Blade Maelstrom (BTD6)
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. It grants a Blade Maelstrom ability, which causes the Tack Shooter to fire blades with increased damage and pierce in all directions. Blade Maelstrom and other tier 4 and above Tack Shooters also have slightly elevated lines of sight compared to tier 3 and below Tack Shooters. Additionally the base attack gains +1 damage.
Blade Maelstrom Ability
The Blade Maelstrom ability has a cooldown of 20 seconds, with an initial cooldown of 6.67 seconds. When activated, it fires extra-strong blades in two opposite directions for 3 seconds, and the direction in which it fires rapidly spin clockwise creating a spiral pattern with the blades. Each blade deals 2 Shatter damage, has 100 pierce, and is fired with an attack cooldown of 0.045 seconds. It can be affected with all types of buffs (damage, attack speed, pierce, etc.).
The ability also receives crosspathing benefits:
- Faster Shooting — ability gains ~17.6% increased attack speed (0.85x attack cooldown).
- Even Faster Shooting — ability gains ~38.4% increased attack speed total (0.85x attack cooldown on top, total of 0.7225x).
- More Tacks — ability gains +0.5s duration and spins counter-clockwise.
- Even More Tacks — ability gains +1s duration total.
Stats
For a complete list of Tack Shooter stats, see Stats:Tack Shooter (BTD6).
This data was last updated for: version 55.1
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Costs and sell values
Note: this list does not factor in Monkey Knowledge or other discounts.
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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 |
Strategy
This section was last updated for: version 50.2
Blade Maelstrom is one of the strongest towers in Race Events, due to its extremely high pierce and ability to wipe out extraordinary amounts of Bloons and make large amounts of cash that can be used to purchase other towers. When using it in Race Events, fullsend immediately after purchasing it, purchase a 0-2-0 Alchemist next to it, and upgrade the Alchemist to a 3-2-0 Berserker Brew immediately after using the ability to allow it to pop Lead Bloons and greatly boost its popping power. The same could be done for Bloonarius.
Outside of Race Events, Blade Maelstrom is useful to wipe out Round 76, Round 78 (with Camo detection), and the 1st and 3rd wave of Ceramic Bloons on Round 63, but is not very useful on other rounds and becomes useless after Round 80 due to Super Ceramics. 2-4-0 and 0-4-2 are on roughly equal footing, the former being preferred for burst damage and the latter for more reliable damage, regardless of the game setting. The difference in rotation direction from bottom path rarely matters, with only extra duration being the reason for this crosspath.
Update History
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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Screenshots
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Activation of the 042 ability
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In other languages
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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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