pad like a boss
okay you've acquired the leader of your dream team. start collecting your subs. stay focused. ignore monsters that don't help your team. seriously. this is extremely important. cause if you get too diverse, all of your monsters will starve. and that's bad. go for breadth after you've got your dream team fully collected, evolved, leveled, skill maxxed, and plussed. this means you will have to skip monsters that you kinda want. this means you will not clear every descend dungeon that comes along. got it? good. given the religiously modest size of your hoard, you can get by with a pretty small monster box. which will save you some stones. i have 100 boxes. once your leader is maxxed, they'll be very popular. invest stones in raising max friends. cause free pal points. spend stones acquiring your critical subs. like getting that stupid unicorn to invade. like valkyrie. i spent 30(!) stones completing goddess descended for the 100% drop. but only once. also spend stones restoring stamina to get skill-ups. like say for yet another set of runs through poring tower. i don't recommend spending stones for stamina for xp farming. be patient. also don't spend stones on stamina for weekly dungeons. be patient. non-iap takes discipline. besides you can always blog about pad while waiting for stamina to recover.