S10 Bard - Pyro Technician

SEASON 10BARDLIVE UPDATES

A build guide by Razedo

01 Overview #

Going into season 10 Pyro Technicion Bard is still looking to be a fun starter. Usually Physical classes struggle early on because of scaling issues early game but Bard skips that pain due to going lightning early and then transitioning into Pyro Technicion once you gotten a couple hero levels and decent physical items.

Season 10 had a pretty drastic change by putting a charge limit system on most mobility spells. However this change does not affect Bard at all. 

The Good

  • Great clear speed
  • Looks and feels good to play
  • Can do all content
  • Relativly tanky 

The Bad

  • Need alot of minmaxxed SS gear to have good clear speed inferno
  • Competes with all other physical classes for the same gear pieces
  • Not great mobility outside of pyro Technician
  • Clunky bossing assuming you're using crowd dive

02 Season Changes #

We took some very small nerfs however this does not affect our gameplay at all and we can actually gain back our aoe due to new AOE cluster nearby in incarnation tree.

03 Loot Filters #

Filters are a bit tricky on bard as you want to mainly look for lightning gear early on from Normal all the way up till hell But you'll also want to look for phys gear.

04 Stats, Sockets & Stars #

Attributes

400 spent 0 / 400 left
  • Strength 400
  • Dexterity 0
  • Intelligence 0
  • Energy 0
  • Armor 0
  • Vitality 0
If caster go 400 int or 200 int / 200 vit
  • All SkillsGeneral damage scaling
  • Physical SkillsGeneral damage scaling
  • All ResistanceMake sure to always be at 75% if possible.
  • -Ignore Target DefenceMakes you miss less
  • Attack speedMakes you attack faster = DPS
  • Deadly blowDamage multiplier

Star levels

When you start getting multiples of your S-tier Satanics, it might be time to attempt some star leveling. Star leveling S-tier Satanics requires Destiny Shards — used at the crafting bench, each shard has a chance to:
62%Upgrade by 1 star
26%Downgrade
12%Corrupt — all stars removed
Each star increases the stats of an item, including orange-text abilities and bonuses. It can also increase +Skill rolls that are NOT +All Skills — so +Elemental or +Physical skills can be scaled this way.

This can be done to SS-tier items too, but it requires higher-tier materials — not suggested until you have established yourself.

05 Leveling 1–100 #

We start off with using slaying riffs up till lvl 40.

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06 Level 100+ Skill Trees #

Pyro Technician

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07 Incarnation Tree #

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08 Gear #

Gearing on bard is pretty straight forward. Whilst leveling lookout for generic caster stats + lightning gear and later on swap to physical gear.

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09 Mercenary #

Use act 1 merc.

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