Early game guide by komoset

Round 1: Buy a golden ring with your starting gold (575 gold) before killing your first creep.

Between round 1-2: Sell your Golden Rings, ankh, and pot. Learn Ancient Teachings and Midas Touch. If you have less than 400 mana you also want to buy mana with glory.  (if there were enough creeps level 1 or you play a hero that can level up/gain gold early you might not need to sell both Golden Rings, just make sure you have 55 Lumber) 

Round 2: Use Midas touch on a creep and buy a golden ring after killing it. Do the same on another creep.

Between round 2-3: Sell your Golden Rings again and buy Cheater Magic. Any excess gold should be spent on Golden Rings untill you have a full inventory. For the following strat to be possible you need to be able to kill 2 creeps with Midas Touch on them in 10 seconds. Some heroes are able to do this easily without any spells or items. If they aren't you can either buy some items or cheap spells such as Summon Quillbeasts or Rain of Fire.  (If your total Lumber is 75 after round 2 and you're playing a hero that can't clear with attacks alone you can buy a level in one of the spells mentioned above, as many Golden Rings as you can afford and then buy Cheater Magic the next round instead. 

Round 3-5: If there are more then 2 creeps, use Midas Touch on 2 creeps, kill them, and then wait 8 seconds for your ancient teaching to be available again. Do the same to 2 more creeps then clear as normal.  (If you learned a spell to clear creeps, make sure to use it after using Midas Touch twice to avoid putting Ancient Teachings on cooldown) 

First duel: You can do either of these strats for the first duel

1: At the first duel sell your items and get Rapier of the Gods, Soul Reaper, Boots of Speed (+60 MS) and a lifesteal potion. With this you should have a decent chance at winning the first duel. After the duel you can sell those items and get back your Golden Rings.

2. Buy 4-6 levels of Quillbeasts and summon them instantly at the start of the duel to take advantage of the reduced cooldown from Cheater Magic.

If you win the duel it is recommended that you spend your glory on Block so you can buy Glory Rings later on.

Round 6-9: Keep using Midas Touch on 4 creeps every round. At round 7-9 you can sell a Golden Ring and buy a Chest of Greed instead.

Second Duel: Sell all your items and buy Legendary Shield or Grass of Immortality along with whatever other item you can use to win the duel. After your duel, sell all your items, unlearn all spells except Ancient Teachings if you need it and then learn 1 level of all the spells you want. Pick any of the economy type spells such as Pillage, Learnability, Holy Enlightenment and Midas Touch last as your last 1-4 spells so you can unlearn them at round 49.

* If you decide to use any EXP spell you can also buy stat rings to boost your hp/armor/mana/dmg for lategame. *this build is a general guide that works for all heroes, and is the most efficient way to get a build going early on..