Molten Warlord

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Molten Warlord
Mode Appearance	Molten
Wave Debut	35
Statistics
Base Health	150,000
Health Scaling	Trio – 165,100 Quad – 180,100
Speed	Very Slow (1.25)
Cash Given	$1,000 every 1% health
Hidden?	No
Flying?	No
Ghost?	No
Lead?	No
Attributes	Burn Immune Freeze Immune Aggro (From the Ashes) Tank (Unchained Pandemonium) Boss Immunities: Freeze Immunity Stun Immunity Toxic Gunner Slowdown Jester Confusion Nuke Fallout Damage DJ Booth Slowdown Defense Dropping
Abilities
Ability 1	Infernal Impact – The Molten Warlord slams its weapon into the ground, creating three shockwaves in a straight line that stun every tower for 4 seconds and deal 200 damage to any units caught in it.
Ability 2	Volcanic Vehemence – The Molten Warlord slams its weapons three times, creating three shockwaves around it that stun towers for 4 seconds and deal 1,000 damage to any units caught in it.
Ability 3	From the Ashes – The Molten Warlord will breathe out fire, temporarily gaining Aggro, healing itself by at least 10,000 health and summoning six enemies, either Molten Hounds or Molten Golems with both having a 50% spawn chance. All spawns have a 50% chance to be Bloated.
Ability 4	Burning Jealousy – The Molten Warlord conjures up a giant purple orb before throwing it at towers, applying a 50% firerate debuff to towers for 10 seconds and dealing 250 damage to units.
Ability 5	Unchained Pandemonium – Upon reaching half health, the Molten Warlord rips off its mask and screams, gaining the Tank attribute for a few seconds. Performs its From the Ashes and Blistering Barrage ability while doing so, also unlocking the Blistering Barrage ability.
Ability 6	Blistering Barrage – Creates 20 meteors that fall down from the sky, which stun towers for 3 seconds and deal 100 damage to units.
Music
(Official) Tower Defense Simulator OST - Ere The Molten Dawn (Molten Warlord Theme)

"This is it, the Molten Warlord thinks it can challenge us!
Fight with fire in your heart! Dominate the battlefield and show no mercy!
ITS ALL OR NOTHING!"

―Commander dialogue on Wave 35 (Molten)

Description

The Molten Warlord is a major boss that appears on Wave 35 of Molten mode as the final boss.

Like most other major bosses, the Molten Warlord moves very slowly, but it possesses an extremely high amount of health.

Its first ability is Infernal Impact, where the Molten Warlord slams its weapon into the ground, creating three shockwaves in a straight line that stun every tower hit for 4 seconds and deal 200 damage to any unit caught in them. Its second ability, Volcanic Vehemence, makes it slam its weapon three times, creating three shockwaves around it that stun towers for 4 seconds and deal 1,000 damage to units. Its third ability, From the Ashes, has the Molten Warlord breathe out fire, temporarily gaining Aggro, healing itself by at least 10,000. The amount healed is never exactly 10,000 and is generally higher, such as 10,666, though it does not appear to go past 11,000 total health healed. Afterwards, it will summon six enemies, which can be the Molten Hound and Molten Golem, each with a 50% chance to be summoned. Additionally, each one has a 50% chance to spawn with Bloated. Its fourth ability is Burning Jealousy, where the Molten Warlord fires out a purple orb at towers, which applies a 50% firerate debuff to them for 10 seconds an deal 250 damage to any unit caught in it. Its fifth ability is Unchained Pandemonium, which happens when it reaches half health. The Molten Warlord will remove its mask, which makes it temporarily gain the Tank attribute. Then it will immediately perform the From the Ashes and Blistering Barrage abilities. After entering rage mode, it can now use its sixth ability, Blistering Barrage. This ability makes it summon 20 meteors that fall down from the sky, stunning towers for three seconds and dealing 100 damage to units.

Appearance

The Molten Warlord appears as a glowing orange lava shaped into that of a humanoid figure. Its armor is made out of metal and molten rock, though the molten rocks mainly appear as random rocks scattered around its body, rather than as an actual piece of armor. Its metal armor consists of leggings, which have lava dripping from the footwear, grey gloves, small pieces of metal attached to its arms and a chestplate with a sun-like symbol engraved into it. On its head, it wears a grey skull mask and a small head piece. It has two horns on its head which are impaled with nails. It wields two weapons in its arms, a large grey hammer in its left hand and a large brown pickaxe in its right hand.

Upon using the Unchained Pandemonium ability, the Molten Warlord removes its mask, revealing its menacing orange eyes.

Strategy

• Towers such as the Accelerator, Ranger, Turret, Golden Minigunner and Engineer, are recommended against the Molten Warlord for their high damage output.
  • As these are all highly expensive towers, it is recommended to have a DJ Booth set to the Green track.
    • The DJ Booth can give a reduced discount on the Red and Purple tracks at Level 5, which boost Damage and Range respectively.
  • It is effective to chain the Commander's Call to Arms ability to maximize damage output.
  • As the Molten Warlord has lower health than most other bosses, multiple Brawlers and Wardens can kill it fairly quickly.
• You can use the Medic to cleanse any towers stunned by the Molten Warlord.
  • As the Medic is immune to stuns, you can safely employ this tower in large groups.
• Because of its Unchained Pandemonium ability, it becomes a substantially harder enemy to defeat after it uses this ability.
  • This makes using Call to Arms or other tower-buffing items like consumables likely a waste, as they do not impact or remove the Tank or Aggro attributes. However, these are both temporary and so should not make a huge impact.
• You can have a single cheap tower away from the main defense to bait the Molten Warlord into stunning it instead of the important towers.
• You could use the Nuke to massively reduce its health as well as clear the map of other enemies.
  • Do note that the Molten Warlord is immune to the Nuke's fallout damage, which somewhat reduces its effectiveness.

Gallery

Thumbnails

Molten Warlord on a game thumbnail.

Icons

Molten Warlord on a game icon.

Promotional Images

Molten Warlord on a promotional image.

Molten Warlord on a promotional image.

Renders

Molten Warlord on the Molten mode icon.

Molten Warlord on the matchmaking icon.

Molten Warlord on a render.

Badges

Molten Warlord on the Defeat Molten Warlord badge.

Miscellaneous

Molten Warlord's face.

Molten Warlord on its Index icon.

Trivia

• The Molten Warlord currently has the second most abilities out of any enemy in the game, tied with the legacy Fallen King, Nuclear Fallen King, Awakened Fallen King, Void Reaver, and Nuclear Monster. This record is beaten by the Ducky D00M that appears on D00M's Revenge.

Update History

• 11 December 2024 - v1.45.0
  • Molten Warlord added, replacing the Molten Boss in Molten mode.
  • Bug: Molten Warlord is affected by the All Paths modifier.
• 20 December 2024 - v1.47.0
  • Health increased from 120,000 to 150,000.
• 15 January 2025 - v1.49.0
  • From The Ashes base health regeneration increased from 5,000 to 10,000.
• 22 January 2025 - v1.50.0
  • Bug: Molten Warlord does not create a Molten Corpse on death while it has Corpse.

Molten
Previous Debut	Current Debut	Next Debut
Tanker & Molten Summoner Wave 31	Molten Warlord Wave 35	End N/A