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Then call 15-20 waves & make sure to keep your hand pressed on the M key, because you WILL lag, and your gem WILL kill 5-10 monsters per hit, or so, making huge fast mana gains(because they're all clumped up, & the grade 9's splash range is quite big) You will feel like a GOD when every single wave together cannot pass your single-gem defense. :)
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Sorry for spamming comments- Kong has a limit of 1000 characters per comment, & there's sadly no forum for this awesome game(I've completed both the others, just revisited this one in anticipation for Gemcraft 2) but anyway. The very best pure gem is get it, splash. Go to red hidden level if you don't believe me. Max out mid grade & high grade gem skills, along with the others that you normally put skill points into. All those starting gems combined(minus 1 grade 3 as said earlier) will give you a grade nine red. Place it 1-2 squares away from the path, preferably near a curve, because its range is great & you'd be remiss to waste that. Then, place water trenches on the path that is in your gem's range.
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Remember this is the first game of the series that went into production, so its mechanics and balance is less perfect than in the other games. I'm spoiled by both GC0 and GCL already, so I really miss angering monsters for more XP :)
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Personnally, i'd prefer being able to choose the color of my gems. I dislike not being able to choose my towers' special effects and I'm usually unlucky, so I rarely get the gems I want.
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Better comprehensible version of my last, weird comment:
You can easily get glowing frames in all levels before the first epic one by maxing out your gem bomb enhancement skill and related abilities, summoning many waves at once and spamming low-grade gem bombs.
That jellyfish thing was just an obscure reference; I didn't criticise this game or anything.
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If you play this right, "Armor" skill does you no good, as no monster will ever get banished. Including epic bosses. Just bomb the heck out of lower level monsters with gem bombs, up mana pool, get a grade 7 ANY gem, then combine it with lots of ANY grade 1 gems, this will then plow through anything and everything.
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Hey, if you don't want to play it at armor games, try gemcraft0.com its the creators site. Has all the games, with none of the armor game limits. +1 for others to see.
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I'm used to upgrading a gem while in a tower from a newer game, so it's annoying to have to take a gem out of a tower in order to combine it with another gem. Also the fact that gems are random makes it harder to get the correct ones.
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@vnzolano94: 'hue' in this game refers to the color of your gem, or the critters attacking. It's the shade of their color, if you want.
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Finally!
I'd say this is the best flash td out there. I hope there will be an impossible badge for taking all the amulets.
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The bad thing about Ctrl+Combine Gem is that you can't combine them with the SAME colour, especially when you have maxed your pure gem mastery. Maybe they can create a Shift+Combine Gem. ;)
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i enjoy tower defense games, but the one thing that makes this game one of the best games on kong is that it has a speed up button-- barely any games on kong have them, especially slow ones D= press + if you agree
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ok i understand how the "dear customers..." comments were rated down, but why was the "4/5" comment rated down? whats bad about that? the rate system is soo abused on this site.
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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. :')
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jerk move to leave New Years remarks in a video game comments section. esp when you don't leave any comments on the game itself. ftr, good game, but i miss not being able to fuse gems on the towers. could save some time and risk not dragging gems off my towers in the early stages. must've been fixed in a later game. still need to finish this baby off, dunno why i haven't yet. ah, well. the day is still young. for me that is. once more, unto the breach!
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I played Gemcraft labyrinth first. You can imagine my confusion when I try the shortcut keys or combining gems in towers. Rather than combine gems, I've been spamming gembombs, building empty towers and rushing the waves so that I get nice big groups. I'm sure down the line that strategy will no longer work, but it's good for leveling at the start at least. Liking the game so far, will rate later on.
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Getting Glowing Frame scores is WAY to repetative. Made me quit the game at least. Better luck next time. Good game except for bad replayability! 4/5
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here's a small tip for those who are just starting out, survive first, then glow your score out, easy as pie once you get pure gem mastery and high grade gem's expecially if you can get a grade 7+ red just set that puppy by the spawn point with a few water traps and go to town usually i spawn the whole level out while continuing to mash 4 for mana pool (gotten over 100k mana that way lol) with a few 5-7 grade backup gems of course just for those who accidentally pass my red... easily can get 5-10m scores on a glowing frame score of 3m all together a wonderful game can't stop playing it till i finish it lol
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Sending all of the waves at once is not a good idea and can lag you pretty good depending on your cpu and the # of waves lol