Golden Pyromancer
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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 Coin 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
+2 Damage Damage
+3 Burn Damage Burn Damage
+2.5 Range Range
4 > 7 Burn Time Burn Time
+2 Max Hits
2% > 7% Defense Melting Defense Melting
Sell Price changes to Cash$1,617
+5 Damage Damage
+7 Burn Damage Burn Damage
7 > 360 Burn Time Burn Time
+0.25 Hitbox
7% > 10% Defense Melting Defense Melting
Sell Price changes to Cash$4,884
+3 Damage Damage
+18 Burn Damage Burn Damage
+1.5 Range Range
+0.75 Hitbox
+2 Max Hits
10% > 15% Defense Melting Defense Melting
Sell Price changes to Cash$12,029
Stats Table
To see all the previous statistics of this tower, see the history page.
| Level | Total Price | Normal Damage | Burn Damage | Firerate | Range | Defense Melt | Burn Time | Tick | Max Hits | Hitbox | Total Elapsed Damage[1] | DPS[2] | Max DPS[3] | Cost Efficiency |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 0 | Cash$850 | 1 | 2 | 0.250.275 | 9 | 2% | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1.25 | 8 | 6[4]5.64[5] | 1211.64 | Cash$3,402Cash$3,092.91 |
| 1 | Cash$1,175 | 1 | 2 | 0.150.175 | 11 | 2% | 4 | 1 | 4 | 1.5 | 8 | 8.67[6]7.71[7] | 14.6713.71 | Cash$7,835.33Cash$6,716.29 |
| 2 | Cash$2,075 | 2 | 2 | 0.150.175 | 11 | 2% | 4 | 1 | 6 | 1.5 | 8 | 15.33[8]13.43[9] | 25.3323.43 | Cash$6,918.67Cash$5,930.57 |
| 3 | Cash$4,852 | 4 | 5 | 0.150.175 | 13.5 | 7% | 7 | 1 | 8 | 1.5 | 35 | 31.67[10]27.86[11] | 66.6762.86 | Cash$8,091.67Cash$6,936.43 |
| 4 | Cash$14,652 | 9 | 12 | 0.150.175 | 13.5 | 10% | 360 | 1 | 8 | 1.75 | 4,320 | 72[12]63.43[13] | 156147.43 | Cash$10,865.33Cash$9,314.86 |
| 5 | Cash$36,087 | 12 | 30 | 0.150.175 | 15 | 15% | 360 | 1 | 10 | 2.5 | 10,800 | 110[14]98.57[15] | 380368.57 | Cash$20,078.33Cash$17,214.29 |
Skins
To see all the upgrades of a skin, see the gallery page.
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.
- 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.
- 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, 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.
- As such, with these towers, an enemy's Defense can be removed entirely.
- 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.
- 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 is the only tower that has 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 1 > 0.8.
- Level 2
- Level 3
- Level 4
- Level 5
- Level 1
- Statistical changes:
- 24 June 2023 - v1.8.2
- New skin: Vigilante
- 5 August 2023 - v1.8.4
- Statistical changes:
- Level 1
- Tick changed from 1 > 0.8 to 1 > 0.75.
- Burn time changed from 3 to 3 > 2.25.
- Level 2
- Level 3
- Level 4
- Level 5
- Burn time changed from 2.5 > 3.5 to 6.5 > 10.
- Level 1
- Statistical changes:
- 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.
- Level 1
- 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.
- Base
- 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.
- Base
- Statistical changes (PVP Test):
- 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
- Level 4
- Level 5
- Base
- Statistical changes:
- 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
- Level 1
- Level 2
- Level 3
- Level 4
- Level 5
- Statistical changes:
- 11 February 2026 - v1.85.0
- 11 March 2026 - v1.86.0
- Statistical changes:
- Base
- Level 1
- Level 2
- Level 3
- 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.
- Statistical changes:
Notes
- ↑ Calculated as Burn Damage × (Burn Time ÷ Tick).
- ↑ DPS assumes the flames only hit one enemy.
Total DPS is calculated as Normal DPS + Burn DPS.
Burn DPS is calculated as Burn Damage ÷ Tick. - ↑ Calculated as Total DPS × Max Hits.
- ↑ 4 Normal DPS + 2 Burn DPS
- ↑ 3.64 Normal DPS + 2 Burn DPS
- ↑ 6.67 Normal DPS + 2 Burn DPS
- ↑ 5.71 Normal DPS + 2 Burn DPS
- ↑ 13.33 Normal DPS + 2 Burn DPS
- ↑ 11.43 Normal DPS + 2 Burn DPS
- ↑ 26.67 Normal DPS + 5 Burn DPS
- ↑ 22.86 Normal DPS + 5 Burn DPS
- ↑ 60 Normal DPS + 12 Burn DPS
- ↑ 51.43 Normal DPS + 12 Burn DPS
- ↑ 80 Normal DPS + 30 Burn DPS
- ↑ 68.57 Normal DPS + 30 Burn DPS
- ↑ Can be obtained by purchasing a Pyromancer Plush.
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