Comet Azur—what am I missing?

[Sciophyte]

So I heard all about how that spell is one of the best, and so I leveled my Int to 60, hunted down Terra Magica to lay down before blasting away, and the Cerulean Hidden Tear to boot, and... I can't even one-shot one of those weasely little arseholes that hang out all around Farum Greatbridge.

What am I doing wrong???

[Umbral Priestess]

Първоначално публикувано от Sciophyte:

Well, I just melted Loretta with it and I think I'm getting the idea.

Unfortunately it requires stationary enemies and bosses, or ones that won't move when you fire it, try that on melania for example or most late game bosses and you'll just get smacked in the face.

[Sciophyte]

Yeah, I can see how it's situational... Loretta, I got her distracted with the demi-humans and then it was over pretty quickly. Don't see myself having the same success with Radahn, for example.

[SadPlatty©]

It is powerful - but you need to line it up right.
The beam has initial dmg and then it stacks more, but that first hit will also draw attention and can easily cause the enemy to just get out of the way (or shield guys will just block the whole thing).

It doesn't do like any poise dmg either, so more often then not you need to know your enemy and plan it for an attack coming towards you/with wind-down. So like the Erdtree things, you usually want to try waiting for it to be near the end of the mouth grab and stationary.

Otherwise, it is just a large windup and chunk of FP for some OK dmg. If you get it to work just right though, I had numbers over 12K on those tree things in the later game (but also had 99 INT, so that is a difference here also).

[Myrmuz [IRL]]

I wish it had the near infinite range that Soul Stream had in DS3. You could do snipes across the map against the host. I miss that.

[Sciophyte]

Oh, those Erdtrees... I pretty much just rode around dropping those nice delayed-action glintblades until they were whittled to the ground. Less dramatic than a giant power laser, but works against almost everything.

[SmallGespenst]

under normal circumstances Azur is a decent alpha-strike spell, not really practical in other scenarios and it has hot garbage FP economy, so it's just bad in dungeon crawls, spend a full FP bar to probably delete an unaware target.

[Sciophyte]

Първоначално публикувано от SmallGespenst:

... it has hot garbage FP economy

True, it really only makes sense as an opener with the Hidden Tear active.

[FakeKeima]

Not really a fan of them nerfing weapons or even just playing around with the stats like this. Apparently quite a few people already had the maxed unique weapons that now aren't as good. I'd prefer they just focus on game breaking bugs like the pvp kill loop and framerate issues. I've actually just put steam in offline mode for that pc so they can't update anymore. At least until I beat Radahn anyway. I hear the latest patch fixes their earlier one where he was made too easy.