Thread: New Upcoming Game: Crystal Maidens

I have had a LOT of disconnects recently for no apparent reason. The game will immediately reconnect though.
I am also having issues where I will begin a battle only to have a game crash immediately resulting in the loss of all the energy for the battle.

The cost increase on upgrading is HUGE. Come on devs, you should spread your cost increases a little and let people get used to them.

They did make Daphne's Cursed Staff available to other mages which is great.

My take on free to play games.
Most F2P games really make it impossible to make any serious progress without spending money or just grinding and grinding for long periods to make minimal progress.

This game started out very slow for me on the low levels but picked up pace and was quite nice for F2P. As someone else has pointed out, the devs have to make a living too. It is a matter of finding the balance. Once I got to the second campaign it became all grind again. I have not been able to get past level 40 even with 3 maidens in mid-high 70's and one in mid 60's.

Mainly the devs are trying things to see what works and making adjustments. This is expected but they really should be more conservative in the adjustments. The jump in price for upgrades while I am already grinding is just too much. I think I understand why I started getting so many epic level items all of a sudden. To upgrade even one level is enormously expensive. My only choice is to grind to get the money to upgrade my coin building then wait until I can upgrade my temple then wait until I can upgrade my barracks, etc.
Or I can spend money and it is not a small amount of money I would need to spend to keep progressing at a relatively decent pace.

Dev's, you took away one of the most appealing features of your game which is to be able to play and feel some sense of accomplishment without needing to spend money. Please try and find balance again and look for ways to encourage spending on ways to get more VIP items or privledges, XP increases, etc. Once a game becomes impossible to make progress in without huge amounts of time invested or money spent it becomes less attractive to play and this game is one of the nicest I have found so far.

discord Crystal Maidens news - skid - at everyone - We have completed the update of the new version. We have implemented server-side changes to fix the server issues we have been having for the past few days. We are still monitoring the servers to make sure everything is stable. Android users might still receive an error until the new version propagates. Let us know if you have any trouble connecting, and thank you again for your patience. (March 9)

Originally Posted by Unregistered

I cant log in for 2 days now on my phone. Im at the point to uninstall. Does anyone have any news or updates regarding the issue

Originally Posted by Unregistered

discord Crystal Maidens news - skid - at everyone - We have completed the update of the new version. We have implemented server-side changes to fix the server issues we have been having for the past few days. We are still monitoring the servers to make sure everything is stable. Android users might still receive an error until the new version propagates. Let us know if you have any trouble connecting, and thank you again for your patience. (March 9)

From discord:
"New APK for CM version 77 available now from nutaku.net. This fixes the android connection problem (may require clear cache)"

Can someone suggest an optimal all-around setup to aim for?

I'm mostly trying to level Eli and Zera as tank and damage, but my only healer is Althea (is there even another one? what's Lily's ability?) and I'm not sure what the 4th slot should be.

Originally Posted by vem

Can someone suggest an optimal all-around setup to aim for?

I'm mostly trying to level Eli and Zera as tank and damage, but my only healer is Althea (is there even another one? what's Lily's ability?) and I'm not sure what the 4th slot should be.

Yeah, Eli is the best Tank atm.
Lily's ability is speeding everyone's ability's cooldown which is good for Eli and any other CC abilities. I recommend you to get Engineer Maidens, she will be useful for cleaning messy stages.

Problem with Eli is that she is slow. In earlier stages it doesn't matter, but at later stages when the time limit is low, it becomes a problem. Other good tanks for consideration is Beatrix or Isana.

Anyone else repeatedly getting Coral repeatedly? I got her twice in a row yesterday in the normal Gacha and once again this morning.
I will get her again this evening out of the daily rewards. Seems a little bit too much for coincidence.

Still getting random disconnects. Had another crash right after beginning a battle also, losing 20 energy again.

Prices seem to have dropped on upgrades though still a bit pricey. It was getting to a point where I was going to have to sell items in order to have the money to pay for upgrading items as they would build up faster than my coins and fill my inventory.

Despite the issues it is good to see the devs are very active in updating this game.

Originally Posted by vem

Can someone suggest an optimal all-around setup to aim for?

I'm mostly trying to level Eli and Zera as tank and damage, but my only healer is Althea (is there even another one? what's Lily's ability?) and I'm not sure what the 4th slot should be.

You will find there is no optimal combo to use all the time. A lot depends on who you are facing, what type of equipment you have and how you play the battle.

I have been using Helen and Althea most of the time. I now use Billie quite heavily as well but trade off other maidens often to level them up for different strengths. I am trying to get Isana up to strength to help tackle Campaign 2 level 40. I am also leveling up Rox and Eli to see how they do.

Helen is at Lvl 78 but still takes a lot of damage from fire based characters. I assume she would do better against them with armor that is not weak with fire but I have not leveled up the alternate gear enough yet to try with.

All you can really do is look at who you are fighting and try to match who you fight with as best you can and use them carefully to make the best use of their strengths.

Im not that new at the game, but a thing that I never understood and never found anywhere was : What does defense stats does? How much It reduce de damage? Is It userful?

Someone know what all abilities cooldowns are? I only know Luna's ( Base cooldown 10 seconds ) and Ava's ( Base cooldown 10 seconds ) Im out of energy to keep trying it with each of them, someone know's it to inform? I wanna get it to see wich of them ( abilities ) will be userful as DPS or Heal for the Team ( How much times I can activate it, really userful against high level bosses ) I wanna level the maidens up, but level each of them to level 60 at minimum, but if the abilities have a great delay, it may not worth it. If someone wanna test or already have some, share with us, we can make a list of it :b, But don't forget to let the ''Cooldown" status at 0, the standart cooldown value.