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This is a list of changes to the Bomb Shooter in Bloons TD 6 post-release.
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X-3-X MOAB Mauler
X-4-X MOAB Assassin
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 Bonus MOAB-class damage increased ― +10 → +15 - Note: x-5-x unchanged (+79)
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| X-X-4 Recursive Cluster
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- Recursive shot now triggers every 2nd shot instead of every 3rd shot
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| X-X-5 Bomb Blitz
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- Recursive shot now triggers every shot instead of every 3rd shot
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4-X-X Bloon Impact
5-X-X Bloon Crush
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- Hitting Bloons that are already stunned now refreshes the stun duration
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| X-X-5 Bomb Blitz
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 Passive ability: now has an initial cooldown (undocumented)
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| X-2-X Missile Launcher and further upgrades
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- Attack cooldown reduced by 20%
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| X-3-X MOAB Mauler and further upgrades
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- Now deals +5 damage to Ceramics
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| X-X-4 Recursive Cluster
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- Upgrade cost increased ― $2,400 → $2,800
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| X-2-X Missile Launcher
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 Description changed
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After
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| Shoots missiles instead of bombs, missiles fly faster with longer range.
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Exchanges bombs for missiles, which fire faster, fly faster, and increase range.
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| 0-2-5 Bomb Blitz + Missile Launcher
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- Changed the main projectile visuals to a missile
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We’re really excited about the recent rise in Bomb fame, and we want to encourage this by buffing some of the detracting parts of Bomb Shooters. But larger groups of basic T3 Maulers are now performing far too well against everything when they are intended to be more of a MOAB Specialist. This change means little in the early game, but should pull these groups back a little in more higher round gameplay.
— Update notes
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Some low tier Bomb pierce has been shifted further up into the 2xx Heavy Bombs upgrade to effectively nerf 130 Mauler meta in price, but the price of these upgrades and MOAB Damage of T4 Maulers have both been buffed to benefit other variations of bomb better. Bloon Impact’s price was increased as it didn’t need to benefit from this buff, and a buff was made to 502’s Bloon Impact’s frags to alter this underused crosspath.
— Update notes
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0-0-0 base tower
0-1-X Faster Reload and further upgrades
0-X-1 Extra Range and further upgrades
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- Pierce reduced ― 18 → 14
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| 1-X-X Bigger Bombs
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- Upgrade cost reduced ― $400 → $350
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| 1-X-X Bigger Bombs and all crosspaths
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- Pierce reduced ― 28 → 20 (pierce modifier reduced from +10 to +6, including to crosspaths)
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| 2-X-X Heavy Bombs
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- Upgrade cost reduced ― $800 → $650
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| 2-X-X Heavy Bombs and all crosspaths
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- Pierce increased ― 28 → 30 (due to this upgrade now applying +10 pierce and previous tiers having reduced pierce)
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| 3-X-X Really Big Bombs and further upgrades
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- Pierce increased ― 48 → 50 (undocumented)
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| 4-X-X Bloon Impact
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- Upgrade cost increased ― $3,200 → $3,600
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| 5-0-2 Bloon Crush + Frag Bombs
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- Frag: damage increased ― 3 → 12
- Frags: Pierce increased ― 2 → 3
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| X-4-X MOAB Assassin
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- MOAB-class bonus increased ― +25 → +30
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Small nerf to the regular-Bloon power of MOAB Mauler’s domination.
— Update notes
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| X-3-X MOAB Mauler
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- bonus to Ceramic reduced ― +4 → +3
- Note: MOAB Assassin unaffected (+4)
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In some cases the effort to make upgrades feel powerful eclipsed the need for monkey tower weaknesses to be supported by path or other tower synergies. Reviewing the state of White compared to Black Bloons we feel it no longer makes sense for Bomb stall path to ignore inherent Bomb weakness compared to Ice, which can’t fully get around it’s weakness until T5. MOAB Maulers have been a very strong meta spam for a while now, so we are chipping off most of its ceramic bonus at T3.
— Update notes
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| 4-X-X Bloon Impact
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- Damage type changed ― Normal → Explosion
- Note: Bloon Crush unchanged
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| X-3-X MOAB Mauler
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- Ceramic bonus reduced ― +3 → +1
- Note: MOAB Assassin unchanged
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| 4-X-X Bloon Impact
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- No longer applies a non-slowing "stun" effect to MOABs (bug fix)
- Note: Nerf to strategies that used bonus stun damage
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While MOAB Maulers are a current popular meta the base bomb shooter is unaffordable early on for the little contribution it can make at early levels when not much pierce is really needed, so some cost has been moved out of the base upgrade and into the Mauler with an overall price increase to Mauler. We’ve acknowledged that Frag Bombs have felt like an inconsistent crosspath both in what they add to the tower and what they lose when upgraded further on their own path, so now in addition to frags popping Black Bloons xx2+ will allow all attacks from the tower to pop Black.
— Update notes
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| 0-0-0 base tower
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- Cost reduced ― $600 → $525
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| X-3-X MOAB Mauler
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- Upgrade cost increased ― $900 → $1,100
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X-X-2 Frag Bombs and all crosspaths
X-X-3 Cluster Bombs
X-X-4 Recursive Cluster
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- Frag Bombs upgrade now grants ‘fraggy explosions’ which allows all explosions from the tower to pop Black Bloons
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Has strong meta usage, Mauler as a moab focus upgrade no longer needs the bonus to ceramic crutch
— Update notes
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| X-2-X Missile Launcher
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- Should no longer become ‘lower’ and lose vision over objects (bug fix)
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| X-3-X MOAB Mauler
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- No longer deals +1 damage to Ceramics
- Note: Does not carry over to higher tier upgrades
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The Frags crosspath for top path Bomb Shooter has always been quite a poor choice, trying to compete with attack speed as a benefit for stun utility isn’t going to ever work out so we have instead gone the route of turning the frags crosspath into a DPS/Stun hybrid with a lot of small buffs to frag power.
— Update notes
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Has been a standout tier 3 for long enough, T4 remaining unchanged to still encourage more focussed use over low tier spam.
— Update notes
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| X-3-X MOAB Mauler
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- Bonus MOAB-class damage reduced ― +18 → +15
- Note: MOAB Assassin unchanged
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| 5-0-2 Bloon Crush + Frag Bombs
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- Frags: now deals +12 bonus ceramic damage (bug fix)
- Note: originally intended to be implemented in v31.0
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Cluster Bombs has far superior pierce over top path which is the actual pierce path while also providing better overall cleanup power, so for now we’d like to reign those in a little closer.
— Update notes
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Upon closer inspection, Recursive Cluster has been hitting pierce in the 100’s, far more than was really intended for it so we are pulling back on this but adding in some fortified bonus to cancel out this large weakness the upgrade has.
— Update notes
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| X-X-4 Recursive Cluster
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- Now deals +1 damage to Fortified
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X-X-4 Recursive Cluster
X-X-5 Bomb Blitz
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- Second cluster pierce multiplier ― x6 → x3
- Note: Pierce reduced for all crosspaths. 004: 48 → 24, 104: 84 → 42, 204: 144 → 72
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| X-X-5 Bomb Blitz
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- Now deals +5 damage to Fortified
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MOAB Assassin fills a useful role of a pure long cooldown ‘single target assassination’ in the game, but when compared to something like First Strike it feels a little lacking that it is unable to carry damage through MOAB Layers
— Update notes
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X-4-X MOAB Assassin
X-5-X MOAB Eliminator
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- MOAB Assassin and MOAB Eliminator abilities now penetrates through MOAB layers
 MOAB Assassin ability explosion centers around the impact target
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We wanted to add something unique to Bloon Impact while also improving Really Big Bombs very slightly as a stepping stone into it, so now both of these upgrades will become capable of pushing back Bloons that they hit – even if they are stunned or frozen! This allows Bloon Impact to now catch groups of Bloons in a stun net and slowly push them back the way they came while keeping them stunned. Recursive Cluster is also having the pierce of the recursions increased a little again; while we felt it needed a nerf earlier, the amount cut from it last time was too high.
— Update notes
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- Bomb Shooters with Heavy Bombs can no longer knockback Black/Zebra Bloons unless they can damage them (bug fix)
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Slight price reduction to Really Big Bombs, it is meant to be a stepping stone upgrade into Bloon Impact but neither of these upgrades are standout right now. A while ago Frag Bombs was reworked to give Bomb normal type damage however we were not happy with the results of that change in the end, we didn’t want to go back and remove that again without giving back something nice in return so it has taken a while but now we have decided to go ahead with changing that back along with swapping out Recursive fortified damage for raw damage which we hope also improves crosspathing as the damage crosspath isn’t such a large increase over the base damage anymore.
— Update notes
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| 3-X-X Really Big Bombs
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- Upgrade cost reduced ― $1,200 → $1,100
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| X-X-2 Frag Bombs and further upgrades
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- Explosion: Damage type changed ― Normal → Explosion
- Note: Bloon Crush and MOAB Eliminator are unchanged
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| X-X-4 Recursive Cluster
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- Explosion: No longer deals +1 damage to Fortified
- Explosion: Damage increased ― 1 → 2
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| X-X-5 Bomb Blitz
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- Explosion: Damage increased ― 5 → 6
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Just a little cost coming off the Bloon Impact upgrade, with some cost also moving up from Assassin to Eliminator to move this usage.
— Update notes
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In efforts to bring more player control the MOAB Assassin ability will now follow tower target priority to determine its targets, although note it will still never target non-moabs.
— Update notes
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X-4-X MOAB Assassin
X-5-X MOAB Eliminator
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- Ability follows target priority instead of Strong
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| X-X-5 Bomb Blitz
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- Upgrade cost reduced ― $35,000 → $28,000
- Attack cooldown reduced ― 1.5s → 1s
- Damage reduced ― 6 → 3
- No longer deals +5 damage to Fortified
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Bloon Crush does its job locking down all movement in an area, but we feel it could see more damage to reduce the stall time without the balance really changing much. Bomb Blitz was recently refitted to a cheaper price range while proportionally keeping a similar power level for the cost, however seeing it now in this spot we feel keeping higher damage will give it the edge it needs to feel more impactful than spamming Recursives.
— Update notes
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| 5-X-X Bloon Crush
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- Explosion: Damage increased ― 12 → 24
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| 5-0-2 Bloon Crush + Frag Bombs
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- Frags: Frag damage increased ― 12 → 24
- Frags: Frag bonus Ceramic damage reduced ― +12 → +0
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| X-X-5 Bomb Blitz
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- Damage increased ― 3 → 5
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Base bomb price is now also lowering to allow more starting combinations to utilize it, this reduced price is moving up only into MOAB Assassin. MOAB Eliminator has solidified itself quite a strong position so price is increasing here, however as it still appears lacking Bomb Blitz which still is swapping with that cheaper price point. For a crosspathing trial we’re removing the limits on Frags buffability & also giving more of a range boost to Extra Range.
— Update notes
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| 0-0-0 base tower
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- Cost reduced ― $525 → $375
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| 1-X-X Bigger Bombs
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- Upgrade cost reduced ― $350 → $250
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3-X-X Really Big Bombs
4-X-X Bloon Impact
5-X-X Bloon Crush
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- Explosion pierce increased ― 60 → 80
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| X-4-X MOAB Assassin
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- Upgrade cost increased ― $3,100 → $3,350
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| X-5-X MOAB Eliminator
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- Upgrade cost increased ― $25,500 → $28,000
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X-X-1 Extra Range and all crosspaths
X-X-2 Frag Bombs and all crosspaths
X-X-3 Cluster Bombs and further upgrades
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- Range bonus increased ― +7 → +12
- Note: xx2 total range bonus increased from +9 to +14
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| X-X-2 Frag Bombs and all crosspaths
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- Frag: damage is no longer capped
- Frag: pierce is no longer capped
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| X-X-5 Bomb Blitz
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- Upgrade cost reduced ― $28,000 → $25,500
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| 3-X-X Really Big Bombs
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- Description changed ― "Huge bombs deal greater damage in a large area and allow Frags to pop more Bloons." → "Huge bombs deal greater damage in a large area and knock Bloons back along the path."
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Compared among similarly priced hybrid AoE/supports, Really Big Bombs is a lacking stepping stone so we’re improving its damage and granting much more pushback. Even without the ability popping Black, Eliminator has been doing fine, so we are finishing off removing the Normal type on the main projectile.
— Update notes
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Bomb Shooter’s base pierce is plenty for the early game but low enough that 1xx crosspath feels too important later, we’re shifting pierce out of crosspath into the base upgrade to alleviate this. Players found the recent increased coverage of 024 recursive too much, but we like the functionality so we’ve tightened the spread for the base xx4 recursive to make 024 about the same as it was before but 004 even tighter. Bomb Blitz has been upgraded to double attack rate from the previous tier.
— Update notes
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0-0-0 base tower
0-1-X Faster Reload and further upgrades
0-X-1 Extra Range
0-X-2 Frag Bombs
0-X-3 Cluster Bombs
0-X-4 Recursive Cluster
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- Main explosion: pierce increased ― 14 → 22
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| 1-X-X Bigger Bombs and all crosspaths
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- Main explosion: pierce increased ― 20 → 28
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| 2-X-X Heavy Bombs and all crosspaths
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- Main explosion: pierce increased ― 30 → 38
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X-4-X MOAB Assassin
X-5-X MOAB Eliminator
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- Assassinate MOAB ability: Explosion damage type changed ― Normal → Explosion (bug fix)
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X-X-4 Recursive Cluster
X-X-5 Bomb Blitz
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- Recursive explosion: Minimum distance for the spread of the cluster projectile reduced ― 30 → 20
- Recursive explosion: Maximum distance for the spread of the cluster projectile reduced ― 36 → 30
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| X-X-5 Bomb Blitz
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- Main Attack: Cooldown reduced ― 1s → 0.75s
- Note: Cooldown of 0-1-5 and 0-2-5 reduced in the same proportion: 0.5625s and 0.4125s respectively.
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Nudging Bloon Impact price down, pushing it more in line with other early support options & as this is a support path. Frag damage is being greatly improved all the way up as there’s little reason to trade stun uptime for improved damage. Moving some cost up into MOAB Assassin so Maulers have more leeway early game & en masse. Cutting down roughly 10% on all bottom path upgrade costs as especially on Bomb Blitz even after recent buffs there are many downsides that need to be covered to use this path effectively.
— Update notes
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| 2-0-2 Heavy Bombs + Frag Bombs
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- Frags: Damage increased ― 1 → 2
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3-0-2 Really Big Bombs + Frag Bombs
4-0-2 Bloon Impact + Frag Bombs
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- Frags: Damage increased ― 3 → 6
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| 4-X-X Bloon Impact
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- Upgrade cost reduced ― $3,200 → $2,800
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| 5-0-2 Bloon Crush + Frag Bombs
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- Frags: Damage increased ― 24 → 36
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| X-3-X MOAB Mauler
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- Upgrade cost reduced ― $1,100 → $1,000
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| X-4-X MOAB Assassin
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- Upgrade cost increased ― $3,350 → $3,450
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| X-X-3 Cluster Bombs
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- Upgrade cost reduced ― $800 → $700
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| X-X-4 Recursive Cluster
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- Upgrade cost reduced ― $2,800 → $2,500
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| X-X-5 Bomb Blitz
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- Upgrade cost reduced ― $25,500 → $23,000
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While we’ve had fun with Bomb Blitz recently, it has been pushed too far, and especially as more use has started coming out for its passive ability
— Update notes
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| X-X-5 Bomb Blitz
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- Attack cooldown increased ― 0.75s → 0.9s
- 0-1-5 attack cooldown increased ― 0.5625s → 0.675s
- 0-2-5 attack cooldown increased ― 0.4125s → 0.495s
- Bomb Storm ability: Cooldown increased ― 40s → 60s
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| X-X-5 Bomb Blitz
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- Bomb Storm: Passive no longer activates by tapping the Activate Selected Tower Ability 1 hotkey (bug fix)
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Minor quality of life no one’s particularly fussed about outside of the multitude of requests
— Update notes
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| X-4-X MOAB Assassin and further upgrades
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- Can no longer target DDTs if not able to damage Black Bloons
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[...] Although, I guess we can mention early that Bomb Blitz itself has been balance changed so that it can now hit the leaking target that triggers it and can potentially prevent any life loss, [...]
— Update notes
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| X-X-5 Bomb Blitz
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- Ability: Passive activation can damage triggering Bloon and potentially prevent life loss if this damage is enough to completely destroy the target
- Ability: First hit can now soak through MOAB-Class layers (undocumented)
- Ability: First hit cannot affect MOABs or below (undocumented)
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| Paragon
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- Main attack and ISABM ability: Can now detect Camo Bloons (undocumented) (bug)
- Note: Blitz Tactical Storm always had innate camo detection
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Due to an error on our end the BOMB gained Camo Detection mid event, we apologize for the disruption caused to this event, it is not the intention and has now been corrected
— Update notes
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| Paragon
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- Main attack and ISABM ability: Cannot longer detect Camo Bloons (bug fix)
- Note: Blitz Tactical Storm still affects Camo Bloons
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Now that Bomb Blitz is much more reliable of a safety net we’re increasing its cooldown
— Update notes
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| X-X-5 Bomb Blitz
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- Passive ability: Cooldown increased ― 60s → 75s
- Note: Initial cooldown increased from 20s to 25s
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Previously increasing the Bomb Blitz cooldown once the passive became much more powerful felt like a mistake, instead we want to bring that back and push the price up to something more fitting again instead.
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Similar to previous changes for abilities on paragons, as Bomb Paragon’s main attack is quite slow we have decided to tilt its power more directly to MOABs than just bosses. So its damage & MOAB Damage bonuses are being scaled up so that outside of the ability it should hit for much chunkier explosions whenever it attacks.
— Update notes
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| X-X-5 Bomb Blitz
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- Upgrade cost increased ― $23,000 → $30,000
- Ability: Cooldown reduced ― 75s → 60s
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| Paragon
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- Main explosion: Damage increased ― 210 → 250
- Main explosion: Bonus damage to MOAB-Class Bloons increased ― +2,100 → +2,500
- Main explosion: Now deals +2,500 damage to Bosses
- Cluster explosion: Bonus damage to MOAB-Class Bloons increased ― +300 → +1,000
- Cluster explosion: Bonus damage to Bosses increased ― +900 → +1,000
- Secondary cluster explosion: Bonus damage to MOAB-Class Bloons increased ― +150 → +500
- Secondary cluster explosion: Bonus damage to Bosses increased ― +450 → +500
- ISABM: Cooldown reduction when lives are lost increased ― 5s → 10s
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MOAB Assassin has traded the small ceramic bonus for MOAB-Mauling frag synergy, and to make things more frag-tastic the ability now also synergizes with frags for added flair.
— Update notes
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| 0-3-2 MOAB Mauler + Frag Bombs
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- Frag: Now deals +4 damage to MOAB-Class Bloons
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X-4-X MOAB Assassin
X-5-X MOAB Eliminator
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- Main attack: No longer deals +4 bonus damage to Ceramic Bloons
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| 0-4-2 MOAB Assassin + Frag Bombs
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- Frag: Now deals +9 damage to MOAB-Class Bloons
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0-4-2 MOAB Assassin + Frag Bombs
0-5-2 MOAB Eliminator + Frag Bombs
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- Ability: Explosion now creates 16 Frags
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| X-5-X MOAB Eliminator
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- Upgrade cost reduced ― $28,000 → $26,000
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| 0-5-2 MOAB Eliminator + Frag Bombs
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- Frag: Now deals +29 damage to MOAB-Class Bloons
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| X-X-5 Bomb Blitz
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| Deals much more damage and gains the passive Bomb Storm Ability - when lives are lost, the Bomb Storm automatically triggers, which destroys all but the biggest of Bloons.
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Deals much more damage and gains the passive Bomb Storm Ability - when lives would be lost, the Bomb Storm automatically triggers, which destroys all but the biggest of Bloons.
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| Paragon
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- Main attack range can now be used by Advanced Intel Monkey Subs (undocumented) (bug fix)
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Bomb Paragon is in a spot it seems to perform well, but it still doesn’t see a good spotlight in boss events so we’ve scaled up the Boss Bonuses with a bump in price.
— Update notes
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| Paragon
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- Paragon cost increased ― $600,000 → $650,000
- Main attack explosion: Bonus damage to bosses increased ― +2,500 → +3,500
- Cluster explosion: Bonus damage to bosses increased ― +1,000 → +1,250
- Secondary cluster explosion: Bonus damage to bosses increased ― +500 → +600
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