Pheregames
Since so few people play and you HAVE to have fb friends as partners [or PAY GOLD for assists, which keeps you poor. Most of the time you're actually losing gold battling]. ... it becomes a downward spiral and there's not much chance to earn gold to buy a weapon.
Add to that all the bugs littered over the game and it only gets worse. I have friends that I could pick for partners - only that the button for doing that is grey so I have to pay for assistants. I'm also stuck on the level zero bug/frozen finale screen bug, which means I don't get any rewards for winning other than a stat point, even when I defeat all three random enemies.
I tried to start over on another account, partly for trouble shooting as I reported the bug and partly because I figured it was a fluke of bad luck.
In this second try I couldn't even get past the stats screen in the tutorial - not after several refreshes, logging out and back in - and not even now two days later. It's so bad that it's actually funny.