Carthus Flame Arc, or Magic Weapon Buff?

[SundayMornin]

I am trying to decide which one to use on my pyromancer.

[Xengre]

Alcohol Fueled Brewtality eredeti hozzászólása:

You get Magic Weapon way earlier than Flame Arc.

Magic Weapon needs 10 INT, meanwhile Flame Arc needs 10 INT and 10 FTH.

So the obvious answer would be to use Magic Weapon early and then, if you decide to, get the extra level of FTH and use Flame Arc.

^This for anyone who doesn't already have it (OP has it). Magic weapon can seriously boost your damage early game and lasts quite a while. You could resin but it doesn't mean much unless you are using a strategy guide or looking up every boss weakness, and frankly that isn't necessary.

[Burusagi]

Plus, it looks real nice (the ambient effects of the weapon buffs in this game is a huge step up from the previous games!)

[SundayMornin]

Xengre eredeti hozzászólása:

Alcohol Fueled Brewtality eredeti hozzászólása:

You get Magic Weapon way earlier than Flame Arc.

Magic Weapon needs 10 INT, meanwhile Flame Arc needs 10 INT and 10 FTH.

So the obvious answer would be to use Magic Weapon early and then, if you decide to, get the extra level of FTH and use Flame Arc.

^This for anyone who doesn't already have it (OP has it). Magic weapon can seriously boost your damage early game and lasts quite a while. You could resin but it doesn't mean much unless you are using a strategy guide or looking up every boss weakness, and frankly that isn't necessary.

So I am currently making my through the cathedral, but I would recommend people to go through the catacombs and smouldering lake before they go there. There are a ton of great items like twinkling titanite and 11 large titanite shards in smouldering lake which got my pyromancy glove to +6, and killing the worm gives you an undead bone shard (and it can easily be safe spotted, even against the arrows).

[Groshen88]

My man The Legend

Try Fire Surge. You'll thank me later.

[DESTARD]

Get Dark Blade looks cool

[troponin1979]

The Legend eredeti hozzászólása:

troponin1979 eredeti hozzászólása:

I know infused weapons aren't quite as strong, but melee is supplemental to my pyro, so I prefer infused weapons. I keep one with lightning, fire, and dark. Those three with cover everything in the game. I don't care for magic because few enemies are weak it and nothing is resistant to any of the ones I carry.

Currently I am running a Battle axe with the heavy infusion upgraded to +3. Only problem I have with infusions is that they take away scaling. Other than that I run carthus flame arc, although I do have greater magic weapon buff but I dont use that. Currently running swamp ring fire clutch ring saints ring, and the initial pyromancers ring and I am doing really good damage.

Later you will get gems that will scale, like chaos and lightning.

[Terroriza]

The Legend eredeti hozzászólása:

I am trying to decide which one to use on my pyromancer.

I don't see why you can't use both? pyromancer wants faith and intel so you will also want to use heavy heal miracle.. You can replace your hp estus with almost all fp estus and then just heal yourself plus others nearby which is far far more efficient overall.

Put the pyro glove and catalyst in your left hand and use multiple buffs.. I switch between dark buff, fire, lightning...

20 intel / 30 faith can basically do everything except for flame swathe.. thats not the name of it i forget the name, but it's the same exact thing as flame swath requires 25 int.

Dragonslayers axe is a great weapon to buff as well. It does physical / lightning and buffs well to dex weapon then you can add whatever dmg type you want with the spells.