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Warlock has been made unobtainable from the game as of the 26th of November 2025 as it was part of the Null & Void Event.
Players with the item in question can continue using it, but you cannot obtain this item anymore, outside of limited-time promotional sales.

Warlock
Unlock Cost	Triumph Outpost 16, Banlands and Blind Faith on Hard difficulty
Role	Offense
Placement	Ground
Placement Limit	4
Statistics
Base Cost	$4,200
Base Selling Cost	$1,400
Base Damage	25 (Ranged) 45 (Melee)
Damage Method	Single (Ranged) Pierce (Melee) Bleed (Level 4+)
Base Firerate	1.1 (Ranged) 2 (Melee)
Base Range	18 (Ranged) 7 (Melee)
Hidden Detection	Level 2+
Lead Detection	Level 4+ (Bleed) Level 5
Flying Detection	N/A
Immunities	None
Placement Footprint	Average (1.5)
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A hybrid melee and ranged tower that's capable of knocking back enemies and applying bleed.
Capable of detecting hidden enemies.

A hybrid melee and ranged tower that fights with eldritch magic. Capable of knocking back enemies and applying bleed.

―Inventory Description

Description

The Warlock is a melee and ranged hybrid ground tower that could have been unlocked by triumphing Outpost 16, Banlands and Blind Faith on the Hard difficulty of the Null & Void Event. It could have been obtained via a limited-time gamepass for 849.

The Warlock has two range rings, each allows it to attack in a specific mode, each with its own statistics. The bigger range ring is the ranged attack range. With it, the Warlock fires energy beams at enemies. This deals damage to a single enemy, while also knocking it back at later levels. There is a 3 second cooldown before an enemy can be knocked back again.

The second red range ring is the melee range. In it, the Warlock will attack enemies with its sword. This will deal AOE damage, with the intended target receiving both the melee and ranged damage, while anything hit alongside it only receives the ranged damage. This also applies bleed to enemies. If there are enemies in both its ranged and melee ranges, it will prioritize attacking enemies in its melee range.

At Level 4, it gains the ability to apply bleed to enemies. Each bleed applied will only deal damage to an enemy once before disappearing, with there also being a 1.8 second delay between each bleed damage. Additionally, it can only deal damage while bleed is not being applied. This bleed can stack up to 40 times, which will cause a bleed collapse, dealing increased damage to the enemy instantly. The damage dealt varies based on an enemy's max health and the Warlock's base bleed damage, EV (exponential value) and how many bleed stacks are removed at once. Because of this, when the enemy receives bleed damage from the enemy over time, it is calculated as:
$\text{(Base Bleed Damage}\times (1^{0.9}))\times ({\text{Enemy Max Health}}^{\text{EV}})$
While bleed is collapsing on an enemy, it is calculated as:
$\text{(Base Bleed Damage}\times (40^{0.9}))\times ({\text{Enemy Max Health}}^{\text{EV}})$

Damage from bleed is always rounded up, for both damage over time and from bleed collapse. Additionally, damage from bleed damage will not be displayed as the full damage dealt for the Warlock unless only one Warlock was applying bleed. Damage displayed will be based on the number of bleed stacks applied by the selected Warlock. This damage is not affected by Damage Buffs.

The Warlock can be considered a mid to late-game tower as its fairly effective during the mid and late game due to its high DPS, and its bleed effect that can affect every enemy, including major bosses.

The Warlock has a placement limit of four per player.

Upgrades

Acolyte

Level 1 • Cost: $2,500

+15 Damage

+1 Range

+30 Damage

Sell Price Changes to $2,233

Forbidden Arts

Level 2 • Cost: $6,800

+Hidden Detection

Now knocks back enemies

•15 Knockback Force

+20 Damage

1.1 > 0.8 Firerate

+3 Range

+65 Damage

+0.5 Range

Sell Price Changes to $4,500

Pact of the Blade

Level 3 • Cost: $12,000

+55 Damage

+2.5 Knockback Force

+60 Damage

2 > 1.8 Swingrate

Sell Price Changes to $8,500

Eldritch Knight

Level 4 • Cost: $20,000

+75 Damage

+2 Range

Now applies Bleed debuff

•3 Bleed Stack

•2 Base Bleed Damage

•0.28 EV

•40 Max Stacks

+150 Damage

+0.5 Range

+1 Max Hits

Sell Price Changes to $15,166

Abyss Walker

Level 5 • Cost: $30,000

+Lead Detection

+60 Damage

0.8 > 0.7 Firerate

+2.5 Knockback Force

+200 Damage

+1 Range

+2 Bleed Stack

Sell Price Changes to $25,166

Statistics

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

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Ranged Attack
Level	Cost	Total Cost	Damage	Firerate	Range	Knockback Force	DPS	Cost Efficiency
0	$4,200	$4,200	25	1.1	18	N/A	22.73	$184.78
1	$2,500	$6,700	40	1.1	19	N/A	36.36	$184.27
2	$6,800	$13,500	60	0.8	22	15	75	$180
3	$12,000	$25,500	115	0.8	22	17.5	143.75	$177.39
4	$20,000	$45,500	190	0.8	24	17.5	237.5	$191.58
5	$30,000	$75,500	250	0.7	24	20	357.14	$211.4

Melee Attack
Level	Cost	Total Cost	Normal Damage	AOE Damage	Base Bleed Damage	Swingrate	Bleed Stack	EV	Max Stack	Range	Max Hits	DPS	Max DPS	Cost Efficiency
0	$4,200	$4,200	45	45	N/A	2	N/A	N/A	N/A	7	2	45	67.5	$93.33
1	$2,500	$6,700	75	75	N/A	2	N/A	N/A	N/A	7	2	75	112.5	$89.33
2	$6,800	$13,500	140	140	N/A	2	N/A	N/A	N/A	7.5	2	140	210	$96.43
3	$12,000	$25,500	200	200	N/A	1.8	N/A	N/A	N/A	7.5	2	222.22	333.33	$114.75
4	$20,000	$45,500	350	350	2	1.8	3	0.28	40	8	3	388.89	777.78	$117
5	$30,000	$75,500	550	550	2	1.8	5	0.28	40	9	3	611.11	1,222.22	$123.55

Bleed Damage
Health	Tick Damage	Collapse Damage
100	8	201
500	12	316
1,000	14	383
5,000	22	601
10,000	27	730
50,000	42	1,145
100,000	51	1,390
500,000	79	2,181
1,000,000	96	2,648
5,000,000	151	4,156

Skins

Skin	Rockstar	Tiger	Eyecatcher	Surfs Up
Rarity	Legendary	Uncommon	Uncommon	Uncommon
Daily Store Cost	N/A	5,000	4,000	5,250
Obtained From	Showtime Crate	Lunar Crate	Pirate Crate	Beach Crate
Skin	Dragon
Rarity	Rare
Daily Store Cost	120
Obtained From	Premium Crate

Strategy

• The Warlock is an excellent option against high health enemies, due to its high DPS and bleed.
  • Generally, it is preferred that the Warlock deals damage to such enemies in its melee range, as it has far higher DPS and AOE.
    • It is entirely possible to use it while not taking advantage of its melee range as it does have quite high DPS without it, though this is not generally recommended.
    • The knockback from the ranged attack can be helpful for keeping enemies within melee range. However, this is not always reliable as the Warlock prioritizes melee range and, due to various immunities related to knockback, prevents it from occurring consistently.
• The Warlock will prioritize attacking enemies in the melee range, regardless of its targeting.
  • For example, if set to Last Enemy and there are enemies in both its melee and ranged range, it will only target the last enemy in its melee range, ignoring all enemies in the ranged range.
  • This can be beneficial in certain situations, such as allowing it to ignore Aggro or target specific enemies that you want it to target. However, it can also lead to scenarios where a Warlock's target escapes its melee range while other enemies remain in range, leaving a potentially strong enemy with nothing to defeat it.
    • Because of this, other towers should be taken to help with anything that gets past the Warlock's range as it will quite often be unable to actually deal with it itself.
• Towers that decrease firerate, such as Commander, can help the Warlock build bleed stacks more quickly.
• Stalling towers are a great match with the Warlock, as they can keep enemies in its melee range for longer.
  • They can also stall enemies that get past its melee range, giving it more time to kill enemies in melee range so that it can deal with leaks.
  • Note that Warlock has the highest knockback force of any tower in game, so use it to your advantage.
• The Warlock can be useful on maps that contain loops, such as Crossroads.

Trivia

• The Warlock is the only tower to use melee attacks that have the default size of the tower placement footprint.
• The Warlock is the first tower to change attack modes based on enemies in its range.
• The names of most of the tower upgrades likely reference different features from the tabletop game Dungeons and Dragons:
  • While not a direct reference, Level 1 may be related to the Acolyte background, a feature that grants the Magic Initiate (Cleric) origin feat to any Dungeons and Dragons character.
  • Level 3 references Pact of the Blade, a subfeature of a class feature from the original Dungeons and Dragons Warlock called Eldritch Invocations. The feature evolves around the use of a Pact Weapon, further reinforcing the reference to the large sword the tower is carrying.
  • Level 4 references the Eldritch Knight, a subclass of the original Dungeons and Dragons Fighter that grants spellcasting to the purely martial class.
• The Level 5 upgrade name may be a reference to the Artorias The Abysswalker from Dark Souls.

Update History

For previous cosmetic variations, see the gallery page.

• 31 October 2025 - v1.79.0
  • Warlock added.
  • Bug: Only the AOE damage from the melee attack is affected by Damage Buffs.
  • Bug: If flying detection is gotten through a source other than the Medic or Firework Technician, the Warlock will target Flying but it will be unable to damage them outside of bleed.
  • Bug: Only the melee attack is capable of generating fireworks when it has the Firework Buff.
  • Bug: Ranged attack has lead detection.
  • Bug: Melee attack deals both melee and ranged damage to the targeted enemy.
  • Bug: Warlock causes extreme frame drops when sold, to the point of freezing the game entirely for multiple seconds.
  • Bug: Warlock's particles from attacking do not disappear properly, causing them to build up and cause immense amounts of lag.
• 26 November 2025 - v1.80.1d
  • Warlock can no longer be obtained by triumphing all Null & Void Event nights on Hard difficulty.
    • Warlock is still available via its gamepass.
• 26 November 2025 - v1.81.0
  • Gamepass cost decreased from 849 to 679.
• 2 December 2025 - v1.81.4b
  • Gamepass taken offsale.
• 20 December 2025 - v1.83.0
  • New skin: Rockstar
• 28 January 2026 - v1.84.0
  • Statistical changes:
    • Base
      • Melee damage decreased from 50 to 45.
      • Ranged range decreased from 19 to 18.
    • Level 1
      • Melee damage decreased from +35 to +30.
    • Level 2
      • Knockback force decreased from 20 to 15.
    • Level 3
      • Melee damage decreased from +100 to +60.
    • Level 4
      • Cost increased from $18,500 to $22,500.
      • Ranged damage decreased from +85 to +75.
      • Ranged range increased from +2 to +1.
      • Ranged firerate changed from 0.825 > 0.775 to 0.825.
      • Knockback force decreased from +7.5 to +0.
      • Bleed stack decreased from 3 to 2.
    • Level 5
      • Cost increased from $28,000 to $32,500.
      • Ranged damage increased from +60 to +70.
      • Ranged range decreased from +2 to +0.
      • Ranged firerate changed from 0.775 > 0.625 to 0.825 > 0.725.
      • Melee damage decreased from +350 to +200.
• 16 February 2026 - v1.85.3
  • New skin: Tiger
• 22 April 2026 - v1.89.0
  • Statistical changes:
    • Level 4
      • Cost decreased from $22,500 to $20,000.
      • Bleed stack increased from 2 to 3.
      • Bleed tick increased from 1 to 1.8.
    • Level 5
      • Cost decreased from $32,500 to $30,000.
      • Bleed stack decreased from +3 to +2.
  • Bugfix: Ranged attack no longer deals energy damage, meaning it does not have lead detection by default anymore.
• 22 May 2026 - v1.91.0
  • Bug: AOE damage is now the same as melee damage.
  • Bugfix: All forms of damage are now affected by Damage Buffs.
• 5 June 2026 - v2.0.0
  • Firerate decreased due to the Firerate Bug being fixed.
  • Statistical changes:
    • Base
      • Ranged firerate decreased from 1.125 to 1.1.
      • Melee swingrate decreased from 2.025 to 2.
    • Level 2
      • Ranged firerate changed from 1.125 > 0.825 to 1.1 > 0.8.
    • Level 3
      • Melee swingrate changed 2.025 > 1.825 to 2 > 1.8.
    • Level 5
      • Ranged damage decreased from +70 to +60.
      • Ranged firerate changed from 0.825 > 0.725 to 0.8 > 0.7.
• 17 July 2026 - v2.3.0
  • New skin: Eyecatcher
• 4 September 2026 - v2.9.0
  • Warlock is now available through a gamepass for 749.
  • New skin: Surfs Up
• 11 September 2026 - v2.9.1b
  • Warlock taken offsale.
    • Bug: Still appears in the featured section, allowing it to be gifted.
• 11 September 2026 - v2.10.0
  • Bugfix: Can no longer be gifted as it is no longer featured.
• 18 September 2026 - v2.11.0
  • New skin: Dragon

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