very good tips, if only they are achievable.  sounds wonderful.  what if you have the others but no high katun, can you suggest another one? and no legendaries, pls, I have been in the game 3 years and never got one, in spite of getting zillions of shards of all the varieties...I am F2P only.

I have no 6 star artifacts, two 6 star champs Elhain and Kael.  Arena is mostly pitiful for me, but I would like the tactical training you mention where force is less important.  My top speed on a champ is about 160 or so. Been studying up on the guides for artifact selection.  But on Utube those guys have hundreds of champs all L60 6 star, 50 million silver, etc etc, so most of those people are not for the common man, but in theory many of their tips are good. After trying for a long time I learned how to crack Lvl 8 on Fire Knight, got an achievement bonus. But to them they want L13 minimum.  I do a few Lvl 10's in various places, but I can see in the arena that the bigshots have an armada of L60's, many legendaries. I have done the quests to make L16 artifacts but generally they are all 1* common ones to minimize silver. Some of those upgrades can go over 20 tries...that's robbery plain and simple.

TIA on the High Katun

PS, I get criticized for what seems like slow development, but looking back I wasted efforts on too many champs, but how do you know unless you try?  So many champs and artifacts have come and gone, I saw a tip on utube that said in essence, if you can't be with the one u want, love the one u r with, as the classic tune goes.  I had to dispose of many in the upgrade process, perhaps even the high katun, not realizing what that one might be good for. But almost everytime I met that in the arena I beat it, don't see the big deal about it.  Virtually every single freebie I got from the game was junk over and over again.  Even warmaiden, lots of people have it but I do not see the big deal. I have 2, and 2 spirithosts.

High Khatun is given to you for a 30 day reward.  If you got rid of her, that sucks for you, lol.  But basically you want someone with a speed aura, that also boosts your speed.  Gorgarab is also a good epic to do this. I'm very surprised to hear you only have two 6-star champs after 3 years.  I'm guessing your whole vault is filled with 5-star guys? It would be helpful if you posted your vault, otherwise I can only give you theoretical advice.  There are two things I can tell you for sure though.  First off, definitely 6-star your best champs.  Again, I can recommend specifically which ones if you post a vault.  But a 6-star is easily better than 4x 5-stars.  Secondly, you need a lot more speed.  In the early game I would basically put on 1 speed set and 1 lifesteal  set on each of your champs.  And every single piece should have both speed and accuracy.  If they don't, keep farming until you find 5-star pieces that do.  Also, you definitely need to +16 your boots, that will give you the most speed. 

Thanks for the reply.  and THANKS for the tips on warm & shost warming up the field to be followed by the big hitters.

Got my 2nd 6*, Kael, now working on Apothecary. Apoth is 6*, working on lvl 40/60 now.  So it is moving along.  Just what I have done so far has made dramatic improvements in the CB, campaigns (finishing out all the brutals getting 3*). As far as my roster, I have fewer names but some multiples of each:

2 WARMAIDEN, 4 VALERIE, 3 APOTH, 2 WARPRIEST, 3 ATHEL, GALEK, ELHAIN, KAEL, HOPE, JIZOH, DERVISH (highest ATK multiplier in the game, if you can protect her, she is a real assassin), MAGUS, M SUPERIOR, M MAGE, PARAGON, 2 S'HOST, DIABOLIST, COLDHEART 4*, RENEGADE 4*.  Still trying to maintain a mix of affinities for the tag team arena.

LAST but NOT LEAST, I won a monthly prize and got the Legendary yellow shard, but THIS time it actually paid out a Legendary Champ. They gave me H SMASHLORD (Skinwalkers).  It seems pretty good so far, busy leveling it up. So finally got some gold in my basket.

I was spread real thin for awhile, trying to hold it down to 50 different champs, lol! But I finally started tuning in to utube vids and seeing what Hunter and many other talk hosts were saying.  I saved links to some real good discussions and tutorials.

Now they have a whole new setup for making your own artifacts, very exciting! I have some 6* Boots now.

After listening to all those so called experts, based on what I have been using and watching the Arena, I should get the Warmaiden(s) to L50. Same with Coldheart. For 6*, that would have to be M Mage.

Hard part is coming up with the food for all that.  Was worried about a fortune in lost artifacts but the new system is giving me hope on that front.

I farmed about 1 million in silver, and used that to push my way to 2-L16 artifacts for a quest, starting from bare bones 1* items. The game had given me 500 energy in compensation for their trouble within the game.  The prize for the 2 L16's was 200 more energy and 200k silver, hardly worth it, but I am an inch away from another legendary shard.

Thanks again for the help.  Sure, I wish I had all these rare champs that so many say and have, like M Monster, Gorgorab, etc etc....just DOES NOT HAPPEN for me. Lucky I got Kael.  No shortage of shards, just no big names in show business.