Bloons Wiki
Register
Advertisement
Bloons Wiki
BTD6

Magic shots seek out the Bloons, even behind cover.
~ In-game description

Guided Magic is the first upgrade of Path 1 for the Wizard Monkey in Bloons TD 6. It allows the Wizard Monkey magic bolts to home in on bloons and bypass Line of Sight restrictions. It also increases overall projectile lifespan to account for the seeking. Certain alternate attacks are also affected by this crosspath, but interact with this crosspath in very different ways.

Guided Magic can affect crosspaths that grant other magical spells. Of the ones that grant ignorance of Line of Sight, Fireballs and Wall of Fire blazes with this crosspath can pass through walls, and Dragon's Breath flames can too. As for lifespan, Dragon's Breath flames last 100% longer and Undead Bloons from Necromancer: Unpopped Army and Prince of Darkness last substantially longer. Wall of Fire blazes with Guided Magic receive the Manual Targeting option, which locks them to any location within the Wizard's range. For the Phoenix or Lava Phoenix, spewed flames lightly home.

This upgrade costs $125 on Easy, $150 on Medium, $160 on Hard, and $180 on Impoppable.

Description[]

Overview[]

The Wizard's hat changes from black to blue, excluding the designs on its hat. In its artwork, its magic bolt is blue, but in-game, the colour of its projectile remains purple.

As the start of the arcane path, the Guided Magic upgrade increases the skillfulness of magic. For the Wizard, it can now summon magic that is longer-lasting, can pass Line of Sight obstacles, and many types of magic can home as well. The bolt does all the aforementioned benefits. Numerous types of magic have different interactions with this crosspath.

If the Guided Magic Wizard pursues the Necromancer path, the sole benefit for the Undead Bloons are extra lifespan. However, along the fiery upgrade path, the middle crosspaths, the Wizard's fiery spells interact in many more interesting ways. Fireballs pass through obstacles; Wall of Fires can be targeted anywhere within range, including through obstacles, and last longer; Dragon's Breath's flames pass through walls and last twice as long; and the Phoenix and Lava Phoenix will now shoot homing flames.

Targeting Priorities[]

Guided Magic targets bloons using the standard targeting priorities. It shoots straight movement projectiles that weakly seek at bloons.

  • First: Targets the first bloon visible within its range.
  • Last: Targets the last bloon visible within its range.
  • Close: Targets the closest bloon visible within its range.
  • Strong: Targets the strongest bloon visible within its range.

Costs[]

Updated as of Version 41.0. Listed prices exclude external buffs, any sacrifices, and Monkey Knowledge.
[Module | Data] Purchase Sell
Costs Easy Medium Hard Impoppable Easy Medium Hard Impoppable
Upgrade (1-X-X) $125 $150 $160 $180 -
Total (1-0-0) $445 $525 $565 $630 $312 $368 $396 $441
Crosspath (1-1-0) $700 $825 $890 $990 $490 $578 $623 $693
Crosspath (1-2-0) $1,380 $1,625 $1,755 $1,950 $966 $1,138 $1,229 $1,365
Crosspath (1-0-1) $700 $825 $890 $990 $490 $578 $623 $693
Crosspath (1-0-2) $955 $1,125 $1,215 $1,350 $669 $788 $851 $945

This upgrade's prices (or included crosspath's prices) are affected by the following MK: MagicTricksIcon Magic Tricks, BetterSellDealsIcon Better Sell Deals

Strategy[]

Summary[]

Guided Magic improves accuracy of many attacks in various different ways. It allows bolts and lower-tier fire attacks to ignore Line of Sight obstacles. Plus, the seeking for its bolt makes it viable at catching quicker bloons and cleaning up any stray bloons. As for the Dragon's Breath attack, which adds just extra lifespan, it does help flames reach further, but generally does not do much assistance overall.

Tips[]

  • Currently, Guided Magic affects nearly all attacks launched by Wizard, including the main Wizard bolt, Fireball, Wall of Fire, Dragon's Breath, and Shimmer. It also has the unique interactions of doubling Dragon's Breath's lifespan from 0.4s to 0.8s, and increasing Necromancer and Prince of Darkness zombie lifespan by 75 units.
  • The top path Wizard is overall an excellent tower on maps with Line of Sight blockers such as Hedge or High Finance due to this upgrade granting the ability to bypass the obstacles.
  • Crosspathing with Intense Magic can potentially makes this tower worse, as the increased projectile speed means that its seeking curve is much larger and generally more undesirable.
  • As of the Version 7.0 update, which decreases the base cost of the Wizard Monkey down to $450 on Medium, one 1-0-0 Wizard Monkey can be afforded on most difficulties with up to $650, except Impoppable Mode (unless with Monkey Knowledge "More Cash") and Half Cash. It becomes even more affordable since Version 21.0, with the base Wizard price cut by $50 on Medium.
  • Due to its cheap price, even if the player does not need the bypassing of line of sight, the player can still purchase this upgrade as a cheap stepping stone for the higher tiers for this path.

Version History[]

Crosspathing benefits have been given to Guided Magic to make the Wizard Monkey more usable on maps with Line of Sight issues and to reduce RNG of Walls of Fire.

3.0
  • BUFF Guided Magic now allows magic bolts to bypass through Line of Sight restrictions.
4.0
  • BUFF Guided Magic now allows Walls of Fire to ignore walls.
18.0
  • BUFF Guided Magic now allows Walls of Fire to specifically target at certain locations via target priority if bloons are within range.
21.0
  • BUFF Main bolt has more pierce (2 → 3, from base Wizard buff).
  • BUFF Guided Magic now increases lifespan of Dragon's Breath (0.4s → 0.8s).
23.0
  • BUFF Guided Magic now allows Fireballs to ignore walls.
30.0
  • BUFF [Undocumented] Guided Magic now allows Dragon's Breath to ignore walls.
33.0
  • BUFF Guided Magic now changes Wall of Fire to utilize Manual Targeting instead of Dynamic Targeting
  • BUFF Guided Magic now increases lifespan of Wall of Fire
39.0
  • BUFF Guided Magic further increases lifespan of Wall of Fire
  • BUFF Guided Magic now gives light homing for Phoenix and Lava Phoenix flames

Gallery[]

Official artwork[]

Trivia[]

  • This upgrade is possibly inspired by the Tier 3 Mage Spire in BTD5.
Advertisement