Specced almost exclusovely into magic and attunement in my (first) DS2 playthrough. Then found a battle axe and thought ‘no way’. Upgraded it with fire damage and it was immediately more powerful than all the spells
My Dark caster build was by far the most obscenely powerful DS2 character I ever made and I bet I beat that game a dozen times.
At release, a Faith build could complete the whole game with a couple copies of Lightning Spear but that got nerfed into unusability. Dark Orb and Resonant Soul have no such weaknesses.
I will never forget the patch that nerfed lightning spears. One day I woke up, opened Reddit, and read “reduced lightning spear amount from 11 to 3”. I did a triple take but it was real, they suddenly destroyed my build mid-playthrough.
I escaped that nerf in my first playthrough for playing a fully offline copy of the game in the 360. On my second playthrough (first time with dlcs) on my pc, I felt very disappointed when the massively powerful lighting spell I was hyped to get had been reduced to nothing.
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Specced almost exclusovely into magic and attunement in my (first) DS2 playthrough. Then found a battle axe and thought ‘no way’. Upgraded it with fire damage and it was immediately more powerful than all the spells
My Dark caster build was by far the most obscenely powerful DS2 character I ever made and I bet I beat that game a dozen times.
At release, a Faith build could complete the whole game with a couple copies of Lightning Spear but that got nerfed into unusability. Dark Orb and Resonant Soul have no such weaknesses.
I will never forget the patch that nerfed lightning spears. One day I woke up, opened Reddit, and read “reduced lightning spear amount from 11 to 3”. I did a triple take but it was real, they suddenly destroyed my build mid-playthrough.
I escaped that nerf in my first playthrough for playing a fully offline copy of the game in the 360. On my second playthrough (first time with dlcs) on my pc, I felt very disappointed when the massively powerful lighting spell I was hyped to get had been reduced to nothing.