M.O.A.R. Glaives

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M.O.A.R. Glaives (sometimes referred to as MOAR Glaives) is the fourth upgrade of Path 1 for the Boomerang Monkey in Bloons TD 6. It can be unlocked for 8,500 XP.

It substantially improves the ricocheting glaive attack from the Glaive Ricochet. Attack cooldown reduces from 1.2s to 0.4s, which triples its attack speed, pierce increases from 30 to 80, gains much faster projectile speed, and max bounce distance increases from 60 units to 180 units. All glaives shot from the MOAR Glaives ignore Line of Sight, although the monkey itself needs a clear shot to attack. Additionally, glaives deal +1 damage to Ceramic Bloons.

This upgrade costs $1,700 on Easy, $2,000 on Medium, $2,160 on Hard, and $2,400 on Impoppable.

Description

Overview

The M.O.A.R. Glaives wears a light gray hood with a dark gray X on it, dark gray gloves, and a light gray cape. The upgrade portrait shows the cape to be in the air with two other glaives, with the monkey about to throw a glaive.

Like all upgrades up to Tier 4, crosspaths change the appearance of the M.O.A.R. Glaives. With Path 2 crosspaths, the black X symbol gains cyan patterns; Faster Throwing replaces it with three intersecting cyan lines, while Faster Rangs modifies it into two parallel cyan lines. Crosspathing with Path 3 gives the monkey red gloves, which is acquired with Long Range Rangs, and with Red Hot Rangs its X symbol is now yellow with an orange lining, alongside the red hot glaives.

M.O.A.R. Glaives substantially improves the Boomerang Monkey's cleanup potential by greatly increasing attack speed, pierce, projectile speed, and maximum projectile distance. On top of this is a damage bonus to Ceramics, mostly added so it won't fall off so badly against Super Ceramics.

Targeting Priorities

MOAR Glaives targets bloons using the standard targeting priorities. Like Glaive Ricochet, MOAR Glaives shoots a straight movement projectile that can sharply turn with aggressive seeking upon collision with a bloon.

• 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.

Like all Boomerang Monkeys, MOAR Glaives can access Change Hands secondary targeting priority to switch hands, changing the origin and direction of the boomerangs.

Full Popology

Statistics

Updated as of Version 41.0

Base stats

• Glaives:
  • Projectile, sharp type, 43 range, 0.4s attack cooldown, 1 damage, +1 ceramic damage (2 total), 80 pierce. Ricochets towards bloons from up to 180 range from projectile. Projectile ignores Line of Sight.

Crosspathing interactions

• 4-1-0:
  • Attacks faster, 0.3s (-25%) attack cooldown instead of 0.4s.
• 4-2-0:
  • Attacks faster, 0.225s (-25%) attack cooldown instead of 0.3s.
• 4-0-1:
  • Base range increased to 57.2 range instead of 43.
• 4-0-2:
  • Glaives now deal normal damage type, damage increases to 2, (+1), +1 ceramic damage (3 total).

Monkey Knowledge interactions

• Cheap 'Rangs: Base cost of Boomerang Thrower reduced by 50.
• Recurring 'Rangs: Boomerangs that return to the Boomerang Monkey will be thrown a second time.
• Extra Bounce: Glaives pierce cap increases to 110 pierce instead of 80.
• Come On Everybody!: Primary towers attack 5% faster if all are below tier 3, and cost 5% less if all are tier 3 or 4.
• Monkey Education: All Monkeys XP earn rate increased by 8%.
• Better Sell Deals: All Monkeys sell for 5% more. Sells for 75% instead of 70%.
• Veteran Monkey Training: All Monkeys reload time reduced by 3%.

Attack Interactions

See also: Attack Interactions/Bloons TD 6/Primary

Updated as of Version 35.0

Base attack(s)

• Glaives:
  • Sharp
  • Single Projectile
  • Straight Attack
  • Ricochet
  • Extra Damage to Ceramics

Costs

Updated as of Version 46.0. Listed prices exclude external buffs, any sacrifices, and Monkey Knowledge.

This upgrade's prices (or included crosspath's prices) are affected by the following MK: Cheap 'Rangs, Come On Everybody!, Better Sell Deals

Strategy

Summary

MOAR Glaives is an extremely powerful tower against regular bloons. It is generally best paired with an anti-MOAB attacker midgame, such as Arcane Spike or MOAB Mauler. Although it begins falling out of favor late game, it can still do fair chunks of damage to hyperclumped superceramics.

Its biggest problem in the current state of the game is that it is outclassed by Recursive Cluster, at least most of the time. However, M.O.A.R. Glaives attacks much faster than Recursive and has generally better consistency for each shot by the advanced ricocheting glaives, in addition to having a potential to be upgraded directly to Glaive Lord. M.O.A.R. Glaives sees some purpose on Race Events that enable it, particularly with its earlier Glaive Ricochet acting as a decent stepping stone in the transition to it.

Tips

• MOAR Glaives is usually best paired up with Red Hot Rangs, as it allows skipping of multiple layers and naturally pops all bloon types. Despite shooting around 78% faster than when upgraded to Faster Rangs instead (1.33⋅1.33 attack speed bonus), the +1 damage essentially doubles the damage of MOAR Glaives, while also allowing it to pop Lead and Frozen bloons. However, the Faster Rangs crosspath will overcome the Red Hot Rangs one on DPS if Berserker Brew or higher is used, and makes better use of its Ceramic damage bonuses.
  • In the same idea, a 4-0-2 Boomerang can beat Round 63 all by itself on many maps.
• Similar to Glaive Ricochet, MOAR Glaives projectiles are thrown straight rather than curved, though this is rarely noticeable unless in special custom challenges where bloon speed is extremely rapid.
• MOAR Glaives were a popular option in Race Events that enable this upgrade, since it has a huge pierce and attack speed increase alongside a much greater ricocheting range. However, the extra Ceramic damage it naturally gains might make them viable again in Race Events that don't enable Recursive Cluster.
• As long as the MOAR Glaives can attack, removing an obstacle isn't so necessary since its ricocheting glaives already ignore Line of Sight obstacles. There is value in removing obstacles if it is to allow the MOAR Glaives to obtain more sight coverage, however.

Version History

Balance Changes

Bug Fixes and General Changes

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Extra Notes (Version History)

Gallery

Chinese language version, showing just "M.O.A.R." abbreviation

Crosspathing, pre-18.0 (Top: path 2, Bottom: path 3)

Crosspathing, since Version 18.0 (Top: Path 2, Bottom: Path 3)

MOAR Glaives damaging lots of Super Ceramics in Encrypted

Ultraboosted MOAR Glaives, to demonstrate glaives ignoring obstacles

MOAR Glaives monkey itself with Line of Sight blockage in Version 34.0

MOAR Glaives observation of glaives idle animation for several Boomers, right look idle for the back right one

4-0-0 MOAR Glaives looking towards glaive direction idle animation

4-0-2 MOAR Glaives looking away from glaive direction idle animation

4-0-1 MOAR Glaives scratching idle animation

Official artwork

Upgrade portrait

Upgrade icon

Instamonkey icon

Other languages

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Trivia

• This upgrade wears the almost same clothing as the BTD5's Glaive Lord, except with an additional two crossed stripes.
• Part of the name "M.O.A.R." in "M.O.A.R. Glaives" is a corruption of the word "more", implying the Boomerang Monkey's increased quantity and quality of the glaives.
  • "MOAR" also appears in other media used to imply a corruption of the word "more". In terms of meme culture, the word "MOAR" is "a popular misspelling of the word 'more'".^[1]
  • One of the more popular instances of "MOAR" in meme culture comes from a certain SpongeBob SquarePants meme "MOAR Krabs". MOAR Krabs is a caricatured version of Mr. Krabs who appears after repetitively demanding SpongeBob to catch more jellyfish, after continually shouting "More!" every time SpongeBob catches a jellyfish.
• Before Version 18.0, the in-game 4-0-0 MOAR Glaives lacked two dark gray stripes unless upgraded along Long Range Rangs or Faster Throwing, despite its artwork featuring them.
  • Before Version 36.3, the in-game 4-0-0 MOAR Glaives had a dark yellow tint to its stripes. This was corrected to match the desaturated gray featured in the artwork. This is not the case on BTD6 Steam.

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