There's a total of 20 offensive pyromancies (15 if we exclude lingering flame, inmolation, and the mist ones), then there's a total of 4 support pyromancies. In the end, there's a total of 24 pyromancies, 21 if we exclude the DLC

Pyromancy costs zero investment( apart from attunement slots), and upgrades using a unique material, I think it is a way for melee users to have some range attacks in their arsenal, but unless you make a build dedicated for pyromancy alone, it is not that strong.

Pyromancy is good in DS2, but you really have to work hard to get the build going. Even then, with no dark pyromancy, you still need dark orb in your back pocket for certain enemies/areas.

I thought the class sucked early game because of how many casts sorcerers get.

And then I made a miracle build...

Some guy at from software really hated pyromancy:
- no pyromancer class
- pyromancy flame hidden behind boss
- very small amount of casts
- fire seeds needed for upgrade pyromancy flame instead of titanite
- scaling from both int and fth.
- best spells ludicrously hard to get
- no power within

No Power Within? Sinful!

Pyromancer starts weak on this game, but end game he is incredibly powerful.
Pros:
-Very easy to multiclass although not optimal, you can cast spells with 0 investment.
-Most spells are on 1 attunement requirement and some on 2.
-Has most aoe spells and actually consistent and efficient aoe. Will help on ng+ and covenant of champions since literally ds2 bosses gang on you. Great chaos fireball for example is insane spell.
-You don't have to invest materials and souls every time, just fire seed your flame and you done.
-Poison mist is good early game farm (and can cheese gargoyles too). You can kill the 2 giants for farm near that forbidden key gate where dark covenant guy is.

Cons:
-Limited uses
-You have to find your spells to cast them!
-Fire weapon is super late in game
-Eventually you will invest on int and wisdom to make them stronger and attunement to increase their uses.

For me personally, initially it serves as a filler class for multi build and after I find enough pyromancies and can reallocate my points then it becomes viable. No point having 5-6 fireballs while spellcaster and hexers have 21 early game. Same concept for miracles, why have some random healing spells instead of ranged attack pressure. Miracle users get like lightning spears per slot on start, wow..

i use them for bosses weak to fire. the dukes freja, nashandra, and darklurker. they are best used situationally rather than as a primary build.

Go for flame weapon with any weapon that has starting fire damage, and try other pyromancies to supplement. Easy way to get some good use out of pyromancies. You'll be using fireball, etc for a while until you can get flame weapon by using bonfire ascetic on the lost sinner, but those are still very useful early game.

im so happy that there is a buff for pyromancys so i could use more intresting builds and not have to mix it with faith or intelligence.