User blog:VultureSniper/Event Tower for Heatwave Event: Scorcher

Description:

The Scorcher is a ground tower that deals damage in ticks. It shoots a continous beam of fire that incinerates enemies slowly. The Scorcher is unique because of it's damage buildup system. For every tick the Scorcher deals damage to a particular enemy, the damage the Scorcher will deal to that specific enemy will increase by 1 until the Scorcher's damage is 3 times the original damage. This makes the Scorcher extremely powerful against heavy bosses, but weak against hordes of low-health enemies. Additionally, faster enemies may outrun the Scorcher's damage buildup, preventing the Scorcher from dealing it's full capacity of firepower against that enemy. As a result, really fast enemies like Glitches are another drawback of this tower.

The Scorcher is considered a late-game tower due to it's high cost to place and upgrade and because of it's inflexible specialty of tearing down major bosses. However, at Level 4, the Scorcher's Burning Earth ability patches up this weakness.

This tower can only be obtained by beating the Hellfire Wastelands map.

Stats Table:

Level	Total Price	Min Damage	Max Damage	Tick	Range	Min DPS	Max DPS	Lock Time (seconds)
0	$1200	2	6	0.75	15	2.67	8.01	3
1	$1500 ($300)	2	6	0.75	18	2.67	8.01	2
2	$2500 ($1000)	6	18	0.75	18	8	24	2
3	$6300 ($3800)	6	18	0.35	20	17.14	51.42	2
4	$17400 ($10500)	14	42	0.35	23	40	120	2
5	$57400 ($40000)	26	78	0.2	25	130	390	1.5

Perks:

• Hidden Detection at Level 2
• Lead Penetration at Level 0
• Flight Detection at Level 4
• 8% Defense Melting at Level 3 (maximum of 48% total defense reduction)

Ability:

Burning Earth

Level 4 • 50 seconds

The ground within the Scorcher's range erupts with flames for 5 seconds. Any enemy without Burn Immunity that is in the range of this ability takes 20 damage every 0.5 seconds (total elapsed damage: 200). These flames also remove lead and hidden properties from affected enemies.