First thought: Take Trunda to L60.   

Second thought: Take Trunda to L60.

Third thouhgt:  Take Trunda to L60.  Seriously, she is an awesome pull for your first Lego from a shard.  

Now onto Spider advice:  As you climb spider for the first time, there are a couple of tried & true tactics that may help:

(1) If you are stuck at a particualt stage, it can help to build a higher resistance "spider tank" that is negative affinity, and run the rest of the team as neutral or positive affinity.  The spiderlings will all attack the negative affinity "tank", which will allow your other toons to do the work.  You do need to be able to heal/revive/resist to keep your negative affinity tank alive long enough to kill Scavag (Mama Spider).

(1-A) You have Lethelin. I have never tried taunt in Spider, but I imagine you could use it just like using a negative affintiy tank since it will force the spiderlings to attack the taunt target.  

(2) Stun/Burn or Freeze/Burn to let HP Burn do the work for you. As long as you can control the spiderlings with stun/freeze, HP Burn is the easiest way to climb normal spider. Lookee; Lookee. You have a Trunda. She can do both Stun & Burn. You just need to put a team around her.  

Trunda is an excellent Stun/Burn/Nuke toon, and will help you in a lot of content.  The other toons that you have that I would consider worth investing in for the short-term and mid-term: Apothecary, High Khatun, Morag, Mausoleum Mage &  Dhukk. Unless you buy Lego Books, leave Alice alone for now. Put your Lego Books into Trunda.

One thing to remember - a level 60 champ is roughly 3x as strong as a level 50 one, even just on base stats. You're doing yourself a great disservice by just taking people to 50 and leaving them there.

@WileyMan Wow thanks so much for your very thoughtful and detailed info you gave me. Very helpful indeed :)

I will definitely take your advice to level up Trunda to 60! It will take a little long but will get there. I'll consider focusing on the other epic heroes you mentioned in the meantime.

Much obliged!

@kramaswamy.kr Thanks for the tips. yes you are right about just taking heroes to lvl 50 but I am doing so mostly because of the faction wars.

don't think I should just ignore faction wars for the time being and just concentrating on a handful of heroes?

You can ignore factuon wars mostly for the time being. While trunda is a great nuker I doubt you have the resources to fully utilize them, as well as having no team to build around them.

Youre wasting anlot of resources leveling and ascending everything, stop. 

I would suggest building kael personally as im sure you could fully book+mastery them much easier and they will be better early kn for cb as well as for farming campaign(which is wherre you should be spending most of your energy until you have 3-6 level 60s).

thats my two cents 

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