“ | 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, and increases lifespan of Wall of Fire. For the Phoenix and 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.
Full Popology[]
Statistics[]
- Updated as of Version 44.2
- Base stats
- Bolt:
- Projectile, energy type, 40 range, ignores Line of Sight, 1.1s attack cooldown, 1 damage, 3 pierce. Moderately homes at bloons at a 200 linear speed and 360 angular speed, with a seeking radius of 31.83. Projectile lifespan of 0.8s.
- Crosspathing interactions
- 1-1-0: Fireball now ignores Line of Sight.
- 1-2-0: Wall of Fire now gains Manual Targeting anywhere within range, and ignores Line of Sight.
- 1-3-0: Dragon's Breath projectile lifespan increased from 0.4s to 0.8s, and ignores Line of Sight, but no homing.
- 1-4-0: Phoenix Breath now has weak seeking.
- 1-5-0: Phoenix Breath and Lava Phoenix Breath now both have weak seeking.
- 1-0-1: Projectile speed of Bolt increased from 200 to 400 and seeking radius increased from 31.83 to 63.66.
- 1-0-4: Projectile distance of Undead Bloon increased from 175 units to 250 units. Projectile speed of Bolt increased from 200 to 400 and seeking radius increased from 31.83 to 63.66.
- 1-0-5: Projectile distance of Undead Bloon increased from 175 units to 250 units, Undead MOAB increased from 225 units to 300 units, Undead BFB increased from 150 units to 225 units. Projectile speed of Bolt increased from 200 to 400 and seeking radius increased from 31.83 to 63.66.
- Monkey Knowledge interactions
- Lingering Magic: Projectiles fired from all Wizard Monkey have longer lifespan.
- Bolt with 1-x-x lasts 20% longer, from 0.8 seconds to 0.96 seconds.
- Magic Tricks: Guided Magic and Intense Magic cost 25 less.
- Guided Magic cost reduced from $125, $150, $160, $180 to $100, $125, $135, $160 on each difficulty.
- Monkey Education: All Monkeys XP earn rate increased by 8%.
- Better Sell Deals: All Monkeys sell for 5% more. Increases sell potency from 70% to 75%.
- Veteran Monkey Training: All Monkeys reload time reduced by 3%.
Attack Interactions[]
- See also: Attack Interactions/Bloons TD 6/Magic
- Updated as of Version 34.3
- Base attack(s)
Costs[]
- Updated as of Version 44.0. Listed prices exclude external buffs, any sacrifices, and Monkey Knowledge.
[Module | Data] | Purchase | Sell | ||||||
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Costs | Easy | Medium | Hard | Impoppable | Easy | Medium | Hard | Impoppable |
Upgrade (1-X-X) | $125 | $150 | $160 | $180 | - | |||
Total (1-0-0) | $400 | $475 | $510 | $570 | $280 | $333 | $357 | $399 |
Crosspath (1-1-0) | $655 | $775 | $835 | $930 | $459 | $543 | $585 | $651 |
Crosspath (1-2-0) | $1,335 | $1,575 | $1,700 | $1,890 | $935 | $1,103 | $1,190 | $1,323 |
Crosspath (1-0-1) | $655 | $775 | $835 | $930 | $459 | $543 | $585 | $651 |
Crosspath (1-0-2) | $910 | $1,075 | $1,160 | $1,290 | $637 | $753 | $812 | $903 |
This upgrade's prices (or included crosspath's prices) are affected by the following MK: Magic Tricks, 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[]
Balance Changes[]
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
- Guided Magic now allows magic bolts to bypass through Line of Sight restrictions.
- 4.0
- Guided Magic now allows Walls of Fire to ignore walls.
- 18.0
- Guided Magic now allows Walls of Fire to specifically target at certain locations via target priority if bloons are within range.
- 21.0
- Main bolt has more pierce (2 → 3, from base Wizard buff).
- Guided Magic now increases lifespan of Dragon's Breath (0.4s → 0.8s).
- 23.0
- Guided Magic now allows Fireballs to ignore walls.
- 30.0
- [Undocumented] Guided Magic now allows Dragon's Breath to ignore walls.
- 33.0
- Guided Magic now changes Wall of Fire to utilize Manual Targeting instead of Dynamic Targeting
- Guided Magic now increases lifespan of Wall of Fire
- 39.0
- Guided Magic further increases lifespan of Wall of Fire
- Guided Magic now gives light homing for Phoenix and Lava Phoenix flames
Bug Fixes and General Changes[]
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Extra Notes (Version History)[]
Gallery[]
Official artwork[]
Trivia[]
- This upgrade is possibly inspired by the Tier 3 Mage Spire in BTD5, which grants a homing bolt.
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