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SwiftyDC posted...

I cheated and watched KiyoStinV vids on YouTube. But after the first 5 they pretty much all take the same strategy and just have to keep track of what enemies are coming to make sure you set up the right towers; rolling for the right power up is key, too. Like the 1500 Pyro/Cryo, and the one that slows enemies within the charity.

I'd like to think I'm doing this, but some of the enemy configurations just run right through your towers. And that's ignoring that you'll sometimes get waves that don't give a shit what towers you have up. I'll put up hydro/cryo, and then get a ton of shield lawachurls that just block the cryo until they get through. Or I'll get a bevy of pyro slimes that refresh their pyro pretty much instantly and don't freeze (and apparently don't take enough melt or vaporize damage.)

Enemies just have stupid amounts of health, poise and resistance. If you don't manage to level your towers effectively -- and that's down to random chance, because the game insists on watering down the leveling up potential with useless crap like elemental mastery and buffs to auxillary towers you're never going to use. Then you get one you can use, but it's a fickle, and in going up by 1 level you also get debuffed by 2. Or it's in the final 500 you have before the new wave, and one of your towers gets destroyed. So you have to pass on all fickle effects, which further reduces your options.

I did have one hilarious run, which was how I got through the 8th stage. I took the bonus that all the cards have ominous effects, and then the one that gives all towers +1 level whenever you pick an ominous, and then I just spammed the cheapest cards in each set. For once, instead of being vastly underleveled, I was incredibly overleveled and completely wrecked the final wave.

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