Best of the lower soul arrows?

[Heck]

Im curious as your throughts which soul arrow is best overall.

Damage
Range
Tracking

I have a caster I use for pvp in ds1 and I use the great soul arrow due to its fair damage and good tracking.

Which one works best here?

[Average Citizen (Not FBI)]

Raw Astora Straightsword

I haven't even tried a Sorcery build straight off in DS3 because it's so unviable.

[Hugh Mungus]

Originally posted by BuyMyBrowserHistory:

Im curious as your throughts which soul arrow is best overall.

Damage
Range
Tracking

I have a caster I use for pvp in ds1 and I use the great soul arrow due to its fair damage and good tracking.

Which one works best here?

Tracking is the same across the board.
Range as well.
Damage increases a lot from Regular to Great, not so much to Heavy.
Also, cast times of Heavy soul arrows are much longer, making it way too easy to punish.

With all that said, use Great Soul Arrow. Good casting time and damage slightly lower than Great Heavy Soul Arrow (~15% tops).

Just to give you an idea, last time someone used Great Heavy Soul Arrow on me, I was able to load a bolt on my Arbalest (it was empty), shoot him successfully and roll away in time to avoid the attack. So, yeah...

[NoQtrGiven]

Great soul arrow. Everything else takes too long to cast even if you have max cast speed. Best speed to damage ratio.

[Jonathan]

Best PvP spells are those that you can free aim.

Crystal Dragon Breath
Flashsword. (Both versions)
Mercury Fog thing
Crystal Soulmass

Dart spells are good for chip damage


Heavy soul arrows take too long in PvP unless your good at timing roll catching and can stun parry

Great Soul arrow is best of arrow spells for player combat

I just straight up don't use the arrows on INT builds for PvP. Almost any other INT spell is better than them for player vs player conbat