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, and 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. Climb to the roof of the building and defeat the sorcerer NPC. |
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Crystal Scroll | Give to Orbeck of Vinheim to unlock Homing Crystal Soulmass, Crystal Soul Spear, and Crystal Magic Weapon | Lothric Castle, defeat the Crystal Sage in the Grand Archives |
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Fires a soul arrow. |
7 | 1 | 10 |
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Fires a more powerful soul arrow. |
10 | 1 | 15 |
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Fires a heavy soul arrow. | 11 | 1 | 13 |
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Fires a more powerful heavy soul arrow. |
14 | 1 | 18 |
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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. |
4 | 1 | 23 |
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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. |
30 | 1 | 10 |
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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. |
15 | 1 | 10 |
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Distracts foes with distant sound. | 15 | 1 | 18 |
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Releases dense mist 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. |
20 | 1 | 15 |
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Repairs equipped weapons and armor. Includes weapons with exhausted durability. |
20 | 1 | 15 |
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Turns right weapon invisible. |
25 | 1 | 12 |
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Turns body nearly invisible. |
15 | 1 | 15 |
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Transforms player into something inconspicuous. (The object will change depending on what area you're in.) |
20 | 1 | 12 |
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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%. | Guaranteed drop from the Moaning Knight invader in The Ringed City. |
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Dark Clutch Ring | Ring | Increases dark attack damage by 15% (PvE)/8% (PvP). Increases incoming physical damage by 10% (PvE)/15% (PvP). |
Dropped by a Mimic in the Irythill Dungeon after passing the sleeping giant, at the end of the sewer hallway. The Mimic is on the left side, with the chest containing the Old Cell Key on the right side. |
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Helm | Increases magic damage by ~10%. | Found near the Keep Ruins bonfire in Farron Keep. Upon exiting the Keep Ruins bonfire room, head northwest to find a tall, white tree (there will be a Great Crab in the way). The Crown of Dusk is at the base of the tree. | |
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Ring | Increases magic attack damage by 15%(PvE)/8% (PvP). Increases incoming physical damage by 10% (PvE)/15% (PvP). |
Irithyll of the Boreal Valley. From the Church of Yorshka bonfire, head out of the church the way you came in and head left towards the Pontiff Knights and Fire Witches. In this area is an Illusory Wall on the right. It is behind the wall. | |
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Ring | Increases sorceries damage by 12%. | Starting equipment for the Sorcerer. Given by Orbeck of Vinheim, after purchasing any 3 Sorceries, giving him any 1 Scroll and playing as any Class but a Sorcerer. |
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Ring | Increases sorceries damage by 20%. | From the Irithyll Dungeon bonfire, head straight into the large room and then turn right, proceed until the end of the corridor and open the gate with the Jailbreaker's Key. The ring is on the rocks below. | |
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Scholar Ring | Ring | Increases intelligence by 5 points. | Found at Grand Archives, before the bridge where the crystal sage warps to, there will be a lever for a shortcut just right of the bridge, it will be on a body through the shortcut. |
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Lingering Dragoncrest Ring | Ring | Extends length of spell effect by 30%. +1 Version : +35%. +2 Version : +40%. |
Farron Keep, Keep Ruins bonfire. Drops from the Great Crab patrolling a white birch tree. +1 Version (NG+): Found next to the giant crab just below the Crucifixion Woods bonfire in the Road of Sacrifices. +2 Version (NG++): Located in Lothric Castle. Before the Lothric Prince Boss fight, there is a dome shaped roof with three golden Winged Knights. Go up the spiral staircase at the center of the dome shaped roof. You'll encounter a ladder, don't go up the ladder, instead go around the ledge to find this ring on a corpse hidden in an alcove. |
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Sage Ring | Ring | Spell casting speed increased as if you had +30 higher dexterity. +1 Version : +35. +2 Version : +40. |
Found to the left of the swamp area of Road of Sacrifices inside a room with an enemy. +1 Version (NG+): found in the rafters above the Archives. Drop down from the roof where the golden winged knights are located. +2 Version (NG++): Located in the Consumed King's garden. When initially taking the elevator down, get off halfway to a ledge. Turn left and drop down onto some broken stairs. Pick up the item here and look to the left to find the ring on another set of broken stairs. You can get over there with a well timed roll. |
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Saint's Ring | Ring | Allows attunement of additional spells. |
Sold by Irina of Carim for 300 souls. |
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Deep Ring | Ring | Allows attunement of additional spells. |
Drops from a Deacon in a tower outside the Cathedral of the Deep. |
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Darkmoon Ring | Ring | Gives 2 extra attunement slots. |
Rank 1 covenant reward: Blades of the Darkmoon. |
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Dusk Crown Ring | Ring | Reduces FP consumption of Sorceries, Pyromancies and Miracles by 25%. Reduces maximum HP by 20%. |
Located in the Irithyll Dungeon. The ring is in a cell next to Xanthous Ashes, in the room where there are 8 Jailers. |
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Lloyd's Sword Ring | Ring | Boosts Attack Rating (all damage) by +10% when HP is full (over 99% HP). |
Found at the Cathedral of the Deep near the first giant you encounter that swings at you. It's on the ground on corpse as you run by. |
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Scholar's Candlestick | Dagger | Increases sorceries damage by 10%, including Magic and Dark Sorceries. | Drops from Scholars wielding this weapon in the Grand Archives. Can be bought from Shrine Handmaid (if you give her Greirat's Ashes, provided that he has at least survived pillaging the Undead Settlement) or it can be bought from Greirat of the Undead Settlement. |
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General Staves | Staves | Catalyst | Multiple places. See the Staves page for more information. |
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Crystal Chime | Sacred Chime | Catalyst | Looted from Grand Archives, in a room behind the spear knight in the same area as the first wax pool. |
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Heysel Pick | Hammer | Catalyst / Weapon | Dropped by invading dark spirit Yellowfinger Heysel in Road of Sacrifices. Alternatively, will drop from the worm-like enemy in Rosaria's room if it appears. |
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Golden Ritual Spear | Spear | Catalyst (scales on faith) / Weapon | Dropped from a Mimic just above Pontiff Sulyvahn bonfire, at the Irithyll of the Boreal Valley. |
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Cleric's Candlestick | Straight Sword | Catalyst / Weapon | Transposable from Soul of the Deacons of the Cathedral of the Deep. |
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Immolation Tinder | Halberd | Catalyst / Weapon | Drops from Fire Witches in Irithyll of the Boreal Valley. |
Anonymous
- Anonymous
16 Aug 2021 01:08
So I royally ****ed up and sold a few miracles I picked up as ground loot before I considered getting them all. Does anyone know if they respawn in NG+?
- Anonymous
13 Aug 2021 14:19
Dusk Crown Ring on this page says it reduces HP by 20%, but the Dusk Crown Ring's page says it reduces HP by 15%. So which is it?
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- Anonymous
07 Jun 2021 03:29
If you do the math on the damage output of the all arrow sorceries and use the damage of Soul Arrow as the basis, it shows that Crystal Soul Spear is actually the worst in terms of damage for FP cost. The FP cost goes up by 660%, while the damage only increases by 240%. I guess the trade off is faster projectile speed, which is better for PvP.
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- Anonymous
08 May 2021 23:46
RIP hexes. So few made it over to ds3 from ds2 and the few that did were absorbed by other magic branches.
- Anonymous
06 May 2021 16:15
Hey so, I have a question about the soul greatsword and farron flashsword. Can you parry them?
The spell parry only talks about projectiles, but they're basically magical swords.
So do regular parry works, do people need spell parry, or do you just have to dodge or block?
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- Anonymous
08 Apr 2021 13:31
literally used by the worst players in the game, usually at the back of a gank squad spamming trash
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- Anonymous
14 Mar 2021 21:28
Me - professional scrubs slayer: Used pkcs R1 on sorceries scrub.
IT'S SUPER EFFECTIVE!
Sorceries scrub - Unskilled coward: Used useless shiitty spell on Me.
THE ATTACK MISSED!
Result: Sorceries scrub got owned and pooped on
- Anonymous
12 Jan 2021 09:30
Damage/FP-wise, great heavy soul arrow is the only logical spell in PVE if you go pure sorc. Well, except for pestilent mist when you want to kill Midir. The soul spears do just a little more damage but consume so much more HP I dont see the point of using them. Which I think is a shame because you get GHSA pretty early in the game and the rest is up to stats/gear to improve damage which feels a lot less satisfying to me.
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- Anonymous
15 Nov 2020 18:53
Dont let the spells distract you from the fact that hisokas hatsu has both the properties of rubber AND gum
- Anonymous
17 Oct 2020 16:50
I played DS1 as a pure sorcerer and had a blast. I could deal a lot of damage but Bosses were still tough and the final fight with Gwyn was extremely tough. The dude was so quick that I couldn't hit him with my sorceries with any kind of regularity. Took a while to figure that out. In DS2 I decided to switch things up with a pure melee. I didn't have anywhere near as much fun, but that was probably because pretty much every boss in that game was easy or poorly designed (with a few exceptions). Play style was definitely different, but I missed that variation that came with magical ability. Decided to go back to magic for DS3 and found I'd lost my ability to dodge so now I'm having to re-learn how to be effective again, but I am having a grand old time.
- Anonymous
17 Aug 2020 20:46
does young dragon ring and bellowing dragon ring stack? I feel like this isa stupid question to ask but can someone tell me
- Anonymous
31 Jul 2020 11:27
i read a few time that great heavy soul arrow was the most efficient magic projectil spell, and did a few test at varying spell multipliers, items and intelligence.
it never beat heavy soul arrow (it does more damage, but less than the 14/11 ratio of the cost)
did i miss something ?
21 Jul 2020 02:07
Added items, proper locations and links, reformatted the text on the page to be consistent, now page consists everything you need for the Sorcerer.
- Anonymous
18 Jun 2020 18:06
i did a BattleSorcerer build, and it went great so far, here's my current equipment: ARMORS - full nameless knight set. WEAPONS - ON THE RIGHT HAND >> crystal infused halberd+10 (for small or medium sized enemies that can be easily stunlocked by it, and also against greatshield enemies), crystal infused broadsword+10 (for big or huge sized enemies that can't be stunned by the halberd) and eretic's staff+10. ON THE LEFT HAND >> priest's chime+10 (for the gentle prayer regeneration and spell power multiplier), simple infused lothric knight's shield+6 (simple infused to regenerate FP, and i upgraded to +6 for higher stability and faster regeneration, i only used the titanite shards and large titanites that i bought from the handmaid though) and pyromancer's parting flame+10. RINGS - Bellowing Dragoncrest Ring, Life Ring+3, Ring of Favor+3, Prisoner's Chain. SPELLS - FOR PVE >> Crystal Soul Spear, Chaos Bed Vestiges, Homeward (because i traded the coiled sword fragment with pumparum for a Titanite Slab, and i will probably always do it) FOR PVP >> Deep Soul and Great Soul Dregs FOR BOTH PVP AND PVE >> Deep Protection and Sacred Oath (stacked for big buff), Great Heal, Hidden Body and Spook (stacked for stealth and only spook for fall damage avoidance) a total of 10 spells that never ever have failed me on my most needed moments. STATS - 62 VIG, 47 ATT, 39 END, 44 VIT, 55 STR, 49 DEX, 67 INT, 59 FTH, 22 LCK. and that's it, i'm on my NG++ (NG+2) and i'm at irithyll right now, and i've been doing great with this build so far, even in PvP where i win around 2/3 (70% to be more specific) and i just wanted to share my build with you guys :D
25 Aug 2021 19:00
If you want to maximize your damage output with dark sorceries, just do the following:
Make sure the following is equipped:
- Helmet: Blindfold Mask (10% damage bonus to dark spells)
- Left Hand: Morion Blade (20% bonus to any damage output while being held)
- Right Hand: another Morion Blade (another 20% bonus to any damage output while being held)
- Right Hand: Murky Longstaff + 10
Rings:
- Dark Clutch Ring (10% damage bonus to dark spells)
- Young Dragon Ring (12% damage bonus to sorceries)
- Bellowing Dragoncrest Ring (20% damage bonus to sorceries)
- Red Tearstone Ring (20% to any damage output when your HP is below 20%)
The plan:
1. Cast Affinity;
2. Cast Power Within, to get an extra 20% damage bonus;
3. Hold both Morion Blades
4. Profit. Your Affinity spell is flying towards your victim with a total 352.55% of its original power!
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