Pyro is really that good? I've fallen out of using it because what few pyromancies I have don't seem to do anywhere near as much damage as Great Heavy Soul Arrow and Soul Spear.
Pyromancy is nuts to such an extent that at soul level 1, you can kill Aftershavelord Nito by hugging him and then unloading fireballs without even dodging or blocking.
E: 9 times out of 10 you do actually have to dodge one of the attacks, but hypothetically it totally works.
It's like the time my friend got BK armor from the Baranike in the Undead Parish. And he'd never played the game before. I lolraged so hard and we were laughing like crazy at how he got such stupidly powerful armor so early.
I hope you can appreciate my mixed feelings at finding every single black knight weapon and shield plus a channeler's trident and a titanite catch pole in a run where all my stats are too low to use any of them.
For the sake of relevance to the topic, a tall stone man hit me with a hammer for all my health while I was dancing with some gardeners today. Because Dark Souls.