Magic: Light or Dark? How viable is it in general?

[ZEARTH]

Been curious about how viable magic is in your eyes.
I've had great success with Light Magic with a good amount of buffs and fire and forget gifts that can one shot smaller enemies easily. Haven't had great luck with Dark magic so much but that might just be because Darkseeker has a bad gimmick and Sanguine Roar was underwhelming.

[Snailor Lazzy]

They also don't use the same stat. If you have a blood code and veil that empowers mind, but not willpower, then dark magic won't do much since dark gifts scale off of willpower.

[scram]

Barrage spells are dark and have some of the highest potential damage in the game while still being incredibly cheap and spammable.

[gilde.gothic [Elite_Man]]

Well Magic is viable but you kinda want/need to engage in melee combat from time to time, so you have enough Ichor.

Light Magic is mostly the best to use if you want to be a melee fighter since most skills for that are Light Magic. As for Dark Magic is mostly best for ranged fighting, Caster spells nearly all are Dark Magic.

[Dragoon]

A light magic spellsword build is very viable, go up to an enemy and shoot a barrage spell point blank into them and watch their health melt away.

Originally posted by plophop:

Barrage spells are dark and have some of the highest potential damage in the game while still being incredibly cheap and spammable.

Barrage spells are light not dark.

[The Tempted Man]

Originally posted by Dragoon:

A light magic spellsword build is very viable, go up to an enemy and shoot a barrage spell point blank into them and watch their health melt away.

Just dont get hit by anything a watch out for Leak.

You will go with hybrid anyway, since drain is the best method of getting ichor back or blood sacrifice so you can restore it with your HP, but with thismethod you will run to a bush every 5 minutes.

[scram]

Originally posted by Dragoon:

Originally posted by plophop:

Barrage spells are dark and have some of the highest potential damage in the game while still being incredibly cheap and spammable.

Barrage spells are light not dark.

I'll have to check that again. You're probably right.

[Dragoon]

Originally posted by The Tempted Man:

Originally posted by Dragoon:

A light magic spellsword build is very viable, go up to an enemy and shoot a barrage spell point blank into them and watch their health melt away.

Just dont get hit by anything a watch out for Leak.

Meh you won't be 1 hit and you have a very good dodge along with the fact you can use the gift Cleansing Light to recover 75% of that lost health over time.

[ZEARTH]

Originally posted by plophop:

Originally posted by Dragoon:

Barrage spells are light not dark.

I'll have to check that again. You're probably right.

Interestingly, all of the barrage spells are light with one exception, Ice Barrage, that is Light/Dark according to the wiki. But, that might just be a mistake since the game is so new and the wikis are painfully incomplete. All the others are purely Light.
Still, that's another reason to use Light. It does have good damage output. Not knocking Dark, just saying that Light can also DPS if in a more limited way.

[✨Nutkun7993✨]

Originally posted by SkELL_:

Originally posted by plophop:

I'll have to check that again. You're probably right.

Interestingly, all of the barrage spells are light with one exception, Ice Barrage, that is Light/Dark according to the wiki. But, that might just be a mistake since the game is so new and the wikis are painfully incomplete. All the others are purely Light.
Still, that's another reason to use Light. It does have good damage output. Not knocking Dark, just saying that Light can also DPS if in a more limited way.

Ice Barrage is considered Light in game. All Barrage Gifts are Light.

[Shae]

Originally posted by The Tempted Man:

Originally posted by Dragoon:

A light magic spellsword build is very viable, go up to an enemy and shoot a barrage spell point blank into them and watch their health melt away.

Just dont get hit by anything a watch out for Leak.

You will go with hybrid anyway, since drain is the best method of getting ichor back or blood sacrifice so you can restore it with your HP, but with thismethod you will run to a bush every 5 minutes.

Pfft, Ivy veils are ranged for drains, makes caster life much easier to open with one.

[Shae]

Originally posted by Dragoon:

A light magic spellsword build is very viable, go up to an enemy and shoot a barrage spell point blank into them and watch their health melt away.

Originally posted by plophop:

Barrage spells are dark and have some of the highest potential damage in the game while still being incredibly cheap and spammable.

Barrage spells are light not dark.

You can, or you can use the Sword spells, and do more damage at point blank in a 180 degree arc to clear things off of you at the same time.

[Snailor Lazzy]

Originally posted by Fluffanutter:

Originally posted by Dragoon:

A light magic spellsword build is very viable, go up to an enemy and shoot a barrage spell point blank into them and watch their health melt away.



Barrage spells are light not dark.

You can, or you can use the Sword spells, and do more damage at point blank in a 180 degree arc to clear things off of you at the same time.

Scathach doesn't get enough love.

[Shae]

Originally posted by Lady Alice Von Jiggletits:

Originally posted by Fluffanutter:

You can, or you can use the Sword spells, and do more damage at point blank in a 180 degree arc to clear things off of you at the same time.

Scathach doesn't get enough love.

Preach

[Snailor Lazzy]

Originally posted by Fluffanutter:

Originally posted by Lady Alice Von Jiggletits:

Scathach doesn't get enough love.

Preach

Casting was fun and all, but mostly single target,. Even if you shot a giant fireball and two enemies were right next to each other, there'd be zero splash damage. Now when I get accosted by a tight group of enemies, I just go "Yeah? ♥♥♥♥ you." and kill 'em all in a single use of the fire blade spell.

[Dustphos]

Dark Mages can be quite powerful. You can get the gifts to build one before NG+, but you'll lack the Code to properly build one (Queen, which you get after killing final boss, is very strong for it).

Harmonia can be quite powerful to build a midgame Dark Mage pre-finalboss, if you're up for using Bayonet and Normal mobility.