Idle Weapon Shop Tycoon guide & tips for beginners

Updated on: January 23rd, 2025

In this post, I have shared a beginner’s guide to Idle Weapon Shop Tycoon, a mobile game published by Hello Games Team.

Idle Weapon Shop Tycoon

Idle Weapon Shop Tycoon is a mobile game where you sell equipment to customers and make money. The objective is to unlock all the locations on the world map and build the best weapon shop. 

Currency Guide

• Rune Tickets
  • You need rune tickets to obtain runes.
  • Runes increase combat power and grant special effects such as stun, regeneration, dodge, steal, etc.
  • You can obtain rune tickets from the login reward, quest, reward, spin wheel, and the shop. 
• Coins
  • Sell equipment to earn the coins.
  • Use coins to upgrade the workbench, get new customers and extra workers, and level up your income.
  • In addition to selling equipment, you can also obtain coins by watching video ads.
• Meat
  • Pet needs food. Once you unlock the pet function, you can have a pet as a combat companion. 
  • You can obtain meat from quests, shop, events, etc.
• Blue Crystals
  • To upgrade the badges
• Pet Tickets
  • To summon the pets
• Stamina
  • To explore the area
  • After a few minutes, stamina replenishes (tap the coupon icon in the left center, below the vault icon). Then, you can claim stamina or arena tickets.
• Ruby
  • To unlock or upgrade vault perks
  • Earn rubies by completing the quests, upgrading workbenches, as a login reward, from the lucky wheel, watching video ads, etc. 

Equipment Rarity Guide

In Idle Weapon Shop Tycoon, all equipment are classified into five grades: the higher the grade, the more the bonus. 

• Common
• Rare
• Epic
• Legendary
• Mythic

Mythic > Legendary > Epic > Rare > Common. 

How To Get Equipment In Idle Weapon Shop Tycoon?

You can forge equipment with blueprints and materials. The better the quality of materials and blueprint, the better the equipment you get by forging. You can get blueprints and materials by defeating the enemies in the exploration mode. At the bottom menu, tap the sword icon to go to exploration mode. Tap the Explore button (it costs stamina) – defeat the enemy, and you will get a weapon. You can choose to dismantle it or equip it to the hero. You can get the EXP required to increase the explore rank by dismantling the weapon. The higher the rank, the better the chances of getting high-quality weapons from the exploration. 

As you progress further, you will encounter a boss. Defeat the boss to obtain the blueprint chest. The Blueprint chest contains common, rare, epic, and legendary-grade blueprints. The higher the grade, the lower its drop rate. Legendary and Epic grade blueprints are hard to obtain because of the low drop rate. 

Players can also obtain blueprint chests from the shop by using the rubies. 

Once you have the materials and blueprints, go to the forging and listing menu(lower-left corner). Tap the Forge button, select a blueprint, and forge it. You will get the equipment depending on the materials, blueprints, and skill level. You can choose it to list on the shop or keep it in storage. 

Equipment Listing Tips

On the equipment list menu screen, you can list the equipment you want to sell in the shop. All types of equipment have bonus income stats and effects.

Before you list the equipment, please check its bonus income stats and the effects. Some equipment, in addition to income bonuses, have extra effects such as:

• Grants the chance to produce items instantly
• Grants chance to produce perfect items(perfect items sell for a higher price stage)
• Increasing movement speed
• Increasing production speed

On the shop screen, tap on the equipment to check the current bonus income stat. 

Skill Level Guide

Increasing skill level raises the chances of getting better quality equipment by forging. To increase the skill level in Idle Weapon Shop Tycoon, you need to obtain EXP/blue hammer. In the lower-left corner, tap the craft/hammer button. Tap the “Rank” button at the top of the screen(left of the ring slot). Once you have sufficient EXP/blue hammers, tap the level-up button. You can obtain EXP/blue hammer by dismantling the equipment. Please be cautious when dismantling the equipment; only dismantle the unused equipment. 

Weapon Shop Level

Increasing the weapon shop level improves income bonus and AFK time and grants more perks. To increase the weapon shop level, you need to complete specific tasks. Go to the equipment list menu(lower-left corner, craft/hammer tab). Tap the green upgrade/arrow button at the top to see the tasks you need to complete. 

Exploration Battle Tips

Exploration is one of the main activities in the Idle Weapon Shop Tycoon. It costs stamina to explore the wilderness. Upon exploring, you encounter monsters: normal and bosses. Normal enemies grant gears such as weapons, rings, necklaces, helmets, etc. By defeating the normal monsters, you can acquire weapons(equip the weapon if it’s better than the currently equipped one; otherwise, dismantle it for EXP and materials). Accumulate enough EXP to increase explore rank and the chances of getting better weapons. Boss monsters are powerful, and when you defeat them, they drop a blueprint chest containing blueprints(required to forge equipment you sell in the shop). Here are some tips to defeat monsters:

• Before challenging the boss, read its stats: power and the effects. Some bosses have healing power that restores their health. Avoid the challenge until your hero has more power than the boss. Keep exploring and hope for better weapons to pump up your hero’s strength.
• Equip runes: runes can be obtained from the rune chest. You can either watch the video ads or spend the rune tickets to get the runes. You can equip up to four runes at a time. The higher its quality, the more stats and bonus effects it grants. Please read the rune guide below for more details.
• Equip the badges.
• Equip the pets.
• Upgrade the runes, badges, and pets to increase your strength.

Rune Guide & Tips

Runes grant five types of effects:

• Stun: Chances to stun the enemy
• Dodge: Chances to dodge the enemy’s ATK
• Combo: Chances for a combo strike
• Regeneration: Chances to heal or regenerate health
• Steal: Chances to steal stat from the enemy

You can equip up to four runes. Runes that have a regeneration effect are very helpful – so I recommend having one rune of this type. If your attack strength is already good, you can skip the combo rune and equip another one. You can only pick four, so skip the one you need the least. 

General Tips

• Collect the tips: customers often leave tips when you sell them the gear. Always keep an eye on the selling counter and collect the tips.
• Watch the video ads whenever you get the offer to progress fast
• Activate the 2X income booster by watching the video ads
• Don’t waste rubies on trivial things; save for vault perks. Vault perks are permanent
• Log in daily for a reward
• Upgrade the workbenches to increase income
• Level Up
• Explore whenever you get stamina
• Always list the equipment with better income bonus stats
• Increase the skill level to increase the chances of forging better equipment
• Increase the weapon shop level to improve income bonus and AFK time
• Complete the tasks given at the top of the screen 
• Spin the lucky wheel every day for rewards
• Participate in the arena mode for rewards
• Have the best runes equipped
• Collect the daily freebies from the shop; you get five rubies, five stamina, and one chest daily for free from the shop.

So this is all I have in this Idle Weapon Shop Tycoon guide and tips for beginners. 

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