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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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.