FLERP – How to Unlock NG+

General Starting Tips

• Buy whatever shows up to clear early waves
• Get just enough firepower to reach 50 gold ASAP
• Enfiler’t spend past 50 à moins que tu’re literally about to die
• Keep buying random towers to minimize your tower Re-Roll costs
• Level up low-level towers to LV 2 if given the opportunity, même si tu’ll sell them later
• Save your gold for Item Re-Rolls
• Only buy useful items unless you’ll go below 50 or
• Pay attention to your Shop LV before spamming tower Re-Rolls for a specific tower
• Hero and Spearman are worth going to LV 3 Si vous les trouvez
• Start buying your preferred towers as you go when it’s safe to swap them in
• Any build should work if you play to maximize gold and your best items

Let me reiterate:

Any build should work if you play to maximize gold and to get the best items for your buildYou should at least reach NG+5 doing this before you may need to pre-plan your towers and items due to the sheer number of towers that are available to you.

Use This Google Sheet (it is not pretty, méfiez-vous)

Not sure if links will make Steam angry, but this is my rough and dirty spreadsheet to plan builds.

Just make a copy of it so you can use it and fix whatever looks ugly. S'il y a’s demand enough, I might consider making it even prettier (or if someone wants to give a cleaner version for us to use, N'hésitez pas à commenter!)

Cliquez ici

Avec ça, you can enter the towers you want, select your items (même si c'est’c'est plus que 10 in case you are unlucky), and then you will at least have a basic comp builder that will tell you what your synergies will be and what the item effects are–and you can track your progress as you get the towers and items you wanted.

This is very rough, but the comp builder alone should be helpful for many.

Même si tu ne le fais pas’t use this, I would still plan out your NG+ once you hit a brick wall with just going with the flow, especially for items!

Observations (Subject to Change/Get Nerfed)

• Mostly because Wyvern (and Yeti with any chill) scale well
• You get another tower in exchange for 2 OP towers and 2 meh towers, all with their class synergies to add
• If your build uses any of the classes in Mythic, consider going 4 Mythique
• Le « Unique » item stacks really well at high NG+ once you start going past 12 towers or so

The changes made in 1.1.0 have drastically changed the scaling of the game. If you played before this where the game was « gagné » à 30 minutes, toi’re going to be in for a surprise!

Tout de suite, either due to HP and enemy count scaling or just the game’s ability to keep up with itself, you will drop to 0 frames and you will probably die soon after crossing the 20-minute finish line.

Ici’s to hoping for future patches to at least help with the drop to 0 frames madness of billions of damage going out all at once!

(je’m guessing the game starts giving up calculating everything before it lets the enemies just crash into you)

Pour autant que je sache, unless it literally tells you « all units » dessus, the buff probably doesn’t affect towers outside of the class listed on that item. The same goes for the class bonuses for having 2 ou 3 or more of a kind.

Keep this in mind when planning your build and especially while playing!

Just keep in mind that some classes are just built different.

You will probably only get use out of most classes when you get their items or you build a strong comp that shares good units with good class bonuses.

You may want to consider building around your favorite tower or two, then find good Class Bonuses and Items that would make them even better.

As you get more room for towers, consider things like Haze, Dueling, and Inspire if your build can squeeze lots of that class in without losing much.

Par exemple, Dexterity buffs all towers by 20% vitesse d'attaque, but Haze with 4 Wind is just as good (so why not use both?)–I like to run 8 ou 9 Wind for a juicy 40%+ vitesse d'attaque (aka cooldown reduction).

Ils ne’t do much at low NG+ unless you are just spamming all from that class, but NG+5 and beyond will often use these Items well! Just make sure it says something like « all units » in its text!

Some Thoughts (1.1.2)

The game feels like it wants you to lose after 20 minutes despite the nerf to enemies, likely due to something else holding back the game from keeping up with all the damage (or something else related to the 0 FPS that ensues). I miss going past 30 minutes when it was mostly enemies going faster and faster. Back then, I got just past 60 minutes several times (and the timer went back to 00:00).

I love that the tower cap was removed again! It feels balanced enough because you will be punished for playing too slow or greedily, and there is a real limit to how many towers you can cram into the center. And now that the tower stacking bug is gone, you really have to organize your towers with the tankier guys out on the edges!

Instead of just more enemies as 20 minutes comes and goes (and the FPS crashes), I wish they were a little tougher and/or faster instead of 4 times as many. The game should be controllable at least until 20 minutes, but from minute 14 it already starts going off the deep end (at least on higher NG+s).

Microing towers around with wait is a real thing that can extend your run, mais ça’s not very fun! Before the tower cap was removed again, back from 1.1.0 à 1.1.1, I had to run all tanky bois and pause the game constantly to swap around the damage until I could get everyone to level 3 and have all the items I needed. Some micro is cool, but maybe not that much just to win a NG+9 with only NG+5 number of towers!

Saving to 50 ASAP and greeding for item rerolls while buying just enough feels like the only early and mid-game strategy for NG+. Je n'en ai pas’t hate this, mais je ne le fais pas’je n'y pense pas’s any other way to do well without saving up as much gold as you can while clearing stuff. You will need it to get actually useful items and still have time to level up most of your team to level 3 before the 15 marque des minutes.

I really like buying towers I won’t need later and balancing the gold spent if they carry my butt for 10 minutes. héros, Spearman, Magicien, even Buccaneer–to name a few.

Some towers feel like absolute dog unless you make the universe support them. je’m looking at you, Invocateurs!

Warriors and Wind (and Mythic perhaps) are probably busted and easy to win with compared to the others. Je n'en ai pas’je ne le pense pas’s just the individual towers (though Arctic Knight and Solar Knight have insane scaling, Par exemple). But the items and the Class Bonuses are just bonkers for them!

Tower Thoughts (1.1.2)

Chainers probably don’t scale well even with their items.

j'ai’t tested Pirates but after the gold nerfs, maybe beware of them.

Controllers are great, especially on lower NG+.

Arcane is probably fine, Shadow is fine I hear, and Summoners are probably okay with their items bought early enough.

Support is like Mythic for me: Half of them are probably insane, but the others are meh. Mais tu ne fais pas’t really have to go for 4 Support imo.

Guardian is funny if you’re trying to clear a higher NG+ but you can’t fit more towers in (like in 1.1.1), but feels worse than just killing them faster–and you better start pausing and microing your towers because taunt will get them killed!

Duelist is great as a second class to buff your others, but is too small to build around imo. Still probably fine.

j'ai’t dared try Blaze…ce n'est pas le cas’t look NG+ friendly du tout, mais je peux me tromper.

Frost holds a special place in my heart, mais ça’s probably not worth going for 4 of them unless you’re at a lower NG+ or you want to challenge yourself. The chill effect doesn’t really scale very well since it stops around 35-55% even with all the things you can add to it.

Great Towers:Solar Knight – was OP, still OP I bet

Arctic Knight – is way more OP (at higher NG+)! They are both Warriors, d'ailleurs…Scaling off of numbers of enemies will probably always be broken the way the game is currently scaled. Controllers with their Exterminate are also on my radar, but they haven’t quite proven to be obscenely busted, encore.

Blizzardess – is my best friend. Chill on the entire field, gives me bonus 25% damage with Frostbite. Et je’ve seen her get to the top of charts that don’t have the other OP towers in them!

Yéti & Œuf – are busted for just having raw aoe damage! Vous ne’t even need Uniqueness to get some great damage, but it helps

héros & Spearman (and even Wizard) – put in work for level 1 tours! Sometimes Buccaneer keeps up for a bit, but he falls off by mid-game. Hero and Spearman never really fall off!

Wind Caster & Mage de bataille – are amazing if you find them early on (and they do well later, aussi).

Épouvantail & Tempête – are lifesavers! Ils, along with Frost towers with big aoe, help CC the clumps of enemies while you dps them down.

Je n'en ai pas’t know about these:Birdkeeper – is another Wind for my 5% attack speed from Haze. Ouais.

Prisonnier – is great for about 3 minutes, then it feels like a waste of a spot unless you go pure Chainers (et même alors).

Diable – has anyone seen this do much?

Lich – felt weak for his level

All of Blaze, Chainer, Pirate, Ombre, and Summoner feel kinda meh besides a few specific towers at best.

Item Thoughts (1.1.2)

PO?Dextérité – a must

Exécution – a must

Pouvoir – a must

Sabotage – probably a must? Je n'en ai pas’t know how much enemies get armor, but armor pen is OP

Threat Zone – a must on higher NG+ when things really clump right next to you (unless the zone is comically small, I have no clue)

Haze – use if you have 3+ Wind and no other items required or if 6+ Wind always

Inspirer – use if you have 2 Supports unless you must get another item instead

Dueling – use if you splash in even 2 Duelists and have room, à mon avis

Gelure – if you run a chill aoe like Yeti or especially Blizzardess, utilise ça

Uniqueness – must if you run 4 Mythique

Vent arrière – must if you run even 4 Wind even if they are a secondary, especially with Wyvern and Sky Maiden

Might be weak:Première grève – a trap for high NG+ because you rarely 1-shot, and random low damage will waste the bonus 30% more often than not

Royal Oath – let your 2 Bonus Guardians taunt if anything, and even then taunt kills more towers than it protects, à mon avis

Getting literally all of the Minion Items or not will probably make or break a mostly Summoner build.

Captures d'écran (1.1.2)

NG+10 right at the win time:

The loss screen:

The final damage chart:

The stats screen: