On a different topic, is anyone reading this great at theorycrafting in this game? (or can you suggest a relevant forum?)
I discovered I love spears/polearms, and embarked on a quest to have ALL THE SPEARS AND POLEARMS. Here is what I found
- Demon Spear +5 is absolutely amazing in middle game, and throughout most of PvP. Seriously. This thing rocks everything.
- Silver Knight Spear +5 is almost as good, especially for regular PvE. A few enemies resist it, but most take a LOT of damage
- Dragonslayer Spear +5 is terrible. Mind you, I have 8 faith so the lightning damage doesn't scale, but this weapon is completely outdone by Demon Spear. Slower attacks, less range, heavier... do not want. I know it has scaling Lightning damage, but that's for a faith build. Feels like a general failure.
- Fire Lucerne +10 rocked my world when I got it. It just outdid everything the spears could do by a huge margin.
- Occult Pike +5 does nothing, but I assume it's because of my low faith. I hoped that the Occult bonus would make up for the lack of scaling, but this is the lowest damaging weapon out of everything listed.
- Scythe +15 (not Great Scythe) has by far the highest damage potential. I recently got my hands on a Silver Tracer +5 (160 crit) and this Scythe still crits harder.
- Chaos Winged Spear +5 is crap. It's not even close in damage to others, and that's with my permanent 10 humanity.
Now what the hell? Why is the Chaos spear so pathetic? Chaos is supposed to be amazing, I don't understand... The +15 Scythe does more damage than anything else, and the Silver Knight Spear is the best spear I have found. What am I missing?
I'm currently working to get a +15 Partizan/Pike and a +5 lightning spear (Thank you, Sen's Fortress) but I don't have very high hopes for them.
So help me figure this out, why is the +15 Scythe so much better than a +10 Fire Lucerne, and why is the Silver Knight Spear better than all other spears? I thought elemental weapons were the thing...
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As an aside, with the right collection of shields and a Demon Spear, invaders have no clue what to do. They keep trying to parry my spear at full range... yeah, that's not even possible you silly player.