Chariot lance

[Yoisaki Kanade]

is chariot lance worth spending souls on it? and on what bonfire i should burn bonfire ascetic to respawn chariot?

[Moisture]

Its a minimal amount of souls and I feel its a hell of a lot better then that shield you get for the same soul.

[Scrundle]

I use it as my main weapon at the moment, it's alright, has larger reach than the heide lance but does less damage. I love the moveset of the lances.

I have NEVER seen it apply the bleed effect to anything though, as far as I can tell it may not even be working, with that in mind I would advise against making it a main weapon if you have any of the other lances available unless you really like the longer reach.

[hghwolf]

The issue with the Chariot Lance and its bleed is that it does too much damage for the bleed to realistically proc on anything that isn`t a boss.

So you can ignore that entirely.

Beyond that... it`s the earliest available lance... and that`s more or less it. It deals meh damage until you get it to +3 or more, it has high reqs and it`s heavy as sin. If you want to use lances and are unwilling to wait for the Heide Lance/Greatlance get it. Otherwise, might as well pop the soul.

The bonfire you want is either Bridge Approach or the Undead Purgatory one. I`d guess Purgatory, since it`s actually in the same area.

[Scrundle]

I can confirm that the bonfire you need to use an ascetic at is the purgatory bonfire.

[Basilard]

Undead Purgatory bonfire, correct.
http://darksouls2.wiki.fextralife.com/Bonfire+Ascetic#.U4J2wfldUcB

The reach of Chariot Lance is supposedly greater than that of the Grand Lance, but Grand isn't stuck with bleed, and can be upgraded with normal titanite. Grand lance is available later in the game than Chariot, so if you want a lance earlier, Chariot makes a good placeholder; but for NG+ and on I would suggest Grand.