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Gemcraft Chapter 2 (Chasing Shadows) contains many Vision Fields. No talisman fragments, skills, or battle traits are available on these fields, and you are given a set of specific spells and a fixed amount of mana, regardless of your wizard level or other progress in the game. This makes these fields particularly challenging because their difficulty does not decrease as you level up or gather high-level talisman fragments.

Vision Field V1

Field v1
V1
Main article: Field V1 (Gemcraft Chapter 2)

Location

This field is located in Hextile K.

Layout and specs

  • Number of waves: 99
  • First wave HP: 38
  • Available gems: Slow, Poison, Critical Hit
  • Starting mana: 18,000
  • Strike spells: Freeze
  • Gem enhancement spells: Bolt, Beam

This field consists of five ensnaring nodes and one ensnaring socket, along with your orb of presence. There are 4 entry points for monsters to enter the field.

This field is identical in appearance to Field K3, except that it takes place well before the time of the current gameplay, before the nodes and socket became ruined. You must charge the nodes to 100% by having monsters frozen around them for a certain amount of time.

Gem Craft Chasing Shadows Vision Field 1

You can beat this level by putting a tower just below and 2 1/2 spaces to the left of your orb. Most of the tower will be in the path with the top right corner off the path. Put a combined gem of grade 1 critical hit and grade 1 slowing and then upgraded it as you are able. About the point where your gem is grade 4 or 5, start adding amplifiers around it. You can fit 3 amplifiers without "blocking". Put level 1 gems in those and upgrade them as well as you are able. Build walls on the right side to force monsters entering on the 2 lower right paths to go up and around near the upper right path. Build another wall shutting off the right hand path to the orb so the monsters have to go down and all approach the orb near the lower left node. Put a trap with a grade 3 poison gem in it and enhance that gem with Bolt when you get a chance. Use scroll on your mouse to restrict the gem in your tower to striking monsters after they've passed the node on the upper left. Place Beam on the gem in the Tower whenever it's available. The picture is to show placement only. Start with the Tower, walls and trap and add the amplifiers later.

To charge the nodes make note of the fact that if you freeze monsters between 2 nodes, both nodes get charged while they are frozen. Charge the 2 nodes on the left 1st. Once they are charged you can expand the striking area of the gem in the Tower to hit the area between them. Then freeze monsters between the 2 upper nodes on the right until they are done. Then charge the bottom right node. If the top node on the right is completed before the middle right one you can freeze monsters between the middle node and the bottom right node until it's full. Once they are all fully charge, which will be around wave 80 or so, the Gem of Eternity is activated and you're done.

There was an easy way to beat this level, as shown here. However, gameinabottle imposed a new requirement (sending early waves no longer reduces the cooldown on spells) that prevents this strategy from working.

Vision Field V2

Field v2
V2
Main article: Field V2 (Gemcraft Chapter 2)

Location

This field is located in Hextile P.

Layout and specs

  • Number of waves: 99
  • First wave HP: 52
  • Available gems: Mana leeching, Chain hit
  • Starting mana: 39,000
  • Strike spells: Curse
  • Gem enhancement spells: Bolt, Barrage

Similar to Field V1, this field also has 5 summoning nodes and one summoning socket. (This is also the location where The Forgotten was summoned.) However, to charge the nodes on V2, you must have cursed monsters near each node for a certain amount of time.

Again, the layout is identical to one of the normal fields on the same Hextile, Field P1. The vision also takes place before the nodes and socket were ruined, as they are in the current-time game play. There are also three monsters nests, ten towers, and five abandoned buildings, which can be destroyed with gems of Grades 2-5.

Vision Field V3

Field v3
V3
Main article: Field V3 (Gemcraft Chapter 2)

Location

This field is located in Hextile C.

Layout and specs

  • Number of waves: 228
  • First wave HP: 84
  • Available gems: Mana leeching, Critical hit, Poolbound, Chain hit, Poison, Suppressing Healing, Bloodbound, Slow, Armor tearing
  • Starting mana: 100,000
  • Strike spells: Freeze, Curse
  • Gem enhancement spells: Bolt, Beam

Unlike Fields V1 and V2, V3 does not have ensnaring nodes or sockets. In fact, the layout of field V3 comes from Gemcraft Chapter 0 (Gem of Eternity); this field is almost exactly the same as the underground tomb that is the final field of that game, though without the Forgotten imprisoned by a Gem of Eternity. This Field is set in the distant future, in a (possible) future in which the Tomb of the Forgotten had fallen out of use and became abandoned for a long time.

Vision Field V4

Fieldv4
V4
Main article: Field V4 (Gemcraft Chapter 2)

Location

This field is located in Hextile D.

Layout and specs

  • Number of waves: 19
  • First wave HP: 24
  • Available gems: Critical hit, poison
  • Starting mana: 1,600
  • Strike spells: none
  • Gem enhancement spells: Bolt

Field V4 is based on the first field of Gemcraft: Labyrinth. The one thing that can make this field challenging is the appearance of a Shadow.

Make sure to enrage the first 9 waves (before shadow comes out), so you'll have enough mana to complete the level. Alternatively, have a Grade 7+ gem amplified by another Grade 3+ gem to wear down the shadow's health, and build towers with Grade 2 gems around your orb to protect it from the shadow's shadow projectiles.

Vision Field V5

Main article: Field V5 (Gemcraft Chapter 2)

Location

This field is located in Hextile L.

Layout and Specs

  • Number of waves: 46
  • First wave HP: 68
  • Available gems: Chain Hit, Mana Leech, Critical Hit, Poison, Suppressing Healing, Slow, Armor Tearing, Bloodbound, Poolbound.
  • Starting mana: 12,000
  • Strike spells: Freeze, Curse, Wake of Eternity
  • Gem enhancement spells: Bolt, Beam, Barrage

Field V5 is based on the 60th level of Gemcraft Chapter 0 (Gem of Eternity). This field is quite difficult because of the appearance of multiple Spires and a Shadow, all of which can appear simultaneously. However, this means that even failing the level can provide you with many shadow cores, which can be useful in building up shadow cores (if you can kill some of the Spires and the Shadow).

Strategy

You can beat it with one red-black-purple and one red-black-yellow gem. Later you can add 2 amplifiers on the center of the map, with a red-purple and red-yellow gem inside initially.

Vision Field V6

Main article: Field V6 (Gemcraft Chapter 2)

Location

This field is located in Hextile U.

Layout and specs

  • Number of waves: 29
  • First wave HP: 7
  • Available gems: Mana Leeching, Critical Hit, Suppressing Healing, Bloodbound, Slowing
  • Starting Mana: 2,100
  • Strike spells: None
  • Gem enhancement spells: None

Field V6 is based on Level 31 from Gemcraft Chapter 0. There are multiple static beacons on the field, which makes the construction of new buildings and traps difficult.

Strategy

Vision Field V7

Main article: Field V7 (Gemcraft Chapter 2)

Location

This field is located in Hextile Q.

Layout and specs

  • Number of waves: 40 + 4 tombs of monsters
  • First wave HP: 24
  • Available gems: Critical Hit, Poison, Bloodbound, Slowing
  • Starting Mana: 2,200
  • Strike spells: Freeze, Curse
  • Gem enhancement spells: Beam, Barrage

Strategy

  1. Take care of your mana span.
  2. Maze building first, and during the game with stops to prevent overflow.
  3. Use yellow-black or green-yellow gem. Mix them 1:1, no pure color.
  4. Use skills/spells in the shortcut sequence of 2 (curse), 1 (freeze), 4 (beam).
  5. Reduce the banish cost by building amplifiers (with towers as well) around your orb.
  6. Good luck...

Video: Almost perfect.

Vision Field V8

Jv8
V8-0
Main article: Field V8 (Gemcraft Chapter 2)

Location

This field is located in Hextile J.

Layout and specs

  • Number of waves: 40
  • First wave HP: 24
  • Available gems: Bloodbound, Chain hit, Critical Hit, Poison
  • Starting Mana: 1,000
  • Gem enhancement spells: Bolt, Barrage

Strategy

This map has four destructible monster nests on the top half of the map. The first goal should be to destroy the three leftmost nests so all monsters receive as many hits as possible.

Place towers at the locations marked on the map to the right. Make a grade 2 blood bound, a grade 1 chain hit, and a grade 1 critical gem. Combine these into a Grade 3 Yellow-Red-Black gem and place it at the left tower. Duplicate and place in the right tower. Because this map has many giant waves upgrading these 2 gems as high as possible should be a priority.

Use bolt on the left tower and barrage on the right. Upgrade the left gem when possible until the left 2 nests are destroyed (if you wish to destroy the 3rd you may need to make a tower and low grade gem), then upgrade both gems when available (approximately Grade 7s when beating the map).

There are three shrines of blades that start on the map, use the one closest to your orb if monsters get through.

Vision Field V9

Main article: Field V9 (Gemcraft Chapter 2)

Location

This field is located in Hextile Y.

Layout and specs

  • Number of waves: 50
  • First wave HP: 240
  • Available gems: Mana Leeching, Critical Hit, Chain Hit, Armor Tearing
  • Starting Mana: 13,000
  • Gem enhancement spells: Bolt, Beam, Barrage
  • Strike Spells: Freeze

The layout of this level is identical to that of Level 40 in Gemcraft Chapter 1 (The Forgotten), the final level of that game. The only differences are that the tower of the corrupted wizard is now destroyed, and that the monsters approach your orb from the two other paths. This is also the final level in Gemcraft Chapter 2: Chasing Shadows.

Strategy

This map has two entrances, approaching your orb from different sides.

Place a tower to the left of your orb so it can cover both paths. Make a grade 2 critical hit gem, and merge a grade 1 chain hit gem into it, upgrade as far as you can afford, place it in your tower. When you can afford it, duplicate the gem and place in the top right tower. Upgrade them when you can, apply gem enhancement spells to avoid upgrade cooldowns. I needed to shift the top gem down a few times to handle large waves.

Mid/late in the level, you can make traps near the entrances with armor tearing/chain hit gems, but this is probably unnecessary.

Vision Field V10

Nv10
V10-0
Main article: Field V10 (Gemcraft Chapter 2)

Location

This field is location in Hextile N.

Layout and Specs

  • Number of Waves: 36
  • First Wave HP: 25
  • Available Gems: Mana Leeching, Critical Hit, Chain Hit, Poison, Slow
  • Starting Mana: 2,200
  • Gem enhancement spells: Bolt
  • Strike Spells: Curse

Strategy

Video: [1]

Vision Field V11

V11 World Map
Field V11
Main article: Field V11 (Gemcraft Chapter 2)

Location

This field is located in Hextile H.

Layout and specs

  • Number of waves: 24
  • First wave HP: 219
  • Available gems: Chain Hit, Critical Hit, Poison
  • Starting mana: 400
  • Gem enhancement spells: Bolt

Reference

This field is derived from Level 1 in Gemcraft Chapter 0.

Strategy

Working strategy: In the upper-most tower make a dual Red-Yellow (main) with two amplifier just under it with pure yellow. Constantly upgrade the main gem and the Amp gems when you have extra mana and keep the main gem charged with at least one bolt. Don't get discouraged when some of the later waves get through to your orb.

Alternately: In the tower closest to the Nest, create a Red-Yellow Dual gem. Place the poison gem in a trap just outside the nest. Upgrade the Red-Yellow gem whenever available; use bolt as often as possible.

Vision Field V12

Main article: Field V12 (Gemcraft Chapter 2)

Location

This field is located in Hextile X.

Layout and specs

  • Number of waves: 32
  • First wave HP: 24
  • Available gems: Poolbound, Chain Hit, Suppressing Healing, Bloodbound
  • Starting mana: 900
  • Strike spells: None
  • Gem enhancement spells: None

Reference

This field is derived from Field D10 in Gemcraft Lost Chapter: Labyrinth.

Strategy

Video

Focus on freeing the sealed Grade 10 Critical Hit gem first. Then, use that gem and upgrade it as necessary.

Vision Field V13

Main article: Field V13 (Gemcraft Chapter 2)

Location

This field is located in Hextile R.

Layout and specs

  • Number of waves: 40
  • First wave HP: 134
  • Available gems: Mana leeching, Critical Hit, Poolbound, Poison, Suppress Healing, Bloodbound
  • Starting Mana: 1,600
  • Strike spells: None
  • Gem enhancement spells: None

The layout of this field is based off of Field J6 in Gemcraft Labyrinth.

Strategy

Vision Field V14

Main article: Field V14 (Gemcraft Chapter 2)

Location

This field is located in Hextile F.

Layout and specs

  • Number of waves: 32
  • First wave HP: 423
  • Available gems: Armor Tearing, Chain Hit, Mana Leech
  • Starting mana: 660
  • Strike spells: none
  • Gem enhancement spells: none

Strategy

This map has 3 towers and many starting gems in the inventory (3 grade 1, 5 grade 3, 4 grade 4, 5 grade 5, 4 grade 6).

Vision Field V15

Main article: Field V15 (Gemcraft Chapter 2)

Location

This field is located in Hextile A.

Layout and specs

  • Number of waves: 28
  • First wave HP: 24
  • Available gems: Mana Leeching, Critical Hit, Chain Hit, Bloodbound
  • Starting mana: 2400
  • Strike spells: Freeze
  • Gem enhancement spells: Bolt

Strategy

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Vision Field V16

Main article: Field V16 (Gemcraft Chapter 2)

Location

This field is located in Hextile G.

Layout and specs

  • Number of waves: 46
  • First wave HP: 42
  • Available gems: Armor Tearing, Chain Hit, Mana Leech, Critical Hit, Suppressing Healing
  • Starting mana: 2200
  • Strike spells: Freeze, Wake of Eternity
  • Gem enhancement spells: Bolt, Beam

Strategy

This map has 13 traps and no space to build towers or amplifiers.

Vision Field V17

Main article: Field V17 (Gemcraft Chapter 2)

Location

This field is located in Hextile W.

Layout and specs

  • Number of waves: 48
  • First wave HP: 76
  • Available gems: Critical Hit, Chain Hit, Poison, Bloodbound, Armor Tearing
  • Starting Mana: 1,600
  • Strike spells: None
  • Gem enhancement spells: Bolt, Beam

The layout of this field is based off of Field B12 in Gemcraft Labyrinth. This Vision Field features multiple Spires, which can make this field particularly challenging.

Strategy

Vision Field V18

Jv18
V18-0
Main article: Field V18 (Gemcraft Chapter 2)

Location

This field is located in Hextile J.

Layout and specs

  • Number of waves: 40
  • First wave HP: 80
  • Available gems: Mana Leech
  • Starting mana: 800
  • Strike spells: Freeze
  • Gem enhancement spells: Beam

This field resembles Level 46 from Gemcraft Chapter 1 (The Forgotten), which is the Mana Leeching Gem hidden level in that game.

Strategy

Constantly cast beam on the main (strongest) gem to leech tons of mana.

Vision Field V19

Main article: Field V19 (Gemcraft Chapter 2 - Steam)

Location

This field is located in Hextile Q. This field is the first of 5 Steam-exclusive Vision Fields, all of which feature powerful Arcane Guardians as the final bosses. To gain access to this Vision Field, you must first complete the Mysterious Compass to obtain Field Q7, and then beat that field and Field Q8 to acquire this Vision Field.

Layout and specs

  • Number of waves: 38
  • First wave HP: 620
  • Available gems: Mana Leeching, Critical Hit, Suppress Healing, Slowing
  • Starting Mana: 24,000
  • Strike spells: None
  • Gem enhancement spells: Bolt, Beam
  • The following abilities are disabled: Build Wall and Build Amplifier

This field is derived from Level 48 in Gemcraft Chapter 0 (Gem of Eternity). After beating the last wave, 5 Arcane Guardians will appear, with at least 777,777 Hit Points (including one with 2,777,777 Hit Points). Unlike the Arcane Guardians in Gemcraft Chapter 0, none of the Arcane Guardians in Gemcraft Chapter 2 appear with Arcane Minions, meaning that there's no easy way to gain mana or degrade the Guardians' armor. Additionally, these Arcane Guardians cannot be banished, as they will instantly destroy your orb on contact, which can make these Steam-exclusive Vision Fields extremely challenging.

Strategy

Vision Field V20

Main article: Field V20 (Gemcraft Chapter 2 - Steam)

Location

This Field is located in Hextile O. This field is exclusive to the Steam version.

Layout and specs

  • Number of waves: 45
  • First wave HP: 78
  • Available gems: Mana Leeching, Critical Hit, Chain Hit, Poison, Suppress Healing, Armor Tearing
  • Starting Mana: 1,600
  • Strike spells: None
  • Gem enhancement spells: None
  • The following abilities are disabled: Build Wall and Build Amplifier

This field is derived from Level 77 in Gemcraft Chapter 0 (Gem of Eternity), which is the 5th Arcane Guardian Battle in that game. After the final wave is beaten, 6 Arcane Guardians will appear, each with at least 35,000 Hit Points (including one with 500,000 Hit Points). None of these Arcane Guardians can be banished; they will instantly destroy your orb on contact.

Strategy

You should have at least one high-grade gem by the time you beat the last wave. After the Arcane Guardians appear, when the Guardians get closer to your orb, tear down one of the towers blocking a path to your orb, and build a new tower to block the shortest path to your orb (also move your gem to the new tower). When the Arcane Guardians come close to new tower, tear it down and rebuilt the old tower, to force the Arcane Guardians to move back in the other direction. You should repeat this process and make the Arcane Guardians move back and forth across the path until you have destroyed all of them.

Vision Field V21

Main article: Field V21 (Gemcraft Chapter 2 - Steam)

Location

This field is located in Hextile B. This field is exclusive to the Steam version.

Layout and specs

  • Number of waves: 26
  • First wave HP: 82
  • Available gems: Critical Hit, Chain Hit, Poison, Suppressing Healing, Slowing, Armor Tearing
  • Starting mana: 900
  • Strike spells: None
  • Gem enhancement spells: None
  • The following abilities are disabled: Build Wall and Build Amplifier

This field is derived from Level 16 in Gemcraft Chapter 0. After beating the final wave, 4 Arcane Guardians will appear, each with 60,000 hit points. None of the Arcane Guardians can be banished; they will instantly destroy your orb on contact.

Strategy

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Vision Field V22

Main article: Field V22 (Gemcraft Chapter 2 - Steam)

Location

This field is located in Hextile T. This field is exclusive to the Steam version.

Layout and specs

  • Number of waves: 40
  • First wave HP: 449
  • Available gems: Mana Leeching, Critical Hit, Chain Hit, Slowing, Armor Tearing
  • Starting mana: 360,000
  • Strike spells: None
  • Gem enhancement spells: None
  • The following abilities are disabled: Build Wall and Build Amplifier

This field is derived from Level 63 in Gemcraft Chapter 0 (Gem of Eternity). This field features the largest number of Arcane Guardians in Gemcraft Chapter 2, as well as the strongest Arcane Guardians. After the final wave is beaten, 7 Arcane Guardians will appear, each with 4,444,444 Hit Points or more, including one Arcane Guardian with 44,444,444 Hit Points. None of the Arcane Guardians can be banished; they will instantly destroy your orb on contact.

Strategy

When the Arcane Guardians appear, first kill off the ones that are closest to your orb, and then kill off the remaining Arcane Guardians in reverse order of strength, beginning with the weaker ones (or whichever Guardians happen to be the closest to your orb). Make sure you have a Grade 12 or higher Critical Hit gem by the time you fight the Arcane Guardians. When battling the stronger Arcane Guardians (after killing the weaker ones), always have your strongest gems targeting one, especially when you are left with the strongest Arcane Guardian.

Vision Field V23

Main article: Field V23 (Gemcraft Chapter 2 - Steam)

Location

This field is located in Hextile L. This field is exclusive to the Steam version. In order to gain access to this field, you must beat Field L7 on Glaring Difficulty, which requires you to beat Vision Field V5 first.

Layout and specs

  • Number of waves: 38
  • First wave HP: 64
  • Available gems: Poolbound, Poison, Slowing, Armor Tearing
  • Starting mana: 1,300
  • Strike spells: None
  • Gem enhancement spells: None
  • The following abilities are disabled: Build Wall and Build Amplifier

This field is derived from Level 33 in Gemcraft Chapter 0. After the final wave has been beaten 6 Arcane Guardians will appear, each with 299,000 Hit Points. None of the Arcane Guardians can be banished; they will instantly destroy your orb on contact.

Strategy

See also

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