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On paper, Dark is the best solely due to Dark Bead, in normal run however Dark is only really usable late game. The best element by far in a normal playthrough is magic, you get a lot of spells all throughout the game, you have an early catalyst you can get from Princess Oolacile, you have a lot of range and casts, as well as some useful utility sorceries. Flame is second, the reason it's lower is because you have less casts and range and the spell upgrades you get come very slow compared to magic. Lightning is by far the worst, lightning spear is great but you only get 1 copy for most of the game and that's it, practically you're forced to use a weapon as backup. Wrath of the Gods is also good but again low casts. I wish it was practical to have a real pure faith cast run but in DS1 it's just not possible.

Gravity.

Yeah that's nice and all, but becomes bullshit when you start dropping items that said mob would never have, like example looting a greatsword from a rat. lol

19:25 physical damage dealt, run invalidated

Fire is best, most enemies and bosses are weak to it.

If that was was the mid game.... Damn I guess it makes sense I just thought mid game was gonna end before getting Lord souls

Yeah wait, dark for sure

Its fire

Is it possible to change weapon infusions in this mod? Just wondering, because i found a blood gem but i cant do anything with it so far. :)

13:10 wow it did start

Dark magic, next question

all the music at 40:00 + is From ff12? I know I heard it somewhere but I cant recall, Thank you. Good vid TrevtheDev.

You can get a slab from seigmeyers questline too

Magic also has the advantage of equipping the moonlight gs which is a fan favorite weapon in the fromsoft library... While Fire on the other hand allows the player to wield whatever weapon their heart desires. I understand the video focuses on pure spellcasting, just pointing out that when a run becomes too difficult for some of us, we may need to go back to melee options, and Fire is just the most flexible among all of them.

I want to see a ds2 version of this video. In that game you can basicaly get every element from the begining without having to cheat stuff in. I think you only have to kill Dragonrider to get dark and lighting but that issue can be fixed by using a benfire aescetic.

is it possible now with the dlc?

So once Logan spawns near the stairs after you rescue him you don't have to buy all his spells and can kill him on the spot and get the tin crystal catalyst

You sound like LGR if he played Dark Souls and I love it

I love this! I'm imagining how this would be in elden ring too and it would be amazing

Dark bead. Then all of sorcery. Then a tie between Pyro and faith.

Pyro is the best. The idea of roasting to perfection everything in lord ran just brings joy to my heart

I'm doing a miracle only run rn. Did asylum glitch so I could leave and kill the Demon later, torus I had jump off the bridge. I used a dupe glitch after helping solair to get 30 sunlight medals early. I could've helped 30 people with gargoyle, but just no. Good runs, I don't think having the extra casts early is cheating since you could've got medals like I did but it's just more effort

Before I watch the video I just want to leave my guess and reasoning. I think pyromancies are the best. They don't have scaling, so you can go all in on a martial build and then supplement it with strong pyrpmancies for basically no cost.

I know this is a 6 month old video, but the divine modifier does do something, outside of avoiding skeleton revival! It's the same as occult modifier, but for a different group of enemies. These would be the classical undead, not "Dark Souls undead", basically what Elden Ring calls "Those Who Live in Death". These are all Skeleton enemies, Crow Demons and Masses of Souls! Definitely not as notorious, since none of these are bosses. I would have expected this to affect Nito!

Now here is the question, how much of a change would there be for Dark spells if you got Dark Bead at the start.

Perfect video for sleeping purposes, saved my night. Now yes, goodnightie guys

In an actual playthrough, Magic. In a level restricted run, Fire. In terms of pure damage potential, Dark Bead. There really aren't other options. If you're starting off with spells though, Dark, then Magic, then Lightning, then Fire.

9:30 Ah yes, the Spellsword Winblades. 😎

Not getting wrath of gods was a crime

If you count 'damage per SECOND' I think that Dark Weapon with 24 int will get you more damage per second compared to sunlight blade, even if dark is slightly weaker than lightning overall. Using dark weapon on a lightning infused weapon with 24 int will give you a buff duration of 99 seconds, compared to the flat 45 seconds of slb, regardless of your stats. Couple that with dark weapon also having significantly lower requirements for stats compared to SLB, you'll get more DPS over your entire playthrough by getting the buff earlier. :D

Magic is the only one with some power and range.

Dark sorceries scale off the physical dmg of your catalyst as well, picking up the new londo sealers staff would´ve been a huge boost to the dark playthrough, and it scales off dex too, making it a dream come true, dmg and cast speed :)

Just found out your channel by this video and I'm right now devouring all your videos back to back! Great content, and definitely underrated!

If the boss order was changed a bit, and for the dark run the endgame started after obtaining dark beed i think It would have been the easiest end game, the timer and death kinda reflect It, due to the orb being so slow to cast it took many deaths and time, but after dark beed It was so overpowered, easy and fast to cast that bossfights were like 20 seconds and ended up being the fastest run. PS: i realize that having to farm less equipment saved time, but i still think that if It was After d.b. would have been the easiest, at the expense of a more difficult mid game, I don't think so much as lightning though. That would stay IV nontheless

Gwyn caught you trying to celebrate early 😂

i really wanted to see the fight to get ring of blades+2.

Love is

also you can ick up 2 more large titanite shards from the giants in cathedral, so technically the damage when farming the corvian knights isnt optimal. that being said i dont think farming the knights is the right move since theyre literally harder to kill than some of the bosses and areas currently availible. also there are chunks in ariandel, and 1 in firelink if you trade black firbomb with picklepee. so dancer can be easily fought with a +7 weapon

you can get a raw gem at high wall of lothric from a lizard on teh roofs after seocnd bonfire.. onn broadsword that early that will do more damage than no infusion.

10 years ago, I really like magic. But I heard/see pyromancy reigns supreme.

love to see this for the other games

Happy new year trev

26:20 is a highlight of the run

It would be interesting to see how each of these do on NG+, as sunlightspear is locked ng+, but also yiu have the full catalog of spells from the start.

Imma watch this but I'm like 90% sure it's gonna be dark

Based on everything I know about the game, pyromancy is what I’d say is best. If you’re doing a “____ only” run I’d always do sorcery, but in any average playthrough pyromancy is definitely supreme. No stat requirement, easy to use, easy to upgrade, versatile, effective against almost everything, has dark variations in the dlc… Your video does show the severe limitations of doing an element only run though. Good video. Edit: your findings at the end are roughly what I expected, though I was surprised fire was so bad early on. Again, good video.

Bonk is the best element.

I'm sure you probably already know this since you mentioned how you'd been raising Str during the dark playthrough, but the dark sorceries scale with both the catalyst's magadjust and their physical damage for the melee bonk, which means in theory you could've picked up the Tin Banishment Catalyst from Blighttown. It's magadjust is slightly lower than the basic Sorcerer's Catalyst and it's heavier, but it has both Str and Dex scaling, and has a spear poke w/ better base damage than the SC's bonk (admittedly the poke wouldn't matter here). With appropriate stat investment TBC is better for dark sorceries since it leans harder into the physical scaling, being nearly as good as the Demon's Catalyst while available much earlier, and since it lets them scale off Dex investment you can double dip the damage with casting speed.

Not gonna lie 57:42 I guessed at the beginning Lightning and fire would be in swapped positions. People say how good lighting is but It is rare I ever see it in video or play it myself. While fire just rarely gets talked about at all. Dark I couldn't really have a guess as I only hear it being a boss killer and PvP talk. Good video

PvP: dark spells (black flame/dark bead) honorable mention: pursuers (dark spells) tranquil walk of peace/wrath of gods/force (miracles) PvE: pyromancy (power within/great combustion/chaostorm/chaos fire ball) honorable mention: great magic weapon/soul spear/crystal soul spear/great soul arrow (magic spells) sunlight blade/darkmoon blade (faith) pursuers '(dark spell) combustion (pyromancy) I will add that magic spells almost tie with pyromancy for PvE as it's really good and is thought as an easy mode by the community for a good reason but I think pyromancy take the cake because it's even more straightforward, combustion spells are very convenient for close range and I still use pyromancie when doing a magic build since power within buffs any type of damage and stack with everything (so dumb lol)