Beginner's Guide

Welcome to Arcane Alchemist - Idle TD's FANDOM!

Now that you have finished the tutorial, it is time to start pushing those waves and collecting some gold!

But wait? HOW DO I GET PAST WAVE 10! or WAVE 20?

WHERE DO I USE ALL MY GOLD?

**Not to worry! This guide will teach you the ways of the Arcane Alchemist!**

## ***The Objective of the Game***

The object of Arcane Alchemist - Idle TD is pretty simple: push as many waves as possible, collect gold, create potions, level up the Arcane Tower, level up elemental towers, push more waves, and watch your base destroy the enemies! (I guess it doesn't sound too simple this way but this guide will clear things right up!)

## ***What to do after the tutorial***

Now that you have completed the tutorial, you have leveled up 3 points in Arcane Tower's **Attack Damage** skill, and also have an **Air Tower**. There are several strategies you can take in clearing the waves, but the easiest early on would be getting more ELEMENTAL TOWERS (Let's check out this page to learn more about these towers). These towers as you read, deal AOE damage, allowing for one of their projectiles to go through countless enemies! How great is that?

But wait? Don't these cost diamonds? I don't have any diamonds to buy chests!!!

NOT TO WORRY! Check over at the Daily Rewards panel in the main menu on the right side (calendar icon), and collect your daily free rewards. Here you can collect various rewards simply from logging in! Let's also make sure to collect diamonds, gold, runes, and more from the promo codes! Enter "Welcome", "GoldGold", and "Diamonds" in the Promo Code section in Settings! WOWZA MUCH DIAMONDS! MUCH GOOD! VERY VERY GOOOD! Hint hint... There are way more promo codes in Discord :)

MY TIP is to use 500 of these goodie delicious diamonds to open up a PLASMA CHEST! These chests contain legendary towers which can one-shot all your enemies! The Plasma Tower can even one-shot the Royals (BOSS)!

## ***I've Unlocked more Elemental Towers... Now What?***

Now you go to BATTLE!!!

Click Play, and place your strongest towers closest to the enemy's spawning portal! But BEWARE! The bottom left tower spot is too far away for a level 1 tower to reach the path! You will need a max level tower to place here if you want it to attack the enemy!

You will notice that waves on multiples of 10s (10, 20, 30, 40, 50, etc) are extremely hard... You are full HP and suddenly WHAM! 0 HP. What the heck is this? Is this a bug??? THOSE DAMN DEVS!!!

NOOOO waait!! Before you shout at me, check out the information panel in settings! Clicking on this will also grant you 100 delicious goodie yummy diamonds as well! Here you can see that ARCANES have x0.1 health but x20 damage!!! WOW! These Arcanes spawn every 10 waves and can nuke your Arcane Tower! HOW DO WE COUNTER THIS??? Easy... They have x0.1 health so let's make sure we have some AOE towers to blast them away. FREE GOLD AND ENERGY!!! YEAH!!!!

Now the real problem arises at waves on multiples of 25s (25, 50, 75, 100, 125, etc). Because these waves spawn ROYALS! What's that? Check the information panel in the settings again and see that they do x2 damage and have x25 health!!! WOW! They are tanker than the tanks! So how do you kill this? LEVEL UP YOUR ARCANE TOWER!!!! (or get lucky and get the Plasma Tower which one shots Royals :/)

## ***How come my energy keeps resetting to ZERO every time I play?***

Silly! That is the point of the game! You use the gold earned from wave farming and either level up potion making production or level up your Arcane Tower! With potions you can level up your Elemental Towers, strengthening their damage, speed, range, %damage, and special ability. Every time you start a new wave, you will start with 0 energy (unless you continue from wave X for 5 diamonds). But because you wisely invested your gold into strengthening your Arcane Tower or your Elemental Towers, you will be able to push levels way further than before!

## ***What should I level up first? What is the best strategy?***

I recommend using your diamonds to unlock as many legendary towers as possible (found in the 500 diamond plasma chests)! These can one shot the enemies making it easy to farm early waves even with a weak Arcane Tower.

After you have a base farming setup, it is time to upgrade your Arcane Tower. Save up 500 gold so you can quickly level up PURE DEFENSE. YEAH BABY! PURE DEFENSE ALL THE WAY!!! With pure defense, your enemies deal much less damage to your towers! Pure defense works like this: if the enemy deals 1.00 damage, but you have 1.00 pure defense, they will deal 0 damage because 1 - 1 = 0. Now if they deal 1.00 damage and you have 0.50 pure defense, they will deal 0.5 damage because 1 - 0.5 = 0. Simple right?

Early on, just level up pure defense and sit back and let the legendary towers do their thing!

## ***Okay I've been leveling up pure defense but now I'm still dying. What now?***

AHHH the enemies have busted through our defenses! Well you know what they say: A good offense is the best defense!

Let's head over to the attack panel of the Arcane Tower and unlock some of those bad boys. Leveling up the attack damage is an obvious one. But speed, crit, crit mult, extra projectile, extra projectile number, and the elemental strikes and blasts are all very necessary too!!! The ELEMENTAL BLASTS are the big boys who deal AOE damage at speeds FASTER than the enemy can spawn! But remember! All the attacks deal % damage of the Arcane Tower's base Attack Damage!

***Well, the basics are done and you my good Alchemist are ready for your journey! May you defend with honor!***