Update history:Monkey Buccaneer (BTD6)

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

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Version 1.7

Tiers	Changes
X-4-X Monkey Pirates	"MOAB Takedown ability targeting improvement."
X-5-X Pirate Lord	Ability: Fires three hooks at a time instead of two (bug fix)

Version 5.0

Tiers	Changes
5-X-X Carrier Flagship	Selling no longer causes towers placed on the platforms to become unusable (bug fix)

Version 7.0

Tiers	Changes
5-X-X Carrier Flagship	Fighter plane dart: Projectile lifespan doubled

Version 9.0

Tiers	Changes
4-X-X Aircraft Carrier 5-X-X Carrier Flagship	Main attack: Now retains the 3-x-x rate boost instead of 1-x-x ― 0.75s → 0.15s

Version 11.0

Tiers	Changes
0-2-5 Trade Empire + Hot Shot	"Buccaneer grapes now correctly use the fiery asset"

Version 12.0

Tiers	Changes
4-X-X Aircraft Carrier	Upgrade cost reduced ― $9,000 → $7,500

Version 13.0

Tiers	Changes
5-X-X Carrier Flagship	Main attack: Can now pop lead (bug fix)
5-0-2 Carrier Flagship + Crow's Nest	Plane: No longer loses Camo detection after loading a save (bug fix)

Version 15.0

Tiers	Changes
X-4-X Monkey Pirates	Ability cooldown reduced ― 60s → 50s
X-4-X Monkey Pirates X-5-X Pirate Lord	Bomb attack: explosion damage increased ― 1 → 2

Version 16.0

Tiers	Changes
X-X-4 Favored Trades X-X-5 Trade Empire	Dart: attack cooldown halved ― 1s → 0.5s
0-1-4 Favored Trades + Grape Shot and further upgrades	Grape: attack cooldown almost halved ― 1.3s → 0.75s
X-X-5 Trade Empire	Trade Empire buff: increases the damage of all Merchantmen by +1  Trade Empire buff: adds a +1 Ceramic/MOAB damage bonus to Merchantmen

Version 17.0

Tiers	Changes
2-1-0 Double Shot + Grape Shot and further upgrades	Grape Shot: Now fires 10 grapes at a time instead of 5 (11 instead of 6 with Big Bunch)
5-X-X Carrier Flagship	Towers can no longer fall through the platforms (bug fix)
5-2-0 Carrier Flagship + Hot Shot	No longer crashes the game sometimes when placed next to a 2-5-0 Monkey Village (bug fix)
X-2-X Hot Shot	Hot Shot: Changed the visual effect of the projectiles
X-4-X Monkey Pirates	Description changed (undocumented) Before MOAB Takedown ability: Grapples a MOAB-Class Bloon and brings it down. After MOAB Takedown Ability: grapples a MOAB class bloon and brings it down. Main attack adds two more cannons.
X-4-X Monkey Pirates X-5-X Pirate Lord	Bomb attack: Now fires three bombs at a time
0-4-2 Monkey Pirates + Crow's Nest 0-5-2 Pirate Lord + Crow's Nest	Bomb attack: No longer hits Camo Bloons without external Camo detection (bug)
0-1-5 Trade Empire + Grape Shot 0-2-5 Trade Empire + Hot Shot	No longer removes the Merchantman damage buff (bug fix)

Version 17.1

Tiers	Changes
0-4-2 Monkey Pirates + Crow's Nest 0-5-2 Pirate Lord + Crow's Nest	Bomb attack: Can hit Camo Bloons again (bug fix)

Version 18.0

Tiers	Changes
4-X-X Aircraft Carrier	Plane: Missile attack added
5-X-X Carrier Flagship	Plane: Missile attack added, with higher damage and pierce compared to Aircraft Carrier  Plane dart: Now deals +3 damage to Ceramic  Plane dart: Projectile speed doubled  Rate buff: Now also applies to Monkey Aces

Version 19.0

Tiers	Changes
4-2-0 Aircraft Carrier + Hot Shot	No longer gains Camo detection after loading a save (bug fix)
X-4-X Monkey Pirates	MOAB Takedown: Multiple Monkey Buccaneers no longer target the same Bloon when activated at the same time (bug fix)

Version 21.0

“

Aircraft carriers have ongoing trouble with missing targets, these changes can hopefully offer a few extra ways of supporting the weakness internally while we keep investigating this.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
4-X-X Aircraft Carrier 5-X-X Carrier Flagship	Plane forward attack: Projectile radius increased ― 2 units → 4 units
5-X-X Carrier Flagship	Plane missile attack: Damage type changed ― Explosion → Normal
X-X-1 Long Range (and further upgrades)	Now increases projectile speed of all attacks by 25%

Version 22.0

“

Most of the early Buccaneer’s strength comes from grapes, so to make it a little easier to start we’ve moved some cost from the base tower into Grape Shot. On that same note, we’ve piled on a bunch of bonus power to T5 Grape Shot to give it a boost against super ceramics.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
0-0-0 base tower	Cost reduced ― $550 → $500
X-1-X Grape Shot	Upgrade cost increased ― $500 → $550
X-5-X Pirate Lord	Grape Shot: Damage increased ― 1 → 5  Grape Shot: Ceramic bonus added ― +0 → +5

Version 23.1

Tiers	Changes
X-4-X Monkey Pirates	"Fixed some issues with Buccaneer MOAB Takedown hooks"

Version 25.0

“

Most cases for Buccaneer currently find you better off sticking to Destroyers and adding other buffs, so we have made a couple slight nudges to this top path
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
2-X-X Double Shot	Upgrade cost increased ― $500 → $550
4-X-X Aircraft Carrier	Upgrade cost reduced ― $7,500 → $7,200
X-4-X Monkey Pirates X-5-X Pirate Lord	Resolved a bug where the MOAB Takedown ability would pick the wrong targets (bug fix)

Version 26.0

Tiers	Changes
5-X-X Carrier Flagship	Desync between the Flagship platforms when placed on moving platforms resolved (bug fix)
X-X-5 Trade Empire	Trade Empire now properly buffs the damage of Merchantmen in CHIMPS (bug fix)

Version 28.0

“

Bottom crosspath feels behind compared to others here, so in addition to the new Camo Prioritization filter Longer Range on this path will now also grant bonus pierce. Favored Trades stacking was never intended to be a feature but we previously updated the description to support the stacking instead of changing functionality, so this has now been corrected.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
4-0-1 Aircraft Carrier + Long Range and further upgrades	Long Range now increases the pierce of plane darts by 1
0-1-1 Grape Shot + Long Range and further upgrades	Long Range now increases the pierce of Grape Shot by 1
X-X-1 Long Range and further upgrades	Long Range now increases the pierce of the main attack by 1  Overall pierce increased ― 5 → 6
X-X-2 Crow's Nest and further upgrades	Camo Prioritization filter added
X-X-4 Favored Trades X-X-5 Trade Empire	Sellback buff: No longer stacks

Version 30.0

“

Some parts of the new Buccaneer paragon were balanced more around a Degree 100 level without properly scaling, so we have fixed up some of this to better fit scaling up to 100 reaching those values, and moved the ability for it and any possible future paragons to also scale in cooldown based on the Degree.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
Paragon Navarch of the Seas	Passive grappling hook: Attack cooldown increased ― 0.02s → 0.06s (attack speed reduced by 66.67%)  Ability: Cooldown increased ― 20s → 30s  Ability: Cooldown now scales with Degree using the same formula as attack speed

Version 31.0

“

The base Grape attack of T4 MOAB Takedown has had a ceramic bonus added to lead up to the T5 a little better.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-4-X Monkey Pirates	Grapes: Now gains bonus Ceramic damage ― +0 → +1

Version 31.1

Tiers	Changes
5-5-5 Navarch of the Seas	Paragon Power Totems can now be absorbed by other Paragons when placed on the platforms (bug fix)

Version 32.0

“

Navarch Paragon feels too dominant over other expensive paragons, as such a powerful choice it feels overused even on many low water volume maps
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
Paragon Navarch of the Seas	Paragon cost increased ― $500,000 → $550,000

Version 33.0

“

Monkey Pirates is great for the first couple MOABs but with the long ability cooldown it very quickly falls off after that point, we have pushed it and Pirate Lord’s base stats up to feel more competitive especially with possible Brickell synergy. Trade Empire farming power even with the water requirement feels like it takes off too easily, so the bonus cash it provides will now require T4 Favored Trades for the full benefit.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-4-X Monkey Pirates	Upgrade cost increased ― $4,500 → $4,900  Grape: damage increased ― 1 → 2  Grape: ceramic bonus increased ― +1 → +2  Cannonball — explosion: base damage increased ― 2 → 3  Cannonball — explosion: now deals +6 damage to MOAB-Class
X-5-X Pirate Lord	Grape: base damage increased ― 5 → 10  Grape: Ceramic bonus increased ― +5 → +10  Grape: Burn damage increased ― 1 → 9  Cannonball — explosion: Base damage increased ― 2 → 5  Cannonball — explosion: Now deals +10 damage to MOAB-Class  Cannonball — fragment: Damage increased ― 1 → 10  Cannonball — fragment: Now deals +5 damage to MOAB-Class
X-X-5 Trade Empire Paragon Navarch of the Seas	Trade Empire benefit per Merchantmen reduced ― $20 → $15 Note: Favored Trades unchanged
Paragon Navarch of the Seas	Should no longer misalign its platform when upgraded from Trade Empire (bug fix)

Version 34.0

“

While working on the Ace paragon we found a way to make homing appear much cleaner on super long-range attacks, so we’d like to try out this new setup on the Flagship for a little experiment to see if this improves the gameplay feeling there. Recent changes were very popular for Pirate Lord, so now it no longer feels like it needs to be such a cheap T5. While this isn’t enough of a change to curb its newfound power too much the price will be increasing. Buccaneer Farming at the base level is in-line with other farming options, slightly weaker but with enough dps to compensate, we recently experimented with lowering the benefit Trade Empire grants to T3s to slow down this early benefit & this turned out to be quite successful however they still scale too well too quickly for a low price so we’re bringing that down more.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
5-X-X Carrier Flagship	Flagship new homing style
X-5-X Pirate Lord	Upgrade cost increased ― $21,000 → $26,000
X-X-5 Trade Empire	Trade Empire benefit per Merchantmen reduced ― $15 → $10 Note: Favored Trades unchanged

Version 34.3

Tiers	Changes
1-0-5 Trade Empire + Faster Shooting 2-0-5 Trade Empire + Double Shot 0-1-5 Trade Empire + Grape Shot 0-2-5 Trade Empire + Hot Shot	Crosspathing Trade Empire with any upgrade no longer increases cash per Merchantman back to $15 (bug fix)

Version 35.0

Tiers	Changes
Paragon Navarch of the Seas	Navarch of the Seas buff to Monkey Ace attack speed now applies to the Goliath Doomship

Version 36.0

“

We wanted to do a little general lower tier balancing of costs, as things work a bit better at higher tiers but on the lower end with T1-2 upgrades cost for power doesn’t compare well. We’ve realized that the 130 crosspath just hasn’t even been working for cannons, so we wanted to correct this so that people get all that they pay for with that crosspath, however middle path buccaneer at higher tiers has been overperforming significantly so in addition to this attack speed buff we have also balanced back out that difference in the opposite direction with a damage reduction.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
1-X-X Faster Shooting	Upgrade cost reduced ― $350 → $275
2-X-X Double Shot	Upgrade cost reduced ― $550 → $425
X-2-X Hot Shot X-3-X Cannon Ship X-4-X Monkey Pirates	DoT: Damage per tick increased ― 1 → 2
1-3-0 Cannon Ship + Faster Shooting and further upgrades	Faster Shooting now reduces attack cooldown of the bomb attack by 25%
X-4-X Monkey Pirates	Bomb attack: Damage to MOAB-class reduced ― +6 → +3
X-5-X Pirate Lord	Bomb attack: Damage decreased ― 5 → 3  Bomb attack: Damage to MOAB-class reduced ― +10 → +6  Bomb attack: Attack cooldown reduced ― 1.3s → 0.65s (attack speed increased by 100%)  Frag: Damage reduced ― +10 → +6  Frag: Damage to MOAB-class reduced ― +5 → +4
X-X-1 Long Range	Upgrade cost increased ― $180 → $200
X-X-2 Crow's Nest	Upgrade cost reduced ― $400 → $350

Version 37.0

“

Reworking Grape Shot crosspathing as it gains far too much crosspath value by T2 but then is lacking in purpose at higher tiers, double shot will only work as one extra grape however Destroyer will now apply its full attack rate buff to the grapes and Flagship will equip aspects of Grape Shot on the mini planes.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
2-1-0 Double Shot + Grape Shot (and further upgrades)	Grape Shot: projectiles reduced ― 10 → 6
3-1-0 Destroyer + Grape Shot (and further upgrades)	Grape Shot: attack cooldown decreased ― 0.39s → 0.195s
4-0-X Aircraft Carrier 5-0-X Carrier Flagship	Aircraft Carrier plane radials damage ― 1 → 2
4-X-X Aircraft Carrier 5-X-X Carrier Flagship	Aircraft Carrier missiles now follow tower target priority
4-1-0 Aircraft Carrier + Grape Shot (and further upgrades)	Aircraft Carrier planes radial attack now fires an arc of grapes instead of darts  Aircraft Carrier planes radial Emission Angle ― 360 → 90  Aircraft Carrier planes radial projectile count ― 8 → 6  Aircraft Carrier plane grape projectile speed ― 100 → 200
4-2-0 Aircraft Carrier + Hot Shot 5-2-0 Carrier Flagship + Hot Shot	Aircraft Carrier planes radial damage type ― Sharp → Fire
X-X-5 Trade Empire	Trade Empire should no longer buff too many merchants in co-op (bug fix)
5-5-5 Navarch of the Seas	Resolved an issue where Navarch’s attack rate buff would not apply to Doomship in some cases depending on build order (bug fix)

Version 38.0

“

Small tweaks to Buccaneer’s Long Range upgrade to improve its additional pierce benefit for a number of attacks.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
4-0-1 Aircraft Carrier + Long Range and further upgrades	Plane darts: Bonus pierce increased ― +1 → +2
0-3-1 Cannon Ship + Long Range and further upgrades	Cannonball: Pierce increased ― 28 → 35  Frag: Pierce increased ― 1 → 2
X-X-1 Long Range and further upgrades	Main attack: Pierce increased ― 5 → 6

Version 39.0

Tiers	Changes
4-X-X Aircraft Carrier 5-X-X Carrier Flagship	Resolved some issues with Aircraft Carrier planes being blocked from spawning on Water Park (bug fix)
X-X-4 Favored Trades X-X-5 Trade Empire Paragon Navarch of the Seas	Favored Trades buff: No longer affects Paragon upgrades (bug fix)

“

Wasn’t too impacted by the bug fix while standing out as quite powerful for a mid-range cost in general, so just nerfed a little to keep it around where it is after the buffs it is gaining this update from knowledge & the boss bonus multiplier going up.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
Paragon Navarch of the Seas	Cost per power changed ― $25 → $23.375/$27.5/$29.7/$33  Turret: base cooldown increased ― 0.2145s → 0.25s  Plane forward attack: Base cooldown increased ― 0.15s → 0.18s  Plane radial attack: Base cooldown increased ― 1.5s → 1.8s  Has less Boss damage, especially on Elite and at higher Degrees

Version 40.0

“

Aircraft Carrier is just a little expensive for what it offers over staying at T3, and Flagship high-end strategic value recently became a little harder due to synergies being price nerfed, so we’re doing some small cost cutting between the two of these upgrades mainly to relieve that loss for the T5 slightly but also help T4.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
4-X-X Aircraft Carrier	Upgrade cost reduced ― $7,200 → $6,900
5-X-X Carrier Flagship	Upgrade cost reduced ― $25,000 → $24,500  Resolved a build order bug that could prevent flagship from applying its buff to waterbound Sun Temples (bug fix)

Version 41.0

“

Aircraft Carrier has many problems in general and we could write multiple paragraphs about what went on with the decision making on this one upgrade but tldr; overhauling the feel with a big shuffle around of stats and greatly improved targeting to make the tower far more enjoyable & reliable. As noted earlier, Middle Path was identified as not having weakness to justify the power and is seeing changes related to that.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
4-X-X Aircraft Carrier	Plane main attack: Pierce reduced ― 9 → 4
4-X-X Aircraft Carrier 5-X-X Carrier Flagship	Plane main attack: Now seeks Bloons  Plane main attack: Damage increased ― 1 → 2  Plane main attack: Range increased ― 200 → 250  Plane radial attack: Damage increased ― 2 → 4  Plane radial attack: Max distance reduced ― 150 units → 60 units
4-2-0 Aircraft Carrier + Hot Shot 5-2-0 Carrier Flagship + Hot Shot	Plane radial attack: Damage type changed ― Sharp → Fire  Plane radial attack: Now applies Fire-type damage over time
5-X-X Carrier Flagship	Main attack: Projectile radius no longer increased  Plane main attack: Projectile count increased ― 1 → 2  Plane main attack: Projectile speed no longer increased  Plane main attack: Pierce reduced ― 14 → 7  Plane main attack: Damage type ― Normal → Sharp  Plane radial attack: Projectile speed no longer increased  Plane radial attack: Projectile radius no longer increased
X-3-X Cannon Ship and further upgrades	Frag: No longer hits the same Bloon as the initial bomb
X-4-X Monkey Pirates X-5-X Pirate Lord	MOAB Takedown: No longer detects Camo without Crow's Nest or external Camo detection Note: Required to hook in DDTs
X-5-X Pirate Lord	Grape attack: Damage reduced ― 10 → 8  Grape attack: Bonus damage to Ceramic reduced ― +10 → +8  Bomb explosion: Bonus damage to MOAB-class reduced ― +6 → +5
Paragon Navarch of the Seas	Grape attack: Damage type changed ― Normal → Sharp (undocumented)

Version 42.0

“

General improvements made to higher tier DoT applications for Buccaneer. The pierce from bottom crosspath seems to be better after destroyer currently, so this also acts as some crosspath balancing for Flagship. Middle path buccaneer continues to attack with its initial 1 damage projectile that never gets upgraded but the Cannons are very much intended to be a ‘replacement’ upgrade to this main attack, so we are finally disabling that dart along with improving the damage of grapes for the T3 & T4 on this path so the lower tiers can save into Pirate Lord better.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
4-2-0 Aircraft Carrier + Hot Shot	Grape DoT (main and aircraft): Damage per tick increased ― 2 → 4
5-2-0 Carrier Flagship + Hot Shot	Grape DoT (main and aircraft): Damage per tick increased ― 2 → 9
X-3-X Cannon Ship	Grape attack: Damage increased ― 1 → 2
X-3-X Cannon Ship (and further upgrades)	No longer has the main dart attack from previous tiers
X-4-X Monkey Pirates (further upgrades unaffected)	Grape attack: Damage increased ― 2 → 3
0-2-4 Favored Trades + Hot Shot	Grape DoT: Damage per tick increased ― 2 → 4
0-2-5 Trade Empire + Hot Shot	Grape DoT: Damage per tick increased ― 2 → 9

Version 43.0

“

While buccaneer is technically already a very good starter tower for maps that happen to have ideal spots allowing it to attack in both directions we feel this situation isn’t common enough that the tower should be priced around that expectation - this reduced cost is added back to top and bottom T3 upgrades as they do not need the buff. As the paragon has exceptionally powerful scaling mechanics as well as being a paragon that continues to produce cash the XP Unlock requirement is increasing, this increase will not affect players who have already unlocked it.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
0-0-0 base tower	Cost reduced ― $500 → $400
3-X-X Destroyer	Upgrade cost increased ― $2,950 → $3,050
4-X-X Aircraft Carrier 5-X-X Carrier Flagship	Planes now have camo restored when Polyphemus Eye is opened (bug fix)
X-X-3 Merchantman	Upgrade cost increased ― $2,300 → $2,400
X-X-4 Favored Trades X-X-5 Trade Empire Paragon Navarch of the Seas	Sellback buff: No longer increases sell value of towers in CHIMPS over $0 (bug fix)
Paragon Navarch of the Seas	XP unlock cost increased ― 500,000 → 750,000

Version 44.0

“

Aircraft Carrier has been performing well above its price point so this is being increased, though it is also worth noting due to a bug fix in Flagship’s AI also in this update we expect it may overall still be improved. Middle Buccaneer has had mixed feedback with much disappointment that the focus of its balance changes haven’t been improvements for the ability, given this path has again lost considerable power we want to look more on both of those aspects this time.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
4-X-X Aircraft Carrier	Upgrade cost increased ― $6,900 → $8,000
5-X-X Carrier Flagship	"Planes should no longer occasionally pause attacks for no reason" (bug fix)
5-0-2 Carrier Flagship + Crow's Nest	Crow's Nest grants extra pierce to forward attack ― +0 → +7 (bug)
X-3-X Cannon Ship	Explosion: damage increased ― 1 → 2 Note: Does not carry over to Monkey Pirates or Pirate Lord  Grape: damage increased ― 2 → 3
X-4-X Monkey Pirates	Grape: damage increased ― 3 → 5 Note: Does not carry over to Pirate Lord  Ability: cooldown reduced ― 50s → 45s Note: Does not carry over to Pirate Lord
X-5-X Pirate Lord	Ability: now shoots 6 hooks at a time instead of 3  Ability: number of hooks required for ZOMG increased ― 2 → 3
X-X-4 Favored Trades X-X-5 Trade Empire	Now has a buff icon for its sellback rate buff

Version 44.1

Tiers	Changes
4-X-X Aircraft Carrier	Plane: Can again attack while not facing south (bug fix)
X-X-4 Favored Trades X-X-5 Trade Empire 5-5-5 Navarch of the Seas	Sellback buff: Icon no longer displays on Paragons (bug fix)
5-5-5 Navarch of the Seas	Sellback buff: Now uses the intended icon instead of Elite Sniper's buff icon (bug fix) Before After

Version 45.0

“

Aircraft Carrier is too high power for the price so we are reducing plane attack speed but have left 420 path radials unchanged as it has been the less powerful crosspath after T3 for a while. MOAB damage stat buff for middle path's canons as a low portion of the total damage is dealt by these since the frags fix. Due to loud Lead tinking screams, all Navarch damage is been set to Normal instead of flowing up from lower tiers.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
4-X-X Aircraft Carrier 5-X-X Carrier Flagship	Plane forward attack: cooldown increased ― 0.15s → 0.18s  Plane radial attack: cooldown increased ― 1s → 1.2s Note: Cooldown when crosspathed with Grape Shot remains the same
5-X-X Carrier Flagship	Main attack: pierce increased ― 4 → 7
5-0-2 Carrier Flagship + Crow's Nest	No longer increases the pierce of forward attack by 7 (bug fix)
X-4-X Monkey Pirates	Cannon: explosion damage to MOAB-class increased ― +3 → +5
X-5-X Pirate Lord	Cannon: explosion damage to MOAB-class increased ― +5 → +10
5-5-5 Navarch of the Seas	Grape shot: damage type changed ― Sharp → Normal

Version 45.1

•  Buccaneer Planes should again attack when facing directions other than south (bug fix)

Version 46.0

“

Instead of increasing the amount of cash generated, the Navarch will now increase the number of Merchantmen that can receive the benefit. This is an overall increase to cash generation though requiring more of a space investment to fully utilize.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
5-1-0 Carrier Flagship + Grape Shot 5-2-0 Carrier Flagship + Hot Shot	Plane Radial Attack: Projectile speed no longer decreases with the middle crosspath ― 100 → 200 (bug fix)
5-5-5 Navarch of the Seas	Trade Empire Merchantmen boost: Bonus cash per merchant reduced ― +$15 → +$10  Trade Empire Merchantmen boost: Amount of merchants that can receive the bonus increased ― 20 → 40

Version 47.0

“

We’re currently happy with Pirate Lord, but Monkey Pirates has been hit hard by changes so cost is being pushed out of it to encourage multi mid path building.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-4-X Monkey Pirates	Upgrade cost reduced ― $4,900 → $3,900
X-5-X Pirate Lord	Upgrade cost increased ― $26,000 → $27,000

Version 48.0

“

Small nerf to Pirate Lord, as we do want it to be a strong T5 but it’s overperforming currently.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-5-X Pirate Lord	Cannon explosion: bonus MOAB-class damage decreased ― +10 → +8  Fragment: bonus MOAB-class damage decreased ― +4 → +3

Version 49.0

“

Aircraft Carrier is in a very strong position right now however it suffers from inconsistency, so we have increased the field of view for the Buccaneer Plane attacks so it can spend more time actively attacking
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
4-X-X Aircraft Carrier	Mini planes: Field of view increased ― 60° → 90° Note: This field of view value allows to see Bloons more reliably. 5-X-X remains at 90.
X-4-X Monkey Pirates X-5-X Pirate Lord	Ability: can no longer target Dreadrock Bloons (bug fix)

Version 50.0

“

Favoured Trades^[sic] sellback bonus has been moved back to a stacking bonus, requiring more setup investment in the area to receive the higher value.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-X-4 Favored Trades and further upgrades	Sellback buff: Bonus sellback reduced ― 10% → 4% Note: Navarch of the Seas unchanged  Sellback buff: Maximum amount of stacks increased ― 1 → 3 Note: This increases the maximum sellback bonus to 12%
Paragon Navarch of the Seas	Sellback buff: Now stacks with Favored Trades Note: It will count as one of the three stacks, for a maximum of 18% with two other Buccaneers, however the icon will visually not count it as a stack  Takedown ability: Initial cooldown is fully reset ― 10s → 30s (undocumented)

Version 51.0

“

Navarch’s sellback bonus is updating to match the new max stack value of Flavoured Trades so you don’t feel shortchanged on that bonus after upgrading. Cannon Boss Damage is also getting a bump as Navarch hasn’t been a popular pick for Bosses.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
0-1-3 Merchantman + Grape Shot and further upgrades	Grape attack: Pierce increased ― 1 → 2 (bug fix)
Paragon Navarch of the Seas	Sellback buff: Sellback bonus increased ― +10% → +12%  Bomb attack: Bonus damage to Boss Bloons increased ― +60 → +80

Version 53.0

“

Destroyer’s price is going up very slightly as it’s performing well, but we’re mostly happy with it. Aircraft Carrier’s lifespan is being tweaked slightly to properly tie in the xx1 crosspath as a projectile distance buff for all projectiles rather than just the small selection it currently buffs.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
3-X-X Destroyer	Upgrade cost increased ― $3,050 → $3,350
4-0-0 Aircraft Carrier 5-0-0 Carrier Flagship	Plane main attack: Projectile lifespan increased ― 0.8333s → 0.9333s  Plane radial attack: Projectile lifespan increased ― 0.6s → 0.7s
4-X-X Aircraft Carrier 5-X-X Carrier Flagship	Main attack: Projectile lifespan increased ― 0.6s → 0.7s  Plane missile attack: Projectile lifespan reduced ― 24s → 16.8s
5-5-5 Navarch of the Seas	Cannonball attack: Projectile lifespan increased ― 0.6s → 0.7s (undocumented)  Plane main attack: Projectile lifespan increased ― 0.6667s → 0.7333s (undocumented)

Tiers	Changes
4-1-0 Aircraft Carrier + Grape Shot (and further upgrades)	Plane radial attack: Projectile lifespan increased ― 0.3s → 0.35s
4-0-1 Aircraft Carrier + Long Range (and further upgrades)	Plane main attack: Projectile lifespan increased ― 0.8s → 0.9333s  Plane main attack: Projectile speed increased ― 350 units/s → 375 units/s  Plane radial attack: Projectile lifespan reduced ― 0.75s → 0.7s  Plane radial attack: Projectile speed increased ― 100 units/s → 125 units/s  Plane missile attack: Projectile speed increased ― 25 units/s → 31.25 units/s Note: Makes the missiles less accurate due to the turning speed remaining the same

Version 54.0

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The Aircraft Carrier has been both overpowered and unreliable, so we're tweaking plane movement for better consistency with a fire rate tradeoff. We’ve also improved the Flagship's Aircraft buff to give a more rewarding final payoff. Pirate Lord is seeing a stat reduction as it deals area damage too effectively to many targets.
— Update notes

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Tiers	Changes
4-X-X Aircraft Carrier	Planes: Flyover distance reduced ― 90 units → 75 units Note: This means they will not wander as far when flying over their target  Planes: Turning speed increased ― 0.025s → 0.035s  Plane Forward Darts: Cooldown reduced ― 0.18s → 0.21s
5-X-X Carrier Flagship	Upgrade cost increased ― $24,500 → $26,000  Global attack speed buff increased ― 0.85× → 0.8× Note: This represents an attack speed increase from +18% to +25%
X-4-X Monkey Pirates	Grape attack: Damage reduced ― 5 → 4
X-5-X Pirate Lord	Grape attack: Bonus damage to Ceramics reduced ― +8 → +4  Grape and bomb attacks: Attack cooldown increased ― 0.65s → 0.845s (attack speed reduced by 23.08%) Note: Stacks with 1-5-0 crosspath ― 0.4875s → 0.6338s
X-X-4 Favored Trades	Resolved an issue with the order of operations which gave inconsistent cash values when buffed
X-X-5 Trade Empire	Description changed Before Generates more cash per round, increases cash earned by up to 20 other Merchantmen by the number of Merchantmen, and boosts all Merchantmen damage. After Generates more cash per round. Grants up to 20 Merchantmen bonus damage and an income bonus that increases with every Merchantman owned up to 20 times.

Version 54.2

Tiers	Changes
5-5-5 Navarch of the Seas	No longer fails to reposition towers on its platforms when created under certain circumstances (bug fix)

Version 55.0

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Buccaneer’s Merchantmen path will now gain a damage bonus based on how much spare cash you have on-hand. This introduces a fun trade-off where you can choose to hold onto cash for a combat boost at the cost of losing advantage from immediately snowballing into more economy. It’s kinda neat
— Update notes

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Tiers	Changes
X-X-3 Merchantman	Description changed Before Generates cash each round automatically. After Generates cash each round automatically, and deals more damage when over 10,000 saved cash.
X-X-3 Merchantman (and further upgrades)	Now gains a ×2 damage modifier when the player has over $10,000 cash
X-X-4 Favored Trades	Description changed Before Attacks faster and generates lots of money per round. Monkeys in radius have increased sell value. After Attacks faster and deals more damage when over 50,000 saved cash. Generates lots of money per round. Monkeys in radius have increased sell value.
X-X-4 Favored Trades X-X-5 Trade Empire	Now gains a ×3 damage modifier when the player has over $50,000 cash