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"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 Crate for Error creating thumbnail: File missing 50,000, if you own the Pyromancer. Its main gimmick is its ability to burn enemies, dealing extra damage over time and later reducing the enemy Defense.

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 without flying detection. 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 methods 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, at one point having it be effectively infinite. This is considered to be an all rounder tower.

Upgrades

Improved Handling

Level 1 • Cost: Error creating thumbnail: File missing$325

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+0.25 Hitbox

Sell Price changes to Error creating thumbnail: File missing$391

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Golden Flare

Level 2 • Cost: Error creating thumbnail: File missing$900

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+2 Max Hits

Sell Price changes to Error creating thumbnail: File missing$691

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Ring Of Fire

Level 3 • Cost: Error creating thumbnail: File missing$2,777

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+2 Max Hits

2% > 7% Defense Melting Error creating thumbnail: File missing

Sell Price changes to Error creating thumbnail: File missing$1,617

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Eternal Ember

Level 4 • Cost: Error creating thumbnail: File missing$7,500

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+0.25 Hitbox

7% > 10% Defense Melting Error creating thumbnail: File missing

Sell Price changes to Error creating thumbnail: File missing$4,117

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Kagutsuchi's Blood

Level 5 • Cost: Error creating thumbnail: File missing$16,000

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+18 Burn Damage Error creating thumbnail: File missing

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+0.75 Hitbox

+2 Max Hits

10% > 15% Defense Melting Error creating thumbnail: File missing

Sell Price changes to Error creating thumbnail: File missing$9,450

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Statistics

To see all the previous statistics of this tower, see the history page.

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Level	Cost	Total Cost	Normal Damage	Burn Damage	Firerate	Range	Defense Melt	Burn Time	Tick	Max Hits	Hitbox	Total Elapsed Damage	DPS	Max DPS	Cost Efficiency
0	Error creating thumbnail: File missing$850	Error creating thumbnail: File missing$850	1	2	0.275	9	2%	4	1	4	1.25	8	5.64	22.56	Error creating thumbnail: File missing$150.71
1	Error creating thumbnail: File missing$325	Error creating thumbnail: File missing$1,175	1	2	0.175	11	2%	4	1	4	1.5	8	7.71	30.84	Error creating thumbnail: File missing$152.4
2	Error creating thumbnail: File missing$900	Error creating thumbnail: File missing$2,075	2	2	0.175	11	2%	4	1	6	1.5	8	13.43	80.58	Error creating thumbnail: File missing$154.5
3	Error creating thumbnail: File missing$2,777	Error creating thumbnail: File missing$4,852	4	5	0.175	13.5	7%	7	1	8	1.5	35	27.86	222.88	Error creating thumbnail: File missing$174.16
4	Error creating thumbnail: File missing$7,500	Error creating thumbnail: File missing$12,352	9	12	0.175	13.5	10%	360	1	8	1.75	4,320	63.43	507.44	Error creating thumbnail: File missing$194.73
5	Error creating thumbnail: File missing$16,000	Error creating thumbnail: File missing$28,352	12	30	0.175	15	15%	360	1	10	2.5	10,800	98.57	985.7	Error creating thumbnail: File missing$287.63

Skins

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

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Skin	Default	Hazmat	Scarecrow	Acidic
Rarity	Common	Common	Event	Uncommon
Daily Store Cost	N/A	Error creating thumbnail: File missing 85	N/A	Error creating thumbnail: File missing 105
Obtained From	Owning Pyromancer	Premium Crate	Halloween 2019 Crate	Premium Crate
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Skin	Blue	Valentines	Bunny	Ghost
Rarity	Common	Event	Event	Event
Daily Store Cost	Error creating thumbnail: File missing 1,250	N/A	N/A	N/A
Obtained From	Basic Crate	Valentines Crate	Bunny Crate	Spooky Crate
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Skin	Frost	Barbecue	Mage	Vigilante
Rarity	Event	Event	Legendary	Uncommon
Daily Store Cost	N/A	N/A	N/A	Error creating thumbnail: File missing 4,000
Obtained From	Frost Crate	End of Summer Season	Premium Crate, Philips x TDS Season	Vigilante Crate
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Skin	Dwarf	Plushie	Pool Party	Hallow Punk
Rarity	Event	Exclusive	Rare	Rare
Daily Store Cost	N/A	N/A	N/A	N/A
Obtained From	Krampus' Revenge Season	Merch Shop	Surf & Turf Regular Battle Pass	Null & Void Premium Battle Pass
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Skin	Fire Breather	Reindeer	Scuba Ops
Rarity	Rare	Rare	Rare
Daily Store Cost	N/A	N/A	N/A
Obtained From	Showtime Crate	The Final Act Regular Battle Pass	Scuba Ops Crate

Strategy

• The Golden Pyromancer is considered an early to mid-game tower, because of its cost efficiency and moderate damage.
  • It can be used to easily deal with weak enemy hordes like the Normal, Heavy or Quick and at higher Levels, it can even take out high health enemies like the Normal Boss and Elite Abnormal.
    • 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 still has certain usage in the late game to reduce defense.
• 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 melt an enemy's Defense by half.
  • The Golden Pyromancer can be used alongside other defense melting towers, like the Freezer, Electroshocker or Toxic Gunner to melt it further, though it cannot be used alongside the regular Pyromancer and other fire defense melting 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, Reaver 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 and the Turret are the only towers that have hidden detection at Level 0.
  • The Accelerator, Paintballer, Outlaw (now the Ranger), Jester, Commander, 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, who is the god of fire 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.

• 13 May 2022 - v1.2.2
  • Golden Pyromancer added, replacing the Golden Pyromancer skin buffs.
  • Bug: Golden Pyromancer does not turn correctly.
  • Bug: Burn time is shorter than it is meant to be when tick is lower than 1.
• 21 May 2022 - v1.2.3
  • Bug: Golden Pyromancer's flames are invisible when an enemy is on fire.
• 5 August 2022 - v1.3.1
  • New skin: Barbecue
  • Bugfix: Golden Pyromancer now turns correctly.
• 31 October 2022 - v1.4.2
  • No longer speeds up enemies.
• 11 November 2022 - v1.4.2d
  • New skin: Mage
• 21 December 2022 - v1.6.0
  • Skin rarity added to all skins.
  • Hazmat skin rarity changed from Rare to Common.
  • Acidic skin rarity changed from Common to Uncommon.
• 7 April 2023 - v1.7.0
  • Statistical changes:
    • Level 1
      • Range decreased from +4 to +2.
      • Tick changed from 1 to .
    • Level 2
      • Burn damage increased from +0 to +1.
      • Defense melting moved to Level 3.
      • Bigger flames added.
      • Cost increased from Error creating thumbnail: File missing$500 to Error creating thumbnail: File missing$1,000.
      • Name changed from Fire Fighting to Golden Flare.
    • Level 3
      • Range increased from +0 to +1.
      • Burn time changed from 3 > 5 to 3 > 4.5.
      • Defense melting moved from Level 2, melts 5% defense.
      • Cost increased from Error creating thumbnail: File missing$1,200 to Error creating thumbnail: File missing$1,800.
      • Name changed from Fire Hazard to Ring Of Fire.
    • Level 4
      • Burn damage increased from +2 to +3.
      • Burn time changed from 5 > 3 to 4.5 > 2.5.
      • Tick changed from to .
      • Defense melting increased from 5% to 10%.
      • Cost increased from Error creating thumbnail: File missing$3,800 to Error creating thumbnail: File missing$4,600.
      • Name changed from Napalm Thrower to Gilded Arsonist.
    • Level 5
      • Damage increased from +2 to +4.
      • Range increased from +0 to +2.
      • Burn damage decreased from +6 to +2.
      • Burn time changed from 3 > 4 to 2.5 > 3.5.
      • Cost increased from Error creating thumbnail: File missing$7,500 to Error creating thumbnail: File missing$10,000.
      • Name changed from Pyromaniac to Kagutsuchi's Fury.
• 24 June 2023 - v1.8.2
  • New skin: Vigilante
• 5 August 2023 - v1.8.4
  • Statistical changes:
    • Level 1
      • Tick changed from to .
      • Burn time changed from 3 to 3 > 2.25.
    • Level 2
      • Range increased from +0 to +1.
      • Cost decreased from Error creating thumbnail: File missing$1,000 to Error creating thumbnail: File missing$750.
    • Level 3
      • Burn time changed from 3 > 4.5 to 2.25 > 3.75.
      • Range decreased from +1 to +0.
      • Cost decreased from Error creating thumbnail: File missing$1,800 to Error creating thumbnail: File missing$1,500.
    • Level 4
      • Burn time changed from 4.5 > 2.5 to 4.5 > 6.5.
      • Cost increased from Error creating thumbnail: File missing$4,600 to Error creating thumbnail: File missing$6,000.
    • Level 5
      • Burn time changed from 2.5 > 3.5 to 6.5 > 10.
• 28 October 2023 - v1.9.0
  • Golden Pyromancer's burn now will thaw frozen enemies and prevent freezing towers from freezing enemies.
  • Statistical changes:
    • Level 1
      • Burn time changed from 3 > 2.25 to 3.
    • Level 3
      • Burn time changed from 2.25 > 3.75 to 3 > 4.5.
    • Level 4
      • Burn time changed from 3.75 > 6.5 to 4.5 > 12.
    • Level 5
      • Burn time changed from 6.5 > 10 to 12 > 20.
  • Bug: Kills from Pyromancer's burn do not give cash at Level 0.
  • Bugfix: Flames are now visible when an enemy is on fire.
  • Bugfix: Burn time is no longer decreased when tick is lower than 1.
• 21 December 2023 - v1.11.0
  • New skin: Dwarf
• 23 May 2024 - v1.23.0
  • Updated hitbox.
  • Flames now can only hit a limited number of enemies.
  • Statistical changes:
    • Base
      • Max hits decreased from infinite to 1.
    • Level 1
      • Max hits increased from +0 to +1.
    • Level 3
      • Max hits increased from +0 to +1.
    • Level 4
      • Max hits increased from +0 to +1.
    • Level 5
      • Max hits increased from +0 to +1.
  • Bug: Burn damage no longer generates cash in Molten mode, Fallen mode and special maps.
  • Bug: Hitbox growth speed does not work properly.
  • Bug: Golden Pyromancer does not turn properly.
• 29 May 2024 - v1.23.4
  • Statistical changes (PVP Test):
    • Base
      • Firerate increased from 0.275 to 0.425.
• 21 June 2024 - v1.25.0
  • Bug: Regular damage is no longer boosted by Damage Buffs.
• 19 July 2024 - v1.26.0
  • Bug: Golden Pyromancer attacks things outside its range in PVP Test.
  • Bugfix: Hitbox growth speed now works correctly.
  • Bugfix: Golden Pyromancer now turns correctly.
• 19 July 2024 - v1.26.1
  • Bugfix: Golden Pyromancer now only attacks things inside its range.
• 2 August 2024 - v1.27.0
  • Golden Pyromancer no longer deals damage to Flying enemies.
  • Bugfix: Regular damage is now boosted by Damage Buffs.
• 16 October 2024 - v1.36.0
  • Statistical changes:
    • Base
      • Range increased from 7 to 7.5.
      • Max hits increased from 1 to 4.
      • Hitbox width increased from 0.5 to 1.25.
    • Level 1
      • Range increased from +2 to +2.5.
      • Max hits decreased from +1 to +0.
      • Hitbox width changed from +1 to +0.25.
    • Level 2
      • Range decreased from +1 to +0.
      • Max hits increased from +0 to +2.
    • Level 3
      • Cost increased from Error creating thumbnail: File missing$1,500 to Error creating thumbnail: File missing$1,750.
      • Burn time changed from 3 > 4.5 to 3 > 6.
      • Tick changed from 0.75 to .
      • Max hits decreased from +1 to +0.
    • Level 4
      • Cost decreased from Error creating thumbnail: File missing$6,000 to Error creating thumbnail: File missing$5,750.
      • Burn time changed from 4.5 > 12 to 6 > 12.
      • Tick changed from to 0.5.
      • Max hits decreased from +1 to +0.
    • Level 5
      • Cost decreased from Error creating thumbnail: File missing$10,000 to Error creating thumbnail: File missing$9,500.
      • Max hits increased from +1 to +4.
• 23 October 2024 - v1.37.0
  • Burn no longer prevents enemies from being frozen.
• 27 November 2024 - v1.43.0
  • New skin: Plushie
• 16 December 2024 - v1.46.0
  • Bug: Golden Pyromancer will struggle to hit enemies if it has to aim up or down at them, or when on elevation.
• 8 January 2025 - v1.48.0
  • Bugfix: Golden Pyromancer now deals damage normally when targeting enemies while aiming up or down, or when on elevation.
• 15 January 2025 - v1.49.0
  • Bugfix: Golden Pyromancer now deals damage to Flying enemies.
• 5 March 2025 - v1.56.0
  • Bug: Golden Pyromancer keeps targeting enemies that were previously inside its range and sometimes does not target enemies inside its range.
  • Bug: Golden Pyromancer does not deal damage.
• 5 March 2025 - v1.56.1
  • Bugfix: Golden Pyromancer now targets and damages enemies correctly.
• 9 April 2025 - v1.60.0
  • Offense role added.
• 9 July 2025 - v1.70.0
  • New skin: Pool Party
• 20 December 2025 - v1.83.0
  • New skin: Fire Breather
• 20 December 2025 - v1.83.0a
  • New skin: Reindeer
• 28 January 2026 - v1.84.0
  • Statistical changes:
    • Base
      • Cost decreased from Error creating thumbnail: File missing$800 to Error creating thumbnail: File missing$750.
      • Range increased from 7.5 to 9.
      • Burn damage increased from 1 to 2.
      • Burn time increased from 3 to 5.
      • Defense melting increased form 0% to 2%.
    • Level 1
      • Cost decreased from Error creating thumbnail: File missing$350 to Error creating thumbnail: File missing$300.
      • Firerate changed from 0.275 to .
      • Range decreased from +2.5 to +2.
      • Max hits increased from +0 to +1.
      • Tick changed from to 1.
    • Level 2
      • Cost increased from Error creating thumbnail: File missing$750 to Error creating thumbnail: File missing$800.
      • Burn damage decreased from +1 to +0.
      • Max hits decreased from +2 to +1.
    • Level 3
      • Cost increased from Error creating thumbnail: File missing$1,750 to Error creating thumbnail: File missing$2,444.
      • Damage increased from +1 to +2.
      • Range increased from +0 to +2.5.
      • Max hits increased from +0 to +2.
      • Tick changed from .
      • Burn damage increased from +1 to +3.
      • Burn time changed from 3 > 6 to 5 > 9.
      • Defense melting changed from 0% > 5% to 2% > 7%.
    • Level 4
      • Cost increased from Error creating thumbnail: File missing$5,750 to Error creating thumbnail: File missing$9,800.
      • Damage increased from +1 to +5.
      • Burn damage increased from +3 to +10.
      • Burn time changed from 6 > 12 to 9 > 360.
      • Defense melting 5% > 10% to 7% > 10%.
      • Name changed from Gilded Arsonist to Eternal Ember.
    • Level 5
      • Cost increased from Error creating thumbnail: File missing$9,500 to Error creating thumbnail: File missing$21,435.
      • Damage decreased from +4 to +3.
      • Range decreased from +2 to +1.5.
      • Burn damage increased from +2 to +25.
      • Burn time changed from 12 > 20 to 360.
      • Defense melting changed from 10% to 10% > 15%.
      • Name changed from Kagutsuchi's Fury to Kagutsuchi's Blood.
• 11 February 2026 - v1.85.0
  • Statistical changes:
    • Base
      • Cost increased from Error creating thumbnail: File missing$750 to Error creating thumbnail: File missing$800.
      • Burn time decreased from 5 to 4.
    • Level 2
      • Cost increased from Error creating thumbnail: File missing$800 to Error creating thumbnail: File missing$850.
    • Level 3
      • Burn time changed from 5 > 9 to 4 > 9.
• 11 March 2026 - v1.86.0
  • Statistical changes:
    • Base
      • Cost increased from Error creating thumbnail: File missing$800 to Error creating thumbnail: File missing$850.
    • Level 1
      • Cost increased from Error creating thumbnail: File missing$300 to Error creating thumbnail: File missing$325.
      • Max hits decreased from +1 to +0.
    • Level 2
      • Cost increased from Error creating thumbnail: File missing$850 to Error creating thumbnail: File missing$900.
      • Max hits increased from +1 to +2.
    • Level 3
      • Cost increased from Error creating thumbnail: File missing$2,444 to Error creating thumbnail: File missing$2,777.
      • Burn time changed from 4 > 9 to 4 > 7.
    • Level 4
      • Burn damage decreased from +10 to +7.
      • Burn time changed from 9 > 360 to 7 > 360.
    • Level 5
      • Burn damage decreased from +25 to +18.
      • Max hits decreased from +4 to +2.
• 5 June 2026 - v2.0.0
  • Firerate decreased due to the Firerate Bug being fixed.
  • Statistical changes:
    • Base
      • Without Firerate Bug, firerate increased from 0.25 to 0.275, however, as in the same update it has been fully fixed, the firerate effectively does not change and remains at 0.275.
    • Level 1
      • Without Firerate Bug, firerate changed from to , however, as in the same update it has been fully fixed, the firerate effectively does not change and remains at 0.175.
• 19 June 2026 - v2.1.0
  • Statistical changes:
    • Level 4
      • Cost decreased from Error creating thumbnail: File missing$9,800 to Error creating thumbnail: File missing$7,500.
    • Level 5
      • Cost decreased from Error creating thumbnail: File missing$21,435 to Error creating thumbnail: File missing$16,000.
• 2 July 2026 - v2.1.7
  • New skin: Scuba Ops

Notes

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