Higher ascension levels: consider balancing elites

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Basically as you climb ascension, difficulty increases. New gimmicks, etc. Which is awesome!

But let's talk elites. I wanna say starting around Ascension 7 or 8, getting an elite to spawn anytime within the first 1-7 waves is just instant restart. There's literally nothing you can do even if you've pumped everything into towers, and consequently have no econ. Or if you do have econ, not enough towers... but even with as many high damaging towers as possible, it's simply instant death.

Can this be balanced? Maybe as you climb ascension, have something that prevents them from showing up until waves 8 or 10 or something. Or maybe some kind of formula like (Ascension level / 2) + 3 before any elite can spawn for example. The early 10 waves is such a delicate balance of what to do in later ascensions that there's simply no way of dealing with an elite. Might as well just throw up game over the second they spawn :D

[Stunforge | Basti]

Elites are indeed super strong especially in ascension where they can crush you instantly, maybe we can dig deeper into it and see what we can do :)