Lightning Stake | Dark Souls 3 Wiki

Yet Sunlight Spear up close is far far better, sounds like a bunch of nameless jobbers jealous of Gwyn.

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One cool thing I noticed about this miracle is that you actually get hyper armor towards the tail end of the cast. For example if you see your opponent that two hands a great sword attack while lighting steak is about to hit the earth you wont get staggered and you could out trade them since this spell in particular is a multi hit spell. I did 650 damage with the rose of ariandel+ring of the sun's first born+Morne's Ring at 35 faith with weapon upgrade of +3. SL 60 no buffs. So predicting your opponent+timing of the spell cast makes for a really fun experience cause of the BIG DAMAGE will make them panic roll. proof that Faith=Yellow strength

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Damn, even the description of other miracles call out how terrible lighting spear is

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I don't understand this miracle... Why would I spend FP casting a slow melee miracle with sucky damage when I can just press R1?

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I ****ing love using this with poise cast to R1 spamers

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I went afk behind a rock just before old demon king boss room. When i came back promt showed i got this...kek

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idk if solaire used this miracle in ds1 so the worm isn't him good

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Looking for a refreshing way to play? Haul ass to Carthus and its requirements and just blast things like Zeus until you get Sunlight Spear. If they can be cooked by lightning this is a go to.

All around an MVP if you like to get close but don't want to spend all the fp on sunlight spear.

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Oh yay. A spell that does damage right in front of me. It isn't like I could use a weapon to hit them.

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Is the most efficient damaging lightning miracle in terms of FP spent per point of damage dealt.

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Well here's the bread, now where's the butter?

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just the right timing difference with lightning spear to confuse someone into rolling juuuuuuust too early towards you and eat it full force

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Does this or sunlight spear do more damage at point blank? It seems like sunlight spear does, or at least it’s more consistent

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You feel that? That crackling roar from the sky? That's what not needing a wonky mechanic to deal damage and fright sounds like. A smart close-combat cleric would use this in tandem with lifehunt scythe, not those yellow darts that can't even scratch anyone at range.

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kaboom

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time to kill gundmr

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Against what bosses this miracle would be most comfortable/satisfying to use? As in, not just because they have terrible lightning resistance, but because there are good opportunities to cast it and for full damage (so called perfect hit).

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Hold sunlight talisman and yorshka’s chime, poise cast Lightning Stake and cast this miracle or another miracle right away with chime. It’ll remain poise of talisman meaning that you’ll have full damage of chime and poise of talisman. Just beware that you must cast Lightning Stake first, not other miracles.

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people at sl120 know how to roll right through this thing. God miracles, are so bad at ds3.

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What’s the best rings and charms/talismans to use with lightning stake

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I got my ass blasted repeatedly by a guy flail buffing and using this whenever i tried to poise him. I've never been afraid of a miracle before

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Guys, unfaltering prayer cast this to chain into other miracles. You just cast and then cast your next spell right after, no need to hold L2 after the 1st cast or anything, it actually just works. The poise lasts into your next spell. You can unfaltering prayer cast this and then hold lightning arrow to see that the glow never leaves. Something you should know i that the poise given over the 2 spells is shared, so if you get hit enough times to break said poise before you can get your 2nd spell off then you're broken.

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Nuke time

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Ladies and Gentlemen of the Dex/Fth builds. I present the atomic bomb

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Straight sword and Greatsword users beware. +10 Saint’s Talisman, poise-cast this b*tch and you have a 50/50 chance of the average r1 spammer taking it to the face because they thought they could spam you into submission. Usually one-shotting or nearly one-shotting most of the time.

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Not worth killing Solaire ;_;

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Sadly lightning stake stunlock duration is very short, opponents with fast weapons can immediately begin to strike you back, sunlight spear on the other hand has a longer stunlock duration, you can follow up with a weapon strike after landing a sunlight spear.

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Idk if it's a bug, but if you poise cast this and then IMMEDIATELY cast another spell the poise cast carries over to the next spell allowing you to chain spells. It's incredibly useful to use with yorshka's chime since you can poise cast with max damage. It only seems to work if you poise cast lightning stake specifically, you can't poise cast anything else and chain, it HAS to start with lightning stake for the light to stay around you. You can even lead it into a lightning arrow and hold the arrow with the poise light on you until you release, you get a full 2nd poise cast.

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pretty handy if you ask me

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Does the AOE of lighting stake get increased if you use the Filianore's Sacred Chime buff?

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very good if you bash the heads of heretics with it

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Excellent spell for Oceiros. At 40 faith, I dealt 900-1000 per stake. Melted him before I knew what was happening.

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Got invaded by a running R1 Katana spammer in grand archives the other day. Just stood there while this A-hole was running at me and traded his hit for a +10 sunlight tailsman lightning stake to the face (unfaltering prayer is great). Almost a 1 hit KO, stunlocked him and just finished him off with a few sword slashes.

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it mutil hits

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I've killed the sand worm in NG and NG+ and didn't get it either time..........so I guess I'm just s.o.l ??

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If you use this with unfaltering prayer it's basically a guaranteed hit if you know what you're doing

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only requires 1 slot now

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Even though the description says you stab lighting stack into the ground, you are actually just throwing it down. If you do it just right on a cliff (i tried this at fire link shrine, on the bridge towards Blacksmith, directly over the tunnel under the bridge) so that you finnish the animation right as you fall off, the lightning bolt will travel down to the floor bellow (and slightly behind) you, and explode with AOE (after it has left your hand in the animation).

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Has also been reduced by approx 40%. I will check for aoe increase later.

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As if 1.08 ver the speed of the miracles has increase significantly. Approx 1.8 secs to cast at 35 dex.

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Tested on the corvians on the road of sacrifice.40 int, 45 faith +5 crystal chime lighnting clutch ring, ring of the suns first born, mornes ring, priestess ring (40 faith to 45)Lighting Stake does 1087, 886, 522, 364, 158 (depending on how well u hit)lighting spear gets 635 at close and 364 at rangegreat lighting spear gets 861 at close range and 497 at rangesunlight spear gets 1271 damage close range and 757 at rangelighting storm is harder to read it appears the the wave given off does 317 per hit but its likely to hit twice causing 634 and if you're close enough the stike can cause another 317 totaling at 951Sunlight spear just out classes all the other miracle but u need to beat the game to get it. Lighting stake sports the second highest damage potential out of all other miracles and the fact u can get it so early makes it that much better.Lighting storm really is a lack luster miracle for how late you get it, it's giant aoe can be very useful but the relative low damage makes me wounder if its worth the two spaces.

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At 40 faith, this miracles deals slightly less damage than the sunlight spear (both melee, perfect hits), while requiring 1 more slot. I tested it in the road of sacrifices with the big guys with the wooden moons on their backs, talisman +9 and ring of the sun's first born. I got 508 damage with the stake and 568 damage with the sunlight spear.

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Tbh I feel that this is an inferior version of sunlight spear... At 40 faith, the spear does the same, if not more, damage than the stake with a perfect melee hit, and the stake also requires 2 slots.

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Has anyone been able to use this spell effectivly? It seems to be too slow to be used in combat.

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This is basically the miracle counterpart to the soul greatsword, so beware the focus cost. Miracles seem to have no currently known counterpart to flash sword. Still, it looks really cool.

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Depending on how fast this can be casted, it could be a good alternative to Wrath of the Gods

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The description seems to imply that this is a melee range miracle, which would make it the first of the sort, unless you count force and WoTG. Neat.

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