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Similar to seething chaos from Dark Souls 3 and has similar utility. Though the spell doesn't appear to be as strong as the one from dark souls. It can be a stealth spell in pve or an area control spell in pvp. Not a useless spell, in my opinion, give it a try.

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This and gravitas. In pvp this works as a quite good surprise attack and in pve works wonders depending on the type of enemies that surround you, and by that I mean those enemies that can he pulled

Saw it on a yt channel.

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This + gravitas. Saw it on yt. You’re welcome

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Why does it have such bad range? This is actually kind of cool in PVE because enemies notice it and walk towards it but the projectile has such limited range it defeats the purpose sometimes.

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Oh, how i wish this behaved like plasma grenades from Halo... if it hits, it sticks. That would make it incredibly fun to use. As it stands currently though, it's a solid spell for ng+ or secondary playthroughs - if you know an enemy is waiting to ambush you around a corner, throw this down and get revenge for the time they ambushed you in the first playthrough!

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What is the damage formula? Does it scale with Faith?

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"You call throwing lava around a sorcery?"

"Hey, as long as it works..."

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This spell is one of my favorite ones for having a fun mechanic but that doesn’t take away how frustrating it is to land this even in pve. So this spell should either stick to targets, or go through enemies and explode
on the ground.

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"We have lingering flame at home"

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This things slaps hard. With the right stats/buffs, it one shots Erdtree Avatars.

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This really needs to act like a sticky nade if it arc that much, and shouldn't disappear after such a short distance. It should land whatever the distance, making it act just like a pot, cause throwing it free aiming, at the feet of an ennemy just 6meters away, and the ball just vanishing before landing... It's just frustrating, and it means you suddenly get very disadvantaged cause you have so much to do to mand this properly in pvp that there's no way it's worth the cost. Hence why no one actually use it.

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Requires a bit of effort, but it's one of the more fun spells in PvE. It's just way too expensive relative to your other fire options to justify its unreliable nature. Reduce the FP cost to ~22 FP and it would be a lot more reasonable. This random sorcery we find in an abandoned shack really shouldn't cost more than Rykard's Rancor.

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I'm starting to think the "bug" is no longer a bug but a feature they purposely did. As someone mentioned before, it would be top tier if it attached and exploded on enemies. Maybe Fromsoft thought it would be too op?

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This spell is less about the damage (which is actually amazing if it explodes) and more about the mind games. Pair this with other area denial spells like Night Maiden's Mist and you'll have your opponent walking a minefield.

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Me: Mom, can I have Explosion?
Mom: No, we have Explosion at home.

Explosion at home:

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if it stuck to players and enemies it would be god tier. turn other people into walking bombs muahahaha

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if it stuck to players and enemies it would be god tier. turn other people into walking bombs muahahaha

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Would be nice if detonation time was shorter the farther the shot travelled. That way the spell would be better for long range AOE damage while still being able to put traps next to us to counter rushdowns.

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Seething Chaos but bad

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On paper, like the idea behind this spell: stick it to the ground or any nearby debris. Wished that it could detonated much sooner.

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THEY'RE GONNA HAVE TO GLUE YOU BACK TOGETHER... IN HELL!

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Remove Travel Distance (you already have to free aim this doing some trigonometry for it to actually land where you want) + Make it stick to enemies (Either doing less damage or just having less AoE) + Make it be able to move (I want to be able to boobie trap an elevator lol) = One of the funnest and most cool looking spells you can get in the game.

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This spell feels like a missed opportunity, honestly. If you connect with a surface on cast, the lump will pop after a delay, doing damage and poise damage that's reasonably for its FP cost (so long as you have Gelmir Glintstone Staff in both hands for that 33% damage boost). Mobs that haven't aggro'd onto you yet will walk over to investigate, which is pretty funny. As another commentator pointed out, you can stack a charged and uncharged cast in the same spot for a big damage boost, as they will explode at a similar time.

However, I think it's inexcusable that this spell does less damage damage than Magma Shot on a direct hit, while costing almost twice as much FP to cast. This spell (like Magma Shot) has a heavy trajectory and a blast radius that is just OK, meaning that you have to be quite close whatever you're trying to hit to land it. A lot of the time the enemy will notice you and run to attack you, causing the blast to miss. Or you'll hit the enemy instead of a surface near them, dealing pitiful damage and leaving you wondering why you didn't just backstab them or do something else instead.

This spell really ought to "stick" to opponents it hits directly and explode after a delay. That would make it MUCH better.

In PVP you can just cast this at your feet as an area denial tool. It functions similarly to Magic Downpour, although the damage profile is a bit different. Being able to charge it is a plus.

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Ah... now i remember... Demon Prince used to have fireballs that explode after a delay just like this.

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I wish this was just a throwable lingering flame, that was such a fun pyromancy

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This spell is very usefull. Amazing tactical weapon for PvE.

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the fact that this spell still functionally punishes you in combat for accidentally hitting an enemy makes it still feel cumbersome and bad to use, if my ball of arcing molasses ends up colliding with an enemy I should be rewarded with a sticky bomb on his big toe, not punished by abysmal damage and taking away all my aoe potential, and when you also add in the fact that this spell only actually sticks to most kinds of basic geometry and will just disappear if it hits things like the level clutter corpses and mushroom stalks in caelid, it really hurts the actual utility of the spell when you feel like you can't trust the glob to not collide with an enemy hitbox or even stick to the ground or wall as intended. From needs to tweak this one more, cause having your spell just get eaten by the ground is pretty unacceptable.

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A surprisingly useful sorcery for spellsword builds. Drop this on the floor where you'll be expecting to engage in melee before enemies close in, then start hacking away until the detonation chews off a large chunk of HP to stack a lot of burst damage into a short timeframe. Ensures you've always got some nice damage lined up whether you're attacking or evading, and can manage crowds while you focus on a single target.

Most fire-and-forget spells with lingering effects are good for this, especially if combo'd together. Black Flame Ritual is another good example

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good spell for farming. enemies will walk over to investigate and get blown up.

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from cool boss soul spell to random lava spell Rip seething Chaos

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Actually a pretty decent tech spell for Sorcerors, especially for Godfrey icon & Frost builds. It does decent damage & resets frostbite on a direct hit, but the fully charged explosion is where the real damage is at. Some bosses & enemies are too mobile to remain in its radius very long, but many can be kept near the explosion as long as you make an effort to fight near it or stagger them with another attack while they're nearby.

Great for starting battles as well, as some enemies make no effort to avoid it or attack you while its charging up. This combined with Magic Glintblade & night Comet made for some disgusting opener combos for tough enemies like Crucible & Banished Knights.

All in all, it's a pretty strong trap spell like Magic Glintblade but with higher risk & higher reward. The Fire damage is a neat touch for Frost builds or as a way for Mages to exploit fire vulnerability (or magic resistance, such as the Barrier of Gold buff), but realistically it'd be more powerful overall if it did magic damage so it'd benefit from all the same buffs your other spells would.

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Shenanigans: the spell

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If you cast this on the ground, it can act as a safety measure against mobs/invaders so as long as you stand within the explosion while preparing another spell or drink a fp flask. Alternatively, Rolling Magma deals boatloads of damage if you can land a charged Rolling Magma at a weak point w/o letting it fall to the ground.

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If you fully charge this, and then shoot an uncharged one after it they will explode at the same time. This spell is actually quite good and is really slept on.

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Seething Chaos has made a return. Still gimmicky, but it’s nice to see it.

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someone used this with gravitas. Smart or Stupid

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This spell is for creating breathing room in pvp

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One of the worst Sorceries in the game imo. Pretty much all of the Gelmir magma sorceries are trash. A shame, considering they're so cool looking.

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Pretty decent spell, i only wish the projectile fell to the floor if it hit an enemy instead of disappearing. That would make for a perfect trap spell to combo with either melee or other spells

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This disappears mid flight if it travels for too long. I thought I couldn't be more disappointed with a spell until now.

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Fully charged you’re looking at over 10s from beginning of cast to explosion. Don’t expect this to one shot anyone like Giant Flame. The explosion radius isn’t as large either. The persistent ground damage is incredibly underwhelming and does almost no stagger to players. Not a very good spell late game.

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This is a really cool spell, but the game does a poor job of explaining how it's supposed to be used. When you hit the ground with it, it creates a bomb that lures unaware enemies. So you sneak up to a group of enemies, free cast it so it hits somewhere close to them and then they wander towards it and it explodes.

If you hit an enemy with it, you "missed".

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As of 1.04, with an 80 INT build, the explosion is doing 1959 dmg on a fully charged cast with carian regal staff, Godfrey talisman, gelmir staff offhand, and graven mass talisman. Tested on the pages at caria manor.

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Even though its slow and clunky, when this lands in PVE it is devastating. Having some fire dmg in your back pocket as a caster takes a ton of pressure off. Pop on Godwick's Great Rune as a pure int build and just melt bosses that are weak to fire dmg. Putrid Tree Avatar gets completely stomped by this spell. Make it whiff the slam attack and plant the magma ball next to its feet and keep it distracted. Once that sucker blows up, watch 1/3rd of it's health bar get deleted. Rinse repeat 2 more times gg ez.

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If only it stuck to enemies... Unless a bug seems like this is good for stealth play. I would imagine it needs a rework for the effect we want. If it acts like it says it would do big damage on hit, a tick and then explode for another big damage and more ticks. When it hits an enemy it should do tick damage, not that big hit it has now, Then explode for the big damage. IF you want balance either reduce or nullify the ticks the target gets on stick and after explosion or make it so they do not take post explosion pool damage.

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They gave sorcerers seething chaos wtf Fromsoft lol?

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Currently bugged. Does not explode if charged and hitting an enemy. Better used if free aim’d on the wall or floor. If you’re going to charge a spell against a single target, use magma shot

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No one uses this in PvP. Cast it on the ground, force them to retreat, pop a flask or roll catch them. Or combo them if they stand in it. Very underrated on a pure sorcery build, just don't expect it to be your main damage dealer.

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Basically sticky bombs, if you cast near a group of enemies undetected, they will walk over to it and just stare at it before magma melts their face off. 8/10 great damage and clearing but wish it stuck to enemies.

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I'm really starting to think this spell is bugged. It's meant to be sticky timed bomb! As someone mentioned.
Hope they fix and Buff this.

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There's a bug... spam cast this charged and uncharged... eventually, the uncharged cast costs double fp.. only gotten it to happen once. Just.. watch your fp bar when using this. It'll drain it QUICK if the bug happens.

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I really dislike that this spells explosion does not trigger if the initial projectile connects with an enemy. The description says the explosion occurs "a short delay after hitting the target", but if it actually connects with anyone, the explosion gets cancelled.

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Sticky grenades. A must have for exploring catacombs and dungeons.

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Very funny to watch enemies slowly wander towards it and then get knocked on their ass dead after it goes off.

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This spell reminds me Moana

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Pretty dang good utility on this. Arguably the best lava sorcery spell imho.

Just being able to toss it into crowds and let them walk into it like moths to the. . . lava. . . works pretty well in thinning out herds. The only downside of it is the fact that it doesn't activate its time-bomb effect if it hits an enemy directly. So if you're gonna use lava sorceries; magma shot still is best for single target.

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From the Seethewater Terminus grace, head west until you reach Fort Laiedd. Head south past the lava lake, past the graves, and it'll be up the hill on a shack to your left. If you've reached the bear you've gone too far.

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If you cast this near enemies who haven’t been aggroed yet, they will walk slowly towards the flame while it powers up. They’ll even leave ballista emplacements. Good for sneak blasting groups in pve

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Wonderful for Invasions. The number of kills ive gotten after dropping 3 of these ontop of an elevator as it comes up is absurd.

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Very cool spell with very high damage and aoe when lay it on the ground or walls but disappointingly when it hits an enemy it disappears and does a bit of contact damage instead of exploding. Completely contrary to the very misleading description. If this spell stuck on an enemy and exploded it would be a top tier spell.

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To clarify the confusion surrounding why there are sorceries that are fire and not "incantations" This is lava sorcery, which is int+faith and boosted by a staff found off the lizard-men of mt.gelmir

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Shold this be faith spell?

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If there was some kind of firespell category... Ya know something like cryomancy but with fire...

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So there are fire elemental spells in this sorcery category. . .

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