Etherlords: Tips, Tricks, and Strategies for Gaining the Best Team Out There

Etherlords is quite an enjoyable mixture of card collecting, battling, and world building, but it doesn’t do a great job of teaching you everything you need to know. That’s where we come into it, offering you some handy tips and tricks to ensure that you’ve got a great head start on being successful.

Fighting It Out

• Combat is reasonably straightforward, being mostly automated. You can leave the game to complete the basic moves, but it’s down to you to pick out special attacks every 10 seconds or so.
• Always pick the special move that does the most damage. Whether that happens to be to an individual or to a group.
• If you’re up against a strong threesome, use area attacks like Earthquake to weaken them all.
• When duking it out with a boss though, you might be better off using a more powerful singular attack.
• Don’t forget to heal and buff up, too. You can’t inflict more damage if you’ve already been knocked out because you forgot to heal up!
• For that reason, keep a healer in your team whenever possible.
• About half way through Chapter 3, you learn the ability to switch where fighters are during a battle. Use this to your advantage in order to target specific enemies, such as a boss. It’s a handy way to still have some control over a fairly hands-off situation.
• Glyphs will occasionally appear and you can match these to your creature’s race in order to inflict more damage. This can work the other way too, so keep an eye out for an enemy gearing up to unleash a massive amount of damage.

Training Your Team

• When you get a new creature, check its rarity level and focus on your rarest team members. It’ll pay off in the long run.
• After beating a boss, you gain a permanent boost that can be used on any of your team. As before, stick with your rarest creature. They’re the most valuable.
• Remember to use fusion often. You’ll lose out on the feeder creatures but you want a powerful team, and this is the best way to do that.
• The more rare the creature used to feed another, the more experience it gains, so sometimes it’s handy to sacrifice an uncommon or rare creature.
• Creatures of the same race give more experience when fused together. Often by quite a lot. Remember that and try to use the same race to boost your party member.
• Identical creatures always form a perfect match.

General Advice

• Ether is important. It’s used for fusion, and the higher level creatures will require more ether.
• Fortunately you can gain free ether every day you log in. They don’t even have to be consecutive days, either!
• Adding friends from Facebook also earns you more ether, as well as other bonuses.
• When completing a world fill in gold tiles first, then the blue ones. Remember you only have limited opportunities to do this before you fail the level!
• If you’re willing to pay up, booster packs are a handy choice. They can earn you rare cards reasonably quickly and, hey, you’re supporting an entertaining game while you’re at it.