When in doubt, follow the missions. You’ve probably heard it before. In here, this means following and completing Ash’s missions, as they’re the ones that will put you on the right path to becoming an expert dragon trainer or tamer. Completing one of her missions gives you a lot of experience points, and completing about two or so would allow you to level up in most occasions.
Aside from Ash, the Dragon Guard will also be giving you missions. These missions will typically be related to some sort of battle, and this would usually mean using a specific dragon or dealing out a specific amount of damage with that dragon. These missions are the only way you can earn egg tokens, which are the game’s premium currency for breeding new dragons.
The tutorial part of the game will tell you that you’ll get more bonus flames if you use less dragons in battle. More bonus flames leads to more experience points, more experience points means your dragons can level up faster. Remember that using one dragon gives you two bonus flames, using two gives you one bonus flame, and using three or more means you don’t get any bonus flames at all.
When planning things out for battle, you should be aware of the different types of dragons. Hunters come with the rapid tap fireball attack, and are great for dealing out burst damage on individual targets. Sorcerers can attack three different towers with their lock-on attacks, but you need to build up the rage to tap into their full potential. Lastly, warriors have high health to make up for their slow attacks – these are the ones you want for your first line of defense.
When other players attack your town, the game’s AI will control your towers and take care of your defense. But if you’re actively playing, you’ll be notified accordingly, and tapping on top of the screen will allow you to manually set your defenses against the other player. Of course, there are drawbacks to letting the game play defense – for one, its strategy may not be as good as yours, and it may almost certainly be more simplistic. Keeping that in mind, tap that notification quickly, as it’s gone in five seconds – you need to be quick if you want to take care of your own defensive strategy.