
you said you crunched the gems, but did you also crunch the books that came with the pack? as a f2p legendary books are very.. very hard to get so just having 2 extra for your first legend that you'll book is a huge advantage
What's done is done! The only thing I would have done differently is not buy all the masteries for those 2 heroes. As you stated, it's of of the longer and grueling things for a FTP player to accomplish and also one of the quickest ways to make your team stronger. If you really wanted to undo then you would just need to remove the masteries but keep the scrolls. That way you are basically right back where you were. Either way don't stop. I'm enjoying the FTP series. I'm a little over 200 days and still can't get into Silver Arena!!!
LMAO - please still continue this series as if you're free to play however - I look forward to these as I'm very close to your progression level and it helps me a great deal
Thanks, I do not intend to spend again and didnt intend to spend that time
@@HellHades It definitely does compromise the integrity, but coming clean and making an instructional is the best you could do here.
Agreed! I started the game about a week after you started this FTP account and have been following it closely. It has been so helpful in decision making regarding what to focus on next.
Dude i dont believe this u know what u did...... U took a shortcut......
It happens and frankly a Tenner is NOT the end of the world!!!
I can only wish I saw your channel a few weeks earlier - before I fed my "Banshee" etc
He could have just not said anything and pretended it never happened, and maybe no one would have noticed. But, he owned it and admitted the mistake. That's respectable and admirable. Good on you, HH.
Everyone noticed though, it was pretty obvious. Not that I care, just saying, people know what a new account looks like when it's 100% F2P even when you try to min/max everything, and some things just didn't make sense in HH account (like gems or the amount of spider gear he got). It's good that he confessed now I just hope that he keeps the spending low so it still makes sense for F2P people to watch his progression. I mean I'm sure a lot of F2P players take the good offers sometimes on anniversary day or whatnot, there are pretty good ones like the 7 void shards for 17€ (compared to the normal 5 shards for one freaking hundred €) , so it's fine.
It is not supposed to be special. Doing that is supposed to be standard. Raise your standards.
People noticed and called him out on it in his last FTP video. He said Kael's masteries were, "one of the big grinds I've done over the last week. Spent quite a bit of my energy getting Kael's masteries up." Do I care that he spent money? No. But he told a bold-faced lie to his viewers and is only coming clean after people questioned his claim. That's not respectable at all. He actually lost some of my respect. He could've just owned up immediately but he tried to cover it up.
He still kinda tries to cover it up. That he bought the pack on accident, yah I get that, that's a genuine mistake. But that he then bought the masteries is not a mistake, that's a decision he made. And now he acts like it was a mistake :(
Dude's buying shards on ftp series. Thats really dissapointing, and hell really lost it for me.
The marketing department is doing a good job when even a free to play account buys a pack.
I couldn’t give less of a damn. Keep the account. The mistake gave us this valuable video anyways. Plus I am weirdly attached to this specific account. We’ve watched it grow, we’ve watched it fight its way to Silver 1. It’d be a waste to toss it just because you inadvertently fast-forwarded Mino farming
well he didnt inadvertently fast forward the mino grind... he chose that because it was the best value.
And lets be honest who wants to see Mino grind anyway? XD
I said last night on twitch... I think this series is the best and it’s still basically almost free to play! I’ll keep on watching no matter what I love this series and I learn so much! Keep up the great work!!
I got the Silver Raid Card to try it out while also using bluestacks for auto clicking.
What I do is I burn my 100 multi battles on champion training since it will auto-sell the junk, refill your energy if you want it to, and swap out champions when they hit max level. Then I'll use the auto-clicker on dungeon runs. I don't think I've ever had a day where I didn't use all 100 multi battles.
yeah the auto swap out champs is great, i don't know if bluestacks/nox can do that
Personally i don't feel 1 time purchase compromising the account as a ftp. Like you said it is a boost on mastery, but otherwise notchanging the approach you play it. If you draw a new good hero still you cant push straight to 60 all masteries, all booked, so we will see the struggle prioriztizations. We see sometimes you have to stick with lesser heroes just becase it is already built. We see decisions, when a dungeon hero needs to be pushed instead of arena, as the clan boss team lacks accuracy and need to lvl up spider team etc.
if it was intentional then it would be... since he thought it was on another acc than its not :D there are reasons why there are f2p low spenders dolphins and whales :D every category is different :D but 100% this wasnt anything serious to stop series or smth :D this acc helps a lot of people
Wut. Buying something makes you stop being ftp. Quit bs, please
@@ferdychuck7134 still has the same issues as any ftp, so its content still very relevant. 1 time purchase wont change that. The approach, decision makings all stays as it is ftp.
@@oleggontar2942 thats not right. He used gems to upgrade masteries, making himself jump few weeks later than he should. Yes, its making difference. Its making him reach things faster than other ftps. I thing this series goal was to show than even ftp CAN reach high levels. We were watching him, as he progresses his account in ftp pace. But now hes not progressing, but jumping.
Hellhades wanted to make ftp series yet failed at it. He is nowhere as someone like BGE, who is 100% ftp.
If this series is about using medicore champs with medicore gear, he should be able to do it on his main account. Not on fake "ftp" one.
@@ferdychuck7134 Technically of course you are right. Though I think You are wrong about the purpose. The purpose is to show how to do f2p, what decisions you need to make, priorities, when and where to focusing efforts. That won't change because of 1 time purchase. Because of that i feel this series are holding value and still fulfilling its role.
the offers in the store are intentionally bad so that when you see a "deal" that is less bad you grab a bunch of them because who knows when it will be on "sale" again especially things like blue shards and gems
Love the fact that you made this video. I felt really bad when I spent my first dime on the game when I wasn't even a month in. However, as long as I'm making use of the investment by enjoying the game I think the spending is justified. Please keep continuing the series irrespective of the "compromise". I think there is a large enough, nay, huge fanbase who are low-spenders (or pseudo FTP if that's a valid term) like me for whom this series and perspective means a lot. Thanks for the excellent content, and cheers!
Hades owning up to the title is very impressive, he came clean and explained the situation. Easily my favorite content creator for Raid. Keep up the good work man
Low spend is still tough to do so it works. I did the same on my ftp for a crazy void pack for dirt cheap.
From my pov, please continue. The issues i had were more about "what should i do now", because i felt i was being pulled in 10 different directions. I did a little bit of everything without focusing on the more important stuff for my level of progression. And following this series already helped me a lot.
HH I really appreciate that you gave props to Chosen for his remarkable Offer calculator. You are a class act all the way!
I just buy Daily Gem pack, and it's more then enough for me , and BP if it will be ever again.
That's still giving these charlitans too much. You give to them and they give you nothing but a gambling addiction in return
Credit to you that you came clean,even though your in a ftp account youve just saved abit of time on masterys,keep going i like watching your different series and being ftp myself it helps watching your videos as i try and progress
Champ for coming clean HH. It’s not a biggie and you have certainly redeemed anything outward by covering the shop in general, especially those awful artifact packs lol. This remains one of the top series of ftp out there and is still top quality!!
Please keep going with this series. The advice players get is valuable and you shouldn’t stop just because it’s not a “pure” FTP account anymore
You came clean HH, and I respect that
I’m a low spender account and I got my Arbiter a few week ms ago! Don’t stop playing your f2p account HH! I love watching your videos for the many of us that can’t burn through a ton of mula.
This helps you make content for the majority of us...we appreciate all the struggles (and insights)
I allways enjoyed your videos...keeps me alive and helps me along...u do a great job, mate...looking forward to your next video
I was grinding on my low money spent account until this weekend, when I had a few too many beers and started playing late at night. Having my card attached to my phone with facial recognition made it very easy to buy one of the massive shard/gem packs for $100. Got a couple good pulls but not enough to justify the $100. Keep up the top-tier content Hades, I get value from your videos discussing early, mid and end game strategy. Everyone smash the subscribe button. It’s the least we can do as thanks for the time these content creators invest into helping us all. Stay safe and healthy everyone.
Going to agree with a lot of the rest, keep going with this content, helps a lot of us out that don' t have massive resources. Thanks.
Keep on with the FTP account. Everyone slips up and spends a bit sooner or later. The one of the best things about this series is that there is a realistic rate of progress, which is often distorted by those who are moderate to heavy spenders. Love this series! Keep going!
Thanks for going over the value for money part. No worries on the mishap. Still super useful and helpful.
So funny. I'm running a FTP account as well as my main (not FTP at all..) and I almost did this very thing on Friday. Keep up the good work. This game is totally different (and fun) as a FTP player. I like being forced to use champs and not always just pulling shards to get my way out of a bind.
Keep the series running. Still good perspective and info. As a content creator I think it is valuable for you to experience both ends of the spectrum and as someone who can't afford to be a whale it provides us with guidance from our end of the pool.
Yes please keep making these videos. My account level is much higher than where my account is cos I was just logging for login rewards and I didn't know what I was doing to begin with. I was just levelling rares up... Thanks for the spend guide in this video. I been tempted to get those 5 rare books to for my Coldheart & Reliquary Tender.
Man... I did this on my FTP account too. It's no big deal... keep the series going!
Totally understandable. As for the shop, Thank you for the rundown. You always go over things that I am wondering about. Great info. I am glad to know I haven't been stupid enough to buy most of the stuff you said were bad value. I always look at the limited special offers. They seem to be the best deals. Also, I personally think spending gems on energy is bad value. That is a lot of gems for very little energy. But oh well.
I would be willing to bet that out of everyone who has played this game, at least 90% of them have spent up to $10 at one point or another.
Since mobile games turned into money grabbing sleaze i always said anyone who spends money on these kinds of games is stupid. I tried raid and on day 2 I spent 30 dollars
Please keep the F2P series going!!! I'm 30 days in (F2P) and this has been a huge help to me. I'd love more of this series and honestly all of your raid content is fantastic!! Keep em coming and all the haters can go straight to the bin!!!!
Please continue this series. A small gem purchase won't break anything.
Good on you for admitting it! Please carry on with it. I WISH there was a guide like yours when I started out.
Please continue this series. Mistakes happen and keeping multiple accounts straight isn't easy. One small purchase does not take away from the premise of the series. :)
Please keep going. Excellent series. Very useful.
I’ll go ahead and speak for the group.. Each one of us who watch your videos everyday don’t want you to stop playing this account and scrap the series. So, please continue your great here work and ignore any haters. Ty, sir
Do not even think about quitting the account, it has been fun to watch you go through the early game and it's def instructive. For anyone in the game. At any stage, keep it up!
There is one thing though that i can't wrap my mind around: how the heck did you manage to reach silver1? I am 32 days in my FTP secondary account and I have Elhain60, warmaiden, HK and sinesha50 (working on getting her to 60) but it's impossible. Getting to Bronze4 is already a struggle and average there is people with at least 3 60s and much much stronger teams. Absolutely crazy.
They need to sort out these Arena missions or the Arena itself.
Thank you for your honesty
, sometimes F2P spent little amounts, rare but it happens. We all been there. Thanks for the suggestions about how to spend and how to recognize the value from the packs
best series online for FTP. keep up the great job.
Your thumbnails are getting better and better!!
Keep the account as others have said - this is not the end of the world. I still see that account as free 2 play. Also -- your honesty speaks volumes! Love your content, have a good one!
I'm typically a very low spender. I did buy a couple of energy bundles while I was grinding to get Kantra fusion but thats it! I really like this series so PLEASE continue it!
good job dude i love your honesty keep up the good work
The multi battle attempts are essential if you are not playing on PC. Saves you a ton of time, you can spend your energy at work on grinding, this way you never loose energy, because you are always spending it. A must have for phones. Even if you dont have acces to your phone all the time at work, just press it in your lunch time and there you go, you used your energy, gain some stuff and when you leave work you have another batch of energy ready to blow. The added +20% xp and silver is great, with the battle pass and double xp combo you can level a 1star to 10 in 2 battles on 7-3 brutal. That is huge. The daily gem pack makes the minotaur dungeon completely skippable, because without spening more money you can not get more then 3 champs to 60 in a month anyway and you can buy 3 max masteries with the gem pack.
No worries man. Keep up the good work. Almost no one has done a review of Suzerain Katonn. He is a weaken and decrease defense champ who can remove shield, block damage and unkillable. I’m wondering if he could be good to use in the arena. Thanks!
Genuine mistake and could happen to anyone 👍😆. Fantastic series and looking forward to future content.
As a relatively new player I've indulged on a couple of monthly packs and the occasional chicken pack. Lucked out pulling Skullcrown, Trunda, Zargala, RG, MM and Draco so helped to rank them up and get me through sticking points in Arena and Dungeon content.
See man best content creator out there Hades. I appreciate your honesty. Im not a whale or free to play either. I learn from all your content. Keep up the good work my friend.
Thanks for the honesty brother. I don't think it's a big deal. Not like you purchased a legendary. So, you are a few weeks ahead of schedule. This is viable content for F2P, beginner and very soon mid game. Keep the account and keep up the good work.
Drop in the bucket in grand scheme of things. Totally fine. Appreciate your honesty and being open. No concerns to continue and as "FTP".
Hey HH, it's Beege from Discord. Can tell you regret buying the pack but tbh most "free to play" accounts would pick up one or two packs anyways. This series helps is mere tadpoles to keep our heads afloat.
this was very informative, thanks for talking through your thinking on purchases. Do you have any suggestions on how to get void shards if you aren't going to buy them? Being free to play, I have only been able to get them from the mission/campaign milestones.
Quick question - when you are changing gear around to do different areas of the game like arena/factions/campign - aren't you burning through a ton of silver? Or is there something I am missing? Really educational set here for F2P players, great stuff man.
Hades makes the best raid video's for everyone paid or not! Keep up the video's Hades thanx for al you're knowledge!
Love this series so keep going Mr H. Anyone can make a mistake and you have shown your honesty and integrity throughout. If anyone is negative about it then that’s their problem. Sorted! Now get Siphie to make a cuppa tea 🍵
Cheers, mate. Great content, good advice.
Thank god! I AM F2P and have been since the start, I don't watch your youtubes to watch paint dry! I have already done that on my own account as will all f2ps as they slowly progress. Use whatever means of expenditure feels right to speed up the grindy bits and make it enjoyable for you as you show how to develop this account. Use it as a fast track new account to show sensible focus and game progression for newer players. Consider concentrating on mainly level 50 champs and avoid 100 shard pull videos on this account at all costs, it will completely destroy it. Keep using your extensive game knowledge to show in detail "how to use what you have" to beat all aspects of the game, it clearly helps a lot of people.
Easy to do as you have so many accounts that you show us, I'm really liking the progress so far, has taught me how to re-work my early game clan boss champs, AND to do it on normal, not Auto, hoping to see some early game Fire Knight runs against the Force Infinity you were just about to do as I'm too at that roadblock.
Donot worry my friend we all make mistakes from time to time. Keep then ftp account and continue with it
Ty hells
Everyone falls off the wagon from time to time. 😂Keep it up, I learn a lot from watching this series.
Please continue the series, being a few weeks ahead is good since I'm a little while ahead too :)
I agree that there's still a lot to be gained from continuing the account, and that's not invalidated by the 10 pound purchase. One thing you can do is reset Kael's masteries and keep them at a similar level to your other heroes until they reach that point. (In case anyone chooses to raise a stink about it.)
In any case, thanks for the series and thanks for turning an honest mistake into a teaching moment for all, both in terms of which things in the shop are worthwhile and that we should check which account we're on before buying things! =p
Keep it for sure, as you said, you basically just advanced it 2 weeks, still a lot to be gained from this series. Looking forward to dungeon play!
Definately don't stop with this account! As a low spender / f2p it's very reflective of how I play this game. Some of the "whale" spender vids are hard to grasp sometimes in terms of progression they have and where I'm at.
I think this is actually very valuable to FTP players deciding how/if they want to spend a wee bit. And yeah the gems for masteries is easily the best value. Mino is a huge grind.
I think that's why so many people pointed out in the last video there was no way he got Kael and Banshee to full masteries grinding mino as f2p, it was literally impossible for him to do so in that time frame and with his current champs. Even grinding the final level (which he probably can't do currently) he's looking at weeks of grinding the 950 scrolls for the final 2 tiers.
@@Lones555 It's pretty dumb imo. The mino grind only serves to drastically separate FTP from PTW when $10 boosts two champions to full.
with regards to the raid card, it is pretty much a must if you are playing on any mobile platform as it saves you so many hours manually clicking the battles. Easily worth it.
great series!pls continue,im 2 weeks behind,it helps me alot :)
C'omon HellHades this is not a big deal, its 10 quid and mysteries on a Champ which will enable you to show more and continue to help the beginners, I am 60 days in and sitting in silver 1... Please continue this series it helped a ton with my understanding of the game... Continue to progress this account and find a use for Missionary :P
I have accidentally made a purchase on my ftp account. I feel your mistake lol I honestly think that the fact that you did that makes it a real honest ftp account because I'm sure anyone has done it! don't stop this series! Thanks for your content!
I honestly love the more multi battle attempts. It’s great for setting it up and having it cycle through all your 2 or 3 star fodder and then letting that sucker run. The auto clicker method is good and I’ll use it instead for farming areas I don’t have to switch out champs in but the multi battle automatic champ cycling feature is great and I really do appreciate that.
No worries mate.... I really like the FTP series! I honestly wish Plarium would open separate FTP servers to even the playing field. Or automatically move accounts to servers based on their total spent to keep it more competitive. Don't you feel like that would make this game far more interesting?
This is what made me switch main accounts early on. Random pop up with a deal I couldn't miss out on lol wrong account.
Looks like you will have to start over if you want to catch up on the FTP game 😝... perhaps when the Arena is fixed we could get a new account going!
We were trying to figure out how you got all your masteries and work out your speed farming method. Now we know, thanks for coming clean, we feel less crazy now.
I like how it took us pointing it out last for him to come clean about it
It's all good still loving this series. Keep up the great work.. ;-)
Definitely agree with the general sentiment that this accident shouldn't affect how you procede with this account or stop you releasing these videos which are really useful for new f2p or low spend players such as myself (as well as entertaining to watch, as all your vids are)
Nice guide, I buy the daily gem pack, it is worth it!
No worries lol, keep this series going please!
If I had to crucify anyone for making mistakes in this game, I would have to do me first. We love your content. We love you. Keep showing us the way.
Keep this account and this series rolling on. A few materies and 2 books is still cheap-to-play at least....still FTP in spirit, so roll on buddy.
I've been playing Raid as free to play for about a year. :)
There were so many times I've been tempted to buy those packs though, but I also knew I would regret it if I did.
I was completely free to play until the last week or so of the battle pass when I finally broke and got the pass. It was not a mistake for me, it gave me a lot to progress and help my account out. Originally I intended to stay completely free to play, but have become a low spender, maybe $10-$20 USD a week or so, if that. You made a mistake, one anyone could have made. You have 2 accounts, and I can easily understand the mix up. You owned up to it, you admitted to everyone what you did, and did what you thought was best to rectify the error you made. Using the gems for masteries might not have been the way I would have spent the gems, I may have got energy instead, that way you wouldn't have had the large boost and would have still had to use time to get the masteries, and it may not have progressed your account as much, maybe only a week instead of 3 or so. I admire your honesty and wish you to keep the account, it's an inspiration to players like myself who cant afford the whaling.
Whata mistaka to maka!! Respect for owning up it would have been easy to cover it up. Keep doing these buddy, I am learning every day.
I believe a lot of us in a similar situation come to see what our next step should be for our accounts. Probably mention at some point "... and here I'd be doing my Minotaur runs if I hadn't bought some gems" and that would cover it
LMAO - This is exactly what i did as well on my FTP account. Love the content!
If you really wanted to 'undo' the advantage, you should have just maxed out a bully mastery 😁
And use the legendary books in an uncommon champion
Please continue this series. BTW, I made the same mistake on my "ftp" alt account. The raid marketing team is just doing a fantastic job, lol.
Don't worry like that! It's OK, happens. I really like this FTP series cause I'm play as FTP player, so please, don't leave it...
HH I think it's probably worth mentioning a bit more regarding spending them on the masteries. You've mentioned in vids prior to your FTP series that spending gems on masteries is a waste of time. (which to an extent I agree) - however, the acceleration it provides to an early account to have max masteries on your Arena and CB teams pays back at a better rate than the gem mine if you can suddenly get free books out of CB or boost your arena rank.
Kind fo tempted to spend a bit on stuff, specially since my Ding-Day [Level-Up Day?] is coming Dec 20, and I usually buy myself a bit of something in my favorite games.
Regards from Tabasco, México [Land of The Olmecs] !
Being a free to play player myself, these are the videos you produce that help me the most. Please keep them going. We know masteries are difficult to come by, and some people might get an extra $10 and decide what the hell. Letting people know that $10 is good for gems to max masteries out on champs also helps free to play players. I personally am trying to do it sans spending anything on principal myself, but having a few champs with masteries wouldn't really change much except the ability to do arena easier.
That's really the big deal, is F2P doesn't have much of a chance in arena like P2W does, because of masteries. Then again, if you do the math, you will have that many gems in three months saved up anyway, so you can just not spend them if you feel like compensating. I don't think anyone here would want you to STOP doing a free to play focused video series because honestly it's hard to find free to play information with a focus on actually winning at the game and not just messing around.
I agree, the gem daily pack and the mini-mix are the best.
Sorry to see some of the negativity in the comments... that is disappointing.. In the long run those of us that have played for a while know that a handful of crystals and 2 Leg Books is LITERALLY A DROP IN THE OCEAN of this damn game.. To be honest I'm glad you came clean, but nobody would have ever known if you hadn't of said anything. I for one hope that you continue this series, but if people give you too much crap over it then you can call it base on AyumiLove's criteria, and call it the Minow account LOL
PLEASE don't toss this account. By far your best content HH! So you bought a few gems by accident, no worries mate. Keep going :)
I'll still enjoy these videos, they've been great!
We are only human and the best human are the honest ones! Keep up the good work!
Yah man it's eye opening -- the offers on my free to play account are for such small amounts of money compared to my pay to play. I'm thinking the algorithms are set based on what amounts you have spent in the past, or what dollar value you spend per month. So moral of the story I"m going to try to consciously slow down my spending on my main account in the theory of seeing if the offers I get are more reasonable.
you said you crunched the gems, but did you also crunch the books that came with the pack?
as a f2p legendary books are very.. very hard to get so just having 2 extra for your first legend that you'll book is a huge advantage
I haven't but I can
What's done is done! The only thing I would have done differently is not buy all the masteries for those 2 heroes. As you stated, it's of of the longer and grueling things for a FTP player to accomplish and also one of the quickest ways to make your team stronger. If you really wanted to undo then you would just need to remove the masteries but keep the scrolls. That way you are basically right back where you were. Either way don't stop. I'm enjoying the FTP series. I'm a little over 200 days and still can't get into Silver Arena!!!