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Every time I try to do a sorcery run I lose interest halfway through for some reason. I have fun with each and every one of my faith characters though. Incantations are much more fun in my opinion. That isn’t to say sorceries are bad, I just find them full compared to incantations.

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Error on "INCANTATIONS NOTES & TIPS ELDEN RING" section, the Confessor ALSO starts with a Sacred Seal, not just the Prophet. Not that it's a major flaw but I wouldn't want that to be the reason a newer player decides not to play Confessor for some reason lol

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As a pyromancer enthusiast since DS2, I wish we had more flame spells - especially concerning PvP. They could have given us spells like flame swathe, lingering flame, or something like Fire Snake even. Very limited in PvP with just catchflame and Giantsflame being great.

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Can I somehow sell incantations?

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in my opion i like incantions and i feel like we need more ( we definlty dont need more sorcies though ) like i would like to see an incantion spam instead of a sorcies spam (in future updates or perhaphs elden ring 2 or the dlc) ( please dont correct my grammar to feed ur pettines)
but yah we need alteast quicker incants ( not buffs we have too many buffys) i also think incants look cooler) i am a incant and sorcies guy but im thinking too make a all incant build because there just freaking cooll

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Morgott light weapon incantations for DLC?

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Crazy how much value you can get out of 12-15 faith. Bestial Sling, Catch Flame, Poison Mist, Bloodflame Blade, Poison Blade, Bestial Vitality, the elelemental resistance incantations (too lazy to list each name but that's 35% resistance from a particular damage type), etc. You can fit it into basically any build lmao, but they shine on str faith and arcane w/Beastclaw talisman and dragon communion seal respectively

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Really love the diversity of incantations. Tried pretty much all of them and I usually kit myself with these:

Black flame - Bread and butter incant that can melt pretty much anything.
Pest Threads/Ancient Dragons' Lightning Strike - Melts the hp of large enemies/bosses really fast.
Giantsflame Take Thee - Fairly long range with a decent AOE. Throws small enemies (including invaders) to the ground and can stance break larger enemies so is pretty good at making some breathing room.
Frenzied Burst - Very long range sniping incant.
Glintstone Breath - Highly maneuverable medium range AOE. Killed a ton of invaders with this as a summon (especially if they choose to fight in a small space).
Honed Bolt - Pretty fast cast with a moderate distance and is great at finishing off enemies. Great against invaders cause it messes up their roll times a bit.
The Flame of Frenzy - Short range AOE with a pretty small fp cost.
Stone of Gurranq - Has a decent range and can stance break enemies.
[Rotten Breath - Honorable mention. Usually don't use it cause it's too cheesy but it can deal a ton of damage to enemies over time.]

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Anyone who want's to know the neccessary req for all incantations, you need 50 faith and 17 arc, as well as 37 int, but the int needing ones aren't the greatest IMO

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What’s the uhh most underrated spell in this FU*CKING game?

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Why can't we have GIFs for spells too? :(

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I like collecting all the incantations because they have funny images (I have never used a single spell in my life)

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i want one that spits poo

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I really wish there was the option to materialize holy weapons in the way of Morgott or the equivalent in sorceries with slicer, piercer, gavel, etc. Very strange to me in that this actually feels like it should be in the game, not just what a fan thinks would be cool. Hopefully in the DLC :'(

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If there's a dlc, I think we should have an incant that greatly reduce enemies' holy defense for at least60s, without negative effect, moderate fp cost, probably make it the secondary effect of a good offensive incant. Would like to see an upgrad version of lightning spear as well as black flame.Need a better pure faith seal (like 410 inc scal when faith 99)and a good dex/faith seal.

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whats the spell called that turns you into lightening?

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Placidisax’s ruin is listed twice in the incantations by type. Once in unique and once in dragon cult even though it specifies in the page that it does not fit into dragon cult incantions.

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It's insane how many of these I haven't found yet despite playing since launch. I mean I've seen most of them but there's still a few I just learned about. Like there's a Fire Giant in Liurnia? WHAT?!

I love this game so much.

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Honed bolt a PvP nightmare good to use, horrible when used on you

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When you have the blasphemous blade everything else in the game loses value. This is because late game bosses like Malania and Radagon are weak to fire. Most other bosses that are not weak to fire get destroyed by the blade either way.

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Excitedly started a faith build. Unfortunately, as far as offensive incant. go, as soon as you get the blasphemous blade you throw incantations out the door as they do 1/3 the damage of blasphemous blade AoW. they should've kept the talisman poisecast feature from DS3 to make them viable at high levels

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Faith is once again left with very little "good" offensive spells for PVP. Chain/Combo casting was the bread a butter of a faith build only to be removed because the couldn't fix the bug associated with it. Bestial sling nerfed so much you can consistently poise through it. Honed bolt is too slow and anyone paying attention can just walk up and hit you. Many other spells are too slow or have terrible tracking in fact. Not to mention you're sacrificing poise damage on your weapon by not 2handing or power stancing.
All that I hope for is some better spells in the dlc and some buffs to the currently existing ones

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**** amazing spells and incants that you can only get lategame.

All my homies hate only being able to use my coolest and best stuff on like 15% of the game.

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Dang I wish I didn’t have to kill a boss for a madness spell

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One frozen lightning spell? Just one? K...

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tying cast speed to dex was a stupid fcking idea, this **** mechanic only exist to make the life of faith builds even more miserable. Mages have fast damaging spells with great tracking and hitboxes, while faith users have slow telegraphed spells that are easy to roll and deal mediocre damage at best, yet it is the mages who get a staff with 40 cast speed and easily reach cast speed cap while also having another weapon. Faith users meanwhile get fcking nothing, you need to waste a talisman slot just so the spells aren't completely useless. The funny thing is that incantation were even slower before patches, which makes me question if devs have even a slightest idea of remotely balanced experience. Dex affecting cast speed shouldn't even be a thing, it makes balancing spells a convoluted mess.

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I'm hoping for at least two additional incantations from each family in the future DLC(s).

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Yes sorcerer's can hit more often and faster... But faith builds do shid like run from your gank around a corner and poise cast lightning storm or greyolls..

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did an invader build with a ton of faith and mind where i just cast buffs on nearby enemies, it was a very tricky and unique playstyle to say the least

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Okay, I've done some testing and I have to ask, WHAT do the numbers in brackets (Parentheses) mean?
I know what it means in game, sure, it's the cost to charge or chaincast the spell, but on the wiki? I haven't a clue.
For Example:
Rejection says it has an FP cost of 9(40), but cannot be chain casted, and while it can be charged, this doesn't effect the FP cost.
Black Flame's Protection says 30(20) but cannot be chain casted or charged. nor does it's cost change when reapplied.
Dragonbolt Blessing says 20(4) but cannot be chain casted or charged. nor does it's cost change when reapplied.
Flame, Protect me says 30(32) but cannot be chain casted or charged. nor does it's cost change when reapplied.

So do you see why I'm confused? oh and here's another things: Wrath of Gold says 40, and it CAN be charged, but it doesn't change the cost, so some of these are right. Are these second FP costs just typos? and if so, how? That's an incredibly strange mistake to make.

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Look I enjoy my faith build as much as my int one... But I shouldn't have to pre cast endure for more than half these incants to be viable against hyper agressive bosses,which are many, knowing a trade or stagger out will happen. If it isn't immune to holy waves of gold is the only slapper you don't need to almost always trade with.. a lotta these need damage negation, hyper armor, or more cast speed .. badly

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Some of these are half decent... The main thing is a lot of incantations leave you vulnerable for taking DMG and infact, with highest investments, do about the same DMG as AoW's that work for cheaper fp and in a fraction of time... Still needs more love in a lot of spells. Hopefully the patches keep coming

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PLS give us a Black Flame Dragon for a badass black flame breath incant!

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incants: do you want to shoot fire, lightning, frisbees, boulders, or become a dragon?
sorcs: what kind of blue rocks do you wanna shoot?

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Sad that theirs no frenzy dragon that would be cool

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Sad that theirs no frenzy dragon that would be cool

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Give us a beast incant like blood talons but deals physical damage and has a faster attack rate.

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Looks like 15 faith is a sweet spot; gives access to FGMS, some weapon buffs, bestial vit, cleanse me, fortifications, great heal, etc

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Having trouble with any boss? Try swarm of flies.

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Incants look cooler, but sorceries deal more damage


I'd rather look cool killing a boss then shooting blue lasers at them

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I am (again) the guy who posted incants>sorceries. Just wanted to say, whoever replied “cool nobody asked”, I agree. I am a nerd. Also I have no problem with people who play sorceries, I simply enjoy incants far more. But that’s my personal opinion.

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I’m (again) the guy who posted incantations are better than sorceries. This is specifically a reply to the first reply to my previous incantation>sorceries rant. Even if I relied on summons ,(which I dont) it sounds to me like you rely on meteorite of Astel and comet azur. If anything is OP, that is. Also Honed bolt>Swift glimstone shard. Ya know why? More range, far better in pvp, and much better crowd control. Also, yes, rock sling was beat by ekzykes decay. By a very long shot. With Lords Divine Fortification, the elden beast’s spells can literally be facetanked and Radagon’s aoe’s are pretty much nothing, and you want sniping? Give lightning spear or frenzied burst a try. Giantsflame take Thee is unmatched, and incantations can heal you. Golden Vow is the best buff in the game without question.The only good buff sorceries have doesn’t exist.

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Ancient Dragon lightning strike can 2 cast elden beast. It’s not trash.

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The Poison Armament description says "Dropped an invisible scarab beetle on the northwestern shore of the Aeonia Swamp in Caelid, near the Street of Sages Ruins" I've been running around the north western part of the map for like 5 minutes then I checkd the page for the incantation and it says Northeastern, and the location in the map is also on the north eastern part. Fix this description.

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As human history shows: intelligence is for nerds and faith is pretty cool.
However, in this games world faith actually does something besides nice thoughts.

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I’m the guy who posted the “Incantations are better than sorceries, prove me wrong” comment. Rock sling: Beat by Elzykes decay, giantsflame take thee, and ancient dragon lighting strike when it comes to melting. Swift glimtstone shard: Beat easily by honed bolt. Loretta’s Sorceries: Beat by Ancient dragon lightning strike in power and AOE. Carian blades: I’ll give this one to you, they’re really good, but bestial sling is better short range because of insane poise damage. Blasphemous Blade gets a 40% buff just using flame, grant me strength, I’m pretty sure immutable shield can compete with scholars shield, and don’t even try to compete with golden vow, and there is nothing that trivializes the final boss like lords divine fortification and ancient dragon lightning strike. I rest my case.

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A gravity spell that increases weight and poise by a ton but makes u far heavier, or one that makes u a lot lighter.

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I want the incantation that gives you wings like the Stormhill evergaol jerk.

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Would be cool to have some gravity buffs something that gives more poise/ less weight or a gravity spell like glint blade phalanx where you can cast and have like 3-4 small tracking meteors floating around you as you run or a meteor spell kinda like the flame fell god or rannis dark moon would be cool too turn into a metor for a second like rahdan

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Hear me out... it would be a dope passive buff if weapon buffs like electric armament, cragblade, etc enhanced the blocking ability of weapons themselves...
Let me live out my MGR fantasy and block effectively with Katanas.

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Sorcerys are basically just the same projectile reskinned or useless.
It is powerful but boring and it isnt helped by the fact that the bigger or interesting spells dont have the damage to justify using them over glintstone pebble number 3. Or they are comer azur.

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its a shame you need to invest so much int for a pure holy build. you are basically forced to use SONAF or infused clayman spears to make any use of all your stats.

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Incantations are better than sorceries. Prove me wrong. Show me a sorcery with as much utility as lightning spear or golden vow or flame grant me strength or bestial sling or catch flame.

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Its a huge shame that you can't get the spear Crucible Knight's impaling grab, it would be so cool command grabbing dudes even if it only worked on other tarnished.

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Its elden stars i think it shoots tons of gold stars and one big one

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I thought I saw an incantation in a video that looked like the Miranda flower attack where the stars rain down, but it isn’t on this list. Does anyone know if that exists?

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I’ll use 14 of these

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Why do incantations get all the cool looking abilities like Lansseax’s glaive and agheel’s flame when spells only get some blue stuff, purple rocks, and some lava

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Lightning incantations are the best incantations

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Why is there an incantation to alleviate every status except madness?

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Dragon Communion and Cult incantations should've been one category.

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101 incantations

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No Homeward equivalent in this game?

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No sunlight spear :(

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Just went though the list and didn’t see it. What’s the thing that chains that boss to the floor? It looks like a holy incant to me

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Anyone else notice that in-game incantations are sorted by "purity," for lack of a better word? Two Fingers and Erdtree incantations are at the very top while Three Fingers, blood and dragon communion incantations are the bottom. It's similar to sorceries where you'll glintstone sorceries in the highest and death sorceries in the lowest row.

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I feel like there should be more frost incantations

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a quick tip: if you want to use a buff before a fight as pure melee or sorcerer, just jug a faith- knot tear for extra 10 faith. No need to spend points in faith at all. You can apply most buffs 2 or 3 times while tear is active as it lasts for 3 minutes

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I want an incantation that is like bloodflame talons, but instead of blood its lighting

you know, the attack the dragon lord does 99% of the time

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Regardless of what build you're using, packing some kind of projectile is an invaluable asset. Many bosses are insufferable to deal with in melee, so attacking them with range allows you to control the fight on your own terms. I would recommend magic over projectiles, as FP costs nothing to replenish. — Courh the Explorer

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What are some of the incants that create a lot of smoke to hide your actions? Darkness is good, but pretty expensive. Black flame ritual needs to much faith. Maybe some of the giant's incants? They create quite some smoke on impact. Just want to chain it into crucible horns or honed bolt. Perhaps there is an item that does that?

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does scouring black flame do DoT?

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Fromshaft nerfing fun, as always.

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As patch 1.05, chaincasting is completely gone instead of only bugged one. Great job fromsoft, less in depth spells and incantations is very cool

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so incantations have just been made unfun.
great.

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I hope we get more Dragon Communion spells in DLC.

Like, the fast casting fire spell that the Exiles use (Such as the one at the Church of Dragon Communion in Caelid and the one that drops the Dragon Communion Seal)

Bleed Dragonbreath, Poison Dragonbreath, Death Dragonbreath (Oh boy that Dragon would be fun to fight...), Sleep Dragonbreath and Lightning Dragonbreath could all be neat.

Dragon Tail swipe attack (Ideally something cheap and quick that knocks back to give space to cast a damaging dragon spell).

Dragon Wings spell (Maybe like a buff that gives Bloodhound Step-esk dodges for a while)

Dragon Scales buff spell (Maybe grants Poise so other Dragon spells don't get interrupted by a sneeze in your general direction? Possibly with the drawback of reduced Pierce damage negation)

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soulsborne zoomers

as a soulsborne boomer i have to reminisce about pyromancies
god damn they were so cool
i remember the days when Pyromancies weren't faith intelligence based spells, and you could equip these with zero faith
I remember the strong overpowered ds2 pyromancies, with the right build these bad boys could wipe out anything, without the need for faith, or fp!

But now, pyromancies are merged with miracles and cost fp WHICH SUCKS!

im not saying they are bad... i m just saying that the old pyromancies were epic

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I couldn't find this information anywhere, and I spent dozens of hours concepting a build to apply as many different and stacking status ailments, as well as bonus damage types, then spent 2 hours collecting my necessary items. All of that to find out that you can't add one of those bonuses from an Incantation to any weapon with an Ash of War attached. I'm leaving this here so others don't make the same mistake.

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The gallery seems to be missing Placidusax's Ruin.

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No lifehunt scythe there for bad-Aldrich

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Hey, let's make a resource pool for chain-castable incants here.

* Bestial Sling
* Stone of Guranqq
* Catch flame
* Magma Breath (normal and Theodorix version)
* Honed Bolt
* Dragonclaw
* Bloodflame claw
* Black blade

Other notes
* Bestial sling is best for the start of the chain, as it's one of the few spells where the initial cast is faster than subsequent casts. It can also be used off a sprint, roll, or jump.

* While dragonclaw *can* be chaincast, it only has a single followup, and you'll end up stuck with the crappy followup with the ridiculously-long recovery time. Personally, I put dragonclaw as my last listed spell so I have the option to chain its start with bestial sling.

* Stone of guranqq is a nice followup due to decent poise damage, making it one of the best options for enemies rolling away. It can also be free-aimed intuitively.

Please feel free to chip in other things you find for our fellow faith brothers.

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I truly don't know what they were thinking when they added such high int requirements on Fundamentalist incants. Triple Rings of light requires 23 of both int & faith, and Radagon's rings of light takes 31 of each! That's the equivalent of the spell requiring 62 of just one. Having to invest so heavily in two stats just to cast a few spells isn't worth it, they're just not good enough to warrant it, and there's only 1 weapon in the whole game that scales off of both int & faith. It's objectively worse than just going full int or faith. I don't know how From dropped the ball so hard. They already had a good system for hybrid int/faith builds in Dark Souls 2 (hexes) and in this game they ruined it. I really hope in future DLC they add in more options for this, it sorely needs it.

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28 mind gives you 163 FP which seems ideal for Incantations for those of you minmaxing. This allows 5 casts of GiantsFlame and is round for other things as well.

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Giant Crusher, Tree Spear, And Carian Knight Sword are his Light Weapons. Both Giant Crusher and Tree Spear can be buffed with a holy buff which makes it look exactly like the weapons he uses (Tree Spear's Ash Of War is a holy weapon buff) but Carian Knight Sword cant be buffed sadly :(

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idk what yall are talking about Incantations are very strong, as long as you actually built to use incantations. The Dragon Inc's do astounding damage in both PVP and PVE and are lightning damage which is one of the less resisted damage types, or the Communion Inc's which are both spamable and proc status effects, not to mention the Blood Inc's which can cheese PVP/PVE themselves. Almost any Incantations can be quick casted using Beast Sling which is one of the best Incantations in the game due to its versatility and low stat costs, and there are 400 different buffs for any and all occasions. and to top it all off Law Of Regression is a Incantation which puts it on our list of why Incantations are just as good if not better then spells

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Why did they make the most effective faith build an arcane build? That's absolutely stupid

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I'm pretty sure they had rushed the incants because sometimes they don't work the intended way, but they are still viable if you have the right set-up, but they should allow us to use incants faster with a new talisman or armour set since some incants take too long actually activate, thus making you open to anything ranged such as bolt of gransax and any bow it seems pretty unfair that they made incants take a long time compared to sorceries with everything else I believe they should have more seals and more faith scaling incants instead of int which would make incants more viable for a faith build and other builds that have a high faith stat

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The handicap of requiring faith builds to use arcane to have decent damage is really annoying. The pure faith scaling seals should really have their incant scaling buffed. Sorc and Melee builds do the same damage for 20~ less stat points.

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Anyone seen a blue meteor spell and where to get it?

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After testing both extensively I must say, incantations outshines sorceries by far. Maybe not damage-wise, but when it comes to variety und fun these both can´t compare IMO.
You have all damage-types AND all statuseffects in there and they all feel so different, whilst sorceries almost always feels like another kind of blue bullet or sword.
On the other hand i really don´t like the weapons. I use mainly small weapons like straight swords and I have to say, well, none of the weapons impress me much.

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As a faith-boi, these are my favorite part of the game. The ones we have right now are so diverse in mechanics and design, I love it. It makes me so excited to see what new incantations / spells will be released with DLC.

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Whoever made incantations that require int should go to prison

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For the uninformed, what are the figures in brackets under FP cost for many of these incantations?? e.g Frame, Protect Me costs 30 FP but whats the (32) figure meant to represent?

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This page says D Hunter of the Dead is in the Church of Irith....

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twin dragon laser is straight up just missing, how?

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They put a lot more effort into the Incantations than the Sorceries this time around.

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I know everyone's said it a million times. But I think even more casting speed needs to be added to incants. Now that sorcery can viably pull off a lot of maneuvers in fast bosses, it's about time faith got that treatment too. I feel like a lot of the incants are even slower than colossal weapons and do a 3rd of the damage a colossal would've done.

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I really hope we get some more incantations, specifically 1 or 2 more holy ones that dont require intelligence. Dont get me wrong my faith/int build is probably my favorite character but I really wanted to make a full Faith build using holy and black flame.

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More Blood Incantations. Now. And Blood Incantation Seal.

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Not enough frost incarnations :(

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