for all TD gamers.
I also like pog dot com, there is very hard alien TD game, but i forget the title.
Strategy:
1. Don't use 3x speed frequently.
2. No anger mode.
3. Patience, no need to hurry.
4. Wrong tower position (very important), place it in the most wide area as possible.
5. Put some trenches in the beginning, slow, mana, poison, repeat it later, put slow trench near the most towers u have gather at one place.
6. Put tower in beginning, middle and end, it will generate more mana and stand stronger with banishment, this should be done after u have some towers located nearby altogether.
7. better 3 towers with 2nd grade in the early game than 2 towers with 3rd grade.
8. 'Supergemming' technique, first, combine 2 different colours (it has more damage/range/etc), then add 1st grade gems with the same color. It will add gem range/damage/etc. I thought at first this tech is a bug, becoz u can't do it on gemcraft origin, but it works awesome yay. I know this technique from margomai.
9. Always Try to defeat 3x XP mode first. (U'll level up faster)
10. If u got multiple same color everytime u creates a gem, the strategy is to reserve several colors in stock, use it later with bomb to change into colors u need. reserve some for later use.
Some monsters have strong/weak points against certain gems, swarm mode easy with red, combine with blue/yellow.
Carapace mode, put some purple towers gems in the beginning, and end it with higher level gems (put higher level gems is a better way, becoz they r slow, unlike swarm)
Sudden death mode is a good practice to analyze your skill placement, tower placement and right/wrong strategy implementation.
Better use ur anger mode early and not at armored monsters.
At some stage with Mana tap shrine and Anger shrine and Experience shrine, u can call 20 waves at once(around 150 monsters on field), use Mana tap first to get mana, Experience shrine, then finish them with Anger shrine.
If u play slowly, u will see more possibility and new combination, it just creatively shows up.
Try to use skill that can covers the stage condition, mostly if u use gem skill, match it with the gem that is provided by that stage.
Read original walkthrough! it will help u a lot.
10. Last thing, relax, if a level too hard to beat, just leave it for a while. (^-^)