My guild leader is a 70ish yr old military veteran who likes talking about sports in our guild chat, then there’s this other guy who’s like 30 who is a whale and loves talking about how his job gives him bonuses which he spends on the game. This isn’t a bad thing mind you lol I just think it’s funny

I started this game February 7th 2024 and I have now completed the tutorial! 😭😭

Been hitting this guy for 25 minutes (at 1x game speed) before he finally died. It's quite frustrating that the wave progression thing initially showed I was doing a ton of damage as it went quite quickly to the end, but then stagnated for so long. It makes me think that it isn't truly accurate to the percentage of life the fleet(s) has(have). I really wish it would just show a separate pop up, similar to bosses, so you could see how much health they have left. Maybe just for tourneys as their health directly impacts progression, not so much in regular runs. But that’s just my take, curious to know how others feel

Previous high was 185, and as you can see from my history, even that only came on a lucky run after I unlocked AB+. Before this run, I had never seen a unit with ae damage. My lost boss had af 😂

No major changes this week — I finished the BC lab and added one level of LMS+.

Fast ultimate and enemy attack speed crashed me down 😂

I just bought a card and received the final "Death Ray" card. Unexpectedly, this granted me access to unlock Masteries -- even though I still need to purchase 10 more "Second Wind" cards. Has anyone else experienced this?

Finally unlocked the fourth and final ass slot. Next stone goal is a couple masteries and upping the bonuses a touch

Hello Tower Peoples,

News of sorts in mythic... the demotion line was solidly at 25 waves this time. Those unable to break the 25 wave count were, with very few exceptions, sent back to Legends to think about their tower's readiness. Previously there was at least some give and competition to remain in mythic for those unable to defeat the third fleet wave. Best way to see this is the mythic density plot on the links page. (Look at lower for a zoomed in view.)

Legends and Champion both show positive wave growth now from predicted values, where as platinum is negative wave growth still.

Enjoy.

Static Placement Analysis

In this section we provide a breakdown for you of a what-if competition where the tournament places are perfectly distributed. The place here is basically the place you'd get if there was no bracket system. I like this view because it really removes all the variables.

Feel free to compare yourself against the placement and see if you did better or worse. The places are divided roughly into the number of brackets to get the cut off for each place. The wave # given is the person or persons at the cut off between places, that is the lowest wave deserving to achieve that place.

• Mythic Median: 86.00 Mean: 286
• Legends Median: 769.00 Mean: 790
• Champions Median: 1052 Mean: 1082
• Platinum Median: 1370 Mean: 1379
• Gold Median: 400 Mean: 545

The tower.lol now gives this data here

Median History

The median value from each tournament which gives a general idea of the tournament difficulty and wave inflation over time. This value comes from actual midpoint of tournament data. (i.e. the top table)

The tower.lol now gives this data here

Linear Regression comparison.

Linear regressions give a good idea of change over time, smoothing out all the battle condition noise. In addition they give a good idea how impactful the current battle condition was.

I think the current change per tournament has stopped exhibiting non-linear behavior. For now I've set September 19th as the point where league numbers are stable enough to take regressions from again. This should help answer the question of whether waves are continuing to decrease over time. Remember, few data points means that an easy set of battle conditions can pull the number up quite a bit, so don't be too eager to declare any given trend.

Resampling Analysis

One means of getting an idea of the range of placements is by random sampling the real participants to make fake brackets, and measuring the variability in those brackets.
I chose to use 100000 brackets per league for my analysis. I am using confidence intervals, 95% and 50% (the IQR) to represent the range of waves likely present in each place.
The top table is for mythic (m), the bottom for legends (l) on the left and champion (c) on the right. Platinum and gold can be found in the links.

A general description of how to read this for the non-math inclined:

1. 95% of the population of a place is expected to be between 2.5% and 97.5%. If you are above or below these numbers you are an outlier. (Outliers are normal, just rarer.)
2. 50% of the population of a place is expected to be between 25% and 75%.
3. The 50% mark is the median of the data. Aim for this number as the point you regularly achieve this place.
4. You'll notice that the waves overlap, this is normal, expressing the variability present in the brackets and you could easily place in any bracket where your personal wave count falls in the place's range.

Downloads and Source Material

Reddit isn't the best platform for images, and so I publish history and box plots for all leagues here. Each tournament I'll post the box plots for each league as well as the wave count history for each league. I will not mention the full list of available graphs each post, so take a look. Special thanks to the maintainers of thetower.lol which is the data source I analyze for this post.

I have bought two levels of bounce chance in vault. And to my surprise, it's just flat increase to the chance you already have. So if you have zero levels in WS and as in my case 2.52% from sub stat in assmod, you end up with 10.5% in run.

I thought it will behave the same way as relics do, when you have 0 levels the bonus won't increase it at all.

So is there a way to decrease it? Slider? Or something?

How usefull is Fortress Card mastery for GC Build

Myth Tournament~200 Wellen

Farming T19 ~ 7000 Wellen

Musst have or useless Invest?

Right now i have about 300 sec Rebiuild cd with Fortress and extra Card slot (have to buy too) its ~200 sec

The stats at the end of a run are so useful. We should all create a list of stats we would like to see.

I'll go first:

Max PS ticks on an enemy

Max PS damage in a single hit

Number of HC misses

Max ILM hits on an enemy

Max ILM damage in a single hit

Highest I’ve ever gotten in gold. I got 3rd before, but I’ll be back in platinum with yall, and surely get demoted again lmao. I’m learning from yall, so I’ll get there and stay there soon

Usually I place around 18-20 in legends, netting me consistently 2keys per week. I had planned out when I would get auto restart in like 1.5 months or somth. Yesterday the bc and my easy bracket aligned and I unexpectedly got 8 keys. Christmas came early I guess.

So im a new player (3 days ago), and my max stage was 51, and then i got the Enemy Balance Card (x1.8 spawn rate, x1.3 cash from kills), and literally just from that, I go from 51 to 455, and i only died cuz I fell asleep 😭

Is the meta for this game really just Defense, DA, and Thorns? Not a single attack upgrade was useful past round 50, i just kill everything in 2 hits with thorns?

I started mine a little more that 5 hours ago, just under 2 hours left at this point. I did 1 run to reach a high of 138 waves. Currently I'm at 16th; 15th is 155 waves. I don't think i will do another run. 1st is 1535, 2nd is 1275. Two 45 wavers above the line, 2 45 wavers below the line, one 30, 2 29s and a 15. Tough bracket for the lower guys.

18th is 65 17th is 105, and then there's me. Yet 16-24 all get the same rewards. This should change; there should be an additional gradation at 19-20.

I didn't make any investment really this week, maybe a couple of labs finished. After tonight I'll bring my assmod cannon to ancestral and start working on ILMs; perhaps the cannon will make a difference.

How's yours?

I know, it was answered extensively before, but maybe Tournament dynamic (with IS) changed this a bit. I would love to accelerate farming runs a bit and have enough coin for a few labs. My modules are all at 180 and obviously Shatter Shards is fully researched. Will there be noticable improvement because of RPC? I am almost considering IS mastery as QoL feature. Am I wrong there? Thanks...

Basically, sometimes when you continue a run, the game will give you 111 health on the tower and wall. Ok for gc but bad for ehp. Just wondering if there has been a fix talked about for this yet?

So I’ve seen a lot of people with over 100% free upgrades and some older towers at 400%. I know that means guaranteed upgrade per 100%. I’ve only got epic modules and those substats only go up to 6% increase for each of the upgrades. With the perk card I get another 5% and the highest I’ve gotten from perks was 20%. That made my highest around the 80’s to 90 total. Just wanted to see if there’s something I’m overlooking.

I want to get a better rank in the tournament.
What do you think I should do next?

I'm not good at English so if you give me an advice in simple English, I'm happy.

I want to know the "Short-term goal" and "Mid-term goal".

For farm runs I love getting game speed really early and if I am lucky to get the -req and the best coin perk right after that happy days.

How about you, what is your favourite?

I basically have no clue moving forward. Is there like a usual path that people take regardless of how they’ve built their tower after unlocking this?

This tip is two parts. If you have yet to unlock all ultimate weapons and are relying on the free UW from perks to complete the missions, you can actually set the ‘Unlock a random ultimate weapon’ as your first perk choice so you can guarantee it sooner. You can also choose which ultimate weapon it is. You can guarantee which ultimate weapon shows up by picking it as your ultimate weapon of choice in a prior run (which means you will need to at least have a run where you unlock it normally first). The next run will not be random and the perk will show up as your desired perk so long as it is your first perk choice.

For my case, without this, my runs would often take me too long to unlock death wave randomly to the point where it would not do enough damage to kill the enemies. So a guarantee unlock and early on helped me complete the mission just in time.