The Tower - Idle Tower Defense Guide for Ultimate Weapons
Ultimate Weapons are one of the most powerful weapons in The Tower – Idle Tower Defense. These special abilities grant your tower unique attacks and effects that can dramatically improve performance, speed up progression, and enhance resource farming. By unlocking and upgrading Ultimate Weapons, players can gain a significant edge, whether they’re focusing on early-game momentum or long-term efficiency. This guide will help new players learn everything there is to know about ultimate weapons.
How to obtain Ultimate Weapons in The Tower?
Ultimate Weapons are purchased with Power Stones, and the cost increases as you collect more weapons. Each purchase presents three randomly chosen options, all with an equal chance of appearing. You are not forced to buy a weapon if you don’t like the options; simply close the menu or the app to back out. The choices remain the same until you purchase one, giving you time to decide before committing your stones.
The cost escalates quickly with each new Ultimate Weapon. Your first purchase costs only 5 stones, but subsequent ones require hundreds or even thousands. Here’s the progression of Power Stone costs in regard to ultimate weapon purchases:
- 1st: 5 Stones
- 2nd: 50 Stones
- 3rd: 150 Stones
- 4th: 300 Stones
- 5th: 800 Stones
- 6th: 1,250 Stones
- 7th: 1,750 Stones
- 8th: 2,400 Stones
- 9th: 3,000 Stones
Prioritize Ultimate Weapons
Not all Ultimate Weapons offer the same impact on your progress. Some are essential for resource generation and survival, while others are situational or shine later in the game. Below is a recommended priority list for free-to-play players:
- Golden Tower: This weapon drastically boosts coin farming and is essential for smooth, long-term progression. It synchronizes especially well with Black Hole once both are obtained.
- Black Hole: When paired with Golden Tower, this weapon compounds your coin income significantly. Proper activation timing of the two together leads to massive gains.
- Spotlight: Not only increases damage dealt to enemies but also provides a coin bonus that stacks with other multipliers.
- Death Wave: Adds multiple modifiers to enemies, including coin gain and health boosts, making it a core weapon for specific builds like Devo builds.
- Chain Lightning: No cooldown combined with Shock greatly increases damage taken by enemies.
- Smart Missiles: Primarily boosts Spotlight missile damage but also has its own event missions.
- Inner Land Mines: Offers crowd control through stuns and is required for some event missions.
- Poison Swamp: Focuses on crowd control with stuns while “Rend” amplifies damage further.
- Chrono Field: Extremely useful at 100% uptime, but reaching that level requires an enormous stone investment, making it less useful until your other Ultimate Weapons are well-upgraded.
How to Use Ultimate Weapons Effectively?
Once unlocked, all your Ultimate Weapons can be used simultaneously during a round. They activate automatically once their cooldown timer resets. The timer starts over immediately, even if the weapon is still active. You can also toggle Ultimate Weapons on or off during a run. Doing so resets their cooldown timer, but you’re limited to toggling them 40 times per run.
For best results, coordinate your weapon activations. For example, synchronizing Golden Tower with Black Hole can dramatically increase your coin gains by grouping enemies together before the tower’s gold bonus triggers. Similarly, pairing damage-focused weapons with crowd control ones creates powerful synergy.
Damage Calculations for Ultimate Weapons
Understanding how Ultimate Weapon damage is calculated helps you maximize their effectiveness. Damage-based weapons factor critical and super critical damage into the total damage displayed in the Workshop screen. The formula is:
Ultimate Weapon Damage = UW % × (1 + Core Module %) × Tower Damage × (1 + Critical Factor × Critical Chance) × (1 + Super Crit Multiplier × Super Crit Chance × Critical Chance)
Equipping the Ultimate Crit Card allows Ultimate Weapons to critically hit using your workshop’s crit factor stat (this does not apply to percentage-based damage). The critical damage formula is:
Critical Ultimate Weapon Damage = Ultimate Weapon Damage × Critical Factor
By optimizing your critical stats and modules, you can push the damage of weapons like Chain Lightning or Smart Missiles to impressive levels.
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