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markkrosky
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markkrosky
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Nomad

Has someone unlocked all the skills and battle traits? What are they? I haven't had much time to play yet. I miss being able to mouseover and see the ones I haven't unlocked yet.

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Hyppy
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Hyppy
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Peasant

I'm not particularly inclined to spend 20 minutes flipping windows to type out the name and description of 25 skills and traits, but if you have a specific question I'll answer.

anexoticllama
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anexoticllama
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Nomad

Poolbound and multi dmg?

markkrosky
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markkrosky
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Nomad

Is there a skill like GCL ritual, which gives you potentially unlimited mana?

zzxxzz3
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zzxxzz3
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Jester

Is there a skill like GCL ritual, which gives you potentially unlimited mana?


No.
Cirno
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Cirno
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Peasant

the bottom left trait. I don't have it, and I've cleared every stage I can. What is that trait?

I have not unlocked the S or V hextiles yet. Do you know how to do those?

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Farmer

@Cirno you mean Swarmling domination? http://i.imgur.com/OM0U1tS.png

I don't remember how I got it though. I believe it was a wizard tower, but it may requrie enraging a lot of swarmlings (which used to be the safest mob to enrage back when I got it).

Scarcon
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Blacksmith

The traits are (left to right):
First row:
Adaptive Carapace causes monsters to take less damage after each subsequent hit taken
Mana Lock stores any mana gained in a secondary pool and only gives it to you after a delay
Corrupted Banishment increases monster's HP, armor and shield after being banished
Second row:
Haste reduces the time between waves
Beacon Storm summons a beacon every 3 waves
Giant Domination makes giants more durable
Premium:
Swarmling Domination, not sure what that does, no premium so far
Orblets creates orblets around your orb, boosting mana passively, but giving a huge mana penatly if they're stolen by monsters
Chasing Shadows summons more shadows during the battle

I have not unlocked the S or V hextiles yet. Do you know how to do those?

There's no V hextile since V levels are the vision fields.
S is unaccessible. The S stands for Spiritforge, and that's what's depicted on the S hextile. According to the storyline, chapter 3 will take place there. The hextile, however, can be gained. Either by completing Y6 or beating X5 without charging the pylons. Don't remember which one it was.

As for skills (@markkrosky), there is one for each gem type (9 total) and one for each spell (6 total).
Then there are spells for: higher gem damage, more mana gain by monster kills, lower gem mana costs, lower builing cost + faster gem socketing, increased gem damage & specials (dependant on gem purity), improved amplifiers, improved gem wasps, higher bomb damage and improved traps.

I also have to add a question. The skill in the bottom row, in the center, what is that one? I guess it's premium only and afaik it's called "Fury". What does it do?
Cirno
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Cirno
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Chasing Shadows is the one I want. How do I unlock it?

the bottom skills are
Amplifier - improves efficacy of amplifiers. not very good.
Ignition - Wasp sting damage 6/lvl, +1 sting per wasp every 3 levels.
Fury - +2% xp bonus for monsters in enraged waves/lvl. -3% enraging monster hit points and armor penalty every 3 levels.
Demolition - Anyone actually ever use this skill?
Traps - 5% specials multiplier/level. +3% trap firing speed per 3 levels.

Traps is the only one that's really any good. The others are definitely "winmore" skills. "I'm already winning, let's use this to win more".

Scarcon
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Scarcon
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Blacksmith

Fury - +2% xp bonus for monsters in enraged waves/lvl. -3% enraging monster hit points and armor penalty every 3 levels.
What does that penalty do exaclty?
Chasing Shadows is the one I want. How do I unlock it?
Don't quite remember, but it was very late into the game, on hextile X or Y. Probably beating X5 without charging pylons.
Cirno
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Cirno
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Peasant

Basically, the skill allows you to summon more monsters in a wave without increasing their HP/Armor quite as high while you do it.

That said, it's practically crap.

rangervert
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Shepherd

Chasing shadows trait is unlocked from beating X5

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Shepherd

@Cirno, its not crap really. If you anger all waves to 999 monsters, and have that maxed, you get 90% (+talisman modifiers) more total xp. If you plan on going deep endurance, you're gonna be angering to 999 anyways to get more mana, so its worth it.

blackpaladin
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Shepherd

I agree with rangervert. Since you pay those shadow cores and replay levels to get more xp, why not squize out that bit of extra?

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