Sunlight Blade and Skeptic's Spice Question

[meiyuu]

I was just wondering if I used Skeptic's Spice to make Sunlight Blade usable at 30 Faith instead of 36, would that have any adverse effects at all?

[Foe]

dont know about the damage but it should last shorter

[Grumpy Druid]

Maybe Duration, It won't affect the damage bonus.

[Cake for Mumm-Ra]

From wiki: "Sunlight Blade is a temporary Lightning weapon buff. The additional weapon damage gained is always 50 additional points to Lightning and a 30% increase to previously existing Lightning damage"

Sunlight Blade scales with your "previously existing" lightning damage, which is determined by faith. Is your weapon infused with lightning, or does it have lightning damage on it's own like defender's GS or Heide weapons? You can use the spell, but your faith is low so the 30% increase is not getting the full advantage of your faith stats.

[meiyuu]

Well I'm using dual poison infused Manslayers, and I'm currently using Flame Weapon as my buff, but I was told Sunlight Blade would do more damage

[Walther III]

It'll have a shorter duration, and slightly less damage.

[Cake for Mumm-Ra]

Originally posted by SquirtlePants:

Well I'm using dual poison infused Manslayers, and I'm currently using Flame Weapon as my buff, but I was told Sunlight Blade would do more damage

Well, Sunlight Blade will add exactly 50 lightning damage to your weapon. It's not going to get the extra 30% lightning because you don't have a weapon with lightning damage.

Flame weapon does the same thing, except it adds 50 fire damage. So both are adding 50 damage, but neither are getting the extra percentage bonus. Choosing the right buff in this case depends on your enemies, i.e., are they weak to fire or lightning?

If you're just rolling around with a weapon buff and aren't sure which to choose, more enemies are weak to lightning than fire.

Flame weapon lasts for 90 seconds.
wiki: "As of patch 1.06, at 50 faith, Sunlight Blade lasts 90 seconds, and at 10 fth, SLB lasts 10-12 seconds."

Edit: Basically, they're both good. They're even better when you have weapons that already deal fire or lightning damage, and better still if you have points in INT and/or Faith.

[meiyuu]

Well this is a for PvP not PvE, but I don't know if that makes a difference