After you reach lvl 100 (took me around 5 runs, but I'm an experienced), take conviction and smite damage in the holy tree, for additional % multiplier.
After a while, you might realize you're killing less spiders per click, so you must consider investing in shock chance and shock amplify damage, as well as enchanted attack chance. This will considerably augment your damage output. Also, lightning strike is certain to give you the shock in the beginning of stages, so count on it. If you desire to attain the higher stages, put 90% of your stars in star gain (flat), 2x star gain chance (300 points in it will suffice, as the price gets too high for too little), gold gain flat and % (from lvl 250, you can transform gold into stars), a little bit of item find and % sell value.
I got over stage 1000 basically doing nothing but this, without abusing glitches nor using any kred. You might need burn, as the spider's hp regen is insane at latter stages.
Hope I helped someone!
contains "spoilers":
Here's a little build i'd recommend to new players. I just changed browsers, so I experienced the low starting stars/gold again. This won't go into details, as you can just try stuff on your own after obtaining starting stars/gold. So basically: With you base stars (if you don't have any yet, it's okay), augment star gain. you can base all you damage on the random items you obtain in the beginning until you get far enough to obtain a decent amount of stars in the beginning. Then you just go full burst: don't waste anything on armour. there's the base:
- attack damage
- attack speed
- attack charges efficiency
- attack damage %
- armour pen (every point over the spiders def will act as attack dmg%, stacking over the other multiplicators)
- 2x crit
- 4x crit
- 8x crit
- 16x crit
- 3x flurry
- 9x flurry
(this continues in 2nd comment)
Some info aren't present where necessary. For exemple, I cannot see the amount of pixels I have while using them. Same for the canvasses. having an inventory apart from the rest of the ui would be nice. (Fullscreen version please? <3)
Stuff I'd like to see: Anti-aliasing, possibility of naming heroes, and maybe a fullscreen release ? It would really be nice to have a fullscreen version actually. I'd like to have a bigger portion of the screen to see fights.
This score makes me sad... I don't understand, maybe too much expectations from a beta? Anyways, I really hope you will continue updating this game, dear dev. I love the concept, and even though its not the most intuitive game out there, it's not that hard to understand, especially with this tutorial. I'd love to see this game's final release, but I am fearful that the bad reviews will demotivate you. Is there still hope?
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