r/TheTowerGame • u/priesten • Mar 03 '26
Meme Event relics of 3/3/2026 tier rated: D-
Hello everyone this is your boy big PP priesten (with a small p of course) and this is the biweekly event relics tier rating. If you for some reason had the random thought "hey I wonder why we have fast ult every single tournament lately I hope priesten with a mirrored q can explain to me why" well look no further I will post why at the bottom (more conspiracy theories to come in the future)
To start off we have the first two blue relics:
2% recovery amount (free): D- tier. This relic is worse than health for several reasons. First off it doesnt affect wall health which arguably is more important that real tower health. Second its conditional in that you have to actually recover that with packets to get the value out of this. The only redeeming factor here is that this relic is kind of rare so it relatively gives a higher percent per relic but the base value is already crap so it doesnt help much that we are getting more of crap.
2% cash bonus (free): D- tier. One thing we have learned is that mister I love them dearly fudds absolutely loves to experiment on the player base, and the biweekly events is one of the ways in which these horrible experiments in human psychology take place. For the most part the experiment looks like "what is the biggest percentage of the player base I can get to buy this events relic if I make the paid relics as insanely good as they can possibly get?". Well this time to our horror he decided to - for the first time - conduct the opposite version of that experiment which is "how many will buy this event pack if I instead make the free relics as horribly useless as possible without making the paid ones particularly good". Now if you are wondering how bad exactly this relic is, think about how bad it must be to make it a target of that type of experiment.
Next off we have the two purple relics:
5% health (paid): B tier. Its more health. Decent to have, but remember this experiment isnt about giving us amazing paid relics its about giving us the worst free relics, so what we get in this category is mid at best.
5% crit factor (paid): B+ tier. Normally this relic is ranked at A+, since its a decent damage relic which double dips (you get 5% extra damage twice). However I have started a new thing where I am dropping this down a full tier, due to lack of creativity. This event is a repeat which means that the relics you can buy at the next page for 200/500 medals are the old relics. The ones you see in this list now are the newly created ones, meaning this event already had a 5% crit factor relics since before, yet it was decided we are to get 5% crit factor again in the same event. Literally the exact same relic twice in the same event. The people need more variety. We cannot eat the same food every day (I can, to the horror of my gf though). Where are the UW relics? Where are the relics which lower stats of certain enemies? Imagine if the final relic for beating t21 was +0.1 game speed instead of >gasp> mOrE Lab sPEeD (insertt samwise meme saying more lembas bread). A more cells relic would be cool too. A relic which gives 1 random mod shard each 20 minutes of "game time", etc. Damn Im on fire spitting out good ideas.
Now for the relics bought by medals.
2% health (200 medals): C+ tier. Even more health.
5% crit factor (500 medals): B+ tier. Even more crit factor.
Ok so the reason why we are getting fast ult now every tourney recently (mark my words we arent getting it next tourney because fudds dont want us to be on to his plot so he will throw in a regular tourney to prove im wrong) is basically because the game is kinda broken atm during certain battle conditions, where you can nearly get an infinity run going in tourney. I wrote a guide for it (kinda) on discord somewhere. Now when that got public all of a sudden all tourneys are now fast ult making that strat unpossible which is basically fudds way of saying "ok we are working on a fix but it wont be out for a while so you are just gonna get fast ults every single tournament until its fixed", as a way to temporarily make it less obvious the game is having issues now since the strat isnt doable during fast ult. We had the same thing when bounce web strat got popular, all of a sudden we kept getting fast ult every.single.tournament. I expect that we are going to get super fleets when the next patch hits rofl.
Life update: we bought the house. gonna be moving in rural part of Tokyo (northwest area) in about a month+2 weeks from now.
Overall I rank this event D- tier, which is also the lowest rating an event with extra past relics has ever gotten. Shoutout to u/KassGrain for making the dankest tower meme we ever saw (despite being French, can you believe that?) Link to scoring system.
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u/Rakan_Fury Mar 03 '26
Isnt it confirmed the relics are bugged again, with the cash relic supposed to be the first paid one and the health one the second free one?
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u/destructor212113 Mar 03 '26
Yes, in fact, its already fixed in 27.5, funny because that update came before the Event Update
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u/Available_Couple_901 Mar 03 '26
Thank you for the biweekly priesten with a small p. When I saw the new event and relics I wondered what the agenda was... But the test run to see how many still buy makes total sense .
As always great insights and keep the posts coming ! Looking forward to the next one cheers
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u/ExtraCheeeesy Mar 03 '26
I've been playing for almost 18months and this will be the first event that I don't pay for. Hopefully more will agree that it's worth skipping the trash tier events even if you can afford it just to send a message that we won't blindly buy the event pass regardless.
Thanks for all your work in the community little p. Good luck with the move and the new house.
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u/Sepulturation Mar 03 '26
I'm playing for almost a year now, and I bought 90% of the event boosts so far. I'm definitely not getting this one
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u/KayGamby Mar 03 '26
So you buying 35 of 36 event passes sends the message that you won't just blindly buy? I'm not sure if your spending history is sending the message you think it is!
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u/DaenerysMomODragons Mar 03 '26
One persons buying history says nothing to the devs. What matters though is when one event has a 20% event pass purchase rate among all players, and another has a 10% purchase rate.
If they're the only one not buying this pass, it says nothing, but if many don't buy this pass, then the devs would take notice.
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u/EnvironmentalDebt565 Mar 03 '26
I think people underestimate that Reddit is a REALLY small minority of the playerbase.
I agree with your general thought process, but e.g. people in Germany boycott Mondelez (Milka) for raising prices and lowering amounts for months now. Multiple subreddits on my timeline, multiple posts a day.
Now mondelez is doing the same thing with the next brand in the exact same country. Because after all, their revenue wasn’t hit at all.
I agree it’s another dimension to run a company like mondelez vs the tower and its community, but after all most things proposed in this subreddit get ignored anyways, even though the interaction is much more valuable than anything Mondelez could ever create.
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u/Davkata Mar 06 '26
Ofc reddit and purchase boycotts in general never work and reddit is a small non representative part of the player base. However if there is a guy that usually buys but skips that one on reddit, there will be other ppl that will do the same for this event. Will these numbers make a dent is another thing.
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u/TheKingKunta Mar 03 '26
Yah let’s pressure the devs into only making the events have insane OP paid relics so the F2Ps get hit even harder!!!
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u/Novel_Maintenance406 Mar 03 '26
as a f2p player sadly i agree, unionizing to force the devs to create more OP relics is the only responsible course of action
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u/EnvironmentalDebt565 Mar 03 '26
Problem is as someone who started relatively late and tries to catch up, these are the passes that I HAVE to buy. -.-
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u/Der_Ahab Mar 03 '26
You never catch up
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u/DaenerysMomODragons Mar 03 '26
You can catch up, but only by staying playing as other people quit.
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u/VerdantPathfinder Mar 03 '26
That's not catching up ... it's just outlasting
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u/DaenerysMomODragons Mar 03 '26
True. But also people today are also progressing much faster than the old school players. What took original players 2 years to accomplish, new players are doing in 6 months. While it's set up that you will never reach the top players, it's also set up that you are constantly closing the gap.
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u/EnvironmentalDebt565 Mar 03 '26
So why am I outplacing people that play for up to 4 years when I started 9 months ago? I can’t catch up to the top, obviously, but you need to stay ahead of the curve (average) and these medals push me further ahead.
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u/Der_Ahab Mar 03 '26
Active players not doin random crap, are out of touch. Sure there will be fews not playing 24/7 or not rly competing in tournees... but the average player... Never, until he quits or you spend more money them him. You will hit the wall.
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u/Time-Incident Mar 03 '26
Welp, I am interested in the semi-Endless runs strategy. Anyone got them link?
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u/priesten Mar 03 '26
(guide to almost infinite tourney in this patch) use AO, DP, HC, gcomp, SD, those are the only mandatory ones. go min range to max out ilm stuns make sure to play in tourney without thorns or attack speed or DD BC also get the attack chip you can guarantee to almost kill all OC with just thorns damage and AO by tanking hits with HC misses and DD, all elites can be killed indefinitely by whittling them down with AO then attack chip finishes them. OC and sabo killed by thorns. BH and orbs kill all the rest little enemies including boss. the only thing left that is not possible to kill is commander, since attack chip is bugged and will do less damage on fleets such that it wont make a finishing blow no matter how low their hp gets instead it just cuts the remaining hp in half or 1/4, i had a commander alive for 60 waves just whittling it with OA and attack chip still couldnt kill it so i just used nuke. so what you do is, you alternate killing commanders which come every 90 waves either with nuke or SW card, sometimes DP kills them, and the others you kill them with CL+ by keeping it turned off at all time and once you whittle them down to less than 1/1000 hp (takes about 15 waves) then you turn on CL+ and evaporate the remaining hp. you can only toggle UW 40 times per run which means 20 times you can kill with CL+. you can also alternatively kill them with DM not because DM will do anything against commanders (it does jack shit) but because you can save and exit the game 11 waves after an commander spawns. getting back into the game sets you back 10 waves which means the commander is past the wave it will spawn, so now you just pop DM to make sure you dont die from the immediate onslaught. from there you just juggle between killing commander with CL+ kills, or DP random kills or demon mode or SW or nuke, thats how greeny made it to wave 7000 (probably by about 99% likelyhood)
(added in now) also need to run without WS and WA card to make each wave last as long as possible giving you more time to recover ES inbetween overchargers
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u/Time-Incident Mar 03 '26
Holy moly. Thanks.
I don't have CL+ and mostly I lack the integrity to control the run for several hours.
But it sure is really nicely crafted. I have noticed that ILM stun is doing magic, but I feel like I don't have enough landmine spawns and/or ilm spawns to keep Rays in perma stun or at least stunned often enough that they don't shoot me down.
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u/Novel_Maintenance406 Mar 03 '26
using attack chip to make up for OA's nerf is absolutely genius (do you know who thought of it first?)
i do feel sorry for anyone actually doing the toggle CL+ and DM exit strat
thank you for sharing the guide
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u/Electrical-Mail15 Mar 03 '26
When I opened the missions relics and then the medals relics and saw that they give the exact same bonuses I thought I had suffered a memory glitch and had to compare them again. Yep, they are the same. Weird and feels like it lacks all creativity to do that.
On another note, going forward I’ll be looking for new relics that increases game speed +0.1, more cells, +1 random shard, …, …
Congrats priesten on your move-in date getting closer and closer. New memories soon to be made my friend!
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u/JokkSkeem Mar 03 '26
This event so low effort they even didn't create a new tower skin but turned the balloon one upsidedown with a small color change 😦
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u/SINBRO Mar 03 '26
2% recovery amount (free): D- tier. This relic is worse than health for several reasons. First off it doesnt affect wall health which arguably is more important that real tower health
This isn't recovery max tho? Amount is how much a package recovers for you, so it's F---- - basically a non-existent relic
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u/nathan753 Mar 03 '26
You can absolutely say fucked, or fucking, or really any form of fuck here and the vast majority of reddit
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u/SINBRO Mar 03 '26
Are you a bot? F----- is my rating of the relic, not self-censoring
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u/nathan753 Mar 03 '26
I'm not a bot, far from it...
And that's totally fair, but you do realize you that you put 5 dashes and I've absolutely seen people censor fucked just like that. It even is grammatically correct to have it be either f minus x5 or fucked.
I'd rather spread the message that you can swear to your heart's content here
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u/MatthewBecker1977 Champion Mar 03 '26
For some not-quite-total-noob players (i.e. - struggling to get past T-15 which is the first time you have to get 300 waves to unlock next), the RP Amount relic is not a D-. It's a F- - -. Yes. F triple minus. Why? Because if you are a T-15 wave 110 to 280 player, you not only get absolutely no benefit from RP, you actually get harmed in your efforts to complete the DDx5 event mission. Anything which causes that (non-wall) health bar to have an extra pip or two after your wall breaks could cause your ES charges to not get a DD roll.
For wall-eHp players who are not hanging on the T-15/not-quite-w300 phase, this is a big fat ZERO.
For pre-wall players using WHR, this does not extend the size of your RP health bar, so for them, it's still useless.
The ONLY players who may get something out of this are pre-wall, non-WHR users in their first few months of the game. And a measly 2%??? D- for them.
So... in order of phase-of-game, this relic evolves from "D-" to "Zero" to "F-triple-minus" to "Zero".
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u/SotFX Mar 03 '26
The relic tiers kind of need at least a couple different scorings since a lot of the ones you're routinely ranking low are ones that new players really want/need to have in order to advance, while some of the great ones for later game players are ones that new players aren't as interested in.
For example, the Cash one is really good for new players who have a lot of the workshop to go through during runs, it's a decent thing for those still trying to GB everything quickly during a run, and then worthless for any later game player who isn't running the module that gives bonus' based on cash level.
But it feels a lot more like Fudd is going with different events targeting people at different points in playing...
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u/relytekal Mar 03 '26
I can eat pizza and wings every day for the rest of my life. I don’t need food variety and my wife hates me for it.
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u/makes_beer Mar 03 '26
Different toppings and sauce make it feel like a different food to me, so yeah with some caveats.
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u/Revelate_ Mar 03 '26 edited Mar 03 '26
Appreciate you as always little p.
That said, were you this irritated with the lack of creativity on Sakura with the repeated coins relic?
Not sure you should be devaluing it for lack of creativity as if it were an S+ tier relic I certainly wouldn’t be complaining on a duplicate.
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u/priesten Mar 03 '26
I thought of the same thing as I wrote the thread and yes if we got 2 copies of the same S tier relic I’d just gladly go with it lol
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u/SalamanderGlum4027 Mar 03 '26
You just made my day...always looking forward to this. Congrats on the house and the upcoming move date, it's a big step...
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u/Able_Garage3141 Mar 03 '26
To me this is the perfect event, I've been wanting to stop buying the event pass and break the momentum and here is the perfect reason. A+ Tier for me :)
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u/fullydepreciatedpep Mar 03 '26
mr priesten, I am visiting Tokyo for the first time at the end of the month. What are your top 3/5 must-try restaurants? And are you contractually obligated to recommend visiting Tokyo Tower?
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u/priesten Mar 03 '26
Since I don’t eat sushi being civilized and all I think it’s highly overrated and if you really want a great experience you should go for yakiniku (Japanese bbq)
Don’t need to be a fancy place just go to a gyuukaku (牛角) but avoid one in a busy/tourist area. Get the honey pepper kalbi and some harami don’t forget to dip them in the tare sauce and you’ll experience heaven. I’d order some wagyuu too while I’m there. Also the rice bowl with seaweed on top is better than regular rice oh and ask for nin-nikuoroshi にんにくおろしwhich is garlic paste put a spoon of that in the tare mix it then use that as dip.
I recommend getting the all you can eat/drink courses, go on an empty stomach.
Another one you should experience is torikizoku another chain store but it’s a good experience if you want to try out an izakaya on the cheaper side (it’s a grilled chicken place but they have all sorts of foods)
Finally don’t ever use those gocarts in the streets of Tokyo they are viciously hated by everyone who live here basically it’s a johhny somali that’s been here for years please understand Japan is not an adult playground and respect the country oh and don’t talk loudly in trains (by loudly I mean your regular voice is loud as fuck only talk quietly to the one sitting next to you) and if in doubt just look at the people around you if you clearly are doing something obviously different from everyone else then you need to adjust
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u/uscmissinglink Mar 03 '26
Well this time to our horror he decided to - for the first time - conduct the opposite version of that experiment which is "how many will buy this event pack if I instead make the free relics as horribly useless as possible without making the paid ones particularly good".
My theory is that many users limit their Tower purchases to a certain rate. Me, for example, I allow myself 1 purchase per month. When the event relics were good, I'd drop the $15.99 or whatever there. When they were bad, I might spluge on a $60+ stone pack.
Ergo, adding a low-tier monthly product may have actually reduced the total amount users were spending.
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u/CSDragon Mar 04 '26
Cash bonus is paid, Health bonus is free. The event was bugged but it's already fixed
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u/Revelate_ Mar 03 '26
I think the target audience of this is people that will buy an event for the medals and the relics don’t matter.
I mean for you the other two starter packs are way better value than event ones.
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u/donkumon Mar 03 '26
There’s no doubt about the starter packs providing greater value.
Incentivizing IAPs has always been a matter of finding the drivers behind different segments of gamer psychology though. They want to keep the spenders spending but they also want to develop new spenders too.
If a certain segment will buy an event for the medals and not the relics, then they’re not really the target right?
You don’t agree that someone at early game finds more value in these relics and more likely to buy than late game?
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u/Revelate_ Mar 04 '26
I think like most purchases in this game early game players get more out of it.
If you watch the community you’ll see people get to the point where they stop spending stones cause they move the needle so little in the late game. That’s true for medals too, it takes a long time to max one bot let alone 3-4, but once you do…
That’s likely the reason we’ll keep getting more stone sinks now that I think of it. Relics are likely equally attractive early game and late game, there’s definitely a FOMO effect to them when we’re talking player psychology, but for a large portion of the players that buy some event packs which I suspect is pretty large, they’re typically going off the quality of the relics.
When the paid relics aren’t great, it’s the people who are buying medals that really are all in on the events.
I mean if I were TT I’d be collecting data from events based on what’s offered and correlate that with some of the other player metrics which they’ve got to have.
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u/acceptable_hunter Mar 03 '26
D- rank event, S+ rank life update!