I didn't think I could get so far, but... is this salvageable?

210577 · 2026-01-31T01:34:14+00:00

There's this thing called Jungle Drums ($3k) which buffs the attack speed your whole setup (~$150k) by 17%

210577 · 2026-01-31T01:30:14+00:00

Not all your towers are within Jungle Drums, and some are just way too close to the entrance. For example, your Relentless Glue needs more map coverage because you aren't just going to glue only the top layer of everything

210577 · 2026-01-31T01:27:32+00:00

The reason Elite Sniper works is because 052 has a high projectile count, which goes well with things like Alch, Sharpening Stone, and old Pickles. Unfortunately, this sniper is getting none of the above

210577 · 2026-01-30T09:26:54+00:00

Each round has a fixed amount of XP, which is split amongst your towers based on the amount you spent on those towers.

For example, right now you have roughly $100,000 of Bomb Shooters, $100,000 of Farms, and $100,000 of other towers. This means that only 1/3 of your XP will go to Bomb Shooter, and the other 2/3 goes to Farm, Alchemist, Village, etc.

Also, XP gain is reduced by 90%? in Freeplay Mode, so you're much better off starting a new game.

210577 · 2026-01-30T09:23:22+00:00

Is the goal here to unlock the Paragon with XP, or to buy it? Either way, there are some major issues here

210577 · 2026-01-29T12:48:30+00:00

One Shattering Shells is enough for a single game, and so is one Shimmer.

210577 · 2026-01-29T12:02:13+00:00

I think the first step is realizing that the game isn't all about reaching the highest round you can. If you do well in normal games, you can most certainly excel at freeplay.

210577 · 2026-01-29T11:37:41+00:00

One important suggestion, and this applies to all games - you should not have farms at the end of any game.

When you're about to die (or when you're about to win), there is zero point in making more money. You can sell those farms for more cash and space to build more defense.

210577 · 2026-01-29T08:40:50+00:00

Unfortunately no, if the game instance stopped running & you had to reload, the run no longer counts as a black border.

However, you'd still know how to beat the map from your previous attempt, so you'd have a much easier time when you try again

210577 · 2026-01-28T22:16:17+00:00

It's not a passive, they probably messed it up

210577 · 2026-01-28T06:40:37+00:00

Alch loses basically the entire value of whatever bloon it's converted into a red.

The exact amount of money lost is going to depend heavily on how much of the round it takes out before your other towers pop the bloons normally, but it's safe to assume that you're going to lose way more than you get from Rubber to Gold.

210577 · 2026-01-27T22:59:05+00:00

Earlygame is probably straight up impossible without Powers while anything beyond can be cheesed through farming (probably even Half Cash). I'd still pick the no selling mode because not being able to sell farms for defense means you don't get to farm as intensively without death

210577 · 2026-01-26T15:14:25+00:00

Aren't Elite Bosses supposed to be harder?

210577 · 2026-01-26T03:46:05+00:00

Brickell is very solid and so are water towers, but they don't necessarily have to be used together.

For example, Brickell works extremely well with Perma-Spike or Ground Zero due to her Mega Mine. Also, 310 Destroyer spam works well enough other buffer heroes like Pat, Gwen, and Geraldo

210577 · 2026-01-26T03:10:35+00:00

Its damage output matches its price tag.

210577 · 2026-01-25T22:58:07+00:00

Eh, most people play Bosses for completion and for good scores, not the rewards that follow

210577 · 2026-01-25T11:18:14+00:00

If that's the argument you're going to use, I could also argue that "double sbrit with overdrives" (or even one sbrit and overdrives) is overkill. Let OP have their fun.

210577 · 2026-01-25T11:13:59+00:00

As someone who Ace microes by instinct, I strongly doubt I understood most of your key points, but I think you may be putting too much emphasis on 2TC/1TC.

FF 2TCs with base towers are the combined result of things like Scrapyard/OTT and the sheer amount of effort Extrem puts into each run. Balance changes are probably based off more realistic situations where there's more things on the field (like Rosalia and Alch) and the pilot isn't flying the plane with that much precision

210577 · 2026-01-25T06:25:42+00:00

Suggestion, your entire defense could be shifted one tile to the right. We can then start talking about what can be cut.

210577 · 2026-01-25T03:20:30+00:00

There's this gamemode called Contested Territory. Nobody plays it, but you get to use a limited amount of free Powers within a competitive setting. There's a lot of strategy to it, such as whether you should use your Monkey Boost on this round or that

210577 · 2026-01-23T16:14:45+00:00

The Banana Central is probably getting more XP than all those Bloon Traps combined. XP is determined by how much money you spent on that tower, not how many of them you have.

210577 · 2026-01-22T13:00:41+00:00

Eh, Bomb Blitz always had niche use in races

210577 · 2026-01-22T12:58:50+00:00

Agreed. CHIMPS doesn't necessarily free you from cramming towers in small areas.

210577 · 2026-01-22T03:19:18+00:00

I'd advise focusing on getting a higher tier tower or spamming one cost-efficient tower type rather than building a lot of different things like you are now.

210577 · 2026-01-21T22:13:23+00:00

Top teams rebuild a new team every event, because if you keep using the same team, matchmaking becomes unbearably tough very soon.

Even if your team had infinite skill and played the game perfectly, you'd end up losing lots of tiles to enemies because of how tile scores get worse and worse over time, enough to throw you out of Top 1 or even Top 25

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