{{BTD6 tower changes/new|quote=Middle path T4 Phoenix continues carrying rounds quite well for a long period of the game, as a light nerf here we’re taking away the free camo detection that Phoenix used to get, given the tower has a camo crosspath it could go for to properly inherit this onto the phoenix anyway. When the Wizard Paragon released it unintentionally drained mana from every target the main attack came into contact with, which caused the passive mana drain to scale much faster with degrees than intended. At a base level it was balanced around this factor though so the passive mana drain values have been properly reworked to trigger from attacks being performed with amounts keeping it roughly similar but not scaling up to such crazy fast drains with the high degrees.|version=38.0|tower=Wizard Monkey
{{BTD6 tower changes/new
|path 2 tier 3 cost before=3000|path 2 tier 3 cost after=3300|tiers 1=X4X,X5X|changes 1=*{{nerf|Summon Phoenix now requires the 042 crosspath for Phoenix ability to see Camo}}|tiers 2=XX4,XX5|changes 2=*{{buff|Necromancer targeted spawn point can now be reset back to default by activating the target option, then canceling without selecting a point}}|paragon changes=*{{buff|Wizard Paragon no longer drains 100 mana for every single Bloon hit by the main attack}}
| quote = Middle path T4 Phoenix continues carrying rounds quite well for a long period of the game, as a light nerf here we’re taking away the free camo detection that Phoenix used to get, given the tower has a camo crosspath it could go for to properly inherit this onto the phoenix anyway. When the Wizard Paragon released it unintentionally drained mana from every target the main attack came into contact with, which caused the passive mana drain to scale much faster with degrees than intended. At a base level it was balanced around this factor though so the passive mana drain values have been properly reworked to trigger from attacks being performed with amounts keeping it roughly similar but not scaling up to such crazy fast drains with the high degrees.
| version = 38.0
| tower = Wizard Monkey
| path 2 tier 3 cost before = 3000
| path 2 tier 3 cost after = 3300
| tiers 1 = 04X,05X
| changes 1 = *{{nerf|Phoenix now requires the Monkey Sense crosspath for Phoenix ability to see Camo}}
| tiers 2 = XX4,XX5
| changes 2 = *{{buff|Necromancer targeted spawn point can now be reset back to default by activating the target option, then canceling without selecting a point}}
| paragon changes = *{{buff|Wizard Paragon no longer drains 100 mana for every single Bloon hit by the main attack}}
*{{buff|Each main attack fired drains mana 50}}
*{{buff|Each main attack fired drains mana 50}}
*{{buff|Each Phoenix firebomb attack fired drains mana 50}}
*{{buff|Each Phoenix firebomb attack fired drains mana 50}}
*{{nerf|Zombie Bloon spawn mana cost increased|100|250}}
*{{nerf|Zombie Bloon spawn mana cost increased|100|250}}
*{{buff|Zombie Bloons travel range increased|175|400}}
*{{buff|Zombie Bloons travel range increased|175|400}}
*{{nerf|Resolved an issue creating a permanent magus flamethrower attack|fix=y}}}}
*{{nerf|Resolved an issue creating a permanent magus flamethrower attack|fix=y}}
Adora is a unique hero in how she has a great deal more value in spending cash to level her up faster, however she outperforms other heroes by too much regardless of this added cost. As her ability uptime is so incredibly good to the point of being completely spammable we’re increasing that cooldown slightly and reducing her base pierce in the higher levels so more thought must be required to utilize the large pierce increase she gains from usage of that ability. — Update notes
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Levels
Changes
3+
Long Arm of Light cooldown increased ― 35s → 40s
11+
Main attack pierce reduced ― 13 → 11
Note: Applies to higher levels
Ball of light pierce reduced ― 13 → 11 (undocumented)
As knowledge, power & variety of Paragons has developed they have turned out to be extremely powerful against vortex and we have reached a point with enough good paragon diversity we no longer feel like they need to resist Vortex’s stun for such a large advantage over other towers, instead of this we feel Vortex’s stun is just too long in general so is being reworked to an overall lower amount across the tiers without any paragon immunity. — Update notes
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Paragons no longer have 50% reduced stun duration
Stun duration reworked at all tiers for generally reduced durations
Lych has some cheese strategy in pre-buffing before spawn to get around the draining mechanics, but boss functionality now makes it easy for us to try out a quick change to counteract some of this. — Update notes
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Lych now triggers the 'buff drain' attack immediately on spawn
Release descriptions
App Store / Google Play
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Cosmic Boss Update!!
• Warp out of this world with the new Boss Bloon: Phayze!
• Keep the pool safe with the new Admiral Brickell Skin: Lifeguard Brickell!
• Splash out on Water Park, our latest Intermediate Map!
• New Quests, including story quest: Scoop's Tall Tale!
• Plus all the Trophy store items, quality of life improvements, and balance changes you've come to expect
Trial by Fire
Brickell Bootcamp
Scoop's Tall Tale
Paragons no longer have 50% reduced stun duration
T4 ― 25s → 24s