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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
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Good game, but the armor games thing in upgrades is just plain wrong. I don't know why we allow that sort of thing in games at all.
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Ouch!!! Saver beware. I've been playing for a week. Got nearly to the end only to sign on today to learn that my save game has disappeared. Keep this in mind, my friendly grinders.
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@PureMusic and all those others who ask why Gemcraft isn't as great as chapter 0. Gemcraft is the original game, released 2008 according to Wikipedia, although I could have sworn I played it years ago. Chapter 0 is a prequel, released 2009. The really good news is that a sequel, Gemcraft Labyrinth, is due for release at the end of January. It's going to be epic.
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I cant remember what that exclusive skill is to armour games, though I have played it there. Couldn't that skill perhaps unlock through clicking a link to armour games or something similar?
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Use Manna Pool, Brucius. In addition to raising your manna gain and limit it also raises your score multiplier. It's crucial for getting glowing frames.
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Wow, this is nearly ten years old! Still good fun to play, though I wish they'd come back and update the user interface, which is kinda clunky and definitely showing its age. C-click-B-drag is pretty clumsy for making a bunch of gem bombs, for example. Thankfully, the underlying game is good enough that this is just a quibble.
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@paynecone: If you hate "nerds," then why are you on an online gaming website...? think it's gonna help you pick up chicks?
P.S. here is the original comment, just so you don't have to go sifting through the all comments section like i did... -_-
I quote:
"SRSLY THIS GAME IS 110% FOR NERDS! THEY BELIEF THAT GEMS CAN "MAGICALLY" SHOOT OUT A BEAM OF LIGHT (AKA GAY) SECONDLY KILLING COCKROACHES WHICH NERDS ALSO SEEM TO BELIEVE IS SOME SORT OF WARLOCK (AKA YOUR MOM)! SRSLY GROW UP NERDS, UR 25 LIFING STILL IN UR MOM BASEMENT, GO OUT, GET A LIFE, GET A JOB, GO TO COLLEGE, GET FRIENDS, AND GET A GIRL FRIEND! GROW UP NERDS"