You may have some rough beginnings. (Literally)
The game limits the amount of time you spend playing with mist energy, but don't let that disappoint you. Once you get into it enough, you'll make enough crowns to buy enough energy to keep playing/making profit. If you find one day that you don't feel like going for a run, craft some items to sell to an npc for some quick crowns. You may find some difficulty in this oif you lack materials. Spend your first days by adventuring in random parties to accumulate crowns, heat, minerals and materials.
Tips:
Try to keep your materials and tokens so that you'll always have some to craft/sell to players. You should never have to sell them to npcs
Do not revive with energy when adventuring with others, they'll be able to revive you for free by right clicking, splitting their hp. Reviving with energy is a last resort. (Don't revive everyone at once either, you would waste more energy than intended if you all die again.)
Avoid investing a lot in equips that won't be able to reach 5 stars of quality.
Avoid buying recipes from the auction house (With the exception of boss recipes), 90% of all recipes are obtainable from missions.
Press the shield button right after an attack to end it early.
Avoid shooting an entire clip of bullets, you become a bit vulnerable while reloading which could have been time for more shots.
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