Hey everyone,

I've been playing for around 6 months completely F2P. A generous guildmate gifted me the No-Ads pack 12 days ago, but outside of that, I have **zero paid** packs (no milestone passes, no stone packs, no other coin multipliers).

Given my strict resource limits, my primary goal right now is optimizing **tournament** performance to boost my weekly Stone income as fast and efficiently as possible.

I've attached full screenshots of my setup.

# Key questions for F2P / Low-Spender :

1. Stone Allocation (UW): Where should my next 500–1 000 stones go specifically to push extra waves in tournaments? (full econ : GT/BH duration, GTb, DWq ; full damage : CL and maybe spotlight ; pBH this early ?)
   * Full econ: GT/BH duration, GT bonus, DW quant?
   * Full damage: CL, maybe Spotlight?
   * Or is pBH viable/recommended this early?
2. Lab Priorities: With limited lab speed-ups, which 5 labs yield the highest ROI for tournament scaling right now? Currently running \~2 weeks of module labs. Should I invest more in Damage or EHP? If EHP, should I focus the wall, or more HP package build to gain on lab time?
3. Module & Shard Focus: What is the best way to spend my gems in modules (I'm saving to see what the new generator will be)? What is the best armor substats for the new SP? I currently have Mythic Extra Orbs, Mythic Orb Speed, Mythic Land Mine Chance, and Legendary Defense%.
4. Workshop & WS+ Balance: For tournaments, how should I split my coins between damage and EHP?
5. Medals & Bots: I'm trying to not buy anything with medals except bots (and S tier relics). What is best as second preset (first is farming) : Amp Bot or FB ?
6. Guild Guardian : Once I unlock guardian presets, which one provides the highest tournament value at my level: Attack, Ally, or Scout?

I’m particularly looking for input from players who progressed through F2P or Starter/Epic-pack only, as more heavy spender strategies don't align with my coin and stone income.

Thanks in advance for the feedback!

6+ Months F2P looking for Tournament progression advice