Top Lords Store Guide: Best Items to Buy and Skip

In the Top Lords store, spend standard gold on speedups and hero upgrade items, reserve diamonds for 50% to 70% discounts on speedups and advanced hero tokens, and use specialty currencies for shields, teleports, and legendary hero progression. Never spend diamonds on raw resources or full-price items.

Daily Merchant Gold Purchases

Because your base infrastructure generates gold passively, converting gold into progression speed and daily quest materials is always worth the cost. Check the rotating merchant after the server reset and buy these items whenever they appear for gold:

• Universal, building, or research speedups: Buy these immediately to prepare for longer construction and research timers at higher town hall tiers.
• Basic recruitment tokens: Stockpile these to complete daily quest thresholds without spending diamonds.
• Hero upgrade dust and experience tomes: Grab these whenever they cost gold to keep your roster advancing for free.

After clearing the worthwhile gold offers, wait for your periodic free manual refresh timer later in the day rather than paying diamonds to restock the merchant. Only pay diamonds to force a store refresh if you are actively pushing a time-limited spending leaderboard where the event points outweigh the refresh cost.

Diamond Discount Thresholds

Diamonds are your main bottleneck currency, so you should never spend them at base price or on minor 20% to 30% reductions. Wait for steep flash deals, and save your diamond stash for seasonal milestone events where spending also earns ranking rewards.

Alliance and Arena Shop Priorities

Alliance credits and arena tokens require active participation to earn, so treat both stores as targeted progression paths rather than convenience shops.

Alliance Shop

1. Peace shields and advanced alliance relocators: Secure an emergency stash of shields and teleports first to protect your gathered loot during server wars.
2. Research speedups and elite hero shards: Once you have enough defensive items, spend remaining alliance credits on high-value research speedups or designated elite hero shards that you cannot farm reliably on the world map.

Arena Shop

1. Designated legendary hero shards: Focus your tokens on starring up your primary squad's core legendary commander before buying shards for secondary heroes.
2. Skill enhancement codices: Pair your shard purchases with codices to upgrade your core hero's skills.

Store Traps to Avoid

• Raw resource packs: Never spend diamonds on food, wood, stone, or iron. Send gathering marches to high-level resource nodes or run targeted rallies against world map camps instead.
• Low-tier hero fragments and normal equipment enhancement stones: Skip these once your main team is established, as lower-rarity items quickly become obsolete in mid-game content.
• Low-tier experience potions in the Arena Shop: Do not dilute your arena tokens on minor potions or basic gear materials when those tokens offer a non-random way to star up legendary commanders.
• Stamina-farmable items: If you can get an item through daily stamina spending on the world map, do not pay shop currency to skip the wait.