How the hell does dark scale?

[Ms Peaches]

seriously? I do fine up untile after the pontife boss then my characters power drops drastically. I ride pyromancy while I'm scaling both my int and faith but the dark spells for the staff and chime don't do NEARLY as much damage. I'm using the izalith staff and I'm still getting poor results. I honestly don't know what I'm doing wrong. or is dark magic just utterly broken this go around?

[RE-L124C41]

I infused my uchi with Dark and got B scalings on INT/FTH and quite satisfied with the damage output. Using also Izalith for spells and have the impression hexes suck in DS3. For bosses I use exclusively magic and pyromancy now. But I have no hard number for you to provide.

[abyss]

If I recall, your Int and Faith need to be equal to get the best out of dark. That's how it was in DSII, it scaled whichever was lower out of your int and faith.

Say, if you have 45 Int and 25 Faith, it will scale with the faith.

Not sure if it's still the same, but I suspect it is.

[Segolia]

I couldn't say for sure since I'm a total newbie to souls but I have heard a few people saying that the dark magic in this game is generally underwhelming.

[Obi-wan Jabroni]

I also heard it soft caps at int30 fth30

[Ms Peaches]

Ursprünglich geschrieben von TenshiToOni:

I infused my uchi with Dark and got B scalings on INT/FTH and quite satisfied with the damage output. Using also Izalith for spells and have the impression hexes suck in DS3. For bosses I use exclusively magic and pyromancy now. But I have no hard number for you to provide.

yeah that's kind of a shame. they were really fun in ds2. though I have a feeling it's because izalith's spell buff is so low. I've played with my stats and gotten more damage with different staffs that had higher spell buffs. pyromancy seems to bee king since it starts off with an unusually high spell buff and can be upgraded with just titanite.

untile there's a decent guide to the scaling I thinke people are just going to stick to melee.