Update history:Druid (BTD6)

This is a list of changes to the Druid in Bloons TD 6 post-release.

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Version 2.0

Tiers	Changes
X-4-X Jungle's Bounty X-5-X Spirit of the Forest	Ability: Base cash generated increased ― $100 → $200  Ability: Cash per Banana Farm increased ― $100 → $150  Ability: Range increased ― 35 units → 75 units

Version 7.0

Tiers	Changes
X-5-X Spirit of the Forest	Main attack: Base damage increased ― 1 → 2  Vine zone: Now deals +4 damage to Ceramics  Vine zone: Now deals +4 damage to MOAB-Class  Vine attack: "targets Bloons about 20% faster"

Version 8.0

Tiers	Changes
X-4-X Jungle's Bounty X-5-X Spirit of the Forest	Ability: Now starts with its full cooldown

Version 9.0

Tiers	Changes
X-X-2 Heart of Vengeance (and further upgrades)	Vengeance buff: Now always applies a minimum of 10% extra attack speed  Maximum attack speed buff remains +100%, but it only requires losing 90 lives instead of 100

Version 10.0

Tiers	Changes
5-X-X Superstorm	Tornado: damage increased ― 5 → 12  Ball Lightning lightning: damage increased ― 2 → 5  Heart of Thunder lightning: damage increased ― 1 → 3

Version 11.0

Tiers	Changes
X-X-2 Heart of Vengeance	"Heart of Vengeance save issues have been resolved"

Version 12.0

“

This is to better synergize with the bottom path by not automatically reducing the bonus from Heart Of Vengeance every round.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-5-X Spirit of the Forest	No longer generates 25 lives at the end of each round  Ability: Now generates 25 lives on activation

Version 15.0

Tiers	Changes
X-5-X Spirit of the Forest	Description changed ― "Grows thorned vines along the path, dealing constant damage, regenerating lives and providing money every round." → "Grows thorned vines along the path that deal constant damage, plus regenerates lives and provides money when ability is activated."

Version 16.0

Tiers	Changes
X-4-X Jungle's Bounty X-5-X Spirit of the Forest	Range increased ― 35 → 55  Ability: Range decreased ― 75 → 55  Ability: Cash per Banana Farm reduced ― $150 → $100
X-5-X Spirit of the Forest	Vine zone: Damage to Ceramics increased ― +4 → +8

Version 17.0

Tiers	Changes
X-X-2 Heart of Vengeance	Description changed Before Gains attack speed for up to 100 lives lost after getting this upgrade. Lives above maximum do not count. After Gains 10% attack speed and 1% for every life lost from the starting value after the upgrade. Maxes at 100% and diminishes if lives are restored.

Version 18.0

Tiers	Changes
2-2-0 Heart of Thunder + Heart of Oak (and further upgrades)	Heart of Oak now allows the lightning attack to remove Regrow (undocumented)
3-2-0 Druid of the Storm + Heart of Oak (and further upgrades)	Heart of Oak now allows the tornado attack to remove Regrow (undocumented)
4-2-0 Ball Lightning + Heart of Oak (and further upgrades)	Heart of Oak now allows the lightning spawned by the ball lightning attack to remove Regrow (undocumented)

Version 21.0

“

We’ve wanted to work on this upgrade for a while but first had to deal with an issue causing it to perform far differently to intended. Unfortunately while we expected improvement from this fix, it ended up being an overall nerf. We have cut the price by a large amount to counter this and will revisit the upgrade again after this settles.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-5-X Spirit of the Forest	Upgrade cost reduced ― $50,000 → $35,000

Version 22.0

“

Superstorm has been adjusted with a new feature to grant it a method of dealing continuous damage to the targets that it blows backwards. We know many of you will feel this needs much more work but please be patient as we will come back to it.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
5-X-X Superstorm	Superstorm attack: Now spawns lightning balls in a 180° arc in front of it every second until the storm expires
X-2-X Heart of Oak (and further upgrades)	No longer removes Regrow properties from immune Bloons (bug fix)

Version 23.0

“

The most recent buff to Superstorm was great fun, but when spending pierce so quickly we wouldn’t see many extra Ball Lightnings. Since many find Superstorm lacking in pierce overall, the ‘extra’ pierce consumptions for hitting larger targets have been reduced to make it more effective and more lightningey.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
4-X-X Ball Lightning	Upgrade cost reduced ― $6,000 → $5,500
5-X-X Superstorm	Superstorm: pierce penalty to MOABs reduced ― +19 → +4  Superstorm: pierce penalty to BFBs reduced ― +49 → +19  Superstorm: pierce penalty to ZOMGs reduced ― +199 → +49  Superstorm: pierce penalty to DDTs reduced ― +49 → +9

Version 24.0

Tiers	Changes
X-5-X Spirit of the Forest	Spirit of the Forest vine visuals should correctly layer over split tracks now (bug fix)

Version 25.0

“

Druid’s top path Storm & Ball Lightning upgrades needed a value boost versus other options versus other paths of other tower choices, so these have been given a small price buff for now.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
3-X-X Druid of the Storm	Upgrade cost reduced ― $2,000 → $1,850
4-X-X Ball Lightning	Upgrade cost reduced ― $5,500 → $5,100  Overall cost reduced by $550 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)

Version 26.0

Tiers	Changes
3-X-X Druid of the Storm (and further upgrades)	Tornado attack: Blowback should correctly remove ongoing glue damage effects from Bloons when the slow is removed (bug fix)

Version 27.0

“

To allow for more strategy in placement, Druid’s Spirit of the Forest track vines are now more dense & deadly the closer they are to the main tower. Also by popular demand Avatar of Wrath’s 205 crosspath will now benefit from improved Lightning damage proportional to the RBE of Bloons on screen similar to the main thorns.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-5-X Spirit of the Forest	Bloons outside 100 Range take 2 damage and +8 bonus damage to Ceramics and MOAB-class  Bloons within 100 Range take an additional 1 damage and +4 bonus damage to Ceramics and MOAB-class  Bloons within 50 Range take an additional 1 damage and +4 bonus damage Ceramics and MOAB-class
2-0-5 Avatar of Wrath + Heart of Thunder	Now grants a slight portion of its RBE damage bonus to the Heart of Thunder lightning chains as well equal to 1 damage for every 6000 RBE on screen with a cap of +15 damage

Version 28.0

“

As an underused crosspath on this tower, Druid’s Hard Thorns will now allow them to counter all of its weaknesses instead of just frozen targets. Druid of the Storm has been reworked to more consistently blow targets back due to being stationary and slower firing compared to other upgrades that do a similar task. Jungle Druids have been reworked to have more offensive power at both T3 and the T4 while not being quite so good at farming
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
1-X-X Hard Thorns (and further upgrades)	Main attack: Damage type changed ― Shatter → Normal
3-X-X Druid of the Storm (and further upgrades)	Tornado attack: Blowback distance changed ― 33–300 → 100–200  Tornado attack: Projectile radius increased ― 13 → 16
5-X-X Superstorm	Upgrade cost reduced ― $90,000 → $80,000
X-3-X Druid of the Jungle (and further upgrades)	Vine attack: Now leaves a thorn pile on the track after popping the target
X-4-X Jungle's Bounty X-5-X Spirit of the Forest	Vine attack: Can now grab 2 bloons at once  Ability: Cooldown increased ― 40s → 60s  Ability: Base cash amount increased ― $200 → $240  Ability: Cash bonus per farm increased ― $100 → $120  Ability: Now stops recharging during a round if 3 minutes elapse after the start
X-5-X Spirit of the Forest	First child of Bloons popped by Spirit of the Forest should take damage again (bug fix) Reworked some functionality around chinooking a Spirit of the Forest

Version 29.0

“

While having fun with the new Druid of the Vine changes, we want this new power to scale further with the T5. We are also starting to look at moving some cash farming potential with Jungle’s Bounty to favour Obyn as the ‘Druid Hero’ more than Benjamin who is meant to focus more on Banks - more on that further down in the Obyn section.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
5-X-X Superstorm	Superstorm no longer behaves differently in sandbox and real games (bug fix)
X-4-X Jungle's Bounty X-5-X Spirit of the Forest	Range reduced ― 55 → 45  Also affects range with Druidic Reach ― 65 → 55
X-5-X Spirit of the Forest	Thorn pile: Damage increased ― 1 → 5

Version 30.0

“

Druid base price has been reduced slightly to fit it in a little better as a starter choice. Top path has had a number of buffs to help with both price and consistency in control over regular bloons through higher tiers. Superstorm has had a rather big price buff, however to prevent it locking up games in a boring stall state the blowback distance against ZOMGs has been halved.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
0-0-0 base tower	Cost reduced ― $425 → $400
3-X-X Druid of the Storm	Upgrade cost reduced ― $1,850 → $1,650  Overall cost reduced by $225 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
4-X-X Ball Lightning	Upgrade cost reduced ― $5,100 → $4,500  Overall cost reduced by $825 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
4-X-X Ball Lightning 5-X-X Superstorm	Tornado attack: Blowback distance increased ― 100–200 → 150–250  Tornado attack: Pierce increased ― 30 → 60  Lightning ball: Now has a 25% chance to freeze Bloons (same as the original effect of Cold Front)
5-X-X Superstorm	Upgrade cost reduced ― $80,000 → $65,000  Overall cost reduced by $15,825 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)  Superstorm: Blowback distance is now halved against ZOMGs
5-1-0 Superstorm + Thorn Swarm 5-2-0 Superstorm + Heart of Oak 5-0-1 Superstorm + Druidic Reach 5-0-2 Superstorm + Heart of Vengeance	Crosspathing Superstorm with any upgrade now prevents lightning balls from freezing Bloons (bug)

Version 31.0

Tiers	Changes
5-1-0 Superstorm + Thorn Swarm 5-2-0 Superstorm + Heart of Oak 5-0-1 Superstorm + Druidic Reach 5-0-2 Superstorm + Heart of Vengeance	Crosspathing Superstorm with any upgrade no longer prevents lightning balls from freezing Bloons (bug fix)

Version 31.2

Tiers	Changes
X-3-X Druid of the Jungle (and further upgrades)	Brambles: no longer has single-layer damage (undocumented)

Version 32.0

“

More needed crosspath reworking for the new 1xx Hard Thorns upgrade, as it now upgrades the druid from sharp to normal damage it doesn't make sense for the track brambles on 030 to not require this crosspath for lead popping. Spirit of the Forest's base attack has also had a simple damage increase as it contributes very little to the power of the tower by T5 and the tower lacks in single target.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
0-3-X Druid of the Jungle (and further upgrades)	Thorn pile: Damage type changed ― Normal → Sharp
1-3-0 Druid of the Jungle + Hard Thorns (and further upgrades)	Hard Thorns now changes the damage type of thorn piles to Normal  Thorn pile damage type is effectively the same with this crosspath as before this change
X-5-X Spirit of the Forest	Main attack: Damage increased ― 2 → 20

Version 33.0

“

Top path Heart of Thunder doesn’t scale well with tiers for an upgrade with such niche use & generally feels lacking, so it is seeing general power improvements across the board to upgrades that incorporate this attack. Druid of the Jungle’s vines feel too strong already for this, but for quality of life the T4 Jungle’s Bounty Druid will now gain targeting options for the global vine attack, which we hope will make all players as well as Druid fans happy.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
2-X-X Heart of Thunder 3-X-X Druid of the Storm (further upgrades unaffected)	Lightning attack: Damage increased ― 1 → 2
4-X-X Ball Lightning	Lightning attack: Damage increased ― 1 → 3  Lightning ball lightning: Damage increased ― 2 → 3
5-X-X Superstorm	Lightning attack: Damage increased ― 3 → 10  Lightning ball lightning ― Damage increased → 5 (10)
X-4-X Jungle's Bounty X-5-X Spirit of the Forest	Vine attack: Now follows the tower's targeting option instead of always targeting Strong
2-0-5 Avatar of Wrath + Heart of Thunder	Avatar of Wrath applies more RBE-based damage scaling to Heart of Thunder ― +1 per 6,000 RBE → +1 per 3,000 RBE

Version 34.0

“

Druid’s vine brambles are very bottom-heavy in power, with high performance leading into a comparably small T4 increase, so some of the pierce is being moved up into the T4.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-3-X Druid of the Jungle	Thorn pile: Pierce reduced ― 30 → 20
X-4-X Jungle's Bounty X-5-X Spirit of the Forest	Thorn pile ― Pierce increased → 30 (40)

Version 35.0

“

Many people seem to feel that moving to a big damage bonus on the basic main attack has lost this tower's identity in the vines. We are reworking this a little, with the main attack & Bramble piles having their damage contributions tweaked to have value over multiple x4xs but not far exceeding them on the main attack anymore, and the main actual increase in DPS output is being shifted into the small center track vine damage zone in hopes of making placement more impactful.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-5-X Spirit of the Forest	Main attack: Damage reduced ― 20 → 6  Leftover vine: Pierce refresh rate increased ― 0.3s → 0.1s  Leftover vine: Lifespan increased ― 4.5s → 9s  Vine Zone — 1st Stage: Damage bonus to Ceramic/MOAB-class increased ― +20 → +30

Version 36.0

“

Slightly shifting price down from T4 into T3 midpath, and increasing the base cash amount gained from the ability as it currently needs quite a lot of initial investment to really get going at all compared to other farming options
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-3-X Druid of the Jungle	Upgrade cost increased ― $950 → $1,050
X-4-X Jungle's Bounty	Upgrade cost reduced ― $5,000 → $4,900  Overall cost is unchanged (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
X-4-X Jungle's Bounty X-5-X Spirit of the Forest	Ability: Base cash generation increased ― $240 → $320

Version 37.0

“

While the tornado doesn't do anything to MOABs, it still spends itself on them which wastes a relatively long cooldown, so addressing this flaw. Avatar of wrath doubles the base attack speed before any scaling is applied, but this hasn’t ever applied to the 205 Lightning, so taking care of that as well. Housekeeping - even deep in the forest, it does actually make life better.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
3-X-X Druid of the Storm (and further upgrades)	Tornado attack: No longer targets MOAB-class Bloons
X-3-X Druid of the Jungle	Purchasing Druid of the Jungle now automatically switches the targeting of the tower to Strong
X-3-X Druid of the Jungle (and further upgrades)	Vine attack: Now follows the tower's targeting instead of always targeting Strong  Thorn pile: Damage type changed ― Normal → Sharp
1-3-0 Druid of the Jungle + Hard Thorns (and further upgrades)	Hard Thorns now allows thorn piles to damage Lead and frozen  Damage type with this crosspath is effectively the same as before
2-0-5 Avatar of Wrath + Heart of Thunder	Avatar of Wrath now doubles the attack speed of the lightning attack

Version 37.2

•  Now properly needs Hard Thorns crosspaths to grab lead/frozen bloons with vines (bug fix)

Version 38.0

•  Blowback no longer works on Bloons near the entrance (bug fix)

“

Druid of the Storm is too inconsistent due to placement causing projectiles to intersect the path and spend very little time actually touching Bloons, it is gaining some homing to keep the nados running along the track over the top of Bloons to more consistently utilize their high pierce value. We love how this is working and hope you do, too. Middle path T4 isn't a very good improvement over the T3 so is getting small improvements to both its offense and cash generation.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
3-X-X Druid of the Storm (and further upgrades)	Tornado attack: Now seeks Bloons  Tornado attack: Max distance increased ― 80 → 100
5-X-X Superstorm	Upgrade cost reduced ― $65,000 → $60,000
X-3-X Druid of the Jungle	Upgrading a crosspathed Druid to Druid of the jungle now also changes target priority to Strong (bug fix)  Vine attack: Can no longer grab frozen Bloons without popping them (bug fix)
X-4-X Jungle's Bounty X-5-X Spirit of the Forest	Ability: Cash bonus per farm in range increased ― +$120 → +$130
X-4-X Jungle's Bounty (further upgrades unaffected)	Thorn pile: Damage increased ― 1 → 2

Version 39.0

“

Experimenting more with druid ‘life play’ functionality, similar to Heart of vengeance, we’re adding new functionality to Heart of Oak along with improved means of building into this with the Jungle’s Bounty upgrade, however the base pierce of Jungle’s Bounty is being reduced slightly to account for a higher buff potential it now grants itself.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
4-X-X Ball Lightning 5-X-X Superstorm	Ball lightning main projectile: Freeze chance increased ― 25% → 100%
X-2-X Heart of Oak (and further upgrades)	Now applies a pierce buff to itself that scales based on the number of lives the player gained after upgrading to Heart of Oak
X-4-X Jungle's Bounty X-5-X Spirit of the Forest	Thorn pile: Pierce reduced ― 40 → 30
X-4-X Jungle's Bounty (further upgrades unaffected)	Now generates 1 life at the end of each round

Version 40.0

“

We enjoyed this change a lot, but it unfortunately seems that to a lot of players this added more frustration than intended. We will look for a better way of accomplishing what we wanted to do here, but until then it doesn't really feel worth keeping the automatic targeting swap when players who do want it could also just change targeting themselves before or after buying the upgrade, and those who don’t want it have no workaround.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-3-X Druid of the Jungle	Purchasing Druid of the Jungle no longer automatically switches the targeting of the tower to Strong

Version 41.0

“

Hard Thorns is useful and often taken for crosspath even if not going for 2xx as lightning is comparatively very expensive for what it offers so moving Thunder’s cost out into both the surrounding upgrades.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
1-X-X Hard Thorns	Upgrade cost increased ― $250 → $350
2-X-X Heart of Thunder	Upgrade cost reduced ― $1,000 → $850  Overall cost reduced by $50 (due to cost changes for previous tiers)
3-X-X Druid of the Storm	Upgrade cost increased ― $1,650 → $1,700  Overall cost is unchanged (due to cost changes for previous tiers)

Version 42.0

“

Same as the sniper, group triggering these spam abilities that require no timing other than ‘as soon as possible once off cooldown’ feels like a good quality of life change for those wishing to play alternate farming methods.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-4-X Jungle's Bounty X-5-X Spirit of the Forest	Ability: Now activates all available Jungle's Bounty abilities upon activating one

Version 43.0

“

Passive life generation is being removed in favor of the active ability being the only source of life generation, this allows druid-focus strategies to no longer ‘accidentally’ heal their Vengeance buffs away. Heart of Vengeance itself has been allowed to remain overpowered for a long time since life loss is not always an option in different challenges/modes, but with newer competitive modes being added over time that do allow for this mechanic to be, overindulged, shall we say, it feels due for substantial rebalance.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-4-X Jungle's Bounty (further upgrades unaffected)	Ability: Now generates 1 life on activation  No longer passively generates 1 life per round
X-5-X Spirit of the Forest	No longer passively generates lives each round Note: Ability still generates lives
X-X-2 Heart of Vengeance (and further upgrades)	Vengeance buff: Maximum attack speed buff reduced ― +100% → +50% Note: Now requires losing at least 40 lives to reach the maximum instead of 90

Version 44.0

“

Druid of the Storm’s base pierce is being reduced to put it more in line with other group Bloon stalling supports, however at T5 MOAB-Class pierce penalties are being reduced and damage increased to reduce how much it slows down the game when purchased. Druid of the Jungle’s vine attack rate has always been possible to be influenced by buffs though the time taken to destroy any larger Bloons is simply longer than the base cooldown so this hasn’t been relevant to it, we’ve now given it a normal attack cooldown to the point where the 031 crosspath should make some difference when grabbing larger Bloons.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
3-X-X Druid of the Storm	Tornado pierce reduced ― 30 → 24 Note: Does not carry over to higher tiers
4-X-X Ball Lightning	Ball lightning projectile can no longer freeze White Bloons by default (bug fix)
5-X-X Superstorm	Superstorm damage increased ― 12 → 120  Superstorm BFB pierce penalty reduced ― +19 → +14  Superstorm ZOMG pierce penalty reduced ― +49 → +44
X-3-X Druid of the Jungle (and further upgrades)	Vine minimum cooldown increased ― 0.25s → 2.6s
1-5-0 Spirit of the Forest + Hard Thorns 2-5-0 Spirit of the Forest + Heart of Thunder	Vine minimum cooldown increased ― 0.0625s → 0.65s (undocumented)

Version 44.1

Tiers	Changes
X-4-X Jungle's Bounty X-5-X Spirit of the Forest	Vine attack: Minimum cooldown reverted ― 2.6s → 0.25s

Version 45.0

Tiers	Changes
X-4-X Jungle's Bounty	Description changed ― "Calls in two vines to grab Bloons and thorn piles have extra pierce. Jungle's Bounty Ability: Generates cash and 1 life each use, plus extra cash per Banana Farm near the Druid." → "Vines create stronger thorn piles. Jungle's Bounty Ability: Generates cash and 1 life each use, plus extra cash per Banana Farm near the Druid."

“

Now that Tornadoes are one of the more popular Bloon Stall choices we looked more into its upgrade progression, tornado projectile speed is being reduced as a benefit to Ball Lightning to prevent tornado outpacing the lightning ball so quickly, and to more suit it as a Cold/Magic themed upgrade plus differentiate from similar supports the weaknesses are changing. More directly to Ball Lightning we feel it needs a considerably higher freeze duration for the freeze to matter as it casts slowly. Our initial rework to Vine attack rate in v44 caused some issues at T4, to get around these issues T4 now improves the power of vines directly instead.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
3-X-X Druid of the Storm (and further upgrades)	Tornado: projectile speed reduced ― 90 → 72  Tornado: damage type changed ― Normal → Frigid Note: Does not affect the mini-tornadoes of Tiny Tornadoes  Tornado: can blow back Lead Bloons  Tornado: cannot blow back White and Purple Bloons Note: Projectile will ignore White and Purple properties, which it cannot target anymore
4-X-X Ball Lightning 5-X-X Superstorm	Ball lightning: freeze duration increased ― 1.5s → 4.5s
5-X-X Superstorm	Superstorm: DDT pierce penalty reduced ― +9 → +7
X-3-X Druid of the Jungle (and further upgrades)	Vine brambles: rate that pierce refreshes at can now be buffed by attack speed buffs
X-4-X Jungle's Bounty	Vine attack: minimum attack cooldown increased ― 0.25s → 2.6s  Vine brambles: hit refresh time reduced ― 0.3s → 0.2s  Vine brambles: pierce refresh time reduced ― 0.3s → 0.2s
X-4-X Jungle's Bounty X-5-X Spirit of the Forest	Vine attack: count reduced ― 2 → 1  Vine brambles: lifespan increased ― 4.5s → 9s
X-5-X Spirit of the Forest	Vine attack: minimum attack cooldown increased ― 0.25s → 2.6s Note: Cooldown of 1-5-0 and 2-5-0 crosspath is also changed to 0.65s.

Version 46.0

“

As it’s really good, and it’ll still be really good.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
3-X-X Druid of the Storm	Tornado: Ceramics now consume +1 pierce Note: Does not apply to higher tiers
0-3-2 Druid of the Jungle + Heart of Vengeance (and further upgrades)	Heart of Vengeance now properly applies to the vine attack (bug fix)

Version 47.0

“

Not a huge change on its own, but reduced price should add up and shave off some spending for full Poplust setups.
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-X-4 Poplust	Upgrade cost reduced ― $2,500 → $2,350

Version 48.0

“

Druid’s Jungle Vine crush time formula has been modified, time taken to crush will now scale up slower but increase more when crushing Lead or Ceramic targets. Spirit of the Forest’s baseline cash generation has been improved to give a later game goal to aim for with Druid farming strategies. Druid projectile lifespans are being shifted from many base weapons into the xx1 range crosspath, this is a nerf to top path lifespan when not taking the crosspath and a buff to 031 druids
— Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
All tiers up to: 5-X-X Superstorm X-5-X Spirit of the Forest	Main attack: Max projectile distance reduced ― 136 units → 102 units
3-X-0 Druid of the Storm (and further upgrades)	Tornado attack: Projectile distance reduced ― 100 units → 75 units
4-X-0 Ball Lightning 5-X-0 Superstorm	Ball lightning attack: Projectile distance reduced ― 120 units → 90 units
5-X-0 Superstorm	Tornado attack: Projectile distance reduced ― 200 units → 150 units
X-3-X Druid of the Jungle (and further upgrades)	Vine attack: Base crushing rate is twice as fast Red: 0.5s → 0.25s Blue: 0.60355339s → 0.30277669s Green: 0.68301270s → 0.34150635s Yellow: 0.75s → 0.375s Pink: 0.80901699s → 0.40450850s White/Black/Purple: 1.07915620s → 0.53957810s Zebra: 1.44895788s → 0.72447894s Rainbow: 1.96391365s → 0.981956825s  Vine attack: Extra time required to crush Lead layers increased ― 0.5s → 0.625s  Vine attack: Ceramic layers now require an extra 1.25s to crush  Stacks with the doubled base crushing rate; Super Ceramics take longer to crush overall, while other heavy targets take less Lead: 1.94895788s → 1.34947894s Fortified Lead: 2.02475488s → 1.38737744s Ceramic: 2.79950976s → 2.64975488s Fortified Ceramic: 2.91926956s → 2.70963478s Super Ceramic: 2.26556444s → 2.38278222s Fortified Super Ceramic: 2.41506351s → 2.45753175s
X-5-X Spirit of the Forest	Ability: Base cash generation increased ― $320 → $1,280 Should now correctly deal damage to children of targets broken by track vine damage zone (bug fix)
X-X-1 Druidic Reach	Druidic Reach now increases the max distance of the main attack by 33%  Stacks with nerfs to the base projectile's max distance; overall max distance remains 136 units

Tiers	Changes
3-0-1 Druid of the Storm + Druidic Reach (and further upgrades)	Druidic Reach now increases the max distance of the tornado attack by 33%  Stacks with nerfs to the base tornado's max distance; overall max distance is unchanged
4-0-1 Ball Lightning + Druidic Reach (and further upgrades)	Druidic Reach now increases the lifespan of the ball lightning attack by 33%  Stacks with nerfs to the base ball lightning's max distance; overall max distance is unchanged
0-3-1 Druid of the Jungle + Druidic Reach (and further upgrades)	Druidic Reach now increases the lifespan of the thorn pile by 33%

Version 50.0

“

Superstorm gets a fresh coat of paint, including a new name! The Superstorm Tornadoes last far longer and rebound off of map borders, all while still spewing out additional Ball Lightning projectiles the entire time to fill the screen!
— Update notes

”

Tiers

Changes

5-X-X Monarch of Storms

Superstorm attack: Projectile now bounces off map borders  Superstorm attack: Projectile now hits BADs to deal damage only Note: Still can't hit Boss Bloons  Superstorm attack: Projectile lifespan increased ― 4.2857s → 12.8571s Note: Projectile distance increased from 150 to 450. 5-0-1 projectile distance increased from 200 to 600.  Lightning attack: Damage increased ― 10 → 30 Name and description changed Before Superstorm After Monarch of Storms Before Superstorm blasts all Bloon types for massive damage and blows them away from the exit. After Calls forth a relentless barrage of superstorms. Blasts all Bloon types for massive damage and blows them away from the exit.

Version 53.0

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Druid Jungle’s Bounty ability is no more, druid cash generation is now purely a passive end of round bonus. We are looking at possible changes for other abilitized cash generation and would like to hear more thoughts on this. To be clear; we are not simply looking to swap every cash generating ability to a passive, but there should be some choice in when you time an ability activation and we do not agree there was any reason to not spam these on cooldown which makes this a tedious clicking quota. Druid’s cash generation already has interesting interaction so for this case it felt more interesting to focus on that interaction instead, and the new ability gives careful timed activation that can assist in holding off on spending money on DPS towers for longer to effectively earn more cash which is more engaging of a choice to make. More detail in balance changes section later
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We want different farming methods to have different interesting ways of engaging with them, but when an ability should always be used on cooldown that’s when it really shouldn’t be an ability, while there is strategy in stall tactics there isn’t for that ability timing most don’t have fun engaging with this when they are group spam abilities. Due to this we’ve reworked the druid ability so that the farm interaction is the important mechanic to engage with here instead, and the ability is a targeting method of providing cleanup that does have strategic timing which can be used to focus more on farming with careful ability usage instead of building other defensive towers.
— Update notes

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Tiers	Changes
X-4-X Jungle's Bounty	Ability: Jungle's Bounty is replaced by Vine Crush  The cash and lives effect is reworked to be triggered at end-of round  Base amount of cash reduced ― $320 → $120  Cash per farm in range reduced ― $130 → Depends on the Farm tier: Note: In certain situations the extra Farms will not produce extra income or produce more than intended Base: +$10 Tier 1: +$20 Tier 2: +$40 Tier 3: +$60 Tier 4: +$120 Tier 5: +$120  Cash is now capped to $10,000 (no cap before) If moved with a Support Chinook to a position where it has a Farm in range while also also being in the range of a Level 5+ Obyn, when the ability activates, it won't produce any cash and instead report an extremely negative amount of cash in the advanced info panel (bug) Now shows an icon indicating the amount of farms on range Description changed Before Vines create stronger thorn piles. Jungle's Bounty Ability: Generates cash and 1 life each use, plus extra cash per Banana Farm near the Druid. After Vines create stronger thorn piles. Druid generates cash and lives at the end of each round, plus extra cash per Banana Farm near the Druid. Vine Crush Ability: Vines grab many Bloons at once, following Druid's target priority.
X-5-X Spirit of the Forest	Ability: Jungle's Bounty is replaced by Vine Crush  The cash and lives effect is reworked to be triggered at end-of round  Base amount of cash reduced ― $1280 → $120  Cash per farm in range reduced ― $130 → Depends on the Farm tier: Note: In certain situations the extra Farms will not produce extra income or produce more than intended Base: +$10 Tier 1: +$20 Tier 2: +$40 Tier 3: +$60 Tier 4: +$120 Tier 5: +$120  Cash is now capped to $10,000 (no cap before) Now shows an icon indicating the amount of farms on range Note: End of round income unchanged ($1,000) If moved with a Support Chinook to a position where it has a Farm in range while also also being in the range of a Level 5+ Obyn, when the ability activates, it won't produce any cash and instead report an extremely negative amount of cash in the advanced info panel (bug) Description changed Before Grows thorned vines along the path that deal constant damage and bonus damage to ceramics. Vines nearest the Spirit of the Forest do more damage. Activated ability generates more lives and cash. After Grows thorned vines along the path that deal constant damage and bonus damage to ceramics. Vines nearest the Spirit of the Forest do more damage. Activated ability grabs more Bloons.

Version 53.1

Tiers	Changes
X-4-X Jungle's Bounty X-5-X Spirit of the Forest	Jungle's Bounty: Resolved a series of issues where it didn't award extra cash for Farms in range or produce an extremely negative amount of cash under certain circumstances (bug fix)

Version 54.0

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Storm Druid’s pierce is being increased past a key breakpoint that allows the tornado to sweep up every Ceramic from a BFB. Also expanding on the support capabilities of this path, we’ve given Ball Lightning’s freeze more than 0 radius so it can hit things, and have pulled Monarch’s Camo detection down to Tier 4 to allow early Camo assistance outside of Obyn strategies. Monarch’s superstorm now features re-hit capability so it can tear through strong targets faster, in particular round 100. Spirit of the Forest’s upgrade for Vine Crush wasn't particularly impactful, so instead we’re changing this to drop track brambles like true vine grabs.
— Update notes

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Tiers	Changes
3-X-X Druid of the Storm	Tornado: Pierce increased ― 24 → 35
4-X-X Ball Lightning	All attacks now have Camo detection Description changed Before Creates powerful balls of lightning that can freeze Bloons. Additional lightning bolts arc off main attack to nearby Bloons. After Able to perceive Camo Bloons. Creates powerful balls of lightning that can freeze Bloons. Additional lightning bolts arc off main attack to nearby Bloons.
4-X-X Ball Lightning 5-X-X Monarch of Storms	Ball Lightning main projectile: Projectile radius increased ― 0 units → 8 units  Ball Lightning main projectile: Damage type changed ― Cold → Frigid
5-X-X Monarch of Storms	Superstorm: Damage increased ― 120 → 150  Superstorm: Can now re-hit Bloons after 1s  Ball Lightnings from Superstorm: Spawning interval reduced ― 1s → 3s
X-4-X Jungle's Bounty X-5-X Spirit of the Forest	Ability: No longer has a full cooldown when upgraded (bug fix) Note: Initial cooldown set to 2/3 like most towers: ― 30s → 10s
X-5-X Spirit of the Forest	Ability: Pierce reduced ― 60 → 20  Ability: Now leaves thorn piles on the track like its main attack

Version 54.1

Tiers	Changes
4-X-X Ball Lightning 5-X-X Monarch of Storms	Ball Lightning: Projectile now ignore Bloons if its damage type cannot damage them

Version 54.2

Tiers	Changes
4-X-X Ball Lightning	Ball Lightning main projectile: No longer prevents MOAB-Class Bloons from being frozen after touching them (bug fix)

Version 55.0

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The Monarch’s Superstorm re-hitting has felt like a success though it over-buffed single target performance while over-nerfing the blowback due to rapid pierce consumption, so we are scaling back the damage but reducing pierce penalties to balance this out. Additionally, to reduce game lag from attack speed double-dipping, the Druid Paragon's Vinenado cooldown has been increased, while its economy has been buffed with higher base income and a stronger Boss Skull multiplier - though we don’t want to quickly jump into making this easily self-sustaining the Boss Skulls in particular should now grant 5x the cash they did previously.
— Update notes

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Tiers	Changes
All tiers	Main attack: Projectile spread can now be affected by accuracy buffs
5-X-X Monarch of Storms	Superstorm: Damage reduced ― 150 → 100  Superstorm: Pierce penalty for MOABs reduced ― +4 → +2  Superstorm: Pierce penalty for BFBs reduced ― +14 → +8  Superstorm: Pierce penalty for ZOMGs reduced ― +44 → +32  Superstorm: Pierce penalty for DDTs reduced ― +7 → +6
5-5-5 Root of all Nature	Storm Trees: Vineado attack cooldown increased ― 6s → 18s  Jungle's Bounty: Amount of cash increased:  Base production ― $120 → $240  Base Farms and Storm Trees ― $10 → $20  Tier 1 Farms ― $20 → $40  Tier 2 Farms ― $40 → $60  Tier 3 Farms ― $60 → $80  Tier 4 Farms ― $120 → $240  Tier 5 Farms ― $120 → $480  Jungle's Bounty: Now produces more cash a Boss skull triggered ― ×2 → ×2.5

Version 56.0

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Monarch of Storms now has a maximum blowback cap to ensure ZOMG blowback penalty calculates correctly, alongside faster blowback speed to reduce map stalling. Due to popular demand the Druid paragon now pauses regrow globally, and it receives a damage increase for its primary single-target thorn attack.
— Update notes

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Tiers	Changes
5-X-X Monarch of Storms	Superstorm: Blowback speed multiplier increased ― 1× → 2×  Superstorm: Max blowback distance decreased ― ∞ units → 400 units
5-5-5 Root of all Nature	Prevents Regrow Bloon regeneration globally  Main attack: Damage increased ― 55 → 70  Main attack: Damage bonus to Regrow Bloons increased ― +55 → +70  Main attack: Damage bonus to Bosses increased ― +110 → +130