How are pyromancers doing atm ?

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Hello everyone,

I played Rift since launch for maybe two months, I really enjoyed it and leveled my mage to 50, but at some point I got bored. I read here and there that the game really improved in the meantime and I'd like to come back and give it an try.
But I really want to play my mage with the pyromancer spec, and I probably won't enjoy the game as much if Pyro was somewhat too underpowered.

So, what is the state of pyromancers in Rift at the moment ?

PS: don't get me wrong, I don't want Pyro to be the OP spec, I want it to be at least viable and / or competitive in a raid setting

[Tarien]

Pyro is pretty much the foundation of most mage specs atm. Two PvP specs, two PvE specs, even a healer spec.

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Thank you. Another question : how is the gear grind to be able to raid ? I left the game with my toon freshly 50 and with little to no gear from the dungeons.
How do you gear up when you hit 50 ?

[Tarien]

Thank you. Another question : how is the gear grind to be able to raid ? I left the game with my toon freshly 50 and with little to no gear from the dungeons.
How do you gear up when you hit 50 ?

Craftables -> Dungeons -> T1 Raiding -> T2 Raiding -> T3 Raiding. It's pretty quick to be honest. Get into a nice guild and they will probably boost you along into T1 raids since they are easily puggable now.

[Pachycrocuta]

What Tarien said. Pyro seems to be the best at dps for mages, and what a lot of people incorporate into their specs, though the healing one seems new to me (always heard chloro/warlock).

And the gear progress is what he said as well. And getting to 200 focus (I think it is) for tier 1 raiding isn't tough at all. I got that by doing about 10 dungeons I think it is on my mage after getting runes and craftables to get to the 100 required for the dungeons. I never tried raiding as my computer has a fit. I did, however, find a way for me to play on non-low quality render and get decent framerate, by reducing my resolution to 1260x768 or whatever that one is instead of going the 1920x1080 res of my monitor. I don't know if that would help with not killing my comp in raids, as I can't test it out.

Anyway, Tarien is correct. I just ended up blabbing on.

[Halym]

From what I understand..
36/30 Pyromancer/Warlock is the standard mage dps build these days.
38/28 Warlock/Pyromancer is the best single-target mage dps spec (if you have 4piece bonus from nyx warlock crystal).

Gearing up isn't hard. Fairly easy to find a guild to get you into Tier 1 gear and work on some Tier 2 pieces in very short order.

[Primalthirst]

Halym would be correct.

Both 36/30 Pyromancer/Warlock and 38/28 Warlock/Pyromancer have their places in end game raiding.
They are both DoT based specs, though 36/30 has a higher ratio of nukes to DoTs than 38/28.
51 Pyromancer is a very easy and decent spec to play for non-progression content. It is your classic Fireball hurling spec though is not quite in the same league as the other two. Big Fulminate crits are fun though!

[Emrendil]

Two good Mage DPS builds.

[1.8] Rexer's DPS Guide (Single Target)
http://bluedots.org/content.php?141-dps

[1.8] Pure ST DPS Guide (36/30 Pyro-Lock)
http://bluedots.org/content.php?251-...o-Lock-(35-31)