Wow, the Subnautical Siege Core...

[CaptainPOCK]

Thanks to the already hugely accumulated EXP on my submarine (and literally every other tower), I was able to test the Nautical Siege Core for 2 games and in Sandbox mode. And oh boy, after so much bloon death and explosions, I can safely point out...

This is the worst paragon of them all. Like jesus, when I first popped down the Navarch of the Seas or the Doomship Goliath, I had a sense of superiority. Their damage output was simply amazing and the innate buff synergies was straightup amazing. Pop down one Doomship and one Goliath and you essentially won the game.

I pop down the Nautical Siege Core and I feel like I would have been better off placing down the Apex Plasma Master.

This is quite honestly a disappointment, not gonna lie. It fails to do anything meaningful against later-wave enemies.

[Red Sword]

It's a cheaper paragon so you shouldn't expect it to be as strong as the Navarch or Doomship (literally the 2 strongest paragons) Besides, it literally can have global range through Advanced Intel and it's half DPS, half-support. It's only real problem is the ability, which is too weak and needs a shorter timer.

Other than that, this paragon isn't weak at all, he's quite balanced. I think you might just be spoiled by the power creep in paragons

[CaptainPOCK]

The ability is the part which annoys me the most, if not the almost only major complaint. You decomission the tower for 15 seconds. You lost 15 seconds of precious DPS which can cost you your head if you don't have any other tower with a significant strength to hold the line. Upon testing, the tower deals round about 150k - 160k damage within 15 seconds on paragon level 56. The ability deals round about 180k explosion damage after 15 seconds, so the benefit of using the ability are a few mere percent.

And the cooldown is unreasonably long. Taking the Cooldown and the risk-reward factor into account, the ability should at the very least deal about 300k - 400k damage at level 56, if not more.

So far the support doesn't seem noticeable. Unless I'm missing something, I can as well use the normal energizer for the same cooldown reduction effect. I didn't notice any other buff alongside this one.

[Red Sword]

The Energizer buff affects paragons within its range, plus its stronger Sub Commander buff it gives to heroes and other subs.

Again, the only thing that really needs to change is the ability. The countdown should be 5 seconds and the ability should do at least 200k at degree 1 so that it can one-shot the round 140 FBAD

[Revalopod]

The funny thing is the new map is actually a much better showcase map for the Apex Plasma Master as opposed to the Nautic Siege Core as the ball ricochets go crazy.

[Ninja Zyborg]

The ability is so ridiculously bad. I was experimenting with it on Resort, and in the mid 150s, there was a few bads, so I activated the ability. with about 12 seconds before it fired, DDTs spawned and ran through the entire map with a few seconds to spare.

[laslax]

The ability definitely seems like it's for bosses or something more than normal play. Sub Paragons submerge is weird to me too. I don't really know if it scales with Paragon degree, and I'm not really going to test that out. Regardless, a degree 1 Sub Paragon buffing submarines with other support like Homeland Defense and a support Temple will barely perform better than just having the degree 1 Sub Paragon shoot the bloons themselves. The reduced Paragon cooldowns is the cherry on top for the effort of super buffing your towers I guess.

[VJFranzK]

The Navarch carrier is still the star! Mega Sub could have some upgrades, though it does look cool! You can see half of it is underwater.
I had both of them here after about 2:11:11 Map Code: ZMYLUKT

https://youtu.be/liuxXZfeXew

[Nocturne Knight]

Use it in a boss fight. You'll be surprised to see how it performs.