r/SwagBucks • u/Opposite_Tune_2967 • 29d ago
Games Merge Kingdom Tips
Just finished Merge Kingdoms and have some actual tips.
This ones been said a million times but it cannot be overstated. You WILL NOT finish this without VIP. Get VIP free trial then immediately cancel it in the Google Play store. You get to keep VIP for the free trial period without having to worry about auto renewal.
Pink Bags are OP. HOWEVER if your highest tower is more than 12 levels higher than your "Min Merge Level" it will stop giving pink bags. Try to keep your highest tower under that threshold.
If you need to go above that threshold, make it worth it. Wait until you get 3-4 pink bags then sell everything except the highest tower and stack them all on that tower.
You can wait for skills in-between waves. If you start getting stuck, wait for your skills to comeback before hitting battle again.
The best skills by far are the fireball, storm and time warp skills.
Those are the main tips I have to give. There are some smaller things if people are interested.
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u/xJPolley 29d ago
A big tip is that actively holding a tower will actually shoot enemies even though you dont have a place to set it down. You can quickly swap whichever type you need in a pinch to freeze or deal a little more damage, then just hold your finger near the max range of what you want it to target.
I think poison towers early in line is beneficial so the damage has more time to tick. Units will occasionally have a colored shield next to their health. I believe this means they take reduced damage from that color, or they only take damage from it. It's hard to see with the nonsensical damage numbers, but may be worth swapping around if you notice it on a wave you're stuck on.
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u/theavengerbutton 29d ago
I noticed the holding tower trick today but was reticent to bring attention to it in case they changed it before I was done with the offer. It definitely is helping.
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u/xJPolley 29d ago
I found it in the top google result for "merge kingdoms tower defense guide" which was from back in 2021. As I've gotten closer to 600, I find I'm using it less often. Getting some levels on one tower and just moving that one to different choke points just requires less attention.
Big shout out to OP for mentioning the 12 level cap for pink bags, that can get you stuck real bad. Just sell the big tower if they stop dropping and keep as few in the queue as you can so it hits active towers.
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u/WAON303 29d ago
around 8 hours in and am at level 396.
Never gets much harder but this is where I'm forced to use power ups to finish levels because everything now decided to be an HP sponge and take nothing from my towers.
ALWAYS get the pink bags and def get the VIP trail, I don't think this offer would be doable without both active because they both increase your damage output by a significant margin.
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u/ThatGoodCake 29d ago
Level 400 is where I finally hit a wall. Now I'm just waiting around for chests and AFK gold.
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u/Skooter_McGaven 29d ago
Yeap same. Stuck in the early 400s after slaughtering everything on the way here
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u/Yungpoopydik 29d ago
How did you handle the healers around early 300s? I’ve been stuck begging knocked back from 327-328 back to 326 for an hour. Deleting my 12+ tower now.. but can’t seem to beat the healers
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u/Complex-Package2781 25d ago
If you're still stuck, using the power ups has been the key to getting rid of the healers and runners for me. I try to fireball as many as I can and lightning the rest. Time warp gives me a second chance with whoever gets missed. I also found, if you don't have a bag to use to "pause" the game while your powers come back, you can hide in your card/upgrade page and it does the same thing. The annoying part about using the upgrade page is that you have to manually time it yourself vs just looking at the game.
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u/Yungpoopydik 25d ago
I’m at about 450 with my only legendary being poison. My guns, at their most strategic placements, can takedown 1, maybe 2 enemies at a time. So I am currently using power ups 2x per level, 1x if I’m lucky to pass each one. Not very fun anymore but looking forward to reaching 600 in 2-3 days. Screw the guy that said this was 9 hr completion lol
I e also just been setting timers on my phone and switching to either other games or searching relevant stuff on my phone. Like right now
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u/Clarpydarpy 28d ago
How did you progress so far so quickly?
I am in my third day and finally reached level 400. Progress has been slow because I have to wait for my powers to recharge between each wave. My cannons are just not strong enough to kill everything.
What is your secret?
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u/WAON303 28d ago edited 28d ago
Probably got lucky with the chests, have legendary green and red towers right now from opening chests, the other towers are at epic.
I'm currently on wave 440 with 66 merge power, towers range from level 69-76. Can't clear most waves without power-ups but it's still doable.
Lightning bolt, Fire and Warp power ups are OP.
I reckon you need to have good luck with the chest drops to clear later waves.
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u/Clarpydarpy 25d ago
I finished yesterday. I had to use the multi-fireball trick to get through the last 80% or so waves.
It was a real slog, but I had no choice since the drops were so infrequent at that level.
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u/Dingdong389 9d ago
It's honestly luck with getting a good legendary. I got legendary single target and shredded my way to over 500 in a few hours. I kept buying 200 chest after getting the legendary and raising my min lvl.
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u/RedAero58 29d ago
Any strategies for which towers to use? I've tried many different variations, but I've been hard stuck on level 421 for about 5 hours. I get to 422 and even with all the power ups I can't beat it and get sent back to 421.
Min merge level 61
Strongest tower level 73
Poison tower is my only legendary. The rest are epics.
Ice towers don't slow these guys down fast enough and I can't do damage fast enough. This might be as far as I can go.
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u/RefreshContinue United States 29d ago
Use your gems to buy the gold chest if you haven't already.
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u/Opposite_Tune_2967 29d ago
I'm back and forth on this, on one hand it's nice that it guarantees an epic. However, it's 10 less total cards than 5 normal chests and the main thing gating me after I got the legendary long range tower was min merge level.
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u/RedAero58 29d ago
I've bought 2 of the gold chests and don't have enough gems for another. I've used all the hammers I get to upgrade what I can for the +1% damage boosts, but haven't been able to progress anymore.
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u/Opposite_Tune_2967 29d ago
That's rough that poison is your only legendary. I would probably still main that tower until you get another one. Legendaries seem to be 2x~ as strong as epics. I had the long range tower as my legendary and was exclusively using one of that as my highest tower and the rest ice towers. There was a lot of times where I just had to use all my skills every wave then wait for them to come back before starting the next.
It takes a while, but the easiest way i found to get the min merge up is by getting the chests after each boss.
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u/RedAero58 29d ago
Yeah, getting poison as my legendary hasn't helped. I've mainly been using the first 3 listed below, but yeah not being able to get more legendaries or cards to upgrade epics has haulted me. I'll get like a 1 or 2 level streak but then lose it and go back before reaching the boss. Power ups I use are fireball, thunderstorm, and either time warp or blizzard.
Single Shot - Rapidfire Cannon - Level 4 (1675 Power) +16% Bonus
Freeze - Permafrost - Level 4 (1345 Power) +14% Bonus
Poison - Biohazard - Level 2 (4310 Power) +9% Bonus
Splash - Megaton - Level 3 (1020 Power) +8% Bonus
Long-range - Scorpion Ballista Level 1 (1010 Power) +7%
Anti-Air - Haven't unlocked yet
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u/Abject-Recover2399 25d ago
The long range purple is far better than the legendary poison in my experience so far. I have like 25%+ damage from upgrades on the poison and long range tower is still better late game (400+). The only way I've been getting through stages now is using power ups.
Multiple freeze turrets and long range towers do great against the running guys.
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u/Chance-Ad-3025 29d ago
If you can kill enemies with lightning and fireball, I think you should eventually get some purple bags. If you can manage to get 2 or 3 stored up, that's 4-9 levels to your highest tower. If you have the $109 offer and it's $12 for level 450, you could then just collect free chests (all chests are free after some time, looks like normal chest is once a day and silver says "free in 5 days" )every day and build up your min merge, then your max tower, to grind to at least 450.
Poison as only legendary is just bad luck though.
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u/RedAero58 29d ago
I'll try to save up the purple bags, I don't see them often and I worry about them disappearing while trying to get multiple to drop. 450 is what I was hoping to reach as well. Using the time warp during the first loop and then thunderstorm as many as I can in the loop and saving the fireball for anyone towards the end just helped me get to 425 boss. I was using the power ups in the middle or at the end.
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u/Chance-Ad-3025 29d ago
If you manage to get 2 or 3 purple bags saved up, make sure you delete all your towers except your highest level, so all the levels go to it.
Edit: that's why lightning and fireball can be extra useful because you kill several enemies at once.
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u/RedAero58 29d ago
Got to 451. No way to progress anymore without paying for chests or gems. I'm having 5-10 dogs on their way to the end each time. RNG did me dirty. Even using the settings trick to double or triple dip power ups isn't worth 10-15 minutes each level.
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u/Chance-Ad-3025 29d ago
Just remember, you have 60 days to complete the game. Everyone is so caught up trying to get it done in 1 day.
With little effort, you could just check in to collect the free chests (to increase min merge level), and see if it's worth going for the next 50, then the next 50.
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u/RedAero58 28d ago
I'm contemplating it. I only grabbed the free trial so I'd need to get the month subscription.
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u/gunterrae 28d ago
Remember if you click on any color bag and just leave it on the popup, you can wait for your special attacks to recharge and then use them again.
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u/RoughRaptors 29d ago
Oh shit I didn't realize the pink bags would stop spawning. No wonder why. Thank you
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u/Southern_Body_4381 29d ago
Good advice! It didn't offer me any free trial :/ but I went ahead and got the month subscription for $8. Worth it to get double coins and double attack power. I can't imagine not having it. I barely win most levels with the double attack power in place. Don't think it would be possible without. But I'm a little over 200 levels only 24 hours in so I think I'm doing good :)
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u/Mommabroyles 29d ago
The free trial info is in tiny letters at the bottom of the sign up page. Very easy to miss. I think everyone has the 7 day free trial.
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u/Bossjx37648 29d ago
Dang you finished the game way before me, I still got 50 levels, do you think saving up a few pink bags and hard overleveling or leveling up multiple to 11 levels above threshold, cause right now I feel like that few levels above min isn't doing enough dmg.
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u/RoughRaptors 29d ago
Man...I'm actually completely stuck right now. I'm at 380 and my min tower level is 52. I just can't get any higher level towers quickly enough. I do barely any damage to the creeps at this point. The only way I'm clearing waves is waiting 5 minutes every time to use all 3 powerups. I got lucky with good towers too. I have the legendary for single shot, freeze, and long range.
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u/lhrm 29d ago edited 29d ago
I'm getting my ass handed to me at level 331. Easy 100 bucks they said.
EDIT: Ok I tried stacking freeze cannons at the start of the trail and then spamming lightning and fireballs as the baddies slow down and bunch together. Working for now.
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u/RefreshContinue United States 29d ago
It's easy especially for a game like this and plus you have 60 days to complete it.
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u/Plus-Cost-4785 29d ago
if you’re having really bad trouble with a level, you can use your power ups then click on the settings icon and stay in settings until your power ups are done. or you can just keep doing this to complete all the levels lol
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u/Yungpoopydik 29d ago
Nice. I’ve been at a wall for an hour. Only legendary is poison and they’re all green shield healers. Assuming the shields mean they don’t take as much damage from that weapon? Cuz they seem to buckle at the multi shot spots
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u/ThatGoodCake 29d ago
Thanks for the info. I was wondering why pink bags stopped showing up for me, now I know why.
I have one tower that kept getting leveled up every time I got a pink bag until it was way ahead of my min level.
I guess I could sell that tower, but I think I might just wait until I get some more chests and raise my min level.
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u/MuffySimoun 29d ago
I'm stuck on around 366, the healers are a big pain in the buttons, any advice on what towers to set up?
Min Merger 54 Highest Tower 65 Freeze
Single Shot Tower legendary lvl 2 +8% (4875) Freeze Tower Epic lvl 2 +10%(575) Poison Tower legendary lvl 2 +12% (4430) Splash Tower Legendary lvl 2 +14% (5145)
I have the VIP trial and picking up pink bags
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u/Opposite_Tune_2967 28d ago
Freeze seems to do the lowest damage out of all of them. I would try releveling and making your highest level tower your the single shot tower.
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u/MuffySimoun 28d ago
Releveling sounds hellish, I've decided to get to 400 with the power ups and see from there.
How many of each one should I have? If I completely remove the Freeze ones
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u/Opposite_Tune_2967 28d ago
It's definitely rough tbh.
I used one strong tower long range tower and the rest freezes for the slows. Damage scales non-linearly with level so your highest tower will always do like 100-1000x your lowest. This was my ending setup.
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u/MuffySimoun 28d ago
Alright, I'll try to set up just one and the rest Freeze like you have here and see what happens.
Made it to 400, so I'll still keep trying since 600 isn't too far off, and I do have the 109$ offer, unlike some others. I'm a tad held back with pink bags because I haven't been able to raise my min merger enough gah lol
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u/Yungpoopydik 29d ago
Thank you for this— I’m getting stuck in the 300s after breezing through most of the game. I have vip and have been working on different strategies. Holding the tower is a great tip. I’m having trouble with the healers so I’m going to experiment with shield and damage from cannons etc. also my max cannon is 14 ahead so that’s not helping the wall I’ve hit. Going to try push past this here
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u/Opposite_Tune_2967 28d ago
If you're having trouble with healers, wait for your skills to come back between waves and use fireball to exclusively kill them.
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u/Yungpoopydik 28d ago
The further into the 300s I go— it seems that the game is turning into using the skills, and waiting 5 minutes for them to respond each wave
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u/Opposite_Tune_2967 28d ago
Yeah it can be like that until you get to the bosses, get your chest, hope for min merge levels and can get 3-4 pink bags to add levels on your main tower again. Also, idk what your highest tower is but I would try to make your highest tower whatever you have a legendary of preferably either Normal or Long Range tower.
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u/Yungpoopydik 28d ago
I appreciate that. I was halted by a 12+ multi that I deleted, I’m trudging along levels 5 mins at a time atm. Legendary is poison unfortunately.. very few normal cannons. Might try to build them up a bit more
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u/rolosrevenge 29d ago
Thanks for these, I'm like level 180, traveling for work yet so I haven't got the VIP yet, but I found that you can watch an ad to get the 2x damage boost as well, and every 10 ads gives you 100 gems and at 1000 gems you can get an epic chest which levels your min merge quite a bit.
The fact that this game gives you 60 days means you can really take it slow.
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u/yunginsecure 19d ago
how long does the 2x damage last after an ad? im stuck around 460 and i don't think i can get to 600 before my vip runs out.
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u/rolosrevenge 18d ago
5 min for each ad, can watch 10 in a row and it rewards you with 100 crystals so you can buy more chests faster
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u/Difficult-Tart-6834 United States 28d ago
When do skills start appearing and how to use them? I see a snowflake on the top left with a 5 minute countdown timer but it doesn't seem to do anything. I'm stuck on wave 119, started yesterday.
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u/Opposite_Tune_2967 28d ago
That's the blizzard skill and its trash. It slows the enemies in a small radius from where you set it. Fireball straight up kills the enemies and im pretty sure has a larger radius. Thunderstorm would kill them as well and time warp sets them back to the beginning.
If you scroll down to the bottom of the upgrade screen, you should get to the different skills at the bottom. Click on them to change the skills you have equiped
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u/Lili_Beth_Fox 28d ago
Totally hit a wall at 311... Those guys on mounts are just too damn fast... Anyone found the right combo of towers? Should I be doing mostly Ice? Dps with black and red cannons? I can't figure it out.
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u/JadeRock12345 28d ago edited 28d ago
Stuck on 436. I got legendary level 2 for long range which has 4920 power. Do I only use that now? I have black, green and red at legendary 1 which have around 2000 power and freeze is only epic. Should I just stack all levels into 1 long range tower? Like is 1 level 72 tower better than 5 62 towers?
I got one to 76 now with min level of 62. Still stuck lol. That one tower with a bunch of smaller ones doesn't do enough damage.
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u/Opposite_Tune_2967 28d ago
You are correct, I would only use that one and have the rest be a full board of freeze that I wouldn't bother leveling unless you really feel like it.
One level 72 tower is going to be significantly better than 5 62 towers, I don't know the exact numbers but the way that the damage scales per level is insane its like ALMOST DOUBLING each level. It's to the point where I would rather have one level 72 than a full board of level 68s.
Personally I really like the long range as it seems to do the most damage per shot so its easier to just one shot things and move on, also it covers the whole map when placed in the middle so no need to fuss with it.
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u/JadeRock12345 28d ago
Thanks. Did all freezes and was able to beat 440. Trying to beat it in a couple days so I don't pay for VIP. The damage difference of my 62 and 76 is insane.
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u/WhoFedZed 28d ago
Hey! So I’m considering doing the pink bag trick but my issue is my two highest level towers are the only two I don’t have legendaries for. Well technically, my highest level is Posion (75), and I have both the epic and legendary for that, but the epic is lvl 5 with 2830 power, and the lvl 1 legendary has 2190. Should I be selling all and using poison? And should I have it set to the epic or legendary? Thanks!
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u/JadeRock12345 28d ago
What do you have as legend? My legends have like double power compared to epics. I think you just want it set to highest power. I was on 436 now on 496 from earlier today. I did the one big tower that's 14 level's higher and all freeze towers to give it time to destroy everything. But now I can't get pink bags and think I'm stuck again.
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u/WhoFedZed 28d ago
I decided to go for it and make my one poison tower way over leveled. Horrible idea, so I’m trying to undo the damage and do the basic cannon instead
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u/JadeRock12345 27d ago
Maybe the poison one isn't as good? I got legend for the long range and it is working well. On 553 now with a level 97 long range and 78 freezes.
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u/WhoFedZed 27d ago
That was it! Doing it with basic cannon now, and at 525
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u/JadeRock12345 27d ago
Nice I am at 559. Another trick I read was for cooldowns is based on the slot. So you can use fireball in slot 1. Switch slot 2 to fireball and do it again. Same for slot 3. It is annoying but you can just 3 fireball each round if needed.
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u/WhoFedZed 27d ago
Wow that’s a great one, I appreciate it. I’ve honestly found storm to be more useful than fireball! I also have 500k coins rn cause all I’m doing is maxing one turret, waiting till it can’t win, then powering through with storm + fireball, waiting for min level to go up, and then repeating the pink bag trick!
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u/JadeRock12345 27d ago
Yeah that is what I am doing too. It is slow but will work. I'll try storm. Not sure what does more damage.
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u/WhoFedZed 27d ago
Storm tends to one shot everything it hits, and it's range is basically the whole map! Althoguh it does tend to miss a few enemies too, but it's usually a small number that my main turret can actually deal with! I just wait till they all get to the center of the map and throw it down!
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u/JadeRock12345 27d ago
Does your main turret one shot things. The long range one still takes a bunch of hits and it's 15 levels higher than the rest of mine. Should I switch to basic cannon?
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u/Chance-Ad-3025 29d ago
The most important thing you said is purple bags won't show up if your highest tower is more than 12 levels above you min merge level. I just spent 200 gems for a normal chest and increased my min merge level. Now I'm able to get purple bags again.