Official NTD User Guide
Numbers, tiers, and mechanics in one place

Frequently Asked Questions

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Gameplay

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A: Playing Endless 1 is currently the best way to grind Fazcoins
A: Endless 1 is the best method. Most players reset around Wave 150 for optimal efficiency
A: Playing Shift 6 in Story Mode gives the best Unit XP gains
A: Salvaging your units with the highest levels, shiny and higher rarity is the best way
A: It depends on your strength. The harder the mode, the more rewards you earn
A: Nope! While some players have found exploits, they are inconsistent and unreliable at best. The team is actively working on completely removing macroing
A: Yep! Every time a unit levels up, it gains 1% of the bonuses that a shiny unit provides
A: Head over to the Puppet in the Enchant Room near Lolbit’s Shop
A: Open the Settings menu in the bottom left, type the code, and press Enter. Many require a certain win amount

Salvage & Shops

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A: Salvaging works similarly to FNAF AR Special Delivery. You send units out to salvage for a set amount of time, but you can still use that unit while it is salvaging
A: Nope! You keep every unit you salvage with
A: Unit level, rarity, and shiny status all increase Salvage rewards
A: You can earn chips of all rarities, scraps, and Bear5 Presents
A: The higher the rarity, the high the rewards. rare is 1.5x, epic is 2x, legendary is 3x, mythical is 4x, vengeful is 5x and bear5 is 7.5x
A: Yep! A shiny unit gives a x1.5 multiplier to the salvage amount
A: Afton’s Shop is where you spend scraps earned from salvaging
A: You can buy chips that rotate hourly, Bear5 Presents, Test Dummy Endo and Sparky the Dog
A: Roughly every hour
A: You need 500 scraps to purchase the Sparky the Dog present

Status Effects & Scaling

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A: Hidden enemies cannot be seen unless a unit has Reveal or Detect. Detect lets that unit see Hidden enemies, while Reveal makes them visible to all units
A: All status effects except stun persist until the enemy dies. Once a unit applies the effect, it stays on the enemy
A: Nope! Poison deals flat damage and does not scale with unit damage
A: Yes actually! Bleed deals a percentage of a unit’s damage, so increasing damage increases Bleed damage
A: All status effects are affected by enchants, but only if the unit naturally has that status effect. Enchants do not add new effects
A: Yep! Shiny units boost all applicable status effects

Luck

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A: Commons: 50%. Rares: 30%. Epics: 17.5%. Legendaries: 2.5%. Mythicals: 0.1%. Vengefuls: 0.005%
A: Commons: 200. Rares: 400. Epics: 600. Legendaries: 4,000. Mythicals: 100,000. Vengefuls: 2,000,000 (insane right?)
A: Roughly 20,000 Presents
A: 2.5%
A: Damage/Range/Cooldown: 25% each. Pizza Party: 10%. Withered & Encased: 5% each. Fractured & Clockworks: 1% each. Diminished: 0.5%. Charlotte’s Offering & Help Wanted: 0.25% each. Springlocked: 0.1%
A: Chip chances depend on the salvaged unit’s rarity, level, and whether it is shiny

Tier Lists & Charts

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A: Currently, I believe it's Bear5, Freddy Frostbear and Wgat-a-tron
A: Bear5, Test Dummy Endo, and Carl The Snowcake
A: Freddy Frostbear, Golden Bonnie, and Bunny6
A: Wgat-a-tron, The Amalgamation and Shadow Freddy
A: Crying Soul, Christmas Trica and Endo Plush
A: They are ranked based on my judgement of what I believe performs best in each category
A: POWER accounts for damage, cooldown, and range. Formula is DPS × Range ÷ 100 × Placements
A: Use the Unit Arcade on this site and search for the unit by name
A: Yep! Each level gives 1% of shiny bonuses. A level 100 unit is equivalent to a level 1 shiny
A: Yep! Shiny units gain boosts to every stat they have
A: It depends on the situation. Single target excels at boss damage, AOE handles crowds, pierce is great for long paths, and splash is great for intersections

Events, Trading & Future Content

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A: Sometime after full release is here!
A: Yep! Currently we have a Christmas Event active, but more are to come with full release
A: Nope! the only things being reset are scraps and currency. Other than that progress will carry over into full release
A: Currently, I have already finished the coding for them. So yes, with full release!
A: Most likely for mythicals, but yes
A: Absolutely! you guys seemed to love that event, so yeah!

Misc

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A: This is a community guide site created by me, Rockstar Foxy!
A: Rockstar Foxy, the super awesome lead balancer who should be a dev (self glaze)
A: The site updates whenever an update becomes publicly available in the game. We don’t update it early <3
A: Yep! This is an official Nightshift Tower Defense site!