While doing this, if you have enough processing power to use a gem in a tower, you can shoot down the first few spires and flying ones to get some shadow cores, too. This will allow you to survive a couple minutes, which lets you drop those big gems on the xp sparks. When you get to the end of a run on endurance (the point where you would quit) take your gems out of your towers (except for maybe a big single target kill gem, or a multitarget(meaning has a chain hit component) set to structure), move your mana trap to near your orb, put a few big (40+) straight upgraded gems in your inventory, crank up the speed to x9 if you haven't already, and fire all remaining waves (ctrl click the side bar) this will keep your freeze spell refreshed fast enough that you can permafreeze most incoming monsters over your mana trap. I was worried the game might crash so placed all my gems in inventory and allowed the game to end. I did have target 'Nearest to orb' set, but for some reason at this point my Gems had ideas of their own. I only stopped because my graphics was glitching and the towers did not appear to be firing or when they did fire - they appeared to be targeting structures mainly. I was enraging Swarmling waves to 999 mobs and to around 500 with Reavers. I was very conservative with enraging waves, only starting around wave 30, with 2 level 1 gems and also not enraging Giants waves.Įventually I had 4 traps in a row, surrounded by amps and quite a few kill towers as well. I also used a couple of slow gems in towers to help out the traps. Keep amp gems around 2 levels behind the main gem in order to keep mana requirements manageable. I concentrated on getting 6 Amps around my trap as soon as I could. I did not try gem weaving, but you should probably do it if you know how. Combined to Level 4 gemĪmp Trap gem was: Red, Orange Amp Kill gem was: Red, Yellow Combined to Level 4 gem Kill gem was: 1 Red, 3 white, 4 yellow. Initially all I had down was a trap and a kill tower. Not sure when I started enraging waves but probably not much before wave 30. Hold out as long as you can after you win levels in Endurance mode for more rewards.2k mana is not enough to get set up from wave 1, so the idea is to just survive and then slowly build up the infrastructure.Replay any stage you've completed for more experience points or with a new challenge.Want more monsters? Summon them with wave stones, but beware their greater power.Control the speed of battle with fast-forward or pause to fit your play style.

Wield devastating spells to decimate your foes or enhance your gems.

Socket fragments you find into your mystical talisman to impart new bonuses.

Combine and stack multiple tiers of difficulty and challenging battle traits for greater rewards, but also greater dangers.

Craft and combine nine gem types with different effects to suit your tactical needs.

More than 400 achievements that will reward you with more skill points as you earn them.Over two dozen passive skills to unlock and enhance as you level up and increase your power.Conquer over 190 stages with unique challenges and conditions.GemCraft is packed with multiple levels of difficulty, hundreds of achievements, nearly two hundred levels, and much, much more, making it a rewarding, deep strategy game you'll come back to over and over again. GemCraft combines fast-paced real-time strategy as you deal with waves of incoming monsters, and cunning tactics that allow you to craft and combine magical gems.Ĭreate traps that poison or slow, discover powerful artifacts and unlock new abilities, and stand alone against The Forgotten, a seemingly unkillable archdemon whose endless armies threaten to swallow the world. Against swarms of vicious, demonic avatars, your only defenses are the gems you conjure that, when placed atop towers or into traps and amplifiers, become conduits for powerful magical and elemental attacks. The cult classic tower defense game beloved by millions comes to Steam with GemCraft - Chasing Shadows.

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