Ice Spear AOW

[MisterRed]

Basically, I'm running my pure Int build rn. The weapon is a Clayman's Harpoon with magic enhancement, and Ice Spear AOW. Is there any reason not to use this as a replacement Comet/Glintstone pebble? It costs less FP than comet, but does more damage and inflicts frostbite. Comet for me, 66 Int with Carian Regal Sceptor does about 964 damage against a Leyndell Soldier at 26 I believe FP cost, while Ice Spear does 982 for 15 FP. Is there some downside, or any reason not to free up the comet spell slot?

[cridus]

pve or pvp?

in pvp it's not very good at range because it flies straight, unless your opponent is locked into a long animation, I guess. it's very strong at close range if you know when it's best to use it.

I dunno about pve.

[Dr.Falcon]

OK, so you can only boost the damage of Ice Spear with the Shard of Alexander, Magic Scorpion Talisman, Ritual Sword Talisman, Terra Magica, and the Magic Crystal Tear correct?
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The Graven talismans can be stacked and add a 12% increase to spell damage. Comet can also be charged for an additional 15% damage increase with the Godfrey Icon. The Magic Scorpion, Crystal Tear, Ritual Sword talisman, and Terra Magica can be used as well. Lusat's Glintstone Staff at 80 INT, +10, has a sorcery scaling of 413.
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Basically, you can stack more damage buffs with a sorcery than with an AoW. If you can't stack these buffs yet, then use ice-spear for now. When you can use all of these buffs, sorcery's become very strong.

[cridus]

btw if you use an ash of war's "native" infusion it will do more damage. so for ice spear it would be the frost infusion.

[MULTIPASS]

You should also pick up great glintstone shard, glintstone icecrag, and glintstone cometshard to compare - those are more cost-efficient than comet at 12 or 17 FP cost.

[MisterRed]

Originally posted by Dr.Falcon:

OK, so you can only boost the damage of Ice Spear with the Shard of Alexander, Magic Scorpion Talisman, Ritual Sword Talisman, Terra Magica, and the Magic Crystal Tear correct?
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The Graven talismans can be stacked and add a 12% increase to spell damage. Comet can also be charged for an additional 15% damage increase with the Godfrey Icon. The Magic Scorpion, Crystal Tear, Ritual Sword talisman, and Terra Magica can be used as well. Lusat's Glintstone Staff at 80 INT, +10, has a sorcery scaling of 413.
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Basically, you can stack more damage buffs with a sorcery than with an AoW. If you can't stack these buffs yet, then use ice-spear for now. When you can use all of these buffs, sorcery's become very strong.

Thanks for the detailed answer! It seems like for now Ice Spear is gonna be a better spell for damage, but probably not the best to use solely because it fires in straight lines and has about half the range

[EvSOLO]

Originally posted by cridus:

btw if you use an ash of war's "native" infusion it will do more damage. so for ice spear it would be the frost infusion.

Not necessarily for the projectile. Magic and Cold were very close in damage.

[EvSOLO]

Originally posted by Dr.Falcon:

OK, so you can only boost the damage of Ice Spear with the Shard of Alexander, Magic Scorpion Talisman, Ritual Sword Talisman, Terra Magica, and the Magic Crystal Tear correct?
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The Graven talismans can be stacked and add a 12% increase to spell damage. Comet can also be charged for an additional 15% damage increase with the Godfrey Icon. The Magic Scorpion, Crystal Tear, Ritual Sword talisman, and Terra Magica can be used as well. Lusat's Glintstone Staff at 80 INT, +10, has a sorcery scaling of 413.
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Basically, you can stack more damage buffs with a sorcery than with an AoW. If you can't stack these buffs yet, then use ice-spear for now. When you can use all of these buffs, sorcery's become very strong.

Big thank you to mentioning the Sword of Alexander. I got the platinum but needed to power up for the DLC and never knew about this item. Just went and got it and what a difference!