oolacile ivory catalyst question

[Smol]

Does it work well with offensive sorceries like great soul arrow? Based on it's description I'd guess no but It might since it allows me to cast those spells.

My int is at 40 would sorc catalyst be better?

Does the ivory catalyst boost the duration of oolacile sorceries like hidden weapopn or cast light?

[Smol]

Yep did that and my soul spears took him down 80% and then a few great soul arrows killed him >.> NOte to self: Make sweet sweet love to everything

[My Name is Mud]

Here's the math on catalysts.

http://darksouls.wiki.fextralife.com/Int-Faith+Catalyst+Magic+Adjustment+Values

To summarize:
- Oolacile is the best for low int builds. It also has only 0.5 weight so if you want sorcery just for utility stuff like fall control or cast light in Tomb of the Giants, it usually won't mess up your weight.

- Logan's Catalyist is really good on high Int builds.

- Tin Crystyzation Catalyst is very strong but cuts spell casts by half.

- The Sorcerer's Catalyst is never worse than "fine" if you don't feel like going through the work of getting a rare alternative.

- No, I don't know why the Demon Catalyst exists either.

[Apathy]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Juju:

All right, right now I'm struggling against the firesage since he kills me in one hit and for I can neither block nor roll through his damned fire explosion move....

Don't fight Demons like him head on. Stay behind him until he does his AoE and run in for 1 or 2 hits. Rinse and repeat. If you're still having trouble you need to up magic or fire resist. You can do this with armor. Just look for whatever has the best stats for that. Demons of that kind are weak to bleed and Black Knight Weapons. Most of them are also weak to magic damage. Firesage is really weak to it. So just hammer him with spells.

[TrueArchery]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Death From Above:

- No, I don't know why the Demon Catalyst exists either.

It has physical scaling for dark spells and rather respectable melee dmg.

[My Name is Mud]

If someone melee's you with a catalyst the correct response is to hit them with Toxic Mist then see who very slowly dies first.

[Apathy]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย TrueArchery:

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Death From Above:

- No, I don't know why the Demon Catalyst exists either.

It has physical scaling for dark spells and rather respectable melee dmg.

Tin Banishment has better physical scaling though, but it requires high dex to pay off.

[Smol]

why would I not simply switch to any weapon instead of trying to smack things with the catalyst?

[Apathy]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Death From Above:

If someone melee's you with a catalyst the correct response is to hit them with Toxic Mist then see who very slowly dies first.

False. You spray them with Toxic Mist and then you eat Blooming Purple Moss.

[Apathy]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Juju:

why would I not simply switch to any weapon instead of trying to smack things with the catalyst?

Because if you suicide run for Crimson Set and Tin Banishment Catalyst at the start of the game the spear tip R2 will do like 200 damage on most enemies up until Sen's. Which in my playthrough was more than my sword was doing.

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oh that makes sense, I'm not on the level of suicide runs though except for spider shield

[Groen90]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Juju:

why would I not simply switch to any weapon instead of trying to smack things with the catalyst?

I guess it's there for people who want to do something like a pure sorcerer run that uses no weapons... so if you need to hit something, you have the option

[Apathy]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Juju:

oh that makes sense, I'm not on the level of suicide runs though except for spider shield

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=w3ZetSusXQw

It's not hard but at starting SL it can be frustrating. Totally worth it. The mag adjust is actually not as good as Sorceror catalyst but that sweet sweet R2 will carry you until you can upgrade your sword.

[Smol]

well I'm at enchanted+4 estoc and right now just wish I had more casts of my soul spear. That thing is like a nuke!

[TrueArchery]

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Death From Above:

If someone melee's you with a catalyst the correct response is to hit them with Toxic Mist then see who very slowly dies first.

Well first off, not everything in this game is centered around PvP... it's really just for the occasional bash if things come too close.
Lots of weapons don't have a real purpose, like why is there 2 ♥♥♥♥ straight swords, the hilt and the broken sword. I get it, it can be traded for artorias' sword, but why does a SECOND one exist?
Why should you ever use Vamos hammer?
Why should you ever use thing ghost dagger thingy?

โพสต์ดั้งเดิมโดย Apathy:

Tin Banishment has better physical scaling though, but it requires high dex to pay off.

It shouldn't, Demon's has D/D vs the TB's E/D do it should perform better, no?

[Apathy]

It's nothing compared to Crystal Soul Spear or Dark Bead too. You'll be able to get more spells later.