Beginner Guide for first long endurance run.

[Warr]

I made a basic guide for those that are WL150-250 and have everything unlocked but are a bit fuzzy on how to do their first serious attempt at a long Endurance. Much of the info can be found else where, but just for fun, I made a youtube guide with all the info I wish I would have had before my first serious endurance. It's mostly just "meat and potatoes" and leaves out more complex things like what "spec" and "combines" are and statistical breakdowns of how to spend skill points. I tried to make sure it was simple, step-by-step and clears a bit of the fog of overwhelming min-max that breaking into the mid-game takes.

Hope it helps a few out there who find the game a bit deep and overwhelming.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sZBMf7E1Ksw

[12345ieee]

I'm sorry I can't give a more accurate review, but I have problems understanding your English (these problems are on me, I'm sure your English is fine).

I've made a run at the WL you target (130 -> 560), here: https://vimeo.com/160455365 , but I don't have the time to dub it and make a guide of it, so I've a decent idea of what you'll meet at these levels.

Some issues I see with your video (again, sorry if you talked about them, I can't understand you):

* A WL 200 player cannot use bbound, you have to use pbound till you can make g30 comfortably, which is at WL ~1k. Same advice goes for wGC usage.
* A WL 200 player cannot start with a manafarm that way, he doesn't have enough mana. You have to bootstrap it, like I did. You can start with a manafarm once you can make at least 3 g7 at the start.

[Warr]

Yeah, I have a low, kinda muffled voice in real life sorry lol. I mentioned in the video that this was a setup to build towards. That you will probably just start with an obr gem to kill the mobs and get enough mana to build wGC gems, amps, and so on. It's not perfectly efficient to have it set up later in the waves but that efficiency is a backseat to just helping a newbie understand and try and get to the setup and see how well it works. I was about WL380 or so when I did my first decent run and I was able to reach g30+ using bloodbound gems. I chose to use bloodbound in the guide because that's what is used in mid and late game. I didn't want to explain that poolbound is ok to use but bloodbound is better after g30, because I wanted it to be simple. A lot of players never get into mid game because there's just soooo much overhwelming amounts of info out there, So I tried to leave out more advanced stuff but still provided links to great guides in the video's description (one of which you are an author) for the viewer to learn further.

The video is meant as a stepping stone to maybe catch a few players who want to get into mid-game but are a bit overwhelmed with all the info. After they have tried a run with this guide, I'm sure they'll find the guides you and bilbo are a part of make a lot more sense.

Thanks for the feedback!

[Warr]

I'll be adding a video soon about how to build up to this with low starting mana, step by step by simulating it with my own skill points. (I dump them all into the armor gem skill that I don't use). My starting mana level/mana per second will still be high, but The steps will be all the same, just a little longer on the user's end if they are a legit WL200 or so.

[Warr]

I updated the "guide" page with a new "build-up" guide to help explain the specifics of the process of getting to an efficient setup on low mana and low skills.

http://steamcommunity.com/sharedfiles/filedetails/?id=706878200

[dholland]

Since you're interested in doing GC2 videos, what about Vision fields? I know there are some videos and a guide, but I have RSI and am having trouble with V10, V7, V9, V19 and V2. I accept that some of these may be very tricky (like V7) and require lots of micro-management, but I think a better strategy than existing videos would help. I've done all the other Vision fields.

For example, I have a much better method for V16 than I've seen in any video. Make 2 (r+y)+2y killgem for left 2 bottom traps. Bolt in 1st one, beam in the other until you get bolt to replace. Now make a line of traps one by one with killgems between these. You can freeze monsters on this line so less and less can escape.

I can't hear your voice clearly on your video, either. It would help enormously if you were to turn down the game volume (especially music volume) a lot because it drowns out your voice in future videos.

[Warr]

Sorry about the audio. Narrating in WMM was a first. It sounded fine to me initially but that was because my headphone volume was all the way up. I noticed things were quiter when I uploaded to youtube.

I'm not sure if I'll do guides on Vision FIelds. I haven't completed them all myself yet. I've been using my free time to keep pushing on endurance runs.