Fire Surge | Dark Souls 3 Wiki

If you encounter fire surge users on PvP, just play hyper passively for a while. Avoid and dodge them and after a minute or two of not doing any damage they'll switch to a different playstyle lol

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Bad fire surge players can be countered by relentless aggression but good fire surge players have no counters

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GRAAAAAAAAAAAAH I HATE TEARS OF DENIAL AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAA

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It's great for three things: Finishing of Players with ToD, resetting Frostbite and stunning enemies that are afraid of fire (dogs, maggot-corpses etc.) Considering it requires only 6 INT, everyone with a unused spellslot should give it a try.

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For PvE purpose, it causes panicking to enemies that are weak against fire. Instant stun for very low cost.

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"Oh wow your Tears of Denial ran out? Gee, it'd be a shame if someone were to..."

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Needs some recovery frames shouldn't be able to roll immediately out of it

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Absolutely stupid with frost sellswords. No need to wait for the frost to wear off before L1 L2 R2 combing again. I did a low level (SL35) build with this setup and the result was fantastic.

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Okay cornyx is canonically more of a villain than Willem was for making this spell

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This is why you always pack a crossbow, folks
(Light crossbow can be 2handed by all classes)

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The tears of denial counter

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I don't regret bowgunning y'all who just solely spam this in arena

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Everytime someone tries to cheese me with this I just run up and hit them which is something that catches people by surprise when u dont roll away, remember this thing has zero poise damage.

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It's best used as a TOD finisher after you've brought your enemy to like 1 hit away from death so they roll spam

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The "STOP PLAYING SO PASSIVELY AND F**KING DO SOMETHING!!" spell.

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Don't be that dude

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i wish i could use this with both hands

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Pair this with follower torch to become a human M2 flamethrower.

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This spell is insane in PvP. A skilled user will use it with a sword (Astora Straight Sword is my choice) to force enemies to be overly aggressive or take the chip damage, which does add up over time. You can also mind game with this, pretend like you are gonna use it, your character even puts their hand up but instead you go for an R1 of your off hand weapon. It puts most people in a spot that seems like its totally impossible to get out of, that mental pressure can get people to panic roll, giving you more opportunities. If I had to say the best way to counter this spell is to not allow any distance between you & the pyro, otherwise you will get zoned. All in all, this is probably one of the best pyro PvP spells in the game, but its best used with another weapon that can catch people when they try to avoid the flame.

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Ah yes, nothing like being slowly cheesed to death by this spell while I desperately try to prevent my slow painful death using my big ol' strength weapon. Gives me almost as much joy as running into someone mashing quickstep and poking holes in me while I am helpless to do anything against their unlimited i-frames.

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How does one counter this spell in PvP? All I can ever think of to do is either block with a fire resist shield or just stay the hell away. Some people say you can punish it, but the second I move close the caster they roll away and respam the spell. Not a dangerous spell by particular means, but most definitely annoying when its all someone uses

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Very good pyromancy for starting the barbeque

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Saw a fightclub where some dude was just spamming this spell. The entire fightclub ganked him to death.

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This Spell is one of the few spell from the start of the game that can still be used in higher level PVP. It uses only FP not stamina so if you have tons of FP you can apply pressure while still being able to dodge. The best part is when they get used to it then rush you and you whip out a stronger spell to utterly destroy them. 10/10 would surge again.

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HANS GET ZE FLAMMENWERFER

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Oh yeah, just run away and chip health until they die! Now that's the true dark souls experience!

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How to counter this cancer? Fought several people in duels who were only spamming this and i couldn't do anything even with LKA. Fire, roll away. It starts really quickly, does some chip damage and they can instantly roll

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Very useful for resetting frostbite. How I killed Oceiros at level 9

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I Cheat Engine in a 1 million damage dagger just for the fucks who do nothing but roll and spam this spell. And then i crash their game, cause they deserve it for being such fucking cancer.

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Unpunishable spell. Boring to fight against

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Pyromancer's answer to dealing with ToD users

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Thought I would give it a go, killed a red phantom with it. No one likes to be set on fire, and I could bait and control the match with this, leading them into heavier hits. Pretty good actually.

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This spell is cancer. Needs a patch

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After i use this pyromancy, my character isn t able to parry after 2 seconds. I can only roll. Is this a bug or is working as intended?

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It drains way more fp then the damage ticks.For example, fire orb dose 150 for me, this dose 33 a tick, this takes roughly 5 ticks to kill the target, which means it should take 10fp, instead it takes 30 fp...wth?

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The best chipping type damage in the game, in my humble opinion. Spew one flame at a time, don't bother channeling.Fast to cast, fast to cancel, deceptive range, tracks a locked on target rather well, works better than thrown items because it's easier to land and pretty much impossible to punish.Even using it at the start of a fight is great, as it puts tremendous pressure on your opponent. You'll safely whittle away at their health while they have no response and they'll be more prone to mistakes and stupid risks as a result. Then you just punish those with your bigger hits.However, only works for no Estus 1v1 duelling. Not practical for invasions or defending yourself from an invader.

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Dogs are kinda weak but jump around and move fast. This is a great spell against them because it's constant and instantly disables them.

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I'm a little into a pyromancy build now and cant figure out the point of this spell, it deals so little damage, hardly breaks poise and leaves you vulnerable while attacking not to mention the start-up time is atrocious, why would I ever use this instead of a normal fireball? is it the AOE?

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There seems to be a number of enemies that respond to fire attacks by rolling on the floor or just freaking out, such as the dogs, farmers, or those annoying tree spear guys in the crucifixion woods. You can hit them with a quick burst from fire surge from range which incapacitates them, thus letting you easily close in and finish them off with multiple hits from your weapon or whatever else you want.I find this technique particularly useful when there's multiple enemies since it's sometimes annoying trying to deal with one while one or two more are still hitting your back (i.e. dog packs).

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I used this on Wolnir's bracelets. It worked well enough.

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While the dmg is lackluster and your not going to kill really anything with this. It's a useful tool to get afew hits on your opponent in pvp. If you do short bursts and keep a distance while rolling it is really hard to punish. Sure it will take awhile but if done right this can cause a lot of frustration with your opponent.

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how is this spell for PvP? seems like it would be useful against people who block spam

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maybe if it had some more range to it and little more scaling. Consider using against fire weak enemies only to trigger their weakness burning animations easily. Otherwise waste of atunement slot.

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Very very awful. You are better off just swinging your weapon, as even at very high INT/FTH it'll likely do less damage than an Raw+0 weapon.

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... and it's no good! There's a cooldown on how often it can deal damage, making any of the rapid FP consumption tics inbetween a total waste.The most effective way to use this spell is to fire it in single, 2 FP bursts, but it does paltry damage--especially per second due to all the start up / recovery associated with said bursts--and virtually no poise damage.Take this spell if you hate having FP, or hate doing good damage.

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MY FAVORIT DARK SOULS 1 SPELL IS BACK!!!!

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