The path of GemCraft continues, bigger and meaner than ever with the latest version of the game "GemCraft Chasing Shadows". Test your might against these 16 Quests.
Fire in the Hole Destroy 3 monster nests in the same round. Hardness: Easy
Tome Raider Open a previously opened tome chamber. Hardness: Easy
Blizzard Kill 25 monsters with frozen corpse explosion. Hardness: Easy
Self Defense Strengthen your orb by dropping a gem on it. Hardness: Easy
Connected Build an amplifier. Hardness: Medium
The Messenger Must Die Kill a shadow. Hardness: Medium
Almost Ruined Leave a monster nest at 1 hit point at the end of the battle. Hardness: Medium
Extorted Harvest all mana from 3 mana shards. Hardness: Medium
High Stakes Set a battle trait to level 7. Hardness: Medium
Amulet Fill all the sockets in your talisman. Hardness: Medium
Mist Fell Down Select the Glaring difficulty. Hardness: Medium
Not Worth It Harvest 9.000 mana from a corrupted mana shard. Hardness: Hard
Rageout Enrage 30 waves. Hardness: Hard
Senior Grade Create a grade 12 gem. Hardness: Hard
Ice Cube Have a Maximum Charge of 300% for the Freeze Spell. Hardness: Hard
@Gantic, I haven't committed to getting it yet, that's the only quest I haven't finished, but I imagine the32 key ways to get it are do it on a level with a Corrupted Mana Shard (and do not speed up any waves) for the large amount of extra mana, and spend a large amount of shards upgrading traits for extra waves, which not only gives you the extra mana from monsters, but extra time to siphon mana from the Shard, and then if necessary add on the higher difficulty level to increase the waves even more.
Heck, I'm only level 45 right now and I've gotten a level 10 gem in just normal play. If I added anything onto even midrange levels I could get the wave count easily past 100, that should be PLENTY of time and mana to get a level 12.
@MPH_Complexity@Olinser Thanks for your help. I managed to unlock it on O1. I was level 56 with 213 skill points and had enough mana for walls two towers and 2 level 4 gems. Ended up short on mana after emptying both shards through normal playthrough without gem bombs or cores. Finished the shards four or five waves before the end and had to wait for enough mana, but I got it.
Got all the quests -- a little easier overall than the quests for the last GemCraft, I think. For me, the "Almost Ruined" was the toughest skill-wise, while some of the others like the level 12 gem were more of a waiting and grinding type.
@ddevil6 ... wait, you reset your achievements and then it unlocked for you? Hmmm... that shouldn't happen and sounds weird. I will forward this to the staff anyway, just to see if there's a problem with the Quest coding somehow. Thanx for sharing this info! =)
Any suggestions on how to beat V1? I can't build my freeze spell fast enough, and it doesn't seem like enough wimps spawn at the same time to maximize freeze effectiveness. Should I just enrage a lot of early easily kill-able waves to spam wimps?
Any suggestions on how to get "Ice Cube?" That's the only one I'm missing. I've got some "Maximum Freeze Charge" Talismans, but they don't yet add up to + 100%. I just keep getting Talisman pieces with pluses/adds to barrage, bolt, curse and shrine but have been unlucky with 'freeze.'
I've wasted hundreds of shadow cores. Guess I'm just not lucky.
And my luck just turned. As luck would have it. A day or so after I posted that, I got a random light green talisman piece (rarity 28) that gave me what I needed!