Board Thread:Dark Souls II/@comment-24.150.90.12-20140319175308/@comment-24249492-20140331222605

If you're going to use sorceries or miracles, make sure you get to an instructor that sells those kinds of spells. My advice is to go to the Heide's Tower of Flame when you're ready, and kill the Dragon Rider. After that, there's a miracle teacher with plenty of healing spells and Lightning Spear, which does lots of damage at low levels. After that, visiting the No-Man's Wharf will give you a sorcery teacher that sells plenty of sorceries.

Good luck, and experiment with spells. If you're new to spells as a whole (I'm talking to people in general here) then use pyromancies. There's no requirements in any stats to use even the most powerful pyromancies.

Oh, and upgrade your catalysts/chimes/pyro hands.