Elementalist

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Event Content

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Elementalist has been made unobtainable from the game as of the 15th of January 2025 as it was part of the Operation I.C.E Event.
Players with the item in question can continue using it, but you cannot obtain this item anymore, outside of limited-time promotional sales.

"An elemental specialist capabale^[sic] of switching between frost and fire modes to apply debuffs."

―Store Description

Description

The Elementalist is an exclusive tower that could have been obtained by triumphing Outpost 32 from the Operation I.C.E Event on the Hard difficulty. It is mainly an offensive tower with some support capabilities, mainly in the form of freezing enemies. It could be bought through a limited time gamepass for 799.

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 and have separate cooldowns, allowing players to quickly switch modes and utilize both abilities. 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

+Hidden Detection

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

•1,000 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

+3 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

+2.5 Range

0.458 > 0.358 Firerate

Sell Price changes to $5,166

Frost Fire Specialist

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

+5 Damage

5 > 7 Burst Size

0.208 > 0.133 Firerate

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

+2.5 Range

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 all the previous statistics of this tower, see the history page, while for 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	48.47	$154.73
3	$15,500	13	10	5	0.208	0.508	0.25	17	2	80	88.51	$175.12
4	$30,500	18	10	7	0.133	0.408	0.25	17	4	160	144.48	$211.1

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	32.47	$230.98
3	$15,500	13	5	0.208	0.508	17	10%	50%	2	48.51	$319.52
4	$30,500	18	7	0.133	0.408	17	12.5%	60%	2	104.48	$291.92

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

Ice Turret
Level	Health	Damage	Firerate	Range	Slowndown per Hit	Max Slowdown	Slowdown Time	Freeze Time	Lifespan	DPS
2	1,000	10	0.458	10	25%	50%	5	2	45	21.83
3	1,000	20	0.358	12.5	25%	50%	5	2	45	55.87
4	1,000	30	0.308	15	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 appear to have infinite health due to their lack of a health bar, this is not the case. It does have health, meaning it can be killed by abilities, though its health is quite large.
  • While the Boomer cannot kill it with its 400 damage explosion, the Unknown can with its 1,000 damage Stomp.
• 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 should not be relied on as the Heatwave's 40 second cooldown makes it inconsistent.
• When using frost mode, selecting Strongest can help stall high health enemies.
  • This is greater when using Ice Turret as it can freeze the enemy if it doesn't have Freeze Immunity.
• The Elementalist is incapable of dropping Defense with its frost or fire mode and other towers like Freezer and Pyromancer should be used to drop them instead.
• The Elementalist can only inflict slowdown onto enemies and cannot freeze enemies on its own, only the Ice Turrets are capable of freezing.
• Unlike the Engineer's sentries, Ice Turrets have to be built somewhere within the Elementalist's range manually using the Ice Turret ability and only one Ice Turret per Elementalist can be active at a time. The Ice Turret requires to be built in empty spaces with no towers, but towers and other Ice Turrets can be placed on top of them once they are built.
  • As Ice Turrets have to be replaced regularly, it is best to communicate with your team to leave an empty space in Elementalist's range for optimal Ice Turret placements.

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.
  • Bug: Ice Turrets do not disappear when the Elementalist is sold.
  • Bug: Placing multiple Ice Turrets too quickly can cause the overlay remain after use.
  • Bug: Kills from the Elementalist's burn do not give cash.
  • Bug: Burn damage does not increase the total damage counter.
• 17 December 2024 - v1.46.3
  • Bugfix: Elementalist is now obtainable.
• 18 December 2024
  • Bugfix: Heatwave now deals damage.
• 20 December 2024 - v1.47.0
  • Statistical changes:
    • Level 3
      • Damage increased from +2 to +3.
      • Ice Turret's range increased from 10 to 12.5.
    • Level 4
      • Damage increased from +3 to +5.
      • Ice Turret's range increased from 10 to 15.
  • Bug: Can no longer summon Ice Turrets.
• 20 December 2024 - v1.47.1
  • Bugfix: Now can summon Ice Turrets again.
• 25 December 2024 - v1.47.4
  • Gamepass price decreased from 799 to 599.
• 28 December 2024 - v1.47.5b
  • Gamepass cost increased from 599 to 799.
• 15 January 2025 - v1.49.0
  • Elementalist can no longer be obtained by triumphing Outpost 32 on Hard difficulty.
    • Elementalist is still available via its gamepass.
  • Statistical changes:
    • Level 2
      • Ice Turret health increased from 1 to 1,000.
    • Level 3
      • Ice Turret health increased from 1 to 1,000.
    • Level 4
      • Ice Turret health increased from 1 to 1,000.
  • Bug: Spawning a Ice Turret then selling the tower causes it to stay and deal zero damage until naturally despawning.
• 12 February 2025 - v1.53.0
  • Gamepass taken offsale.
• 9 April 2025 - v1.60.0
  • Defense role added.
• 28 May 2025 - v1.65.0
  • Bug: When the Fight Dirty Skill is active, the Ice Turret freeze times will become longer the more enemies it freezes in quick successions, leading to freeze times so long enemies are frozen up to multiple minutes.
  • Bugfix: Ice Turret now disappears properly.

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