Hi pals! Welcome to the Tower Tea! Here’s what we’ve got going down today!

• An update on Tournaments
• The Towers 5th Anniversary Community Event
• The Tower Blog is Coming This Week
• Tentative Update Timeline

Tournaments

We want to follow up with y’all about the Tournament conversation. We have been discussing ways to improve the current tournament system, such as reducing the length of tournament runs and making leagues feel competitive across the board. (and maybe *cough* presets *cough*) Our goal is to explore and test our solutions and have the changes go live in an update sometime in early August. Some things need a little more time, discussion, and attention… and that’s what we’re giving it!

But there is a timeline for you, and a few little peeks at some things coming your way. Thanks for your patience pals, we appreciate you!

The Towers 5th Anniversary

Y’all absolutely slayed the first Anniversary Challenge, and I am SO proud of you. I grabbed data from the whole year so far, did the maths, and you beat my estimate by almost a day and a half.

The next challenge:

25,000,000,000 waves completed by June 30th!

And now I get to reveal a few of the rewards!

• For playing The Tower between June 1, 2026 and June 30, 2026, you will receive:
  • 100 Gems
• For beating the first challenge:
  • 150 Medals
• For this one:
  • 300 Medals

So, thanks for hanging out and for participating in this fun little experiment pals. Let me know if you think we should expand on these in the future!

But that’s not all the fun for this month! Login every day between June 15th to June 22nd and claim a daily anniversary reward! These gifts will be sent to your in-game mail, and features currencies and extra goodies.

The Tower Blog

Welcome Defenders, we’re here to help! I am SO excited to share with you that the brand new Tower Blog is coming THIS WEEK! I have been talking about this for the past few months and we’re almost there!

So what is “The Tower Blog”?

Great question! This blog is a landing space for all communications that we put out, including Tower Tea, Patch Notes, Community Highlights, Dev Interviews, Q&A’s, a general FAQ for players, a source to the Help Center, and a space to grow together as a community. This isn’t replacing anything, we will still post Developer Announcements in Discord, Reddit, and other social media platforms we are on, but they will live on the blog as well. We wanted a place that was more formal to host our coms, and a space for players who may not be on social media that want to be more involved in what is going on around the community.

Tentative Update Timeline

Finally, I want to give you a quick look into what we’re cooking. Our tentative update is:

V28.3 = After the anniversary event (late June/early July)

V29 = Early August

We want to be more visible about our development timelines, and are excited to share more information as the dates approach. As for visibility of other non-update announcements (sales, banners, etc), we will ensure that players have some heads up prior to when it goes live. Remember: all timelines are tentative!

That’s all for this week, I will see you around The Tower ❤️

Sam

Been farming t11 for a hot minute now and it's getting up to 13 hour runs which is... inconvenient. However I've only gotten 3.5kish waves in the dissonance run and it seems like it's going to take more than that to get t12 to be a valuable farm for me.

I'm just wondering what state your guys towers were in when you were able to complete it! Appreciate the responses!

It would be interesting to see a separate & temporary tier for a future community event, featuring unique spins on enemies and rewards, enemies drop extra coins and gems etc. Potentially even temporary milestones for the special tier depending on how far you can make it.

3 year player, and got on the ePath train later in my journey. I have all UW's and working on Card Masteries now... but struggling to advance in Legends. I used to ping pong, but now I'm stuck in the last group before relegation, and trying my best to move up.
Lately I've been seeing that CL shouldn't be considered all it's cracked up to be which ePath has always pushed. If CL isn't considered top DMG creator, then what are the alternatives?

If it helps, I have the following masteries maxed:

DMG, RCP, ST, DM as well as IS and WA maxed.
Working on EB and UC masteries

Dissonance runs have me swapping out my bans quite frequently, and going back to farming requires a complete resorting of my auto pick perks. The interface of tapping the arrows over and over is quite unpleasant.
I would like for my auto perk list to stay as it is, even if there is a banned perk on there.

Wondering if adding LMSm could potentially increase berzerk mastery chances.

This is my tower's information: farming t12 for 5800 waves full ehp ( i can also run t13 with higher coins multiplier but its too few waves for it to work yet).

I already have ehls substats developed because of potentially glass cannon farming in the future, so i have 53% ehls and 55% eals.

Ive developed damage masteries and my cl is decently developed as well. I run lvl 1 shrink ray and i could equip berserker, damage, berserker ultimate crit and crit card towards the end of the run and i can prolong my run to 6300-6400 waves, even with my lvl 1 cannon. The problem is my coins and cells per hour greatly decrease, as enemies instantly evaporate, so whats the point of the extra hustle pre t14? My setup isnt building towards pgt because im taking the bhd+sh mvn+pcol route, so ill have to stick to pure ehp for a long time.

Is every hybrid setup suboptimal and a way to just start making viable a higher tier, instead of sticking to a lower tier? What's the point of prolonging a run that lowers your coins and cells per hour ?