Sorceries or incantations?

[[NG]Giuls The Original]

Are sorceries or incantations better? Argue if possible, and thanks in advance.

[Mander]

Originally posted by Chan The Man:

Sorcery is stronger/more fun imo. You can melt most end game bosses before they move or get them close to dead. I remember walking into Mohg for the first time and he went from 100 to 0 in 6 or 7s. He literally walked toward me and then died lol.

To be fair, Mohg is the only boss idiotic enough to walk in a straight line just for gravitas, allowing its obliteration via the glinstone equivalent of a wave motion gun.
And, personally, I've to disagree: nothing warms my cold heart, like using Crucible Incantations to make a fool out of a certain red headed sword mistress…

[Elazul]

I like incantations better. They look cooler too which is a big bonus. The only sorcery that I really like is the Kamehameha wave attack one. You can legit setup some one shot combos on bosses with the proper setup.

[Clail]

Depends on your playstyle. Most of the sorceries are honestly just variations of Glintstone pebble, which can get kind of boring, but sorceries tend to reign supreme among long range spammable spells. There's a small handful of melee spells that are decent, but you could just swing a actual weapon instead of spending FP imo.

Incantations has a lot of variety, but a lot of them are defense or recovery spells you might not ever actually use. Attacks are slow and midrange at best for the most part.

Both are good if you play to their strengths.

[[NG]Giuls The Original]

thank you all
finally I think I will choose the incantations, as I already have brute force weapons, having a strength build, and therefore I don't need the dragon ball style. And especially the lack of variety in sorceries, as mentioned by others here, makes me lean towards incantations. probable that in ng+ I will also try the sorceries, also because currently I'm struggling to level up (70k for level) and I could not be able to increase both int and faith.

[Mewsha]

It depends.

Sorceries can just melt 99% of bosses in this game. It trivializes most PvE encounters and is also strong in PvP if you're allowed to sit back and spam Stars of Ruin. Honestly I don't think casting is that interesting for INT builds. If you're going INT then you probably want to use one of the more powerful weapons like Dark Moon Greatsword, Wings of Astel, or Moonveil Katana. Those are top tier weapons that will be good for any type of content and every type of encounter.

Incantations offer more damage type variety as well as buffs, and if you spec a little bit into Strength on top of your Faith, and don't mind ugly weapons, then Blasphemous Blade is ridiculously overpowered. It even lets you heal through your mimic tear. The weapon is strong in PvP too, especially when paired with Catch Flame or Bestial Sling for people who aren't giving you any space as they also are quick to cast. Incantations just offer more support and wiggle room overall for any type of build you want.

[Indig0]

You might try incantations ONLY run (no weapons just seals and a torch) :)

P.S.: NPC invaders are just evil !!!

[Big Daddy-Chan]

If you want glintstone hard throbbing damage than sorceries, if you want it to be gentle with some foreplay then incantations.

[Aertes]

In my experience, sorceries use to have longer range and look more reliable to focus on them as ranged attack method. Incantations focus more in boosting the character's resistances and weapons and their offensive varieties seem to be of shorter range, but many of them deal area damage; they can also be used as ranged attack method and since they usually inflict fire or lightning damage they can be very useful against certain enemies.

[[NG]Giuls The Original]

Originally posted by Baby Ghoul:

Incantations offer more damage type variety as well as buffs, and if you spec a little bit into Strength on top of your Faith, and don't mind ugly weapons, then Blasphemous Blade is ridiculously overpowered.
Incantations just offer more support and wiggle room overall for any type of build you want.

I plan to use that sword indeed, because I've already been told it's quite broken.
and yea, I plan to use some support spells, like I'm already doing for healing or removing poison

[[NG]Giuls The Original]

Originally posted by Aertes:

but many of them deal area damage; they can also be used as ranged attack method and since they usually inflict fire or lightning damage they can be very useful against certain enemies.

I appreciate these features, plus I prefer to fight at close range. so it looks perfect to me.

[[NG]Giuls The Original]

Originally posted by Indig0:

You might try incantations ONLY run (no weapons just seals and a torch) :)

P.S.: NPC invaders are just evil !!!

yea I'll do it sooner or later, I've been postponing since the dark souls games

[justfaded]

Incantations look cooler because it looks like they come out of your hand instead of some goofy Harry Potter stick.

[Alby]

I like incants cause they have more utility

[Elazul]

Originally posted by Indig0:

You might try incantations ONLY run (no weapons just seals and a torch) :)

P.S.: NPC invaders are just evil !!!

As someone that is doing this currently I just want to say that Fire Sorcery is your friend. Catch flame is your bread and butter spell for basically everything. Get a weapon(preferably something stabby like an estoc for PvP) and put Storm Stomp on it and you can stun them and then you're guaranteed to hit them with at least one Catch Flame. At which point you can start roll catching them with it. Giantsflame Take Thee is your main Nuke. If you have the proper setup you can one shot entire groups in PvP. That is basically all you need. Add whatever else you want for utility.