The Pyromancer is a powerful class inBackpack Battles.To play to the class advantages, you want to survive the early game by stackingFlamesuntil you unlock the subclass items atRound 8.Here you’ll get access to one of the best items in the game: theDragon Nest.Our Pyromancer build is shaped around maximizing your dragons to provide ridiculous life regeneration and stacking bonuses.
This is a slightly slower build, but once it gets started you’ll clear runs with ease. We’ll walk you through which items to grab from the shop, which items to combine, and backpack management.
The Pyromancer Overview
The Pyromancer is a powerful class in Backpack Battles because of the early game health-stacking you can achieve withFlamesand the base Pyromancer backpack, theFire Pit.
Any Fire item placed in theFire Pitbackpack will increase your starting health byfive points.You can easily stack plenty of cheapFlameitems, because the backpack also generatesone flame for one gold every time you enter the shop.
Early Game Items To Buy
It’s a good idea to play into your survivability with the Pyromancer to give you more time later on to build up your Dragon army.
Here’s a list of a few of the items you should pick up during the first few rounds.
Sword
You’ll want to turn your Sword into aTorchwith aLump of Coalfrom the shop, then transform it with aFlameinto aBurning Torch. This will give you some good early game momentum and a slot for your gems.
Box Of Riches
A lot of this build relies on getting decentGemsto fit into yourDragonsonce you’ve unlocked theDragon’s Nest.The Box Of Riches is an excellent pick-up and basically essential for this build.
The Box Of Riches provides one freegemper turn, but also lets you purchase gems from the shop.
Flames
These are the bread and butter of your early game Pyromancer build. Pick them up. They’re usually only one Gold and can provide temporary buffs until you sell them later on.
Lump Of Coal
Lump Of Coal can be turned intoBurning Coalwith Flames, a good replacement for your Flames as you progress into the end-game.
Dagger, Molten Dagger
The Dagger, transformed into theMolten Daggerby two Flames, is a very useful early game weapon to help you deal damage until you unlock your dragons.
Fanny Pack
The Fanny Pack is a two-slot backpack that improves trigger speed on any item inside. You can stack these on top of each other to provide 20% improved trigger speed for your Dragons. Pair this with the gems slotted inside and plenty ofHeatgenerated by your Flames, and you have a build that attacks very quickly.
Leather Bags
Grab these with any spare cash and reserve some before round 8 -the Dragon build requires a lot of backpack space to get going.
Mid-Game, Getting Your Dragons
The Dragon Nest becomes available at the start of round 8, which is when you get to pick your subclass. The Pyromancer has plenty of useful options here, but Dragons rule.
Grab the Dragon Nest before you start rolling for Eggs, as the Dragon Nest will increase the odds of finding Eggs and allows you to purchase different types of Egg.
This is where you should also start to slot your gems into the Dragons - Topaz for Attack Speed and Ruby for Lifesteal work brilliantly. You should pick these up from the shop if you see them, and combine them in your backpack if you manage to get any free ones from Box Of Riches.
Then it’s simple: stack your Dragons, you can have up tosix Dragonsoptimally placed around your Dragon Nest.
Make sure to grabDraconic Orbswhenever you see them - not only do they counterSpike buildsand help you generateHeatall on their own, you’ll also need them to evolve yourRuby Whelps.
Late-Game
Once you’ve got into the late game and have your Dragons stacked, you can get some meta items, like theDjinn LamporGlowing Crown. Getting through the Survival Rounds really comes down to having the best gems slotted in your Dragons.
