so...you died? well it goes to show you need more holding power and way more firepower, ill soon make it there with prob 10x the fire and the same ammount of hold + better slow (100 gems with 96% @ 2 mins slow)
i just dont get it, i can hold 350 monstesr in only 50-60 traps, with the hole field ive helm 800 frozen stiff before so im not sure exactly what you did there...
emergency: the monster on loose wiht 200k banishment, use grade 1 gems and bomb the spot like hell and it shouldnt move
oh btw can you tell me what your end firepower was so i have a number to go off of? i hope to at least double it incase i get bored and decide to go for 228 without being as prepared as id like
It would be nice if the Forum admins split GC0 into a sub-board. Having only 1 thread means that my excitement about finally getting the Gem of Eternity and wanting to post somewhere to share the glory is a bit dampened by the fact that by now the only topic on the thread involves people who are way, way farther than I ever plan to play in this game.
Hat's off to the developer. This game was a part of my life in a way that only Nethack has ever matched!
well d, the key is mana farming using orange traps thats all you need to know, and also anger properly.
yea its a shame, of the 4 who set out on voyage 228 (not sure if AsSto or yayformeee even realy wanted it but they just wanted massive scores) i am the only one left, however i think by the time i finish wave 74 and might push for 228 i think that fractal will be back at it wiht all 228 released again and i cant wait to see him go at it again i always enjoy the progress of his games
yup working on 100k+ gem #4, by #10 i shuold have an insane arsonal of power even tho ill be 10-20% of the desired power
fractalman, it's a pity that you died, seems that 506 monsters is too big to handle. Also I believe that the slow effect is overwritten each time another gem with slow hits the monster, so it will be abit senseless to have one gem to slow for 10 minutes and others to slow for 0.5 seconds. Slow from traps seems to be capped at 75-76%, I have seen a monster with base speed of 4 hitting a 92% (unmaxed trap specials that time) R/B to slow just to 0.9 speed, the same applied to giant monsters, they never get slowed past 0.3. There might be more effects from more than one prism attacking a monster that are hidden from view, like what level of poison is applied, what length of a stun if a stun trap and a stun tower both are hitting a monster.
Conner is right about bombing a monster with gem bombs to make it stop - they shock pretty often if you have all skills maxed, it might be troublesome to actually see which monsters get harmed by the gem bomb when there are 500 monsters and about 50 of them will be in range of even a grade 1 gem bomb.
emergency only like i said, such as a 200k monster on the loose.
and with proper spacing and traps, anything under 500 monsters can be handled
got 9 gems at 100k now, i calculated alot and i believe i could do it with 30ish but 105 gems of that power could do enough combined dmg to take out 228 before 229 woudl virtualy appear, of course all 105 gems cant hit 8 monsters but the idea still says it can do 5b+ dmg per wave-time.
i wonder what the world record is for wave 70-200, i wonder if i can do it in 15 minutes of early calling like mad and watching them get annihilated instantly
well with fractals game gone im sure hell be back at wave 200 be time i begin my push at wave 70 so it could turn to a race for first person to beat all 228.
fractal was much closer than most think to winning, about 50-100 more monsters till the game was in teh bag
Well...the only chance i have is if i can convince my brother to let me keep gemcraft up while we're in Hawaii; After I get back from Hawaii, school starts.
fractalman: "and all my powerfull gems are in traps, i have about 8 with 50k max damage, 3 with 100k, one or 2 with around 25k. (damage given is max tower damage)."
so you ended with 3 100k 8 50k and 2 25k as all the firepower you had? thats only 7-8 gems of 100k meaning me working on my 10th is already more, if i get to 20 ill have 3x and i think i could try then
its quite boring to make the gems so i just have to keep going saying to myself "i have enough already but lets make just 1 more to make it a bit easier and faster"
hmm 15 with 100k, well im at 12 and shuld have that beat by tnoight, i want at least 35 meaning 1 every 3 spaces, meaning with range at 54/57 in traps every single monster can be hit by at least 1 of the gems, the rest will be grade 15s just to hold and gather mana, i might at least get my gap-filling grade 15s to 20k, theyre only 10k unsupergemmed
well gl tell me how 15 works when you get there, if your doing good with 15 and i should have 30 at that time then if your working then ill go for it
