Resources

In this guide, I would like to give some insights on how to best manage the resources in this game. This is a work-in-progress and will be expanded on in the near future.This guide is based on the July 2020 update.

Resources

Coins

Coins are available through 5 different means:

• Tier 1 and 3 daily missions ( 100 coins for tier 1 +  150 coins for tier 3, where the odds of having coins as a reward are 6 to 10).
• Daily victories ( 25 coins in Heroes ,  20 coins in Diamond ,  15 coins in Platinum ,  10 coins in other leagues, doubled when watching an ad or having a Premium Pass) with a maximum of  400 coins a day* or  700 coins in case of Premium Pass).
• First daily victory bonus ( 30 coins)
• Monthly season chests ( 150 coins in Iron,  300 coins in Bronze,  500 coins in Silver,  800 coins in Gold,  1,200 coins in Platinum,  1,500 coins in Diamond,  2,000 coins in Heroes).
• Victory bonuses in the Brawl.
• Duplicate copies above level 5 ( 15 coins,  30 coins,  70 coins or  150 coins depending on the rarity of the card).
• Shop purchases as part of bundles.

Rubies

Rubies are available through 4 different means:

• Tier 2 daily missions ( 5 rubies).
• Monthly season chests ( 5 rubies in Bronze,  10 rubies in Silver,  20 rubies in Gold,  30 rubies in Platinum,  50 rubies in Diamond,  70 rubies in Heroes).
• Weekly Casual Brawl ( 5 rubies at Milestone 3,  15 rubies at Milestone 5,  60 rubies at Milestone 8 and  200 rubies at Milestone 10).
• Weekly Warrior Brawl ( 125 rubies at Milestone 8 and  500 rubies at Milestone 10).
• Weekly Ultimate Brawl ( 5 rubies at Milestone 2 and  250 rubies at Milestone 8).
• Victory bonuses in the Brawl.
• Shop purchases as part of bundles or rubies only.

Fusion Stones

Fusion Stones are available through 4 different means:

• Tier 3 daily missions ( 2 fusion stones, where the odds of having fusion stones as a reward are 4 to 10).
• Weekly Casual Brawl ( 1 fusion stone at Milestone 4,  7 fusion stones at Milestone 7).
• Weekly Warrior Brawl ( 4 fusion stones at Milestone 4,  20 fusion stones at Milestone 7).
• Weekly Ultimate Brawl ( 10 fusion stones at Milestone 4,  50 fusion stones at Milestone 7,  200 fusion stones at Milestone 10).
• Heroes Leaderboard ( 100 fusion stones for Top 1,  50 fusion stones for Top 10,  25 fusion stones for Top 100,  10 fusion stonesfor Top 500).
• Victory bonuses in the Brawl.
• Sometimes in books.
• Shop purchases as part of bundles.

Income

General

Have a look at the income calculator to know how your playstyle affects your income. The general advice here is to at least do these 2 things:

1. Open your daily free Humble book for a random card.
2. Complete your daily missions. Find some people to play with to easily complete the tougher missions.

Playing on mobile can greatly reduce the time it takes to maximise coins through wins, especially with a solid rush deck for this. Ultimate Brawl typically isn’t worth the costs beyond Milestone 5 (Mythic Tome) and even then you would want to achieve at least a win-rate of 50% (roughly  1,780 coins).

Exchanging

Exchanging resources such as rubies for coins is generally not worth it. The conversion rates are bad and you will most likely find a better use for the resource. Duplicate cards at level 5 used to be exchanged for fusion stones instead of coins. There is some indication this might change again in the future so it is recommended you hold on to your duplicates for now.

Hoarding

If you’re planning on playing Stormbound for a while it is always advisable to set aside some resources for sales, offers and certain cards or books you might want to get in the shop. It has happened in the past that books were temporarily cheaper and people who had saved a lot of rubies made good deals.

Spending

How to best spend your resources depends on how you want to play the game. Casual play or goal orientated. In terms of goals, Stormbound can be broken down into a few main ones:

• Reaching the top league (Heroes League)
• Completing one’s collection (having at least one copy of each card)
• Bringing full collection to level 5

I’ll outline the best strategy for using your resources for each goal.

Casual play

If you’re looking to just play when you can and are not hell-bend on any specific goal or grinding resources there is still some advice on how to use your time and resources efficiently.

This game is all about creating decks. For that, a bigger collection is better. The best way to grow your collection fairly evenly in the beginning is by buying Noble books, Heroic Tomes and opening your daily Humble Book.

Once you have most common and rare cards, you could consider keeping some coins and rubies aside to buy singular cards in the shop or save up rubies for a Mythic book. You’ll have a feel for the cards and maybe also have some favourite cards and/or factions to buy more specific copies from. Please refer to the section below for some recommended cards or have a look at the tier list to see which cards have high value in this game.

I advise you to hold on to your fusion stones until you have good candidate to upgrade it on. This will probably be a legendary card as you cannot ever buy those specifically in the shop. Crafting a card you haven’t gotten yet greatly diminishes the value of fusion stones, so think twice about doing that.

Upgrading cards can get costly so be mindful of what you upgrade. It is not a great idea to try and upgrade everything but rather focus on the cards you use. If you cannot play much, make sure you open your daily free card and aim to complete your daily missions, favouring the  150 coins mission over the  2 fusion stones mission (each mission can be re-rolled once a day before completing).

Reaching Heroes League

Solely reaching the top-league can be achieved within 6 months of starting the game if planned correctly. It would be best to focus on a single (cheap) deck to do so. Read Kitty’s guide on achieving it with a mostly common SF deck, or try out Reckless Rush’s deck.

The reason why a cheap deck, i.e. low rarity cards, is best is because you need higher level cards in order to be able to compete in the Diamond and Heroes leagues (and to some extent the Platinum league). It can take a long time to find the right copies of epic and legendary cards, and the latter are hard to come by, so for getting to Diamond 1 fast it is highly recommended to build a deck without.

Resource-wise it is simple: buy Noble Books until you have most cards in the deck and then focus on buying copies of those cards when they appear in the shop. Save rubies for any epic card copies you might have in your deck, and with a high surplus buy Heroic Tomes.

Leave Brawls beyond Milestone 1 aside as it is costly, the many modifiers will probably make your deck less competitive and the rewards are skewed towards higher tier cards. That being said, Reckless Rush’s deck does perform well in several current Brawl modifiers. However, even then it is probably not worth trying to go any further than the fourth milestone.

Full collection level 5

This goal is a lot harder to achieve than the other two. Consider the following. The amount of cards needed for each rarity tier is:

• Common: 3,550 copies
• Rare: 2,706 copies
• Epic: 1,320 copies
• Legendary: 483 copies

Upgrading your full collection to level 5 costs  295,800 coins, which would take you at least a year of max grind to save up, including in-game rewards and no Brawl.

Since Sheepyard has taken over development of the game, it’s very likely the game’s collection and economy will change before you get to complete your collection. I recommend not going straight for the complete level 5 collection goal because the grind will be very long and arduous (getting max coins each day will require about 2.5 hours game play on mobile, and about 4 hours on Steam).

However, there are two tools on this website that can greatly help in getting you to complete your collection should you want to shoot for it. Uploading your collection, and using theincome calculator. With those you can see how many more cards you need of each rarity and how to adjust your income to match that. You might find for instance it’s better for you to buy Heroic Tomes rather than Mythic Tomes (since the way the cards are distributed and generally rewarded makes the rare cards the hardest to complete). You might find preferring fusion stones missions better than the coins missions if you’ve saved up enough and looking for final copies.

How you’ve gone about building your collection thusfar affects what’s the best income strategy for you.