Soloing nightmare hardcore glitter

In mid-level mythic gear, none of my items have over 75 upgrades besides my 127^ staff. Took about 4-5 attempts. The hardest crystals to defend were the 2 that wyverns kept hitting. It was pretty rough sledding in the final wave, both of those crystals dipped to under 50%. Intense final wave, had me running all over the damn place repairing stuff. I'll post my strat if anyone wants to know it but it was pretty labor-intensive and I think it can be done better. Gonna work on it as the week goes on but for now, I'm enjoying the victory.



It doesn't say hardcore in that SS but it was.



Reward was a 65^ staff. (sigh) Do rewards get better if you achieve Flawless Victory? Does anyone know?

Congrats man!

(sigh) Do rewards get better if you achieve Flawless Victory? Does anyone know?

Grats!

In my experience, map score (bonuses such as Flawless, no damage, etc.) have never affected my map rewards or even loot. It's purely random in my opinion. I believe this from using the EXACT SAME setup for insane glitter runs, and getting heaps of the same reward items (tsuda's final creation, that lava beetle thing, etc. and always have a decent difference in stats between each. Some times I get lazy/careless with the setup, and fail to get some bonuses, but it's never seemed to affect the item.

It's crazy that it only yielded 10 "useful" items :p

Reward was a 65^ staff. (sigh) Do rewards get better if you achieve Flawless Victory? Does anyone know?

They really need to rework rewards. A reward for beating a level should be something better than you would need to beat the level with. Which, a 65^ staff is definitely not the case and frustrating to realize that you just worked your butt off for nothing other than a pat on the back.

would be nice to see your setup

I want to see your strategy and your gear/stats.

would be nice to see your setup

Sure, click here.

Keep in mind this is still a work in progress, but I was just glad to have finished it tbh.

My app tower stats:



As you can see my gear doesn't have high upgrades, my chest is my highest upgrade armor piece with 75. I got every piece of gear I have now from Nightmare Hardcore Endless Spires, which I beat with my pre-74 App + monk with godly enchanted gear. I failed a few times at first, but gradually I got better at it, and managed to put together 2 semi-decent tower sets.

EDIT: SS makes the actual tower stats a bit difficult to read: My app tower stats: 703/939/441/689

They really need to rework rewards. A reward for beating a level should be something better than you would need to beat the level with. Which, a 65^ staff is definitely not the case and frustrating to realize that you just worked your butt off for nothing other than a pat on the back.

I agree. I absolutely LOVE some of the new reward skin models, and would love see higher level versions of them (excluding the special ones like sicarius, van wolf, etc.)

They really need to rework rewards. A reward for beating a level should be something better than you would need to beat the level with. Which, a 65^ staff is definitely not the case and frustrating to realize that you just worked your butt off for nothing other than a pat on the back.

Well, to be fair, there WAS a 96^, 65 boost squire guardian in my tavern which for some reason only cost 10 mana, so I wasn't TOO disappointed, lol. But even if there wasn't, I wouldn't have been too bummed. It was just a personal mountain I wanted to climb, soloing the map, lol.

But I agree on your overall point. Any reward you get for beating a level should be able to help you move forward. It's strange that the reward for Alch labs are pretty useful, and the reward for Glitter isn't.

This strategy worked for me. Failed on last wave about four times before beating it. Ended up switching to my DPS/high hp/high res huntress for waves 8-10 equipped with app guard. Switched a couple tower placements up and removed two of the snares.

The last wave is always chaotic. Various crystals always get hit. Blockades always go down. It makes the victory much more sweeter when I am always so close to failing on the last few hundred mobs.

Congratz buddy, 0 Death too u're Good :) let's hope u do forest alone with zero death as well lol but i guess that's impossible -.-"

Congratz buddy, 0 Death too u're Good :) let's hope u do forest alone with zero death as well lol but i guess that's impossible -.-"

Thanks, I was going to work on a MM nightmare hardcore solo build last week but I've been busy with the holidays and stuff. I'll update this thread with a solo strat if I manage to pull it off. I tried twice last night but couldn't down the boss fast enough.