I own a pyromancy flame for home defense, like the witches of izalith intended. Four invaders break into my castle. “What the devil?” As I grab my sage’s blindfold and fire orb. Burn a titanite chunk-sized hole in the first man. He’s dead on the spot. Cast my black flame on the second man. Misses him entirely cause the tracking sucks and nails the neighbours wolf. I have to resort to the chaos bed vestiges from the top of the ramparts. “Tally ho lads!” The flames shred two men in the blast. The aoe sets off traps in surrounding homes. Draw chaos dagger and charge the last terrified hollow cause I’m out of fp. He dies while trying to black crystal out cause the hit box is janked. Just as the witches intended.

playing Elden Ring again to try to build up to the DLC. Turns out it is, in fact, much easier when you forgo the coolness of smolswords and dragonpowers and embrace BeegHeccinSordBild. Claymore my beloved, I will replace you with something cooler but slightly weaker one day.

So not only does FromSoft fix Arcane scaling after I beat Elden Ring w an Arcane build, but they also then proceed to BUFF strength builds LESS THAN A WEEK AFTER I BEAT THE GAME FOR THE SECOND TIME, GODDAMIT MIYAZAKI I actually still fuckin' love the game but STILL