One common suggestion is to join a consortium that coordinates its raids to maximize drops for all members, as when everyone attacks the same raid boss at the same time, everyone gets the rewards and the boss isn't slain prematurely. If you don't want to become a spender then you might want to look into the ways of doing things extremely efficiently to minimize the resources you spend as any awakened units you get now get invalidated later down the line and anything you farm now may become pointless to have later.

Another game that had a similar model was Star Wars Galaxy of Heroes, which is very slow for f2p players but reasonable enough for spenders refreshing daily. You can buy subscriptions for admin coins, subscription for eternium, refresh eternium daily many many times, buy weekly and monthly upgrade materials, and get regular sources of pulls for cheap. That's the drive and focus of Nexon games, steering you to be a habitual spender. Luckily, there's the cash shop (seriously). Once you blow through your early supplies you are pretty screwed when it comes to a consistent source of these things. You'll never have enough bins, quartz, eternium, contracts, or fusion cores. then head towards the kill'sorrow fortress and give it a quick runthrough.The game is designed to make you super happy early on by flooding you with free characters and resources (honeymoon phase) and then hit you with the drought later when advancement slows to a pitiful crawl, especially once you get your gear sets done.

continue south towards southwind cleft and explore the cave (2-3 nodes) then head towards the burning blade ruins and explore that general area including the cave. then head towards northwind cleft and explore that cave (2-3 nodes) continue in the halaari basin until you hit right beside halaa and head west towards sunspring lake (usually 1-3 nodes). then head west towards the laughing skull ruins and explore the 2 caves (the 1 at the top may not have any but somtimes has 1 near the entrance or inside). continue following the mountains until you hit warmaul hill explore the two caves there (in my experiance 4-5 nodes there). but be warned theres a 73 elite that wanders theres and can kill you/knock you off your flyer fast.

at telaar go southwest until you start to hit the rocky outcrop and follow the entire west edge of nagrand if you have a flyer try exploring the twilight ridge. Comment by 83875heres the most effective way i've found start.

Farming eternium ore