Pyromaniac – Explosives Expert

Class Overview

The Pyromaniac combines elements of a mage and a hunter, specializing in heavy long-range damage with only limited mobility options. Most of the class abilities are highly destructive, which means they can easily hurt allies as well as enemies if used carelessly.

Highlights

• Fire Fire Fire: Many abilities apply Burn or Tar, allowing damage stacks to build up quickly.

• Landmines: The class can place mines around the battlefield and use bombs to knock enemies into them.

• It’s Just A Wound: Some abilities help recover wounds or reduce the danger of your own attacks.

• Wildfire: Fire and poison effects work together for even greater damage.

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Abilities

Active Abilities

• Big One: Throw a large bomb that deals damage and knocks targets back.

• Molotov Cocktail: Toss a volatile mixture that ignites tiles and applies 4 Burn in an X-shaped area.

• Concussion Bomb: Throw a weaker bomb that mainly causes knockback.

• Oil Bomb: Hurl a mixture that applies Tarred 2 to targets it hits.

• Sticky Poison: Throw a concoction that inflicts Tarred 2 and Poison 1.

• Bomberman: Place a bomb on the chosen tile.

• Grenadier: Place a grenade on the selected tile.

• Firestreak: Refresh your movement and set yourself on fire. While burning, your movement can be split up.

• Watch Your Step: Surround a target with mines that explode and slow enemies.

• Toxic Mines: Place mines in a target area that inflict 2 Poison when triggered.

• Landmines: Deploy mines in a target area that explode for 3 damage when activated.

• Detonate: Trigger all bombs and grenades currently on the battlefield. Bonus ability.

• Engulf: Allies standing in fire tiles are healed, while enemies on those tiles take damage.

• Pretty Fire: Gain 2 Shield for every burning tile.

• Sticky Bomb: Attach sticky bombs to all affected targets. These explode for 2 damage on their turn.

• Minedash: Drop a mine that explodes for 5 damage, then dash backward.

• Firestride: Rush to the target tile, leaving a trail of fire behind and setting yourself on fire.

• Mathilda: Throw a massive forbidden bomb with unpredictable results.

• Bombastic: Apply sticky bombs to all visible enemies. These explode for 4 damage on their turn.

• Bombfly: Summon a friendly Bombfly.

• Bombjump: Explode around yourself, damaging nearby targets, then teleport to a random nearby tile.

• Tarfight: Give all allies the ability to throw tar at enemies.

• Tarball: Throw a sticky ball of tar that applies Tarred 2 to the target. Bonus ability.

• Clusterbomb: Throw a bomb that breaks into smaller blasts, each dealing 2 damage to enemies.

• Airstrike: Call down a delayed explosion.

• Drop Bomb: Move away and leave a bomb behind.

• Mine Mortar: Fire a mortar shot that leaves a mine where it lands.

• Poop Mortar: Throw waste that poisons adjacent units.

• Perimeter: On the next turn, surround yourself with mines.

Passive Abilities

• Napalm: Your basic attack applies Burn, but your explosions have a smaller area. You also attack randomly whenever an enemy is killed.

• Wildfire: Fire and poison interact together. Poisoned enemies can be set ablaze, and burning enemies can be poisoned, causing them to explode for 3 damage.

• Pretty Explosions: Increases knockback, and all of your attacks gain knockback effects.

• Explosive Personality: When you die, you drop 2 grenades. Your body is also more durable.

• Minefield: Each battle begins with 1 to 3 mines already placed somewhere on the field.

• Prosthetics: In each fight, after killing 6 monsters, you heal one random injury.

• Bombastic: Start with a rat bomb item and gain the bonus ability Detonate.

• Hothead: When below 3 health, you become immune to fire and explosion damage.

• Firedancer: While on fire, you are immune to crowd control and can split your movement.

• Mortar Team: Grants a long-range attack, but you cannot move while using it.

• Shrapnel: Your explosions deal 1 less damage, but they apply 1 Bleed.

How To Unlock

Follow these steps to unlock the class:

1. Install the Paladin Unlocker Mod.

2. Talk to Butch. The standard dialogue should unlock the class.

3. You do not need to begin a new save.

4. Optionally, remove the Unlocker Mod afterward.

Note: Mewgenics does not officially support custom class mods. If you save during a run while using a modded class, a future update could cause crashes. In some cases, restoring the class may fix the issue.