I am now about 12hrs in just arrived at smelter demon and I die in 2 hits and he is hard to dodge when in fire mode since it burns me should use a soul vessel and remake because I have 40int/20faith and the rest in attunement and I don't wield a melee weapon lol

Spellcaster shouldn't have an issue with Smelter...like...at all. Summon phantoms.

problem is the ninja knights takes away like a good 10-14 cast of my great soul arrow spell >.< hard to kill em by smacking with stave

do spells still have a limited amount of uses?
i hated that about dark souls, kinda wish they changed that.

Can only imagine how gay things would get if people could spam certain spells indefinitely. Not saying it can't be dealt with, but alot of people would complain.

Wow...what SL are you? Try using a weapon that scales well with magic, you should've found an enchanted falchion by now. They have an easy as hell attack pattern, just circle them and kill them melee.

i guess i just miss having mana.

did they at least increase the amount of charges each spell has?

No idea. Since DeS this is my first build that has anything even remotely to do with casting any sort of spell, all I've really used on my Cleric is Lightning Spear, Great Lightning Spear, Sunlight Spear, and Blade of Sunlight. I haven't really dicked around with any of the other miracles. Haven't even come close to using a spellcaster aside from that. There's already a MegaMule out so that kinda killed any point to doing any runs beyond NG, all of the pvpers are already min/maxing.

I got through it I just dashed there and went right to smelter to demon lol I was sl80 when I got there

Getting close to that PC release date. Can't wait.