I just had a degen day and got up here from 0 lol. wanna share some new(for me) ideas that seemed to work:
(1) Duelist reyna is broken early, also broken late, she's overstatted as hell 50%+ of my wins are with her. I was going vanguard previously for some god forsaken reason, now I'm dumping all my gold pre act 1 boss to find her C tier and rank her up. Yep that strong.
(2) Niklas and Ming were prioritized in that order to frontline. Both with the rush immortal rank up (super early and scared I would accept the hammer or the fire spin), 15 seconds immunity is a bit too good.
(3) there was a single win with a mage carry (Item Ratna) nothing new but reportable.
(4) Rush slop is also nuts, if you see Altar first event, both the item or the rush relic+nyx is damage solved, without nyx still strong, also notable mention the silly rush payoff relics.
(5) Never once did all 3 of my team feel necessary against dragon, because of multiplicative stuff, damage dealing is mostly a single carry, and frontline is best done as 1 due to splash damage, +L mystics suck.
(6) shard maximizer is broken, feel silly that I underestimated it.
(7) act 2 challenge is free a lot of the time, and sometimes it's super duper unfair, if I'm struggling in act 1 but have some scaling prospects, be it gold or power crystals or bossy whatever, I'm not opposed to skipping.
Overall 3 main ways to win in order of amount: Reyna, swimming in money, early momentus Logan.
Update: Died at 42 due to multiple brain off mistakes on the second to last shop and fight :).