How to fight spectres?

[Bubbawillis]

Whats a good way to deal with the spectres?

[Mylon]

Upgrade your golems to max level so they get magic damage.

[John Hadley]

Elemental bolt towers also work pretty well on spectres. You'll want some fully upgraded collectors to make sure they stay powered. Spectres can walk right through buildings and walls but not natural terrain like forest and mountain, so expect them to come through your wall to attack the buildings closest to the corruption.

[darKatana]

There's a rumor floating around that they can't get through the curtain walls. Anyone know if that's true?

[zurium]

even if its not true, you can pretty easily cover a line of defense with forests using the motivate land spell strategically, doing so with rocks is posible too, but waaaaay harder.

[Bubbawillis]

Originally posted by darKatana:

There's a rumor floating around that they can't get through the curtain walls. Anyone know if that's true?

Its true

[Tiberiumkyle]

Originally posted by Mylon:

Upgrade your golems to max level so they get magic damage.

Only crystal golems have magic damage, the rest just get extra elemental damage plus ranged attack. Still useful against specters.

Originally posted by darKatana:

There's a rumor floating around that they can't get through the curtain walls. Anyone know if that's true?

Correct, curtain walls, as well as trees and rock, block specters.

[TDarksword]

Originally posted by Tiberiumkyle:

Originally posted by Mylon:

Upgrade your golems to max level so they get magic damage.

Only crystal golems have magic damage, the rest just get extra elemental damage plus ranged attack. Still useful against specters.

If it works how I think, even the basic fire/ice/lightning damage is around 3 times more damage than the golems were doing before.

Spectres are 60% resistant to crushing, so non crystal base golems only do 0.4x damage to them. They are 30% vulnerable to fire/ice/lightning so upgraded (ignorning poison) golems would do 1.3x damage to them, so 3.25x as much

Crystal golems might actually do less damage to them if you upgrade them fully. 75% vuln to magic v 50% vuln to magic fire/ice/lightning.

[Tiberiumkyle]

Stone and wood golems actually keep their base damage type, mob stats panel just can't show multiple damage types atm. The elemental damage is added atop it, to my own understanding.
As for crystal golems, it depends on if they also keep some straight magic damage in addition to the magic (element) damage, and how much of each. In the case of elemental bolt towers, that final upgrade results in them doing the same damage to specters, but potentially more or less to other targets, with tweaked target priorities, since towers are supposed to prioritize targets they do the most damage to.

[Basic]

Originally posted by Tiberiumkyle:

Originally posted by darKatana:

There's a rumor floating around that they can't get through the curtain walls. Anyone know if that's true?

Correct, curtain walls, as well as trees and rock, block specters.

How about fire pits? Do they make spectre-holes in a crystal wall?

[Tiberiumkyle]

Originally posted by Basic:

Originally posted by Tiberiumkyle:

Correct, curtain walls, as well as trees and rock, block specters.

How about fire pits? Do they make spectre-holes in a crystal wall?

Firepits don't stop specters, and only crylithium walls work against them now. Regular curtain walls no longer stop them. Mountain and forest still do.

[Basic]

Yes, I found that out...

So glad I trusted the tooltip and "Built them into my walls".

Since it appears build area can't propagate through walls, you have to line your maze with fire pits to be able to maintain your outer wall

Now I need to rebuild it with wider lanes to allow room for fire pits _in_ the walkable area...

[Infoblaze]

I have just made a game guide and have a section dedicated to my most hated of all things.. ghosts. I hope everyone enjoys it and finds it helpful because finding a way to deal with them was not fun.