Pyromancer (Dark Souls III)

For the Dark Souls class, see Pyromancer.

"A pyromancer from a remote region who manipulates flame. Also an adept close combat warrior who wields a hand axe."

— Character Creation

The Pyromancer is one of the classes in Dark Souls 3.

It is a class with high Intelligence and Faith, making it suitable for builds based on Pyromancy or Dark Spells. It has the lowest Luck of all classes, a trait shared with the Knight.

Fireball is a strong spell and benefits from the fact that many early enemies are vulnerable to Fire, if a bit expensive and hard to aim due to it being thrown in an arc. The Pyromancer effectively still has two Pyromancies due to its casting tool, the Pyromancy Flame, having the classic pyromancy Combustion as its Weapon Art for a melee range alternative. The Great Swamp Ring will boost the damage of Fireball by 12% but since Combustion is a Weapon Art it won't be boosted.

Speaking of, the Pyromancy Flame will be the only casting tool for Pyromancy for a while and while it scales with both Intelligence and Faith it still works relatively well with more investment in one stat over the other. There is however one complicating factor for the scaling: unless Intelligence is at least 22 (goes down to a minimum of 18 as the Pyromancy Flame is upgraded), certain spells (Fireball, Fire Orb, and Great Chaos Fire Orb) won't scale with the Faith part of the Flame and therefore end up doing greatly decreased damage on a Faith build with insufficient investment in Intelligence. When wielded in the right hand it has the peculiar function of working as a free, short range punch that deals fire damage, helping against enemies weak to fire like the ooze-like Writhing Rotten Flesh in the Cathedral of the Deep.

The Hand Axe is a surprisingly useful weapon. While it is pretty short, really only outranging Daggers and the Thrall Axe, it is quick and deals decent damage for its size. Its Weapon Art is Warcry, boosting weapon damage by 10% for 30 seconds and changing the heavy attack into a charge. While the charge is rather difficult to use for a Pyromancer in its default armor due to low Poise and the small size of the weapon itself, the damage boost is easy to use for foes resistant to Fire.

A mediocre Caduceus Round Shield rounds out the equipment setup. While it is unsuitable for blocking anything but the occasional Magic attack, it is still a light Parry tool. Actually blocking attacks should be left to the physically sturdy shields such as the Silver Eagle Kite Shield.

Its Pyromancer Set has good elemental defences and Poison and Curse resistances but bad physical defences.

The primary Pyromancy trainer is found early on, in the Undead Settlement.