Always chain. You can get higher chances of rare/purified items, and the items you get at the end of the levels as a reward are "special", which basically means they're like "Uniques" in other games. They're stronger than random drop items, so you want to get them as rarified or purified if at all possible.
Don't just go for the primary stat for the class - i.e., strength for sentinels, mind for tempests, and dex for ravagers. First of all, you'll hit the cap and the stat bonuses won't even help any more. But besides that, you'll wind up with way underpowered stats. It's particularly a problem for ravagers and tempests (rogues and mages). They are by nature more frail, and if you don't wear any strength or HP gear they're gonna have hideously low HP and you're gonna get one-shotted. It's good to try to get dodge and resist both up so you can handle both energy and physical attacks.
Pay attention to your overdrive meter. It generally fills up fast enough so that you don't have to wait to use it at the boss. You can usually use it once, or even twice during the level and still have it ready for the boss/horde fight at the end. Remember, taking down enemies while you're in overdrive can recharge your meter, so try to use it when there's a lot of enemies around.
Press "O" to see the objective list in a level. Keep track of what the daily is. Today it's "hit the enemy a crapton of times", so keep that in mind when you're selecting your squad. You'll most likely want a Hero with a DoT skill, like Viper or Jinx. Viper in particular, with his contagious poison thing is just a madman at completing that objective.
Other little known keyboard shortcuts: shift+click on an item to sell it from within the editor. Press N during a mission to make an arrow appear on the mini-map pointing to the adjective, and P for arrows for your party members. You can type /set profanityfilter 0 to turn off the profanity filter, which filters words such as "con" and "lvl". Old Spore hotkeys also apply in the editor - "A" & Tab when highlighting a piece both do things. New addition is being able to press up/down arrow while nothing is selected to change the camera focus from the body to the head, which can be quite useful.
I don't know if this is a tip, but I like to choose which Heroes to unlock based on which Heroes I find awesome weapons for, since that's pretty much THE key item for a given Hero.
Damn, I had a lot more tips than I thought.
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