Use gems: red, 3x black, 4x orange for mana and red, 3x black, 4x yellow for killing. At g15 manafarm you add one g1 blue to it in order to slow monsters. Amplify manafarm with 6 black amplifiers. Max skills for at least used colors (red, orange, yellow, black), lower gem cost, pure colors, traps. Use haunting and maxed traits except manalock (beacons too!), do manafarm, anger every wave with high grade (10^6 times lower mana value than your mana pool) as much as you can do to kill (I do to 10^24 HP after manafarm is set up) etc.
is there an easiser way to handle beacons when angering 40-50 times? ive tried putting a tower up everywhere on the field so they cant spawn but they push thruough anyways
I'm farming Talismans atm and trying to beat fields at max traits. I use 45-50 gem bombs in early waves to earn enough mana for my poolbound skill. I put towers everywhere I can, they never disappear.
Maybe it's time to change the tactic to bloodbound???
For max XP you want all the battle traits set at the max (7). This gives you better talismans and more waves, as well. At high levels, manalock isn't really a problem -- you just have to make decisions five or six waves ahead, rather than every wave.