Blade Maelstrom (BTD6)
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Blade Maelstrom
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 Blade Maelstrom ability: Covers the area in a storm of blades.
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| Tower | Tack Shooter — Path 2 — Tier 4 | |
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| XP cost | 9,000 | |
| Cash cost | $2,295 — Easy $2,700 — Medium $2,915 — Hard $3,240 — Impoppable | |
Blade Maelstrom is the Tack Shooter's path 2 tier 4 upgrade in Bloons TD 6.
Stats
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Costs and sell values
Note: this list does not factor in Monkey Knowledge or other discounts.
| Tiers | Total cost | Sell value | ||||||
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| Easy | Medium | Hard | Impoppable | Easy | Medium | Hard | Impoppable | |
| 0-4-0 | $3,255 | $3,835 | $4,145 | $4,600 | $2,279 | $2,685 | $2,902 | $3,220 |
| 1-4-0 | $3,380 | $3,985 | $4,305 | $4,780 | $2,366 | $2,790 | $3,014 | $3,346 |
| 2-4-0 | $3,635 | $4,285 | $4,630 | $5,140 | $2,545 | $3,000 | $3,241 | $3,598 |
| 0-4-1 | $3,350 | $3,945 | $4,265 | $4,730 | $2,345 | $2,762 | $2,986 | $3,311 |
| 0-4-2 | $3,445 | $4,055 | $4,385 | $4,860 | $2,412 | $2,839 | $3,070 | $3,402 |
Costs and sell values
For a complete list of Tack Shooter changes, see Update history:Tack Shooter (BTD6).
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- Maelstrom projectiles are no longer deleted at the end of the round in Race events
Ability: duration increased ― 2s → 3s
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Maelstrom upgrades are in a good spot overall, but specifically for the low cost of this tower with such a rapid cooldown it was able to hit too many targets under race conditions. This targeted nerf is to the value of it under those race conditions and should be negligible in other game areas.
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Ability: Pierce reduced ― ∞ → 100
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We liked Maelstrom’s pierce change, however want to ease off a little as higher density rounds feel a lot more position & timing dependent now than they need to be.
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- Maelstrom ability: pierce increased ― 100 → 200
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Blade Shooter has always struggled to find much value without MK or as a step to Maelstrom, so to give it build value on its own we feel like this should be a part of the base value on the upgrade.
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- Blade pierce increased ― 6 → 8
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Maelstrom crosspathing? Why not, feels that this could be cool to try out, and more consistency on bottom crosspath may be able to make it the preferred ability crosspath while top path which already improves the base tower more will give back the massive pierce amount for times where the greater punch per use is required.
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- Ability: Pierce reduced ― 200 → 120
- 1-4-0
- Ability: Pierce reduced ― 200 → 160
- Note: 240 unchanged
- 0-4-1, 0-4-2
Ability: Now rotates counter-clockwise with this crosspath
- 0-4-1
- Ability: Duration increased ― 3s → 3.5s
- 0-4-2
- Ability: Duration increased ― 3s → 4s
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The recent ability crosspathing for Tack Shooter was fun but feels too lopsided as pierce concerns are very niche on Maelstrom, instead we want to shift this entire focus around for top path to be the rate crosspath for more damage in a shorter amount of time and leaving bottom mainly about greater overall uptime.
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- Ability: Pierce increased ― 120 → 200
- Ability: Attack cooldown increased ― 0.03s → 0.045s (attack speed reduced by 33.33%)
- Main attack: Damage type changed ― Sharp → Shatter
- 1-4-0
- Ability: Faster Shooting no longer increases pierce
- Overall pierce is unchanged (due to changes to the base pierce)
- Ability: Faster Shooting now reduces attack cooldown by 15%
- Overall attack cooldown with this crosspath increased ― 0.03s → 0.03825s (due to changes to the base attack cooldown)
- 2-4-0
- Ability: Even Faster Shooting no longer increases pierce
- Overall pierce is unchanged (due to changes to the base pierce)
- Ability: Even Faster Shooting now decreases attack cooldown by 15%
- Reduces overall attack cooldown by 27.75% (due to changes to the previous tier)
- Overall attack cooldown with this crosspath increased ― 0.03s → 0.0325125s (due to changes to the base attack cooldown)
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Additionally, while we’ve held out on this change as there are strong use cases in prior upgrades, Blade Maelstrom lacks the single target punch to last late in Modern Bloons. While it is designed as a high pierce cleanup of low tier Bloons we want to try shifting some pierce to single target damage to feel good for longer.
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- Overall cost reduced by $20 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
- Ability blade: Damage increased ― 1 → 2
- Ability blade: Pierce reduced ― 200 → 100
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Blade Shooter has always visually increased the projectile size considerably but not actually changed this value at all, Blades will now actually be bigger.
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- Blade Maelstrom ability: Projectile radius increased ― 2 → 4
- Reload rate reduced ― 1.19s → 1.12s
- Note: Stacks with top crosspath: 1-X-0 ― 0.8925s → 0.84s. 2-X-0 ― 0.6694s → 0.63s
- Main attack: Projectile radius increased ― 0 → 4
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Range fits well for this path, so we’re working this more into the main attack of middle path
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- Acquisition range increased ― 31 → 46
- Blade: Projectile range increased ― 49.24 → 64
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Middle Tack has always been ability heavy, so the base tower damage is improving with higher tiers to get more than just the ability.
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- Main blade: Damage increased ― 1 → 2
Gallery
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Artwork and icons
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In other languages
| Language | Name / Description | Notes | |
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| Arabic | دوامة الشفرات القدرة على عمل دوامة من الشفرات: تغطية المنطقة في عاصفة من الشفرات. |
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| Danish | Klingemalstrøm Klingemalstrøm-evne: dækker området med en storm af klinger. |
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| German | Klingeninferno Klingeninferno-Fähigkeit: Fähigkeit: Bedeckt die ganze Strecke mit einem Klingenteppich. |
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| Spanish | Vorágine de cuchillas Habilidad vorágine de cuchillas: cubre el área con una tormenta de cuchillas. |
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| Spanish (LA) | Vorágine de cuchillas Habilidad vorágine de cuchillas: cubre el área con una tormenta de cuchillas. |
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| Finnish | Terämyrsky Terämyrsky-kyky: peittää alueen terämyrskyllä. |
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| French | Maelström de lames Aptitude Maelström de lames : fait pleuvoir une tempête de lames sur la zone. |
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| Italian | Vortice di lame Abilità Vortice di lame: ricopre l'area coinvolta con una tempesta di lame. |
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| Japanese | ブレード大混乱 ブレード大混乱能力：地域をブレードの嵐で覆う。 |
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| Korean | 칼날 소용돌이 칼날 소용돌이 능력: 영역에 칼날의 폭풍이 휘몰아칩니다. |
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| Dutch | Messenkolk Messenkolk-vaardigheid: bedekt het gebied in een storm van messen. |
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| Norwegian | Bladmalstrøm Klingemalstrøm-evne: dekker området med en storm av klinger. |
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| Polish | Wir ostrzy Umiejętność wiru ostrzy: pokrywa obszar burzą ostrzy. |
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| Portuguese (Brazil) | Tempestade de Lâminas Habilidade Tempestade de Lâminas: Cobre a área numa tempestade de lâminas. |
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| Russian | Водоворот клинков Способность «Водоворот клинков» накрывает зону вихрем клинков. |
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| Swedish | Rakbladmalström Bladmalströmförmåga: Täcker området med en storm av blad. |
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| Thai | พายุใบเลื่อย สกิลพายุใบเลื่อย: ยิงใบเลื่อยจำนวนมากออกไปเหมือนพายุหมุนครอบคลุมทั้งจอ |
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| Turkish | Bıçak Girdabı Bıçak Girdabı yeteneği: Bıçak fırtınasıyla alanı korur. |
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| Chinese (simplified) | 利刃漩涡 利刃漩涡技能：对目标区域发起利刃风暴。 |
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| Chinese (traditional) | 刀刃漩渦 刀刃漩渦技能：刀刃風暴覆蓋整個區域。 |
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| This list was last updated for: version 43.1 | |||
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