ever nothice how a lot of people who write guides for gemcraft never tell you the secrets to winning the game, just tips for the really hard parts? a good example is gemcraft, which has few extreemly helpful guides, especialy for the early levels. here are some hints (tested by me) that will really help out.
1. USE THE HOTKEYS put your left pinky on 1, for gem bombs put your left ring finger on 2, for towers put your left middle finger on 3, for making gems put your left pointer on 4, for mana pool also use your pointer for 5 (for water trenches) and 6 (for gem combining. Feels wierd, good. if not, then you are one flexible player. lol if you get used to playing like this, your playing gets a lot more efficient.
2. for the first few levels, build one gem and put it in the first tower (whatever level your initial and max mana skill is at will determine the grade; just get the best one that you can if you don't have the skill that starts you off with gems.) then call the first four waves one at a time. don't worry. your tower will be able to kill them IF you wait until the previous wave is dead before call the next one. the fifth wave should be used to build trenches, towers, and gems. you can think up your own combination or just build one of each. once your comftorble with this step, expariment until you find a combination that you like.
3. IF YOU ARE TOO WEAK, THEN BUFF YOUR DEFENCES. from here, you should be spending all of your money on mana pool,unless of course, you feel that your defenses are too weak. signs of this include: A) monsters are pouring through the defences where ever they may be. B) a boss has to be banished C) your towers are doing no damage because the monsters' armor is too high. If you are facing any of these problems, you can add more trenches, andd more towers (AND FILL THEM) or else upgrade the gems that you have in your towers right now. when doing these things, it is advisable to not play the game at 3x speed.
4. GEM BOMBS ARE YOUR FRIENDS while you may feel anxious about throwing gems, because they cost mana, it is really worth it if you are in a fix. make the highest grade that you can afford,(in the early levels that will only be one or two) and throw them at the monsters to speed up the killing process. however, if it looks like your towers can handle it without problem, then you may just be wasting your mana. in this situation, just use your head.
while these strategies do work well, they are not the only way to win, they do work.
note to player: after you start to get better skills, some of these tips become obselete. try to find some that suit you, especialy after the first epic boss battle.
I found that if you concentrate on the mana pool mainly you can easily achieve glowing frame victory everywhere after you have maxed out high grade and medium grade starting gems. With 3.21M mana limit your score and mana increases drastically and it's easy to get 10-12M points/battle.
really, you shouldn't try to get glowing frames until level 40. if you can get them, then great, but if you're trying with no succes, then you're just wasting time.
I've beaten all of the levels on part 1, except the first epic level.
I've even beaten all of the GemMaster points except two.
It's the last boss in the epic level. I don't understand.
I have done following things...
1. Made a force at the mouth of the entrance. 2. Put plenty of trenches and towers. 3. Used lvl 3 and above in those towers. 4. Raised mana bar up to 7-9,000 points. 5. Rearranged my skill points to give me more mana.
I still can't beat him. He walks right through as if he is mocking me. I've gotten him to go through he path twice and when all of my gems are out of range, I hit him with gem bombs, but he still lives!
I've tried everything and the closest I've gotten is him down to 1500 HP.
The problem is also that I never get the gems I want. Whenever I have mana for a high level gem, I always get something I don't need, like red gems or orange gems. I want to choose my gems. I played two games and didn't get one purple gem to reduce armor!
Please help me! I love this game, but I can't move forward and I don't know what else to do!!
