max level you can beat

[Iris Luxor]

so level 121 is currently probably the highest boss, that is no longer beateable, or with perfect circumstances can be beaten but not lvl 122.
And I am talking about maxed out stats and having around 150 annoyances on top of it. with better circumstances could have had around 300 annoyances but that would still likely be fatal under this boss.
how is everyone elses experience?

[Upyrka]

Personally, I reached level 90, but on YouTube I saw a person who reached level 159

[Chris]

I can't tell you the exact level, as the game kept the record from before the update.
But I can tell you it was a little above.
I had around 3k annoyance. The trick is this:
Slime -> Insolate -> Jester
The jester buffs a random tower next to him with annoyance, so make sure the Insolate is the only tower next to it. This happens before the slime eats the Insolate tower, so the Insolate tower keeps the buff when it's respawned. This doesn't work with the Succubus, because the timing is different. And it also doesn't work with the annoyance from Cursed, again due to the timing.

[Iris Luxor]

Originally posted by Chris:

I can't tell you the exact level, as the game kept the record from before the update.
But I can tell you it was a little above.
I had around 3k annoyance. The trick is this:
Slime -> Insolate -> Jester
The jester buffs a random tower next to him with annoyance, so make sure the Insolate is the only tower next to it. This happens before the slime eats the Insolate tower, so the Insolate tower keeps the buff when it's respawned. This doesn't work with the Succubus, because the timing is different. And it also doesn't work with the annoyance from Cursed, again due to the timing.

trickster, not jester. I used the same build, just got my trickster quite late into the game and to build it up the princess kept steeling annoyances meant for insolent tower, i used the princess to build up insolent because without mods it's too grinding to reach lvl 30-40. my slime was also at above lvl 30 which at that point didn't matter, because of maxed out stats. I know it's possible to go a bit higher. with similar build just a 2-3 months ago went for above lvl 160, not sure what level cuz it crashed to complete blackness. right now with updates levels above 130 are definitely impossible though. And that's good I guess, because later levels get boring quite quickly.

[M.D. Geist]

what is the highest you can manage without stairways? i get stuck at 60 in that case.

[Chris]

Originally posted by Iris Luxor:

trickster, not jester. I used the same build, just got my trickster quite late into the game and to build it up the princess kept steeling annoyances meant for insolent tower, i used the princess to build up insolent because without mods it's too grinding to reach lvl 30-40. my slime was also at above lvl 30 which at that point didn't matter, because of maxed out stats. I know it's possible to go a bit higher. with similar build just a 2-3 months ago went for above lvl 160, not sure what level cuz it crashed to complete blackness. right now with updates levels above 130 are definitely impossible though. And that's good I guess, because later levels get boring quite quickly.

You're right, sorry about the confusion.
I always place the trickster to the rightmost spot, so he only ever buffs the insolent tower.
For boss rewards I only get stairway and everything else goes to getting more nullification tokens. It might also be possible to use the archaeologist's hat at some point.
That allows me to really get more than enough trickster levels without any princess towers.
I usually have multiple chaos towers, a single well and of course portal and devil towers to level the insolent fast enough. But you can reduce that to 1 well, 1 insolet, 1 trickster and the all the rest chaos towers once you've got it all going nicely.
The only problem with that build, while I'm sure it's unbeatable at the moment, is that it takes forever to finish a turn.