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First played the game way back when it first came on here, on GF's account (got the "saucy wenches love gems" badge that was around in the first week. Now re-playing cos it's such a good game and seeing how low leveled i can brilliant all lvls on (char lvl 21 and all bar lvl 14 brilliant, i will be done by char lvl 22).
The major bugbear for most are the elite ninja's. So get the wood cutting skills and max out meteor and mana. Yes, hold shift as you cast meteor and you can spam it as fasat as you can left clikc. 5 metroers at 400dmg each is enough to kill any ninja except the one on lvl 14 (he has more than 2K hp). Some on here recommend using crypts for the fear and freeze chance (as the ninja only takes 1 hit before stealth, you look at a small chance of success, but it is doable as youtube vids show. The idea i recommend is temples and catapults.
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Look at how lvl 14 is laid out, a high ground on each side, perfect for two "burning" temples (max out skill gives a guaranteed "daze" to slow the target). Grass on the side enough for 2 dens each side, upgrade fully to the catapults for the aoe, and the elite nija gets slowed ernough for the catapults to hit, then you can meteor spam FWT. make sure your talents have good +exp% gain, like the first skill in temples, and the second form last in both temples and dens.
I've seen much better success this way, than using the crypts for the fear and freeze.
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I enjoyed this game, yet I feel it is too much of a copy of GemCraft, and that it lacks a bit more reality, I believe what would change that would be a zoom option too see the units charging to their doom from the side and close up, instead of a far-over eagle eye view.
Still I enjoyed this. 4/5 Stars + Favourited
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I've got all brillant but the 14th level, I can't kill the last ninja boss with the five meteors... any tip or strategy?
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I found it disappointing that I beat the game so fast, though it's fun with the challenging levels at first, eventually you level up enough that you win without needing a very good strategy. Still a great game though, enough so that I beat it once, lost my saved data, and beat it again; a couple levels I cba to get brilliant on though, because I'm not one who cares so much for that unless there's some kind of special merit for it :P
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I still love this game. Just still trying to figure what world it is where it snows, droughts, and rains all at the same time while in different places.
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Assassins and ninjas need to be smacked with the nerf-stick. The ninja champions (like in the "Hydra" level) are just obscene.
give us effective counters to the assassin's %50 miss ability (which turns a game that is supposed to be about strategy into pure dumb luck at times) and slow down the ninja champions (SERIOUSLY) or give us some kind of "reveal" ability.
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@Oriksagtaria, that's because it was an invisible unit. You'd be better off Meteoring those, as if your units can't hit it, then Frenzy is useless.
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Lol ! champion ninja is imba, with 5 sec invi I can'nt kill him cuase he is too fast, plz reduce speed of ninja orsome magic can see invisible unit .Add more hotkey, Anyone tell me how to kill a champion ninja plz :]
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2 Crypts fire all 6 total charges at asassin. "miss" I fire Meteor. "miss". Again. "miss". My two dens fire "miss" I fire another meteor as it enters the cave. "miss".
there goes my brilliant :(
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Great game, simple but addictive, similar to element defense. Would be good if there was an odd 'neutral' tile where you could build any unit you choose, something like a swamp for instance.
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I'm not sure if this is a bug or what, but sometimes when I use frenzy, my towers don't shoot at all. Then, the champion makes it halfway to the gems completely unscathed before they all spontaneously fire, and my "brilliant" rating is screwed over...
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it would be great if it had a save game button /(and I mean saving an ongoing game, for instance *You have an ongoing level - level 10 wave 13. Would you like to continue it or start over?
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i do like this game i would give it a 3.5 but you can't so a 4 but im wondering why is it the top game its nothing new or all that great why is it better than EVERYTHING on this site...
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Glitch. I was playing when, for some reason the enemies stopped moving. Everything else was functional, but randomly they stopped moving..
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@SarahKreuz So what?! Bloons tower defense has AT LEAST 10 towers PLUS 3 powerups. AND much better graphics, it's longer, a just plain all around better game! And Gemcraft has around ONE HUNDRED towers because you can combine other towers. That and it has 6 powerups! I'm simply stating this game is superbly mediocre compared to other great games yet it's so overrated!
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Under rating threshold (hideshow) At first I was cursing the game for not having hotkeys, as it was difficult to cast meteors quickly enough to kill champion ninjas. But I just realised you can hold shift to quickly cast multiple meteors which makes a HUGE difference in getting the hard badge. Once fully skilled up you can cast 5 meteors in a row which kills a ninja outright. Please rate up this comment to keep this info visible.
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Needs detector towers to spot invisible d-bags. And also needs towers that can hit the dodging guys. Not very well balanced game. But still pretty fun. I doubt I'll ever get the Hard Achievement.
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Very nice game, but a bit too easy (if you only want to play all levels, im not talking about the badges!) and very monoton. but still a nice game
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I got only 5 Brilliant Ratings left to get. (the last 5 maps) And I`m only Lvl 20. I guess it`s possible if you bring the Metor skill and the maximum Mana to the max. But still...it`s kinda luck if my Meteor hits those bastards. XD
I HATE NINJAS!