I see, I would argue that buying earlier should give more gold overall, since if you go straight elements 1, 2 and 3 you will take a lot of damage and have a hard time killing elementals 2 and 3 with your low lvl towers. Anyway, is good to know for sure. Right now I am trying to beat insane, rush, chaos, random and I am being totally trashed, ahahhahaa. The moment a wave with a shield or resurrection pops up I am done for, because I can't seem to make a set up that can keep killing them fast enough.