The Pyromancer’s three branches are Ash Breaker, Fire Storm and Tempest. However, players will be able to respec their Skill Tree to change how their class plays. As People Can Fly explain, players earn points to spend on the Skill Tree by levelling up but won’t be able to earn enough to fill out the entire tree. The spotlight on the Pyromancer also gives us a look at their Skill Tree and the three branches they have. If you melee an enemy and it dies or you kill it while marked, it will heal you. This deals fire damage to anything it hits, as well as dealing extra damage over time. Despite excelling at mid-range, if enemies get too close, the Pyromancer can use its melee attack. Overheat is a great secondary skill, useful to follow up the Pyromancer’s other abilities that inflict burning and a great way to get a tonne of healing at once.Įven without weapons, the Pyromancer makes use of its skills in a variety of ways.
Overheat deals a small amount of damage to enemies in a large area and deals extra damage to enemies which are already burning. On defense, Pyromancers can freeze nearby enemies to make a quick escape. As an offensive ability, Pyromancers can freeze enemies in place to unleash an area of effect attack, or have one of their teammates do so. People Can Fly also says Ash Blast has both offensive and defensive utility. This gives players a bit of breathing room and is great as a catalyst for other powers like Heatwave or Thermal Bomb. It affects enemies in a wide radius and completely immobilises all enemies it affects. A Pyromancer can use Thermal Bomb and have a team mate deal the killing blwo to set the bomb off.Īsh Blast is a unique skill in that it applies the ‘Ash’ status rather than burning. This lets the Pyromancer turn enemies into living weapons who can take out groups of burning enemies to both clear the battlefield and heal.Īn enemy affected by Thermal Bomb doesn’t need to be killed by the player who used the abiliity for the effect to take place either. However, an enemy affected by Thermal Bomb will rise into the air and explode if they’re killed whilst affected. Thermal Bomb sets enemies on fire and deals damage over time pretty standard. If players manage to hit enough enemies with Heatwave at once they may recover a lot of health when they all perish together. Heatwave applies the Burning status which can stun and interrupt enemies as well as dealing damage over time. The wave is only slightly wider than the Pyromancer itself but travels quite some distance. Drawing their hands upwards from the ground, the Pyromancer sends a wave of flame towards enemies in a straight line. Heatwave is one of the earliest powers available to the Pyromancer and is a great example of their mid-range abilities and healing mechanics. The four abilities revealed in Broadcast #2 are This allows Pyromancers to use their skills and abilities to interrupt enemies by inflicting burning, if the need arises.
It did reveal that the Pyromancer inflicts the ‘Burning’ status on enemies which deals damage over time and temporarily stuns enemies. We only know about four of the Pyromancer’s powers at this stage, as People Can Fly didn’t reveal more during the broadcast. Each character begins with one power and gradually unlocks more by levelling up. Like all classes in Outriders, the Pyromancer has eight total powers to use.