The Sad Downfall of Jester (Former Best Tower) | TDS

[@RugiTDS]

My reaction when "Jester no longer confuses bosses"

[@Cat0987-real]

TDS fans after the confusion braindead hardcore spam was removed for fair balancing: 🐎🐎🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🙉🦧🦧🦧🦧🦍🦍🦍🦍

[@theultimateamazingsleepyko6687]

*vine boom*

[@KiwiBerd]

Real​@@theultimateamazingsleepyko6687

[@legodenmark828]

"No... This can't be! Ahhhhhhhhhhhh-"

[@thebearer8904]

people acting like it's the worst tower in the game just because it can't kill nuclear monster in one hit:

[@brendanliew9598]

Literally the only reason people used Jester was to confuse bosses, they could nerf everything else and people would still use it. It's only when they took its sole purpose away where people now see it at useless.

[@diegosoloeso8870]

I can agree with that, if you think about it, yes, Jester was popular because his confusion bomb affected bosses, not many people talk about everything else the jester could do and they try to make him able to do it again. confuse the bosses, knowing that for that same reason the jester would become op again, so the jester was nerfed for the greater good in terms of the difficulty that would decrease if the jester had that again

[@Alien-m5j]

just like toxic gunner, it was used a lot because it could slow down bosses, but removed because it was a bug, and now barely anybody uses it

[@swedishbread461]

I feel like a more viable nerf is to add a BIG cooldown for when bosses could be stunned, the coodlown being longer than Jester's firerate and confusion duration

[@Harry_fn123]

Yeah it should be like 2 seconds normal enemy 1.25 boss or something around that

[@The_Silliest_of_Goobers]

i feel like it should continue confusing normal enemies, but instead of making it also confuse bosses, the confusion bomb should only be able to stun bosses for the same duration

[@jobist_]

I get that people are unhappy the tower had its glaringly gamebreakingly op feature removed, but jester is still genuinely busted for all enemies other than bosses. I beat Polluted Wastelands II first try with a team of randoms while farming the whole time because I put down three confusion jesters who stalled every enemy in the game until my team's horrible placements could take them out. It makes hardcore almost easy if you can make it past the early game and have a team with decent DPS. I'd be sad to see people sleeping on it, especially when it can still slow bosses.

[@VineSplashTheMermaid]

Call back to that time when toxic gunner could’ve bugged void rever (if you watched John Roblox’s video about defeating every boss, void rever became super slow due to toxic gunner’s ability to slow down enemies)

[@someperson7491]

it was every boss. not just void reaver every boss got slowed down by toxic gunner and the effect lasted forever too

[@mm123-i9m]

​@@someperson7491 they just talking bout void reaver

[@XxPedro86xX]

The jester nerf is like the chill they put on the sledger making those 2 towers completely useless 💀

[@cheeseburger0381]

nah jester still can slow bosses by 20% its not nearly as bad as sledger

[@user-wf4yg4by7g]

​Wdym right now there is No Kind of Tower to slow down Bosses ​@@cheeseburger0381

[@redbool1115]

@@cheeseburger0381sledger slows bosses by 26.6% though.

[@bigturdgames9802]

Sledger is still pretty powerful tho

[@GTZ_89]

@@redbool1115i think he was referring that sledger’s nerf was harsher than jester’s nerf as sledger could insta freeze on hit at lvl 3 non boss enemies last time but now it is much harder for sledger to freeze enemies due to the chill mechanic(sorry if i sound nerdy)

[@ponw4168]

The confusion bomb was really overpowered so I believe it was deserved but only that should've been changed not the other strats.

[@canthecoder]

I agree but it must apply to bosses for 0.5-1 at least

[@randomguy-m6h]

Nuh uh

[@Dimas-gt9pc]

They nerf his stat so badly before, but jester still meta so its the last step

[@haiphanduy27]

Jester is still a meta, your guys don't have to cry abt it yet

[@Dimas-gt9pc]

@@haiphanduy27 he is not "meta"

[@Gregman.5]

It is still like an A tirer tower. It has a 20%boss slowdown, which is good. It is also good for crowds and fast enemies. But I do think it should be able to confuse bosses, but for around half the duration.

[@swedesask]

1000 cash for 100 damage every 5 rounds?

[@Sakurathefischer]

@@swedesask its a support tower stupid

[@Slasher_RPG]

jester triangle is still working 3 poisons 2 ice bombs 1 confusion its rlly op it can deal up to 180k on fallen for amout of 30k cash and remember that ice and confusion does nuts dmg

[@galacticgamer9363]

I’m kinda mad because I missed jester that event because I took a break and I got it this year because I was so excited about how OP it was (not realizing that they made a huge nerf) and then later felt like I got completely scammed

[@cyprianlamming1631]

n event tower being so needed to play at the highest level is not healthy for a game

[@brendanliew9598]

Your basically saying all event tower should be trash, then why ask yo buff commando

[@CascadeChalupas]

@@brendanliew9598 He never said all event towers should be trash. What he said was: "A event tower being overpowered is not healthy for a game." The point he is trying to make is how no event tower should be as meta as how jester was during 2023. Your entire argument is a Straw man Fallacy because you misinterpreted what he said.

[@druzy393]

@@CascadeChalupasfr

[@sinisteramplified]

@@brendanliew9598there’s a difference between an event tower being good an an event tower being meta numbskull

[@bow_gaming3235]

@@brendanliew9598 just say "i'm too stupid to comment", no need to say anything else

[@Sledger007]

I thought the confusion on bosses would be heavily nerfed Not REMOVED

[@leroy8888]

- Wasn't meant to confuse bosses - Praised by the community for it having a sole purpose, being a bug. - bug gets fixed - instantly everyone dislikes it Awfully familiar to toxic gunners ''nerf'' I dunno, I still use it. Still has great CC and support utility.

[@TheDumbStupid]

tds fans when a CC tower goes from great to good (IT SUCKS ITS GARBAG RAHHHH 🤬🤬🤬)

[@Sen_konoha917]

Swarmer is the same case

[@redbool1115]

Dawg how do you make bugs like that time and time and time again stop calling it bugs atp

[@Xelt7]

​@@redbool1115 What are you in about? If it was a bug, it was a bug ._.

[@redbool1115]

@@Xelt7 failing to make exceptions for stalls for toxic gunner, jester, AND dj purple track without playtesting and then publishing them at that point is pure incompetency

[@killer7591]

Bro got the Toxic gunner treatment💀

[@theordineryguy6248]

Does people even know it exists?

[@Forge_Tds]

I forgot all about toxic gunner

[@lukizard9625]

Maybe boosting his dps or letting him throw boost bombs to buff towers maybe but never let it confuse bosses ever again. It made him way to op

[@JustCallMeFran-i6v]

being able to delay bosses is a VERY powerful ability, especially for how cheap jester could do it for, so removing that ability was definitely a good balancing decision.

[@everynameiwantistaken]

I feel like the confusion bomb is still good. Even after the nerf it is pretty useful for slowing down the enemies in pw2 as faster enemies usually are more affected by the debuff. Though the other bombs should really get a buff for their crowd control. Like, Act 3 had its wack difficulty, making it hard for me to tell if it should be like this for post nerf act 3 or op like act 3 on release.

[@ashy3604]

If they reverted its previous nerfs to compensate for the confusion nerf it would still be really good. It not having earlygame HD hurt it alot imo.

[@mini-awesome4619]

Also I'm not sure if it's a bug or intended, the toxic pools don't reduce defense anymore. It was pretty powerful combined with pyro as it pretty much strip enemy defense entirely.

[@DangerPotPie]

1:42 it was actually 6 SECONDS since they had to walk back to where they were confused the nerf made it 4 seconds

[@surbaniathra]

Jester may seem useless cuz the nerf but nah He’s still to strong When I used him in this event he demolished enemy’s Easley and even in other game modes he’s still one of the best And btw trust me if he released without the boss stun ppl will love him

[@Fiberoeatingfiber]

its funny how every single tower with a "special" kind of slowdown always is able to slowdown bosses as if the devs never learnt their lesson

[@JCMatthewS7]

3:41 is Denis thumbnail just replacing denis with jester

[@MarcPare2006]

I miss those years

[@godvn1143]

Ngl the main reason Jester no longer confusion bosses because it's a event tower,that mean you can only have it in limited amount of time,and the confusion on boss make it too OP for a event tower,but instead they make it to obtainable by gems like nercomancer,they decided to remove the core thing of Jester:Confusion boss

[@just_meezu]

no its bcz it was a bug lol

[@AML665]

I don't have Jester since I missed the event. So apparently it's a huge disadvantage when it comes to people who didn't have Jester and are fighting alongside old veteran pros with JESTER. Old veterans just like you for example

[@DivinePlays-YT]

Jester was SOOOO hype, but no one uses him anymore. I grinded so hard to beat the event and he got nerfed hard. :(

[@honzidlo3937]

Great video buddy, keep going

[@Taco-eater]

Me doing fallen mode and realising that jester doesn't affect the boss. (I am so cooked)

[@Coolman-n7m]

0:49 based around vbucks?

[@Mamafakerr]

Vbucks!!!

[@BLOOKOT]

Debuffs 🚫 Vbucks ✅️

[@jjthegrinder]

I feel like it should have the ability to make bosses move back but have 1 second of confusion time

[@fishflopped]

tbh they shoulda heavy buffed every other aspect of it, and keep boss confusion removed, probably would've made it better on tier lists.

[@ram3063]

i dont understand why support towers like commander and dj directly making killing the boss easier by increasing dps output is allowed but not other support towers like cryomancer, jester etc. not being allowed to give a little bit more time to kill the boss by slowing them down

[@THENERDONES]

It just same like toxic Gunner. When toxic Gunner was first release in frost invasion event, people who beat the Halloween 2020 get that tower for free as a reward...yeah that a very long delay for a event tower to release. Toxic Gunner just like his name he shoot a toxic to enemies and deal damage over and over to that enemies, Just like pyro fire. But theres was something special than shoot toxic.....yes ITS the slowness. This is one of feature that make toxic Gunner a good reward tower a worth it long wait tower for ITS delay release. His slowness feature can slows a boss and when you put many toxic Gunner in one place, the slowness is stack that whoever enemy get closer to his range hes not gonna move, he actually move but ITS super slow and this is so op to use in hardcore and beat the frost invasion event. But after the solar eclipse event this tower got a huge nerf to him that hes slowness cant effect to a boss anymore make him useless, and a bug that make him super useless. Many player use that for a meta but now? It just a mid support tower

[@duckyduckington9736]

Toxic gunner slowing bosses are absurdly busted. Him not slowing a boss is good, but they should buff his stats to make sure he fits his nieche.

[@atomickarate3421]

I would still argue this tower is still one of the best debuffs next shocker currently. Its extremely cheap and can be used to defend early up till wave 4-5 in fallen (same as Gscout Even if confusion doesn't work on bosses it works on 99% of the rest of the enemies. 60% chill slow on bosses still extremely useful+has defense shred. All while being insanely cheap? This tower may not he able to solo hc but it still works for the rest of the game.

[@renn9115]

dawg the tower is still very good

[@Brazil0987]

No it’s not

[@ColinsGameRoom]

It is tbh

[@LordEcho7]

​@RANDOM-GUY0987 it still good. Just because it not op does not mean it bad

[@duckyduckington9736]

@@Brazil0987 it is, its solid A tier easily.

[@textlabel72]

​@@duckyduckington9736 I'd give it high A just due to the fact that, it is cheap, high crowd dps if you know the debuff combinations

[@Someone-tg5mr]

Still the best event and stalling tower. Crowd control, hidden detection, confusion for most enemies, insane dps with toxic puddle and uh acceptable dps with fire

[@greyyalmir7582]

jester can still get over 1.3k dps on slow enemies such as bosses using 1 ice bomb and 11 poison puddles, and good for mid-late with fixed targeting

[@semicolon2599]

jester is usable but not great and definitely not meta anymore, i use him for less difficult gamemodes though bc he's fun confusion bombs have decent stall on non boss enemies and ice bombs have 20% boss stall which is only just behind cryo, freezer, and electro's 25% overall electro kinda just does a better job but jester is still alright, perhaps an A- tier tower

[@False_Faul]

I mean the Jester is pretty balanced maybe some slight changes like increase the confusion cooldowns to maybe 10 sec on bosses. When you fight enemies, the jester is hella great with stalling and crowd control. There are definitely certain usage for Jester other than stalling bosses. So I think it is a good balance like let’s be honest having a meta is bad in a game.

[@ebruhXTY]

If jester did gain the ability to confuse boss again then I'll make a little adjustments The confusion time for boss will decrease from 2 secs to 1 sec

[@Aselectir]

It got nerfed the same reason gladiator got nerfed, it’s an event tower so it shouldn’t be meta only somewhat good and it is somewhat good, gatekeeping the strongest tower to an update that lasts a few weeks and NEVER returns is incredibly bad

[@kszel-c1j]

hello i love you videos:)

[@kumawani8950]

I think it should should confuse bosses but for less time than regular enemys

[@Pride_DBFZ]

thank god, i'm tired of good towers beeing exclusive

[@duckyduckington9736]

any form of boss CC will make it #1 option because stalling bosses is everything. even a 10% slow is enough because it means u can do 10% more damage to it until it exits the map. which is INSANELY valuable for 1 tower. It is extremely dumb people think jester sucks now, do they forget poison and cold exists? you still have plenty of extremely good cost efficiency and CC, so idk why in gods name people thought jester is bad now. Its still A tier easily, confusion overshadowed everything else so much that people thought the rest sucked.

[@coolguyminson]

First was toxic gunner now was jester that got hit by the same nerf

[@ZelaznyPatryk126]

tbh it should be just slowing down by a little with confusion and doesnt stack tho i still use it, its really good for crowd control with posion. For a price of little more than 3k - its great

[@Nooby291]

I think it should affect bosses but the effects only have 25% of their efficiency (2 sec confusion to 0.5 sec)

[@ShogunAkumura]

They did great cuz that purple bomb was so op against bosses bruh but they can at least buff his damage or firerate idk

[@rikkkaa]

i think confusion bomb should still confuse bosses but with less time. like 3 sec for normal and 1.5 for bosses something like that. another idea is they should nerf its last upgrade cost. totally removing that feature is makes nonsense cuz its the reason why he is played since its a event tower from a hard event

[@Be0mqyu]

if 2 seconds is op then what makes you think 1.5 is fine

[@Dimas-gt9pc]

I think 3 second stun for non boss enemy and 1 second for boss is belance

[@rikkkaa]

@@Be0mqyu it was a EVENT tower also the biggest reason why tower was used

[@Be0mqyu]

@@rikkkaa it would be nice if they kept it but 1.5 seconds is much long than you think (also event towers being good is really unfair for new players who weren't there for the event imo)

[@piotrm5635]

I think they should revert the nerfs from february 24th but keep the confusion not affected bosses

[@Swagman2023]

Act two of the Lunar overture was the best of all the events with the night system, sue me for it.

[@Luka-vr7oh]

i think they should make bosses get sent back for like 1.5 seconds instead of 2

[@redbool1115]

It doesn’t even have good boss stall lol cryo and freezer better

[@seanpaulgarcia3744]

i still find it useful for stupid flash zombies circuit+lightning speed buff bruh-

[@Forz10-k8w]

before the boss stun nerf which dont work and no hd lvl 1

[@futureofgeography]

I feel like Jester is still a good tower, it's nowhere near its peak, but it's definitely not a bad tower and I'd still call it a solid A-Tier tower since, well, Jester is still an incredible support, especially against summons or larger enemies, although I wouldn't suggest using it, the reason I'd say not to use it is because of the Brawler and DJ Booth, and to an extent Mercenary Base, these towers do Jester's job but much better, Brawler has much higher damage output and can sometimes knock back enemies multiple times, DJ Booth can apply a discount AND damage buff whilst knocking back enemies quite far much more consistently than Jester, hitting many more enemies AND slowing down bosses, and Mercenary Base's Riot Guards can knock enemies back. So I wouldn't say it's bad, I'd simply say it's outclassed.

[@CoolNoob_v69420]

Accel Crying in the corner

[@encrypted2558]

this reminds me of toxic gunners downfall

[@Plush132]

Sledger next would be nice

[@kingkip_ofc]

Dude, literally the jester was better than the glating gun at launch💀💀💀

[@NewbieEnthusiast]

Toxic Gunner: Remember who you were.

[@silikeez9641]

This tower is actually pretty decent for hidden wave lop

[@PyroTds0]

They should've not made jester at all tbh it was a good idea until the confutation bomb then it was op now it sucks

[@Slushea]

Ngl, I think they should buff it's other things

[@Diam0nd_1]

do the downfall of gladiator next

[@AverageTDuck]

it was nice to cheez void reaver with that guy (i never did it)

[@okgoose3305]

tds will never have a tower that stuns bosses

[@frostytheorymaster4175]

they literally did tho

[@okgoose3305]

@@frostytheorymaster4175 that didnt get nerfed weeks after it released

[@duckyduckington9736]

good, it should never exist. Stunning bosses is never going to work in a game, tdx has that and it can be used to add entire minutes to your time to kill. Its ABSURD how good stuns or CC at all are in games of this sort.

[@Coffin5601]

If events towers are getting nerfed then what's the point go using it

[@Bee_does_Roblos]

Atleast they buff its other bombs and actually deal great damage, or give it a cannon ability that shoots two enchanted bombs that has stronger effect, but i think bufifng it's other bombs is better like Fire bomb Level 0 Bomb damage = 2 Damage 1 Duration 2 Tick 0.5 Total damage 4 Level 1 Bomb damage 2 Damage 2 Duration 2 Tick 0.5 Total damage 8 Level 2 Bomb damage 8 Damage 4 Duration 3 Tick 0.5 Total damage: 24 Level 3 Bomb damage 15 Damage 7 Duration 3 Tick 0.5 Total damage : 42 Level 4 Bomb damage - 30 Damage 10 Duration 5 Tick 0.25 Total damage 200 :Melts defense :Double bombs Ice bombs Deals half damage with it's bombs Level 2: chill: 30 percent Max chill: 90 percent, freezes for 1 second at max chill Level 3: chill: 35 percent Max chill: 90 percent , freezes for 1.5 second Level 4: chill: 50 percent Max chill: 100 percent, freezes for 2.25 seconds :Lingering effect duration: 5s :Double bombs : leaves a lingering effect that does the same to enemies Poison bombs Level 3 Damage 5 Tick 0.5 Slowdown= 10 percent Puddle size = 7.5 studs Level 4 Damage= 5 Tick 0.25 Slowdown = 15 percent Puddle size: 12.5 studs Double bombs Confusion bombs Level 4 Deals as half as much damage Confusion effect duration: 3 s Confusion cooldown: 7 s Charm effect: zombies that go backwards takes 1.5 damage from all sources Slows down bosses by 40 percent for 3s every 10s Double bombs

[@932ai]

Still useful unlike toxic gunner

[@ColaRemay]

Does anyone knows what's better Jester, Harvester, Commando because it's all 799 robux. Or should I save it for Christmas update?

[@NicoB..]

To be honest I kinda like this event

[@noescapingnoescaping5799]

Gladiator:first time?

[@Gamerman-lu9bs]

All they did was fix boss confusion💀

[@MonsterousManiac]

rip jester used to be the goat 2023-2024 rahh

[@FLIXYPLAYSSTUF]

Jesters are still useful in modes with garbage bullshit wave structure like wave 45 hardcore and those stupid vindicators, wave 19 and 39 fallen

[@nartuz5016]

Can they stop ruining the event towers bruh

[@Kris-ce1po]

having an event tower on the meta is bad actually

[@TheNetherSide-if9cc]

No way, just don't sell the jester tower again and restore it. Keep the 2 second confusion but allow it to confuse bosses. Also because it has a mask it's kind of logical for hd at level 0. If they don't sell it again It won't make the game too eas for everyone. It will make the game easier for everyone who played the acts. And from my experience the acts were ridiculously hard. Act 1 was fairly laid back. Act 2 was a massive step up and a massive disappointment in terms of story. And act 3... well it was hard, delayed, impossible, super easy, just mid and a massive disappointment and underwhelming conclusion to the massively anticipated event. Even this year's rewards though they are pretty bad compared to the jester beat out this event like a million times. You could acutally get a decent amount of coins from the hexscape event, you got two event towers, one for easy and one for hard so nobody missed out. And you got so much xp and slap a massive way better battlepass this year and top, all with an easier undelayed event! So if the rewards we got for playing the Hexscape event were proportionally way larger than the harder event should've given way more. That's why I think Jester should be restored. P.S: I am aware this is a behemoth of a comment.

[@nathkill_yt1999]

Bro copied those “fall off” vids

[@itzbeanyboi4291]

1:57 "first ever solo hardcore win" Well yes but no

[@Coachtenfamily]

Just like for me it should be neft so like if it not neft freeze tower will no point to use it

[@Anvel210]

😢jester was actually one of my favourite towers😢

[@duckyduckington9736]

no, confusion was.

[@MarcPare2006]

Probably they should buff it before the gamepass comes out but no they won't bring back confuse major bosses

[@sinisteramplified]

@@MarcPare2006the gamepasses was already out???

[@MarcPare2006]

@@sinisteramplified yes but no stat changes :/

[@british2852]

do sledger next

[@UIU-Is.realA-354]

I wouldn't mind if they nerf just the confusion bomb to no longer Confused bosses But why Nerf the other Stats?

[@MarcPare2006]

The stats is fine but the only i hate is the removal of confusion for major bosses

[@bobyen422]

Ok but why do all tds content creators sound the same?

[@RedCMonkey]

Average event tower: nerfed into oblivion

[@duckyduckington9736]

its balanced, confusion should never be on a boss period.

[@maidude_2000]

just reballance ALL event towers. Idc how

[@AbyssalGX]

Just Bring back Boss Confusion and nerf it a bit its gonna be a High A tier Please tds.

[@Ihavenoughstoragetopost]

can someone explain what this is?

[@Stellavoxer]

1 minute ago is 60 seconds ago

[@priskilalisa3656]

Why jester got nerfed😢

[@KaylieSublett]

But now solo HC is HELL again

[@becktrovato6737]

It’s still really good

[@fur6587]

Yeah, Jester should have a buff. But you know what else should have a buff? Elf Camp

[@Counltdooku]

elf camp is fine what

[@fur6587]

@Counltdooku Its kinda weak and also buggy

[@MarcPare2006]

Elf Camp sucks Merc Base better

[@smilingjetstream]

@@Counltdooku Did you ever think about comparing level 4 mili base to a max level elf camp before replying this?

[@Ntta-jd5qc]

Nerfing jester - fine, nerfing sledger - why???

[@ElMayonesero]

Imo they didn't nerf sledger on purpose, it was the new freeze mechanic cuz it didnt freeze in one hit anymore, and when they found out they tried to balance it out by giving it more dmg

[@GarfilandGo]

​@@ElMayoneseroHe supposed to be support tower, not dps tower.

[@smilingjetstream]

@@ElMayonesero Oh yea?Do You think that this new ''freeze mechanic'' existed on frost blaster?

[@0yeah_oyeah]

wait it’s 2023?

[@kaiotrem358]

"former best tower" was it better than farm?

[@GumbyVR69]

yes, yes it was

[@HarryOn299]

That tower was a key for winning solo hc so yes

[@discotech6178]

Its goddamn cheap i remember it was only 6k to uprgade max level

[@RobloxFilmsAndAnimations]

oh stop crying, No longer confusing bosses doesn't mean the tower is dog water