Newbie Guide

Disclaimer* The following is highly open to opinion. I tried to be as neutral as possible while writing it and make it as fact-oriented as possible.

The main purpose of this guide is simply to give any newbie's a good base on which to build.

To start with "Newbie" simply implies a new member, unlike "Noob" which is intended to insult. Never be ashamed of being a newbie as everyone was one at some point. This guild will happily help you to grow in all aspects as long as you apply yourself.

The most important thing, in my eyes, is knowing where to get your resources and what to use them on once acquired.

GOLD:
Gold is the most valuable of resources as it's used in numerous places and in huge quantities. It is also gained far easier then other resources.

Where to get it:
#1 Mines in the wild. Always look for the upper tiers of the map you're on. (Such as levels 20-30, aim for at least 28-30's)
#2 Levy/Gold mine. Always level your town hall and gold mine as much as possible to give yourself a constant source of gold.
#3 Gold production tech. Your academy and guild skills both contain a gold production skill that is huge in amplifying the above two sources.
#4 World Boss. Starting out you may not do much to the WB but this will be a very good source of gold and daru (explained next) - accessed at level 20, 3 times a day.
#5 Duels. Every 3 days you are rewarded with gold/daru for your duel ranking. It is highly advantageous to climb the rankings the night before rewards for max profit.
#6 Raids. You can raid players 5 times a day and you gain 10% of that players gold on hand when you win. This is important both for and against you.
#7 Garden. You can grow gold in your garden, as it levels you can get higher leveled plants.
#8 Vip Tokens. Never use vip tokens unless you have 36. Once you do open/close the wheel until you see a 500k gold spot. Use your spins until you get this and then stop and save for the next time. This is easily the best usage of VIP tokens.
#9 Junk. Sell any items that are not magical/enchant (as in non-colored items).

Where to spend it:
#1 Enchanting your current gear set (Level 35/45/55 and 30/40/50 for rings/jewels). This is a guaranteed investment.
#2 Contribution. Done through donating to the guild this contribution can be used on guild skills that give passive stats and can also be used in the guild store and guild altar.
#3 Astrals. These are extremely useful but also very random. One can easily waste millions on these but the potential power is often worth it.
#4 Town Upgrades: In order of importance: Town hall, Gold Mine, Barracks, Academy, Cottage, and Warehouse. Barracks/Academy level as needed, cottage/warehouse are quite optional.

Daru:
Daru is the second largest in quantity but only used in one very important place.

Where to get it:
#1 World Boss. 3 Times a day, this is easily one of the largest/constant sources of Daru but it is harder to get in earlier levels.
#2 Duels. Every 3 days you are rewarded with gold/daru for your duel ranking. It is highly advantageous to climb the rankings the night before rewards for max profit.
#3 Wilds. You can farm the monsters in the "Wilds" as much as you can stand for daru drops of a couple thousand per.
#4 Garden. You can grow Daru, higher level gardens allow higher level plants.

Where to spend it:
#1 A) Barracks Troops. Daru is only used in upgrading your troops and the "enlightenment' ability of them. It is highly suggest you don't level your first tier troops over level 20, then use 2nd tier to 30, 3rd tier as high as possible.
#1 B) Barracks Enlightenment. Enlightenment is something unlocked at troop level 20 that cost 1m daru per upgrade and is highly advised against until you have last tier troops at min level 40.

Kyranite:
Kryanite is quite rare and only used in 1 place but for multiple reasons.

Where to get it:
#1 Raids. While gold is done off % of gold on hand, every successful raid gives Kryanite proportional to the targets level. The higher the better.
#2 Garden. You can grow 1 Kyranite plant at a time, higher level gardens allowing higher level plants.
#3 Garden Tree. Once a day you can acquire vouchers/Kryanite from the tree in your garden.

Where to spend it:
#1 Academy. The only place to use it is in the academy. You can passively give bonuses to a number of things like gold production, troop stats and hero stats. Primarily focusing on hero stats is suggested.

Vouchers:
Vouchers are similar to "Balen" which is used to buy particular items/upgrades, however unlike Balen which is only acquired through spending real cash on recharging vouchers are "free".

Where to get it:
#1 Daily login. You get 400 for the 17 day login and 1k from the 26 day login.
#2 Garden Tree. Acquired once a day from harvesting your tree.
#3 Luck. Also gained from locked chests (found in mp/campaigns) from the altar and similar places.

Where to spend it:
#1 Respecing. It cost roughly 900 vouchers or balens to respec your skill points after level 25. Considering the cost of balens it is highly advised to only do this with vouchers.
#2 Bag space. Primarily it should be used to give yourself sufficient bag space - use as desired.
#3 World boss. Highly suggested to use extra vouchers for the %5 stat boost against the WB. This stacks up to 50%.
#4 Garden. Once level 30 is achieved to get more spaces you nee to spend large quantities of vouchers.
#5 Mall store. For certain runes: Shield, combat, personal heal.

Balens:
This currency is only available by purchasing with real cash and survey/deals and can easily but squandered.

Where to get it:
#1 Buy it. This is the only real way to get balens, the higher the amount purchased at once yields higher bonus rewards.
#2 Survey. IT can be gained from surveys but.. well they suck.

Where to spend it:
#1 Wings. These give 2% stats to all key area's
#2 Mounts. This gives bonus stats and higher max mount level.
#3 Socketing rods. These are highly useful and hard to attain elsewhere.
#4 Crypt Keys. These are used to get double rewards from crypts and very rare to get elsewhere.
#5 Mystery store. In your town this store offers random deals on things like hp pots and very rarely high level gems for cheap.


***This guide will be under constant construction. Input highly welcomed.***