r/AFKJourney

Hey everyone,

New-ish player here and the game is terrible at explaining team building. Zero in-game indicators for synergies, no recommended comps, nothing. Just throw 5 heroes together and hope?

With hundreds of heroes and only 5 slots, how do you actually build good teams? Am I missing something?

For context:

Beyond “one tank + DPS + healer” I don’t get it

How important are faction bonuses?

Need real examples of heroes that work well together and why (CC, buffs, etc.)

Who’s worth investing in early/mid game?

Any simple explanations, must-have heroes, or actual synergy guides would help a lot.

There’s an overwhelming dislike for all these updates are they really just going to go through with this and not listen to their whole entire playerbase …. I have top guild in my alliance district and literally my whole officer core and many others are already one foot out the door or have quit already … are they trying to sell out and kill their game idk what do you guys think and do you think day one of the new seasons is gana be a shid show especially with not knowing what server we’ll be on or what guilds will be in that server no one can get prepared it’s awful

If I’m wise, this should be the last even remotely negative or worried post I make here, but I do want to counter the dark clouds this subreddit has put in my head recently with some positive perspective.

I am a veteran of MMORPGs and am used to the cycle of “this change sucks, we must give feedback, and sculpt a narrative of outrage because this game is my whole personality” that I see happening here lately. In my “home game” I’m inoculated against this because said game is broad and diverse in content enough that a very powerful axiom has carried me through the dark times:

“Good enough is good enough.”

Like my “home game,” AFKJ has a lane where this rule works, and it is in that lane that I will endeavor to find enjoyment going forward. So many elements of life and gaming try to push us into a hyper-competitive mindset, and “good enough” requires a personal reprogramming of that element. I have successfully pulled off that reprogramming in my “home game,” and it appears I’ll need to do that in AFKJ. I have the tools, I’ll be ok, and I invite everyone that wants to keep loving AFKJ to ponder the same path.

I do not deny that AFKJ has a whalebait economy, but I’m not competing against whales. I’m a collector, a lover of the story and of the PVE thrill of “hitting the button and watching my action figures go.” I “cleared” the ToM seasonal resolution criteria not knowing a thing about the whale-ish end of the game. It wasn’t until I came here that I was hit with the wall of “rawr game is doomed and you shouldn’t be happy rawr.” I am leaving that vibe behind because good enough is indeed good enough.

When it’s not, I’ll stop playing, but I doubt that moment will come any time soon so long as I am reasonable, realistic and not competitively minded with my goals. I welcome you all to try the same exercise.

I’m very excited for crown of ashes, and if it’s needed or if it helps, I give you permission to be the same.

Happy gaming!

I'm aware higher ascension levels dont become available until you have 25 heroes at S+ and I'm not close to that right now nor will I be for a while since I dont spent money. But since she's true limited is it worth to just keep pulling as many as I can now on the assumption i will be able to make her stronger, or do I save pulls for someone else like Pandora?

Will the Guild Merge update fully combine guilds and completely remove their individual identities, or will it function more like an allied guild system where guilds remain separate but are paired together for Guild vs Guild events?

In my opinion, an allied system would preserve each guild’s identity while still improving cross-guild interaction, which seems closer to the devs’ stated goal of better community interactions. It would also give guilds the flexibility to separate from the merge in the future with original guild members without starting a new guild if problems/friction arise. They can then later merge with a different group they better fit with. Is it known how the merge will happen yet? I would also like to know what peoples opinions are on this Guild update.

I have played the last 2 lillith games for a long time and things like this have led to me and everyone I know dropping them

I spent hundreds on afk arena. They added a cool "co op" guild raid mode that had Greta rewards. However they never fixed how it felt lole you competed against your guild and fellow team guilds, furniture made things more complex, nonstop op collabs kept coming and you needed to pay even more to get them, then pets were added etc and I dropped the game

I joined dislyte as soon as it started and spent a few hundred on the game. Lillith kept changing the game to make it more pay to win and took too long to fix the game. We never got proper co op so my friend never rejoined. They added meta espers that HAD to be bought with real money and then I just dropped it because I didnt feel like needing to spend real money constantly to be at mid tier efficiency

I then cautiously also played this game as soon as it came out. Spent 0 money this time and thank god I didnt. The paragon 4 system was nonsense to try to get more money from us but it was manageable. Then meta celehypo heros kept getting spammed ​and I went from being able to Supreme plus just the pve ones to being behind on both meta ones now. AND NOW WE GET ANOTHER SYSTEM WHEN WE NEED ANOTHER MODE WITH MORE REWARDS? I cant keep doing this with lillith. Please stop ruining your games with greed. We got essence and gacha and cosmetics for your money, you do not need this. Please do not implement this system. ​​

After reviewing the recently presented Paragon EX weapon system, as well as the available gameplay footage and community discussions surrounding it, I believe there are legitimate concerns regarding the long-term impact this system may have on the game’s overall balance and competitive environment.

A common argument being made is that this feature will primarily affect only the highest spenders. While it is true that the system was introduced to create additional progression opportunities for players who have already maximized most existing content, I do not believe its effects will remain limited to that segment of the playerbase.

Historically, similar systems introduced in other games have often led to substantial increases in power disparity, ultimately affecting the broader competitive ecosystem rather than only the top spenders themselves.

The game is already significantly monetized through frequent hero releases, ongoing power progression, and the existing four-tier Paragon system. For many players, particularly low and mid spenders, maintaining competitive progression already requires careful resource management and long-term planning.

The introduction of another major power system allows further widening the gap between players, not only between free-to-play users and whales, but also between strategic spenders and players with effectively unlimited spending capacity.

At present, there is still meaningful room for strategy, game knowledge, and efficient resource allocation to influence competitive outcomes.

Speaking from personal experience, I would consider myself a mid spender. Rather than attempting to maximize every available hero, I chose to focus resources on a limited number of priority heroes in order to achieve Paragon 4 progression, while my Celestial/Hypogean heroes remain only at S+.

Despite the fact that numerous players within my district have spent considerably more than I have, I have still been able to remain competitive through focused investment decisions, understanding of game mechanics, and efficient long-term planning.

This is, in my opinion, one of the healthier aspects of the current competitive environment.

Gameplay comparisons already available within the community show substantial performance differences between teams using Paragon EX weapons and those without them. The increase in power does not appear marginal or situational, but instead significant enough to directly impact competitive viability by a lot.

The issue is not that high spenders gain advantages — that has always existed within the game. The greater concern is the possibility that the power gap becomes so large that strategy, optimization, and game understanding no longer meaningfully influence outcomes.

Once that balance is lost, many games begin experiencing reduced player engagement, as players increasingly feel that progression and competitiveness are determined primarily by financial investment rather than informed decision-making.

For that reason, I sincerely hope the developers carefully evaluate implementation of this system before it becomes fully integrated into the broader progression environment. Once that happends it will be too late.

(Figures I’d spell her name wrong in the title 🤦)

In weighing how deep to go on pulling Gwyneth, I’m contemplating how well she would synergize with Evie’s magical resistance debuffing. Formally, on her overview, Gwyneth is listed as “marksman, physical,” but then the actual video plays out characterizing her as an arcane archer type (to use a general D&D term) who flavors/enchants her arrows with lightning, ice and fire.

Now I know there are actual “marksman, magical” units in the game so maybe I’m overthinking how Gwyneth “seems” given her themes, but is it really likely in the way the game works that Gwyneth and Evie have zero synergy because all that lightning, fire and ice are formally “not magical?”

I could just be thinking too much in a “general fantasy gaming” sense here and just need to read the damned game when it tells me “no really, she’s not magical.” I’m newish so if that’s the case, I accept that. Just thought I’d ask.

With the incoming changes to ex weapons, I’m wondering if it makes more sense to just dump resources into our most ascended heroes, regardless of meta, and run off meta comps for dream realm and PvP? Right now I’m debating whether to dump an extra 60k diamonds into Frieren or just dump all my dream essence next patch into Shemira, who I already have at paragon 3.

Has anyone else’s game been kind of glitchy lately? I lag sometimes without even downloading anything, or my characters model won’t appear and I’ll only see the little plush on her head. Sometimes the screen goes black or animations don’t play all the way, is anyone else’s having these issues?