Most people go thorugh till collector. Once you become uncollected, you get access to much more content and your roster grows very fast. The uncollected arena alone will give you 3* and 4* versions of all champs.
Its not easy but worth it. Then you can use your new roster to explore act 4 at your leisure
On a separate note, acts 1-4 are the only content in story you should bother to 100% at all. 1-3 for units, act 4 for the bonus mastery points. After that, just push thru until you, one day, catch up with the newest content. You can go back later to pick up items/units etc on lanes as you need them. But 100% rewards for act 5/6 are too dated to matter.
Looking at your roster I would say explore act 4. You have some good champs. But they need a littlebit more love for you to confortable get uncollected. make sure to do 3 rounds of arena in the trials arena for a very easy 26 units. You can do that every 3 days. Work on your masteries. Act 4 helps with this since it will level you up very quickly and gives you the last couple of mastery points. In the meantime do the side quests and and montly quests. To expand your 4 and 5 star roster. Use your t4 class on your 5* when they are worth it. Because you will no longer be able to use your 4 stars in act 6.
Act 5 is doable with rank 4 4* champs. But you are going to have a much nicer time with rank 5 4* and rank 3 5* champs. Act 4 also gives you the ability to rank 4 your first 5*.
Act 4 also uses some basic nodes on the paths which will teach you to work around them.
It might take a while before you have explored it. But if you scout out the paths you can often pick a path with a free energy refill.
There is no point at being frustrated because your roster can barely do content when you have plenty of content just sitting there which you can complete. Act 4 will give you levels, units, mastery points and experience to comfortably do act 5.
People who suggest a push often forget that newer players do not have the skill they do.
Do what bits of act 5 you can, but I'd recommend starting to explore act 4 with experience boosts on. You will level up and gain access to more more mastery slots quickly. The added skill traits should help a lot with your progression.
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Its not easy but worth it. Then you can use your new roster to explore act 4 at your leisure
I explored 8.1 and 8.2 but not act 4 yet lol
My roster is the third comment on this post. ( It's not ready 4 Act 5)
make sure to do 3 rounds of arena in the trials arena for a very easy 26 units. You can do that every 3 days.
Work on your masteries. Act 4 helps with this since it will level you up very quickly and gives you the last couple of mastery points.
In the meantime do the side quests and and montly quests. To expand your 4 and 5 star roster. Use your t4 class on your 5* when they are worth it. Because you will no longer be able to use your 4 stars in act 6.
Act 5 is doable with rank 4 4* champs. But you are going to have a much nicer time with rank 5 4* and rank 3 5* champs. Act 4 also gives you the ability to rank 4 your first 5*.
Act 4 also uses some basic nodes on the paths which will teach you to work around them.
It might take a while before you have explored it. But if you scout out the paths you can often pick a path with a free energy refill.
There is no point at being frustrated because your roster can barely do content when you have plenty of content just sitting there which you can complete. Act 4 will give you levels, units, mastery points and experience to comfortably do act 5.
People who suggest a push often forget that newer players do not have the skill they do.