Minigun (Tower)

The Minigun is a tower that, while having a slow attack speed at first, gets faster and faster over the period of time it attacks. The higher the level, the lower the time frame of maximum attack speed.

Appearance
It is a purple square, with one of its corners cut off. A Gatling gun barrel is protruding from that cut; the barrel glows red as it gains more attack speed from its passive. It sits atop a shaded purple square base, which it rotates upon.

Strategy
This is an excellent tower to use against high health enemies. It can shred both Fighters and Bosses alike, along with the dreaded Light and Icy enemies, making it an excellent complement to explosion-based towers. It is also one of two towers that can shoot anything in the game, the other tower being the Tesla. Yet, there are lots of problems with this tower that keep it from being usable alone (for balancing reasons). There are only 5 enemies (not counting Bonus) that take either full or extra damage from this tower. Unless Damage has been upgraded significantly, it will fail to pierce the tough armor of those enemies, especially Strong and Armored enemies. Note that explosive towers like Cannons can easily deal with those types, again complementing each other well.

One interesting note about it is that it keeps the stacked attack speed it gains after killing a target, so long as it can reach another enemy quickly enough (this is why Rotation Speed is an important upgrade). If set to Random targeting, it can be tough to keep the attack speed going if it lacks good rotation. As an additional note, this tower is probably one the fastest towers to reach max level, as its constant attack speed lets it gain more and more experience.

It's a good idea to upgrade its rotation speed. That will let it switch targets quicker, and it will lose less of its wind-up while switching.