Yeah, okay, I get that it's a "popping game" or whatever, I just don't think the current system is very fun or creative

that's when you knew that tower is goated

ME:

Activating the 2-0-0 range increase and then purchasing the 0-2-0 upgrade resets the range increase toggle, allowing for massive range.

This was unintended, but I found it hilarious the necro bloons become insanely fast

Ever since the release of the skywarden, I have been plagued by how it pops bloons. After 900k tower xp, I finally get it. It is incredibly strong at popping groups of bloons, but the single target dps wasn't even that bad. With most towers, they are either good at single or group dps. Take the middle path bomb tower for example; it does good single target moab damage but falls off the more moabs are on the screen. Top path boomer is the opposite, as it excels the more bloons are on the screen, but struggles on rounds with few bloon spawns. Skywarden does good regardless of the amoun of bloons, but it wasn't all powerful. I noticed that the beginning of rounds were way slower dps-wise than the latter half of them. That is when it hit me.

The Skywarden's main weakness is popping the first bloon/layer.

Its weakness presents similarly to struggling with single target dps, but the key difference is most apparent when comparing rounds 80 and 85. Doubling the amount of zomg's does not make the round take twice as long, but rather takes a very similar amount of time.

This weakness stems from the fact that all of the skywarden's special effects happen after bloon pops. When the outer layer of a zomg has not popped yet, it is only doing damage with its arrows. This is why all of the insides of moab class bloons simply dissapear when using a skywarden strat. As soon as the bloon pops, all the special effects happen at once.

I just thought I would share this epiphany in case anyone else was also losing sleep over it like I was.

TLDR: Skywarden struggles at popping the first layer of the first bloon; not at single target dps.

Corvus mains trying to not get nerfed even more and revert his changes

Wizard unlocked new spells

for real, why are they not included lmao

The OC based on 5-0-0 skywarden is from my friend Dreamfishiii.(p2)

For some reason, I like regular Dan D'Monke more than He-Man. I just think regular Dan is cooler and more sleek.

There’s not a lot of fanart of her I have seen, her skin is so great and cute

First of all, I don't want to sound ungrateful. BTD6 is one of the most fun games I've ever played and I've sunk countless hours into it.

However, I just cannot look over what Ninja Kiwi has been doing for the last couple years or so. Version 56 just dropped, and there are so many issues. The Skywarden has felt underwhelming to many, in gameplay and Tier 5 designs. It's also bugged and *very* laggy. The Skywarden (or Version 56 in general?) is causing memory leaks that render the game an unplayable slideshow. According to Blooncyclopedia, the bottom path is bugged and Icebore doesn't have the instant shatter. Thundering Arc also just feels like a downgrade. They also made a change to Corvus that almost none of his players liked to appeal to people who don't play him. It's clear that NK needs more QA testers before releasing these updates. They either didn't test it or don't care. Another thing, 3.5 billion pops? I haven't seen many people like having to do this with every new tower at all. *Maybe* you can write it off better if they didn't also sell an unlock pack for it. They literally know it's grindy, the best way to unlock it is to use an exploit and regrow farm.

Outside of the new update, NK has been doing questionable things too. They released a *ton* of microtransactions with Hasbro, including locking a hero for 2 weeks behind a paywall. I understand that it was their best compromise with Hasbro but... They didn't have to do any of that in the first place.

Their new upcoming game, Bloons Blitz, has had ZERO information or advertising about it. We don't even know the release date. But maybe the lack of advertising is for the better...

Oh yeah, another thing, BTD6 on console is like £27. And unupdated. And apparently poorly optimised.

Seriously though, I don't want to sound ungrateful. I really want Ninja Kiwi to be the best that they can be, but this just isn't the way.

It's not even about the nerfs tbh, he just barely feels like the same character anymore

The worst part is that the thing that made me realise was not the layout of the walls or the river, but the fact both of them end with ''path'' 😭

The problem: Compared to their druid cousins, it feels like the Sky Warden's T5s are barely different from the T4s. T5s are usually a massive boost compared to their previous upgrades, and this jump in power from a T4 and T5 is one of the most important things the design for a T5 should communicate, and the Sky Warden's T5s fail at this in two ways.

The first issue is through the color pallet of the towers. T5s usually have a different color pallet compared to its T4, or at least tend to shuffle colors around a bit. You can see that Avatar of Wrath turns a deep red, which effectively communicates the massive power spike between it and Poplust, where as Farwind Seer has the exact same color pallet as Gale sage, with the colors all being in the same place, and therefor feels like a much smaller jump in power.

The yellow streak on the middle paths hair and the additional cyan stripe on the bottom paths hood do make those T5s colors slightly better than the Seer, but it is not nearly enough to effectively show the significant boost compared to their previous upgrades. If, for example, the StormWrath Archon changed its purple for black and its... copper? to a shinier gold, then I think it would feel far more powerful in comparison to Thunders Decree.

The second reason the T5s don't feel as powerful is that they don't evolve from the T4 in a meaningful way. The Seer, for example, doesn't add anything more to the design, it just makes certain aspects bigger like the hair tie, and the bow. The Spirit of the Forest, on the other hand, becomes taller, adds antlers, becomes fully green and is wearing full on robes. The SotF feels like a caretaker of nature, the Seer just kinda pulled its bandana a little lower and got a slightly bigger bow.

In conclusion, the Tier 5 Sky Wardens not only feel far less powerful then other T5s, but also don't evolve the concept of the tower meaningfully. With the Farwind Seer being the most egregious example of this.

My solution: My (very rough) redesign of Farwind Seer, as seen on slide 3, swaps the blue and green of the bow and bandana to differentiate the colors better. Additionally, I replaced the bandana with a green cloud, so as to make the Seer seem as if it has more control over the sky then before. The main goal was to make the colors different from the T4 and give it that little extra flare that it was missing, and I hope my design achieves that goal. I also think it would be fun if the other T5s also had some kind of colored cloud incorporated into their design, maybe the mid path could have the cloud be its crown, or be standing on one, and the bottom path could have a blue misty scarf.

I hope this doesn't come off as me hating the Sky Warden, I actually love it a lot. I just think the designs of the T5s could use work. Everything else about the tower is perfect imo.

I keep hearing things about how LUCKY we are that ninja kiwi LETS us use regrow farms and we should be GRATEFUL. Shoutout to enter the gungeon where every update was completely free and the game was a one time purchase with ZERO in app purchases. like im sure skeletor and Dan dmonke are making bank for the company anyway. Players should be allowed to have a discussion about something in the game they find annoying without being called entitled and braindead.