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I just found out there is a hit point maximum on endurance mode. After 3,333,333,333 the hitpoints dont increase any more. With a level 20 gem I could basicly go on forever. There is also a limit to the mana pool when extending it becomes more expensive than you pool size. I stopped at level 650 and mana replenish x10 though.
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I suppose I should have been more specific in my comments. I'm very aware of pylon leveling and things you can do to gain huge amounts of levels quickly. I was assuming he was just talking about playing the game normally, (why, I don't know). If you're not mana farming, pylon leveling etc etc then leveling up takes awhile. So, I apologize if I come off as a dick. Personally, I don't use any of that and am going through the game the long, hard, normal way where it takes 3 or 4 wins to gain a level. The last badge really needs to be an impossible though. I'm only gunna get 30 points for beating 169 damn levels?
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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.
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For all of those telling them to hurry up on the next series: Do you want 30 levels? Look at the quality, and time put into making this game, truly remarkable. You can track their process at their blog... I really look forward to the next of the GemCraft series.. the story line, crafting, everything. True brilliance.
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I'd kindof like an even faster speed setting. Especially when I'm waiting for those 3 huge, slow beasts to move all the way across the screen.
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It is very rare I give a game a 5/5 - especially a tower defense game - but this is as close to a perfect tower defense game as I can think of.
The way that the challenge can be ramped up at any point, how experience works, and variety of enemies is all spot on, but I think the greatest strength is how the mazeing works. The fact that you can influence the path how you want is great, but you make "juggling" (opening up paths and closing off other ones mid wave) possible, but hard to pull off and not as beneficial as if you had the ability to just sell walls or tower bases.
Even the story adds some interest. All in all, this is easily one of the best games on Kongregate.
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PS- the first crafting pylon is your only advantage to earning the two amulets: 1. when you craft 7+ gems with 700 not combined kills with only swarms and double monster setting (this was a pain, but it’s doable), plus you can use the gems in amplifiers as well to easily keep a consistent kill flow without having the monsters overwhelm you. 2. Using the wild gem and amplifiers to get 3,000 kills (without ever combining any gems with the wild one). The final level for me after many trial and errors can be beaten with 4 gems shooting the same pylon with one gem amplifying 3 towers. Take advantage of mana skills to easily spend mana on towers and scale the gems up to grade 4 or 5 combining mana with bloodhound, chain hit, or mult. damage (all this is possible w/o adjusting to fight certain monsters from battle settings). (3/3)
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@nhoojn: Bloodbound lose effectiveness fast at high grades. Once your gem grade gets into double figures you should be switching to Chain Hit and Multiple Damage :) Just a heads up in case you get caught out in the later levels and wonder why your red gems aren't killing the monsters.
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zachbrew, You don't seem to get it. Yes, doing what you are saying will make the gem better, for a while. However, it gets you a worse gem for the money than simply upgrading. Using the same amount of mana, I combined a grade 6 with 62 grade 5's, and compared that to a grade 11 (yes, that is the same amount of mana). Grade 6 stats: 356-1311, 6.8 fire rate, 5.11 crit; Grade 11 stats: 1206-4114, 14.7 fire rate, 7.31 crit. Simply upgrading results in a gem that is nearly 10 times better than your method.
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@meepluvsu yes it is possible to beat d10. use walls to block all ways so they have to come from the top past one of the entrances the monsters come in. you could also try using a combo of slow,shock and mana gain so you dont have to unlock any gems types. use walls to make them go past your towers charging the pylon and taking the longest route to your orb. if you dont like the idea of triple gems because they the most expensive to upgrade then try shock and mana gain. posion isnt realy worth using. however ill leave it to you and i hope this helps.
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To anyone still playing in 2021 the game is no longer playable, you need supernova player but in supernova it says you can only play on kongregate.com and then again kongregate says you need supernova so have fun if you paid for the premium.
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I too, was searching for the skills page... there should be a notice saying the skills page appears after choosing the 2nd battle and before starting it!
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"Remind me of the babe" badge should be impossible (not for difficulty, but for endurance). But had to do it anyway for it the Bowie reference... 5*
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Some journey amulets are earned by constantly playing fields M7 and M4. M7 was done many times for buildings, killing tons of monsters, spending loads of mana. M4 was only for raiding tombs without failing a level even to help squeeze extra xp. L3 is where you can spend 100,000 mana to earn a journey amulet, just try it with extra waves and double monsters that can ensure the round won’t end too soon before you’re able to get it. It’s easy to grind extra XP with multipliers set to double monsters, armored only, 15 bonus waves, and banishment heal + cost extra increase. Up to the mid top area of the fields, use the same settings while toning down the monster amount. (2/3)
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DUDES, to play this game you need to do as sublette131 said, you have to download the game at the author's website (flash player included):
https://gameinabottle.com/gcl.php
also, it's possible to get the save file from your computer (only your local save file, not your server save file, afaik...), just google "how to get flash player save data" and follow the instructions!!
keep on the bug smashing, fellow gemcrafters o/
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Actually, red is not the best gem... only in early levels. When you can afford it, a Yellow-Orange-Lime gem will easily be the best. Red gems do not scale their damage as quickly as the hp climbs in more difficult waves.
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Unplayable as of flash being nuked, it loads with Supernova and then tells you the game can only be played on Kongregate.com
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I think this is the best TD game out there. I recommend the premium, it's only 5USD or £3.50 which is not much, considering a game costs from £5-50. Also, hint to the newer players - Blood gems are good early on, but if you go to around wave 150+ they do not output enough damage. Mathematically, if the gem has 10000 kills and a 100% kills-damage ratio, it only gets 10000 damage, whereas the multiple damage(yellow) gem gets around 100x damage, if the base is 10000, it does much more.
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Why SUpernovaPlayer doesn't play directly on the site? This disables the games linked to the current domain! This game doesn't work!
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What riles me a bit is that Endurance is a premium-only mode. I have no objections against the other settings and skills being premium, but Endurance is such an important aspect of the game that it greatly increases the difficulty if you cannot use Endurance to obtain more xp, so that you can take on later levels... Still, good game, and I like this installment of the Gemcraft series.
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The only thing I am cringing about is the "endurance" and "giants only" lock.
Endurence, Sandbox, however you call it mode is a big part in almost every Tower Defense Game and "Giants only" is kickass and has been craved by TD players for years but is still found rarely.
I never complain about Premium stuff and understand that this game needed it (I even suggested it about 2 years ago because of the sheer lenght and replayability of the originaln Gemcraft) but it's sad to see that they cut through flesh.
But yea, I'll pay, it's gemcraft after all. I had over 100 hours fun for free what do I have to give you? Five bucks?
Well, at least the price is hillariously low :)
Thank You
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For those who dislike idea of premium content - full game with premium content unlocked is available on developer page - http://gameinabottle.com/gcl.php
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I think we should earn a small portion of the experience when we fail a level, say 10 or 25%. After all, we're defeated, not dead. We're still in the labyrinth even, so, clearly we're OK. Surely we learned something from that experience...
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Ah, you guys don't have to switch to their website. If you're using Chrome, go to where it says plugin blocked and choose run all plugins. It takes a couple of seconds (a reload might be necessary sometimes) but it'll start showing the premium version again.
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if your having trouble with a map because of armored or giant monsters, figure out a way to work in a bloodbound gem, it makes all the difference in the world
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It's just such a pity Greg didn't listen to the previous gemcraft chapter 0 comments. 'Beating the final stage should be an impossible badge',they said. This is completely true because it takes days if you are a no-life and weeks if you are not. There's just so much ppl that got it because the game was so awesome. ;) But that one was 78 battles. And here we are, a new version of gemcraft, with a whopping 169 battles (4 of which are secret) so it should take EVEN longer, and yet beating the final field is a hard badge. I mean cmon! If you compare the first hard badge (beating two epic fields) and the second (basically beating 5 epic fields), you should REALLY see that the final hard one deserves to be impossible. Also i got wizard level 15 at about having beaten 15 fields...so... you get the picture i guess.
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This game routinely seems to revert back to an old save file and your progress gets wiped out for some reason. Make regular backups of giabGclSaveData.sol.