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ARK: Survival Evolved & Ascended Companion
Tips & Strategies
Pyromane appeared with the ARK Fantastic Tames - Pyromane dlc. Let's move on to the abilities: he has a fire bar that increases if the pyromaniac kills any creature. The bar scale will drop to zero if you enter the water. The Pyromaniac has a whole range of abilities:
1. (LMB) Melee strike close. On impact, it sets creatures on fire.
2. (RMB) Flame leap - fiery jump-dash. Thanks to this dash, you can accelerate or climb to heights, but it is not that far.
3. (RMB+ctrl) Flame absorb - removes fire from the nearest creature and greatly increases the fire bar scale.
4. (LMB+ctrl) Can only be activated when the bar is at its maximum. When this ability is active, the bar will decrease, give a buff to damage and fire damage, and also with this ability it will be possible to use another remaining ability.
5. (hold RMB) Flame trail - a fiery trail appears behind the Pyromaniac, which sets enemies on fire and depletes the gauge.
There is one more ability left that I didnβt talk about.
6. (ctrl+c) Swap to shoulder pet - switches the Pyromaniac from the mode of a mounted creature to a shoulder-mounted creature. Now I will talk about his features of the shoulder-mounted Pyromaniac:
7. (Passive buff only works when Pyromaniac is on the shoulder) Fiery Embrace - increases resistance to cold.
8. (only works when the Pyromaniac is on his shoulder) When whistling to attack this target or when the Pyromaniac is aggressive, he will shoot fire from his shoulder at your target or at the aggressive creature that attacked.
9. (holding R only works when the Pyromaniac is on the shoulder) You can increase the power of melting meat in it, you can switch from shoulder-mounted to mounted, and you can turn off the ability to shoot fire. Well, and also, if you approach a tamed pyromaniac, hold E and press sleep, the pyromaniac will fall asleep and will feed stoves, fires, torches and everything that runs on fire.
More Pyromane Utility Tips
For the people who donβt know these things can transform into a small form that can ride on your shoulder
Devs have patched the bug where the bag despawns after cryopoding
Pyromane abilities and benefits
It passively cooks meat, along with that transforming it into jerky over time without oil (unsure if spark power needed)
In both forms it provides insulation but the lion form provides much greater insulation
It can provide fuel to refining forges and campfires
It has a immense damage over time ability in the form of its fire effect, this can go up in stages to 10
Think of its DOT being similar to the thylacoleoβs DOT (unsure of which is more)
Its battle abilities includes, a m1 bite applying the status
effect and dealing a base of 20 damage I believe, however the attack is a brutal one due to its speed of attack
Right click/Left bumper for console (I believe) uses the flame leap ability this can be used every 5 seconds
Holding right click/left bumper uses the flame trail ability this consumes some of its absorbed flames
Ctrl right click/ r3 + left bumper (I think) uses the flame absorb ability, it absorbs nearby flames and stores them for battle use
Ctrl + left click/r3 Right bumper uses the flame boost effect, this consumes absorbed flames to deal an additional 50% damage, lasts until cancelled or depleted of absorbed flames
Swap to shoulder pet, Ctrl + C (unknown of console keybind)
Self explanatory, it transforms it to the shoulder pet form
This has been utility of the pyromane, I apologize if I got some of the console keybinds wrong
When you have a pyromane on your shoulder leeches that attach will burn of automatically!
It's poo spoils into charcoal if collected
This creature is hands down THE best tame in the game. I have been following ark since 2018 and I've never seen anything like this, I just took down a 150 alpha Rex with just this guy. Get one immediately they are so so good
For Xbox
Take to water
Pike until it lets you ride
Go around swiping stuff once in fire RB+LT to absorb flames rinse and repeat until dead.
Move on to next wild dino keep doing this until 100% then RB+RT to complete the tame.
Pyromanes and probably the most useful tame at least to me, these tames can take out most creatures in the game especially with their powerful fire abilities, they give great cold and heat resistance also make cooked meat for you without any cost, very convenient because they can fit on your shoulder and then be released
Definitely worth the five bucks
Absolutely walks all over lava golem and ice worm queen with 5K hp (even easier if you mate boost, also wonβt die to lava golem fire
The button combo on Xbox to transform it while riding is down on right joystick and right bumber