i want to create the perfect mana farm(MF). What i have found out so far: Do not use Blue in your MF. BlackOR is way better. You can still get +1k monsters on one Trap. put a BlueRBack(W) in the trap where your MF will be. Set the Gem to Random. Anger a wave of very slow Giants to +1e21 hp. make sure no speed up beacons are on the way to your MF. Have 2 freeze spells ready. when there are 200 or so monsters on the slowing gem: freeze them. just the ones on the trap, not the ones before! wait a little till there are more and freeze again. repeat. if you run out of freese spells: send some(2 or 3) more not enraged waves in and/or use a shrine of focus. when you have enough monsters on the trap change it with your mana-gain gem. keep on freezing the monsters. freeze spell will add up. i had a monster frozen for 300 sec max. in the last game; ingame time. with this technique you can have your leaching monster like forever on the trap.
i found a new way of gem combining... the gems stay rather low lvl but special increase: combine g1oragen+g1black=g2blackorange *) - duplicate that two times= 3 g.x.blackorange - upgrade one of the three gems u got = 1 g,x+1.blackorange,2 g.x.blackorange - combine the 2 lowergrade into the upgraded one 1 g.x+"1.6".blackorange - goto *) and repeat.
u will notice a diffrence at higer lvl. a normal created gem with same mana spend will have a lot more fireing speed and damage; but more than 50% less specials. but since fire speed is caped at 1k hits per second it will work... i think.
What I will most likely start doing is put an orange gem in a trap with red and back it up with black. Then I will put pure black all around the gem, just like I do with towers.
Main Idea? Red-orange combined with black is best combo. G1 Red, G1 Orange, G2 Black, combine, begin upgrading.
Mana Farms are useful once you have the skills and level to make them. I made a imperfect poolbound mana farm and made it into the trillions with my mana. gained 400 level from ~1000-1400. I will now switch to bloodbound. However when does bloodbound outperform poolbound?
xroads42 found Weaving. that was a mandatory technique in Labyrinth.
If you don`t get it... here`s what to do. this works only for Dual gems.
Create Grade 1 of type 1. Place in Amp on right of screen. Duplicate. Call this gem 1. Create Grade 1 of type 2. Place in Amp on right of screen. Duplicate. Call this gem 2. Combine. (Shift-G and click.) Place in Amp on right of screen. Duplicate. Call this gem 3. Upgrade and duplicate 1 and 2. Move 3 to Row 2. you should now have: 003 213 Combine twice. Place in Amp on right of screen. Call this gem 3. Upgrade 2x 1 and 2.
You are now set for Weaving. repeat the following over and over. Duplicate in this order: 3123111122223123 Combine (Shift G) until only one remains. X gem 3. Place result in Amp on right of screen. Call this gem 3. Upgrade 1 and 2 until their grade is the same as 3.
Replicate the Dual gem as necessary for the Farm or Kill tower.