The Swords and Lovers Game Guide

Your Guide to Everything
Updated: March 7, 2018
I will be updating this as I think of something to add!

Hi, welcome to the game. Honestly I play this because of the graphics. It's gorgeous. Okay that and my fantastic guild whom I love. So, without further ado, here are some tips I picked up from playing.

PS: I haven't spent a penny on this game, so no VIP info. I am a free player. This is great, as my tips will apply to everyone!

Tier Upgrades 

From T4 to T5: 130 pills (100-150 pills)
From T5 to T6: 240 pills (220-250 pills)
From T6 to T7: 350 pills (320-370 pills)
From T7 to T8: 550 pills for mount and up to 800 pills for wing
From T8 to T9:
From T9 to T10:

It costs a bit less for mounts and more for other things like wings. One of my guild members took 800 pills to T8 her wings.


Daillies
If I'm honest I just click all the exclamation marks and see if I can do anything. The game is pretty idiot proof this way, but since this is a guide, I'm going to include this. There are some things I do that you may not be doing so listen up.


Leveling Up 
How to level up smartest:

• Always be in a team. A full team gives you a 10x EXP bonus. 
• Get in the best guild. Don't do the application bullshit-guild are probably full anyways. PM the guild master or vice master or BOTH. OPTIONAL but helpful: be active on world chat and demonstrate that you're sane and active. 
• Get your faeries escorted during the 2x events 
• Lay with a VIP (the higher level the better) during hot springs. If not possible, lay with your partner (this gives extra intimacy points which eventually allows you to upgrade your bond which eventually translates to CP) 
• Use scrolls during the 5x EXP event. And always participate in the 5x EXP event. It's pretty late at night, so I usually find a nice AC spot, turn on my scrolls, then leave my phone on overnight so it can rack up that EXP. 
• Autolevelling. You leave your phone on while you do other things. There are 2 good actions to do. 1) AC spot. Find your AC spot by clicking the box on the left. Your character will then kill monsters in one spot endlessly, or until your phone runs out of battery. So leave it plugged in. 2) Team dungeon. If you click fast join then leave your phone, whenever a battle ends it will initiate autocountdown and re-fast-join when you leave. I like doing this because it racks up stuff for my sword upgrade, fame points, exp, and items that I can smelt. It will only auto 50x before you must check your phone again and select "don't ask me this again" and then it will continue past the 50x per day. So I don't recommend leaving it on at night. Bonus: if you leave your character at an AC spot before pressing team dungeon, while your character is waiting to join a team it will continue to fight monsters giving you that extra EXP. 
• Do your dungeons everyday. Extra note about dungeons: I don't do this, but the #1 on our server (also my guild master) swears by doing the EXP dungeons manually (not pressing blitz but pressing start, then leaving your phone). 
• This is another tip my GM gives: complete your daily quests during 5x EXP. So instead of doing them in the morning, wait till nighttime and complete them. I find this impossible to do for 2 reasons: I'm not always able to complete stuff in time at night, I may not be on at night, and if I am having a chill day and want to play a lot I'm going to accidentally do some of these quests. What I find works is to always leave those "Main Quests" the ones you only get if you level up, to the 5x EXP time. It's great, I actually level up 20% from that alone per night and I'm level 90+. 
• And of course, do all your dailies, But you already know that. 

Choosing a Guild

Obviously, or not so obviously, you want to be in a guild with people you like. This is like 80% of why the game is fun. You say silly things, and participate in everything together. Guilds give many bonuses like exp bonus, attack, just about every stat. If you're in the top guild, you get extra stuff from literally every event. Like boss fights (I make about 300 b.ingots per night from running around like a maniac --save your flying shoes), guild beast, guild campaign, domain battle. And let me tell you those b.ingots are so precious cause they're gonna be the only reason you can increase your tiers like goddamn it's hard to get upgrade pills. Just--join the top guild. Unless they are all total assholes, it's ALWAYS a good idea to join the top guild. And if they are, switch to another server and find some nice people lol. (They probably aren't assholes. Some people are just quiet!)

Marriage
You can get married after level 62. I would say not to rush it. This doesn't give a whole lot of CP. But it's cute and fun and... well do you know what you need in a man? I'm here to help.

1. How are they personality wise? Basically, do not go with a creep. I don't know about you but some people are weird and you will have to talk to your husband/wife so please don't go for the crazy one or the roleplay one or the one that is pathological liar. It seems obvious but all you have to do is look at world chat and you know that not everyone has all their brain cells attached--yet have partners. What were those willing partners thinking??? I don't know. 
2. Activity. THEY MUST BE ONLINE. Their CP doesn't matter. If they are online 24/7 they are worth more than the rank #1. Okay so here is where you need to know this distinction. The thing is that if they are rank #1 CP, they probably DO spend a lot of time online. So use that as an indicator. But just know that there are some people that only log in once a day, throw some money at the game, then go away. Stay away from those people. The money they throw at the game won't help YOU, it'll just make it difficult for you to leave them. So choose the active guy/gal. 
3. Humor. Hey, I like to laugh. This is my priority list, suck it. 
4. Flowers. Are they generous? Yeah your relationship pretty much revolves around sending flowers to each other. So if someone doesn't even send you flowers (or bluelvoers or roses) before you're married and they're pursuing you, what makes you think it'll get better? 
5. You need to be online at the same time at least once a day to do couple dungeon. Communicate this. If you're in the US/Canada, don't for the guy in the UK. 
6. Are you in the same guild? Sometimes this may cause friction. Decide whether you are both okay with being in a different guild and killing each other or not. 
7. VIP is nice but not necessary. I mean I love roses <3 but seriously, activeness is first. 

Things that are NOT important in marriage: 

1. CP. 
2. Type of wedding. So when I got married I thought this was the most important thing. I mean you never know if someone's a douche until they show it somehow so no matter what this meant I would get a PERMANENT wedding dress. I thought the wedding dress had the highest stats ever. WRONG. You reach like 85 or lvl 80 I forget which, and you get a gorgeous golden outfit that is way higher. And if you play like you're serious, you will reach this before your 14 day wedding gown expires. So, you'll have a higher lvl clothing to replace it. If you get the best  wedding, you DO get to wear it for aesthetics whenever you want so I guess it's not a complete waste of money. 
3. Humor. I know, I know, you're thinking like what now? But if you have a guy that will just do couple dungeon with you once a day, sends you flowers, you're good! He can be mute. Totally personal preference.