Spend the right stack
Gold buys ODM and Thunder Spear grades. Gems buy Spins, at a reported 100 Gems each, and pay the 999 Gem skill-tree reset. Emperor Keys open Emperor's Trove in raids. Titan Shards craft Vessels. Memory Scrolls reroll prestige memory offers. Pumpkins are the Halloween event currency from HALLOWEEN2026. Divine Fragments forge Divine perks and are tied to Freedom in player tutorials.
The group bonus is the only permanent earn-rate boost written on the Roblox description: +5.0% XP and +5.0% Gold for joining AoTR [PI].
Missions versus raids versus Waves
Missions are the stable Gold and XP route and the place to learn napes. One reported per-kill table is Easy 52 Gold and 22 XP, Normal 130 and 65, Hard 297 and 97, Severe 630 and 123, Aberrant 1,390 and 139. A different table lists mission-clear Gold ranges instead of per-kill numbers, from roughly 884–1,149 on Easy to 38,615–50,200 on Aberrant. They measure different rewards. Modifiers named Boring and Simple make the mission easier and cut about 10% of the rewards.
Raids pay serums, artifacts, and cosmetics. They are a poor Gold plan if you fail the phase.
Waves is the endless mode added before Update 4 and kept afterward. Community routes treat shard income as the reason to push depth, and Update 5 adds Waves cosmetics and modifiers. Fix sustain before you chase a record wave. Vessels function in Waves once equipped.
A weekly loop
Run the highest mission your average grade allows until the next grade gate is affordable. Put one session into the raid that drops the serum you are missing. Put a separate session into Waves only when you need Shards. Roll Families in a third session, with a Luck potion active, instead of mixing rolls into a deathless raid attempt.