Idle Monster TD: Evolved FAQ

### **Q: What is different about this game to previous games?**

Idle Monster TD: Evolved has graphics that are far closer to the more popular IMTD game, while taking the best mechanics from Idle TD: Heroes vs Zombies for a game that is greater than both previous games. There is also far more scope for updates as this is a brand new game with totally rewritten code.

### **Q: Is there an FAQ with all the maxables?**

Yes there is and it can be found at: https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/1y16Gi-m7qyV2DdpBGz8gIA1wlwuNzTQW-JQ3e4GRP74/edit?usp=sharing

### **Q: Are the card packs for Gems worth the cost?**

The card packs for Gems are rather situational and value can really only be determined by your style of play. The 200 gem pack offers the chance at cards one level above your maximum energy card acquisition, the 500 gem pack offers the chance to get cards two levels above your maximum energy card acquisition.

### **Q: When should I start killing Necromancers?**

Ideally, you will want to wait until you have 50% or more of the +tech points (TP) upgrades (Max of 49 additional TP available) since the hit points of the Necromancer increase after every kill and you'll need to start spending that hard earned energy to buy HP reduction levels. There are a lot of great upgrades in the tech tree though, so waiting until you have all upgrades may not be the best strategy. *Note: For the daily mission you do not have to kill the Necromancer, you just have to summon it.*

### **Q: How do Tank Swordsmen work?**

Tank Swordsman are a boss type enemy that can be summoned every few hours and on successful kill, it rewards Energy, gold and gems. If you kill a Tank Swordsman the Maximum HP will increase, if you fail to kill a Tank Swordsman the maximum hp will not increase but the hp left will remain until you summon it next time. Example: Tank Swordsman has 1000 maximum HP and you summon it and do 400 damage before it goes through the end portal then the new hp value would be 600 / 1000 for the next summon. Let's say you killed it instead then the maximum hp would increase instead. Tank Swordsman are a great source of gold especially during tournaments (see perfect Tank Swordsman strategy). *Note: For the daily mission you do not have to kill the Tank Swordsman*

### **Q: What is a perfect Tank Swordsman?**

A perfect Tank Swordsman is basically where you maximize the amount of gold you get from a Tank Swordsman (outside of any Tank Swordsman gold upgrades). To do a perfect Tank Swordsman follow these steps:

1. Have a layout where you have your highest gold lust + aura, your highest Gold Drop and your dps can kill monster in the gold aura area.
2. Wait for 2x gold ad and removed rags to riches from auto
3. Remove game speed effects in settings.
4. Optionally make sure freeze spell is on your layout
5. Remove DPS Tower
6. Summon Tank Swordsman and wait for gold lust skill to tag tower.
7. Activate rags to riches (and optionally Freeze).
8. Reload your layout
9. Profit

### **Q: Can I transfer my account from one platform to another?**

Every platform is independent and no transfers are allowed between platform. Example: If you play on android you can only play on android or transfer to another android device.

### **Q: Is scripting allowed?**

Short answer is, no, scripting is not allowed, and accounts found to be scripting will be banned from leaderboards and PvP tournaments.

Please see the developer's thoughts on scripting in the following pinned post: https://discord.com/channels/659388362288922636/862298831391424514/864035597575258153

### **Q: Should I reroll artifacts?**

Artifact tiers are locked by wave progress. Because the + Damage artifact is additive across tiers, it does not make sense to reroll before you get to wave 2000. You may reroll your artifacts until you feel satisfied after unlocking Tier V artifacts at wave 2000 and Tier VI at wave 3500.

### **Q: I have concerns about some of the results in my tournament bracket, what do I do?**

Take a screen shot of the score screen in the Tournament icon menus, and post it in Idle Monster TD: Evolved Bug Reports channel on the Discord Server located here.[1]

### **Q: How do I suggest something to the dev?**

This can be done on the Idle Monster Tower Defense Discord Server.

### **Q: What is the order of the ad rotation?**

1. 2x Damage
2. 2x Gold
3. 2x Kill XP
4. +100% Game speed
5. + Gold
6. +Energy
7. + Gems

### **Q: How do daily missions work?**

Each time the day resets (Midnight UTC ) you get assigned 8 random daily quests with increasing gem rewards, the higher the gem reward the more you need to do.

Example: If you get time played with reward for 20 gems the time needed is 8 hours but if you get a lower gem reward like 2 gems the time played would be 1 hour.

The dailies can fall into one of these categories:

1. Perform a certain hero skill x amount of times
2. Summon (**not kill**) Tank Swordsmen x amount of times (See Tank Swordsman section for more details)
3. Summon (**not kill**) Necromancers x amount of times
4. Kill x amount of enemies
5. Perform x amount of skills (any hero skill)
6. Cast x amount of spells
7. Get x amount of critical hits
8. Play for x amount of time
9. Clear a total amount of waves (Boss rushing will include skipped waves)
10. Kill x amount of bosses
11. Perform x amount of prestige's
12. Pull x amount of tower cards (doesn't matter the rarity)
13. Get x amount of Peasant Swarm kills

## **Tower Information**

### **Q: How does Gold Drop work?**

Your total Gold Drop is calculated based on your monsters & pets placed on the map currently.

If you remove a tower with a high Gold Drop stat, your gold income will drop.

### **Q: Which tower auras stack?**

All support tower auras stack and are added together for the overlapping heroes and for specials only Energy Source/Aura stacks.

### **Q: How can I tell when a monster is ready to Evolve?**

When monsters are ready to evolve, you will see a ! on the magnifying glass if you have the monster selected or you will see a monster show a green crown if there is no selected monster or a different monster is selected.

### **Q: How do evolutions work?**

The Evolution page has details on how Evolutions work.

### **Q: What Monsters should I evolve first?**

The recommendation is:

1. Exp Aura III - This doubles your exp farming once the humans are killed in the range.
2. Exp Boost III/II/I - These boost exp from individual humans and all monsters should be on the map to maximize exp gain.
3. Restore II/I - With restores maxed you can maximize the exp boosts being applied to monsters.

After that you can choose who to do but some good examples next would be Energy Makers, Time Mastery / Combo Monsters.

### **Q: How many evolutions are optimal?**

This depends mostly on how much exp you can generate per hour but the data shows that it takes 10 evolutions to max a monster's skill power. The more Kill Exp you have the faster your evolutions will be completed.

## **Upgrade Priority**

### **Q: How should I spend gems?**

1. 2x Game Speed from Premiums menu
2. +XP from premium store Gems menu (5-10 levels)
3. Autocast 4 farming spells
4. Unlock Research menus
5. +Boss Energy (5 levels)
6. +Tech Points (10 levels)
7. Pet Kill Count +1 (2 levels)
8. Pet Trigger Chance +50% (2 levels)
9. Gold %/Gamespeed +5%
10. Resource Pack 3
11. Tournament menu and upgrades to tournament points
12. +Damage upgrades from gems menu (up to 20-25 levels)

### **Q: What should I spend my tournament points on?**

Since tournament upgrades tiers are locked by gems This will be the list from each Tier and what you should get. Also generally any gold type upgrade like gold % or Mob gold should be gotten asap. Everything else not on this list is up to you if you want to invest or save your Tournament points to get them.

*Tier 1* 10-30 levels in

1. Damage
2. Prestige points
3. Swarm Gold
4. Kill Exp
5. Tank Energy

*Tier 2*

1. Spell Cooldown
2. Spell Duration
3. Crit Hit Chance
4. Skill Cooldown

*Tier 3*

1. Tech Points
2. Tank Gems
3. Kill Exp %
4. Boss Energy
5. Top Tier Heroes

### **Q: What should I spend my Tech Points on?**

With the tech points in a tree, it is recommended to unlock every upgrade sequentially before beginning to put serious effort into starting to upgrade.

When you upgrade, the suggested order is:

1. 5-10 levels in Damage
2. 5-10 levels in Prestige
3. 5 levels in Range (go for all 10 if you want, but they get pricey quick with adding 5 point cost for evey level)
4. 5 levels in Attack Speed (max)
5. Skill Cooldown
6. Spell Duration
7. Attack Speed
8. Tank Gold
9. Boss Gold
10. Enemy HP
11. Cards in Deck
12. Repeat Card DPS
13. Kill Exp x2
14. Gold Drop x10
15. Boss Damage
16. Gold Drop (%)
17. Map Perks
18. Mob Time
19. Tank CD
20. Hauler Gold
21. Kill Exp
22. Mid-Tier Heroes

## **Map Information**

### **Q: Should I use 2 dps for my layout?**

There are 13 DPS-type monsters in the game. It is generally recommended to use between 1-2 DPS monsters due to the movement speed of the humans.

Ideally, you would use 1 AoE monster and one with the Headshot skill.

### **Q: How should I layout my towers?**

There are generally going to be two layout builds you create:

*Farm Build*

This builds goal is generating as much gold / xp / blocks as possible as fast as possible. Some pointers are:

1. Run as many specials as possible in particular Energy Source. This helps with faster game speed as well as energy farming.
2. Use two towers that have restore as their ability and are able to use their skill on the zombies. This allows energy sources skill to be refreshed faster.
3. Best AOE Damage monster you have.

*Push Build*

Currently the best push build will be your best Damage monsters and the rest supports. By time you unlock divine towers this would mean you can use 8 supports. Some support abilities get better with more support towers around so make sure to arrange them to maximize the amount of bonus you get from them.

### **Q: How do I see my map name and / or bonus?**

In the stats under current run there is a section for map name and the 2 (or 3) map bonuses for the current run.