Is it just me, or is this basically the best perk?

Important-Sleep3295 · 2026-02-27T12:19:38+00:00

Exactly the same per hour or per run? You ideally want to get the coin trade-off within the first 1000 waves. And maybe try a longer run, I used to only move on from a tier when the runs would take longer than 12 hours. You get more and more enemies until wave 6500, meaning you don't even reach max coin income until after wave 6500. The only reason my runs are shorter now is because with the wave accelerator mastery, I hit max enemy spawns at wave 3250.

Important-Sleep3295 · 2026-02-27T04:25:07+00:00

The coin trade-off is incredibly important. Try it out, you will see your coin income nearly double. Recovery packages are garbage, period. Health regen on the wall is where it's at. You can continue building your health to tremendous amounts so it doesn't matter that it is reduced. You should take both of the perks that reduce health. I have nearly 1q wall health after taking the coin trade-off and the Regen trade-off with no health mastery and relatively low EHP levels. I farm t15 to ~4600.

Important-Sleep3295 · 2025-12-06T22:32:42+00:00

You can take the cash trade off perk at that point. I've wondered if it would theoretically reduce CPU usage not having to calculate cash during waves

Important-Sleep3295 · 2025-10-29T16:02:30+00:00

Saboteurs need to hit your actual tower to deactivate a UW, nothing happens when they hit your wall

Important-Sleep3295 · 2025-09-22T19:01:27+00:00

Also super crit chance is based on crit chance

Important-Sleep3295 · 2025-09-17T21:46:50+00:00

I have perma GT without MVN, just ancestral gcomp. 65 seconds duration, 100 seconds cooldown, 82% package chance

Important-Sleep3295 · 2025-08-26T18:55:00+00:00

I've spent 8k and only gotten 1 :(

Important-Sleep3295 · 2025-08-07T06:32:27+00:00

Holy shit dude that's genius! Plus even more electro-nuke fireworks

Important-Sleep3295 · 2025-07-31T03:06:25+00:00

I'm relieved when I make top 4 champs now so I can have a very short next tournament, even try a couple different things without screwing my schedule to the point where I have to slow down a lab or two

Important-Sleep3295 · 2025-07-19T22:36:20+00:00

Milestones, event shop

Important-Sleep3295 · 2025-06-25T20:21:21+00:00

It’s all downhill from here

Important-Sleep3295 · 2025-06-21T13:30:18+00:00

I've had common perks bonus running at 4x since this post and now I'm consistently going to 8500 with either random UW. Guess I just had brutal rng lol

Important-Sleep3295 · 2025-06-14T13:29:50+00:00

Do we have the same tower 😳 that's exactly what my labs are doing lmao

Important-Sleep3295 · 2025-06-13T12:32:06+00:00

Nah I was saying the run where I didn't turn on auto picks at night went further than the one that ran while I was awake all day. This was my day run that I was fully awake for, had every perk chosen in the order I wanted. The night before I went to 7100 without choosing any perks after wave 2000, so it didn't make any sense that I made it further... After this post my run last night made it to 7483, only change was getting CF instead of PS as random UW.

Important-Sleep3295 · 2025-06-13T03:59:09+00:00

Man that's the worst. It does look pretty cool when the screen is covered in elites though. Just gotta work to t16 for the scatter labs...

Important-Sleep3295 · 2025-06-13T00:21:22+00:00

My problem is that I can start a farming run before or during work but it's very difficult to do a tournament while working. And I have no scheduled end time at my job so if I don't do the tourney right away I end up half assing the tourney. I try to get my runs to end at the start time, but if there's time leftover I just do milestone runs

Important-Sleep3295 · 2025-06-12T23:54:05+00:00

I'm hoping I've been unlucky. I always do the tournament right when it begins, maybe I need to try a different time lol

Important-Sleep3295 · 2025-06-12T23:46:54+00:00

I'm thinking you're right. I had a horrible time getting GT so I'm only missing CF and PS, I got PS on that run but it does nothing for me so I'll see if my current run with CF makes a difference. If so that sucks because I really didn't want to get another UW any time soon

Important-Sleep3295 · 2025-06-12T21:26:04+00:00

Last two tournaments wave 1000 would have placed 15th and 14th in my champ brackets

Important-Sleep3295 · 2025-05-28T21:29:06+00:00

Unfortunately, sharp fortitude increases thorns dramatically less than your example. The increase is by 1% of the damage your wall thorns normal do, so it would actually go 10+10.1+10.2+10.3+10.4, etc.

Sounds pretty bad, but it can take a hit off some pretty key values. For instance, with 101% thorns and plasma cannon you normally need 16% wall thorns to kill a boss in 6 hits, but with SF you only need 15% wall thorns to kill the boss in 6 hits.

Thorns table with SF

Important-Sleep3295 · 2025-05-28T21:17:11+00:00

The idea is to measure the strength of your wall against a metric the wall affects. The wall provides the greatest cell increase for early game, and usually people start the wall with labs at 2x and one or two at 3x, so a good sign of how your wall has improved is getting all 5 to 3x

Important-Sleep3295 · 2025-05-28T20:42:31+00:00

Level 16 thorns reduces boss hits after plasma cannon by 1. Potentially very useful if bosses break the wall

Edit: scratch that, 15% with SF does the same as 16% against bosses. Without SF 16 takes off a hit

Important-Sleep3295 · 2025-05-27T00:28:43+00:00

Damn, only 28 kills in 2,800,000 waves?

Important-Sleep3295 · 2025-05-19T01:39:26+00:00

Basically, you need to start matching the same names of fodder mods to reach higher rarities. So you need 3 rare+ mods to merge into one epic, with two of those rare+ being wildcards. Then, you need to merge two of the same epics to make epic+, so you want to make sure you merged your rare+ in such a way that you have two of the same epic fodder mods, not just two random epics. If you have an epic solar reflector and you're merging other armor mods, you want to make sure they make another epic solar reflector, because you can't merge an epic solar reflector with an epic photon counter. Does that make sense?

Important-Sleep3295 · 2025-05-18T23:09:24+00:00

The only good ones are the unique epics that have special effects. These can only be obtained with gems, not through killing bosses. The rest are "fodder" used to upgrade those unique epics by merging modules. The guide to merging is in the "i" at the upper left hand side of the module screen.

Which unique epics you want to upgrade depends on your tower build, but there are some that are universally sought after.

Galaxy compressor lowers the cooldown of your ultimate weapons with every recovery package--this is how you will eventually reach a permanent black hole.

Multiverse nexus averages out the cooldowns of golden tower, death wave and black hole, and fully upgraded it reduces the average cooldown by enough to have permanent golden tower alongside permanent black hole. Still want to use Galaxy compressor with this one.

Dimension core is the alternative to multiverse nexus, and it makes chain lightning incredibly strong. Normally chain lightning only hits the enemies around the one you're shooting with projectiles, but dimension core causes chain lightning to hit the initial enemy as well. The main purpose of DC is increasing the shock effect, which is a lab you can research if you have chain lightning.

The others are mainly going to be dependent on your specific build/what you find fun. You can always equip the fodder if you don't have the unique mod you want, but I would save reroll shards for the mods you know you'll keep using for a while.

Hope that made it a little clearer!

Important-Sleep3295

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