AFK Journey Spending guide

AFK Journey is a very free to play friendly game and while spending will help you to get ahead of other players, you're basically paying to progress faster. Also, while the game has a few great value 'monthly' packs, once you buy them out, additional spending requires massive pockets. So you either stay F2P, buy the few monthly packs or whale a lot.

Before spending anything or buying yet another pack, just ask yourself if you really need and most importantly, if you can afford it.

1. The usual top-tier 1$ offer [$1]

AAs always, the 1$ offer you will be given at the start of the game has the best value in the whole game. The 10

it gives allow you to instantly reach the first pity on the Epic Recruitment banner, so you will start the game with another character. And because you can setup the wishlist for that banner instantly, you will obtain one of the 5 characters of your choosing, making the early progression even easier. It's basically a 20% chance to get a specific top tier character instantly when you start the game, and you are guaranteed to get at least one of the 5.

Be careful! This pack will vanish after 2 hours of it appearing and will never return. So you just have one chance of buying it.

And spending that 1$ will also give you the first-purchase special pack which contains

Rowan who is a very versatile support. On top of him, you will also get 2x and the Ironwall Spell Artifact which will make your tank last longer.

2. Pre-Order Bundle [~28$]

The Pre-Order Bundle is relatively expensive, but it offers such high value, as long as you are interested in Rate Up characters, that it has earned a high spot on this list. For 850 Dragon Crystals which is roughly equivalent to $28 (Price may vary depending on country and store used) you get a total of 30 Celestial/Hypogean pulls, 50

, 40 Rate Up Letters, and 160 Character-Locked Rate Up Letters, and 3500 Diamonds.

3. Starter Story Bundles [$1 and $5]

These are high value bundles, with the $1 bundle offering 10 Rate Up Letters, and the $5 bundle offering 10 Celestial/Hypogean pulls and 20 Temporal Essence.

4. Secret Season Travelogue [$10 or $20]

This is the AFK Journey version of the popular battle pass. On top of a lot of resources and

you will also be able to obtain a selector box with a 5 choices, 4 of them being characters, and 1 of them being 30 Rate Up Letters, as well as cosmetics.

The more expensive version of the battle pass will instantly get you the first 20 levels, a border, cosmetics and 10 more

.

5. Secret Trek [~$7 or $15]

Similar to the Secret Travelogue, the Secret Trek pass gives a decent amount of upgrade resources, as well as some Celestial/Hypogian pulls and Rate Up pulls, and cosmetics.

The more expensive version of the battle pass will instantly get you the first 20 levels, a border, cosmetics and 10 more

.

6. Classic Gazette [$5]

The Classic Gazette gives you in total 12000

(3000 upfront and 9000 over the course of the month) and VIP Points, and is the best value permanent and repeatable offer in the game. This is also the best value option for buying directly, as you get 3000 right away for $5 while also adding more time onto the Gazette.

7. Premium Gazette [$15]

While the Classic Gazette gives you

, the premium variant gives you 70 (10 upfront and then 2 every day) and VIP Points. This is a good option early on if you have an incomplete collection, and also later on if you are chasing paragons, but it falls off in value for people who already have a full Supreme+ collection of characters and are happy just getting more S+ characters.

8. Season Growth Bundle [$30]

The Growth Bundle gives a staggering amount of 15000

and 110 but there's a catch. You have to clear up to 1000 Season AFK Stages to obtain them all. Still, it should take a person who considers buying the bundle roughly a month. Not as good a value as even the $5 monthly, but a good option if you have run out of higher value bundles.

The Welcome Packs are active only for the first 2 weeks of you creating your characters and then they will vanish. Also compared to the previous packs, you will need to buy a special in-game currency - Dragon Crystal - before you will be able to buy any of these and to make your life easier, we slapped the price in $ on the image above, so you will know how much they cost without going back and forth.

Overall all packs available here can be considered good value and a lot of whales will jump onto the $90 pack as it contains

Thoran who is the best tank in the game.

Every now and then, various packs will appear that you can only buy within 2 hours or they will go away. We can't really review those packs and rate them here one by one, because there's quite a lot of them - and their value also varies (you can get anything from $1 up to $50).

Overall they are great value as they give a decent amount of pulls and even

characters. Like for example this pack that costs $41 and gives a character

Reinier

If you're not a whale, this is where you stop. While the packs above in the previous sections have a great value for low and 'dolphin' spenders, once they're gone, what's left is just targeted toward whales. The packs in this shop refresh every 2 weeks and even for whales I would say that you should wait for the timer as the permanent packs have or raw currency deals have terrible value.