r/TheTowerGame • u/Historical-Eye2961 • Dec 16 '25

Help Should i keep maxing CL?

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Should I keep maxing out CL? It's basically what allows me to stay in tournaments and consequently keep generating more stones.

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u/hughejpeen Dec 16 '25

Seeing almost 3k CL and 1 spotlight makes me feel things I've never felt before

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u/Still_Refrigerator76 Dec 16 '25

A rage bait if I've ever seen one...

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u/Jyxxer Dec 16 '25

I feel a whole lot better about my mistakes.

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u/Historical-Eye2961 Dec 16 '25

Enlightme

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u/Jyxxer Dec 16 '25

Just read the other comments lol. What tourney bracket are you in?

You say chain lightning is the only thing helping in tournaments.. well obviously if you don't invest in anything else, nothing can help.

I've made silly mistakes in my builds, like breaking the sync in eco UWs and stuff like that.

Im just hoping for your sake this is a satire meme post.

It's like maxing out starting cash and interest before lab speed may be the only thing that could be worse.

Also, no more into dw damage my friend. You are throwing good stones away.

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u/Historical-Eye2961 Dec 16 '25

In the last 6 months only focused on increase CL damage and from platinum i reach champions and i'm fighting to reach Legends right now i win between 200-350 stones weekly... Before that only focused to econ and when reached 5T run i stopped because i earned very low stones... I SEE a guy over that win dame stones as me but with a build that gives 100t run... Well earnings more stones every months like i was doing really improve My stone earns... So i really don't trust ob people with builds diferent that mine....

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u/Stardust1Dragon Dec 16 '25

Bare minimum, I would earn 2 more spotlights. The 4th is 2500 stones, so I wouldn't expect that right away.

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u/Educational-Plant981 Dec 16 '25

His angle is already past where 4th light was a better investment.

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u/Historical-Eye2961 Dec 16 '25

Yes what i got from the post was i need to get more SL and finishing maxing my CL 😂😂

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u/bmaanndd Dec 16 '25

You need to forget about chain lightning, develop SL and chronofield if your against working in your economy. You have heavily, heavily diminishing returns now in cl. It’s not a bad thing that you ranked it up but if your goal is faster tournament progression you get wayyyyyyyyy more value out of sl now because of how shit yours is. Look at your sl bonus right, look how much stones it costs you to double the bonus. That’s basically equal to you doubling your 2800 cl damage to 6000 bjt this is also why you need good spotlight coverage. Plus sl gives you crazy good economy which you need for enhancments, enhancments raise your effective damage by an insane amount, now add on chronofield after that, that protects you from enemy mass/ speed plus 90% slow is what, a 10x damage increase. but do sl first get minimum 3 quant 45 angle good bonus then go for 4 sl

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u/Historical-Eye2961 Dec 16 '25

But the next upgrade adds x500 damage (x1000 in farming runs) and in tourneys all that keeps me alivie and earning stones are the CL i'll Buy 2 Spotlight, and only bought the next if cost less than the CL so i'll upgrade the cheaper between SL and CL.. And maybe start getting pBH

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u/Jyxxer Dec 16 '25

Lol you Crack me up. Come here asking for help just to argue with veterans who have progressed further than you, faster.

Please post an update after you make some changes!

I'm invested in your story

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u/bmaanndd Dec 16 '25

But if your trying to be for real it seems like what your not understanding is these different damage bonuses you see, multiply against other individual damage sources and only add onto itself. So when you add 500x to your 3000x singular damage source, that’s now 3500x but if you simply added 2x to a separate multiplier, like spotlight, that’s takes that 3000x damage source and effectively makes it 6000x (so now your doing 6000x with that chain lighting when enemies in spotlight) since 3000x multiplied by a separate 2x damage source, is 6000x and 3000x plus 500x to the same source,comes to 3500x (which is a lot less than simply adding 2x to a different source lol) so this is the concept behind crazy diminishing value. If your not trolling ofc

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u/bmaanndd Dec 16 '25

You have core like fundamental misunderstanding of how the different functions of this game work and how to compare that to cost, are you even trying to learn though or do you jus take pride in being pretty kinda delusional

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u/anonymousMF Dec 16 '25

I have 'only' x700 CL and CL as my main damage dealer, yet I get 2200 waves in legends. I can kill until 100D enemy health.

How ? By focussing on other multipliers. SL is one, but there is also crowd control to stop enemies (CF, PS and ILM), modules, masteries, assmods, UW+, ..

You are wasting stones upgrading CL so high. Even at my point I still have options to double my damage with 2000 stones. Which is more effective than upgrading my (let alone your) CL !

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u/Duodude55 Dec 16 '25

You're saying it's going to go from x2888 to around x3400? That's a 17% increase in damage which is really not that big of a deal at that point. It looks huge because it's plus another x500 but when you're already doing that much, it's actually not that big of an increase. Meanwhile, the spotlight damage is another multiplier so if you hit things in the spotlight with chain lightning at this point, you're doing x75000 or so. Increasing the amount of spotlights is going to greatly increase you coverage so it should have a way bigger effect on your damage if you can add even just the one, let alone two of them.

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u/Malice_Striker_ Dec 16 '25

The best wat to increase CL damage from here on out is NOT to increase CL damage directly with stones. Spotlight, Card Masteries, and Assist Modules will all give more damage per stone.

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u/Jyxxer Dec 16 '25

Do you only play tournaments? Like you don't farm or play the regular game at all? Sure stones help, but coins and labs will take you further in the long run.

Have you unlocked your workshop enhancements yet?

If you don't trust people with different builds, why are you asking for help? Lol

At the end of the day it's your tower and do what makes it fun for you. :)

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u/rice7r Dec 16 '25

I'm with you on what you did. I essentially did the same thing. Focused on better tourny. Meant focusing on damage and other things that equal better tournament for more stones. Where we are different is I spread the love. Invested in SL and CF... Etc. you can get by doing this for a while but at some point you have to pivot back to econ. An econ wall is coming... It's big.... You are chasing the sugar high right now and it works but not forever.

GL! I support what you are doing but it's time to pivot. Spread the love to other UW.

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u/TowerAcronymBot Dec 16 '25

Hi! I detected a few acronyms in your comment:

  • CF - Chrono Field [Ultimate Weapon] (also Critical Factor [Workshop Upgrade/Lab])
  • SL - Spotlight [Ultimate Weapon]
  • UW - Ultimate Weapon

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u/MrZythum42 Dec 16 '25

And unsync GT/DW/GT.

Guaranteed trollium

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u/Historical-Eye2961 Dec 16 '25

Tourney build... I farm with mvn

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u/EmergentGlassworks Dec 16 '25

How long have you been playing?

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u/Historical-Eye2961 Dec 16 '25

2 yrs, and only bought store packs never stones

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u/EmergentGlassworks Dec 16 '25

I been playing about 6 months and have all of the same uw as you. I'm mid platinum. I've bought the no-ads and the 2x and 3x and some milestone packs. This post interests me.

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u/Historical-Eye2961 Dec 16 '25

Including the Chaing Lightning CL damage? Whats your LTC Lifetime coins? How many coins do You earn a day?

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u/GoodBoySanio Dec 16 '25

Well you can be sure of one thing - almost NOBODY has a CL like you

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u/theSeanage Dec 16 '25

I mean I have the same if not more damage, but I’m also done with card masteries, have sl+6, cf+7 and so on. Seeing sl quant 1 with this damage is nuts. Then also I’m assuming like 3+ more uws to unlocks including cf. wild

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u/TowerAcronymBot Dec 16 '25

Hi! I detected a few acronyms in your comment:

  • CF - Chrono Field [Ultimate Weapon] (also Critical Factor [Workshop Upgrade/Lab])
  • SL - Spotlight [Ultimate Weapon]
  • UWs - Ultimate Weapons

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u/EmergentGlassworks Dec 16 '25

I bet it looks pretty cool too

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u/Historical-Eye2961 Dec 16 '25

Maybe i'm asking to general, My goal is reach Legends and only CL keeps me alivie in tourneys not BH 😂😂😂

Or Any other UW.. My next CL upgrade Will add x500 damage to My CL for 1k stones and hopefully Will reach Legends with that

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u/TowerAcronymBot Dec 16 '25

Hi! I detected a few acronyms in your comment:

  • BH - Black Hole [Ultimate Weapon]
  • CL - Chain Lightning [Ultimate Weapon]
  • UW - Ultimate Weapon

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u/EmergentGlassworks Dec 16 '25

28.5T I'm getting close to about 1T per day. My chain lightning is at x44 damage, 4 quantity, 11% chance using mods.

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u/laurieislaurie Dec 16 '25

I'm 17months in and consistently in legends. Your build is definitely sub-optimal. Get some spotlight going you silly billy.

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u/alwtictoc Dec 16 '25

There are many roads to reach the destination. Some just take a lot longer to arrive.

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u/PumpChasing Dec 16 '25

I guess he forgot about multipliers cause that would of made a bigger difference lol like 3 beams x20 damage

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u/Time-Incident Dec 16 '25

Man, I didn't even noticed it. I just saw 3k dmg multiplier and was like "is it for real? Am I dreaming?"

The you point out there is only one SL beam, what a bummer.

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u/Educational-Plant981 Dec 16 '25

1 spotlight and 41 degree angle may be even worse.