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Some advice, Don't worry about getting glowing frame scores for a good while. It gets freakishly easy later on. Thumb up so new players see this.
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I give this a 2 star reason=come on people,theres tower defense games that run faster and are much more solid than this crap
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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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To get all badges you'll need to spam manapool (M key) during waves to increase your score (and level) faster. As you level up, top out all mana upgrades and keep them that way. Then prioritize gem cost and building cost. Put what's left in gems and mastery (spend more in higher-grade gems and pure mastery) but invest all gem/mastery points in high-grade gems once you get them (put the remainder in pure mastery and lower-grade gems, but place those points in high-grade as well when you get enough points to do so). Use high-grade gems to max out every level you see. Finally, master pure mastery, then dual, then the rest. By then you'll be maxing out most stages first run through, dying only in later stages. NOTE - Manapool will be essential for completing later stages, but if used at the wrong time, it may even kill you, so be wary when buying (to stay safe, have 2-3K extra mana in waves 25+ when expecting enemies to make it to the hut and 15K near epic bosses). + this so others can see
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After you reach level 40
Reset all skills, and max out number of high grade starting gem and pure gem mastery, and have fun calling early wave (when you have splash or chain hit)
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the strategy i use is this: go 2 waves at a time then combine gems and switch and make a new one then combine those and put them in the towers then sit back and watch them all DIE!!!!!
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To all the people saying this is a grind, grind is really not needed if you play well, I almost got maxed out on first run of some levels and I am quite shit at tower defense
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The game just keeps going and going... I feel like I've been playing for hours, yet I still haven't maxed out a single level and I still haven't completed all of them.
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My first meeting with flash games (and with tower defence genre) started with this game. It was around six years ago... So nostalgic to find GemCraft here. :')