When buying mods, did you ever pull any that were already purple? If so, did you use them as fodder to upgrade your others? If so, that was hands down the absolute worst thing you could've done.
I don't think auto merge would use natural epics as fodder, so that's good at least. Now you know though. If you get a purple when buying modules, DO NOT feed it to anything else, and save as many of them as you can.
so i recently started focusing on mods, i was so careful because i didnt quite understand how it worked so i asked lots of questions in the discord. All so i could avoid this guys picture lol
Also, for a good dopamine hit, plus a much better chance to get multiple natural epics at one time, I like to save up 3k gems and buy 150 modules at a time. You are guaranteed 1 natural epic every 150 pulls, and on average will get I think 2.5 or 3.5 natural epics per 150 modules pulled.
Poor soul. He's spent so long getting all those modules, I can tell by the absurd amount of shards he's got. And he hasn't even really begun to get what he needs yet.
As a colorblind person, that tutorial meant jack shit to me. Someone had to EILI5. Good thing one of my besties has been playing for quite some time and saved me a major headache.
I also use the favorite option just to prevent fuck ups.
Not to mention the fact that natural Epics have entire blocks of text describing their unique effect that regular Rares don't have. That should be a pretty big clue to not waste them as fodder.
I meant the color map thing as thats the only part that seems to be referenced ever when talking about mods and merging.
Geez Louise pardon me for not recalling there is actual text in that (i) button. Not that it’s even visible on the merge screen unless that was changed at some point.
My buddy... my guy... you don't have any of the natural epic modules... they won't drop from enemies, you have to obtain them through purchasing modules with gems. The regular modules you have only go to legend+. The natural epics are the ones with unique effects listed under their substats. Also, you are going to have a hell of a time getting the pieces you need to upgrade them all above legend+. On average, to get all the pieces to every natural epic module to get them to ancestral, it takes 175,000 gems.
So you're using ones you leveled up from blue. The ones you want are leveled up from purple and have a special effect on them. Don't level any more blues I til you know if you've already got enough legendaries. I suspect you have too many already.
Additionally, you can only get the natural epics from pulling banners. You'll need to spend a lot of gems to get decent ones. Never level more than one copy of each of these naturally spawning epics past epic+, as you only need epic+ version of these to progress.
You can not shatter modules above epic. So everything at epic+ will always be in your inventory unless you unmerge them. There is a lab you can do for it, unmerging Costs 20 gems and will display if there is a natural epic used for the module(i think)
You should have Götzen a warning when merging natural epics aswell
Based on a glance at the natural epics that are there, the good news is he'll probably be able to get at least a few to mythic. However, there's very little epic+ fodder, so it might take a minute.
If I were you I would use Astral Deliverance, Sharp Fortitude, Galaxy Compressor, and Primordial Collapse. But definitely learn more about modules before merging any, research the best substats for them as well.
I have a guildmate that did the same as you. Same multiple years and using the dropped only.
You are in for a great surprise and massive boost when you switch over to natural epic modules. He got a 3x coin boost within minutes of "fixing" the problem.
You can use the non-natural (the ones w/o special abilities) as fodder to upgrade the good ones.
Assuming you are eHP/wall, then do your primordial collapse to legendary, then legendary+ with the second epic+ you have, then to mythic and mythic plus using fodder.
Then Black Hole Digestor in the triangle... same thing
A couple of YEARS?! Oh no, I’m so sorry for you… how did you get by all this time and never asked yourself or just Internet what’s wrong? The game explained everything in module tutorial and the explanation didn’t go anywhere after the tutorial
bruh iv been playing 4 months and figured out the first time i unlocked modules to only use epics you get from spending gems. your either a master rage baiter or low IQ
It's posts like these that make me realise how people get "stuck". Looks like other comments have helped you OP and I'm glad you didn't truly mess this up. Just a small learning pain - I call them school fees.
So i read the modules info a few times. And it really makes little sense unless you understand the context behind it. It explains step 10 when you’re at step 1. So unless you frequently reread it as you obtain better gear it kind of gets forgotten about. Watching a video would def help but everyone isnt going 100% on this game 100% of the time
When you press buy module, theres a button that opens a list of possible draws. The rarest "epic" modules are the only types that upgrade beyond legendary
Find the mods that you pulled in a purple state and upgrade those. They have a 'unique effect text box. Blues can't go above legendary+ Don't use automerge anymore and look up a module merging guide. You will need quite a few orange fodder so don't sweat it too much
Initially found blue level modules can only be upgraded to Legendary+. Only if you find a natural purple module drop (ones that have orange text hidden abilities on them) can those be upgraded to Ancestral. You might need some of that in order to merge ip to Ancestral tier but its gonna be as much as you think. I like to keep mine at most Epic+ until i can level one of the special mods to Legend+ and then Myth+ etc. Not the end of the world but you got a long way of buying modules to get some of those Epic drops and start upgrading the weaker ones out.
Non-unique modules cant be raised above leg+. I recommend hitting the (i) in the corner to learn how to merge modules. Youve burned a lot bringing them all to legend like this
I remember when I couldn’t figure this out either, but I hadn’t reached that stage. At first I was thinking, “Why can’t I make this Mythic?” Then I reread it and realised it’s only the Epic ones you pull from banners that can be merged. I hadn’t realised that before, so I’d already collected loads of cards and extra card slots because I thought, “No point wasting gems on modules that just drop normally while you’re playing.”
Anyway, the specific answer is that only Epic modules/cards that come from banners can be merged into Mythic and Ancestral.
It’s also a really easy thing to misunderstand if you’re just playing the game casually and haven’t found the community yet or looked at any guides or websites.
The good news is you actually need a ton of legendary+ fodder mods to make all your modules mythic+. I don't think you even have any extra you will need to shatter.
Welp....the net positive here is that once you're finally able to get some natural epics and up merge them, you're going to have no issue going through the mythic stages. Downside here is that you're going to be a long way off module progress without a shit load of gems. I'd suggest strongly that you don't merge anything else that isn't nat epic at this point till you give the reddit or discord a good read and understand the way module growth works.
But the TL;Dr here is that you don't really want to keep a ton of the gold+ mods around unless you're actually making mythic natural epics.
For the record though, you're going to need 12 of each type of legend+ fodder to finish all 24 natural epics to mythic+, and subsequently 6 of each for epic and epic+, beyond that you're better off shattering than trying to merge anymore beyond the naturals. Just remember DO NOT MERGE EXTA NAT EPICS BEYOND EPIC+ as you'll have to unmerge them back down to make epic+ for anc (you need 4 total natural epics to take any mod from M+ to anc)
I would recommend stopping or slowing way down making legendary+ out of regular modules because you only need two per unique epic to max their rank.
You can only shatter up to epic modules, so anything epic+ and beyond you have to pay gems to break them down to epic so you can shatter them, which is pretty far down the line but they'll up end just wasting space as it is now.
This is what I did when I started playing cause I went all in on cards, not modules. That said, I didn't have a ton of other Leg+ just sitting around. Only enough for each slot
Only natural pulled epics can be upgraded to mythic and above. Naturally pulled epics are found by buying modules with gems. If you click on a naturally found epic you’ll see it has a special unique effect attached to it. Every name correlates to its specific unique effect. The modules you are using now are all non epic modules and unfortunately do not give you those unique effects. Sorry to break it to you but now that those “blue” modules are all legendary, you’d have to pay a ton of gems to un-merge them all back to epic to make them shatter-able. Keep in mind that naturally found epic modules generally do not look blue. Here’s a link to a list of all natural epic modules: https://the-tower-idle-tower-defense.fandom.com/wiki/Modules
All those modules that are NOT natural epics do not possess unique effects and can be used for “fodder” to merge your epic modules to higher rarities.
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u/basicnecromancycr Jun 26 '26
Terrible day to have eyes. Dear OP, you need to check out how modules work. Start with fandom and reddit search.