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Anarchie
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Shepherd

Hi,

in Gemcraft Lab I could go on in Endurance mode forever with Chain+Mana-Gems collecting Mana, enraging giant waves and some killing gems.
In CS it kills me pretty soon. Main problems I identify would be slow mana-collection and high armor.
I appreciate that endurance became limited but Id like some more chance for staying at least some longer.
Anybody found a good strategy for endurance?

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stickpag
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Peasant

If anyone is still reading, do not anger if the monsters have over E+200 and more, cuz then your game will freeze.

dfnord
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Farmer

Great tip @stickpag. Another one: field X6. It has venon and supressing. Managed to finished endurance on haunting with maxxed traits (but mana lock). I was level 2k and now got to level 2.5k. Some screenshots:

http://i.imgur.com/vrz4JMZ.png
http://i.imgur.com/6pErFvv.png
http://i.imgur.com/ldsfAtR.png
http://i.imgur.com/AcaGMB2.png

stickpag
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Peasant

I did it again and bombed several waves(didnt count) 800 times ea (hp reached about E+230) and this was the final outcome: http://puu.sh/8eipI.jpg

One lvl100 talisman which is nice, and that 77.296 billion raw xp i reckon u can get over 500b and more if u do all the waves starting from 900, i simply did all the swarm ones with no hp regen and heal other on death(so annoying to kill if they got them) And about 4.5k shadow orbs.

I reached level 3000 with this. Anyone know what the highest level that has been obtained after patch?(meaning, no 40m lvl convertion etc) They claimed 4k in 10 hours but whats the tactic then? seems to me that u wouldnt be able to anger that much cuz of freeze bug.

dfnord
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Farmer

@stickpag see my post above: I got 600 B on X6, over 80% of i was gained on the very last wave (see the pick with the giant that is worth over 12 million xp). I guess the trick is: do venon shrine levels, but don't do endurance. You can enrange last levels before endurance, and it can yield less xp, but it won't have the 75% penality for endurance, you can enrage more due to being much sooner than the NaN life bug (use max Fury skill to spice it up even more).

thunderrider
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Peasant

Yay!

http://i.imgur.com/3veKS8B.png

Beat endurance, all settings except carapace and mana lock....I hate carapace & lock lol, so i never use those.

thunderrider
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Peasant

forgot to add I am now level 2818. Time to have a go with newfound XPerience on a gem grade run! xD

Poghy
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Shepherd

Congrats thunderrider! Is this X4?

BTW carapace isnt that bad. 70% damage reduction seems a lot in other rpg or strategy games but in gemcraft it just means that your e40 damage gem does 3e39 damage so its not a big deal.

Poghy
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And carapace also helps with your manafarm, keeping the mobs alive.

thunderrider
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Peasant

hmm...true actually....my gem at the end was doing about 0.000001% of the damage to kill my last two giant waves(998 & 999) who both had E209....%based shrines go past it, ofc....well **** that was stupid, could've gotten +100 levels there. Meh....

thunderrider
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And yeah it was X4. That map is epic. I was lucky to get a shrine of blades in the best spot ever, center of the bottom road, and in almost all directions too. Then, venom shrines on either end of that same road and you got a killzone

Last 500 monsters took 30-40 minutes IRL time to mop up....comparison the previous 3-4K took 20 mins....because those 500 chose to go out one at a time for some reason, pissing me off a lot hehe. Still worth it....just wish I had angered even more, or angered other waves in the 990s...couldve gotten moar moar moar! ah well nexttime.

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Nomad

I have 2 blade shrines and 4 venom shrines, but can't kill the monsters 8 hours after all waves were called. The thing is, when a monster dies, all nearby monster heal back to full health >< With more than 2K monsters still left game does not run smooth, neither :/

stickpag
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Peasant

8 hours? just keep using em, wait 10secs, then use again, eventually it will start killing lots of em, i have had this happen several times but with way bigger numbers, didnt take 8 hours then thou....

stickpag
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Peasant

Also, you 1 venom, using more is pointless, then use blades, use blades several times too, the venom will keep going for 60 seconds so just spam blades for about 40 secs then use venom again, using venom again will reset the previous ones so it will start taking from the now current max. u can also use woe, about 30-40% dmg takes But it will banish every fith each time so its not prefered over the shrines, it will temporarily stop healing thou

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1) Use venom shrine.
2) Use blades shrine 2x.
3) Several enemies die, rest heal. They are still poisoned, though, so just keep repeating step 2 every few seconds...

thunderrider
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Peasant

I'ma video my attempt to get 1 trillion base xp. Maybe. When I tried to vid my gem grade stuff(G58 wave 16 ppl!!!!!) it almost crashed game, too laggy. Lol.

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