IdleTale – Gameplay FAQ and Tips

Beginner FAQs

How to level up?

There’s a upgrade on the upgrade tab that cost 500 milions. But buying that will unlock a new area on the map. Once you buy it you will be able to Level up by going there.

What’s the Servo-Arm attack speed?

Servo-Arm is exactly 1 hit per second, which is the equivalent of 100%

The speed of autoclicker is basically the same as your attack speed. So if your as is higher than 100% autoclick will be faster.

How does auto equip work?

It automatically grab the equipable highest power level item & equip it. It’s not really reliable if you’re looking for “the best” available to you at a certain level but it does speed up the leveling phase at some point. Definitely not a priority.

Do Codex Levels increase glory gain?

Yes but it’s not global codex only for the area you’re in that matters. For example you in boneyard then lvl up boneyard only.

Arrow upgrades and new items in Shop > Gains tab

• Upgrade your Codex Levels to a specific level (2/4/6/8).
• Upgrade the next zone’s Codex Level to a specific level (For instance, the same Arrow that would unlock leveling the Forgotten Forest Codex to Level 6 will unlock if you level up the Emeril Glades Codex to Level 2).
• Reach Level 30, when all Arrow Upgrades are unlocked.

Do you get glory for clearing the dungeon?

No you don’t.

How to unlock Old Swamp?

To Unlock the old swamp andnother maps you have to Ascend once! The first time to Ascend is around 50-100 for the first time. Once you Ascend you will have some option in the Glory Upgrade.

• Endless glory. (1) unlock glory permanently.
• Glorified (5) you gain 1% extra glory for each glory level you have.
• Starter package (4) unlock new upgrades that will help you along your new journey.
• Well oriented (25) unlock maps permanently.
• Right from the start (50) unlocks the levels permanently.
• Wardrobe (35) unlock the Gear Tab permanently.
• Minmaxer (50) doubles the quest objective you gain.
• Do it once (250). your quest will stay unlocked and completed between ascension.

This are the important one you have to buy whenever you can.

Is there a point going back to easier maps?

Depending on your game progression, yes, there can be a point in which going back to previous maps will benefit specifically gold farming.

You’ll get upgrades which make enemies drop a % of your GPS (eventually exceeding 100%), which at certain progression points will heavily outscale the independent gold drops from the monsters themselves. combining this with talents that make you kill enemies very fast means you can rack up quite a bit of gold from playing on older maps.

Do items remain unlocked or do I need to unlock them again after prestiging?

It remains unlocked between ascensions (prestiges).

What is the correlation between the Damage and Attack Power stats?

If you ahave let’s say 1000 attack power and your weapon does 10-15 damage it will do:

• 10×1000
• So 10,000 damage

The more attack power you have. The more damage you deal.

Is Luck flat or % multiplied by original drop rate?

• Each time you kill an enemy, a dice is rolled to determine whether you’re gonna get loot or not, and what loot you get.
• For Dungeons, this dice is rolled up to X times if you don’t get any loot. Say there’s a piece that you’d get if your dice rolled between 20 and 40, and you roll a 100 sided dice.
• You roll 50 and not get the loot. Then your dice rolls again. This happens up to X times in Dungeons.
• The Luck skill increases that number, allowing the dice to keep rolling if you don’t get any loot from your current roll.

Are there diminushing returns on glory gains?

There’s some DR on Glory gains. Your Glory gains is multiplied by your Glory Level / 100 (after purchasing the Endless Glory Glory Upgrade each Glory Level after ascending will grant you 1% extra Glory gains).

Each Glory Level requires the base Glory requirement for Level 1 (which is 5 Glory) * your total Glory Level (pre and post ascending summed) * 1.2.

To reach the first Glory level, you require a total of 5 Glory. Mobs in The Boneyard grant around 1 Glory at level 1, so roughly 5 kills will get you to Level 1 of Glory.

To get to Level 2, you’ll need 5 * 1.2 Glory, to get to Level 3 you’ll need 5 * 1.2 * 2, to get to Level 4 you’ll need 5 * 1.2 * 3, and so on.

Do lucky coins persist across ascensions?

They accumulate.

What “right from the start” does exactly?

It makes it so you don’t have to get to the same point in the game to unlock the Level system again, you will start with it immediately which speeds up further ascensions a lot.

How does Energy work?

Energy represents a percentage of XP you’re gaining doubled. If you gain 1% XP from killing a mob, you’ll be rewarded double (2%) and 1 point of energy will be taken out

E.G. If 20 Energy was taken out from a single mob, it’s because that single mob gave you more than 20% of your current XP (which doubled is more than 40%).

Do the autoattack boost skills affect offline gain?

As of now they don’t. But they will in a future!

Do I have to log in every time I open the game?

You have to sign in every time you open the game, but that will be changed. For now the Cloud Save system is an experimental feature and I wouldn’t like it to be bound to your game in case there’s any errors. Once it’s tested enough and it works 100% correctly, that will be changed.

Useful Tips

Bosses Tips

• 1st Boss: Click meteors when they are yellow (not red), while tapping the boss. I personally like to pop the meteors right below the boss’ health bar.
• 2nd Boss: Click the little spider when it spawns, while attacking the boss. Personally I like to alternate between the spider and the boss, one tap boss, one tap spider.
• 3rd Boss: Fire res check on normal (just attack the boss). Combination of 1st + 2nd boss on deadly. You need to click the meteors and kill the little flame critter when it spawns. Also every ~15 secs a valley of small slow-moving meteors spawns up top (like 30 meteors) you need to click these as well, when they are yellow.

Unlockable Characters

There are two unlockable characters with achievements. Cedric is unlocked on the Glory tree. Agatha is unlocked as buy option in game.

Offline Duration

2H basic (with no upgrades).

• +30M I think achievement or something like it.
• +30M for 120 glory.
• +3H for 1k glory (whole path is 2-2,5k depends how unlocking from 2 points works).
• +1H dystopia boss upgrade unlocks.

Tips to progress faster

• Put all talent point into berserking. Once you are late 20’s, respecc and go full Assasination.
• Dont spend too much time on farming special loot from dungeons.
• Your goal now is to farm 5T gold to buy the Holy Shield upgrade from the shop. Then move to the lvl25 zone to kill the boss there. This will unlock Ascending.
• Get 10 points for your 1st ascension.