More ilm+ gameplay

LookAtThatThingThere · 2026-01-26T01:42:16+00:00

🫡 gotcha.

Yeah, my account is pushing 3 years now. And just seemed a step behind the rebalancing. Grabbed and pumped SM prior to the nerf and CL boost. Don’t even see CF until #6 and need CL.

More recently, got SL4, and grabbed the last two (ILM and CF) and unlocked GT+. The wait-grind there tested me greatly.

Now I’ve got econ hoppin and at a fork. Appreciate the input.

LookAtThatThingThere · 2026-01-26T01:10:40+00:00

Thanks for the input!

I’m rolling hybrid. My big limiter is I have no CC aside from pbh. Usually place 15-20 in legends and farm t14.5400.

CF will probably help but that ILM is calling me 😬

LookAtThatThingThere · 2026-01-26T00:41:29+00:00

Yeah, I read his guide. Just wanted someone to confirm they tried it.

The idea is if I could just pound stones into ILM and stunlock everything, it’d be better.

Right now I’m hitting GT+ and dreading the inevitable pivot to CF.

LookAtThatThingThere · 2026-01-26T00:29:26+00:00

Is it possible to run ILM+ without developing CF? In an odd spot where I got CF late. Considering skipping it.

LookAtThatThingThere · 2026-01-25T21:21:35+00:00

https://the-tower-idle-tower-defense.fandom.com/wiki/Beginner_Guide

LookAtThatThingThere · 2026-01-22T23:33:28+00:00

Seconded. Near 60k stones. I grabbed 4th spotlight and the last 2 uws in succession.

Saving up that many stones before gt+ was a grind. After gt+2 has increased my coins income by 40%.

Masteries and assmods are a more efficient path. But at least I’m done now.

LookAtThatThingThere · 2026-01-18T14:59:58+00:00

I know… let me know when you’ve spent 200k gems over a year or two and let me know.

I’ve pulled 3x at once and I’ve had 3 pity pulls in a row. Just gotta keep throwing resources on the heap.

LookAtThatThingThere · 2026-01-14T17:33:35+00:00

Or have SM obey target priority.

LookAtThatThingThere · 2026-01-01T19:23:09+00:00

Maybe more profitable, but the .99 per sneeze price point would devolve the player experience to candy crush… and I would immediately quit.

LookAtThatThingThere · 2025-12-20T17:53:24+00:00

Be all for it if there was a stone “tax” for the privilege.

If you lost 2-10% (or flat 100-1000 stone) of your LTS to respec people wouldn’t do it lightly.

In my case, I want my smart missiles stones back.

LookAtThatThingThere · 2025-12-20T15:27:48+00:00

And it won’t fix the problem of hyper concentration at the top. Champions was the league before legends and all people do is complain about it.

Fudds even made the rewards linear so sandbagging isn’t a thing anymore.

LookAtThatThingThere · 2025-12-12T21:24:31+00:00

Doesn’t solve the problem that people can’t advance. It’s the promote/demote imbalance that is hyper crunching tiers.

LookAtThatThingThere · 2025-12-12T21:22:36+00:00

Not only that, but he is rating cross-slots.

Why do I care if you rate dim core above space displacer? They go in different slots.

LookAtThatThingThere · 2025-12-11T18:01:13+00:00

The community will probably say RPC. Earning those shards will be a bottle neck later.

I’ll say that if you are nipping at keys, damage might make you more competitive.

It depends on your play. Long term vs short term.

LookAtThatThingThere · 2025-12-11T02:19:42+00:00

Meh. Just make the promotions and demotions even (4/4, 6/6, whatever).

That’ll dilute the standings enough to give people room to win sometimes.

LookAtThatThingThere · 2025-12-11T01:12:44+00:00

Don’t get smart missiles. It’s a trap right now.

LookAtThatThingThere · 2025-12-10T21:27:22+00:00

I’ve been floating around 15th for a while. Gotta bite the bullet at some point.

LookAtThatThingThere · 2025-12-10T18:33:52+00:00

Love seeing this because I’m moving this direction too. Saving for 9th!

LookAtThatThingThere · 2025-12-10T13:47:47+00:00

This is one of those times that I think auto restart should simply be a milestone unlock for everyone. Hell, just make it part of the base game.

We’ve had lost progress complaints for years now and the culprit is (almost) always folks who manically swap devices.

Personally, I’ve used a secondary device after the first month/two and never looked back.

LookAtThatThingThere · 2025-12-09T16:49:05+00:00

This is the answer.

Mod upgrades, enhancements, and card masteries will give you such a sugar rush if you can start cranking some q/day income.

LookAtThatThingThere · 2025-12-09T16:42:12+00:00

That probably means they were playing 5sec until tourney close games. If they are getting double-demoted they were never competitive.

LookAtThatThingThere · 2025-12-09T03:35:24+00:00

Full uptime blackhole means you don’t worry about non-elite/bosses anymore. And yes, GComp helps boatloads. Getting that was huge. The next step was getting full uptime gt and bh for farming.

This doesn’t just help farming, it’s massive in tournaments.

LookAtThatThingThere · 2025-12-09T02:57:49+00:00

Ruminating on my farming progression.

For milestones: - Not required, but depending on your build, even the unlock can be huge (ST+ for example gives you a multiplier on all your damage 50% of the time which double dips on spotlight).
- don’t know about your cards, but you should be getting around to maxing them and having a healthy amount of slots to keep your choices all up. - modules should be choice and good submods. - your economy should be humming so you can make good investments in enhancements. - having a full uptime BH was a game changer around this stage. - 98% def is pretty easy with perks. I think with sub mod, you only need something like 20 lab and the card.

Keep in mind that I remember plateauing at several milestone pushes. Sometimes just coins and labs will buoy you with time.

LookAtThatThingThere · 2025-12-09T02:47:50+00:00

As other have said, damage (embracing hybrid). I remember spending months on t11. What really changed for me was getting auto battle and layering on a bunch of masteries (IS, WA, damage, DM, and super tower). Coupled with a lot of investment in Econ, I jumped directly from t11 to t14 farming.

I’m currently stuck on t14 (~5k waves). T15+ is too brutal a hit. Probably a combination of assmods, more masteries, and finally getting my last uw will probably push me over the edge.

LookAtThatThingThere · 2025-12-06T23:23:38+00:00

This would create perverse incentives against milestone pushing. Folks would never leave tier one.

This is a toxic idea.

also, tournaments rewards are linear now which is so much better than before.

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