Good early weapon for Pyromancer

[J_EndersZone]

Looks like my strenght is too low for some weapons and now I'm stuck with the axe. Anybody know where I can get some better weapons without infusing that have low strenght requirements.

[Hunubul]

Without infusion? Why don't you want to infuse? Raw infusion is really good for early pyro build, because it removes scaling and you don't have to worry about damage.

And the best weapon for that is Astora Straight Sword. It's on the high wall somewhere, I believe it's somewhere around the estus shard room. You don't have to have the faith requirement, but you will have it anyways, seeing that you are a pyro. Not having the faith will NOT decrease damage, it will just make you glance off of shields and stuff.

[Gyrdalf]

The hand axe is actually a really good weapon, it attacks fast and has decent damage, albeit low range. I beat the game with it on my pyromancer, so it's completely viable. If you don't like it you can always use the longsword, which is extremely overpowered and has low requirements.

[J_EndersZone]

Originally posted by Ponion:

Without infusion? Why don't you want to infuse? Raw infusion is really good for early pyro build, because it removes scaling and you don't have to worry about damage.

And the best weapon for that is Astora Straight Sword. It's on the high wall somewhere, I believe it's somewhere around the estus shard room. You don't have to have the faith requirement, but you will have it anyways, seeing that you are a pyro. Not having the faith will NOT decrease damage, it will just make you glance off of shields and stuff.

Want to save it for better weapons. I definitely look for that sword.

[Gyrdalf]

Don't worry about wasting infusion gems, especially raw. As long as you aren't infusing each weapon you come across, you'll be fine.

[Hunubul]

Originally posted by I'm a Bradberry:

Originally posted by Ponion:

Without infusion? Why don't you want to infuse? Raw infusion is really good for early pyro build, because it removes scaling and you don't have to worry about damage.

And the best weapon for that is Astora Straight Sword. It's on the high wall somewhere, I believe it's somewhere around the estus shard room. You don't have to have the faith requirement, but you will have it anyways, seeing that you are a pyro. Not having the faith will NOT decrease damage, it will just make you glance off of shields and stuff.

Want to save it for better weapons. I definitely look for that sword.

It's not wasting. You get more than 1 raw gem, and I don't think you'll run a RAW weapon later in the game. There are some good weapons that have innate fire damage and scaling.

[J_EndersZone]

Originally posted by Ponion:

Originally posted by I'm a Bradberry:

Want to save it for better weapons. I definitely look for that sword.

It's not wasting. You get more than 1 raw gem, and I don't think you'll run a RAW weapon later in the game. There are some good weapons that have innate fire damage and scaling.

Just got the astora straight sword and infused it so far I manage to defeat that fat lady pretty fast.

[J_EndersZone]

Originally posted by Preußen:

Don't worry about wasting infusion gems, especially raw. As long as you aren't infusing each weapon you come across, you'll be fine.

I figure as much. I'm now at the point in trying to get the fireball spell. The weapons recommend including the lothic knight armor I collected is making it much more easy to take down enemies especially that fat witch. Any recommendation on what to devote my stats to atm?

[Gyrdalf]

Get enough Int/Fth for the spells you want to use, then increase HP and stamina. I usually like to have at least 27 Vig and 20 End for PvE, more if you want to PvP.

[Jackal]

I just ran my first pyro build and I am loving it. I used the Raw Astora Straightsword up until I got around 35 in INT/FTH, and switched to a regular longsword with a chaos infusion +10. Really good damage at 40 in both. I also am trying out the Follower Sabre from the DLC with Dark infusion +10 and it's worked well, too.

[Hunubul]

I'd level up my HP and endurance first to 27 vig and around 16-20 endurance.

After that go for at least 14 attn (you may have that much already) and go for 40 int 40 faith quickly.

Spells aren't that effective with minimum requirements. You should only use them really against bosses that are weak to fire or when you reached a cap already (40/40, or for sorcerer 60 int etc.).


I suggest NOT infusing weapons tho. Simply because if you do a pure physical build that requires less level ups, you will get more damage. Elemental infusions make you do split damage, and the scaling is weirdly low anyway. So even if you got higher AR, you will deal much less damage. Physical infusions are better overall.

So either you accept that you will deal less damage, OR you use a physical infusion (for example raw) and use weapon buffs. Or you use a physical infusion and don't buff. It's your choice.


Also there are enemies/areas where pyromancy and fire damage is very bad. In those situations you can swap to a different catalyst and use sorcery/miracles and also use a weapon that does NOT deal fire damage. Only for those parts of the game.

[b]

Astora Greatsword or UGS i forget its near cleansing chapel. Infuse it with chaos.