If anybody still cares I used this team for almost 85% of the tower:
The idea was to stack as many defense debuffs as possible, and I basically maxed the list out (special skill, regular, elemental). Helps that Frida/Cobalt/Lepus are all hit 3 heroes, with only Lepus doing 50% splash damage. When all debuffs are applied, the amount of damage output is just insane. And by that I mean two rounds of everybody firing (with Cobalt āonlyā at x2 charge) eats away 80% of the bossesā HP even at floor 40+.
To avoid key heroes getting cursed out at a really inconvenient time, I switched to this secondary team for floors 47, 48, and 50 (basically floors with green mobs and Jade as a boss):
Again same logic as above, although the damage output is quite a bit less since Gormek even with CB and +14 still hits like a semi-wet noodle.
For blessing, I prioritized as follows:
- mana generation
- attack
- lantern minion
- mana bonus
IIRC in the end I had the following:
- +25% mana generation
- +25% attack
- minion with 25% HP and attack
- +10% mana every 5 turns
Mana generation stacks with costume bonus and mana troops and increases mana gained from items. Once you cross the +25% total threshold, one tornadoe provides +50% mana to the team, and two tornadoes fully charge up everybody once again. This was key to me slamming through the last 5 floors when the board ran dry.
More attack means tiles and specials do more damage and help you finish the level faster (better score, less exposure to oni curses). You might frown at the minions, but since Iām not competing for a top 10 score, these became crucial as insurance against that damn toxic chamber especially since 25% HP is very beefy and basically completely counteracts the poison.
Final result:
For reference, last time I scored 1,412,697 and finished in 921st place, so it seems 1.41 mil is the breakpoint for top 1000, and somewhere between that and 1.494 mil is the breakpoint for top 500 (1.45 mil maybe??). Obviously I expect this to change and likely increase each tower, but these are the very rough benchmarks to gauge your progress I suppose.