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Will kill Lorian in 3 hits

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I have a question about the damage calculation

using court sorcerer staff, the crown, the 2 magic damage boosting rings, my spell should be hitting on paper for 1317. just testing on trash mobs on the high wall and it was hitting 1412. as far as i could tell the mob i was hitting doesn't take increased magic damage. for reference this was the calculation- (SB 3.05 X 2.54) X 1.1 (crown) X 1.15(magic clutch ring) X1.2(sorc ring) X 1.12 (sorc ring) i don't believe there are any other passive spell buffs you can get through gear outside of the weapon art, so I 'm ot sure where the additional 7.2% damage is coming from. maybe there is a mod for being in NG+?

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Good spell 10/10 would pew again

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Soul Spear: ANGRY
...CRYSTAL Soul Spear: HAPPY

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The link to Staff in this page is wrong.

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I've died way too many time to this from friendly fire.

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Most effective while ganking

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Easily one of the best high level sorceries. It's Fp cost is way too cheap for it's DMG and also has tracking with a reasonable casting speed unlike sunlight spears or gnaw. Idk how mage builds are bad despite the existence of these and homing crystal soulmass. Imo offensive faith builds are much worse than mage builds

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people use this in pvp? i just use this for 2000 damage builds

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Now i understand why havel hates magic

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nothing sweater when you kill the gank squad host who spams this **** from the back

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I played for a lobg time souls franchise (even demon's souls original) i wanna say, this is very powerful,
But manny player say"Op" meanwhile it's more an investment, sure it do a lot of damage with 60 or more int, but u have low health or in others stats u are weaker thab full melee, like faith, less range but with weapon art to help it in cqc
Intel is more for distance "obviously"
And with is weapon art too, it's not for melee like the talisman do.
Both (sunlight spear) and crystal soul spear is equivalent, and even lighting have lower defense in game (for only 1%)
The only miss understand for new player and haters, i wanna say Skills.
Play sorcerer without unfathering prayer is a bit more tricky than going Ugs hyper armor and a lot of poise, a lot of caster prefer light armor to have more mobility, that's why u take high damage
Also caster "spam" spells yes, cuz its their builds, don't be cancer and insult without knowing why they do.
With that say, have a good day and gl hf
Ostrava

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I haye you Logan, I really do.

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Gankers detected

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You don’t have a good gank squad if none of you casuals use this, step your game up already.

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Time for gank in short try spam

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Yet another total "fck u" to miracle builds. They had lightning spears, but some idiot in fromsoft decided to focus their damage on melee, despite how straight swords, curved swords, axes, etc... do a far better job at it.

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Despite playing a lot, i can barely remember hitting anyone in PvP with this, who wasn't panic-rolling or chugging. I prefer backward jumping with HSM, FGD spam and area denial with Crystal and Farron Hail. GHSA is way more efficient for spamming.

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"Sorceries aren't useless in PvP, watch me cower behind my posse of overlevelled phantoms and spam crystal soul spear. Hurr durr hurr."

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Probably one of the few ds1 spells that retains some of their old good power and effectiveness in this game.

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Ah yes, the magic anti-materiel rifle

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I prefer this over Great Heavy Soul Arrow, simply because of its faster cast animation, faster travel time, higher damage, piercing quality, and let's not forget the orgasmic sound effect

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N Y O O M

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Hreat spell for farming area next to the Archdragon Peak bonfire. 2 casts, if you line up the spell correctly, net you over 26K souls in about 15 seconds in NG+.

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P E W.

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768 damage @ 14 FP with Great Heavy Soul Arrow on Lorian... ~980 @ 43 with Crystal Soul Spear in the same conditions. Might be better in PvP but not worth it in PvE.

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for PvE, the fp cost makes it kinda useless sadly. basically for all bosses i notice, personally, that i do better with a couple extra rolls than taking less ashen estus drink, aggresive kills you then. if you use this instead of Great heavy soul arrow you have to drink too much ashen estus, in pvp I actually haven't tried it yet, and it sounds like it's what we use there, but in PvE it's not as good as great heavy soul arrow imo.

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Hey I just have a question. Why does every magic user do hsm and then fires this? Plz I just wast some info cause I’ve never seen a single group of magic or weaponry doing that over and over like magic users do. Nothing against you guy btw I’m a fucc boi pyro boi

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Crystal Gank Spear.
Further sharpens ganking via crystallization.

Fires a piercing crystal gank spear.

According to the Crystal Sages, landing such a spell is ineffective if the opponent isn't occupied, where they came to find the quintessence of sorcery in the facets of using it with phantoms present.

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This spell is supposed to do a***** ton of damage. Fromsoft, please don't listen to the "CRYSTAL NOOB SPEAR!" or "IT"S TOO OP!" people who don't know how to dodge spells.

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everytime someone uses this spell on me im busy with another guy or two im trying to heal and the *****ing mage in the back stuns me with homing soul mass and uses this BS and when i do focus the mage i get *****ed by the other guy who pulls out black knight greatsword

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Too OP killed my character with 1000HP nerf plz

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So, if I killed Orbeck can I still get this spell?

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I think this is a pretty cool spell. Eh one-combo KO's King of the Storm and doesnt afraid of anything.

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Why does this thing deal similar damage to great soul dreg and cost 16 more FP.....? The FP cost on this thing is still unreasonable.

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Crystal noob spear

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using this and occasionally, when the opportunity arose for it, soul stream, managed to defeated soul of s cinder and the nameless king using court sorcerers staff +10, and both sorcery boosting rings

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there is skill to using sorceries. i dont personally use them because i kill every sorcerer i come across, but you have to be careful of your distance, too far and youll miss, too close and youll get battered by your opponent. the casting time of sorceries probably needs to balance more with the quantity of damage some of them can do, wack the sages ring +2 on using this spell and your pretty much golden if you can keep your distance. HOWEVER: for those of you who complain left, right and center about sorcery requiring no skill, if that is so, how come you all always die? try this, if you see a sorcerer, bait them. dont get out in the open, they will mash you. you need to get close. VERY close. if you equip a fast attacking weapon that does some bleed and poison damage, get right up in their face and mash away at the r1 or attack button (depends on console) yourself. if you dont suck major metaphorical testies, youll see an increase in your success against them. Again, this is skill to sorcery, but that is everyones downfall, those of you who die assume you will lose because they require no skill to do what they do, and those sorcerers who constantly mash their attack button because they think it takes no skill will quickly see themselves be rushed time and time again because they keep miss-firing and wasting fp.

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I noticed that when Lothirc joins lorian in the 2nd phase he can shoot a golden Crystal soul spear. Also, when Pontiff Sulyvahn does a thrust attack with his Greatsword of Judgment the sword shoots what looks somewhat like a purple Soul Spear

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Don't be that *****er who spams this spell along side homing soul mass in pvp or in invasions, But to those who uses this we are all "impressed" with the amount of skill you have with useing R1 or L1.

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How can miyazaki allow this to happen while lightning miracles do nothing in damage? Its clear miyazaki is showing favoritism for sorcery and quality builds.

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This thing will do 1200 damage with a fully souped up sorcerer build. That is op. This thing needs to be WAY toned down, if only to make it more balanced. You can one-shot the giants in Sully P's backyard with this thing...

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This thing is like a nuke.Is it cheap? No.Is it easy to get? No.Is it versatile? No.Does everyone have it? No.Does everyone need it? No.Is it better than everything else you can get? No.But will it deal massive, crippling damage against almost anything you fire it at? Yes.

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The most useful thing when all you do for 11 playthroughs is run pass all the enemies, and blast bosses while they are distracted by phantoms.

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It costs way too much FP, useless in PvE when you can get almost the same damage from GHSA for much less cost. Granted its casting time is far quicker than GHSA but definitely not worth all that FP lol. On the other hand in PvP it's too effective, yes, it's easy to dodge, but in lag you get hit no matter what you do, and vs co-op'ers it's an insta death to get hit with it while you're in stun animation. Buff FP consumption and simultaneoulsy tone done the damage abit @fromsoft

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damages/FP cost is really bad, soul arrow is the best cause casting time and not much overkill, BUT the range of the lock on with CSS is oO...twice the distance of SA at least!

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Relatively FP cost is at least 20 points too high on both soul spears... bloody disappointing.

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Instead of buffing the spell damage (which we all know isn't going to happen ever since the magic hating Yui took over as middle management. Spells are just not as sexy to watch lets plays as melee. From DS2, one could tell that he almost wants a fighting game, but whatever), I would prefer a more high powered staff/stave. The reason is simple - I can achieve similar damage with this spell in DS 1 in this game (only against certain mobs in this game unlike 1), but I would need 2 more rings to do it. I used Crystal Staff, Bellowing Dragoncrest ring, and Crown of Dusk in DS 1 to do about 1300+ damage. That's all I needed. But in DS 3, I need Court Staff +9, Bellowing ring, Young Dragon ring, Magic Clutch ring + Crown of Dusk to do similar damage. 2 of those gear can give me serious damage when worn against the wrong opponent and yet I am doing no better than DS 1. It just feels really dumb. Once I picked up Soul Spear/Crystal Soul Spear, I never touched any of the Soul Arrow family again in DS1.

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so bad, GHSA deals slightly less for a lot less FP. Sorcereries and Miracles need re balanced. This thing for it's cost should deal a lot more damage then it is doing. Only reason I see using magic is for the weapon buff and nothing else

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It's a bit of a let down to go the whole of the game using basically only Heavy Soul Arrow and Greater Heavy Soul Arrow for their Damage per FP cost. The only thing that Crystal or normal Soul Spear do are drain your mana quickly for very little value.

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Considering how late in the game you get this, it really isn't THAT much better than Greater Heavy Soul Arrow. Hell, the normal (not Crystal) Soul Spear BARELY eeks out ahead of GHSA and it costs a whole lot more FP. A spell requiring 48 INT - the ultimate form of Logan's legendary Soul Spear - should most definitely not do ~20% more damage than an improved version of the most basic Sorcery. If you're already committed to Sorcery, most definitely pick this up for the visuals if nothing else - just lower your expectations before you look at the damage numbers. However, if you are planning to go with an INT build because of cool high-end spells like this, you are probably setting yourself up for disappointment. :/p.s. I will give the spell credit when used against bosses weak to Magic - with 50 INT and a +10 Staff it decimates their health pool in a very satisfying and flashy fashion. That said, a heavy weapon with sufficiently high STR could probably achieve the same result with much less frustration and, possibly, a lot less investment.

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Great Heavy Soul Arrow does 559 damage, Soul Spear does 582 damage, and Crystal Soul Spear does 730 at 50 int with the Court Sorcerer's Staff +7. This and soul spear only outperform ghsa when you are firing at a line of enemies, otherwise I don't see them being worth the 55 fp expenditure.

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