The game designer official stated that not being able to do various fields before H4 is a "critical bug". That is the official wording in the patch notes.
I was level 16 when I got to H4. It is nowhere near possible to do any of the strategies suggested by people at that level. Over the last week I leveled more with extensive grinding but it is still literally impossible to do those strategies at my level. (like building a level 4 gem and tower at the start with only 1000 mana, or suggesting that enraging the first wave will benefit when you can't reliably stop the monsters of the first wave)
There is no point arguing this, its an official game bug. I have passed H4 without the tome, but that gives no new field access. It makes no sense that the game would require leveling 15-20 times between two levels unless there is a bug or a serious problem with game balance.
Double post, but I just noticed there's a compass in J2. What do I do with it?
The best information on the compasses I can find is here, though I'm still having trouble getting what they said to work. http://armorgames.com/community/thread/12291687/gemcraft-cs-secrets-guide-spoilers
With zero skill poiints on and only one level 3 gem i kill the entire first wave of H4.
At level 16 without any skill points spent, and no acheivements(impossible but lets pretend) you can start at:
526+ 784=1310
Now put fusion at level 6 = 147 mana lost.
So you start with 1163.
Buy tower for 150 mana, buy level 2 red gems and level 2 gren gems and combine them for 559 mana.
Now you have 454 mana. Wave 1 is 14 reaver giving 23 mana each. After first wave you are now able to upgrade your gem to level 4 by pressing U.
Here we go i tested it and level 3 dual gem kill every monster by itself until wave 6, And thats with only 21 skill points spent in fusion and nothing else.
Please just stop. You are arguing in contradiction of what the game developer said. Your numbers don't make sense, and your interpretations are wrong. I just tried them all twice and none of what you said worked and none of your numbers were accurate or made sense.
It doesn't matter, as its a stated and proven "critical bug" which they have promised to fix. Just please stop. I am going to ignore this thread now to encourage you to stop.
From which field can I get the bloodbound gem ? Maybe I missed something but I'm all the way down to W and U field and still don't have it ( I have premium too). Is that somekind of a "endgame" gem to unlock or can I get it from one of the vision fields?
Cant proceed further... any advices? lvl 90, textile U, T or R.... I tried endurance on lower lvl and in 1.0.8 version i got ~600-800k (example below, I was lvl ~70 and got 800k).
http://imgur.com/ge2Ju0m
Now I cant even beat normal waves...
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What gem should I make? RY? ROY? RP? I tried various combination and still can't kill giants at last waves... Should I find talismans which add +dmg to giants? Maybe my skillpoints are wrong distributed? Ive bought premium.
Your skillpoints are wrong. Put 12 each in: True Colors, Fusion, Mana Stream, Red Gem, Yellow Gem, White Gem. Always put points in skills in multiples of three.
Make 2-3 main RYWW gems, and put them in a place in your maze that the monsters will spend a lot of time around.
Anger each wave after the first few with four level 1 gems, up until about 3/4 through the level.
