Milk is Super Overpowered and the Game is Balanced around it

[Lord Cameron]

I'm not saying milk is the be all and end all build, but it is by far the easiest to set up. A triple bear build or slime build or hydra clover build I'm sure is very powerful as well, but they are much harder to make happen, whereas a cat doing a million damage only requires a lot of clicking to buy every cat and milk you can find.

It means you are purposefully handicapping yourself if you go for something else harder and/or less effective like an obsidian tower guard tower build or a clever chest and dice tower build.

Rather than buff the other build (though that might be needed) I think milk and cats should probably be reigned in, and then the difficulty scaling of this game be reduced logarithmic-ally (before endless mode) so you don't need to be using only the most obscene number scaling strategies.

On that note, Endless mode's pacing is weird. A huge amount of rounds of no challenge and then one single round where the boss is 100x as power as you. I don't mind the boss being stronger but the scaling almost feels too slow on that end.

Reading back, this sounds a little too declarative. I'm interested in hearing what others have to say about it and where I am wrong/right. I like the game and it's fun to brainstorm about.

[NotToday]

I agree with you on the milk. If you can get early cat and milk towers (event milk related tokens) you can out-scale monsters easily. (At least at ascension 7, I haven't reached higher levels yet..)

I like the ascension mechanics in this game. Reminds me of Slay the Spire. Each level adds new difficulty to your run which I enjoy.
Makes you think new strategies to beat bosses.
For example: First boss has 100/100 stats. In Ascension 3 it has 120/120. This %20 HP difference sometimes force you to be more aggressive in the early game. Being more aggressive early might affect your overall economy because you have to invest in high attack towers in the front line etc.

Ascension 5 and 6: Towers below lvl 3 can't be higher than 500/500.
This one is tricky. But milk solves your problems here too.

Changing boss orders is a good idea. It's possible it's one of the high ascension modes. If not, the devs should add it to the game :)

On the endless mode scaling, having slime + insolent + bear should be enough to go infinite unless boss scaling changes drastically after very late rounds..
Insolent makes you out-scale the boss each round. I heard people saying their game crashed cuz of the high numbers..

I'm also interested on other's opinion on these topics.

[S♥ShiMe]

you are right, but it is fun for now to go obscene numbers. =D

[Lord Cameron]

Obscene numbers are fun, but it's nice to earn them a little bit. And yeah regarding late game scaling I think mid - start of endless game should be a bit easier and late game/endless way harder. Like the starting over from beginning again in endless isn't challenging in the slightest, at least in my limited experience. Makes endless a bit tedious.

[Rishi]

Because of how niche the use case for cat is, maybe it should be moved up to an uncommon tower in line with Frog. That would probably reduce it's reliability. Idk how that would affect the new game experience tho since it seems to be the go to for most players because of how simple and effective the strategy is.