HELP WITH DRAGONSLAYER ARMOUR. I'M A MAGE WITH 17 VIT.

[Vernaccia]

pw is joeil.

[Shard of Manus]

What's your SL? And your intelligence stat?

If you're doing this in the proper progression path, you should have the Young and Bellowing Dragoncrest Ring, the Lloyds Sword Ring, Magic Clutch Ring, and Crown of Dusk. Just use Soul Spear and spam that shiz. Easy win.

[The Fountaineer 🖋]

Vitality doesn't affect anything. Invest in vigor and some ok armor.

[Shard of Manus]

Originally posted by William See:

Vitality doesn't affect anything. Invest in vigor and some ok armor.

Invest in endurance and spam the B/O/Space button.

[Jendex]

Originally posted by Shard of Manus:

What's your SL? And your intelligence stat?

If you're doing this in the proper progression path, you should have the Young and Bellowing Dragoncrest Ring, the Lloyds Sword Ring, Magic Clutch Ring, and Crown of Dusk. Just use Soul Spear and spam that shiz. Easy win.

Ah, but crystal soul spear... <3

[Vernaccia]

ehm, well... i made a mistake. i confused vitality with vigor (i do not have the game in english, so i confused the two stats) i'm still low level, not enough int to cast a spear. gotta get dusk's crown and try again, i guess

[The Fountaineer 🖋]

Originally posted by joeilcandito:

ehm, well... i made a mistake. i confused vitality with vigor (i do not have the game in english, so i confused the two stats) i'm still low level, not enough int to cast a spear. gotta get dusk's crown and try again, i guess

What SL you at? You should be golden sitting around anywhere between 70-90. At minimum, you should also have at least 20 to 25 vigor.

[Haxed]

Maging him is easy man, but you gotta melee, i did with a +7 uchi with fire imbu because it was my only melee on a pure mage build. just hit twice and roll A LOT. if yo uwanna summon me in add me and message me. i only died 3 times doing it

[Vernaccia]

hahahahaha. nope. i'm running low level, now i'm lvl 49. and i have 17 vig, btw

[Shard of Manus]

Originally posted by Verdiløs:

Originally posted by Shard of Manus:

What's your SL? And your intelligence stat?

If you're doing this in the proper progression path, you should have the Young and Bellowing Dragoncrest Ring, the Lloyds Sword Ring, Magic Clutch Ring, and Crown of Dusk. Just use Soul Spear and spam that shiz. Easy win.

Ah, but crystal soul spear... <3

Crystal Soul Spear is acquired in the Grand Archives... after Dragonslayer Armour.

Originally posted by joeilcandito:

hahahahaha. nope. i'm running low level, now i'm lvl 49. and i have 17 vig, btw

And SL 49 is easily high enough for this fight. You need to respec, a mage should have 50 intelligence at SL49.

[Vain]

Do you still need help with the Dragonslayer Armour or have you beaten it? If you did please edit either the title or add a comment.

And concerning the SL, 70/75 might be common. But at least for me I usually prefer lower soullevel for the challenge. My main character is SL 75 in NG++ and my second character is SL 55 with all areas cleared except for the dragon shrine. Whatever makes one happy, praise the password system

Edit: Big Picture Mode and typing ;_;

[Marty]

Crystal soul spear is actually not the greatest. It deals only about 20% more damage than a great and heavy soul arrow and has the same cast speed but significantly larger FP cost.

For less FP you can cast two g'n'h soul arrows, deal more damage and lose less FP.

But regardless what spells you aim at, vigor should be priority. Clearly your glass-cannon build is not working out for you.

[Haxed]

Originally posted by Vain:

Do you still need help with the Dragonslayer Armour or have you beaten it? If you did please edit either the title or add a comment. And concerning the SL, 70/75 might be common. But atleast for I usually prefer lower soullevel for the challenge. MY main character is SL 75 in NG++ and my second character is SL 55 with all areas cleared except for the dragon shrine. Whatever makes one happy, praise the password system :praisethesun:

[Jendex]

Originally posted by Marty:

Crystal soul spear is actually not the greatest. It deals only about 20% more damage than a great and heavy soul arrow and has the same cast speed but significantly larger FP cost.

For less FP you can cast two g'n'h soul arrows, deal more damage and lose less FP.

But regardless what spells you aim at, vigor should be priority. Clearly your glass-cannon build is not working out for you.

I get 300ish damage off of Soul Spear compared to 600-700 from Crystal Soul Spear, both while using Steady Chant with the Crystal Sage Staff. For me at least, it does significantly more damage. Maybe it's because I polished my intelligence up a little after switching to Crystal.

[Jendex]

Originally posted by Shard of Manus:

Originally posted by Verdiløs:

Ah, but crystal soul spear... <3

Crystal Soul Spear is acquired in the Grand Archives... after Dragonslayer Armour.

Ah... I didn't pay attention to item location until NG+. My bad, hahaha

[Marty]

Originally posted by Verdiløs:

I get 300ish damage off of Soul Spear compared to 600-700 from Crystal Soul Spear, both while using Steady Chant with the Crystal Sage Staff. For me at least, it does significantly more damage. Maybe it's because I polished my intelligence up a little after switching to Crystal.

My findings are based on having 60 INT. Perhaps crystal soul spear has higher base damage but lower scaling than soul arrows. Either way, it's better to start as a melee character and only after having some sort of solid base, say 35 VIG, start leveling INT and ATN big time. For pretty much all of ng, infusions have your back.