Spells - Magic and Miracles

How to use Spells

+ How to use Spells

There are 2 types of Spells in the game

• Miracles are associated with White Magic, such as healing Spells. They require a Talisman of God to use.
• Magic is associated with offensive or "Black Magic" Spells. They require a Catalyst to use.

To use a Spell you must:

1. Learn the magic Spell or Miracle you wish to cast.
2. Remember the Spell or Miracle by visiting the trainer.
3. Make sure you have enough MP for the Spell.
4. Equip either a Catalyst (for Magic) or Talisman (for Miracles) in any hand (in place of a weapon/shield) and then use [L1]/[R1] to "attack" with that hand, which will cast the currently selected Spell. Later in the game you may acquire the Talisman of Beasts, which allows casting both Magic and Miracles.

The currently selected Spell or Miracle is displayed at the top of the equipment menu at the lower left hand corner of your screen. Press [Up] on the D-Pad to scroll through all remembered Spells/Miracles.

If casting fails to work, there could be a few reasons why:

• You do not have a valid target for the Spell (weapon enhancement Spells can only be used on enchantable weapons).
• Most personal 'buffs' will not stack — only one can be active at a time (Anti Magic Field, Second Chance, Water Veil, Protection, etc).
• You are within range of an enemy player who has used Anti Magic Field. When you are far enough away, you will be able to cast the Spell.

+ Where to get a Talisman

• Talisman of God
  • 4-1 Shrine of Storms - Treasure in front of the castle gates (just before the first fog) to the right, behind the tree.
  • 5-1 Valley of Defilement - Treasure, after killing the first 4 enemies, there is an alternate plank bridge across the chasm you can lower if you jump down where the Morning Star is. You will fight 2 more flaming brand enemies as you lower the plank, cross and then pick it up.
  • 5-x Valley of Defilement - Purchase from Filthy Woman vendor in Valley of Defilement for 5000 souls.
  • Starting equipment for Priest and Temple Knight Classes.

• Talisman of Beasts
  • Nexus - Reward, for killing Ostrava during the Mephistopheles quest. Pure Black Character Tendency required.
  • 2-2 Stonefang Tunnel - Drop, from killing Black Phantom Scirvir, The Wanderer. Pure Black World Tendency required.

+ Where to get a Catalyst

• Wooden Catalyst
  • 1-2 Boletarian Palace - Atop the first tower on the bridge.
  • 3-1 Tower of Latria - Purchased from Once Royal Mistress vendor for 1000 souls.
  • Starting equipment for Magician.

• Silver Catalyst
  • 3-1 Tower of Latria - Left side tower balcony above the boss area.
  • Starting equipment for Royalty.

How to learn Spells

+ Initial Trainers

After defeating Phalanx, 2 new NPCs appear in the Nexus.

• The Disciple of god
  • Found in the area behind Blacksmith Boldwin.
  • Teaches basic Miracles if your Faith stat is at least 10.
  • Allows changing which Miracles are memorized.
  • He disappears once Saint Urbain is rescued.
  • He can also disappear before Saint Urbain is actually rescued if you select 'Talk' from his menu enough times (leaving you with nobody to help you learn/remember Miracles), you will know when he speaks of going to rescue Saint Urbain, and that it may be a while before you see him again. If this happens, remember Saint Urbain is easily rescued early on in 4-2.

• Freke's Apprentice
  • Found in the area behind the World 5 archstone.
  • Teaches basic Spells if your Magic and Intelligence stat are both at least 10 (Otherwise he calls you a "brute" and ignores you).
  • Allows changing which Spells are memorized.
  • He asks you to rescue Sage Freke from 3-1 Tower of Latria.

You need to have a 10+ Magic stat to learn Spells, and 10+ Intelligence* stat to have slot(s) to remember a Spell.
You need to have 10+ Faith stat to learn and use Miracles.

When remembering Spells, you will see your known Spells on the left, with a small mark indicating the ones you have memorized. Click on them to toggle which are in memory. On the right you will see the number of slots you have available. Take note of the number of slots required to equip each Spell — some more powerful Spells take multiple slots.

Intelligence Magic Memory 9 0 10 1 14 2 18 3 24 4 30 5 40 6

Faith Miracle Memory 9 0 10 1 16 2 24 3 36 4

+ Advanced Trainers

Advanced trainers will only appear in the Nexus after you rescue them. They can teach you powerful new Spells if you offer them the correct Demon's Souls. You can't leave the Demon's Soul with Stockpile Thomas; you must have it in your inventory to learn the desired Spell.

• Sage Freke. Rescue from 3-1 Tower of Latria
  • Advanced Magic

• Yuria the Witch. Rescue from 1-3 Boletarian Palace
  • Advanced Magic

• Saint Urbain. Rescue from 4-2 Shrine of Storms
  • Advanced Miracles
  • Once he is rescued, the Disciple of God leaves the Nexus

Please refer the to the NPC section for details on where and how to rescue them.

Magic

There are eventually a total of 22 Magic Spells available

An Intelligence Stat of 40 provides for the maximum of six Magic slots. However, this can be increased to seven slots by equiping the Ring Of Magical Nature

Miracles

There are eventually a total of 12 Miracle Spells available

A Faith Stat of 36 provides for the maximum of four Miracle slots. However, this can be increased to five slots by equiping the Ring of Devout Prayer