Update history:Alchemist (BTD6)

This is a list of changes to the Alchemist in Bloons TD 6 post-release.

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Version 1.7

“

Activating Total Transformation no longer steals yo girl your towers.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-5-X Total Transformation	Selling a tower that was transformed by the ability after it expires no longer sometimes sells other towers (bug fix)

Version 2.0

Tiers	Changes
2-X-X Acidic Mixture Dip and further upgrades	Acidic Mixture Dip: No longer targets Nature's Ward Totems (bug fix)  Acidic Mixture Dip: Now allows towers to damage DDTs (bug fix)  Acidic Mixture Dip: Can now target 5-X-X Monkey Villages (bug fix)
3-X-X Berserker Brew and further upgrades	Berserker Brew: No longer causes Phoenixes to stop attacking (bug fix)
X-5-X Total Transformation	Ability: Duration now pauses between rounds (bug fix) Ability: Now displays a visual effect when the transformation ends
X-X-1 Acid Pool and further upgrades	Main attack: Now places an acid pool where the potion lands if it does not hit its target
X-X-5 Bloon Master Alchemist	Shrink potion attack: No longer targets BADs (since it does not affect them) (bug fix) Shrink potion attack: Can no longer softlock the game by converting Bloons that were moved off-screen with blowback (bug fix)

Version 3.0

Tiers	Changes
2-X-X Acidic Mixture Dip (and further upgrades)	Acidic Mixture Dip: Charges increased to the intended amount ― 9 → 10  Acidic Mixture Dip: No longer targets sub-towers or Powers Note: Since sub-towers inherit the buff from their parent towers, applying the buff to a sub-tower is always worse than applying it to the parent
5-X-X Permanent Brew	Berserker Brew: Buffs no longer disappear after reloading the game from a save
X-X-4 Rubber to Gold X-X-5 Bloon Master Alchemist	Gold potion attack: Can now target and apply the gold effect to all MOAB-Class Bloons except BADs

Version 4.0

Tiers	Changes
2-X-X Acidic Mixture Dip (and further upgrades)	Acidic Mixture Dip: No longer targets Benjamin Note: Brew can still target Benjamin at levels 7+
1-3-0 Unstable Concoction + Larger Potions (and further upgrades)	Larger Potions now increases the radius of the concoction splash by 7 units
0-3-2 Unstable Concoction + Faster Throwing (and further upgrades)	Faster Throwing now reduces the cooldown of the concoction attack by 20%

Version 5.0

Tiers	Changes
2-X-X Acidic Mixture Dip (and further upgrades)	Acidic Mixture Dip: No longer targets Monkey Villages without Primary Expertise (bug fix)
3-X-X Berserker Brew (and further upgrades)	Berserker Brew: No longer applies the range buff twice (bug fix)
X-3-X Unstable Concoction (and further upgrades)	Concoction explosion: MOAB-Class Bloons now consume more pierce MOABs and BFBs: +1 ZOMGs and DDTs: +3 BADs: +9
X-5-X Total Transformation	Ability: No longer changes the footprint of transformed towers (bug fix)
X-X-5 Bloon Master Alchemist	No longer gives extra cash for converting Bloons (bug fix)

Version 6.0

Tiers	Changes
2-X-X Acidic Mixture Dip (and further upgrades)	Can no longer apply dip to Banana Farms (bug fix)
3-X-X Berserker Brew	Brew now wears off after 30 attacks, in addition to wearing off on its own after enough time elapses
4-X-X Stronger Stimulant	Brew now wears off after 50 attacks, in addition to wearing off on its own after enough time elapses Note: Does not carry over to Permanent Brew

Version 7.0

Tiers	Changes
5-X-X Permanent Brew	Upgrade cost reduced ― $80,000 → $60,000
X-4-X Transforming Tonic	Upgrade cost reduced ― $5,000 → $4,500
X-5-X Total Transformation	Upgrade cost reduced ― $50,000 → $45,000  Overall cost reduced by $5,500 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)

Version 8.0

Tiers	Changes
5-X-X Permanent Brew	Acidic Mixture Dip: Buff now lasts forever
X-2-X Perishing Potions (and further upgrades)	Main potion: Damage counter now counts removed health from defortifying outer layers
X-5-X Total Transformation	Ability: Cooldown reduced ― 60s → 40s Note: Also effectively reduces its initial cooldown from 20s to 0s

Version 9.0

Tiers	Changes
5-X-X Permanent Brew	Permabrew should correctly apply when reloading save again (bug fix) Permabrew should no longer break in some cases after being sold (bug fix)
X-3-X Unstable Concoction and further upgrades X-X-4 Rubber to Gold X-X-5 Bloon Master Alchemist	Non-main offensive attacks: Can now be thrown over obstacles (bug fix)

Version 10.0

Tiers	Changes
2-X-X Acidic Mixture Dip and all crosspaths 3-X-X Berserker Brew and further upgrades	Acidic Mixture Dip buff: no longer applies +1 damage to Ceramics or MOAB-Class (bug) Acidic Mixture Dip buff: now has a visual effect on buffed towers "Buffs should no longer miss their target and buff another tower nearby" (bug fix)
3-X-X Berserker Brew and further upgrades	Berserker Brew buff: no longer ignores towers that are already buffed (bug) Berserker Brew buff: now has a visual effect on buffed towers
X-5-X Total Transformation	"Total Transformation should no longer cause crashes when used in a number of situations" (bug fix)

Version 11.0

Tiers	Changes
2-X-X Acidic Mixture Dip and further upgrades	Acidic Mixture Dip buff: now applies +1 damage to Ceramic and MOAB-Class Bloons (bug fix)
5-X-X Permanent Brew	"Permabrew will correctly apply bonus damage from Acidic Mixture Dip and both Brew & Dip buffs should save and load correctly"
X-5-X Total Transformation	Dart Monkeys are no longer affected by Super Monkey Fan Club or Plasma Monkey Fan Club while transformed
X-X-5 Bloon Master Alchemist	"Should again remove Camo & Regen properties from converted targets"

Version 12.0

Tiers	Changes
2-X-X Acidic Mixture Dip (and further upgrades)	Acidic Mixture Dip buff: No longer allows Signal Flare to decamo DDTs without Paint Stripper (bug fix)  Acidic Mixture Dip buff: Now allows Icicle Impale to affect Lead Bloons (bug fix)
X-3-X Unstable Concoction (and further upgrades)	Concoction explosion: No longer hits Camo without Camo detection (bug fix)

Version 15.0

Tiers	Changes
2-X-X Acidic Mixture Dip and further upgrades	Now only shows a buff icon when AMD is applied

Version 17.0

Tiers	Changes
X-3-X Unstable Concoction and further upgrades	Concoction explosion: Damage scaling now caps at round 150

Version 18.0

Tiers	Changes
4-X-X Stronger Stimulant 5-X-X Permanent Brew	Now has a unique buff icon, instead of using the same icon as Berserker Brew
5-X-X Permanent Brew	Active buffs no longer disappear upon purchasing any crosspath upgrade (bug fix)
X-3-X Unstable Concoction and further upgrades	Concoction explosion: No longer deals much more damage in a resumed game after granting the tower a damage buff in another game (e.g., Sun Temple support buffing it in Sandbox) (bug fix)

Version 20.0

“

Alchemist is already widely used, but we thought of an interesting way to add some more crosspath value and wanted to take the chance to perform a small rebalance at the same time.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
3-X-X Berserker Brew	Berserker Brew: Charges reduced ― 30 → 25
3-2-0 Berserker Brew + Perishing Potions 4-2-0 Stronger Stimulant + Perishing Potions (further upgrades unaffected)	Perishing Potions now increases Berserker Brew charges by 10  Perishing Potions now increases Berserker Brew duration by 1s  Perishing Potions now decreases Berserker Brew re-application cooldown by 1s
4-X-X Stronger Stimulant (further upgrades unaffected)	Berserker Brew: Charges reduced ― 50 → 40

Version 21.0

“

Follow up steps in overall balancing use of the 420 and 402 alchemist upgrades, this brings both combinations more in-line for total cost and allows us to think about Acid Pools as its own upgrade in future rather than worrying about the impact of changing 402.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
4-X-X Stronger Stimulant	Upgrade cost increased ― $2,500 → $3,000
X-X-1 Faster Throwing	Upgrade cost increased ― $500 → $650
X-X-1 Faster Throwing X-X-2 Acid Pool	Acid Pools and Faster Throwing upgrades have swapped places on the upgrade path
X-X-2 Acid Pool	Upgrade cost reduced ― $600 → $450  Overall cost is unchanged (due to cost changes for previous tiers)

Version 22.0

“

While the middle path T5 gets some use, T4 Transforming Tonic does not perform well for the low pierce amount so pierce has been increased.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-4-X Transforming Tonic X-5-X Total Transformation	Transformed Alchemist: Pierce increased ― 4 → 6

Version 23.0

“

Lead to Gold hasn’t been a competitive 3rd tier outside of special game modes and challenges, so we’ve added some more uniqueness by allowing it to truly live up to its description and deal enough damage to instantly ‘convert’ a Lead Bloon, children layers and all, also carrying on some value here in the later game by allowing this bonus to deal extra against DDTs as well.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-X-3 Lead to Gold (and further upgrades)	All offensive attacks: Now does +9 damage to Lead properties
0-1-3 Lead to Gold + Stronger Acid 0-2-3 Lead to Gold + Perishing Potions	Stronger Acid removes Lead to Gold's extra damage to Lead unless upgraded to Rubber to Gold (bug)

Version 23.1

Tiers	Changes
0-1-3 Lead to Gold + Stronger Acid 0-2-3 Lead to Gold + Perishing Potions	Stronger Acid no longer disables Lead to Gold's extra damage to Lead when not upgraded to Rubber to Gold (bug fix)

Version 24.0

“

Alchemist has been given a small push towards the current underused Brew crosspath. Previously this crosspath only applied a benefit to Brew & Stimulant but now along with a buff to that, Acidic Mixture Dip will also gain a slight benefit from the crosspath.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
2-2-0 Acidic Mixture Dip + Perishing Potions 3-2-0 Berserker Brew + Perishing Potions 4-2-0 Stronger Stimulant + Perishing Potions	Perishing Potions now increases Acidic Mixture Dip charges per stack by 3
3-2-0 Berserker Brew + Perishing Potions	Berserker Brew buff: Charges increased ― 35 → 40
4-2-0 Stronger Stimulant + Perishing Potions	Berserker Brew buff: Charges increased ― 50 → 55 (undocumented)

Version 25.0

Tiers	Changes
2-X-X Acidic Mixture Dip and further upgrades	Acidic Mixture Dip: Now allows Cold attacks to damage Lead Bloons (bug fix)  Acidic Mixture Dip: Now allows Sharp attacks to damage Golden Bloons (bug fix)  Acidic Mixture Dip: No longer allows Explosion attacks to damage DDTs (bug fix)

Version 27.0

Tiers	Changes
3-0-1 Berserker Brew + Faster Throwing and further upgrades	Faster Throwing crosspath once again increases the rate of the Brew attack (bug fix)
X-3-X Unstable Concoction and further upgrades	Unstable Concoction: Explosion damage no longer scales with Freeplay or HP modifiers in the Challenge Editor (undocumented)  Unstable Concoction: Explosion damage for fortified blimps is the same as their unfortified counterparts (bug)

Version 28.0

“

Acidic Mixture Dip did nothing for Glue Gunners but alchemist would waste it on them
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
2-X-X Acidic Mixture Dip and further upgrades	Acidic Mixture Dip: Can no longer target Glue Gunners
X-3-X Unstable Concoction and further upgrades	Concoction explosion: Now deals double damage to Fortified Bloons (bug fix)

Version 30.0

Tiers	Changes
2-X-X Acidic Mixture Dip and further upgrades	Acidic Mixture Dip: Can now target Glue Gunners with Corrosive Glue and above

Version 31.2

Tiers	Changes
All tiers	Base potion attack: no longer has single-layer damage (undocumented)

Version 33.0

“

Transforming Tonic has always had a large struggle with pierce, rather than directly throwing onto the base pierce we have added crosspathing pierce & rate benefits for transformation enjoyers to now choose between. Acidic Mixture Dip stacking from multiple alchemists / stalling tactics too effectively lowered use of other lead counter options in a way we didn’t like, so the maximum stacks here without Permabrew has been reduced considerably.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
2-X-X Acidic Mixture Dip 3-X-X Berserker Brew 4-X-X Stronger Stimulant	5-x-x unaffected (infinite): Max number of stacks reduced ― 200 → 40
1-4-0 Transforming Tonic + Larger Potions and further upgrades	Monster:  pierce increased ― 6 → 9
0-4-1 Transforming Tonic + Faster Throwing and further upgrades	Monster: Attack cooldown reduced ― 0.03s → 0.024s (attack speed increased by 25%)

Version 34.2

Tiers	Changes
X-X-5 Bloon Master Alchemist	Shrink potion: No longer adds negative amounts to the damage counter (bug fix)

Version 35.0

“

Permanent Brew is strong in the right use, but just to let it live up to more of its potential without requiring a chinook we are improving its range. Transforming Tonic has been compared to being a worse but more expensive Turbo Charge, and that seems like a fair complaint. T5 has good niche uses, but T4 isn't worth the cost right now so we’re adding more juice to the tonic.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
5-X-X Permanent Brew	Range increased ― 45 → 65
X-4-X Transforming Tonic X-5-X Total Transformation	Monster laser: damage increased ― 2 → 3 Note: Does not affect x-5-x mini monsters
X-X-3 Lead to Gold and further upgrades	Lead damage bonus will now correctly apply to Dreadbloon’s Lead layer (bug fix)

Version 37.0

“

Alchemist Transforming Tonic is in a weird spot with the transformation unable to attack through walls when the base alchemist is able to. Also with this, including a QoL fix for the T5 that currently prevents transformed towers from functioning with target priority.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-4-X Transforming Tonic X-5-X Total Transformation	Transformed alchemist can now ignore line of sight
X-5-X Total Transformation	Towers transformed by Total Transformation will keep their Target Priority

Version 37.1

•  Alchemist x4x/x5x no longer loses the ability to fire through obstacles when crosspathed (bug fix)

Version 39.0

“

Alchemist 220 stands out a little too effectively in the crosspath efficiency of Acidic Mixture Dip uptime combined with the reduced forced downtime at 320 and so is being reduced. Total Transformation alchemist when transformed have never been allowing damage to distribute to children layers of any targets, while this is an option we can use as an intended balance lever - we have instead decided to turn this blocker off as it isn't one we have used elsewhere and has made these upgrades perform far weaker against regular Bloons comparatively to Ceramic & MOAB-class due to damage buffs that have been given to transformed alchemists over time.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
2-2-0 Acidic Mixture Dip + Perishing Potions and further upgrades	Acidic Mixture Dip: Crosspath bonus to Acidic Mixture Dip buff reduced ― +3 → +2 Note: Shot amount reduced from 13 to 12
X-4-X Transforming Tonic X-5-X Total Transformation	Ability: Damage now soaks through layers
X-5-X Total Transformation	Solved Quantum Entanglement (bug fix) Note: Bug that allowed you to entangle towers together allowing you to do some really crazy things

Version 40.0

“

Currently 031 is the only crosspath that realistically does anything for Unstable Concoction.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
1-3-0 Unstable Concoction + Larger Potions and further upgrades	Larger potions grants +1 pierce to Concoction ― 3 → 4

Version 41.0

“

Acidic Mixture Dip is a strong offender removing many weaknesses in the game for exceptionally low of a cost. Acid Pools only adds anything to the tower when there are no Bloons around, so we’re making it a hybrid that benefits somewhat from this upgrade even while attacking normally.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
2-X-X Acidic Mixture Dip 3-X-X Berserker Brew 4-X-X Stronger Stimulant	Acidic Mixture dip max stacks reduced ― 40 → 30
X-X-2 Acid Pool and further upgrades	Acid Pools every 5th attack against a Bloon drops an acid pool under the target

Version 41.1

Tiers	Changes
X-X-2 Acid Pool and further upgrades	Alchemist pools last the correct duration (bug fix) Note: Doesn't affect the acid pools that are spawned every 5th potion

Version 42.0

“

As groups of Berserker Brew seem proportionally too good compared to upgrading to Stronger Stimulant in some cases, we are slightly shifting price down into T3, keeping the total price of Stronger Stimulant the same but adding up more if choosing to spam T3 Brews. Back to improving damage over time, Lead to Gold currently deals a large damage increase to Leads but only on the main impact of the attack. I’m sure you can see where we’re going with this.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
3-X-X Berserker Brew	Upgrade cost increased ― $1,250 → $1,300
4-X-X Stronger Stimulant	Upgrade cost reduced ― $3,000 → $2,950  Overall cost is unchanged (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
X-X-3 Lead to Gold (and further upgrades)	DoT: Now deals +9 damage to Lead per tick

Version 44.0

“

Permabrew itself granting a range increase was annoying to prepare for and also somewhat hurt what was a very strong synergy for Chinook, so we’re taking away this bonus range but giving enough of a cash difference so that it can pair up with synergies like the Support Chinook more easily.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
5-X-X Permanent Brew	Upgrade cost reduced ― $60,000 → $48,000  Range reduced ― 65 → 45

Version 45.0

“

As a small tax to low tier Alchemists we are moving cost from Stronger Stimulant into Berserker Brew, this shouldn’t hurt much for general play and keeps un-discounted Stimulant the same. As this was an oversight Total Transformation is now being enabled to transform mermonkey.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
3-X-X Berserker Brew	Upgrade cost increased ― $1,300 → $1,400
4-X-X Stronger Stimulant	Upgrade cost reduced ― $2,950 → $2,850  Overall cost is unchanged (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
X-5-X Total Transformation	Can now transform Mermonkeys

Version 47.0

“

Middle path alchemists have complicated use cases that don’t bring enough of a payoff for the effort so the price is being reduced. Instead of being only a niche income source, the Rubber to Gold debuff is being reworked to now expire after a duration but for that duration it will nullify Bloon properties. Some seriously interesting build options from this.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-3-X Unstable Concoction	Upgrade cost reduced ― $3,000 → $2,800
X-4-X Transforming Tonic	Upgrade cost reduced ― $4,500 → $4,200
X-X-4 Rubber to Gold X-X-5 Bloon Master Alchemist	Gold status effect duration decreased ― Infinite → 7s  Gold status effect also disables Lead, Black, White, and Purple immunities for duration Note: Gilded status does not affect damage bonuses to Bloon properties (e.g. Lead to Gold vs Lead)

Version 48.0

“

People thought the last Rubber to Gold changes sounded cool, but were not particularly reliable so we’re improving the reliability of this attack with much faster attack rate and radius and also adding back some of the potion duration that was previously taken away.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-X-4 Rubber to Gold X-X-5 Bloon Master Alchemist	Rubber to Gold potion: Attack cooldown reduced ― 5s → 2s  Rubber to Gold potion: Radius increased ― 14 → 21  Rubber to Gold potion: Duration increased ― 7s → 14s
1-0-4 Rubber to Gold + Larger Potions and further upgrades	Rubber to Gold potion: Larger Potions grants +50% splash radius ― 14 → 31.5

Version 49.0

“

The faster attack rate improved Rubber To Gold’s average cash generation too much, so this multiplier is being reduced to bring it more in line
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-X-4 Rubber to Gold X-X-5 Bloon Master Alchemist	Rubber to Gold effect: Cash per pop multiplier reduced ― ×3 → ×2

Version 50.0

Tiers	Changes
3-X-X Berserker Brew and further upgrades	All buffing potions: Should no longer fall on other towers that aren't the intended target (bug fix) Note: Patches an exploit regarding quickly buying a Permanent Brew and landing brew on towers not normally able to accept brew (e.g. Etienne, Beast Handlers, non-5xx Villages)

Version 51.0

“

Total Transformation can now transform Desperado, simple enough, & don’t worry transformed Desperado still gets all their usual damage bonuses against Marked Bloons, so we’re interested to see what people can do with that.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-5-X Total Transformation	Ability: Can now transform Desperados

Version 53.0

Tiers	Changes
3-X-X Berserker Brew	Description changed Before Throws special brew to nearby Monkeys giving them extra damage, range and attack speed. After Throws special brew to a nearby Monkey giving it increased damage, range, and attack speed briefly. Multiple Monkeys can be buffed at once.

Version 55.0

Tiers	Changes
X-5-X Total Transformation	Ability: Transformed towers no longer lose Camo detection (bug fix)