Talk:Pyromancy (Dark Souls)/@comment-75.187.77.102-20141027213626/@comment-4511886-20141103083350

I think they are just made to give access to elemental damage to non-magic oriented builds, while balancing out Sorcery/Spell builds. A thing I notice while playing DeS is the relative lack of diffculty when using the wizard or royalty class. To split off the fire spells into its own category causes you to need to invest more souls to get access to both, rather than simply get both for the price of one.

On the other hand, the fire sorceries mentioned in the description of both the Demon's Catalyst and Izalith Catalyst are almost guaranteed references to DeS.