Best Sorceries?

[Reanu Keeves]

I tried the Farron dart, the Farron Flashsword, Deep Soul and Farron Hail and they all suck, they do an incredible ammount of damage and the speed of some of them aren't even THAT fast. So I was wondering which are the best and most useful offensive spells I can learn?

[larry]

Best hex spells: Dark Edge, Great Soul Dregs, Affinity, Dorhys' Gnaw, Dark Weapon
Best sorcery spells: Soul GS, Old Moonlight, Crystal Soul Spear, Crystal Magic Weapon.

[Cornix]

Flashsword and great dart are insane, just spam them like there is no tomorrow. Use Sage ring to cast more quickly. If you want some burst, use CSS. If you want to deal any damage, you have to use both dragon rings, the sorcery crown and candlestick in the offhand. Generally does magic scale very well, you have to have 60 int.

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Homing crystal soulmass, crystal soulspear

[the fakir]

Crystal soul spear and Soul stream are the top damaging sorceries, Old moonlight can be very damaging and very cost effective if you land both hits while fully charged.

great heavy soul arrow is the standard cost-effective but kinda slow magic projectile.

unsure if you want them for PvE or PvP, for PvP the best spell you could possibly use is some of the homing soulmass thingies.

[larry]

Originally posted by Avir, the CrabMancer:

Crystal soul spear and Soul stream are the top damaging sorceries, Old moonlight can be very damaging and very cost effective if you land both hits while fully charged.

great heavy soul arrow is the standard cost-effective but kinda slow magic projectile.

unsure if you want them for PvE or PvP, for PvP the best spell you could possibly use is some of the homing soulmass thingies.

Soul Stream isn't that good though.

[Hunubul]

PvE or PvP?

[larry]

Originally posted by Ponion:

PvE or PvP?

I wasnt unsure as well so I decided to tell him both PvE and PvP spells, you might wanna do the same.

[Hunubul]

Originally posted by Stickyspam takes no skill:

I wasnt unsure as well so I decided to tell him both PvE and PvP spells, you might wanna do the same.

Ok then.

PvE: CCS/Pestilent Mercury/Snap Freeze for bosses, Great Heavy Soul Arrow for mobs.
PvP: Farron flashsword, Soul Greatsword, Farron Hail, Old Moonlight, Snap Freeze.

[Matse [FR]]

Hi,

Obviously near end-game sorceries like crystal soul spear, soul stream etc will do most damage

I'm doing a pure sorcerer run for the very first time, about to kill Abyss Watchers, what I use most is Great Heavy Soul Arrow (one-shots many mobs), Great Soul Arrow when I have less time to cast, Farron Flashsword and Soul Greatsword (more rarely, but was essential to kill the deacons of the deep).

For good damage you really want to have 40+ INT and at least the Young Dragon Ring. Of course an upgraded staff too. Also Sage ring really helps with casting speed.

[Reanu Keeves]

Where do I get the Old Moonlight and Snap Freeze?

[Matse [FR]]

Old Moonlight is transposed from a boss soul in the ringed city DLC, snap freeze is in Ashes of Ariandel after the crabs

[Reanu Keeves]

Originally posted by Matse FR:

Old Moonlight is transposed from a boss soul in the ringed city DLC, snap freeze is in Ashes of Ariandel after the crabs

Oh... I see, so I cannot use them lol... Well I'll stick to the soulstream I suposse

[Gosen]

Homing projectiles and mercury fog (situational for pve) are also useful.

[Hunubul]

Oh yeah forgot about crystal homing soulmass, it's great for PvP.