Wizard's Wheel 2

Most of these negative reviews are wrong. At least as far as the game having terrible progression. It truly doesn't. Honestly, this is among my favorite of these types, and I think I've played pretty much all the free "Very Positive" ones out there. That's why I'm leaving a review. Haven't been leaving a lot of 'em lately... never for an idle game. The most common complaint is the game doesn't explain itself well. Well, that one *IS* true. The next complaint is that progression is far too slow. This one *IS NOT* true. That's perhaps a fault of the game not explaining itself well... progression is actually quite fast as soon as you know what you're doing. I reset my game maybe 4 times in the first week of playing -- yes, mostly idle -- and I can just easily complete the early game in a few hours. If you find it painfully slow, I can't even say it's a "git gud" issue, but almost certainly you don't realize what you have available. One thing is particular -- STOP READING HERE IF YOU WANNA FIGURE IT ALL OUT YOURSELF -- you get almost immediately: those gems you get from completing Accomplishments, "Accolades", while they're one of the 2 premium currencies of the game (along with gems), neither of these currencies are so hard-to-get that you need to worry about them... just sell a couple of those gems right at the start of your game. You probably won't even know what "TP" is yet, but it's not the TP... the hidden thing you don't see is they're worth a lot of gold as well. If you tried doing the game without doing this, suddenly having this bonus will feel like an exploit right off the bat. But you're meant to be able to do that. Another thing -- arguably exploity -- is the game has codes you can "redeem". One of them I *do* think is powerful enough that it feels exploity (the "power" one), but if you combine that with those gems you get accessible early... the early game is not a slog at all. You can be doing the equivalence in other Idle games of 20 minute Ascensions right off the bat, while gaining significant boons each time. Oh, yeah, that's another thing: there's no penalty in this one from "ascending" early. So long as you know you can clear those zones faster... those statues are powerful. Some times I think would make the game better if it told you: 1) click on certain things in battle 2) your guys have a Brain icon on their profile where you can change behavior. Sending your highest damage attacker to never use Skills and others to only Defend when they aren't using Skills, for example, can be powerful. 3) You get HUGE amounts of power from heroes hitting levels 1/10/25/50/100/250 etc... they're HUGE buffs that apply permanently to ALL heroes. That point #2 in setting your tiny level 1's to Defend should become obvious here: really helps keeping new weak heroes alive while more powerful ones carry them for shared EXP. 4) Your statues when doing those early ascensions ("time warps") grow in power EXPONENTIALLY. What doesn't seem that valuable at first... 5) Don't waste millions of gold unlocking those million-cost buildings right at the start. Wait until getting millions of gold seems easy on its own, then do it. 6) But that leftover gold, if you have enough, use at the Enchanter to try to get certain equipment modifiers that makes equipment last through those frequent ascensions 7) that Blood Knight guy. Do it. Until you get dragons, he'll probably be the guy who makes you happiest when he shows up in your pub. If you have him, you know you can push deep on that playthrough. 8) an early strategy is to pick a team of 4 that you haven't leveled up in previous ascensions and stick with those 4 to get those higher ranks. 9) when you defeat one of the Bosses that unlock a new... thing, you'll see, you might think that upon ascensions those reset like other things don't. Nope, they're still there. I missed this completely, somehow, for a LONG time. Helps that #8 thing. 10) a) The battle Gem Boost is ABSOLUTELY worth it as long as you're around the screen, paying some attention b) The first 2 you buy give you a half hour, but as long as you have OVER 30 minutes on the timer, then buying another gives you another hour... so do all 3, fill it up, for 5 gems apiece. Hopefully it helps. Cheers