Esoteric Elementalist

Esoteric Elementalist

Type	Artifact
Common	Wizard Monkeys have a 20% chance to freeze or blow back, and set Bloons on fire for 1 damage/s over 4.5s. Adds a 1-0-1 Wizard to your Party
Rare	Wizard Monkeys have a 30% chance to freeze or blow back, and set Bloons on fire for 3 damage/s over 4.5s. Adds a 2-0-1 Wizard to your Party
Legendary	Wizard Monkeys have a 60% chance to freeze or blow back, and set Bloons on fire for 9 damage/s over 4.5s. Adds a 2-0-0 Wizard to your Party
Hero parties	Silas (Rare)
Introduced	Version 47.0

Esoteric Elementalist is a type of Artifact in the Rogue Legends DLC for Bloons TD 6. It gives additional effects to the projectiles of Wizard Monkeys, although they aren't guaranteed to happen, but the chances increase with the rarity of the Artifact. The possible effects are:

• Push back the Bloons along the track 50 units (25 for Ceramics and cannot affect MOAB-Class Bloons).
• Set the Bloons on fire, which inflicts a damage over time effect of 1, 3 or 9 damage every 1.5 seconds and during 4.6s, despite what the description says.
• Freeze Bloons for 1s, except MOAB-Class Bloons.

Multiple effects can be applied to the same Bloon at the same time, and if they are affected by both Freeze and Blowback, they will remain on place Frozen for 1s and after that, the Blowback applies. The effects only apply after the Bloon is damaged by the projectile, for example, Purple Bloons are immune to all effects if they are hit by a magic bolt, fireball or touches a wall of fire, but can be affected if hit by a Zombie Bloon or if Ceramic or Rainbow Bloon that is reduced to a Zebra or White Bloon, it can be affected by the Freeze.

This Artifact also adds a 1-0-1 / 2-0-1 / 2-0-0 Wizard Monkey to the Party.

Stats

Common

Blowback
Multiplier for Ceramic ×0.5 Multiplier for MOAB-Class ×0 Chance 20% Min distance 50 units Max distance 50 units

Damage over time
Damage 1 Damage type Fire Duration 4.6s Interval 1.5s Chance 20% Layers ∞

Freeze
Multiplier ×0 Duration 1s Chance 20% Layers 1

Rare

Blowback
Chance 20% → 30%

Damage over time
Damage 1 → 3 Chance 20% → 50%

Freeze
Chance 20% → 30%

• Note: The chance increase for the Rare variant is not a typo; it is actually increased to 50%.

Legendary

Blowback
Chance 30% → 60%

Damage over time
Damage 3 → 9 Chance 50% → 60%

Freeze
Chance 30% → 60%

Tips

This section was last updated for: version 56.0

• This Artifact provides a lot of utility to Wizard Monkeys in the early game, allowing them to stall and increasing their damage output in order to save up for the tier 3 and 4 upgrades to handle the MOAB-Class Bloons when they start appearing. This Artifact can also help on reducing the drawback of Pure Damage by using the push back and freeze effect to slow down the smaller Bloons.
• With Silas specifically, players can upgrade the starting 0-2-0 Mermonkey into Alluring Melody which accelerates the DoT effect, this synergy can be further improved with the Confuddling Spelling Artifact, allowing the Wizard Monkey to inflict greater damage while the Bloons are tranced.
• Getting the added Wizard can be useful for accessing Shimmer or Arcane Mastery.
  • Lead damage is limited unless going for Necromancer: Unpopped Army or having the Legendary version to buy Fireball and above.
  • Shimmer doesn't work with One Monkey Army, so disregard this Artifact for OMA runs unless it can be exchanged in the Merchants later.

Update history

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Version 47.2

“

We aren’t including changes requiring a translation for a patch update, but have included a number of stat changes to many Artifacts as touch up buffs to a number of Artifacts that have been less popular so far.
— Update notes

”

•  Damage per tick over time increased
  • Rare: 2 → 3
  • Legendary: 3 → 9
• Descriptions of all rarities updated accordingly

Version 48.2

•  Bloons popped by Esoteric Elementalist's fire should now trigger Pops Fired (bug fix)
  • Note: Affects all rarities

In other languages

Language	Text	Notes
Arabic	عالم روحاني	—
Danish	Esoterisk elementalist	—
German	Esoterischer Elementaler	—
Spanish	Elementalista esotérico	—
Spanish (Latin America)	Elementalista esotérico	—
Finnish	Erikoinen elementalisti	—
French	Élémentaliste ésotérique	—
Italian	Elementalista dell'esoterismo	—
Japanese	秘伝の精霊術士	—
Korean	원소술사의 비전	—
Dutch	Esoterische elementalist	—
Norwegian	Esoterisk elementalist	—
Polish	Ezoteryczny elementalista	—
Portuguese (Brazil)	Elementalista Esotérico	—
Russian	Эзотерик-элементалист	—
Swedish	Svårtillgänglig elementalist	—
Thai	นักธาตลึกลับ	—
Turkish	Ezoterik Elementalist	—
Chinese (simplified)	秘术元素师	—
Chinese (traditional)	秘術元素師	—