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Congratulations! You just won the Didn't Touch My Gems Badge and 30 points!
That one was tough... all comes down to luck really for the ninja on 15, was about my 10th try when he finally got feared, long enough for me to hit him with an extra meteor.
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The skill tree gives an incredible amount of freedom, and lets makes your choices be important because you cannot reset. Each tower has two different paths that can be upgraded. It was fun to play and get all the badges. Most difficult level is level 14. That ninja boss is downright lethal. ~2250 health essentially makes you have to damage it a little then spam meteor to succeed.
Strategy guide? I found that going down Undead helped a lot. It promotes incredible mana efficiency that will help later, and the +25% fearing and 25% freezing helps out a lot against bosses, ninjas, and assassins. I next went down to the demons tree to get meteor mastery and meteor study. With the undead talents + these you can easily own protect your gems with meteors. After that I went into orcs to get the Cut Down Study/Mastery. With that, adoration, meteors, high mana you can essentially make as much money as you need and stop any foe.
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I think the 50% dodge rate should be lowered.. I was about to get a brilliant until those stupid bastards kept dodging most of my attacks and touched my darn gem. -.- so stupid.
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very excellent yes games awesome just reset skills like it has been said already endless wave maybe add more levels to a sequel in other words excellent!
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x.x Being Level 42 doesn't agree with me. I will forever see a "3 Skill Points Available!" until I stop playing or level up so it's now at 6. :/
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quite a good game. Just a tip; meteor is good for killing ninjas and that is it. If over used you can deprive your towers of valuable exp. and frenzy will accomplish the same damage boost so long as you use it in an area with a lot of towers. Invest your skills in a bigger mana pool early on so you can sit on a few hundred just in case. 5/5
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good game but you exaggerated whit the ninjas. Their the fastest enemies of the game and they turn invisible for like 5 sec. 5/5 anyway
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Wow, I even got the disarm to proc... problem is the guy goes invisible anyway, I use my entire mana pool casting fully improved fireballs and he's left with a sliver of life. Touches my gem and robs me of the last badge. Just lame.
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hey guys. you do realize that if you hold shift it works like hotkeys ya know? u hold shift and click meteor than u can just shift click wherever you wanna use it.
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While I don't disagree about Ninja Champions being ridiculous, they are completely able to be dealt with. A lot of dealing with them has to do with your tower setup and mana strategy. Crypts can still scare or freeze them if they hit first and Burning Temples will hit them when cloaked if they are triggered. If you know a wave is coming up, conserve your mana for Meteor, which will still hit them.
You won't get a Brilliant on a level with Ninja Champions without leveling up Meteor or getting very lucky with Crypts, end of story. That's kind of the point though - it's *supposed* to be difficult to get them. Until you have a strategy to deal with them, you won't get the perfect rating.
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Need hotkeys. Even if just for the Meteor spell. When you have a champion ninja as the last character in a wave, it's extremely difficult to unleash the meteor on him enough times, which is what you need to do in order to get a gold star.
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The only thing that I don't like is that assassins can dodge fireballs and burning towers, miss chance on constant fire lasers isn't exactly fair either...
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fun stuff. like the upgrades and replayability. good badges. agree with silverpenny though - add hotkeys. holy crap, 2 or 3 of the levels was more about mouse speed than strategy. and thanks to Jasperwinkel for pointing out the hold shift for meteor, otherwise I would never have gotten lvl 15 perfect. for all the good, I found most of the upgrades only minorly useful and never used green/dens for anything. I think you can almost complete the entire thing with just the ice towers.
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The best way I found to beat ninja champions is to concentrate your towers in the end and put a couple in the very beginning. The skill will wear off before the champion gets to the towers.
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this game is the definition of grinding. the only way to win is by grinding lower levels to collect skill points. the levels pretty much dictate the strategy because you can only place towers on certain tiles. variation is limited to which towers to place first or to upgrade first. upgrading is also very limited because you need xp by killing. that means you can't have strong towers at the back to catch any leaks. also towers with higher xp hog the xp from towers with lower xp. the skills could have added variation in the strategies, because different skills can make one tower more powerfull than the other. but because the skills cannot be reset there is no way to try a "different" strategy by varying the skills. i you are stuck on a level, because your skills are not optimal for the towers dictated by the level, then the only way to adapt your skills is by grinding lower levels. this game looked great in the beginning, but now it just tedious grinding.
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Unless i'm missing something very obvious. getting the level 14 "Excellent" achievement is nigh impossible. Even spamming fireball isn't enough to kill the final boss before it touches a gem. I have maxxed all the skills so it can't be something I'm missing from the skills.
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And Temples FTW.. I got the " Didn't Touch My Gems Badge (hard - 30 points)
You acquired this badge on May. 13, 2010." With Temples....
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Ugh. I have to knock a point off my original score. You're down from 5/5 to 4/5 because Ninjas (and particularly Ninja champions) are just that broken. If there were a way that was based on skill to beat them, it wouldn't be so bad. But there isn't. You're just praying either that you crit them a ton, or that they get feared/frozen on the first hit when they go invisible so that it's even remotely possible to kill them before they reach a gem if you want Brilliant. I enjoy a challenge, but this isn't true challenge. It's just praying to the Random Number God that he wont **** you in the ass with ninjas you can't harm. Even the "correct" layout of a level will only work like 3 times in ten. A 30% success rate for being perfect is not good gameplay.
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Balance wise, I have to say that Temples in general is a bit underpowered. They level extremely slowly in comparison to the other towers(particularly Evileye temple due to earning 1 exp per attack) so you'll rarely(if ever) have maxed out Evileye temples. in addition burning corpse is quite weak considering the burning temple and ballista dens are a more reliable and powerful source of area of effect damage.Imo, A quick fix would be to allow them to earn 2 exp(assuming both basic training and Demon Lord are maxed) per attack and simply raise the exp caps for temples instead as it is now, the best way to earn exp is to spam frenzy when a boss is in range of a temple/evileye temple(burning temples acquire exp at a decent pace).
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For beating Ninja champs, remember you can hold shift to keep casting the spell. Select meteor, shift-click 5 times. You don't have to move the mouse and select the spell each cast.
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I recently made the 15 brilliant ratings. Here are a few tips...
The crypt towers were easily my favorite, towards the end you don't need much else. Get the fear upg. and freeze upg. and its pretty much GG.
When facing a ninja boss make sure the crypt towers hit him first. If you're lucky he'll be frozen before he has a chance to go invisible.
Get the skills to turn 50 mana into 100 gold. Although its not necessary, it can be helpful when you're sitting around with huge mana reserves.
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Only sure-fire way I found to beat last-level Ninja champions was to max the two fireball talents (lower mana and more damage) and to max your mana to 500, then when the ninja comes just spam fireball on it 5 times; it's a guaranteed kill.
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@Mizekel, you can instead opt to use Temples along with the skill adoration (right one down one from Basic Training). This allows temples to grant you 20 mana each time they are built.
Spam 5 meteors(hold shift), build 5 temples(again shift~) and cast another meteor. Fried Ninja Champion ^^
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I LOVE THIS GAME ALL OF IT IS BRILLIANT AND MANTIL NICE IDEA FOR A RESET SKILLS BUTTON GENIUS INCLUDING THE TERRAINS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!9999999999999999999999/5
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Click on fireball, then click somewhere else in the menu. It wastes your mana without giving you any benefit... the spell shouldn't activate unless I click on the map itself! Please fix this!
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I had thought this was a great game, but after playing through I'm liking it less. Essentially the game is a cakewalk except for the ninja, which just makes it redonkulous. A 5 second vanish on a Boss Ninja when it takes less then 5 seconds to get to your gems means you can't get the best ranks. Forty levels down the crapper. Now I have to grind the Demon path to see if the extra Meteor damage can kill him before he gets there. Really bad game element. If that were adjusted and the overall difficulty raised to compensate you'd have a great game here. Still, I'll give it a 4/5.
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To beat level 14 with "Brilliant", you need 1 blue tower on the top-left corner and 1 blue tower on the bottom-right corner. Then you need to upgrade the tower enough to get the "Disarm" Skill, and hope that when wave 50 comes, the skill effect kicks in.
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Okay, there is something i do not get. On the first level i got a brilliant because i lost no gems and killed everything, yet i did the same for all levels and didn't get brilliant. Why?
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Mizekel, are you sure you didn't mean Brilliant? Getting excellent on every level isn't very hard with a little strategy and a decent level.