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I am still playing the game and to be honest it's kind relaxing for me.It's beautiful with great music and fantastic options
I think i am one of the few still playing the game and i would like to ask you if it is possible to unlock the game for the kongregate users.You can find the game unlocked elsewhere so please if you are still watching please grant us free the magician pouch
Thank you
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Thank you, gamerscul9870! I just beat V4. But it's DEFINITELY still a lot of luck even if you get the level 5 and level 7 gems. I had them in three separate tries, and couldn't beat the shadow. Suddenly, I could? Yeah, definitely luck, but I'm glad I finally beat it. I'm still having a lot of trouble with V11 though.
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GamersCul9870: Thank you. I will try those things. The 19 waves one with the shadow kept pissing me off because I'd get to the end of the waves and *BAM!* even though I'd beaten all the waves, I'd lose to that damned shadow!
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V11: use every duplicate of first grade gem and combine them. Duplicate the same gem and repeat until you reach the maximum level you can, but only do so after the last wave spawns, otherwise you will instantly lose as you will not fire in time to take out the fastest enemies nor enough mana to avoid instantly losing. Using the highest available gem on that wave, set the gem priority (shift + click) to low health to take out the fastest enemies and using bolt when the time is right, but be sure this spell can be used at the right times. This is beatable without an amplifier after a ton of trial and error. (3/3)
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V14: duplicate only purple armor tearing and orange mana leech and make out whatever highest level and efficient mana you have to work with (should end up with grade 8), but start out strong, then have another gem of lower grade using the same combination ready for swarmlings. At the near end where you have to combine the two gems, duplicate the red combo gem to fuse together and repeat until you have just enough mana to fuse combo with the other gem.
V18: build gems as you earn enough mana occasionally having 2 at a time to deal with swarmlings, but at the same time, spend enough to take a few orb banishments (when enemies successfully make it to your orb. Be sure to build towers to cover as much of a trial possible to get as many hits possible. (2/3)
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V4: Combine grade 2 poison and critical and duplicate that same gem, build two towers near the orb, but close enough to land successful hits on enemies following the path. Level up certain gems and carefully so enemies don’t fully destroy the orb. Keep scaling the gems by duplicating them until you have 3 of them with two grade 5 gems and one grade 7. Having all 3 of these near the orb will take out a shadow that spawns midway through and the gems will easily fight off the enemies it spins making this level a cakewalk.
V8: slowly work your way to making 2 or 3 grade 4 gems consisting of combo critical poison, and destroy the nests when possible (I was able to use barrage spell that helped take them out as it did with giants) and eventually you should have grade 8 and maybe 7 to ease through. (1/3)
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After playing this one, I tried to go back to GC 1 & GC 0; I couldn't do it. This one is awesome and by far the best. It's so much more advanced, from the auto advancing mana pool, to the choosing of gem types, to the merging gems in sockets, plus all the new stuff.
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Even the free portion of this game is longer than most games on this site, and if you're playing casually I doubt you'll really feel the loss of certain features. This incomplete version lets you try the game out before paying for it, and if you do pay, what, like $5, you then get dozens more hours of gameplay.
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A game with a number of features permanently locked behind a paywall is only an incomplete fraction of a game. As the pouch cannot be earned, in game, in any way, the game is incomplete. 1 of 5.
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Hey everyone trying to get the BotD. Look at the Instructions tab to the right of the comments. It can help you understand how to do the achievements. You can see the achievements in game by clicking the left button in the top left. Some achievements you can only get later on through progression. Good luck, got the badge in under half an hour.
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No idea why, but right-clicking may cause your keyboard controls to br0ke. Switching to a new tab or window then coming back should restore them
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Part of the 2015 quest. I only got to 10/20 back then. Steep task for a BOTD, given that the first two days of this week's BOTDs were buggy/broken.
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Cannot believe this is the final BOTD for the week that only has 5 days that count. Big learning curve. Too much time.
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Is there an explanation of the achievements anywhere and how to get them, I am hard pressed trying to figure out how to get some and have got some through rnd
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You won't run into a wall if you get to know how angering works, and are able to develop gems ahead of curve to have a gap to anger (anger=summon more monsters) and still handle waves. Use mana steal for that, once you get the skill tome you'll be able to create mana steal gems on all levels.
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Eventually, you will run into a wall where each level becomes so hard you won't be able to progress anywhere. Return to earlier levels, earn some shadow pebbles, redo earlier levels with traits, and after a few years, you will be able to make progress again. I have been playing since 2015, and I was finally able to make progress after 5 years.
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I absolutely love the game! What I like the most are the different mechanics of the gems and the great variety of maps. FYI, if your KEYBOARD STOPS WORKING, I sometimes have the same problem. I can get it working again by going to a different tab (just pausing the game, clicking on a different tab and clicking on this one again).
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I finally beat field V15. in case you want to know how I did this:
I made the monsters go past 15 towers out of 16. then, I placed a lot of tier 1 bloodbound gems, and 2 with higher levels. when I got in trouble, I combined all gems AND THEIR HIT COUNTS into 1 single gem. after that, I repeated the strategy once more. I needed skill, luck and enraging waves, but it's possible. I almost lost at the end due to stupid spawnlings though...
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i swear, if you fail a level with the max shadow trait, when you go to restart it, they just all swarm to within the first 10 waves, hardly time to prep for them.
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@sharoz No, you aren't guaranteed to make mana back when you enrage waves (though you will always earn more XP).
As a rule of thumb, dropping grade 1 gems will earn you mana on basically every level; grade 2s start paying off between waves 0-20; grade 3s between waves 10-30 (the exact breakeven point depends on level difficulty and your gem cost). Angering with lots of low-level gems nets you more mana than higher-level gems, but with more armor per monster.
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If you drop bombs on a wave stone, are you guaranteed to make the money back? For example, if you drop 1000 mana worth of gems on a wave, is the mana gained from killing all monsters in that wave going to be at least 1000 greater than if you hadn't enraged it?
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Love this game but I just wasted ten hours of my life for nothing because all of my progress reset after I deleted my history. I get that this is flash but at least have an online saving system, this was made in 2015 for god's sakes.
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gameinabottle, to answer your question: YES, I am still playing GemCraft in 2019. I own everything you have put out on flash and Steam and want more. There are no other tower defense games that come close to these. I hope you've had enough interest to move forward with your plans.
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I've been having a strange intermittent problem lately, sometimes my keyboard stops working to let me upgrade, duplicate etc.
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Yes I'm still playing in 2019 =) Totally awesome to hear about the new GemCraft chapter FrostBorn! can't wait for it aiiiii!
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DAMN! Lost my saved game once again! I won't be back anymore, too frustrating playing these old outdated games built on an outdated platform! (Flash and anything made on it SUCKS!)
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I swear I've heard music used in this game in an old title from 1997, Lords of Magic released by Sierra. Just an inspiration or a full rip off? Cause its SO SIMILAR. Can't find the old CD but I swear its identical...