Spire of Glory Beginner’s Guide and Tips

General Gameplay Steps

The way I usually play to have 100% confidence of dealing with the final boss is to collect as many crystals as possible. There are a couple of items in the game that can help you with this. Add them to your runs in the Experience Well and try looking for them as early as possible when you play:

Hunter Helmet

Not the quickest when it comes to collecting extra crystals, but can go a long way if it’s picked up early in the game. Buy it from the first shop if it’s available and give it to your damage dealing hero.

4-Leaf Clover

I wasn’t picking this up initially, but I noticed a significant improvement in the drops when this gets to level 3, so it’s pretty useful. Can also be picked up early.

Greed Egg

Pretty straightforward, it gives you a lot of crystals after some battles, I automatically pick this up when I see it. Just make sure you have an extra item slot that you don’t need for one of your heroes.

Roulette Wheel

This is a great item for farming crystals, and on the plus side, if you’re lucky you can get some extra items that you would’ve purchased from the shop anyway. Really strong on level 3 against 4-5 enemies due to the 100% drop chance. If you don’t have enough inventory space for all items you get from this, you can quickly sell the first ones before the rest appears.

Crypto Wallet

This is the best item for farming huge quantities of Crystals. If you have over 200 Crystals, this becomes extremely strong on level 3. I always have one of these on my tank.

The other strategy I usually follow is making one of my heroes deal a ton of damage, while an other one is becoming the tank. While the damage dealing hero attacks from far away, I use my tank to just run around and make all enemies follow it. Here are the items that I like to give to my two heroes:

Damage dealing

Training Weights

This is the first item I’m looking for in a shop. If you pick this up before the first fights, your damage dealing hero can scale up really quickly.

Fairy Wings

The original hero always walks close to enemies to cast its skill, if you place this item in the first slot of a hero’s inventory, it turns into a fairy with huge range, both for auto attacks and skill casting. This makes things easier, since I only have to focus on my tank’s movement while the fairy kills everything from afar.

Blood Orb

This turns your hero into a life stealing blood mage if you use it in the first slot. This can also be used for a tank, it’s just a great item all around, the only downside is that it’s legendary so it’s expensive to get to level 3.

Tank

Weird Rock

This item turns the hero into a walking rock when used in the first slot. The hero gains a huge amount of armor and magic resistance plus a defensive skill. The only downside is its slow movement speed, so dodging enemy skills is more difficult. Overall, this is strong for a second, tanking hero.

Father’s Bone

I don’t always go for this item because of its high price, but giving your hero essentially double health is really strong. I added it here as an honorable mention.

Apart from these items, there’s 3 overpowered ones, which should be used in every run after they’re unlocked. They give you stats based on the number of crystals you’re holding. These are game changers:

Imbued Scepter

On level 3, with 200 crystals this makes your hero cast a skill every second and the casting animation also becomes instantaneous. If that’s not enough, it also gives your skill so much damage, you pretty much kill everything with one shot. Plus, it’s a common item – neat.

Imbued Claymore

Gives your hero attack speed and damage based on your crystal amount. Makes your hero so strong, it kills all enemies with 3-4 attacks with insane speed. The only reason I usually go for the scepter instead of this is the rarity.

Imbued Armor

Which tank wouldn’t want 100s or armor and magic resistance from one item? Give this to all of your tanks if you have the budget. The only downside is its epic rarity, but it’s still worth the crystals.

Make sure the first place you visit is a Shop and get some items right away that slowly make you stronger starting from the first fight. After that the general plan is to reach all Treasure Rooms in time and collect crystals. In some cases I managed to get 6-700 crystals in my inventory at once. Just make sure you leave a Shop and/or Lake for the last places so that you can spend all your crystals.

That’s it, good luck! Check out the map and shop related sections to learn some tricks there as well.

Map Navigation

Identifying what the places hide on the map is relatively simple. You can count the number of places with the same color to figure out all of them, except for the Lakes and the Treasure Rooms. The trick with those is to check which color has a place at the last column – that will always be a Treasure Room.

Common Battle

Count is 18.

Elite Battle

Count is 6.

Shop

Count is 5, a shop is always available in the first column.

Treasure Room

Count is 3, last one can be found in the last column, right before the boss.

Lake

Count is 3, since Treasure Room was found, this is obvious.

Shop Tier List

This list shows the chances of getting different rarities of items for every tier of the shop. This can help you decide when to stop upgrading the shop if you’re looking for a specific rarity of item.

Buying all shop tiers costs 89 crystals overall.

• 1. Hero: 8 Crystals
• 2. Hero: 20 Crystals
• 3. Hero: 50 Crystals
• 4. Hero: 120 Crystals

Buying all heroes costs 198 crystals overall.

Achievements

Here you can find all of the achievements categorized.

For these you have to stay in one battle for a long time. This is easy to achieve if you have a character with high movement speed and you keep running around the enemies.

Slowpoke

Last more than 60 seconds in battle.

Snail Lover

Last more than 90 seconds in battle.

Ever Lasting

Last more than 120 seconds in battle.

Are you kidding?

Last more than 150 seconds in battle.

These require you to collect a huge amount of crystals. This is easily achievable if you follow my general gameplay steps section.

Hoarder

Have 50 crystals at one time.

Hoarda

Have 100 crystals at one time.

Hoarde

Have 150 crystals at one time.

Hoardaga

Have 200 crystals at one time.

These achievements require you to win using only a specific rarity of items. You can use any rarity of items throughout the game, but you’ll have to sell everything and switch to the required rarity just before the last boss. Follow the shop tier section to know when to stop upgrading for the rarity you need.

Common Adept

Win using only common items.

Uncommon Adept

Win using only uncommon items.

Rare Adept

Win using only rare items.

Epic Adept

Win using only epic items.

Legendary Adept

Win using only legendary items.

These achievements require you to win the game with a specific amount of heroes

The Hero Couple

Win with only 2 Heroes.

Solo Carry

Win with only 1 Hero.

These achievements require you to win a number of games in a row. Just play carefully, following the general steps and this should be simple.

Rookie Hero

Defeat the Spire.

Proficient Hero

Get 3 consecutive wins.

Elite Hero

Get 5 consecutive wins.

For these achievements, you need to have a tank with a lot of armor and magic resistance. There are many items that help with this, and you can always boost these stats using the Lake. Just farm many crystals and this should be easy.

Shield

Have at least 60 armor and 100 Magic resist.

Tank

Have at least 100 armor and 200 Magic resist.

Fortress

Have at least 200 armor and 400 Magic resist.

For these achievements, you need to give your heroes specific item combinations.

Exodia

Discover the hidden effect of the forbidden pieces.

For this one I had to give a level 1 Golden Foot, a level 1 Golden Hand and a level 1 Golden Head to the same hero.

The Forbidden One

Master the power of the forbidden creature.

For this one I had to give a level 3 Golden Foot, a level 3 Golden Hand and a level 3 Golden Head to the same hero.

The Twins

Discover the hidden power of the twin axes.

For this one I had to give a level 1 Left Twin and a level 1 Right Twin to the same hero.

Thor and Zeus

Master the power of the twin axes.

For this one I had to give a level 3 Left Twin and a level 3 Right Twin to the same hero.

Potara Earrings

Discover the hidden power of the earrings.

For this one I had to give a level 1 Left Earring to one hero and a level 1 Right Earring to another.

Perfect Fusion

Master the power of the earrings.

For this one I had to give a level 3 Left Earring to one hero and a level 3 Right Earring to another.

Achievements Part 2

Items can be upgraded by getting three of them. Three level 1 items merge into a level 2 item, and three level 2 items merge into a level 3 item. Upgrade means getting a level 2 item, max upgrade means getting a level 3 item.

Blacksmith

Upgrade an item.

Gilgamesh

Max upgrade an item.

Expertise

Beat the game having upgraded an item at max lvl.

These achievements require you to have an attack deal a high amount of damage.

Naguri

Deal more than 500 damage in one hit.

Maji Naguri

Deal more than 1000 damage in one hit.

These require a lot of crystals, so start farming them using the method in the general gameplay steps section. You can find the total cost of these achievements in the shop tier list section.

Investor

Reach max upgrade level on the shop.

Overbooked

Acquire the maximum amount of princesses.

These require you to use specific hero types in the last boss fight.

Starter Fan

Win with only princesses.

Shapeshifter

Win without the original princess form.

These are achievements that didn’t fit any other categories.

Defeat

Succumb to the Spire’s challenges.

Speedrun

Win in less than 17 rooms.