Quick tips

Dual gems are superior to pure gems, they get larger bonuses to their damage, range, and firing speed. This can further be improved with the Dual gem mastery skill.
Pure gems have the strongest special abilities. If you combine two gems of different types, you get both specials but with a decreased power.
Try to avoid making gems containing more than two base colors.
If you have all 8 gem types available, you can create a prismatic gem. It will have all 8 abilities (in a very small portion each though) and some bonuses to its basic values.
Place your towers in positions where they can cover the longest path possible.
Look at the range indicator (yellow circle) of the inserted gem to see how far it can shoot, and place it in a tower that can give it the longest path cover.
It's usually better to have more towers with somewhat weaker gems in them, than a few towers with stronger gems.
Place a trap near a group of towers and place a slowing gem in it, this way the monsters will have to crawl by the towers for a longer time, taking more shots.
Place a trap right next to an other one, place a slowing gem in the first trap and a mana gain/armor reduce/shocking gem in the second one. You can leech more mana from the slowed monster or have a greater chance of shocking/piercing it.
Monsters take more and more mana each time they reach your wizard towwer, so be careful with hordes of fast monsters.
If you destroy a minor monster base, the monsters that would come out of it will be "redirected" to the main monster base.
Don't destroy a beacon unless necessary, especially at the beginning of the battle. Use your mana to build up your defenses first.
if you can't beat a stage and tried multiple times:
- Reassign your skill points. It can make a great difference. Different stages and battle modes may require very different skill configurations.
- Level up by going back and beating previous levels in new battle modes - the XP you gain in each mode adds up. Look out especially for highlighted modes which give 3x XP.
- Level up by going back to an early stage and summoning more monsters - this way you can reach a much higher XP for that stage/mode.
Use mana (orange) gems in traps at the exit of the main monster base; the more traps the better. It can make all the difference in the long run.
Poison gems, when placed in traps, are great for weakening each monster, especially the first few waves.
The risky thing in summoning more monsters is that every time you drop a gem on a wave stone, the armor level of the monsters in that wave will get higher, and they can easily become bulletproof against your towers. This limits the times you can anger a wave, but with an armor reduce shrine, you can tear of some of their armor so you can summon more and go for a higher score and XP.
If things go grim, switch the game speed back to normal, so you have more time to react (e.g. replace gems, build some "emergency" towers, throw your gems).
When fighting a guardian, finish the minions first to severely reduce the armor of the guardian.
Gem transmute shrines help getting shrine burst amulets.
Be careful with the gem bombing mode - If you click too much on a wave stone and run out af ammo, you can accidentally start the wave early with your "extra" click.
If monsters can reach your wiztower in the early waves, you are either doing something wrong (wrong tower placement, started multiple waves early without proper defenses), have a wrong skill configuration, or don't have a level high enough to have a chance on that stage. Losing that few dozens of mana by letting monsters into your wiztower at the beginning of the battle can be fatal in the long run.

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