Austria, first wc run

[Qurbonboev Jamshed]

I'm playing as Austria. The year is 1640. I already played her and got the AEIUE achievement. Now I want to do WC for the first time.
Revoked privileges in 1570. For 50 years, he defeated a little France and the Ottomans, took Poland into the union. I feel like I'm way behind. With subjects, I have 7k development. I have 12 absolutism, the possible maximum is 90. How can I raise it faster?
My ideas: diplo, influence, religious, admin. What will take 5th: quantity, offensive (most of the time I besiege), humanism?
What advice can you give? What tags to release?How manage they?
Most importantly, I'm slowly conquering and need to move faster, betray and devour my allies,trucebreaking and etc. Or is this speed normal, and I just have to wait until about 1700 to conquer the world with admin efficiency and Imperialism cb?

 

[Blizzrd33]

To raise absolutism, trigger particularist rebels by seizing land to make the merchant estate disloyal (revoke one or more merchant estate privileges if you need to). Then accept the particularist rebel demands without fighting them, which will raise autonomy in most of your provinces. Lower autonomy everywhere using the macrobuilder and with each click to lower autonomy you will be raising your absolutism. Trigger Court and Country for extra absolutism cap at some point after this.

I suggest start by focusing on the colonisers, they will take many wars to dismantle but you'll need to get all their colonies eventually so don't wait to start this process. If you can get Spain under a PU that will make it a lot faster than fighting them for everything they hold. Curry favours, get one of your dynasty as their heir and claim their throne for the PU CB. Ditto Great Britain. Then Russia.

Great tags to release as you move through Asia are Karaman, Khorasan and Kazakh (highly recommend these three K's). You might be too late for Karaman, but the other two should still have their cores. Delhi is often a struggling tiny nation that you can vassalise and then use all their cores to take huge chunks of India (can't see what the current situation is in India however). If you did the AEIOU mission tree you should have some cores in India from that also.

Take Expansion as one of your remaining idea groups for sure. You can drop it for Humanism later once all free land is colonised if you need. You shouldn't need Quantity but Offensive is a good choice.