Magic has had its ups and downs across the three mainline Dark Souls games. Even in the first game, magic was quite unpredictable. It sported insanely powerful pyromancy builds but players looking to be sorcery purists found that their spell books were quite a bit weaker. Though Dark Souls has always had powerful options for spell casters across a wide range of spell types, there have also always been plenty of truly impractical spells.