Best Outriders Pyromancer builds for Ash Breaker, Fire Storm & Tempest

After choosing the Pyromancer class in Outriders, you’ll need to decide which way to build your class in one of the three trees: Ash Breaker, Fire Storm, or Tempest. Our guide should help you when making that decision. 

Square Enix’s Outriders takes its players on a journey through the planet of Enoch after being abandoned by the rest of humanity. The planet is full of deadly enemies to take down and earn that Epic or Legendary loot from, but you’ll need to make sure you’re rocking the best build to stand a chance at victory. Let’s get into how to build the Pyromancer, the game’s medium-range marksman class that utilizes a host of skills to heal, crowd control, and obliterate enemies.

Best beginner Pyromancer build

Typical of any mage-like build, the Pyromancer will undoubtedly feel somewhat squishy and underpowered at first. As Pyromancers focus heavily on crowd-control and area of effect (AEO) skills, you’ll struggle when enemies are spread out. However, we’ve got a list of the abilities to use to make things a little easier:

Best Outriders abilities for Pyromancer

This skill set will serve you well, regardless of the mods and class trees that you pick during your time on Enoch.

Best Ash Breaker Pyromancer build

Ash Breaker skills

The Ash Breaker is all about further boosting damage against enemies that have been shot with a skill and are under an effect (also known as marked enemies.)

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One of the most necessary skills for any Ash Breaker player is Ash Blast. One of the best statuses in the game due to how it stuns your opponents, unlike Feed the Flames, it inflicts the status on all enemies in a large radius around you.

Ash Breaker Class Tree Nodes

When it comes to your build, you’ll be wanting to choose skills that boost your damage output, immobilizing abilities, and Ash status effects. Since the Pyromancer can feel squishy, these are absolutely critical. The best nodes to use are:

Best Fire Storm Pyromancer build

Fire Storm skills

The Fire Storm build specializes in boosting your maximum health and mitigating damage received.

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Feed the Flames and F.A.S.E.R Beam are essential for this class. While the first skill mitigates damage by healing you, the latter will interrupt enemies and render them open for the kill. The skills you’ll want to utilize for this build are:

Fire Storm Class Tree Nodes

When selecting the nodes to use, you’ll want to be utilizing all of the Magma Golem slots. As these stack, continually increasing your maximum health up to a total of 50%. Skill Leech will also aid in healing, so make sure to prioritize these, too. Skills like Distant Flame also work alongside the skill, increasing your Anomaly power by 2.5% depending on how many nodes of Magma you’ve utilized. The best nodes are:

Best Tempest Pyromancer build

Tempest skills

The Tempest feels much more akin to mage classes in other well-known games such as World of Warcraft.

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Ash Blast works to immobilize your enemies, while both Eruption and Overheat act as hard hitters that create deadly AOE effects. The skills you’ll want to utilize for this build are:

Tempest Class Tree Nodes

When it comes to your build, you’ll be wanting to choose skills that boost your damage output, immobilizing abilities, and Ash status effects. Since the Pyromancer can feel squishy, these are absolutely critical. The best nodes to use are:

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So, there you have it — our guide on each of the three Pyromancer classes. To find out our full thoughts on the newest looter-shooter in the genre, check out our full Outriders review.