Rain of Fire

Type

Incantation

FP cost

27

Memory slots

1

Stamina cost

31

Additional stamina cost

9

Hold action

Charge

Damage types

fire

Requires

52Fai

Spell school

Messmer's flame incantations

Incantation of Salza, sage of the Fire Knights.

Summons a cloud of flame overhead that pelts foe with rain of fire from above. Charging increases potency.

Salza's disdain for barbarism never waned, even as he burned more villages and scorched more land than any other.

Salza on the bridge west of Shadow Keep

Scadu Altus

Starting Site of Grace: West Rampart

Before you go

• To enter the Realm of Shadow, defeat Starscourge Radahn and Mohg, Lord of Blood, then touch the withered arm in Mohg's arena at Mohgwyn Palace.

1. Enter the Realm of Shadow after defeating Starscourge Radahn and Mohg, Lord of Blood, by touching the withered arm in Mohg's arena.
2. From Highroad Cross in Scadu Altus, follow the main road north to Shadow Keep's southern gate. Ride the entrance lift and activate Shadow Keep Main Gate grace.
3. Defeat Golden Hippopotamus in the plaza. This is the front-door route; the flooded Church District provides a different way into the keep.
4. From Main Gate Plaza, leave through the west-northwest doorway, pass through the armory and climb the stairs. Continue up the wooden steps to the dining hall, where two Black Knights guard the route.
5. Leave the dining hall through its southeastern exit to the upper rampart. Follow the rampart past the burning boats and watch for the small Shadow Militiamen hiding beside them.
6. Take the stairs leading north-northeast toward the large lift, passing the Fire Knight in front of it. Ride up and activate Storehouse, First Floor grace.
7. At Storehouse, First Floor, take the western side passage and lift down to the lower jar rooms. This is the West Rampart branch, rather than the stairs climbing toward Messmer.
8. Follow the hallway through the rooms with living jars and the larger jar-filled ward. Watch for the smaller enemies waiting beside doorways, then use the western exit and stairs to reach West Rampart grace.
9. Cross the long bridge west toward the Ancient Ruins of Rauh. Salza waits at the far end and calls down fire as you approach. Use the bridge's sheltered sections to interrupt his view, or ride Torrent to close the distance.
10. Defeat Salza at the western gate to receive Rain of Fire and Salza's Hood together. Messmer and Romina are not required for this selected route.

Notes

• Requires 52 Faith, one memory slot and a sacred seal. A normal or charged cast costs 27 FP. It cannot be cast while riding Torrent.
• Creates a short-lived cloud over your locked-on target and rains Fire damage into that area. Without a target lock, the cloud forms above you instead.
• The damage uses the casting seal's Incant Scaling. Each ember is a separate small hit, so a wide or slow enemy can be struck many times while a small moving enemy may escape most of the rain.
• Charging strengthens the falling hits without making their full damage guaranteed. The current attack values are 62% of Incant Scaling per ordinary hit and 75% per charged hit, before applicable boosts and the target's defenses.
• The rain continues briefly after you finish the casting motion. Use that time to move, heal or prepare another action, but keep the enemy in the affected area if you want the remaining hits to connect.
• It is better suited to an enemy staying in one place than a fast target that crosses the cloud once. Its many small hits are reduced separately by defenses, rather than behaving like one large explosion.
• Fire Knight's Seal gives a 15% bonus while held in an active hand, including when you cast with another seal. Two active copies multiply to 32.25%; upgrading the casting seal improves its scaling separately.
• Messmer's Helm adds 3% to this incantation, and regular Fire Knight Armor adds 5%. The altered chest loses its spell bonus, while both versions of Messmer's Helm keep theirs.
• Godfrey Icon strengthens the charged cast by 15%. Shard of Alexander strengthens weapon skills instead, so it does not boost this memorized spell.
• Salza drops the spell with his hood at the western end of the West Rampart bridge. The hood raises Intelligence and does not give this Faith incantation a separate Fire bonus.