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does anyone know how to get a decent amount of XP? like what amulets to go after, if you gain more by gembombing, by speeding up waves or what
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I'd like to see Kongregate pick up GemCraft Labyrinth as soon as possible. I don't particularly like having to play it on ArmorGames.
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Coming back to this after having played the very last one goes to show how far this series has come. It's actually kinda rough playing this iteration again. But it makes me wanna revisit the newest one.
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Hint for the final badge: Finish the game, upgrade High Starter Gems to the max, play through the game again using tose gems and spamming the Mana Pool upgrade.
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It's really weird playing this one after hours of playing Labyrinth. Everything feels so much different..yet familiar. Such an amazing series.
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CaptainFactoid - replaying levels only adds the improvement to your total score. For example, if the first time you got 800,000 points and you replayed it and got 1,000,000 points, your total score would increase by 200,000
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Did the first epic boss at level 16- just make sure you have at least one purple pentagon waiting at the beginning and 5000+ mana to withstand 1 hit from the boss. When he comes and goes past your first few towers, take your purple pents and station them at towers so its always hitting him. Second run should be enough to kill him, if not bomb him till his dead.
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This game's hard badges are worth some 4h together, there are games with medium badges one can only get in several days worth of playing. And it's still alive after all those years - nice, solid, feature rich (for a first game in series) tower defense.
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How to win:
You have two options to increase your points: the mana pool, or calling waves early. The trick is to balance your mana between mana pool (an immediate cost with a long-term payoff) and gems (stronger gems allow you to handle earlier waves).
Strategy:
For the first half of each level, focus on mana pool. Invest your skill points in good starter gems that can handle the first 5-20 levels alone. Place the starter gems in towers, and go through as many waves as possible, calling early when possible, and investing all the mana you earn in mana pool.
Once your starter gems struggle to handle the monsters, begin buying gems. You should have a 1.5-3x mana gain multiplier. Use your extra mana to overbuild gems. Call waves early until the end.
This strategy will allow you to get 1.5-2x the glowing score on most levels.
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This is probably my favourite game on Kongregate yet. I absolutely love tower defense games, but they were all starting to blur together... until I tried this one.
Instead of building specific towers and upgrading them, building gems that give your towers abilities, and being able to COMBINE said gems, adds a whole new layer of depth. Combine that with the skills you can gain for leveling up, and you have one of the most complete, layered tower defense games out there.
If you're the type of person that enjoys TD games, but are tired of the exact same concept/gameplay being used, give GemCraft a shot. You will not be disappointed, I can guarantee you that!
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Great game :D i think we should be able to combine gems inside a tower.. also add more gem grades please ? and infinite mode :D
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To beat the final level, make a lot of towers and moats on top and a few towers on the bottom. Make sure you HAVE OVER THAN 7000 MANA for the final boss, you can't kill it in one pass. You need to lower its armor with the purple gem (once it gets out of range, move it to another tower) and then it will receive a lot more damage making it much easier to kill.
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Definately a Gem of a game :^)
Seriously though. it is absolutely amazing, gonna go for chapter 0 next! just gotta get that final battle achievement... and the secret... wait WHAT. SECRET levels? (yay for not reading tutorials!)
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Here's a little trick. Get to the last wave of any level, leave one monster alive. Make sure you regenerate more mana than it takes to banish it according to how long it takes for it to run from start to end. (As in, if you regenerate 45 mana while the monster runs the whole way and it only costs 30, you're good) Use the mana you gain to upgrade your mana pool, create towers, bridges, as well as creating and combining gems and throwing gem bombs at nothing. When you've had your fill, kill the last monster. You should get plenty of amulets for lots of extra points. That trick is VERY slow, but could help out. I did this on level 2, got a gold battle amulet on everything, except kill x monsters in a row.
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Brennan1214. If you could continue to get experience from the same levels, the difficulty in this game would entirely vanish. That would make the game terrible. Also, when typing sentences in English you don't capitalize the first letter of every word. I really hope English is not your first language, because thats sad if it is.
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I hate commenting so many times, but there's no edit option, so...
I recommend a Lime...well, really anything combo. Only Lime combo I found pointless was Purple, and if you have any status color + Lime, you're golden, especially grade 7 or higher.
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it really sucks when they do that stupid "you can only do/unlock this at" like the amulets on this game can only be unlocked at armor games...so we waist our time playing it here and then they expect us to do it all over again at another site....im sick of this bs why cant all the games just let you unlock stuff without haveing to link to and make you join another site...maybe i dont want to goto armor games and play maybe i like kongregate better....f**k armor games....and all them other games that make you go to other sites to unlock shit that should be included anywhere.they kinda do that bs with this site with the stupid kred thing but atleast you dont have to goto a different site....but it is too expensive..ill buy a real game because i dont want to waist 30$ on like 2k kreds when alot of games take 1k-2k kreds to unlock a single item..+ if you agree that they should do away with kreds and let crap that should be included be free and do away with the you must goto this site
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GemCraft:Chasing shadows has been available on your main competitors site for the last few months. Kinda Sad kong hasnt got it yet I do prefer playing on this site :[
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It would be nice if the skills showed how big the upgrade is which you buy. Like 1% more mana or 50%. How much more does each skill level give?
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Still the Daddy of Tower Defense games! Gemcraft and its sequels are the best games of their type, full of replay value and well designed levels.
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Had a blast playing this game and being the TD junkie that i am , i want to enjoy a good sequel. These is my opinion on what could be improved:
-detailed explanation for skill and upgrades ( for eg: powerful gem bombs doesn't give me a clue why i should invest 1 point instead of 5)
-combining gems in towers(as stated also by Cococambo)
-possibly a gem tree, where you can see each combination of colors and it's stats
-gem bombs having specific effects for each gem used(for example poison makes a poison cloud, red has larger area)
Please rate up if you support these ideeas so the developers can see them. I'll also send an e-mail to Armor.
On a side note to all the guys complaining about locked content, it's about max 5% of the game, i played the game on Armor, the skill in later stages isn't worth investing in. Also i think it's good they have more levels, more content > less.(except if you're playing it just to hunt badges).
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actualy you dont gimp yourself by playing on kong. armor perk is kind of useless until you max out everything else. because instead of putting points into armor, you could put them somewhere to prevent a base hit in a first place.
most important perks are mana/kill and starter gems.
they will make you realy strong. everything else is just for a little more comfort.
you have to figure out how mana production works. because its most probable that you made the game unplayable by doing this part wrong.
a little tip: read monster, spell and gem descriptions in this regard.
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ALLOW FLASH PLAYER TO GET THIS BOTD AND ANY. CHROME NOW AUTO-BLOCKS FLASH PLAYER, ENABLE IT IN THE TOP RIGHT CORNER [a puzzle piece].
+1 SO EVERYONE CAN SEE.
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to get extra points in the end: [3],ctrl+click on the lowest creating section, [6], ctrl click on one of the new gems aso. reaaly useful if u dont reach the glowing frame goal with normal kill+call early's