Tips for farming?

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Anybody have tips for efficient and quick farming for bloonarius and late games?

[Ninja Zyborg]

farms

[Ackranome]

lots of farms early?

[kaitou1011]

For Bloonarious, you want to focus entirely on farming until about 10 or 5 rounds or so before he appears, just place the minimum amount of towers to stay alive in the meantime. I tend towards using marketplaces myself: The 203 market and the 230 bank make about the same amount of money of the two options that don't require constant attention, so in normal 0-100 easy/medium rounds I tend towards banks, but the 204 market is far superior to the 240 bank and in Bloonarious you'll certainly be needing more than just the 3rd tier upgrade. If you want to give it constant attention, then the top tree will technically make the most money, but it does require the most money invested so it does take longer to earn your investment back. But honestly, if you're going to do that, get some monkey farmers down-- when Bloonarious is on the map, the last thing you need to be concerned with it trying to hover your mouse over your farms to collect bananas rather than spamming your abilities and throwing down extra monkeys as needed, and quitting and re-entering if you find you've messed up and its necessary.

[jordanad1501]

Using Benjamin is real useful too. Try to make your early game strat as minimalistic as possible so that you can keep those farms pumpin'

[battlezoby]

Don't underestimate the value of both Benjamin and EARLY CASH DROPS! If you're going for the Bosses, at least one cash drop at the start is often a good investment if you have any doubt as to whether or not you'll win.

Keep in mind that a cash drop during the first round is worth WAAAAAY more than later on, since the money you get from it will effectively provide compound interest.

BTW, (starting with my BTD5 days) I like to refer to "Double Cash" as "Quintuple Cash" because the extra money you get typically leads to enough compound interest that you end up with AT LEAST FIVE TIMES the normal amount of cash.

[KatiDragoion]

Actually, for this one, entenne works too, mostly cause of the camo detection. I did have to use 2 cash drops, and spam markets, but it worked. (DISCLAIMER: This was done on normal. It's not guaranteed to work on elite.)

[AN]

On a lot of normal difficulty maps you should just throw down Sauda and then just spam 2/0/0 farms until you need some basic lead popping power, and then shift to defense from Bloonarius' swarms around 38. Don't even need to worry about setting up to pop the boss itself until it arrives, a handful of maulers will do the job along the way.

On elite you'll do best learning a good balance with Benjamin, but you do want to put absolutely everything you can into banks before you have to kill/survive it's first appearance.

[battlezoby]

Originally posted by DragonKnight:

Actually, for this one, entenne works too, mostly cause of the camo detection. I did have to use 2 cash drops, and spam markets, but it worked. (DISCLAIMER: This was done on normal. It's not guaranteed to work on elite.)

Yea, I actually used Etinenne for, I think, my very first battle vs. Balloonarius, but after a while, I realized that I was underestimating Ben; I've posted that two cash drops are as good as he is, but after further consideration I suspect (but am not yet certain that) he's actually better than two cash drops. (So Ben plus two cash drops is better than four cash drops, even though it's obviously at the expense of not having other useful hero abilities instead.)

That said, the times I like Etinenne (however you spell him) the most is when space is tight and I don't want to drop Camo-detecting Radar Villages in spots next to things I would normally want to give camo detection to. (Especially the 205 and 402 Snipers, 402 and 203 and better Helicopters and Planes and the 320 and 230 or higher Supermonkys.)