Golden Pyromancer

Golden Pyromancer
(Regular • Golden Perk)

ARTICLE

GALLERY

HISTORY

"Burn multiple enemies at once and chip away defense."

―Store Description

Description

The Golden Pyromancer is a golden perk for the Pyromancer, obtained from the Golden Skincrate for 50,000, if you own the Pyromancer. It is mostly regarded as a support tower, though its high normal and burn damage with piercing capabilities also makes it effective against crowds of enemies. Its main gimmick is its ability to burn enemies, dealing extra damage over time.

If an enemy is set alight, the flames will be applied to the enemy until the burn time runs out. There are two types of damage the Golden Pyromancer can apply. The first is Normal Damage which is non-burn related. This can pierce through multiple enemies, not including flying enemies, which it is unable to damage, even if it gains flying detection through other sources. Its flame can initially only hit four different enemies, but with upgrades it increases to ten enemies at once. The second is Burn Damage which is applied for every second an enemy is set alight. Both damage types can damage Lead enemies. The Golden Pyromancer will attack any enemy, even if the enemy is on fire. However, if there are multiple enemies in its range, it will attack the first enemy that is not on fire. Unlike its normal counterpart, the Golden Pyromancer can detect hidden enemies from Level 0.

The Golden Pyromancer, in comparison to the Pyromancer, has increased normal damage, burn damage and burn time, cheaper placement cost and the first three of its upgrades are cheaper, but it is slightly more expensive to upgrade on the last two Levels. This is considered to be an all rounder tower.

Upgrades

Level 1 - Improved Handling - $350
+2.5 Range 1 > 0.75 Tick +0.25 Hitbox Sell Price changes to $383

Level 2 - Golden Flare - $750
+1 Damage +1 Burn Damage +2 Max Hits Sell Price changes to $633

Level 3 - Ring Of Fire - $1,750
+1 Damage +1 Burn Damage 3 > 6 Burn Time 0.75 > 0.5 Tick Drops 5% defense every tick Sell Price changes to $1,216

Level 4 - Gilded Arsonist - $5,750
+1 Damage +3 Burn Damage 6 > 12 Burn Time +0.25 Hitbox Drops 10% defense every tick Sell Price changes to $3,133

Level 5 - Kagutsuchi's Fury - $9,500
+4 Damage +2 Burn Damage +2 Range 12 > 20 Burn Time +0.75 Hitbox +4 Max Hits Sell Price changes to $6,300

Stats Table

To see all the previous statistics of this tower, see the history page, while for the statistics without the Firerate Bug, visit the Firerate Bug page.

Level	Total Price	Normal Damage	Burn Damage	Firerate	Range	Defense Drop	Burn Time	Tick	Max Hits	Hitbox	Total Elapsed Damage[1]	DPS[2]	Cost Efficiency
0	$800	1	1	0.258	7.5	N/A	3	1	4	1.25	3	4.88[3]	$163.93
1	$1,150	1	1	0.258	10	N/A	3	0.75	4	1.5	4	5.21[4]	$220.73
2	$1,900	2	2	0.258	10	N/A	3	0.75	6	1.5	8	10.42[5]	$182.34
3	$3,650	3	3	0.258	10	5%	6	0.5	6	1.5	36	17.63[6]	$207.03
4	$9,400	4	6	0.258	10	10%	12	0.5	6	1.75	144	27.5[7]	$341.82
5	$18,900	8	8	0.258	12	10%	20	0.5	10	2.5	320	47.01[8]	$402.04

Skins

To see all the upgrades of a skin, see the gallery page.

Skin	Default	Hazmat	Scarecrow	Acidic
Rarity	Common	Common	Event	Uncommon
Daily Store Cost	N/A	85	N/A	105
Obtained From	Free	Premium Skincrate	Halloween 2019 Skincrate	Premium Skincrate
Skin	Blue	Valentines	Bunny	Ghost
Rarity	Common	Event	Event	Event
Daily Store Cost	1,250	N/A	N/A	N/A
Obtained From	Basic Skincrate	Valentine Skincrate	Bunny Skincrate	Spooky Skincrate
Skin	Frost	Barbecue	Mage	Vigilante
Rarity	Event	Event	Legendary	Uncommon
Daily Store Cost	N/A	N/A	N/A	4,000
Obtained From	Frost Skincrate	End of Summer Season	Philips x TDS Season	Vigilante Skincrate
Skin	Dwarf	Plushie
Rarity	Event	Exclusive
Daily Store Cost	N/A	N/A
Obtained From	Krampus' Revenge Season	Plushie Code[9]

Strategy

• The Golden Pyromancer is considered an early to mid-game tower, because of its cost efficiency and moderate damage.
  • The Golden Pyromancer fares best against hordes of weaker enemies as it can damage them all at once. Groups of Mysteries, Heavies and Shadows are easily defeated by a Level 3 Golden Pyromancer, while a Level 4-5 one can take on hordes of Normal Bosses or Abnormal Bosses.
    • Although it is unable to outright defeat hordes of higher-health enemies like Giant Bosses, it can still do substantial damage to them.
  • Even though it is considered as such, it is still highly useful in the late game to chip down the health of bosses due to its DPS and to reduce defense.
• Be aware that if an enemy is quick enough, such as the Error or Circuit, they may get out of the Golden Pyromancer's range before they are set on fire.
• The Golden Pyromancer will set every enemy in its range on fire. In what order the Golden Pyromancer will choose its target is based on its targeting.
  • If there is only one detectable enemy in the Golden Pyromancer's range, then it will always target that enemy. This also occurs if all current enemies in the Golden Pyromancer's range is set on fire.
• As the Golden Pyromancer can set lots of enemies on fire at once, due to its pierce and targeting of multiple enemies, it can be very effective against hordes of enemies such as Breakers.
• The Golden Pyromancer has hidden detection from Level 0, allowing it to deal with Hidden enemies quite well early on.
• The Golden Pyromancer can also be used to drop an enemy's defense by half when it is Level 3+.
  • The Golden Pyromancer can be used alongside other defense dropping towers, like the Freezer, Electroshocker or Toxic Gunner to drop it further, though it cannot be used alongside the regular Pyromancer and other fire defense dropping sources.
    • As such, with these towers, an enemy's defense can be removed entirely.
      • This can be useful since it can harshly decrease the defense of enemies with very high defense like the Vindicator, Bulwark or Slow King.
    • Do note that this may be impractical as it requires you to bring several support towers, even though the tower slot could be used for more important DPS towers.
• The Golden Pyromancer is less effective against those with burn immunity, such as the Molten.
  • However, the Golden Pyromancer can still deal non-burn damage to them.
• The Golden Pyromancer is best placed near the beginning of the path. This lets it kill weaker enemies and decrease defense of enemies before they reach your other towers.
• The Golden Pyromancer will not be able to set enemies on fire when placed on high grounds, like ones on The Heights.
• The Golden Pyromancer's burn damage does not stack with other regular Pyromancer, Golden Pyromancers or other towers that deal burn damage, like the Archer.

Trivia

• The Golden Pyromancer, alongside the Commander, is the only tower that has hidden detection at Level 0.
  • While the Commander does have hidden detection at Level 0, it cannot attack any enemies until it is upgraded to Level 2.
  • The Accelerator, Paintballer, Outlaw (now the Ranger), Jester, and Necromancer used to have hidden detection at Level 0, however hidden detection was either moved to another level or removed from these towers.
• The Level 5 upgrade's name comes from Kagu-tsuchi, in classical Japanese mythology.
  • The full name, Kagutsuchi's Fury, is also likely a reference to the upgraded Staff of Fire from Call of Duty: Black Ops II Zombies.

Update History

For previous cosmetic variations, see the gallery page.

Notes