Tech ships cost.

[Shaegroth]

Hi there. I read that the cost to summon each tech ship increase along with its hp everytime you summon it. Does this include the One time free summon you aparently get every new day?
If so Would I be better of skipping the tech ship untill I played a few months to get to wave 750 and collect enough gems to unlock the right artifacts and buy a resource pack to buy tech talents to increase the scrolls the ship drops everytime I kill it?

[jaguarrl]

The cost to summon resets every day. The first one is free, the second one is 100 essence and each subsequent ship you summon costs 50 essence more than the last on you summoned.

[Shaegroth]

does the same hold true for the hp of the ship as well?

The question seemingly buried in my first post is:

Does the free ship summon increase the hp of the ship like a normal essence summoning would?

Guessing it does.. =P

Just means I have to wait until I'm properly prepared to summon them.

(Re-read the wiki. Everytime I kill the ship the hp increase. Doh.)

[Brainy]

ok first DONT buy resource packs, never.....

and you can kill the ship for free every day, no prob, later you kill it several times per day every day anyways.

invest the Gems into dmg gold and exp upgrades, DONT waste them on resource packs.

[jaguarrl]

Yes, the HP increases every time. The best strategy is to wait until wave 750, reroll artifacts, get your tech ship scrolls to max as efficiently as possible (either with resource pack or killing a few at 3 scrolls per kill) and then go all out.

Resource packs are great, but there are other good uses for your gems as well.

[Shaegroth]

I'l just gather the blue gems on a pile untill I make a decision. Only around wave 400 now anyways. It's the thought of missing out on a lot of very much needed tech scrolls that made me post in the first place. =P

[Metro]

Originally posted by jaguarrl:

Yes, the HP increases every time. The best strategy is to wait until wave 750, reroll artifacts...

Why exactly would one ever want to reroll artifacts? It's random, so yes, I might get more damage, but I could blow through 400-500 gems and not get as good of rolls as originally offered by the game.

[jaguarrl]

Originally posted by Metro:

Why exactly would one ever want to reroll artifacts? It's random, so yes, I might get more damage, but I could blow through 400-500 gems and not get as good of rolls as originally offered by the game.

You only want to reroll once. Those artifacts that got you to level 750 will get redistributed across all 4 tiers instead of over 3 tiers. This helps max out all the tier 4 maxable attributes and redistribute the DPS ones as well, generally increasing DPS immediately. The cost of those 100 gems will create more DPS, you'll now get 3 tech scrolls from each tech ship kill, and you'll increase game speed, spell duration, wave essence and drone gold, which are all good things.

It's only worth it that once. If you've already passed that point and all the maxable artifacts are maxed it's no longer worthwhile.