I played it to no end... Beat EVERY level in every mode, aswell as in the "Beyond Corruption" Mode. Aswell as I beat the 1st Gemcraft beating every highscore in it.
To say it simple, it's one of the best Flash Games I ever played, imo, it got the potential to become a full priced game aswell, just because of the brilliant use of the "Tower Defense" idea, combined with awesome gameplay, aswell as the fact that it offers a lot of combinations with gems, towers, etc.
All in all, I'd give it a 1000000/10, because it simply is, awesome.
The "normal level only" challenge looks like almost the "beat the second guardian" challenge. I've just got 256K xp(23 levels) with the third guardian and about 71K xp the level before. I've just take the shortest route to go to the third guardian without doing other levels. With level 82, this will be a piece of cake for the rest of the challenge i think.
well I'm finally starting to get the hang of this thing, last two games I played I have been able to get my mana pool fairly high (score multiplier over 5). but now I'm wondering how you guys manage to deal with all the micro-management needed to get higher level gems? last game I had a few towers with duals of level 11, but it gets REALLY tedious to combine huge numbers of level 6 gems after a while... after a while I found myself wasting so much time on just trying to combine gems appropriately that I do little else, and I'm not even very efficient at that.
any advice on the best strategies to follow once you get to that "watch my mana rise to the max limit every minute" part of the game? do you generate loads of level 6 gems and then transmute from there? or do you sort them out by color and combine when you have enough of each? also does it make sense to try to go for level 12+ gems or do you just supergem from there?
Usually, i generate a load of 36 gem6. If i need to transmute, i sort the line with two of the desired color gems to prevent a transmute miss. Then i use Ctrl-G to combine them ... when done i sort them in the bottom of the panel until i reach the desired level.
Whit a huge mana farming. I use to go to level 14-15 since you loose to much time in micro-managing to supergem. But upon level 15, i think supergemming is faster (at least for me). When i get my defense built, i begin to supergem those already done. Depending on the mana flow, i add level 8-9-10 gems to supergem.
I've asked a feature to GameInABottle that make shift-G works the same as Shift-B. I hope he will make for the next update.
I'm all ears open if someone have some other tips to go faster.
AsSto, you are pretty right about "beat the 2nd arcane guardian" thing just managed to get against it, was level 30 (lowest possible) earned 7 levels off it, next level was bad but the level to the left seems to allow me to grab 1M off it, being level 37! The level has R and L available, I took O and P with me...
