Red gems are overpowered. You can win every stage by wizard level 35 with max xp multipliers by fully upgrading gem and tower mastery, bloodborne gem mastery, dumping as much as you can into one other gem type, duality, wild gems, range, damage, and fire rate. Have at least enough points in starting mana to buy a grade-4. Start with 2 gem towers (The grade 4 and your wild gem) and then switch into a dual red-type asap. Surround your dual-red gem with 8 amplifiers and it can win most maps without any input. Try to get as many amulets as you can. Eventually when you have enough points, put them into chain hits (lime) in addition to red. Dual red-lime tears through the armor minion waves like crazy. If you have premium and can use triple gem mastery, go for red-yellow-lime or red-orange-lime.
I'm always a little disappointed when I manage to get a puzzle in one try and then Ink goes on about how he "guessed" the answer. It's really unsatisfying for him to act so dumb...
The game's last screen causes a serious amount of lag. Made it so much more difficult. those challenges were better off being placed in different rooms to mitigate some of the lag.
I think the best part is that if you keep going backwards instead of forwards, you get to the victory screen from the other way around. I don't know if that was on purpose or not, but it sure was neat!
For people that are having trouble on the hard badge, an easy way to get many of the archmage achievements could be to try a control deck. Start by making a custom deck that is "Dominator" type. It really doesn't matter what you put in the deck, as long as you remember to include an Ancient Horror card. From there, insert some cards that would help you get achievements, i.e. sea sprites, dragons, etc. Basically, hold off the archmage's attacks until you have around 14-16 control points. then, play the Ancient Horror. Suddenly, The archmage cannot do damage! However, the computer will often use spells to get back at you, so it is important to have some master healers, or a nature ritual to keep your Ancient Horror alive longer. This strategy works best against the "Mad Hermit" wizard type. I was able to get 11 achievements in one game with this strategy!
Note: This usually doesn't work in a regular duel because you may not survive long enough to amass enough control points.
I've beaten Tower of Greed. Ive beaten Ring Pass Not. I've even beaten Pandemic 2. But there is no way i can ever see myself getting this for some reason...
Best three starting locations: Cuba, new Zealand or Greenland. For some reason, when you start as one of these countries, the other countries' awareness and reactions decrease. Keep this comment alive!
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