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X-4-X Jungle's Bounty
X-5-X Spirit of the Forest
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 Ability: Base cash generated increased ― $100 → $200- Ability: Cash per Banana Farm increased ― $100 → $150
- Ability: Range increased ― 35 units → 75 units
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| X-5-X Spirit of the Forest
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- Thorns: base damage increased by 1
- Track vines: now deal +4 damage to Ceramics
- Track vines: now deal +4 damage to MOAB-Class
- Vine attack: "targets Bloons about 20% faster"
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| X-X-2 Heart of Vengeance
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- Heart of Vengeance 10% of the maximum possible 100% attack rate boost from lives lost is now permanently applied upon upgrading. This 10% bonus will always apply to any druid with this upgrade, even in Impoppable & CHIMPS modes.
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| 5-X-X Superstorm
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- Tornado: damage increased ― 5 → 12
- Ball Lightning lightning: damage increased ― 2 → 5
- Heart of Thunder lightning: damage increased ― 1 → 3
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| X-X-2 Heart of Vengeance
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- "Heart of Vengeance save issues have been resolved"
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This is to better synergize with the bottom path by not automatically reducing the bonus from Heart Of Vengeance every round.
— Update notes
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| X-5-X Spirit of the Forest
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 No longer generates 25 lives at the end of each round- Ability: now generates 25 lives when activated
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| X-5-X Spirit of the Forest
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 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."
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X-4-X Jungle's Bounty
X-5-X Spirit of the Forest
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- Base range increased ― 35 → 55
- Jungle's bounty ability: range decreased ― 75 → 55
- Jungle's bounty ability: cash gained per farm reduced ― $150 → $100
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| X-5-X Spirit of the Forest
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- Vines: ceramic damage bonus increased ― +4 → +8
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| X-X-2 Heart of Vengeance
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- Description changed
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| Gains attack speed for up to 100 lives lost after getting this upgrade. Lives above maximum do not count.
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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.
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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
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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
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| 5-X-X Superstorm
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- Superstorm’s Storm now spawns Ball Lightnings in a 180° arc in front of it every second until the storm expires
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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
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| 4-X-X Ball Lightning
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- Upgrade cost reduced ― $6,000 → $5,500
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| 5-X-X Superstorm
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- 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
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| X-5-X Spirit of the Forest
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- Spirit of the Forest vine visuals should correctly layer over split tracks now (bug fix)
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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
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| 3-X-X Druid of the Storm and further upgrades
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- Tornado: blowback should correctly remove ongoing glue damage effects from Bloons when the slow is removed (bug fix)
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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
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| X-5-X Spirit of the Forest
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- 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
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| 2-0-5 Avatar of Wrath + Heart of Thunder
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- 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
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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
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1-X-X Hard Thorns and all crosspaths
2-X-X Heart of Thunder and all crosspaths
3-X-X Druid of the Storm and further upgrades
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- Hard Thorns now allows Thorns to pop all Bloon Types
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| 3-X-X Druid of the Storm and further upgrades
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- Tornado: Minimum blowback distance increased ― 33 → 100
- Tornado: Maximum blowback distance reduced ― 300 → 200
- Tornado: Radius increased ― 13 → 16
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| 5-X-X Superstorm
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- Upgrade cost reduced ― $90,000 → $80,000
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| X-3-X Druid of the Jungle and further upgrades
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- Vine grab now drops spiky thorns to the track upon popping a target
- Damage: 1
- Pierce: 30
- Pierce Refresh: 0.3s
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X-4-X Jungle's Bounty
X-5-X Spirit of the Forest
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- Vine grab: 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 has a 3 minute timeout
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- 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
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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
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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
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| 0-0-0 base tower
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- Cost reduced ― $425 → $400
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| 3-X-X Druid of the Storm
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- Upgrade cost reduced ― $1,850 → $1,650
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| 4-X-X Ball Lightning
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- Upgrade cost reduced ― $5,100 → $4,500
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4-X-X Ball Lightning
5-X-X Superstorm
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- Storm: Blowback minimum increased ― 100 → 150
- Storm: Blowback maximum increased ― 200 → 250
- Storm: Pierce increased ― 30 → 60
- Ball Lightning now has Cold Front MK freeze chance by default ― 0% → 25%
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| 5-X-X Superstorm
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- Upgrade cost reduced ― $80,000 → $65,000
- Superstorm blows back ZOMGs for half the distance
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| 5-X-X Superstorm
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- Superstorm now benefits from Ball Lightning 25% freeze chance regardless of crosspath (bug fix)
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| X-3-X Druid of the Jungle and further upgrades
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- Brambles: no longer has single-layer damage (undocumented)
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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
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| 0-3-X Druid of the Jungle and further upgrades
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- Vine bramble piles damage type ― Normal → Sharp
- Note: 1-3-0 retains Normal type damage
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| X-5-X Spirit of the Forest
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- Base attack: Damage increased ― 2 → 20
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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
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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
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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
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| X-5-X Spirit of the Forest
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- Base thorn damage reduced ― 20 → 6
- Bramble vine refresh rate increased ― 0.3s → 0.1s
- Bramble vine lifespan increased ― 4.5s → 9s
- Closest track ring MOAB-class/Ceramic bonus increased ― +20 → +30
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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
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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
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| 3-X-X Druid of the Storm and further upgrades
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- Tornado: no longer targets MOAB-class Bloons
- Note: This is a buff as the tornado does not affect MOAB-class Bloons
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| X-3-X Druid of the Jungle
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 Jungle Vine defaults tower to strong priority when purchased
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| X-3-X Druid of the Jungle and further upgrades
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- Jungle Vine follows target prio of tower instead of always targeting strong
- Jungle Vine Brambles without Hard Thorns are now destroyed by Lead/Frozen bloons
- Note: Lead and Frozen Bloons are still targetable
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| 2-0-5 Avatar of Wrath + Heart of Thunder
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- Avatar of Wrath base Heart of Thunder attack rate increased ― 2.3s → 1.15s
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- Now properly needs Hard Thorns crosspaths to grab lead/frozen bloons with vines (bug fix)
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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
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| 3-X-X Druid of the Storm and further upgrades
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- Tornado: Now seeks Bloons
- Tornado: Maximum travel distance increased ― 80 → 100
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| 5-X-X Superstorm
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- Upgrade cost reduced ― $65,000 → $60,000
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| X-3-X Druid of the Jungle
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- Upgrading a crosspathed Druid to x3x changes target prio to strong (bug fix)
- Jungle vine: Can no longer grab frozen bloons without popping them (bug fix)
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| X-4-X Jungle's Bounty
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- Thorn pile: Damage increased ― 1 → 2
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X-4-X Jungle's Bounty
X-5-X Spirit of the Forest
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- Cash bonus per farm in range increased ― $120 → $130
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- Blowback no longer works on Bloons near the entrance (bug fix)
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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
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4-X-X Ball Lightning
5-X-X Superstorm
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- Lightning Ball: Freeze chance increased ― 25% → 100%
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X-2-X Heart of Oak and all crosspaths
X-3-X Druid of the Jungle and further upgrades
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- Now gains a new buff – gains 1% pierce for every life gained from the starting value after the upgrade. Maxes at 100% and diminishes if lives are lost. Includes crosspathed attacks, excluding lightning (which can't be pierce-buffed).
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| X-4-X Jungle's Bounty
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- Now generates 1 life at the end of each round
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X-4-X Jungle's Bounty
X-5-X Spirit of the Forest
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- Track bramble: Pierce reduced ― 40 → 30
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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
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| X-3-X Druid of the Jungle
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- Buying x-3-x no longer swaps to Strong target prio automatically
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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
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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
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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
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| X-4-X Jungle's Bounty
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- Jungle's Bounty now generates 1 life per ability activated
- Note: Spirit of the Forest ability unchanged (25)
- Jungle's Bounty no longer passively generates 1 life per round
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| X-5-X Spirit of the Forest
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- Spirit of the Forest no longer passively generates lives per round
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X-X-2 Heart of Vengeance and all crosspaths
X-X-3 Druid of Wrath and further upgrades
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- Heart of Vengeance: Lost lives maximum rate bonus reduced ― 100% → 50%
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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
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X-4-X Jungle's Bounty
X-5-X Spirit of the Forest
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- Base attack cooldown reduced ― 2.6s → 0.25s
- Note: x4x and x5x still depends on other vines to cool off before producing a new vine, which is unchanged
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| X-4-X Jungle's Bounty
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- 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."
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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
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| 3-X-X Druid of the Storm and further upgrades
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- Tornado: projectile speed reduced ― 90 → 72
- Tornado: damage type changed ― Normal → Frigid
- 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
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4-X-X Ball Lightning
5-X-X Superstorm
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- Ball lightning: freeze duration increased ― 1.5s → 4.5s
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| 5-X-X Superstorm
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- Superstorm: DDT pierce penalty reduced ― +9 → +7
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| X-3-X Druid of the Jungle and further upgrades
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- Vine brambles: rate that pierce refreshes at can now be buffed by attack speed buffs
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| X-4-X Jungle's Bounty
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- 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
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X-4-X Jungle's Bounty
X-5-X Spirit of the Forest
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- Vine attack: count reduced ― 2 → 1
- Vine brambles: lifespan increased ― 4.5s → 9s
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| X-5-X Spirit of the Forest
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- 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.
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As it’s really good, and it’ll still be really good.
— Update notes
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Not a huge change on its own, but reduced price should add up and shave off some spending for full Poplust setups.
— Update notes
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| X-X-4 Poplust
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- Upgrade cost reduced ― $2,500 → $2,350
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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
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0-0-0 base tower
1-X-0 Hard Thorns and further upgrades
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- Thorn: Projectile distance reduced ― 136 → 102
- Note: Does not affect X-X-1, implemented as a projectile lifespan decrease ― 0.4s → 0.3s
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| 3-X-0 Druid of the Storm and further upgrades
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- Tornado: Projectile distance reduced ― 100 → 75
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4-X-0 Ball Lightning
5-X-0 Superstorm
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- Ball Lightning: Projectile distance reduced ― 120 → 90
- Note: xx1 crosspath unchanged
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| 5-X-0 Superstorm
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- Superstorm: Projectile distance reduced ― 200 → 150
- Note: xx1 crosspath unchanged
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| X-3-X Druid of the Jungle and further upgrades
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- Grab vine: Calculation reworked to work faster against non-heavy (Ceramic, Lead) targets.
- Note: Does not affect pre-existing 1.4s flat cooldown. Nerf versus Super Ceramics.
- Base formula: →
- "Heavy" extra duration (seconds):
- Lead: 0.5 → 0.625
- Ceramic: 0 → 1.25
- Overall duration to digest bloons (seconds):
- Red: 0.5 → 0.25
- Blue: 0.60355339 → 0.30277669
- Green: 0.68301270 → 0.34150635
- Yellow: 0.75 → 0.375
- Pink: 0.80901699 → 0.40450850
- White/Black/Purple: 1.07915620 → 0.53957810
- Zebra: 1.44895788 → 0.72447894
- Lead: 1.94895788 → 1.34947894
- Fortified Lead: 2.02475488 → 1.38737744
- Rainbow: 1.96391365 → 0.981956825
- Ceramic: 2.79950976 → 2.64975488
- Fortified Ceramic: 2.91926956 → 2.70963478
- Super Ceramic: 2.26556444 → 2.38278222
- Fortified Super Ceramic: 2.41506351 → 2.45753175
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0-3-1 Druid of the Jungle + Druidic Reach
0-3-2 Druid of the Jungle + Heart of Vengeance
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- Vine brambles: lifespan increased ― 4.5s → 6s
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0-4-1 Jungle's Bounty + Druidic Reach
0-4-2 Jungle's Bounty + Heart of Vengeance
0-5-1 Spirit of the Forest + Druidic Reach
0-5-2 Spirit of the Forest + Heart of Vengeance
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- Vine brambles: lifespan increased ― 9s → 12s
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| X-5-X Spirit of the Forest
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- Jungle's Bounty ability: Base cash generation increased ― $320 → $1280
- Note: Scaling per Farm remains the same.
- Should now correctly deal damage to children of targets broken by track vine damage zone (bug fix)
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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
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| 5-X-X Monarch of Storms
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- Name changed ― Superstorm → Monarch of Storms
- Superstorm: Projectile now bounces off map borders
- Superstorm: Projectile now hits BADs to deal damage only
- Note: Still can't hit Boss Bloons
- Superstorm: 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.
- Heart of Thunder's lightning: Damage increased ― 10 → 30
- Description changed ― Superstorm blasts all Bloon types for massive damage and blows them away from the exit. → Calls forth a relentless barrage of superstorms. Blasts all Bloon types for massive damage and blows them away from the exit.
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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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| X-4-X Jungle's Bounty
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- 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 ― 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. → 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.
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- 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 ― 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. → 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.
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X-4-X Jungle's Bounty
X-5-X Spirit of the Forest
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- 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)
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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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| 3-X-X Druid of the Storm
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- Tornado: Pierce increased ― 24 → 35
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| 4-X-X Ball Lightning
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- All attacks: Now have Camo detection
- Description changed
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After
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| Creates powerful balls of lightning that can freeze Bloons. Additional lightning bolts arc off main attack to nearby Bloons.
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Able to perceive Camo Bloons. Creates powerful balls of lightning that can freeze Bloons. Additional lightning bolts arc off main attack to nearby Bloons.
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4-X-X Ball Lightning
5-X-X Monarch of Storms
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- Ball Lightning main projectile: Projectile radius increased ― 0 units → 8 units
- Ball Lightning main projectile: Damage type changed ― Cold → Frigid
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| 5-X-X Monarch of Storms
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- Superstorm: Damage increased ― 120 → 150
- Superstorm: Can now re-hit Bloons after 1s
- Ball Lightnings from Superstorm: Spawning interval reduced ― 1s → 3s
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X-4-X Jungle's Bounty
X-5-X Spirit of the Forest
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- Ability: No longer has a full cooldown when upgraded (bug fix)
- Note: Initial cooldown set to 2/3 like most towers: ― 30s → 10s
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| X-5-X Spirit of the Forest
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- Ability: Pierce reduced ― 60 → 20
- Ability: Now leaves thorn piles on the track like its main attack
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Changes
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| 4-X-X Ball Lightning
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- Ball Lightning main projectile: No longer prevents MOAB-Class Bloons from being frozen after touching them (bug fix)
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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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| All tiers
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- Main attack: Projectile spread can now be affected by accuracy buffs
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| 5-X-X Monarch of Storms
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- 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
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| Paragon
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- 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
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