GemCraft - Chasing Shadows

GemCraft - Chasing Shadows

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List of advices before entering a field
By ミレイ
When you entering a field, a random advice appears.
   
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List of Advices
  • After selecting a unit, use the arrow keys to cycle through all other units.
  • Armor tearing gems with beam can shred thick armor fast.
  • Be careful about selecting battle traits, some are more challenging than others.
  • Be sure to have a freeze spell ready for specters.
  • Beam enhancement is ideal for bloodbound gems, boosting their hit amount.
  • Click and drag to build a horizontal or vertical row of walls.
  • Click on wave stones to start waves early.
  • Click on your empty building to instantly socket the first gem from your inventory.
  • Don't foregt to use spells as soon as they get near 200% charge.
  • Drop gem bombs on wave stones to summon more monsters and have more xp in the end.
  • Enhancements on gems in traps don't deplete.
  • Enhancing a gem sockets it instantly. Cast enhancement after upgrading a gem to keep it firing.
  • Gems conbined from two diffirent colors are much stronger than pure gems.
  • Gems in amplifiers can strengthen multiple gems just as well as a single adjacent gem.
  • Gems in amplifiers can't shoot, but they strengthen adjacent gems.
  • Gems in traps have much stronger special effect, but deal less damage.
  • Have a look at the option screen to customize your gameplay.
  • High rarity talisman fragments give lots of powerful bonuses.
  • Hold alt or ctrl when clicking to ignore gems in traps and force selecting monsters.
  • Hold Shift to place multiple buildings.
  • Hold Shift, then press B to start throwing multiple gems from your inventory as bombs.
  • If you need extra skill points, beat fields on higher difficulties or go for achievements.
  • Mana gathering gems enhanced with beam give a fast mana boost.
  • Navigate the world map with the WASD or arrow keys, zoom with the mouse wheel or PageUp / PageDown.
  • On some fields, you can build long mazes with walls to give the monster a hard time.
  • Open tome chambers to gather powerful skills.
  • Playing in endurance mode is the key to reach epic wizard level.
  • Poison ignores armor and shield.
  • Press 1..6 to cast strike and enhancement spells.
  • Press A to start building amplifiers.
  • Press B to initiate gem bombing.
  • Press B, then hold Shift to use mana to throw clones of your first inventory gem.
  • Press D to duplicate a gem.
  • Press G to initiate combining gems.
  • Press N to start the next wave at once.
  • Press Q to switch the speed of time.
  • Press R to start building traps.
  • Press T to start building towers.
  • Press U to upgrade a gem.
  • Press W to start building walls.
  • Press X to destroy a gem and salvage mana.
  • Press Space to pause time.
  • Press Tab to quickly drop a gem out to inventory, before a specter could steal it.
  • Pressing 4..6 while over a gem instantly casts the enhancement.
  • Rain increases damage against monsters, snow makes them slower.
  • Reduce gem range to avoid firing at the wrong place, use the mouse wheel or Up/Down keys.
  • Right-click on a gem to adjust its target priority.
  • Select a creature or building to force your gems to fire at it.
  • Single component gems are ideal to be used in traps.
  • Surround your orb with gems in towers to defend against shadow projectiles.
  • The fragment rarity booster can help you getting a higher rarity fragments.
  • Throw gem bombs on spark stones to strengthen their effects.
  • Towers and amplifiers can be built over walls.
  • Unspent skill points give extra initial mana.
  • Vision fields give extra skill points if you beat them.
  • Vision fields give one time rewards of 13 skill points.
  • Watch out for event premonitions.
  • When paused, click the pause button to step time frame by frame.
  • You can decrease banishment cost by dropping gems on your orb or placing gems in adjacent amplifiers.
  • You can demolish your empty building by dropping a gem.
5 Comments
⭐Dude_Nukem⭐ 26 Nov, 2024 @ 10:05am 
hey nice guide, what is mana pool level? please
SneakySlay 22 Apr, 2020 @ 3:35pm 
The word advice is uncountable.
blimpdxmk2 13 Apr, 2020 @ 9:49am 
you forgot the 7 gems in compass levels
Stakousin 23 Apr, 2017 @ 6:43pm 
ay thanks mate
C64 Mat 7 Apr, 2017 @ 1:13pm 
This is actually pretty cool, especially the hot key list :) :roguemage: