maybe a chance at garden giving shards + upgrade increasing chance + higher levels give better chance at getting a shard level 100 would give more than a level 1
purposely lose to a boss so you can grind a level and get fast enough to go through the entire level in a few seconds to get a lot of chests got 3 gold chest doing this method really speed up your game
i have a suggestion you should give us the option of disabling hotkey since searchbars are useless since it it will cancel the search when you type or have hotkeys disabled while paused (make a setting that activates this)
Hotkeys are already disabled when any textfield is focused. Are you by any chance on Chrome? I've gotten repeated reports of the browser breaking search fields in a recent update.
Should be working now!