RAID: Shadow Legends — new player roadmap and FAQ

Everything a new or returning player needs for their first few weeks, collected in one place so the board is not answering the same five questions every day.

Priorities in order: finish the campaign on Normal for the free heroes, get a reliable Spider 10 team running, then start Clan Boss. Do not spend gems on energy refills before you have a farming team that can hold Dragon 15.

Ask follow-up questions in this thread rather than opening a new one — it keeps the answers together and this thread stays pinned so people can find them later.

For what it is worth, the defaults are conservative on purpose, so there is usually headroom to gain.

In my testing, measure before and after, otherwise you are just guessing whether it helped.

In my testing, check whether an overlay is running before blaming the game itself.

Not the answer you want, but do the cheap diagnostic first — it costs nothing and rules out half the causes.

Had the exact same issue. check whether an overlay is running before blaming the game itself.

The usual fix here is nine times out of ten it is a driver or a background process, not the thing you suspect.

Agreed on most of this, except this changed for me after the last patch, so older threads may steer you wrong.

Counterpoint: do the cheap diagnostic first — it costs nothing and rules out half the causes.

This is the bit people miss — ignore the loudest advice; the boring answer is usually the correct one here.

In my testing, ignore the loudest advice; the boring answer is usually the correct one here.

Only partly related, but temperature is the usual culprit when performance degrades over a session.