

One possible alternative to the setup above is to remove the magic missles tower near the single crystal in favor of putting double blockades at the end of each trap set. Now switch to your hero build character for the remaining waves.

Now you’ll repeat the same setup for the west crystal, facing west rather than east obviously. The final tower on this side will go south of the crystal, angled the same way. The fireball tower and one of the magic missle towers will go to the north of the crystal, facing south east so they can hit the wyverns coming from the east and the south. Here you’ll summon one more fireball tower and two more magic missle towers. Just make sure you do so as if left alone, they will take out your towers and then your crystal. You can easily take out the ogre at this point. This rarely happens, and if it does, the ogre will be very low on HP. Also keep in mind with just one blockade, ogres can occasionally get past the blockade without destroying it. If your blockades and traps are strong enough, they can manage an ogre on their own, but its best not to risk it. This will stop ogres from making their way to your crystals. Now make a round through your trap sets and put a magic blockade in the middle of each spike trap at the end of your trapset. This tower will make sure that happening once wont end your game early. There are quite a few dark elf mages that spawn from the north stairway area and they have a habit of summoning skeletons off the edge of the stairway and therefore bypassing your traps. Now you’ll head to the single crystal up north, and toss a magic missle tower here to protect this crystal, like this. You’ll move to the southeast crystal and drop one fireball tower and two magic missle towers behind the crystal facing east like so: Once all your traps are down, try to gather up as much mana as possible before heading into the next build phase.ĭrop the mana you have on your huntress and then swap to your tower app. Use the mana you have at this point to drop the prox trap on the 2nd lower stairway, and then move up to the north trap set to gather some mana and drop a prox trap and spike trap here as well. Remember, the edges of the walkway dont stop your movement here, so be careful not to fall off. Grab what you can, then jump on to the chest, then down to the stairway below. You’ll likely miss some if not all of the mana from this chest as it tends to fall off the walkway. Go ahead and ignore them for now, and head to the final mana chest. If you’re on insane difficulty, creeps will be spawning at this point. Now head up to your first trap set and to the upper walkway to the last chest.

Here you’ll mimic the trap set on the other side, other than you’ll skip the prox mine trap for now since you wont have the mana for it. Now grab the mana chest just south of the forge, then head around to the stairs on the other side. You’ll start with a spike trap at the top of the stairs, then a prox mine trap, a gas trap, and finally an inferno trap at the bottom of the stairs, like this: Then grab the next mana chest to the north, then drop down to the lower level and grab the chest there before heading up the stairs to drop your next trap set. Head for the first mana chest just north of the spawn point, then head up to the stairs to the north and put down an inferno and gas trap. You’ll start on your trap build huntress. An animus or fairy are recommended for this character. You’ll also want good hero speed and build speed as you’ll need to be able to move around the map quickly, and repair traps and towers along with dealing with ogres. They’ll also help take down the ogres, but they dont have to be anything insane so long as you are quick in helping against them.Ī hero build character capable of ~20k or more DPS. Your traps are going to handle bulk of the creeps. You’ll want your best tower gear on your app.Ī strong traps build huntress. You’ll need stong towers for this map, as you’ll have ogres and wyverns coming from multiple directions, and your towers are going to be the the most important part of handling them. Anyways, on to the guide…Ī strong tower build app. You also have good odds of GEPs, godly weapons, etc. Its a good map to farm for mana as you get about the same mana as you do in maps like Summit or Ramparts, but it only takes about 20minutes. Theres been a fair amount of interest in Alien Swords, and by extension, Endless Spires on the forums lately so I decided to post a guide for the setup I use to solo farm this map on insane. Dungeon Defenders Endless Spires Hard/Insane Solo Guide by Bhelrudan
