Update history:Wizard Monkey (BTD6)

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

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Version 2.0

Tiers	Changes
3-X-X Arcane Mastery 4-X-X Arcane Spike	Pierce increased ― 2 → 6 Stacks with Intense Magic: 7 → 11
5-X-X Archmage	Pierce increased ― 2 → 10 Stacks with Intense Magic: 7 → 15
X-2-X Wall of Fire and further upgrades	Wall of Fire: Can no longer deploy outside its range (bug fix)  Wall of Fire: Pierce reduced ― ∞ → 20
X-5-X Wizard Lord Phoenix	Lava Phoenix fireball: Projectile count increased ― 4 → 8  Lava Phoenix fireball: Projectile radius increased ― 5 units → 15 units  Lava Phoenix fireball: Pierce increased ― 300 → 500 (undocumented)  Lava Phoenix breath: Projectile speed increased ― 400 → 450

Version 4.0

Tiers	Changes
X-2-X Wall of Fire	Upgrade cost increased ― $1,100 → $1,300
1-2-0 Wall of Fire + Guided Magic 2-2-0 Arcane Blast + Wall of Fire 3-2-0 Arcane Mastery + Wall of Fire 4-2-0 Arcane Spike + Wall of Fire 5-2-0 Archmage + Wall of Fire	Wall of Fire: Now ignores walls
X-5-X Wizard Lord Phoenix	WLP flame: Damage increased by 4x ― 5 → 20  WLP meteor: Damage increased by 10x ― 5 → 50
X-X-4 Necromancer: Unpopped Army X-X-5 Prince of Darkness	Undead Bloon generation: Count range per spawn increased ― 1-2 → 1-4
X-X-5 Prince of Darkness	Undead MOAB: Damage increased ― 20 → 40  Undead BFB: Damage increased ― 20 → 100

Version 6.0

Tiers	Changes
X-5-X Wizard Lord Phoenix	Dragon's breath: pierce increased by 38  Lava Phoenix dragon's breath: pierce increased by 38

Version 7.0

Tiers	Changes
0-0-0 base tower	Cost reduced ― $550 → $450
X-2-X Wall of Fire and further upgrades	Wall of Fire: can now pop Purple Bloons while buffed by an MIB (bug fix)
X-3-X Dragon's Breath	Upgrade cost reduced ― $3,600 → $3,000
X-4-X Summon Phoenix	Upgrade cost reduced ― $5,000 → $4,000
X-5-X Wizard Lord Phoenix	Upgrade cost reduced ― $80,000 → $60,000

Version 8.0

Tiers	Changes
X-2-X Wall of Fire	Upgrade cost reduced ― $1,300 → $900
X-2-X Wall of Fire and further upgrades	Wall of Fire: No longer deals damage faster than normal (bug fix)
X-3-X Dragon's Breath and further upgrades	Wall of Fire: Deploy cooldown reduced ― 5.5s → 4.5s
X-4-X Summon Phoenix	Phoenix: Damage increased ― 1 → 2

Version 10.0

Tiers	Changes
5-X-X Archmage X-3-X Dragon's Breath and further upgrades	Dragon's Breath: now applies damage over time that deals 1 fire-type damage per 1.5 seconds for 3 seconds

Version 11.0

Tiers	Changes
X-4-X Summon Phoenix	"Wizard’s Phoenix should no longer stop attacking when villages are placed within its radius" (bug fix)
X-5-X Wizard Lord Phoenix	Now has a permanent regular Phoenix while the ability is not active
X-X-4 Necromancer: Unpopped Army	Upgrade cost reduced ― $3,500 → $2,800 "Necromancer has had some performance improvements"
X-X-5 Prince of Darkness	Range increased ― 40 → 80  Now applies a buff to all Wizard Monkeys upgraded to Necromancer or Prince of Darkness (including itself) that increases Undead Bloon damage by 1 and lifespan by 50%

Version 12.0

Tiers	Changes
X-1-X Fireball and further upgrades	Fireball: explosion can no longer hit Camo Bloons without Camo detection (bug fix)
X-4-X Summon Phoenix X-5-X Wizard Lord Phoenix	Phoenix damage increased by 1 Note: Does not apply to Lava Phoenix  Phoenix projectile speed increased by 100 units/s
X-5-X Wizard Lord Phoenix	Lava Phoenix breath projectile speed increased by 100 units/s

Version 13.0

Tiers	Changes
X-X-4 Necromancer: Unpopped Army X-X-5 Prince of Darkness	Undead Bloon: damage increased ― 1 → 2

Version 14.0

Tiers	Changes
4-X-X Arcane Spike	Description changed ― "Magic does extra damage to MOAB-Class Bloons." → "Magic does huge damage to most bloon types."

Version 15.0

Tiers	Changes
X-X-5 Prince of Darkness	"Prince of Darkness should now only show buff icons to other Necromancers"  Description changed ― "Reanimate even more powerful Bloon servants to obliterate the enemy." → "Reanimates more powerful Bloon servants to obliterate the enemy, plus enhances the undead Bloons of all other Necromancers."

Version 17.0

Tiers	Changes
X-2-X Wall of Fire and further upgrades	Changed the visual effects of Wall of Fire
X-3-X Dragon's Breath and further upgrades 5-X-X Archmage	Changed the visual effects of Dragon's Breath
X-4-X Summon Phoenix and further upgrades	Changed the visual effects of the Phoenix's fire breath
X-5-X Wizard Lord Phoenix	Lava Phoenix: Activating the ability now permanently disables the regular Phoenix (bug)  No longer counts as two towers (bug fix)
X-X-5 Prince of Darkness	No longer rotates when attacking (bug fix)

Version 17.1

Tiers	Changes
X-5-X Wizard Lord Phoenix	Lava Phoenix: No longer removes the regular Phoenix when active Note: This indirectly resolves a bug from 17.0 where the regular Phoenix would permanently disappear after using the ability "Resolved a rare crash upgrading Wizard to x5x"

Version 18.0

Tiers	Changes
X-2-0 Wall of Fire and further upgrades	Wall of Fire: pierce reduced ― 20 → 15
1-2-0 Wall of Fire + Guided Magic and further upgrades	Now uses tower targeting priority to guide the Wall of Fire
0-2-1 Wall of Fire + Intense Magic 0-3-1 Dragon's Breath + Intense Magic 0-4-1 Summon Phoenix + Intense Magic 0-5-1 Wizard Lord Phoenix + Intense Magic	Intense Magic now grants +5 pierce to Wall of Fire Note: Wall of Fire remains at 20 pierce
X-X-4 Necromancer: Unpopped Army X-X-5 Prince of Darkness	Necromancer Wizards now each have their own personal ‘graveyard’ of 500 capacity rather than 1 shared pool of 2000  Necromancer Wizards will now be able to retain any Bloons in their graveyard for 1 extra round before expiring  Necromancer Wizard’s Zombie lifespan increased ― 8s → 10s  Necromancer Wizard’s Zombie spawn rate is increased by a flat 10% for every 100 Bloons in the grave reaching a maximum of double attack speed at 500 capacity  Necromancer Wizards will display their current graveyard size above their portrait next to their pop count Note: Any Bloons popped within the Shimmer radius of a Necromancer can be absorbed into that graveyard, but 1 pop will not fill more than 1 graveyard
X-X-5 Prince of Darkness	Prince of Darkness Graveyard Capacity increased to 2000  Prince of Darkness no longer increases zombie count via pops on Sandbox Mode and then returning to a certain game (bug fix)

Version 19.0

Tiers	Changes
4-X-X Arcane Spike	Upgrade cost increased ― $10,000 → $10,900

Version 20.0

“

Second and third path upgrades get some fine tuning for more internal consistency. We want to make slow tweaks here to bring them into better balance — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
0-3-1 Dragon's Breath + Intense Magic 0-4-1 Summon Phoenix + Intense Magic 5-0-1 Archmage + Intense Magic	Intense Magic now grants +2 pierce to Dragon's Breath ― 4 → 6
X-4-X Summon Phoenix X-5-X Wizard Lord Phoenix	Phoenix: summon states now save between games
0-5-1 Wizard Lord Phoenix + Intense Magic	Dragon's Breath: pierce increased ― 50 → 52
X-X-3 Shimmer	Upgrade cost reduced ― $1,800 → $1,700

Version 21.0

“

Though it was never a goal for the base tower to be great, given the additional purple weakness since BTD5 and how poorly it currently performs we feel it deserves to take rank as the cheapest magic tower along with a small buff. Dragon’s Breath crosspathing has also been finished up along with a considerable boost to scale Dragon’s Breath up against Ceramics. Finally, Unpopped Army changes are also here! We wanted to cover all of the usability issues with this upgrade while also powering it up and expanding more on the mechanic that makes it so unique. We hope this will be enough to make Wizard very useful in a number of ways, but will be keeping a watchful eye on how it plays out. — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
0-0-0 base tower	Cost reduced ― $450 → $400  Pierce increased ― 2 → 3
0-3-0 Dragon's Breath	Dragon's Breath: attack gains bonus damage to ceramic +1
1-3-0 Dragon's Breath + Guided Magic	Dragon's Breath: lifespan increased ― 0.4s → 0.8s
0-4-0 Summon Phoenix	Summon Phoenix projectile radius increased ― 5 → 6  Summon Phoenix damage increased ― 3 → 4  Summon Phoenix pierce increased ― 5 → 6  Summon Phoenix projectile speed increased ― 300 → 350
X-X-4 Necromancer: Unpopped Army X-X-5 Prince of Darkness	Unpopped Army now gains a bonus to graveyard after round 81 (about +10 per pop) Note: To make up for the total decrease in child Bloons that are created from Super Ceramics  Unpopped Army targeting has been reworked to function in a smarter way, summoning Zombie Bloons further back to avoid them spawning behind Bloons, and also on multi-lane tracks targeting the lanes that are likely to leak sooner  Unpopped Army now enhances the power of all of it’s attacks by 1 for every 200 souls in it’s Graveyard. This can stack up to 10 times for Prince of Darkness
X-X-5 Prince of Darkness	Prince of Darkness max Graveyard capacity increased ― 2000 → 3000

Version 22.0

“

Some changes have been made to wall of fire to improve race balance in particular — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-2-X Wall of Fire	Wall of Fire: Attack begins on cooldown when the upgrade is purchased
X-2-X Wall of Fire and further upgrades	Wall of Fire: Now saves the time remaining on its attack cooldown  Wall of Fire: Now removed when the tower is sold

Version 23.0

“

Despite ranking low overall, Wizard Lord Phoenix has dodged balance changes because of its extremely popular place as a challenge tower. With the rise of other towers in challenges, we’ve decided to start off buffing it based on its own merits in general gameplay. We’ve also added some previously intended minor changes to Prince of Darkness which were held back due to bugs that have now been resolved. — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-3-X Dragon's Breath X-4-X Summon Phoenix	Fireball: damage increased ― 1 → 3
X-3-X Dragon's Breath and further upgrades	Fireball: radius increased ― 10 → 14
X-5-X Wizard Lord Phoenix	Upgrade cost reduced ― $60,000 → $54,000  Fireball: damage increased ― 1 → 9  Dragon's Breath: damage increased ― 1 → 2
X-X-5 Prince of Darkness	Pops retained in graveyard increased ― 2 rounds → 3 rounds  Grave required for damage stacks increased ― 200 → 300

Version 25.0

“

Wall of Fire has been reworked in order to cut down on cases of frustrating randomness as well as the initial cooldown on the attack being reduced. Additionally at the highest tier all fire attacks will be further enhanced in damage — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-2-X Wall of Fire and further upgrades	Wall of Fire: initial cooldown reduced ― 5.5s → 1s  Wall of Fire: now targets closest point on the track by default instead of randomly within range
X-5-X Wizard Lord Phoenix	Fireball: damage increased ― 9 → 27  Wall of Fire: damage increased ― 1 → 3  Dragon's Breath: damage increased ― 2 → 6

Version 27.0

“

In order to allow for more strategic use of the birdy, Summoned Phoenix[sic] will now follow the set target priority. — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-4-X Summon Phoenix X-5-X Wizard Lord Phoenix	Phoenix breath attack: Now uses the Wizard Monkey's current targeting option (instead of always targeting Close)
X-5-X Wizard Lord Phoenix	Lava Phoenix breath attack: Now uses the Wizard Monkey's current targeting option (instead of always targeting Close)

Version 28.0

“

Some general buffs have been made to Wizard’s abilities to give it a small boost. Prince of Darkness has been performing extremely well after all its buffs and this is nice after it underperformed for so long, but the round 81 change to counter reduced Bloon Children with bonus Graveyard per pop has made it sustain high levels of graveyard too easily, this bonus has been lowered a little. — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-4-X Summon Phoenix	Summon Phoenix: Ability cooldown reduced ― 60s → 45s
X-4-X Summon Phoenix X-5-X Wizard Lord Phoenix	Phoenix: Damage increased ― 4 → 5 Note: Does not apply to Lava Phoenix  Phoenix: Pierce increased ― 6 → 10 Note: Does not apply to Lava Phoenix
X-5-X Wizard Lord Phoenix	Summon Phoenix: Ability cooldown reduced ― 50s → 45s  Flaming Ball: Travel range increased ― 180 → 250
X-X-2 Monkey Sense and all crosspaths X-X-3 Shimmer and further upgrades	Camo Prioritization filter added
X-X-4 Necromancer: Unpopped Army X-X-5 Prince of Darkness	Graveyard: Bonus grave after r80 reduced ― 7-13 → 7-10

Version 29.0

“

As Wall of Fire still stands out too much for a Tier 2 upgrade, it is seeing a nerf with some power being shifted further up to the T3 instead. In contrast, Fireball continues to underwhelm, so is seeing an initial buff plus a larger buff at T3. — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-1-X Fireball and all crosspaths X-2-X Wall of Fire and all crosspaths X-3-X Dragon's Breath and further upgrades	Fireball: Attack cooldown reduced ― 3s → 2.2s
X-2-X Wall of Fire and all crosspaths	Wall of Fire pierce refresh rate reduced ― 0.1s → 0.15s Note: Dragon's Breath and above unchanged
0-2-1 Wall of Fire + Intense Magic and further upgrades	WoF: Pierce bonus reduced ― +5 → +4
X-3-X Dragon's Breath X-4-X Summon Phoenix	Fireball: Damage increased ― 3 → 9
X-5-X Wizard Lord Phoenix	Permanent Phoenix: Should no longer sometimes not take external buffs depending on build order (bug fix)

Version 30.0

Tiers	Changes
0-0-0 base tower	Cost reduced ― $400 → $375
4-X-X Arcane Spike	Upgrade cost reduced ― $10,900 → $10,000
X-2-X Wall of Fire	Upgrade cost increased ― $900 → $950
X-X-3 Shimmer X-X-4 Necromancer: Unpopped Army	Range increased ― 40 → 60
X-X-4 Necromancer: Unpopped Army X-X-5 Prince of Darkness	Zombie Bloon: Travel distance reduced ― 250 → 175
1-0-4 Necromancer: Unpopped Army + Guided Magic and further upgrades	Guided Magic now increases Zombie Bloon travel distance ― 175 → 250 Note: Matches travel distance without this crosspath in previous versions
X-X-5 Prince of Darkness	Range reduced ― 80 → 60  Zombie MOAB: Travel distance reduced ― 300 → 225  Zombie BFB: Travel distance reduced ― 200 → 150
1-0-5 Prince of Darkness + Guided Magic 2-0-5 Prince of Darkness + Arcane Blast	Guided Magic now increases Zombie MOAB travel distance ― 225 → 300 Note: Matches travel distance without this crosspath in previous versions  Guided Magic now increases Zombie BFB travel distance ― 200 → 225

Version 31.0

“

Arcane Blast's benefit to the base tower is quite small for the price and also doesn't carry on well as a crosspath to the other T3s since they add new attacks instead of buffing the base attack, the price has been reduced to add a little more value here along with more MOAB damage at the T5 to give it a little more value over Arcane Spikes. As we somewhat expected the last Prince of Darkness rework didn’t end up really nerfing it so much, so we are now following up with a small price nerf. — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
2-X-X Arcane Blast	Upgrade cost reduced ― $600 → $450
5-X-X Archmage	Bonus damage to MOAB-class increased ― +17 → +19
0-4-2 Summon Phoenix + Monkey Sense 0-5-2 Wizard Lord Phoenix + Monkey Sense	Phoenix should now correctly interact with camo prio with Monkey Sense crosspath (bug fix)
X-X-5 Prince of Darkness	Upgrade cost increased ― $24,000 → $26,500

Version 31.2

Tiers	Changes
X-1-X Fireball and further upgrades	Fireball: no longer has single-layer damage (undocumented)
X-2-X Wall of Fire and further upgrades	Wall of Fire: no longer has single-layer damage (undocumented)
X-3-X Dragon's Breath and further upgrades 5-X-X Archmage	Dragon's Breath: no longer has single-layer damage (undocumented)

Version 32.0

“

Polishing some crosspaths, 130 Dragons Breath is the only crosspath for Guided Magic that doesn't yet attack through walls, and 011 Fireball also does not benefit from having the pierce crosspath — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
0-1-1 Fireball + Intense Magic and further upgrades	Fireball: pierce increased ― 15 → 20
1-3-0 Dragon's Breath + Guided Magic and further upgrades 5-X-X Archmage	Dragon's Breath: projectile now ignores walls

Version 33.0

“

Wall of Fire’s exceptional T2 power needs to be moved around for improved crosspathing, along with a slight nerf to Phoenix as it is currently performing too well, and both of these upgrades are shifting some of their power into Dragon’s Breath so it can stand out as more than just a buff to WoF & a stepping stone to Phoenix. Shimmer is prone to missing a lot of camo Bloons due to the low attack rate, we do want it to be slower than other decamos to account for the larger radius and better T5 so we are making the radius benefit more noticable and lowering price — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-2-X Wall of Fire	Wall of Fire pierce per tic reduced ― 15 → 10  Wall of Fire damage tick rate reduced ― 0.1s → 0.15s Note: Dragon's Breath unchanged  Wall of Fire wall spawn rate reduced ― 5.5s → 6.5s
1-2-0 Wall of Fire + Guided Magic and further upgrades	Wall of Fire duration increased ― 4.5s → 5.5s  Wall of Fire no longer auto-targets but gains a target marker (like Cleansing Foam Engineer)
0-2-1 Wall of Fire + Intense Magic and further upgrades	Wall of Fire pierce per tic reduced ― 19 → 15
X-3-X Dragon's Breath X-4-X Summon Phoenix 5-X-X Archmage	Dragon's Breath base damage increased ― 1 → 2
X-3-X Dragon's Breath and further upgrades	Dragon's Breath WoF pierce per tic increased ― 15 → 20
0-3-1 Dragon's Breath + Intense Magic and further upgrades	Dragon's Breath WoF pierce per tick increased ― 19 → 25 (undocumented)
X-4-X Summon Phoenix	Upgrade cost increased ― $4,000 → $4,500
X-4-X Summon Phoenix X-5-X Wizard Lord Phoenix	Phoenix pierce reduced ― 10 → 8 Note: Does not apply to Lava Phoenix
X-X-3 Shimmer	Upgrade cost reduced ― $1,700 → $1,500
X-X-3 Shimmer and further upgrades	Shimmer radius increased ― 70 → 80

Version 34.0

“

Wizard Archmage currently doubles the attack speed of the main attack along with adding a sizable MOAB damage bonus, but these benefits are not applied to the extra attacks that it gains as a 533 tower, which specifically makes the 520 crosspath benefits feel disappointing and the base dragon's breath it gains quite insignificant to the main tower. Phoeniis [sic] still far too strong for an extremely cheap T4, so cost is being shifted from the T5 down. — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
5-X-X Archmage	Dragon's Breath: rate doubled ― 0.1s → 0.05s  Shimmer: rate doubled ― 2.5s → 1.25s  Dragon's Breath: MOAB-class bonus added ― +0 → +2
5-1-0 Archmage + Fireball 5-2-0 Archmage + Wall of Fire	Fireball: damage increased to match Dragon's Breath bonus fireball damage ― 1 → 9  Fireball: rate doubled ― 2.2s → 1.1s  Fireball: MOAB-class bonus added ― +0 → +9
5-2-0 Archmage + Wall of Fire	Wall of Fire rate ― 6.5s → 3.25s  Wall of Fire MOAB-class bonus added ― +0 → +1
X-4-X Summon Phoenix	Upgrade cost increased ― $4,500 → $6,000
X-5-X Wizard Lord Phoenix	Upgrade cost reduced ― $54,000 → $52,500

Version 35.0

“

Arcane Spike is seeing 1 damage shifted from MOAB bonus to regular damage to improve layer skipping issues. — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
3-0-2 Arcane Mastery + Monkey Sense 4-0-2 Arcane Spike + Monkey Sense 5-0-2 Archmage + Monkey Sense	Range increased ― 60 → 70
4-X-X Arcane Spike	Arcane Spike damage increased ― 5 → 6  Arcane Spike MOAB bonus reduced ― 11 → 10
5-X-X Archmage	Flame (Dragon's Breath) attack range reduced ― 60 → 40 (undocumented)
X-3-X Dragon's Breath and further upgrades	Flame (Dragon's Breath) attack now matches tower range properly ― 50 → 40 Note: xx2 crosspath unchanged
X-X-2 Monkey Sense	Increases wizard range by +10 ― 40 → 50 Note: Shimmer range unchanged at 60
X-X-4 Necromancer: Unpopped Army X-X-5 Prince of Darkness	Gains a spawn point target for zombies that the player can set

Version 36.0

“

Dragon’s Breath will still be great, just a little less excessively so — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
5-X-X Archmage	Dragon's Breath: attack cooldown increased ― 0.05s → 0.0625s  Dragon's Breath: no longer deals +1 damage to Ceramic
X-3-X Dragon's Breath and further upgrades	Dragon's Breath: attack cooldown increased ― 0.1s → 0.125s  Dragon's Breath: no longer deals +1 damage to Ceramic

Version 38.0

“

Middle path T4 Phoenix continues carrying rounds quite well for a long period of the game, as a light nerf here we’re taking away the free camo detection that Phoenix used to get, given the tower has a camo crosspath it could go for to properly inherit this onto the phoenix anyway. When the Wizard Paragon released it unintentionally drained mana from every target the main attack came into contact with, which caused the passive mana drain to scale much faster with degrees than intended. At a base level it was balanced around this factor though so the passive mana drain values have been properly reworked to trigger from attacks being performed with amounts keeping it roughly similar but not scaling up to such crazy fast drains with the high degrees. — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-3-X Dragon's Breath	Upgrade cost increased ― $3,000 → $3,300
X-4-X Summon Phoenix X-5-X Wizard Lord Phoenix	Phoenix: No longer sees Camo innately without the Monkey Sense crosspath
X-5-X Wizard Lord Phoenix	Lava Phoenix: No longer sees Camo innately without the Monkey Sense crosspath
X-X-4 Necromancer: Unpopped Army X-X-5 Prince of Darkness	Necromancer targeted spawn point can now be reset back to default by activating the target option, then canceling without selecting a point
Paragon	No longer drains 100 mana for every single Bloon hit by the main attack  Each main attack fired drains 50 mana  Each Phoenix firebomb attack fired drains 50 mana  Zombie Bloon: Mana cost to spawn increased ― 100 → 250  Zombie Bloon: Maximum travel range increased ― 175 → 400  Resolved an issue creating a permanent magus flamethrower attack (bug fix)

Version 39.0

“

We set up for this Wall of Fire change quite a while ago, however finally it feels that Wall of Fire has cooled off enough to smooth out the curve a little more, granting it seamless uptime with crosspathing and a lower price tag. Summon Phoenix price is increasing more along with a larger reduction in cost to the Wizard Lord Phoenix, however Phoenix will now also be able to gain seeking frontal breath attacks with Guided Magic crosspathing. Shimmer’s range/radius values are being adjusted to match the attack trigger area to the tower’s range but with a far larger radius on the actual effect once it is triggered, this reduces inconsistency where Shimmer would often hit only first camo target to enter radius then be stuck on long cooldown. As targeting improvements for Necromancer zombie spawns feel well ironed out now and deal with the old problem that increasing range used to have at T5 we’re bringing back the much larger range on Prince of Darkness which will now also benefit from these Shimmer changes. — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-2-X Wall of Fire	Upgrade cost reduced ― $950 → $800
1-2-0 Wall of Fire + Guided Magic and further upgrades	Wall of Fire: Duration increased ― 5.5s → 6.5s
X-4-X Summon Phoenix	Upgrade cost increased ― $6,000 → $7,500
1-4-0 Summon Phoenix + Guided Magic and further upgrades	Phoenix – Flame: Guided Magic crosspath now grants light seeking to the Phoenix flames
X-5-X Wizard Lord Phoenix	Upgrade cost reduced ― $52,500 → $50,000  Lava Phoenix – Meteor: pierce reduced ― 500 → 300
X-X-3 Shimmer and further upgrades	Shimmer: Targeting range now matches tower range ― 80 → 60  Shimmer: Effect radius set to 25% more than tower range ― 70 → 75
X-X-5 Prince of Darkness	Range increased ― 60 → 80

“

Wizard was one of the more heavily impacted Paragons losing power from the bug fix, and had a few planned buffs aside from this anyway. We’re happy keeping it more on the expensive side with a higher skill requirement, so to keep justifying this higher price tag much more significant buffs were necessary to keep it in line. — Update notes

”

Tiers

Changes

Paragon

Cost per power increased ― $25 → $31.875/$37.5/$40.5/$45  Small Zombie: Pierce increased ― 20 → 50  Draining Beam: Base damage increased ― 50 → 200  Arcane Spike: Damage to MOAB-Class increased ― +200 → +250  Arcane Spike: Damage to Boss Bloons increased ― +100 → +150  Dark Phoenix Firebomb: Now deals +50 damage to Boss Bloons  Metamorphosis Flamethrower: Pierce increased ― 30 → 100  Metamorphosis Flamethrower: Damage to Boss Bloons increased ― +500 → +1000  Phoenix should no longer be immune to Vortex stun (bug fix)  Has less boss damage, especially on Elite and at higher Degrees

Version 41.0

“

Dragon’s Breath is too much of an early powerhouse right now, as the DoT doesn’t care for high rate we’re reducing that rate, but slightly reducing the cost of Phoenix as well. Magus currently has higher single target on the drain beam than the main spike attack at degree 1, the intended mechanical functionality of this tower prevents drain beam being left active at all times, and we also don’t want players to stay on drain mode all the time so we are shifting power levels around a little to give these attacks the same overall degree 1 single target power. — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
5-X-X Archmage	Dragon's Breath attack cooldown increased ― 0.0625s → 0.0675s
X-3-X Dragon's Breath and further upgrades	Dragon’s Breath attack cooldown increased ― 0.125s → 0.135s
X-4-X Summon Phoenix	Upgrade cost reduced ― $7,500 → $7,000  Fixed that phoenix entanglement thing (bug fix) Note: Bug that allowed you to get permanent phoenixes with Etienne
X-5-X Wizard Lord Phoenix	Lava Phoenix: targeted breath attack type changed ― Normal → Fire
Paragon	Paragon drain beam damage reduced ― 200 → 100  Paragon spike attack damage increased ― 50 → 100  Paragon spike bonus to MOAB-class increased ― +250 → +300

Version 42.0

“

Wizard is feeling effective across the board with nice use cases across each path so there was hesitation about making changes. Nevertheless we felt there were important changes here with DoT in mind, so there’s now new scaling on the Dragon’s Breath attack improving damage over time on higher upgrades and a for-fun change to the projectile count assisting in spreading flames to many targets. We understand we are affecting current balance but it’s done in the name of fun and for Wizard fans. — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
X-4-X Summon Phoenix	Dragon's Breath: Damage-over-time tick damage increased ― 1 → 2  Dragon's Breath: now fires 2 projectiles  Dragon's Breath: pierce reduced ― 4 → 3 Note: Does not affect T3 Dragon's Breath or Archmage
X-4-X Summon Phoenix X-5-X Wizard Lord Phoenix	Phoenix: Base attack projectile speed increased ― 350 → 450
X-5-X Wizard Lord Phoenix	Dragon's Breath: Damage-over-time tick damage increased ― 1 → 10  Dragon's Breath: now fires 3 projectiles  Dragon's Breath: damage reduced ― 6 → 2  Dragon's Breath: pierce reduced ― 50 → 15

Version 43.0

“

Wizard has a weaker base tower so the base cost is going down in exchange for a small price increase to the cost to value ratio for the effective Arcane Mastery. As Fireball becomes very forgotten at higher tiers and is hard to even see at Dragon’s Breath, we’re improving the crosspath and adding even more projectiles at T3 for wider explosive coverage. As Shimmer is the slowest de-camo in the game it is important that it not miss when it does trigger, so pierce is greatly increased. Wizard Lord Phoenix’s Wall of Fire hasn’t had any meaningful upgrade progression, so its damage is being increased. Magus is one of the more in-depth Paragons to use effectively so having it as one of the cheapest to unlock didn't feel right, the unlock XP requirements for this and Ninja are being swapped around. — Update notes

”

Tiers	Changes
0-0-0 base tower	Cost reduced ― $375 → $325
2-1-0 Arcane Blast + Fireball 2-2-0 Arcane Blast + Wall of Fire 3-1-0 Arcane Mastery + Fireball 3-2-0 Arcane Mastery + Wall of Fire 4-1-0 Arcane Spike + Fireball 4-2-0 Arcane Spike + Wall of Fire	Fireball: Crosspathed damage increased ― 1 → 2
3-X-X Arcane Mastery	Upgrade cost increased ― $1,300 → $1,400
X-3-X Dragon's Breath 5-X-X Archmage	Dragon's Breath: Pierce reduced ― 4 → 3
X-3-X Dragon's Breath X-4-X Summon Phoenix	Fireball: Damage reduced ― 9 → 3
X-3-X Dragon's Breath and further upgrades 5-1-0 Archmage + Fireball 5-2-0 Archmage + Wall of Fire	Fireball: Projectile count increased ― 1 → 3
2-3-0 Dragon's Breath + Arcane Blast 2-4-0 Summon Phoenix + Arcane Blast	Fireball: Damage increased ― 3 → 4 (undocumented)
0-3-1 Dragon's Breath + Intense Magic	Intense Magic pierce bonus to Dragon's Breath increased ― +2 → +3 (undocumented) Note: 031 pierce remains at 6
X-5-X Wizard Lord Phoenix	Wall of Fire: Attack damage increased ― 3 → 5  Dragon's Breath: fireball damage reduced ― 27 → 9
2-5-0 Wizard Lord Phoenix + Arcane Blast	Fireball: Damage reduced ― 27 → 10 (undocumented)
X-X-3 Shimmer and further upgrades 5-X-X Archmage	Shimmer: Pierce increased ― 200 → 500
Paragon	XP unlock cost increased ― 500000 → 1000000

Version 46.0

“

Archmage’s secondary attacks are gaining bonus MOAB damage increases as due to Archmage’s unique mechanics, nerfs building up from Dragon's Breath have also indirectly caused an impact for the Archmage. Prince of Darkness’ buff to other Zombies damage doesn't get much interest, so we’re buffing it. Though the expected dps should be high Magus doesn’t fit well into boss dps windows, so we’re reducing its mana drain rate to increase Metamorphosis duration. — Update notes

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Tiers	Changes
5-X-X Archmage	Dragon's Breath: Bonus damage to MOAB-Class Bloons increased ― +2 → +6
5-1-0 Archmage + Fireball 5-2-0 Archmage + Wall of Fire	Fireball: Bonus damage to MOAB-Class Bloons increased ― +9 → +27
5-2-0 Archmage + Wall of Fire	Wall of Fire: Bonus damage to MOAB-Class Bloons increased ― +1 → +4
X-X-5 Prince of Darkness	Passive damage bonus granted to Zombie Bloons increased ― +1 → +3
Paragon	Metamorphosis: Mana drain per tick reduced ― 5,000 → 4,000

Version 47.0

“

Archmage still seems to prefer the 502 crosspathing, so the fire attacks are being taken even further. Summon phoenix falls off in single target fairly early so we are lowering the cost back again to bring back options to let it fly before it has to deal with so many stronger targets. Shimmer struggles as a de-camo option due to the low consistency, so the attack rate is being improved. — Update notes

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Tiers	Changes
5-X-X Archmage	Flame (Dragon's Breath): Bonus damage to MOAB-class increased ― +6 → +10  Shimmer attack cooldown decreased ― 1.25s → 1s (undocumented)
5-1-0 Archmage + Fireball	Fireball: Bonus damage to MOAB-class increased ― +27 → +36
5-2-0 Archmage + Wall of Fire	Blaze (WoF): Bonus damage to MOAB-class increased ― +4 → +8
X-4-X Summon Phoenix	Upgrade cost reduced ― $7,000 → $6,000
X-5-X Wizard Lord Phoenix	Flame (Dragon's Breath): DoT damage increased ― 10 → 30  Flame (Dragon's Breath): DoT duration increased ― 3s → 15s
X-X-3 Shimmer X-X-4 Necromancer: Unpopped Army	Shimmer attack cooldown decreased ― 2.5s → 2s
X-X-5 Prince of Darkness	Shimmer attack cooldown decreased ― 1.25s → 1s (undocumented)

Version 48.0

“

Base Wizard mostly struggles to compare to base Dart Monkey anyway, so we’re cutting it down to one of the cheapest starter placement towers and adding that small cost back across the top path. Arcane Spike is now seeing some of the crosspathing benefits that Archmage recently received, although Archmage’s Wall of Fire is being reduced in power. Magus’ strict ability timings currently struggle to line up well with Boss Skulls & immunity periods which makes it an undesirable paragon for Boss events, so the Metamorphosis cooldown is being reduced. — Update notes

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Tiers	Changes
0-0-0 base tower	Cost reduced ― $325 → $250
1-X-X Guided Magic	Upgrade cost increased ― $150 → $175
3-X-X Arcane Mastery	Upgrade cost increased ― $1,400 → $1,450
4-1-0 Arcane Spike + Fireball 4-2-0 Arcane Spike + Wall of Fire	Fireball: Gains bonus MOAB-class damage ― +0 → +6 Note: Does not affect 5-1-0 Fireball
4-2-0 Arcane Spike + Wall of Fire	Wall of Fire: Gains bonus MOAB-class damage ― +0 → +2
5-2-0 Archmage + Wall of Fire	Wall of Fire: Bonus MOAB-class damage reduced ― +8 → +6
Paragon	Arcane Metamorphosis: Ability cooldown reduced ― 120s → 90s Note: Degree 100 cooldown reduced from 70.5882s to 52.9412s

Version 49.0

“

Archmage’s MOAB bonuses are a little overkill and being lowered so we can justify a QoL buff with Dragon’s Breath’s scaling adjusting to match more crosspath improvements, meaning it will now benefit from Archmage’s range increase as well as bottom path’s projectile speed increase. As more quality of life, Wall of Fire’s startup delay is also being halved — Update notes

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Tiers	Changes
5-X-X Archmage	Dragon's Breath attack: Bonus damage against MOAB-Class Bloons reduced ― +10 → +8  Dragon's Breath attack: Range increased ― 40 units → 60 units
5-1-0 Archmage + Fireball 5-2-0 Archmage + Wall of Fire	Fireball attack: Bonus damage against MOAB-Class Bloons reduced ― +36 → +24
X-2-X Wall of Fire	Wall of Fire attack: Initial cooldown decreased ― 1.0s → 0.5s Note: Only affects the first wall after purchasing the upgrade
0-3-1 Dragon's Breath + Intense Magic and further upgrades 5-0-1 Archmage + Intense Magic 5-0-2 Archmage + Monkey Sense	Dragon's Breath attack: Projectile speed increased ― 125 units/s → 250 units/s
X-X-4 Necromancer: Unpopped Army	Description changed ― Reanimate recently popped enemies as servants to destroy the Bloons. → Reanimate recently popped enemies as servants that can destroy Bloons of any type.

Version 49.2

Tiers	Changes
Paragon	Sub Towers from Paragons should now correctly be stunned when the main tower is

Version 50.0

Tiers	Changes
0-3-1 Dragon's Breath + Intense Magic	Dragon's Breath: Pierce bonus is no longer increased compared to x-4-x ― +3 → +2 (bug fix) Note: Pierce reduced from 6 to 5

Version 51.0

“

The Wizard Paragon has been truly popping off with Master Builder's help, it is getting a slight price increase to match its power, but actually also Phoenix Rebirth is also getting a buff to its damage as we didn't feel it was getting enough of the spotlight compared to the rest of the tower’s kit. Max Mana has been reduced by 1 to remove a frustrating ‘perfect timing’ window in Metamorphosis activation. — Update notes

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Tiers	Changes
Paragon	Paragon cost increased ― $750,000 → $800,000  Maximum Mana reduced ― 100,000 → 99,999 Note: This decreases the maximum Arcane Metamorphosis duration from 25s to 24s by eliminating the precise 100,000 Mana usage  Phoenix Rebirth: DoT damage per tick increased ― 2,500 → 3,500  Phoenix Rebirth: Zombie ZOMG damage increased ― 4,000 → 8,000  Phoenix Rebirth: Zombie BFB damage increased ― 700 → 1,400

Version 51.1

Tiers	Changes
Paragon	Should correctly swap to its Drain Beam attack when the Mana is depleted (bug fix)

Version 54.0

“

Since its addition this synergy has been a problem for Paragon balance, so we’re implementing a special-case to make Overclock less effective on the Wizard Paragon; this allows us to buff that lost power back into the Powerglove Overclock. — Update notes

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Tiers	Changes
Paragon	Mana consumption per tick while affected by Master Builder's Power Glove increased ― 4,000 → 6,666

Version 55.0

“

The Wizard Paragon's Metamorph[sic] form bonus Boss damage from the main flamethrower attack has been reduced as it overperforms even without overclocking — Update notes

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Tiers	Changes
Paragon	Arcane Metamorphosis: Flame Cascade bonus damage to Bosses reduced ― +1,000 → +800

Version 55.2

Tiers	Changes
X-X-4 Necromancer: Unpopped Army X-X-5 Prince of Darkness Paragon	"xx4 Necromancer wizards should now stop acting up around giant skulls"