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thunderrider
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Peasant

Hi, I am level 3142, and I am going to be the first to get a grade 100 gem.

http://i.imgur.com/LPI5mar.jpg

How did I get specs obscenely high? Well, thanks to this dude over here...

One important thing to note is how to create dual gems. Adding two grade one's them spamming U is losing about 33% special power.

Optimal creation is a G1 of both, combine, make a G2 of each, add one pure to each dual, combine the G3s, duplicate, and repeat with pure G4s, duplicate the 6, etc.

here is the difference at g34:
Regular creation:
http://prntscr.com/3dgs2c

Special Mix:
http://prntscr.com/3dgs6k

Note that the hit count is the same, and the cost to duplicate is the same. This is a difference of 32.9%, and this difference keeps rising at higher levels. It's only a 16% difference at grade 6. It takes a decent amount of time, but it is worth it at ultimate grades (45+).


I now have huge specs. It takes me about 20-30 seconds real life time to get +1 grade. So a minute before +2(needed if want extra specs). I estimate my specs to be about 80% higher than normal, at least blood is.

PS- Level 46 amps got the spec treatment too, they are wicked.
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thunderrider
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Peasant

Nice. Tho I think I'll reach that by wave 16. Total should be 15984 monsters. Infinite mana lol.

Yinan
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Shepherd

Well, I already got a Grade 150 Gem.

Granted tho, I used the "Unlimited Gem Exploit", where when throwing a Gem Bomb on a Shrine that gives you back the Gem (like the one that increases the maximum damage), it will be stuck on the Inventory place it was before. You can sell it now unlimited times.

That way I got to around e64 Mana and Grade 150+ Gems.

tsuhatehk
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Scribe

No way! This is not a good way to have high level gems.

You may think I am silly but that is not the right way.

Update: After 6 wave (as now wave 44), G74.

thunderrider
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Peasant

Yinan abusing glitches isn't the way to go. It sucks. And you don't have skill if that's the only way you can get that....

ValcornLv2
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Shepherd

http://www.bilder-upload.eu/show.php?file=5db1c1-1398607476.png
G70 around Wave 36.5.
It's my first try with the combining method and without poolbound, and it works well

thunderrider
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Peasant

Okay, Grade 50 Orange Blacks with 0 hits, etc.

The Un Specced One

2.263 Trillion Damage to 21.615 Trillion Damage
Range: 260.5
1922.5 Shots Per Second
Leeches 476,140,313.84 Mana
BloodBound Modifier: x22.20

Specced Gem

2.910 Trillion Damage to 26.469 Trillion Damage(+28.5% to Minimum Damage, +22.4% to Maximum Damage)
Range: 261.7(+0.4% to Range)
1944.8 Shots Per Second(+1.1% to Firing Speed)
Leeches 675,931,028.48 Mana(+41.9% to Mana Leech)
BloodBound Modifier: x26.59(+20.7% to BloodBound)

Overall looks pretty nice, aye? :P

ThomasSpeedrunner
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So...how would I do this special combining method...with a triple gem as the desired result? One special (in my case, poolbound) is created one grade higher than the others so that the duplication and upgrade costs remain the same?

Ledrias
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Peasant

Thomas, I would do the same with as a dual, except make "one" special a dual of the non-white one.

tsuhatehk
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Scribe

got a venom shrine @ a good place after wave 48

I've got what I need (Inflection and Venom)

Should I end @ G75? How about others? What are your Gs?

ThomasSpeedrunner
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Nomad

The best I've ever made is a grade 13 on V3.

I wanna make a high-grade gem...if only I understood how it was done =V

psorek
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Jester

what level are you Thomas?

ThomasSpeedrunner
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Nomad

Sadly, only 87. Gunning for 100 before venturing any further into hextile W.

psorek
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Jester

I started manafarming at level 130, so you are rather close

xroads42
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Farmer

Arent pure gems in amplifiers (3 black+ 3 orange) better then 6 Dual Black-Orange?

ArchlordPie
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Jester

got a venom shrine @ a good place after wave 48

I've got what I need (Inflection and Venom)

Should I end @ G75? How about others? What are your Gs?


Don't end at 75. I want to see how ridiculous a G100 is.

I've never made anything higher than a 13 so far, though I'm fairly certain I'll have to change that soon if I want to start beating these later levels on Glaring...
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