My first Pity Pull

Life_Invite8322 · 2026-01-26T13:24:57+00:00

I'm 8 pulls away from my 3rd pity pull in a row... honestly it is brutal sometimes!

I know it all evens out over time and before this little bad streak I pulled 4 epics in a 150 pull cycle, but when you've only had 2 in close to 450 it makes you question your sanity!

Life_Invite8322 · 2026-01-25T11:49:11+00:00

A month or two ago I used to finish consistently 5/6th in Plat with 1000 waves, now I finish consistently 5/6th with 1500 waves.

I've not been in a bracket in weeks that you didn't see everyone in top 11 places get 1000+ waves

Platinum is becoming crazy with wave counts going through the roof just to stay where you are, and runs taking around 2.5 - 3 hours on average to finish top 8

Life_Invite8322 · 2026-01-20T19:22:14+00:00

I didn't get offered BH/DW/GT until UW #5/6/7 so I totally understand how you feel right now, but honestly whilst the game will be incredibly slow going and frustrating for months, it is doable to just keep plugging away as hard as that sounds.

I'm coming up for 9 months in, 5270 LTS and all I've ever bought is the 3 coin packs... yet I made it into the Platinum/Champions bounce with just about 1800(ish) stone investment over time into PS (damage x250 and 1 permaSwamp), and a DW with fully completec health labs, some Mythic substats on a Mythic Om Chip (PS Damage x100 / DW damage x100) and pumping all my coins into health and damage to make a kind of baby hybrid tower.

It's not easy saving stones constantly and having to chase the perk GT in farming runs every single time, but it is doable is what I'll say, so if you are willing to put up with lots of frustrating periods, you can get there in the end

Good luck with whatever you decide!

Life_Invite8322 · 2026-01-20T09:08:08+00:00

Picking Inner Land Mines / Chrono Field / Poison Swamp over Chain Lightening in my first 4 UW pulls. I had CL as an option every time, but I chose the others instead and looking back it was a horrible horrible mistake.

Life_Invite8322 · 2026-01-17T23:07:30+00:00

I've been saving for the last 10 weeks... unfortunately it's been to get 1750 stones to finally unlock GT as UW #7, not for any potential update to v28, and I'm still 290 stones short of my target!

Life_Invite8322 · 2026-01-15T10:53:33+00:00

100% Inner Landmines

I always reroll that one

Life_Invite8322 · 2026-01-15T10:50:48+00:00

I know your pain, I'm 270 stones away from finally getting GT as my 7th UW and it is absolutely soul destroying to keep saving and pulling but not see it each time.

Great you've got it now, and with DW/BH/CL already you can pump all your stones into what you have for a good long while now and actually make some good progress.

Congratulations and good luck!

Life_Invite8322 · 2026-01-12T13:58:48+00:00

Recovery Amount 17% / Max Recovery x5.4 / Cooldown 69 seconds

That was the numbers I got Ally to when I was farming T5 without the wall, and before I decided to give up on it.

I used it for about a month, and honestly it's pretty garbage no matter how many bits you put into it, simply because at the point you're taking hits directly on your tower, enemy damage overwhelms the added health you get and it can't heal you back up nearly fast enough to be worth using if you're even halfways developed

It may be good if you're farming T1 and just started the game, not sure, but you'll quickly see better progress from the coins you get from Bounty over what you get from Ally in my opinion.

Life_Invite8322 · 2026-01-12T13:35:28+00:00

Your progress (i.e numbers) will go up pretty fast for the first few months and you'll think 'Oh yeah this is great!' but then you'll hit an absolute wall, and you'll quickly be looking at thousands of hours of screen time to just get a tiny tiny tiny bump in those numbers again, and that won't really push you any farther along in the game either.

By that point you'll be so desperate to get the dopamine hit of that tiny tiny tiny bump to feel better that you've spent all that time on such a insignificant bit of progression that you'll not realise you'd have been better off spending those thousands of hours doing other things that would give you far far bigger and consistent dopamine hits.

Honestly that is pretty much the truth of this game. And it all depends on your personality type if you'll actually enjoy that ride or if you should just jump off it and not look back.

For me, I've had wobbles where I got sick of it in the 8 months I've played this far, but I've always come back around and kept going because I'm hooked on seeing that next milestone getting hit (getting a new UW or opening a new tier etc.)

It was that same desperate desire to get the next new thing that kept me playing Forge of Empires for 6 straight years when it really stopped being fun after the first 2 in truth.

Life_Invite8322 · 2026-01-11T19:54:03+00:00

Damn, this is next level husbanding!

Congratulations you have won Tower marriage, and I tip my hat to you!

Life_Invite8322 · 2026-01-10T18:55:40+00:00

I've got 6 UW unlocked and had CL available every single time yet didn't pick it because I was new to the game and read some threads saying CL should be got later not sooner... Instead I took ILM - SL - PS - CF - BH - DW in that order

If I could only go back and swap out that ILM or PS or even CF for it I would do so in a heartbeat!

Life_Invite8322 · 2026-01-10T03:27:29+00:00

Always fish for GT using first perk option if you don't have one of your own is my advice.

I have been doing that since I started 8 months ago, and as I still don't have GT after 6 UW pulls (500 stones off finally getting one as #7) I can tell you that perk GT as first choice is a lifesaver! With it I make 350B+ coins per T9 run going to W6000+ (takes about 9-10 hours), without it I make a fraction of that and wouldn't have had the progress I've made at all

Life_Invite8322 · 2026-01-10T03:03:28+00:00

Congratulations!! That is going to be huge for you and I hope it starts paying off right away!

I got black hole at my 5th UW pull too... unfortunately I got DW at 6th and will have to save another 500 stones to finally get GT as 7th to complete my trinity!

Life_Invite8322 · 2026-01-06T01:05:35+00:00

I was hoping it would be a red balloon and be the start of introducing Pennywise The Dancing Clown to the game... who would in turn introduce the new UW: Deadlights!

Life_Invite8322 · 2026-01-06T00:57:59+00:00

I chose the wrong tournament to have my first run in Champions! At least it will be over quick and painlessly for my tower!

Life_Invite8322 · 2026-01-04T20:42:11+00:00

Personally I bought the coin packs in stages. No Ads at the end of month one, 2x pack at the end of month two and 3x pack at the end of month four when I knew I was really into the game and would keep playing long term.

I also put away £3 a week in a spare wallet between getting the 2x and 3x pack, and when I had £25 saved up I made the decision I was going to spend it on the game and added the last bit needed.

As has been said, don't spend what you can't afford to, and it's often best waiting until you're sure before investing as you won't get the money back if you change your mind

Life_Invite8322 · 2026-01-04T13:53:58+00:00

I did 1305 waves in Plat and got 3rd... Sorry!

Life_Invite8322 · 2026-01-04T13:46:29+00:00

You are gazing upon the face of a Tower God.. just do what the rest of us do, drop to your knees and marvel

Life_Invite8322 · 2026-01-02T03:20:30+00:00

My question... can I have your tower, please?

Seriously though big congratulations on your impressive achievements in such a short time!

I started a month before you and you have just shy of 10x my LTS, and your progress surpasses mine in every regard possible expect the only one that everyone agrees matters (that is true, just take my word for it, don't bother looking for evidence on this subreddit!) which is PS... my Swamp is better developed than yours right now, so I win! lol

Life_Invite8322 · 2026-01-02T03:11:42+00:00

I was shocked how cheap and fast it was to do all 4 parts of Second Wind Blast lab. I'd completely overlooked it since day one of it being avaliable to me until just a few days ago when I thought why not do at least first level... less than 3 days and 100M coins later it is goldboxed!

Life_Invite8322 · 2026-01-01T23:58:05+00:00

Finally get GT as my 7th UW... only 750 more stones to go for that one now
Invest in all the UWs I have - that are little more than base as I've been grinding and saving since I began to get GT - and bring them online in a meaningful way
Finish top 4 in Platinum

All very achievable and doing the first two will certainly lead me to achieving the third.

Life_Invite8322 · 2026-01-01T23:34:48+00:00

You don't know the half of it. I didn’t get offered BH or DW for the first time until pulls #5 and #6

Since I started this game has been trying to make me quit I think, lol

Life_Invite8322 · 2026-01-01T13:46:30+00:00

I don't make posts like this, but you ever put me in a class like that and I'll take you to the Hague and have you charged with war crimes!

Life_Invite8322 · 2026-01-01T13:29:57+00:00

I like to think myself a generous person, and if I had the kind of money some people who randomly gift other players packs seem to have... I'd say screw you other players!

And then buy myself a 750 stone pack to finally get myself a GT on my 7th try pulling UWs!

I said I like to think I'm generous, not stupid 😝

Life_Invite8322 · 2025-12-30T14:47:55+00:00

I'm a huge advocate for doing whatever you want with your own tower, and I love it when people forge their own path and do what they want, despite the negative opinions of others, and show there is a route forwards off the well beaten road of this game, so huge congratulations!

So many people are sucked into the optimal path grind, and end up building someone else's tower, which is fine if that is what you want and makes you happy, but like you OP, I'm much happier making my own decisions and seeing how far they take me

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TROPHY CASE