Adula's Moonblade | Elden Ring Wiki

I'm currently making a mage focused on using this spell, in the tests I did, I came to the conclusion that the best combination of staffs for him in boss fights is Carian Glintstone Staff and Azur's Glintstone Staff, this spell works much better focusing on increasing speed of the cast than having a few % more damage in each cast

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Absolute brutal handing it to mimic, give it a mist and phalanx spell and it locks the area in front from passing thought.

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CN this be parried like carrian Slicer?

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I have a question: if you are lvl 80 in intelligence and use this sorcery, what’s better: to use two carian glintstone staves or use lusat staff and have carian staff offhand?

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I see a lot of casters use Adula's Moonblade, incorrectly. It's not Comet! You want the sword and its projectile to hit consecutively on the initial cast. Pay attention to your spacing.

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#1 black knife stunlocker

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#1 black knife stunlocker

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#1 Fire Giant killer

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By far the coolest sorcery in the game (pun very much intended)

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By far the coolest sorcery in the game (pun very much intended)

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Tweak the frostbite build up so it applies faster, and I think this spell would be in a good spot again, but not op. I think one full blade+projectile and then another projectile’s worth to apply the status effect would be perfect.

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Why did this move do 1500 damage to me?

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If you use a staff in both hands you can spam back and forth between them very quickly

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Is this our version of old moonlight from DS3? Midir be proud.

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s-so cold!

(((0w0)))

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Rykard is absurdly weak to this.

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This comment section is full of PvP oriented comments so I’m just gonna lean in here and make the Lore oriented comment that it’s weird that you have to get to the end of Ranni’s quest and then kill the one other living person (dragon) still loyal to Ranni, in order to get this spell. Unless Adula is simply literally insane (like Blaidd), Adula should be cool about it and give you the spell for free, maybe after you put the ring on Ranni.

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Increase its scalings to 3x and 3.5x and it'll deal proportionate damage to carian greatsword instead of less

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Despite the huge Nerf. This’s still the best sorcery in game !
edit : this should also be considered a “Moon Sorcery”

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Abdullah Moonblade inshallah!

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Need a serious damage buff.

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"It's possible to hit an enemy with both the slash of the blade and the projectile, maximizing damage and frostbite buildup. However, this only works on the first cast. Subsequent chain casts can't apply both sources of damage."
This is not true. Subsequent casts can deal the damage twice on larger enemies.

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Elden Ring is still the best game of 2022

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Theres many other insanely overpowered sorceries, I think you'll live if one gets slightly nerfed.

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Very good frost procs very quickly I usually use it as a finisher

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The Colosseum update has shown everybody that, no, Adula's doesn't need a damn buff. It's good.

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From Software: please BUFF this awesome spell back to its former glory! This was long overdue, the Nerf was excessive. Frost Spells are pretty lackluster and problematic as it is (icecrag no tracking, short range and no charging). FS should Buff this spell again now that they Buffed a bunch of stuff.
Yes they made it slightly cheaper FP, but didn't improve the damage or speed.

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In case you did not notice the buff chart:
although this spell is named Moonblade, it can be counted as Carian sword and be buffed by Carian Glintstone Staff.

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Doesn’t do the most damage but always atleast for me takes people off guard think I’m using carian great sword

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This spell is absolutely broken for fighting npcs, they just try to roll sideways every time and always get caught in the roll. Literally spamming it can beat every npc invader from what I've seen, all the more so when you open with ranni's dark moon

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I only wished that Fromsoft could've balanced the projectile do more damage vs the blade. Using 26fp to cast Adula's Moonblade only to inflict half of its full damage because you were a hair away from the enemy to your blade is a huge waste of fp. And not to mention Adula's Moonblade is a lot harder to determine how close you are to an enemy because of the visual effects.

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this can do serious burst damage if you cast it with lusat staff and cast it offhand since the blade and wave deals both damage. add in flames deadly sin incantation. why? the flames reset frostbite allowing you to deal frostbite again.

this set up shines on larger boss with multiple hit boxes alowing you to hit multiple points in one swing.

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It's amazing how people are complaining about a bugged interaction being fixed. The first swing of this spell was dealing WAY more damage than was intended. It's still fine to use. If you want the highest DPS you can get, go copy some cookie-cutter build you read about online.

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For those of you who perhaps haven't played in a while or can't yet acquire and test a spell to see if it's worth a skill slot post nerfs I ran some tests.

At 317 sorcery scaling, without any buffs or anything that would modify this spell's damage it's doing 862 damage on Giants at Warmaster's Shack. The cast time is noticeably quickier than it used to be, making it much easier to get all 3 casts of it on the enemy, which also conveniently usually procs frostbite debuff on most enemies.

You can of course further boost the spells damage by wearing Snow Witch hat, Physick, or just having Carian Glinstone staff equipped for the boost to sword sorceries (Doesn't have to be the staff you cast with, to benefit from the boost), as well as many other damage boosting talismans.

You can draw your own conclusions from this. Overall, I personally think it's still a fantastic spell and worth a slot for hybrids and pure mages alike both for PVE and PVP.

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Seems to do more damage than carian greatsword after 1.05. Stealth buff?

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Could somebody check if it wsnt buffed in 1.05? I might be completely wrong, but it seems like i hit people for more damage than before.

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After the patch it just changed my way of using it from long range reliable spell to mele roll catcher. Its still a good and fun to use spell, of course not nearly as stron as it used to be but still theres always a palace for it on my sorcerer

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Everything nerfed to the ground but the most broken crap, bleeding, is still untouched.

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Does it really do only 35 frost buildup? Or is it different for projectile and sword swing?

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This got nerfed? No wonder this thing does like no damage to me.

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So Adula is an example of an intelligent feral dragon, are feral dragons naturally intelligent like their ancient counterparts? Or is it because Adula consumes sorcerers and incorporates their glintstones that it became intelligent?

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After loading my old Frost Mage build character, this spell is now certified garbage. Use something else.

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Can this ability skip its initial animation with carian slicer similar to bestial sling/honed bolt combo?

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In PvP, Adula's Moonblade at melee range can combo into comet if you quickcast (it's not a true combo though).

Can kill most players from full HP if you catch them off guard with it.

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I hit guys with beam for 350 dmg 0 stun, while stupid glinstone pebble ash of war does 1,3k dmg with a stun. Whoever was responsible for balancing this game should be fired and never touch any game design and development again.

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For mage build, this is great against Malenia, just let black knife tiche aggro her and strike her from the side

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Just use the piercer. Better roll catch, less fp, and close to the original adula damage.

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Hmm.. I am testing it right now and even casting it in the right hand seems to add both melee + projectile damage. Am I Missing something?

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Damage bug (not nerf) is gone PS4 ver. 1.04.1 . Getting consistent damage with melee, and consistent lower damage with projectile only, in either hand. Which hand staff is in does not affect damage. Still switching to carian slicer BTW

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This spell was doing roughly HALF the damage of carian greatsword against Limgrave soldiers. Are you serious, Fromsoft?? Bring the FP cost down!!!

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Lets look at op things pre-patch divided by basic build categories:
ALL BUILDS: bloodhound step
STR: crouching thrust colossal swords spam with thrust counter; flame arc halberds, Fingerprint shield
DEX: godskin sticher; dual cruved swords 4slash attacks; dual katanas
Quality: all above
FTH CASTER: bestial sling, madness true combo
INT CASTER: stars of ruin, adula's moonblade (probably least op out of all the things listed as its slow and telegraphed)
HYBRID BUILDS: moonveil
ARCANE: literally everything
* plus everything that instasleeps (triple shot crossbow, dual trina swords)

Now out of all these things patch nerfed madness true combo and adula's moonblade? Seriously? How about instead of patching things up and creating new problems every patch FromSoftware would for once not rush the game and test it before release? Who tf thought that getting hit by a rapier for 1,8k damage, or getting bled twice from a single dual wielded cruved swords attack was fine? Where's the balance when weapon arts such as flame arc are quick, cover 270 degree, hit for 70% of your health while standard attacks are slower, 5 times weaker and have decent hitboxes...hmm. Some things are now beyond repair, like moonveil cause it borrows animation from another katana weapon art and they cant fix one with ruining another etc etc.

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Playing a Faith build right now, after two Sorcery runs, and my +10 Blasphemous Blade's weapon-art can hit upto 3000 damage on enemies with 50 Faith. It's fast and costs only 30 FP. Adula's Moonblade used to hit for only around 1600 damage pre-nerf with 80 Int and +10 Regal staff... but oh no! We can't have that! Sorceries and spells should not do damage! Nerf nerf nerf!

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Rest in pepperoni. Yet another victim of FromSoft over nerfing something.

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After nerf the total damage is on the same line with other magic blade spell BUT! with frostbite. Stil the best spell for clear hoard. It's just give us opportunity to use other spell more.

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So I switched back to my int character to test this out after the change and... wow. The faster speed is definitely nice, but the damage was significantly over nerfed.

Either the FP cost needs to come down or some of the damage needs to added back in. I can do similar damage for half the FP with the carian greatsword, and it's probably the weakest overall carian sword spell. The only real advantage is frostbite buildup, but in pve there are better options and in pvp you won't trigger it before the other duelist dies.

I know fromsoft has reverted some bad balance adjustments in the past (DS3's infusion change at the start of Ringed City comes to mind), so there is some hope. Right now it feels like a spell that they forgot to buff in 1.03, so adding a little bit of damage or just a flat fp reduction to go along with less damage would go a long way

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This spell is meant to be uses as a singular cast on 90% of enemies in this game when in range of the blade. Simultaneously on hoards and triple on large enemies to proc frost and poise break. It is a combo spell. Golden vowel or commander standard for buff. Jelly fish shield will buff this spell by 20%. Any mage should be using a pulley crossbow with an off hand staff. Ng+ and further should be dual weilding staffs with night comet main sorcery, terra magika, adula, and dark moon with stars of ruin. I've ng7 on my main and beat the game with a base level Astro; as well as ng3 a base level 9 samurai using pulley crossbow, rot bleed antspur paired with frozen needle.

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I'm an adula's moonblade user since forever, I kinda miss better damage - the only spell really to compete with other op things in the game and that matters in invasions, but come on, your comments are retarded :D

Explain to me, how this spell "isn't fun" anymore - it hits faster but for less damage. So in your opinion the only fun things in the game are the ones that instakill everything? pff :D Switch to rivers of blood or moonveil. The spell is fun, you're not fun.

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Does it not cost stamina anymore after the patch? I remember before when chain casting, my stamina always run out before fp. But now my stamina is intact. If it’s true I would consider it a buff.

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Its still good after the Nerf, one of the best AOE spells with the sword and frostwave, its just got a different role now.

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I used Carian Greatsword and it's almost identical in damage to Adula's (only slightly less damage) for far less FP. They nerfed it so much that it became very close to a spell that requires about half the FP that the Moonblade requires.

To those who are telling people to stop complaining - people are not complaining it got nerfed, they are complaining that an expensive late game spell it's now almost indistinguishable in damage to a spell that can be acquired early and costs about 50% less FP

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I really despise pvp in this game, it nerfs really good weapon. But its good because if From keeps doing this, people will realize how broken this game is pve

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Does anyone know how much frost buildup it inflicts?

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My favorite spell in the game. Thematically and functionally. I used it in PVP. I hardly hit with it tbh but when I did it felt so good. Now its trash and I’m still getting wombo comboed by like other unaddressed bs that everyone uses.
Who the hell abused this so much that it called for such a nerf?????
Where’s the moonveil and rivers nerf????

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Does this spell feel like it doesnt proc frostbite much anymore? I cant even get frostbite off on Beast clergyman after 4-5 casts

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I dont mind damage reduction, but the fact that the beam doesnt stagger anything and anyone is ridiculous.

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Deserved nerf imo. Mages shouldn't do 5k+ damage with one cast while melee players are doing like only 200 with collosal weapons.

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Deserved nerf imo. Mages shouldn't do 5k+ damage with one cast while melee players are doing like only 200 with collosal weapons.

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Un nerf this now... Ridiculous that invader cry babies ruin another spell in a PvE game. There are no more powerful frost attacks meanwhile rivers of blood is still free and no skill

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From software doesn't know how to nerf

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Does it still deal way more dmg from left hand ?

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Still utterly ridiculous. Used it on Commander Niall’s 2 knights. It took 2 swings for each of them. Slightly faster than before as well.

int 70, Carian regal scepter +9, Carian glintstone staff on offhand, Ranni hat, graven school+radagon icon talisman, magic shrouding tear+Int knot tear.

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The post-nerf evaluation has been controversial.
I think it is influenced by whether or not it was used with the left hand before nerf.
For those who used it with their left hand, the nerf
30% less damage and frost accumulation per hit.
Hits are now 2 or at best 3 hits and no longer 4 hits even on large enemies.
That means it is 60% weaker at 2hit and 90% weaker at 3hit.

For those who used to use it with their right hand, it may not seem so bad since 2hit is confirmed, but that is the same thing as those who came from the countryside to the city.

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From Software should really stop listening to big spoiled whiney YouTubers and base their Patches to cater their rants and whining.
These people don't care about the game fun factor or balance. They only care about views, raising a fuss, and clickbaits with "EVERYTHING IS OP! IT'S SO BROKEN!" Videos... The same YouTubers will ditch and leave the game when it gets old and a new game shows up. And will only return if a DLC arrives for more Ridiculous crying OP videos. They ruin the game for everybody, and leave, instead of trying to get better. Not to mention PVP isn't
That important factor. Stop whining, start fighting.

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mages acting like the world is ending because a single spell was nerfed lmao

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Mage builds try not to cry challenge when a broken spell gets nerfed

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It's weaker now certainly, especially against smaller and regular enemies. However, it's still a pretty potent spell against bosses and larger minibosses (and also invading NPCs, they are absolutely fodder against this spell and will 95% of the time get hit by the frost projectile if not the blade itself), and the frost arc is still just an exceptional tool for landing hits with range that something like the Carian Greatsword can't- mobile bosses like Malenia are also easily caught by the arc at a safer distance. Earlier, you basically had to use only the first left-handed swing instead of chain casting because of it being bugged and dealing far more damage than it should, now the latter is the way to go- chain casting this on bosses and such is *very good* in terms of damage and for proccing Frostbite.

It's by no means whatsoever "useless" or "ruined", there's a lot of exaggeration here and people react with the same level of indignation and hyperbole every single time anything receives a nerf (Sword of Night and Flame for instance, still a very powerful weapon, it's just not bizarrely overpowered for minimal investment anymore- the first week after the nerf had people going all "useless" just like they are now). It just went from being absolutely busted bonkers to strong.

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I doubt I will ever use this again.
It is more powerful, both in FP cost and power, to shoot a GLINTSTONE ICECRAG twice than to risk going all the way up close.
It has become a worthless piece of trash.

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Stop crying, this spell's still very good. Did i prefer it pre-patch? Yes, but lets be honest - the damage was ridiculous from close range. I instakilled so many people with this. Now after the patch i do like 600-800 dmg on people with 60 int, carian glinstone staff and no boost from talismans from close range which is still a lot and can only imagine what people 80 int+boosts can do.

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The toxic PVP crowd ruined one good frost spell . Earlier it would take 1 to 2 cast to frostbite every enemy now it takes way longer . I tested it on Dragon Greyll . It took 5 casts to frost bite (I was hitting the head with the blade and projectile) . It took about 9 hits to stagger . It does about 80 damage more than Carian Greatsword which cost 10 FP less (I accidently killed Greyll so could test stagger but carian greatsword seemed to stagger quickly) . Only reason you might want to use this is because of projectile . Since most enemies are n't going to standing still for even a couple of sec good luck inflicting frostbite . You can still make this work but Carian Greatsword is simply better. From should have buffed the damage considerably if they are going to weaken frostbite of this weapon.

Seriously how many people even play PVP ? Maybe at most 5 % of total players . Then why should a primarily PVE game be balanced around PVP . I swear these guys are going to get both frostbite , bleed and any other fun PVE build nerfed to oblivion because it is too powerful in PVP .

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It's still good, but compared to the dozens of OP bullsh t in the game that wasnt nerfed at all...well.... I get it, from close range it was oneshooting people, but why beam is nerfed too? It was fine as it was. Meanwhile moonveil is twice as fast and hits 3 times harder, greatshields can tank collossal weapons strike damage attacks while constantly poking with rapier at the same time, bestial sling cost nothing, stuns and shoots in almost 180 degree, almost all buffs are insanely overpowered, sleep is op as hell cause not only you cant defend but you get extra damage while asleep, thrust counter makes no sense when these weapons outpoise other weapons anyway.... All other things in this patch were cool as far as I know, but this change is "questionable"... And I liked slow 2nd swing more, cause it worked better with another spells followup....

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The toxic pvp crowed ruins yet another good and fun spell zapping all the fun out of the game elden ring will die quickly if From keeps listening to this loud minority of whiners.

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Ruined, literally not worth using. Way way over nerfed.

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Is there any reason why to use this and not Carian Greatsword sorcery now after the nerf? Carian Greatsword does virtually the same damage when I use it (maybe 20 less damage) and uses approximately 50% less FP and seems to inflict more stagger damage. The frost damage that Adula's Moonblade does seems to be pretty low to justify using it, and requires many hits before it procs. Hoarfrost Stomp does much more frost damage for much less FP

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You're all being dramatic. The spell isn't ruined. It's better when chain casting cause it's faster and can multi-hit consistently. It's still really strong

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And that is how you ruin your game: nerf the spells to the ground. And then, caster builds are nothing short than a disaster, just like DS3.

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It honestly might be worth running Carian Greatsword over this in pvp now. The fp cost of that spell is almost half of this, while doing only about 100 less damage. The only reason to really run this is for the beam, which may catch far away opponents if you whiff.

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They Ruined the last remaining fun, cool and good Frost Spell in the game (aside from Ranni Dark Moon)...
The very few Frost Sorceries and Ashes of War got either Nerfed or neglected and never buffed.
Glintstone Icecrag didn't get the Glintstone Treatment Buff: has very short range, poor tracking and slow Projectile, disappears and whiffs most of the time.
Zamor Ice Storm is underpowered, slow, risky and weak.
Frost Mist is not very useful and won't be in your spell slots.
Adula Moonblade got Nerfed to the Ground!
Ashes of War:
Ice Spear got buffed but still poor tracking and range.
Frost Slash is kinda weak to be of use , sadly.
Hoarfrost Stomp is no longer fun or good to use in most cases.

Why Nerf Adula Moonblade? It was a fun spell and good natural more expensive upgrade to Carian Greatsword. It's a special reward spell that's hidden out of reach, locked behind a very long unique Challenging Questline! Hidden away passed several tough & huge areas, Ruins, Nox, Lake of Rot, not to mention several bosses and mini bosses like: Astel Boss! And located on top and secret Mountaintop Plateau - where you have to defeat Adula the Great Ancient Glintstone Dragon : probably the strongest Dragon in the game especially for Mages and INT Builds. You finally get this wonderful Spell as worthy proper reward for all your effort...only to be nerfed making Frost Sorcerers lose their fun and prowess.
Just because it can one or two shot some reckless people in Optional PVP doesn't mean it deserves a brutal 40% and 20% Nerf.

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They utterly Butchered it! Nerfed it to the ground and oblivion.
We only got a select few Frost Sorceries (5-6 Frost Sorceries, but only 1 that's good now!) and Ash of Wars (3 Ashes, 2 pretty bad!)
Freezing Mist just too weak and slow.
Glintstone IceCrag didn't receive any Buff and has the shortest range, slowest speed and poorest tracking and no charging among all Glintstone projectile spells.
Zampr Ice Storm is just too bad to use, slow and risky.
Frozen Armament is very bad and no viable and frankly useless sadly.
Adula's Moonblade the funnest Frost Spell in the game god NERFED to the ground.
Hoarfrost Stomp is no longer usable nor fun tbh - they nerfed it hard downwards without buffing anything
Ice Spear is good truly, but short range and poor tracking
Frost Slash is bad and weak sadly
Frost Mist AoW also rather slow and underpowered

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In my opinion this is a big PvP nerf and an okay PvE nerf. I did some testing and sourced the info from Reddit/Twitter. The buff is that your chaincasts can now doublehit. The nerf is everything else. Frost buildup got nerfed so you'll generally need an extra hit to proc frostbite (the frostbite proc animation also got nerfed). The first sword hit lost it's bonus damage and now does 40% less damage versus 1.0.3 and the second cast does the same damage. The projectile does about 20% damage less, but now hits on chaincasts. In theory, if you just chaincast spammed you'd do about the same damage (5-10% difference) pre-nerf due to lack of doublehit. However, often times you'll cast once, dodge and then cast again meaning you now do roughly 30-40% less damage since you don't get the first hit bonus and the projectile does less damage. In PvP you often can't chaincast which is why I think it's a much bigger PvP nerf than PvE.

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we've decided to nerf this to the ground but are afraid will receive numberous complaints,what to do...Oh yes,fix the inconsistency we were supposed to fix and boost the speed a little, problem solved. Jokes aside, a 46%nerf to the blade and 20%nerf to the projectile. A bit too much don't you agree?(Why do i get this feeling FS is in constant fear that if they don't nerf the good ones we will never try the ones they buffed.)

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This spell still hits large enemies hard, but there are much better options against human-sized foes now

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any ideas for numbers before and after latest nerf ( patch 1.04 ) ? i'm kinda not sure how big of a nerf it was regarding it's viability so if anyone has actual idea i'd appreciate <3

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It is still better than Carian Greatsword due to frost buildup and slightly higher damage.

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The projectile is currently bugged. They extended the range at which the projectile can deal damage from .2 to .3 units. That means the majority of the time you'll be only doing either the sword damage or projectile damage unless the enemy is long enough. You can test this out by going to the Liurnia and finding the lobsters near Prawn Shack. They are long enough that your projectile and your sword will consistently trigger doing the proper amount of damage. You can also test this at the trolls by targeting the legs (sword only) and then the chest (sword + projectile), but it's less consistent. Until this bug is fixed your Adula's does 40% less damage than it's supposed to and is equivalent to a Carian Greatsword that shoots ice.

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What the nerf did:
40% less damage
60 less frost buildup

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Looks like a 40% damage reduction in 1.04. Once again FS overnerfs something to the point where it breaks the morale of the player. Don't even want to use this anymore tbh. It's dead boys. No fun allowed. Rest in Pepperoni.

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Of course its getting nerfed as soon as I am doing a mage run

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Look how they massacred my boy...

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No reason to use this anymore after the nerf. Was broken before but is absolutely useless now. Int 80 +10 lusat staff and damage is like 500 or 1000 if you get 2 hits.

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honestly in my opinion one of if not a contender for the best sorcery in the game it destroys melania radagon and elden beast huge hitbox short cast time and you can use a somber weapon since its not a weapon art my favourite spell

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