Sorceries are a type of Magic that has the most extensive variety of damage types and effects and scales primarily with Intelligence. The player can currently cast sorceries with all Staves, Immolation Tinder, Heysel Pick, Cleric's Candlestick, Golden Ritual Spear and the Crystal Chime. There are a total of 38 sorceries, some of which are unlocked from Merchants by giving them unique Key Items called Scrolls. They are as follows:
Sorceries
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Sage's Scroll | Give to Orbeck of Vinheim to unlock Great Farron Dart and Farron Hail | Farron Keep, Keep Ruins bonfire. Look left after going down to swamp (see n12 in map). It is across the swamp guarded by enemies. Mushroom corner |
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Golden Scroll | Give to Orbeck of Vinheim to unlock Cast Light, Repair, Hidden Body, Hidden Weapon, Twisted Wall of Light | Farron Keep, Keep ruins bonfire. Walk all the way down to the end of the fallen bridge, and follow the right wall through the poison swamp. The scroll is in a cave at the end of that wall guarded by some basilisks. |
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Logan's Scroll | Give to Orbeck of Vinheim to unlock Soul Spear and Homing Soulmass | Irithyll Dungeon, poison swamp in Profaned Capital, building on roof, drops from NPC |
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Crystal Scroll | Give to Orbeck of Vinheim to unlock Homing Crystal Soulmass, Crystal Soul Spear, Crystal Magic Weapon | Lothric Castle, defeat the Crystal Sage in the Grand Archives |
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Fires a soul arrow. |
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Fires a more powerful soul arrow. |
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Fires a heavy soul arrow. | 11 | 1 | 13 |
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Fires a more powerful heavy soul arrow. |
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Fires a soul dart. | 3 | 1 | 8 |
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Fires a more powerful soul dart. | 4 | 1 | 23 |
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Fires a cascade of soul darts. |
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Releases a homing soulmass. | 20 | 1 | 20 |
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Releases a homing crystal soulmass. Crystal soulmass has piercing qualities. | 43 | 1 | 30 |
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Casts a cascade of small crystal soulmasses from above. Crystal soulmasses have piercing qualities. | 19 | 1 | 18 |
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Fires a soul spear. | 32 | 1 | 32 |
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Fires a piercing crystal soul spear. | 46 | 1 | 48 |
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Emits crystal breath of Seath the Scaleless. Crystal breath has piercing qualities. | 25 | 1 | 50 |
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Fires a torrential volley of souls. | 55 | 2 | 45 |
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Attacks with a greatsword formed from souls. | 23 | 1 | 22 |
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Alteration of Soul Greatsword developed by sorcerers of the Undead Legion of Farron. |
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Reinforce right weapon with magic. |
25 | 1 | 10 |
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Greatly reinforces right weapon with magic. | 35 | 1 | 15 |
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Reinforces right weapon with crystal. | 45 | 1 | 30 |
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Reinforce left shield with magic. |
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Greatly reinforce left shield with magic | 60 | 1 | 18 |
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Masks noises of the caster and prevents fall damage. |
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Distracts foes with distant sound. | 15 | 1 | 18 |
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Releases mercury that eats away at HP. Beware, as the caster is not immune to its effect. | 13 | 1 | 30 |
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Casts a light to illuminate surroundings. |
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Repairs equipped weapons and armor. Includes weapons with exhausted durability. |
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Turns right weapon invisible. |
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Turns body nearly invisible. |
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Transforms player into something inconspicuous. (The object will change depending on what area you're in.) |
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Distorts light to deflect magic. | 10 | 1 | 27 |
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Fires dark soul dregs. | 6 | 1 | 12 |
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Fires powerful darkened soul sediment. | 9 | 1 | 20 |
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Casts a dark manifestation of humanity. | 40 | 1 | 32 |
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Strikes with a blade formed of humanity's darkness. | 26 | 1 | 30 |
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Imbues right-hand weapon with frost | 30 | 1 | 15 |
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Creates a cloud of near-freezing mist. | 16 | 1 | 18 |
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Fires great soul dregs | 30 | 1 | 40 |
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Conceive old moonlight sword and attack | 23 | 1 | 25 |
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Sorcery Enhancement Items and Catalysts
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Blindfold Mask | Helm | Increases dark damage by ~10% | The Ringed City |
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Helm | Increases magic damage by ~10%. | Farron Keep | |
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Ring | Increases magic attack by 15% | Irithyll of the Boreal Valley | |
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Ring | Increases sorceries damage by 12%. |
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Ring | Increases sorcery damage by 20%. | Irithyll Dungeon | |
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Scholar Ring | Ring | Increases intelligence by 5 points | Grand Archives |
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Lingering Dragoncrest Ring | Ring | Extends length of spell effect by 30% | Farron Keep |
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Scholar's Candlestick | Dagger | Increases sorcery damage by 12.5%. | Grand Archives |
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General Staves | Staves | Catalyst | Multiple places. See the Staves page for more information. |
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Heysel Pick | Hammer | Catalyst / Weapon | Road of Sacrifies |
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Golden Ritual Spear | Spear | Catalyst (scales on faith) / Weapon | Irithyll of the Boreal Valley |
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Cleric's Candlestick | Straight Sword | Catalyst / Weapon | Cathedral of the Deep |
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Immolation Tinder | Halberd | Catalyst / Weapon | Irithyll of the Boreal Valley |
Anonymous09 Sep 2019 02:40
Say I only put points in intelligence and attunement with a sorcerer starting class, then one-hand a Refined double broken sword that deals 1 damage a parry critical as my best weapon despite being better off with magic, and cant reallot stats cause I already transposed Rosaria's soul. What then?
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14 Aug 2019 12:30
Resistant or not .pure magic with crystal spear turns almost all bosses into sad jokes Holy shet knocking off lothric off Lorian 3 times per minute is funniest shet ever
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31 Mar 2019 14:44
HOW is there little to no info about catalyst stamina modifier for spells on the internet? It took me like 10 seconds to notice that Heretic's Staff takes about 12.5% more stamina than Sorcerer's Staff for any spell. Longer staves take about 12.5% more stamina to cast spells, and medium staves about 6.25% (rough guess). Sorcerer's staff is considered short and SCS is the longest medium one. This knowledge makes some of the longer staves even worse than they already were. Here's a video with an example: I wonder if this was meant to balance Farron Flashsword range variation, but you don't need a long flashsword, because the three other blade spells cover that area.
16 Mar 2019 14:37
i wish this game had Dark Hail from DkS2 that acted like Dark Bead from the first game, as neat as great soul dregs it's not a shotgun type spell which makes it's effectiveness per cost not great. It's hard playing as a sorcerer my stats are pretty high for SL127 but some bosses like Midir are resistant as heck towards dark :(
- Anonymous
14 Feb 2019 19:49
These don't suck in pvp. everyone builds glass cannons, while great for pve are terrible pvp. If you want to pvp well with sorcs run a spell sword build. you only need like 18-24 points attainment for spells I mean with ashen flask and the great fp ratios of sorceries I don't feel a difference between this and my full mage build in pve at all, yet can pvp really well.
- Anonymous
03 Jan 2019 23:30
Check out the series 'Intelligence kills' in whichall 25 bosses are beaten by pure magic build (just google Intelligence kills + boss' name)
- Anonymous
01 Jan 2019 20:42
If you have the dlc do you need to get all the dlc sorceries? I'm asking for all rings, miracles, and pyromancies roo.
- Anonymous
14 Nov 2018 02:48
F^&* every ganky sorcerer who uses the Court Sorcerer Staff and Crystal Soul Spear........
- Anonymous
18 Oct 2018 21:50
Why the heck is there no sorcery that deals physical damage? There's two for miracles and one for pyromancies (okay, that one is a complete joke) but none for sorceries. Sorcerers get screwed over once again.
- Anonymous
16 Oct 2018 05:27
guys...i killed the lady that teaches u more sorceries by accident...wtf do i do now... i had one more tome to give her still
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29 Sep 2018 01:55
Master of sorceries can you get it in of character that has a spells in more than one run or does it have to be done all in ones?
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25 Jun 2018 22:25
I’m trying to get “master of sorceries” and I have every sorcery on this list. (Even DLC) Almost all are on one character, but crystal hail, cast light, repair, hidden weapon, hidden body, and twisted wall of light are on a different character. Between the two I have all the sorceries, but still haven’t gotten the achievment. Anyone know why? Help if you can. . .
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01 May 2018 21:28
Priestess Ring could be added to the list of items enhancing sorceries, since some catalysts scale with faith. Also Dark Clutch Ring.
04 Apr 2018 11:19
Doing a twink build with just 18Attunement and 32 INT is just so dang easy. If anyone sees this and is interested. Sorcerer starter class. Put all souls gained from start to Gundyr and maybe Crystal Lizard, or save Lizard for later... put all souls into INT first, OR you can do 2 into ATT then buy Farron Dart from Handmaiden, it's okay for some invasions but not all, GFD is best obviously But FD will do. Don't have anyone drop you Sage Ring or Dusk crown, cause you're skipping the Cursewood Settlement boss and running through Road of Sacrifices to pick up the rSage ring there, and then running down to Farron Swamp to get the Farron and Golden Scrolls... Also make sure to rescue Yoel and do the free lvl ups if you seem to lag behind on the Souls, but yes his level ups are good, and he sells you Soul Greatsword a bit earlier than Orbeck. Undead Settlement can be used as a PVP area same with Cruxificion Woods since the Abyss Watchers are the true boss for that area. Since we already got Deep Soul from past toons then we can use Deacons Soul for Clerics Candlestick when this build changes for later invasions... BUT for this build I used only Sages Crystal Staff for the steady chant and the Sorcerers staff for right handing the spells, I don't have Scholars yet, but can buy it later. Obviously the staff is dropped from someone else, also have them drop the Bellowing Dragoncrest ring... maybe even the Magic Clutch if you want that extra 2%? Or 10%? The Heretics staff has lower Spellbuff going pass 30 so you don't need it, plus using Farron Flashsword with longer staves only puts you at risk of doing 1 damage from hitting the enemy player with the staff and not the Flashsword...though, if timed right, the extra length of the staff may help in certain battles. Spellbuff is from INT but the Steady Chant is from STR since the Heretics needs an 8 You may use a point for Heretics, but Sorcerers Staff will be used mostly... Spell set up for me is Flashsword, GSA, and either GHSA or Greatsword... or replace Flashsword with Dark Hand and then use some kind of side spell like Snap Freeze or Hidden Body to give you a couple seconds though, you can join Rosaria, so really it only leaves Sirris out of your line. Obscuring Ring. If you need some fashion I see that Clerics set, Leather, or Pale Shade, Yuria dress, Sellsword with Sorcerers hood. Also Sages Big Hat.... With the items boosting damage and the steady chant from Sages and then firing spells from the 133 Spellbuff Sorcerers staff you can damage almost 200 with GSA and 330 with Greatsword Flashsword or Dark Hand with give Great damage with quick attacks... It's all good for me!
05 Mar 2018 05:00
I've done this sort of thing before, and someone else has even just done it again recently, but I figure I might as well go over useful spells again, but this time for invasions specifically. Yes, it does end up a bit different, with different tactics. So, my standard setup has these spells: Homing Crystal Soulmass, Snap Freeze, Crystal Soul Spear, White Dragon Breath, Crystal Hail. Great Farron Dart, Farron Flashsword, and Soul Greatsword.
Homing Crystal Soulmass: I always cast this first, unless the host or their phantoms are already on me when I spawn in. It's dead useful for getting some room at the start of the fight, or landing a cheeky hit right at the start. It's also brilliant for nuking blues that are too thirsty, by facing away from them until they get close, starting a cast of Crystal Soul Spear or White Dragon Breath, and then doing a 180 and insta-killing them. The soulmass will stagger them, and then the other spell with finish them off before they can roll. If you're not locked on, people have to be closer to you to trigger it, meaning you can start casting a spell, lock on to someone, and have the soulmass stagger them so they can get obliterated by the other spell. You can also cast this if you're low on stamina, and then face away from the person you're fighting. They'll be expecting you to do a 180, and will stay back. This gives you plenty of time to regen some stamina.
Snap Freeze: Useful for two things: creating an area of cover that most players won't enter, which buys you time to estus or cast a slow spell, and it also works to punish people who are just holding their shield up and standing in a small area. If you're standing on one side of the cloud, there will also be a point where it becomes completely opaque, so a Crystal Soul Spear can catch the person you're invading by surprise.
Crystal Soul Spear: Does lots of damage. Try to catch people off guard when you cast this, or when they're busy with something and can't dodge it, since it'll almost never hit someone who's ready to dodge.
White Dragon Breath: I only started using this today, but it has paid off multiple times already. Its casting time is slightly different from Crystal Soul Spear's, which helps catch people with it, since the casting animation is the same so they roll at the wrong time. It's also good for hitting people who are on ladders, since it can travel up and down walls. The fact that it hits really hard, for only 25 focus, is also pretty good.
Crystal Hail: This will probably never kill anyone, even if they're low. What it will do consistently though, is make them panic roll. Use this if you need to estus, or if the person is really low on health, where any hit will kill them. Just spam Great Farron Dart, and hope for a hit.
Great Farron Dart: I use this when I'm not being given a lot of time to cast, but want to land ranged hits. I also use it when the invasion has been going on for a bit, and I'm starting to run low on focus and ashen estus. It can also be good for spamming down people who are turtling behind a shield, since it's so cheap. Use this in conjunction with Farron Flashsword for damage at a low cost, and swap between them to keep people on their toes.
Farron Flashsword: Good for fighting straight sword users who can't take hits well. If they're trying to R1 spam you down, turn the tables on them and do the same thing to them. It's also good against slow weapons, but you have to pace your hits and be careful. Try to land one hit at a time, and then roll through their attacks. Also good for when you're at low focus. This is basically a straight sword, so use it like one. It does rolling attacks, and also running attacks, so if you mix regular attacks with the other two ways, you can get some respectable damage. Just remember that it can be parried, so watch out. If you think they're about to parry, switch to Great Farron Dart, and surprise them.
Soul Greatsword: Good for catching people with its reach, and does good damage. You can combo it with Homing Crystal Soulmass to deal some solid damage. It's also amazing for catching people through walls, since they don't expect it. If they're on one side of a thin wall, or about to round a corner, you can cast this and smack them for a free hit. Try it on the stones around the Mausoleum Lookout, where people hide to avoid the arrows. You can usually land a hit or two doing this.
This isn't all that's useful, but it's 8 spell slots, so it's what I use. Other spells to consider are Homing Soulmass (some people swear by it, but I don't bother with it), Farron Hail (good for landing some low damage hits for a low cost, like Great Farron Dart), Great Soul Arrow (good damage for a moderate cost), Soul Stream (use this with the obscuring ring and binoculars to land long range hits on people), Old Moonlight (if you land both the sword and projectile on a charged hit, it will out damage a Crystal Soul Spear), and Affinity (same as Homing Soulmass).
Some tips for invading:
Stamina regens even when casting, except slower, and only for part of the cast. Use this fact to get the most of your stamina. Instead of waiting for full stamina, wait until you're close to full, and start casting. Once you've learned your cast times and regen rate, you can get significantly more out of your stamina than you would expect.
A good setup for estus is two regular, five ashen. You'll almost always be better than the people you invade, so you'll take fewer hits, and you'll need a lot of focus.
If you're looking for fast invasions, invade as a mad phantom, and bait people into a Homing Crystal Soulmass and Crystal Soul Spear combo. It'll kill most people in one go, letting you leave right away.
Try to avoid letting fights last for a while, since you can burn through a lot of focus. The exception is if you can kill summons without using lots of focus, in which case you're golden. Just ambush and nuke blues as they come in, and you can stay in good shape for 15+ minutes, if the host is cowardly enough.
Don't use estus until the host has, unless you're being ganked. You're going to have a lot less than they do, so they'll always be at an advantage. However, sometimes they will treat the fight as a duel, and won't estus until you do.
Some hosts are total cowards, who will try to wait you out. What I do, is put on a video on my other monitor, and watch that. Running around the area exploring is also a fun option, since you find some neat stuff you hadn't come across while playing through there normally.
If you a blue gets summoned, try to make sure they spawn in on the host's side so you don't get caught between them. Focus on the blue unless the host presents a good opportunity. Blues will usually rush in for a kill, and they're often not very experienced at fighting mages. Use this against them by throwing any dirty trick you have at them, and let them run into your casts. Kill a blue, and you get two of each flavour of estus, both citrus and blue raspberry. This is also one reason why you take two regular estus, so that you maximize your gain. If you abuse this, you can take a fight that's going poorly, and turn it around.
Corridors are your friend. If you can force people to only move forwards and back, you've cut out a lot of room for them to dodge.This makes it easier to fill the area with spells, to ensure that something hits them.
If you're being ganked, get to some enemies to form your own gank. Let the host and his phantoms fight them, and then jump out behind them while they're distracted and teach them the error of their ways. This is a good opportunity to see how hard your spells hit, since they won't be paying attention to you. A soulmass and Crystal Soul Spear will again make short work of one of them. Invading in areas you know well, with shortcuts and hiding spots, will be quite helpful.
While people advise against trading, your damage can be good enough to make it worth it. If you can tell the person's in one-shot range, try to bait them into a trade. They might not be thinking about how much damage you do, but pure sorcerers can put out more damage than people give them credit for. Sure you might take a 600 damage hit from their greatsword, but the 900 damage Crystal Soul Spear that kills them at the same time will matter a lot more.
If the person you're fighting is super passive, don't bother with any high damage spells. Instead, use low cost ones that you can spam, and try to rack up damage over time. They can roll forever, but you can only cast spells for 10 minutes, unless you're careful. Another option to combat this is to just leave them alone. Walk further into the area, and stand out of sight. Put on a video, read a book, check some websites, whatever. They'll eventually get bored of waiting for you to come back, and move on. Then, when they aren't paying attention, insta-kill them. They deserve it, and the following point down.
If you end up fighting someone using a weapon with Quickstep, counter it with Flashsword. You will hit for around the same damage, and if you time it right, you'll get counter damage as well. Just try to get a feel of when the person is likely to attack, and punish them. Do two swing combos for a bit, and then once they get comfortable, smack them with a third swing. If they let up, consider using a soulmass spell, and maybe Soul Greatsword.
If you are in a fight that's taking some time, and haven't used one of your spells yet, try to bait them into it. They might not expect something new to come out if it's been a few minutes, so it'll be easier to land it. You can also do this with a trick instead of a spell. Basically, try to not let the person know everything you can do, until they're dead. If that spell shares a casting animation with something you've already used, that's even better.
All in all, it's a fun way to PvP, that'll test some skills that playing the usual melee builds don't. Just keep your spell order consistent, learn to change spells as fast as possible without missing the one you want, and learn your cast times by heart. Do this, and you'll start a nice collection of tongues, vertebrae, and anything else you care to farm.
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01 Feb 2018 12:11
Hmmm. Sorceries are quite fun indeed. Landing a css or hell soul stream is extremely fun to see. But as someone said before, this game is a knight brawl pvpwise. Homeboys act like extreme douchebags when they see the soulmasses hanging above you. If you have never played as a sorcerer in pvp hear me out:
- Learning curve is massive. This is espicially true if you are used to playing with ultra greats. You'll see people rushing to you like they saw the tightest p***y just wanting to smash and you gonna have to learn how to open space. For a starter tip, dont rely on flashsword too much, for your true strength is your ability to do damage from distance. Sureşy most matches will end with your clever use of flashsword but remember, people expect it. Dont ever trade with your flashsword.
- As stated above, never trade. Meta is heavily great/ultragreat swords, with their heavy range and arc and tremendous poise, you'll simply get 3 shot. Clever use of homing soulmass and snap freeze will give you the distance you'll want.
- You will feel the frustrastion when you see people dodging your spells simply by running left/right. Its really hard to land your spells on moving targets. Hell, even on standing targets. You'll need a lot of baiting via casting different spells and free aiming. This is not easy to learn, but with enough practice and cursing to gods for ever letting running attacks for ultragreats, you'll get the hang of it.
- Until you get to gold, using farron dart or its heavier version is better for your utility slot. For gold, using snap freeze and storyteller's staff wa is better because people expect darts. You are not an ultragreat brute, you just dont spam your R1. Make constant use of your utility spells. Those are farron darts, farron hail, crystal hail, white dragon breath and snap freeze. I dont recommend using pestilent mist for it damages you as well and often times it will get you killed.
- Your main spells should be great heavy soul arrow/great aoul arrow (tad bit faster but less damage), crystal soul spear, homing soul mass (not the crystal one, for its way slower) and finally your farron flashsword. Not great soulsword because you dont get poise and too slow.
I hope this will be helpfull. Smash those brutes with style. Peace!!
- Anonymous
24 Oct 2019 21:34
No hyperarmor on the swords is a crime. Imagine Aldrich doing his purple blade and each time he intends to swing it around you tackle him slightly. And he has to start again. It's that bad actualy.
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