https://ic.byteglow.com/r/mYKDM9acqzArFGyhdniVb

Hello! Been playing for a few weeks now and just recently unlocked Azaka and the second party, and I'm looking for a bit of advice on if what I'm doing makes sense and what mynext steps should be.

Party 1 - Lv 1 Modest Core and Automated. 5 Familiars: 3 on field, 1 on click damage, 1 on Sentry. Auto-resets at stage 60.

Party 2 - No familiars, in the background. Uses a normal pushing team on variants/events. Usually either a Jarlaxle/Omin/Companions gold farming team or an early unpolished Ash build for deeper pushing (though I'm often finding with my gold find heavy team I can earn more with a push to 350 with them than my heavier team pushing to 375-400 in ToA).

I'm an iOS player so more often than not I'm running the game offline, which I know affects my ability to progress fast but I'm still trying to min/max as best I can.

Based on my reading my current goals should be to save up gems for familiars and feats, unlock patrons (close to the first 2) and working towards the 3rd party. With my automated party is my current set up fine or does it make more sense to shift my familiars around a bit when I get a 6th, having only 1 on click damage and putting another on Shandie to maximize speed when I can leave the game open (which would free up 2 familiars for the other party for clicking and click damage)? I know doing that will stop my auto party from instantly collecting gold, but I'm thinking that the extra speed from Shandie would offset that. Taking this one step further, as I collect more speed champs I should be adding them to the auto party to really ramp up gem farming correct? At any point do I add the speed guys to a deep pushing party?

Once I get the 3rd party I should be aiming to have party 1 continue to be speed gem farming, party 2 switches to automated deep pushing and party 3 for variant/patron farming?

Getting ahead of myself and thinking towards getting Split 2 done ASAP are the below planned champs the smartest ones to go for? I know I'll need diversity for Patrons, but I can't help but want to focus on speed and strong champions to better my current formations. Should I prioritize getting speed champs above building a deeper pushing party(or is this a preference thing)? Which cases are recommended going for the champs ASAP rather than filling in 3rd slots for split?

2- Talin 3- Gromma 4- Baeloth 5- Briv (though I'll be getting Pwent in an upcoming event) 6- Krull 7- Freely 8- Hew Mann (though I have enough champs here already) 9- Aila 10- Working towards Ulkoria 11- Avren in October, working towards Dragonbait 12- Penelope in November, want Melf and Zorbu

Thanks again so much for your time and advice!