Poll: Dark Souls magic advice

[EboMan7x]

So, I've just started playing Dark Souls, and I've gotten as far as ringing the first bell (the one guarded by two Gargoyles) without much difficulty, though "without much difficulty" in Dark Souls really just means I haven't yet broken anything expensive. And moving forward I want to know whether I should bother investing in magic at all.

Some info on my character: My starting class was a warrior, with the tiny beings ring as the gift, and I've invested primarily in Strength, but I've also kept my dexterity up, as well as upgraded my health and endurance occasionally. I wear big heavy armor and mostly use weapons like spears and greatswords, just to make sure I'm not out of practice by the time the Drake Sword becomes outclassed.

As far as I can tell, healing magic seems redundant, given that I very rarely run out of Estus Flasks by the time I get to a Bonfire, and I think that upgrading dexterity will let me use bows pretty well, so if I need magic at all, what I assume is that I should use whatever has the most buffs available.

Your advice, escapists?

 

[King of Wei]

With that kind of build magic is both unnecessary and a waste of souls to upgrade. Warriors start with low attunement, faith and intelligence so you'd need to invest some levels into these stats to even be able to use the spells at their weakest state.

Pyromancy would be the easiest to use though. Spell power scales with the Pyromancy Flame, not intelligence or faith, so you'd only need to upgrade attunement for spell slots. Pyromancy also has the iron flesh spell which would further increase your physical protection

 

[Judgedread]

I would suggest forgeting magic all together for now, maybe get pyromancies as with some soul investment you can get pyromancies which have power much beyond what they should be at your level. That said When you get higher up I would suggest that you get some faith and use miracles as they synergise very well with warrior classes. Great heal is always good and can heal you completely at almost any level with decent faith, and great magic barrier protects from almost 90% of magical damage for its duration. Not to mention Sunlight and Darkmoon blade which can over double the damage of most weapons.

This is not to say switch completely to faith but you will find some investment in it will help you alot later on.

 

[Ordinaryundone]

Pyromancy would be your best bet. The only stat you need is attunement, and not even many levels in that. The damage scales based off of your Pyromancy Flame's level, not off intelligence or faith. Don't bother with sorcery or miracles at this point, unless you are willing to seriously commit to them (of the two, I'd go faith for STR build).