I'd still suggest getting Instosis as soon as possible, since it can (afaik) grind Arena, FGs, and HBs as the need requires :3
Aye, but how do you get Instosis, dd? This is more a discussion of how "as soon as possible" is accomplished. Grinding arena for shards using an unupped, rareless deck is no easy task. And even when you get 4 SoRs you still need to up 30 cards. I'd argue the steps are:
- Morph Aether starter deck into Essential.
- Use it to up an Arena grinder.
- If you need more electrum to up Instosis by the time you find 4 SoRs in arena you still have Essential to fall back on.
- Instosis.
I also think that not tackling Arena until you have a fully upgraded arena deck is the way to go, but don't grind AI4 please. Even with a really bad deck FGs drop a lot more money than AI4. The one you can always fall back on is Liquid Antimatter or maybe this Limitless speed deck (don't know how good it is).
There's a couple more possibilities if you have a weapon:
- Got a Lobo? Pick a second one from 500 score quest, make RoL Hope.
- Eternity? Pick a second one and make Ghostal.
- Pulverizer? Pick a second and make that DimShield rainbow from Amilir
Hold off picking your 500 score reward until you get one of these. Hunting AI3/2/4/Oracle for one rare specifically could prove difficult, if 3 different are acceptable your chances become much better...
My roadmap for a newbie would be:
- Pick darkness
- play a few games then make a Grabbow
- play some PvPI
- when that becomes less profitable move to AI3
- when you get one of the above mentioned rares pick a second one of it and make the corresponding FG grinder / if no luck make LA or Limitless Speed
- upgrade an Arena grinder and get rares.