Fire Arrow | Dark Souls Wiki

To all those saying this arrow is useless. Allow me to info dump.

Not quite true. They will do less damage on a dex built bow with high dex than a standard arrow yes. But these Arrows have a purpose for Fire and chaos infused weapons.

True 50 damage is practically nothing alone due to base defenses.

Whereas a physical damage only bow will get more mileage out of 45 damage of a standard arrow over the 35 phys of a fire arrow due to the bows dex and str scaling of that extra 10 damage and how this extra damage stacks onto the base physical damage and the scaling of that damage on the bow. higher levels of damage mean a larger damage number over that base defense and as such Fire arrows serve little purpose on a dex based build.

With 40 str/dex the black bow of pharris with feather arrows has an ar of about 340 physical damage. Assuming a base 40 defense and a 10% damage reduction the 50 fire damage will only do 9 fire damage at the cost of 10 extra phys dmg+ scaling of 178% on the standard arrow which would equal nearly 25 damage after taking said scaling into consideration - 1-2 points per the % reduction for around 22-23 damage added to the damage dealt by bow after defense.

for a feather bow that damage is 1/3rd higher at about 31 damage getting through. Total Calc being feather arrow on +10 Pharris bow est 40/40 str/dex for 340 AR. 340 -10% = 306. -40 base defence = 266 damage.

With a fire arrow we know that it does 9 damage after defense but the loss of 15 physical damage at 178% scaling is pretty severe still. The physical damage only ends up at 302 ar. so we have 302 - 10% for 272 -40 for 232 damage + 9 from the fire damage at 241 total damage. Clearly this gap grows a bit larger as stats improve more.

However. On a fire or Chaos bow the story is different. I'll use fire for an example. at +10 a fire Blackbow will do 153 phys and 153 fire damage. + a flat 35 Phys and 50 Fire because of a lack of scaling. for a total of 188 phys and 203 fire ar.

188 phys -10% = 169 -40 = 129 damage
203 Fire -10% = 183 -40 = 143 damage

for a total of 272 damage. in this case the use of a standard arrow would simply lose the fire bow 50 - 10% damage and 35 -10% in place of just 50 -10% damage for a feather arrow... So the fire arrow out powers the feather arrow on a fire bow by nearly 32 damage.

It's not useless. Although perhaps a bit expensive.

Ofc defense values may be different and the result won't always be in the fire or chaos weapons favor. But there is the advantage of not having to put 53 levels into str and dex over the black bows base requirements. to do such damage with a fire weapon.

Submit

use these arrows with a fire or chaos infused composite bow

Submit

I tried using these against mobs that should be weak to it and it did less damage than a Standard Arrow. Don't buy this.

Submit

waste of souls 0/10 don't buy again

Submit