Introducing Myself - A Mid-Game Orb Devo Player | Hi World!

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Hey everyone, and welcome! I'm J and this is my channel where we'll be playing the Tower game!

If you're new, The Tower is simply an idle game where you build, well… a tower and fend of various enemies. While it has its flaws, it’s a pretty addicting game and a very slow but rewarding grind.

I'm a an early mid-game player myself, and while there are some solid resources on YouTube, such as Greeny and Crowbarzero, I haven't seen many videos out there about this stage of the game, so I thought I'd start to share my experience and some things I've learned along the way.

And while I’m certainly not perfect in terms of progress - I am the type of person who is obsessed with min-maxing and efficiency, so I’m sure there are some relevant bits I can share and teach from my experience and what I’ve learned from others.

I personally started playing in June 2024 and have had a fair bit of success at progressing. I’m also busy in real-life though, so I’ve been transitioning to a pretty AFK-friendly Orb Devo approach, where I have 11 auto perks and 5 bans - and I’ll show this in more details in a future video.

And just to shortly paraphrase my journey and progress up until now, it basically falls into 3 main stages:

First at the beginning of the game it was all about absolute gains and econ to upgrade the workshops. That essentially takes you to farming tier 9 to about wave 4,500. And at the time I invested absolute all of the stones into economy - particularly GT, BH and some DW and SL .
Then, once the workshops start falling off (meaning, that you are essentially maxing everything and don’t progress much more) it was time to transition to Wall - and especially so as I didn’t have any Wormhole Redirector to keep my orb devo progressing to tier 10. And as for the wall, a tip here is to first only level the wall thorns for a week or so before you upgrade the other wall labs. That way you avoid any issues with enemy heat killing you and your wall. (Tip: Start Wall Thorns first!)
And then, the third stage, which I’m basically at right now, is to finally focus on damage and tournament performance. Basically, it was only a week or two ago that I first put any stones into any damage-related ultimate weapons when I started upgrading my Chain Lightning and Spotlight Damage Bonus. And I really think that some are investing in these way too early when econ and workshop upgrades are much more important early on in the game.

Anyways, so now I’ve been focusing on researching various damage, critical factor etc., and to finish my shard-related labs as I will be expecting quite a progress jump once I reach lvl 101 on my Modules.

Recently I’ve been ranking around 10-15 in Champion Tournament, and that’s with a single epic Dimension Core, a legendary Galaxy Compressor, and only 3 Sub-Module Effect (substats) on my modules which are also not the best substats, and so on. So I think that once I get a few more modules - and get to lvl 101 on the modules, I should be getting close to promoting - but time will tell.

Anyways, in the next video, I’ll share more details about my exact set up of mods, WS , WS+ , etc. and where I’m planning to focus going forward. —> 200T LTC Update & Stats

This first video is simply just to say “hi world” and to see if there is any appetite for mid-game related Tower videos.

And if there is anything specific you’d like for me to cover, let me know!

Next progress video:

200T LTC Update & Stats