Elementalist

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"An elemental specialist capable of switching between frost and fire modes to apply debuffs."

―Store Description

Description

The Elementalist is an exclusive tower obtained by triumphing Outpost 32 (Operation I.C.E) on the Hard difficulty. It is mainly an offensive tower with some support capabilities, mainly in the form of freezing enemies.

The Elementalist fires in bursts. The displayed firerate in-game is the time between a burst ending and another burst starting, while the actual time between shots during a burst is a separate statistic. It has two modes which it can switch between, fire and frost. Fire makes it set enemies on fire with each hit, making them receive additional burn damage, while frost applies chillness to enemies, slowing them down. At Level 2, it also gains two abilities, both of which can only be used with their respective modes active. The first is Heatwave, which creates a heatwave in its range, dealing damage to enemies, applying burn to them and knocking them back. The second is Ice Turret, which allows it to create an Ice Turret in its range. It is a stationary unit with limited lifespan that deals damage to enemies, applying chillness to them while also being able to freeze them. There is a 5 second cooldown before modes can be changed.

The Elementalist has a placement limit of 5 per player.

Upgrades

Elemental Armory

Level 1 • Cost: Elemental Armory - $1,500

+2 Damage

+3 Range

3 > 4 Burst Size

+3 Burn Damage

2 > 3 Burn Time

5% > 7.5% Slowdown per Hit

Sell Price changes to $1,166

Experimental Tech

Level 2 • Cost: Experimental Tech - $4,000

+5 Damage

+2 Range

3 > 4 Burn Time

45% > 50% Max Slowdown

Creates a heatwave that deals damage, applies burn and knockbacks enemies

•150 Damage

•10 Burn Damage

•0.5 Burn Tick

•5 Burn Time

•12.5 Range

•20 Knockback Force

•40 Ability Cooldown

Creates an Ice Turret in the selected spot, which freezes enemies on max chillness

•10 Damage

•0.458 Firerate

•10 Range

•1 Health

•45 Second Lifespan

•25% Slowdown per Hit

•50% Max Slowdown

•5 Slowdown Time

•2 Freeze Time

•50 Ability Cooldown

Sell Price changes to $2,500

Improved Exhaust Systems

Level 3 • Cost: Improved Exhaust Systems - $8,000

+2 Damage

4 > 5 Burst Size

0.608 > 0.508 Burst Cooldown

+2 Burn Damage

4 > 2 Burn Time

0.5 > 0.25 Burn Tick

7.5% > 10% Slowdown per Hit

+100 Damage

+5 Burn Damage

+1 Range

+2.5 Knockback Force

+10 Damage

0.458 > 0.358 Firerate

Sell Price changes to $5,166

Frost Fire Specialist

Level 4 • Cost: Frost Fire Specialist - $15,000

+3 Damage

5 > 7 Burst Size

0.208 > 0.133 Burst Cooldown

0.508 > 0.408 Burst Cooldown

2 > 4 Burn Time

10% > 12.5% Slowdown per Hit

50% > 60% Max Slowdown

+150 Damage

+5 Burn Damage

+1.5 Range

+2.5 Knockback Force

+10 Damage

0.358 > 0.308 Firerate

25% > 30% Slowdown per Hit

50% > 60% Max Slowdown

Sell Price changes to $10,166

Abilities

Heatwave

Level 2+ • 40s Cooldown

Creates a shockwave, which deals damage to enemies, knocks them back and sets them on fire.

Ice Turret

Level 2+ • 50s Cooldown

Creates an Ice Turret in the selected spot, which chills and freezes enemies.

Stats Table

To see the statistics without the Firerate Bug, visit the Firerate Bug page.

Fire Mode
Level	Total Price	Damage	Burn Damage	Burst Size	Firerate	Burst Cooldown	Burn Tick	Range	Burn Time	Total Elapsed Damage	DPS	Cost Efficiency
0	$2,000	3	5	3	0.208	0.608	0.5	12	2	20	18.79	$106.44
1	$3,500	5	8	4	0.208	0.608	0.5	15	3	48	32.23	$108.59
2	$7,500	10	8	4	0.208	0.608	0.5	17	4	64	48.48	$154.7
3	$15,500	12	10	5	0.208	0.508	0.25	17	2	80	84.78	$182.83
4	$30,500	15	10	7	0.133	0.408	0.25	17	4	160	127.06	$240.04

Frost Mode
Level	Total Price	Damage	Burst Size	Firerate	Burst Cooldown	Range	Slowdown per Hit	Max Slowdown	Slowdown Time	DPS	Cost Efficiency
0	$2,000	3	3	0.208	0.608	12	5%	45%	2	8.79	$228.31
1	$3,500	5	4	0.208	0.608	15	7.5%	45%	2	16.23	$215.65
2	$7,500	10	4	0.208	0.608	17	7.5%	50%	2	32.48	$230.91
3	$15,500	12	5	0.208	0.508	17	10%	50%	2	44.78	$346.14
4	$30,500	15	7	0.133	0.408	17	12.5%	60%	2	87.06	$350.33

Heatwave
Level	Damage	Burn Damage	Range	Burn Tick	Burn Time	Knockback Force	Total Elapsed Damage	DPS
2	150	10	12.5	0.5	5	20	100	23.75
3	250	15	13.5	0.5	5	22.5	150	36.25
4	400	20	15	0.5	5	25	200	50

Ice Turret
Level	Health	Damage	Firerate	Slowndown per Hit	Max Slowdown	Slowdown Time	Freeze Time	Lifespan	DPS
2	1	10	0.458	25%	50%	5	2	45	21.83
3	1	20	0.358	25%	50%	5	2	45	55.87
4	1	30	0.308	30%	60%	5	2	45	97.4

Strategy

• The Elementalist can be quite effective at taking down single, high health enemies, due to its high DPS and its frost mode slowing them down, giving it more time to damage them.
  • Its Ice Turrets can also help, as they provide additional DPS and allow it to deal even more damage to these enemies.
• The Elementalist can clear out hordes of weaker enemies with ease, as its Heatwave ability allows it to deal a lot of damage to hordes.
  • The Elementalist itself can also be used by having it apply its burn to multiple enemies, most easily by setting it to Random, though its burn effect is weaker than the one from Heatwave.
• As each enemy can only have burn applied once, it may be more beneficial to have only one Elementalist set to fire and the others set to frost, with others only being set to fire to use its Heatwave ability.
• While the Ice Turrets created by the Elementalist may seem strong due to their lack of health bar, that is not the case. They are actually, quite fragile, as they get destroyed once any amount of damage is dealt to them, making them quite weak against any enemy which deals damage to units.
• Unlike most other stalling towers, the Elementalist has hidden detection, making it great against enemies like Shadow Bosses or other high health enemies.
• The Elementalist lacks any lead or flying detection, but it does have other ways to damage these enemies.
  • Elementalist set to Fire can directly hurt any Lead enemies through burn damage.
  • Elementalist can damage and set fire to Flying enemies through Heatwave, however they do not take knockback.
    • This is not recommended as the Heatwave's 40 second cooldown makes it unreliable.

Update History

For previous cosmetic variations, see the gallery page.

• 16 December 2024 - v1.46.0
  • Elementalist added.
  • Bug: Elementalist cannot be obtained after beating the Hard difficulty of Outpost 32.
  • Bug: Heatwave does not deal damage.
• 17 December 2024 - v1.46.3
  • Bugfix: Elementalist is now obtainable.

Notes