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ThomasSpeedrunner
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Okay...let's see how well this plays out. Basically, it's a thread where people can suggest their...uhhh...suggestions for GemCraft 2: Chasing Shadows.

A few of my suggestions are below:
- Bring back orb damage (and the related achievements), except nerfed.
- Have an option to have red or black be bloodbound and for red or lime to be chain hit correspondingly.
- Perhaps a way to earn more talisman sockets. That would add some replayability to the game.
- Remove the level cap. Seriously. This should be top-priority among everything on this list.

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co2metal
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I might be overlooking something, but could a little feature be added to let you know how many total waves in your game, after you adjust your difficulty level and traits?* Sorry!

Reechi
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Oh and I would love to see 2 more targeting options: reavers and unpoisoned/unslowed.

thunderrider
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@Reechi I think unslowed was an option but GIAB removed it prelaunch because he could only fit 8 options for fast-select(in an 8 point direction, otherwise you'd need to shift through allll the options like in GCL). Though I would LOVE to see targetings like: Shielded enemies, and Enemies Carrying Orblets.

@co2metal while in game mouse over the wave stones unless in endurance it will say Wave X out of X.

@Xnon protip- Specters ignore traps.

thunderrider
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Make shrines more useful. As of now, the only shrine worth using is gem enhance, and two shrines are barely useful, the slow one, and ONLY for trying-to-beat-endurance-runs(the stacking cut of speed for 200 seconds with grade 30 gem is useful but only for that), and the crit one, for 90% hp loss.

Also, the leech shrine is a JOKE. Only a grade ONE will leech more than it costs unless you have a huuuge amount/maxed fusion. Seriously that has gotta be the lamest

ValcornLv2
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Using metric prefix instead of insane huge numbers or 10exp.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metric_prefix
Example:
- 100.000.000 -> 100M
- 6.38732099e22 -> 63.9Z
Reason: No one cares about the lower digits, but they take much space and cannot be read that good.

co2metal
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I meant before you begin the game, while still on the traits menu.

markkrosky
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I agree with the suggestion "After you beat the game, let the player continue with no lvl cap."

Also, I miss the ritual skill. How about an amulet fragment with "0.01% of shadow cores added to starting mana"?

ThomasSpeedrunner
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Okay, so this thread's been dead for a bit, but I've found a few more suggestions in my bottomless bag.

- Have shadow cores have a use besides traits and talisman fragments (perhaps the ability to get extra starting mana for shadow cores), or at least add a talisman property which makes them useful when you're not activating any traits, ala Ritual skill from GCL (maybe only possible for those with Magician's Pouch)
- Add talisman properties which increase the cap on slowing or increase bloodbound and/or poolbound base multiplier
- Increase talisman fragment rarity cap to accommodate the two above suggestions
- Do what the above guy said; after beating the game (supposedly by unlocking Haunting difficulty), let the player continue with no level cap
- Make gem wasps actually powerful

Gremlion
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Laughing at "remove level cap". Do you really think that it is reachable?
500k level was transformed into ~5k. 40M level was transformed into ~6k

ThomasSpeedrunner
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Laughing at "remove level cap". Do you really think that it is reachable?
500k level was transformed into ~5k. 40M level was transformed into ~6k


Which is why you could also reduce the exponentially large amount of XP required to reach a certain level.
JedaFlain
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Change the skill adding buttons to draggable, so you can more quickly allocate those points. Useful when you have lots.


If you hold down shift while clicking/mouse-scroll, it will add or subtract skill points in chunks. Works for battle traits as well.
StormWingDelta
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So many ideas to go through.

Structure Enhancements: Unlike Gem Enhancements these change up things about the structures themselves and how they work to some degree.

Beam Fence:
Towers: Towers with gems and this enhancement now fire a continuous beam between other towers with Beam Fence that are within range. Gems do no damage but their special is applied at their fire rate intervals.
Traps: Causes a Ring of Special around the trap continuously active but no damage.
Amps: Grants range circle but the effects of the amps get lower the further away a tower or trap is.

Wasp Nest: Meant for traps but can be used in towers. Applies Gem Enhancement effects to wasps generated.
Towers: In place of normal attacks it fires a huge blob of wasps at enemies every few seconds.
Traps: Spawn swarms of wasps at their location with slightly stronger stun than normal.
Amps: Does nothing to amps.


Bounce Gate:
Towers: Does Nothing
Traps: Randomly banishes monsters back to start and causes larger special effect to monsters within range. Can banish a number of monsters at one time equal to the grade of the gem within it. Each time a monster is banished its HP and Armor are returned to full. All other stats are multiplied by the number of banishes.
Amps: Does Nothing


lol just ideas.

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@ThomasSpeedRunner

That is how it was before the level cap, i doubt he will change it back( 40 million levels Is crazy) but i do want another scaling, at the very least make lvl 10k reachable.

ori_alon_92
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here are some ideas:

* make cyan gems stop a percentage of the enemy regen, like blue does for speed.
* add toggle to cursed/poisoned/slowed icon under the monsters, its annoying when there a lot of monsters on the screen.
* make the talisman fragment colors inside out, it will look so much cooler, example: https://googledrive.com/host/0B0AkrNm6ijP0djNSTGprNnlyb1U/fragmentColoringIdea.png

ori_alon_92
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another image https://googledrive.com/host/0B0AkrNm6ijP0djNSTGprNnlyb1U/fragmentColoringIdea2.png

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