| areason said: What usage is the pyromancy flame without the glove? Where do you get the glove? |
The pyromancy flame is a glove, goes in the weapon slot. So far I can only cast a simple fireball (9 uses) with it, I found a lingering flame spell earlier but the merchant for upgrading the glove has vanished. I found the pyromancy flame in No Man's worf on the ship right after the boss, and a dark pyromancy flame I think in the gutter. That one seems more powerful, S rank instead of A.
The rat infestation boss was still nearly impossible. I used up 5 estus flasks, 20 radiant gems, 4 anti poison herbs, 7 fire bombs, 9 fireballs, 11 lightning spears, 32 great soul arrows, I also had 2 spell slots filled with emit force but that proved too dangerous. I can't survive getting ganged up on for more than half a second. A lot of running, dodging, cursing at the terrible lock on targeting that never simply targets the closest out of the 15, and keeps turning me around. 20 minutes later, herding them around the obstacles, isolating one or two from the group to take out with my fire sword, I finally won the battle. I was starting to believe I had to hit a particular one, since the last few pixels on the boss health meter didn't move with the last 10 I killed, but it still ended eventually.
More misery right after down into the gutter. First a drop into a pit with suicide bombers. 1 hit kills for me, that took some precise choreography. 6 trial and error deaths to get through that small part. I lost whatever that glitter bug there drops as the drop disappeared after I died trying to get to it.
The gutter is a miserable place altogether, take the worst parts of the decent to blighttown and make a whole area out of it. Torch required. More 1 hit kills, or down to 10% if you're lucky. And damn those poison spitting statues, at least they don't respawn as long as you don't die (huge help in the next section) Somehow I ended up on the back side of a mist barrier, travel through the mist from behind, odd. There's a huge bug stuck in a small cave, doesn't move, killed it, no effect, didn't respawn, no clue.
Next I entered the black gulch. Poison statue overflow, but some awesome looking monsters there (yay for copying zelda) and they drop titanite chunks. Time to upgrade my sorcerer's staff some more. And I finally found a branch of yore. Now to decide where to use it first, I guess Majula is the best bet as that should open up a new area.
I also have a new pharros lock stone, where to use it. So many places to put it in the tomb of saints.
