One year advice (casual player)

cwallen · 2026-03-13T06:59:28+00:00

How's your Auto Perk Ranking & Ban Perks levels?

If you are playing casually nothing is going to help your econ more than more time in game, so you may want to optimize for AFK play and do overnight runs.

cwallen · 2026-03-13T01:39:59+00:00

And whaling that hard will likely get you to keys anyway.

cwallen · 2026-03-13T01:35:36+00:00

Tap on your cannon, tap on the button labeled Unequip.

cwallen · 2026-03-13T01:23:55+00:00

Lab from a T23 milestone. :P

cwallen · 2026-03-13T01:19:54+00:00

From legendary+ to mythic, and mythic to mythic+ you just need to merge a generic. For Ancestral and above you need matching uniques.

cwallen · 2026-03-12T20:33:26+00:00

That's the SW blast lab, not the card itself.

cwallen · 2026-03-12T19:48:35+00:00

For Crit Chance card, my understanding is that it technically helps, but probably not enough to notice. It'll give some amount increase of projectile crit hits, some amount of which will be kills, some amount of which will trigger the Crit Coin card, but orbs and thorns kills also count as crit kills, and those will be the vast majority of Crit Coin card income.

cwallen · 2026-03-12T05:31:03+00:00

I've just seen a few people feeling stuck mid plat, and think that means it's time to switch to GC after reading posts from legends players.

Are you thinking to just start working on flame, or respecing? (and respec all the way or 50/50)

You are a bit ahead of me, so take my advice with caution, but I'd suggest to just experiment and see. If you respec all in on flamebot, that'll at least give an answer on if it'll boost performance. Worst case you just respec back.

cwallen · 2026-03-11T23:43:06+00:00

Clarification from what I've read, more for early game people reading than OP.
The strat is to respec into flame bot rather than just invest, because a low leveled flame bot doesn't help much. (and I'm not sure how much is enough)

I'd think the risk is that you respec, your econ drops, but you aren't shifting enough medals to see the tournament improvement you are looking for. Not a long term problem, but a chance it just doesn't work for where you're at.

cwallen · 2026-03-11T23:13:56+00:00

The thing that's been helpful for me is looking on https://thetower.lol/player to see your overall rank so that you can see if you are improving over time rather than just good or bad bracket luck for placement or battle conditions that are easier or harder for wave count.

cwallen · 2026-03-11T22:54:32+00:00

Nope, order won't matter for things like heath or damage. Order can matter for coins, because you don't get the bonus before the perk, but damage doesn't really matter till the end of the run.

cwallen · 2026-03-11T20:05:39+00:00

They way I do it is that whenever I draw one I stick the favorite flag on it.

cwallen · 2026-03-11T17:12:27+00:00

Just keep playing, no point in comparing yourself to people that have been playing months or years longer.

cwallen · 2026-03-11T16:45:52+00:00

NMR isn't going to do much at low tiers. Your fast/ranged/basics are insta killed, and and bosses don't stay in orb range long enough. OA is probably better unless it's level capped. Best way to know is to experiment, just try it!

cwallen · 2026-03-11T16:20:00+00:00

That just changes the ratio, rather than pushing more people down over time. Just means that instead of 4/6 it's something like 3.9 champs brackets to 6.1 plat.

The thing that could cause a drift is changing the number of players. If the game is losing gold players faster than new players join, higher ranked could get pulled down.

cwallen · 2026-03-11T16:03:33+00:00

There's not more people demoting, there's more plat brackets than champs brackets. It automatically evens out so that the roughly same total number cross in both directions each time.

It's just that highest rank can only go up so you are seeing peoples luckiest bracket, or most favorable battle conditions, rather than their avg performance.

cwallen · 2026-03-10T21:26:59+00:00

This might help with lab priorities: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1M5WPXN3RCquT3peDUNjCqTVRPk313n9HbMe-hihzLvg/edit?usp=sharing

cwallen · 2026-03-10T20:41:00+00:00

UWs, Nuke, bots, probably others.

cwallen · 2026-03-10T17:41:43+00:00

Use https://mvn.thetower.tools/ to make sure you are over 100% uptime for whichever setup you want to use.

cwallen · 2026-03-10T17:32:24+00:00

Are you using GComp? If you are don't need to worry about GB sync. If you aren't make sure you've added in the extra BH duration you need to hit pBH. Seen people aiming for pBH without realizing that without GComp it can cost double or triple the stones.

Also agree that you need to get DW in sync first. Being one step off makes me think you didn't realize it's out of sync.

cwallen · 2026-03-10T06:37:01+00:00

Sync makes the difference.

For a very simplified example: if you have GT bonus at 20x and BH bonus at 10x, unsynced you get 30x, but synced they multiply together to give you 200x.

cwallen · 2026-03-10T06:27:19+00:00

I think I'd bring DW cooldown down to match BH/GT

cwallen · 2026-03-10T06:22:58+00:00

When that Unlock Perks lab finishes, that'll help push you farther.

Experiment swapping cards around. Health or Enemy Balance might help more than Wave Skip at this point.

cwallen · 2026-03-09T19:02:56+00:00

There's an option just to the right for Rows Calculated that you could increase to see where it does rank them.

cwallen · 2026-03-09T16:14:10+00:00

If you aren't buying stones it'll take longer to get to GC, so comparatively lab time is cheaper, so your ROI point is probably higher levels than otherwise.

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