Thread: New Upcoming Game: Crystal Maidens

You need more than a team of 60s for hard.

Haven't tried it for a while, but in normal mode I have all 60 stages at 3* complete, but only 3 stages of hard mode at 3* and the 4th stage at 2*. I could maybe make it to stage 10 now with equipment and building upgrades I have done since.

As for challenge mode, I have 57/60 complete.

What is a good stage to farm to level up girls?

Boss fights give the best experience and coins per energy. Player levels are best obtained from HM1 or HM21 onwards (non-boss), since they give 500 exp per 10 energy.

Hard mode requires smart play. Keep your girls spread out so AoE attacks don't wipe them. Pick them up before they get hit by a ranged attack to keep them safe. Send ones low on health to the back if you can't heal them immediately. Level up their skills and use them appropriately, including using manual targeting when available. I've cleared stage 58 this way, and my team is Helen, Althea, Nuka, and Luna. (Stage 59 has two necromancers at the end that keep spamming skeletons which my team keeps prioritizing instead of the totem, causing time to run out.)

The nice thing about hard mode is the equipment drop rate on the later stages. Stage 53 is best with a 70% and 68% (IIRC) for two rares.

Originally Posted by Unregistered

Hard mode requires smart play. Keep your girls spread out so AoE attacks don't wipe them. Pick them up before they get hit by a ranged attack to keep them safe. Send ones low on health to the back if you can't heal them immediately. Level up their skills and use them appropriately, including using manual targeting when available. I've cleared stage 58 this way, and my team is Helen, Althea, Nuka, and Luna. (Stage 59 has two necromancers at the end that keep spamming skeletons which my team keeps prioritizing instead of the totem, causing time to run out.)

The nice thing about hard mode is the equipment drop rate on the later stages. Stage 53 is best with a 70% and 68% (IIRC) for two rares.

IME you can't pick up a girl to avoid ranged attacks, it just follows the girl? I've only been able to avoid AoE's by picking a girl up.

Any ideas when pvp (arena?) coming and what it would look like?

Originally Posted by Unregistered

IME you can't pick up a girl to avoid ranged attacks, it just follows the girl? I've only been able to avoid AoE's by picking a girl up.

What I've observed is that when I see an arrow heading towards a girl, if I pick her up, wait for the arrow to hit and disappear, and then set the girl back down, then there will be no damage number over her head and I won't see her health bar visibly decrease. But if I put her down somewhere else before the arrow disappears, then it will curve mid-flight, hit her and cause damage. This appears to be true for both normal and special attacks. I just tested this fighting some archers, so maybe it behaves differently with magic missiles.

Eli is pretty usefull for hard mode
Got 2 legendary items on her (sword and shield) and she has nearly 1.000.000 hp, 1.000 def and about 150.000 atk.
So she is a realy nice tank for most of the dmg (but very very slow...)
Im farming on hm 10 atm cause its realy nice to lvl up your maidens (45k exp per clear)
And my maidens are lvl 55, 55, 54, 44 so if you could manage to equip a tank pretty well you should be able to beat the first stages of hm without any problem to lvl up your maidens and obtain some better equip for them