So ket, you've a player build, instead of a tower build, I'm assuming?

I'm going tower build with my little apprentice, but he's only level 40 now. Have to find a new map to grind, since I'm bored of deeper well on insane. haha

Btw, I found grinding to 74 using Endless Spires Nightmare Hardcore to actually be reasonably fast, with the added bonus of picking up a ton of mythical gear in the process. As long as you don't mind the mundane and repetative side of it.

You get 90 seconds setup time (though you can do it in 70 seconds with a decent speed stat), the combat wave takes exactly 60 seconds, and then another 60 seconds to pick up loot from the chests, then you restart. Lets say it takes 3.5 minutes per "run". If you do it without getting hit (for the bonus exp) you get 80,000xp for this.

60 Minutes / 3.5 Minutes = ~15 runs per hour
3.5 Minutes for 80,000 xp = ~1.2 million exp / hour

Maybe not the fastest way to make exp (someone needs to measure how much you actually get from insane ramparts/glitterheim) but considering the number of mythical items you'll get in the process it's probably worth doing a bit of it. I ended up with like 80 million mana at the end, spent 50 million of it upgrading my mythical weapon to 8000 base damage (and its only half upgraded).

1) Highest upgrade available for weapons is at 254. Atm there is bug which exceeds 255 resulting in weapon becoming 1/0 upgrade slot.

2) Highest upgrade available for armors and pets is at 254 <- Source from Sakisan. (Anyone with an SS of one should post it here to prove its credibility; personally I've only 244^ armor and 232^ pets at most)

3) Maximum upgradeable stats you can get is 360 on weapons and pets; and 468 on armors [Including 30% bonus from mythical armors](Refer to point 4 on how to get past 360 stats with armor bonus)

4) Armors including bonus can only exceed 360 IF you unequip it to nullify the bonus. Therefore, highest stats available from upgrade is also 360 without bonus.(468 including 30% bonus)

5) Items with more than >360 stats can be found; BUT however, it cannot be further upgraded.

6) Items with all insanely positive stats and no negatives is POSSIBLE. But it is just very very very very very very very very rare. *Hacked gears look similar to them. So unless you hunted it yourself, DO NOT risk buying it from an AFK shop as it might result in a ban. <- source from fluffycalico.

7) Survival pets are obtained AFTER clearing wave 14.

Maximum boost a guardian pet can provide is being capped at 40. Anything higher than that atm have the same effect of a 40boost guardian.

9) Magical barricade does NEUTRALISE the element-resist of monster. Only if that monster came in contact/touched the barricade (Tested and proven. Monster element will neutralise as long as it touches the barricade even before attacking it) *Thanks Subnuclear & Anarial for pointing it out

10) Weapon size of a squire and monk does affect the melee range of reaching a monster.

11) Weapon size of an apprentice and huntress affects the range of projectiles being fired. (A mini gun which is longer in appearance will require the monster to be at certain range apart before you can hit it)

12) Apprentice staves with more than +1 charge bonus will tend to have higher DPS than those lower than 0 when using auto-fire.[This being said, the higher the charge bonus is, the higher the DPS for auto fire goes] (It is more advisable to click manually if you have a staff of more than +1 charge bonus as it deals higher DPS)

The other big problem I have is low tower hp. The guy who made this build had a 2nd apprentice leveled up to 74 just to summon magic blockades with nothing but tower hp gear on. He had over 2k tower hp on that char. I think I currently have like 600.