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The real reason they sealed the outer god of rot.

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There is a hidden feature of this spell that increases its utility by quite a lot. While on your horse, Torrent, this spell once locked onto the enemy does not care for where your character is pointed. Meaning, an enemy can be directly behind you, once you cast this skill it will go directly for them, unlike most other skills which require your character to to some degree be pointed towards your locked-on target.

This in my opinion significantly boosts its usefulness is PVE, and makes it excellent for Mongol-Horse-Archering any enemy while running away from it. The only downside is the absurdly low range, which I wish would get buffed.

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Is this good against placidusax?

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Is this good against placidusax?

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Best incantation for if Spiderman was a tarnished.

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This incantation will wreck any beastie larger than a house. You will need to be right up in its face for maximum devastation, but the sheer power of it is worth the risk.
— Courh the Explorer

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You know what's really in this seal in my hand?
MEGA THREAD BLAST!

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Fire giant, Elden Beast, Rykard,Astel, you name it, if is big it will destroy it.

If used for rykard equip the flamedrake talisman and the fire resistant incantation sold by corhyn and go stand next to him, i had erdtree seal (+10) and 70 faith + 10 from wondrous physick and opaline hard tear, i was taking negligible damage from fire, second phase is harder but as long as he doesn't use the fire skull attack (rykard rancor) its easy, just dodge the jump and gg, and dont forget to boost it with golden vow, flock canvas talisman and radagon icon to spam it faster.

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Dreamybull magic

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>Tfw you kill god with silly string

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THE NUT

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Just watched a video where a buffed up faith caster killed Elden Beast in under 10 seconds using this. Rofl

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When your Faith/arcane build needs to kill Elden Beast but you can't use Reduvia or Rotten Breath.

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confirming the pest threads hype vs Elden beast. i think it took around 10 casts with a max upgrade erdtree seal with 78 faith @ level 150. golden vow may or may not have been active XD

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If you're having trouble with the elden beast then pest threads are for you.

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To use this properly, you have to be more or less right next or under your target. At that point it does absolutely insane damage, and use the Winged Sword Insignia + flock's and faithful canvas talismans to maximise damage. Winged Sword in particular means each successive hit's going to do more damage. Fortissax and Lansseaxx go down incredibly fast.

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I think I'm using it wrong because it doesn't seem that great on Elden Beast.

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The tracking on this is amazing, but the range is limited. Highly situational.

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This is a very strong incantation. Pest Threads does insane damage but with two very large caveats. It's extremely situational and requires two factors to get full value.

Firstly, Pest Threads is superior against large enemies like Dragonkin Soldier, Fire Giant, Elden Beast, or dragons.

Secondly, Pest Threads seems to have really intense damage falloff at range. To maximize damage with this spell, you need to be in melee range of the large target. If you're farther than melee range, the damage really suffers.

Pest Threads also seems to do a ton of poise damage. But, again, this incantation only really gets full value against massive enemies and in melee range. If the enemy is smaller, or you're not in melee range, it will only tickle. Tickle threads at range or against lil enemies.

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What exactly makes these "sticky"?

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To the comment after the one below me. I just got the threads from Gowry today. You either too early in Millicent quest line or too late

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A spell so good I have to deliberately withhold it for "oh crap" situations so I don't feel like I'm cheesing the game with it. Not even God itself could have hoped to stand against the might of my S T I C K Y S E C R E T I O N S

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Tested on secluded cell giant and friends, this spell when used while wearing black knife set, is silent. I cast some flame spells on the giant and the friends always noticed, but I could cast dozens of pest threads and kill the giant without them being alerted. Might be useful for your stealth run :)

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Pest threads not offered by Gowry as of 10/17/22

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I killed gowry but no Bell bearing dropped.

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Pests Threads deal pure physical damage

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Getting hit by this at point blank range actually hurts a lot. Running a glass cannon blue dancer build, i noticed it can take off more than half of someones healthbar in a single cast. In some cases even oneshotting them. Pair that with the impressive tracking & the ability to hit a target multiple times (but only when cast at a target within dagger range) & you have a powerful spell. Not broken, as you can still just use a shield or strafe it in most cases. But pretty good.

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A lot of comments and the page saying this does very good damage to large bosses but that hasn't been my experience with it I've never seen it hit for more than a couple of hundred. I used it on the dragons near fort faroth and I've tried using it on Lansseax but it wasn't worth the FP price of casting it.
Can anyone explain this and if there's something I'm doing wrong or if I'm missing something?

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Did this get nerfed, or am I just not understanding this incantation properly? This did nothing to dragons for me. Nothing. Even with 44 faith. Maybe because I'm a clawmark seal user? Does it need to be a different seal?

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Arguably the best offensive incantation in the game for two main reasons:
1) Unmatched damage against large enemies (ex: dragons, gargoyles, elden beast)
2) Great tracking against mobile enemies (ex: birds, runebears, mounted knights, NPC invaders)

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Ah yes, SALINE05 with Regulation 1.0.

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>walks into elden beast fight with nothing but a pumpkin helm and seal
>r1 for 3300 damage

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Can be reflected by the erdtree great shield.

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Aaand now I'm struggling against the Elden Beast and Gowry is all depressed and won't sell anything to me anymore smh

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Otherwise known as the "What the ****? How could he hit me from there?" spell.

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I decided to try this spell on the first Farum Azula dragon and it absolutely wrecked it.

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The damage this spell deals against larger enemies is absolutely insane. Dragons and especially the Elden Beast get their health bar deleted in a matter of seconds. With the Erdtree Seal at 80 Faith, I'm dealing well over 3000 DPS against the Elden Beast. It's pretty much the Faith equivalent of Astel's Meteorites.

I believe the reason for its huge damage against large creatures (while being mediocre at best against humanoid enemies) is that it has a rather unique combination of being able to pass through enemy hitboxes while also having good tracking. So each of the projectiles can hit the enemy, pass through its hitbox, turn around, hit it again and again. And if it happens to hit one of the bosses limbs/wings while doing so, it will tick for additional damage too.

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This spell is how you kill Rykard without Serpent-Hunter. Absurd scaling with absurdly large enemies. Near-useless on your average enemy, but oh man is this satisfying to delete the healthbars of anything giant.

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This is decent for setting up combos, even very simple ones, like Pest Threads -> Lightning Spear. If they get stunned by the threads lightning spear will most likely connect (given enough cast speed)
But Tiple Rings of Light still is the best setup combo spell faith user have rn. Not much options compared to sorceries, especially after the removal of chain casting in 1.05 unfortunately

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Melts tree spirits, and it's easy to do that since you hug them all the time. Wait for it to spit fire and cast one, boom that's 1/5th of its health gone

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What damage type does this deal?

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How do I buff this

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Does anyone know if this incant is boosted by the (Rotten) Winged Sword Insignia talisman and the Thorny Cracked Tear? Would be kinda crazy.

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Besides shredding elden beast, this is very useful for taking care of pesky birds.

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Pest Threads? More like, A Cum Beyond, lmao

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does this apply poison?

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Whole meaning of this spell is to shred elden beast in pieces. Really, i cast it like 6 times and he died on ng+

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I just got these and I thought I'd wasted 7500 runes after seeing the disappointing damage it was doing to the marionette enemies near the gate of sellia. But after reading some of these comments I think I might have been a bit quick to write them off as worthless. I'm trying them on the next erdtree avatar or wormface I come across ( I hate both of those boss types)

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I love having this one in PvP as a back up if the opponent is exceptionally passive. It makes them attack you.

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This is my kingdom come

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best way to kill elden beast if your a faith build

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It does so much damage on larger enemies because every time the threads hit a new piece of geometry, it hits the boss again. That means anything with wings etc. is extremely vulnerable to this. You can maximize damage with this by going in melee range to maximize the number of folds in the boss’s mesh that they pass through.

The same is true for the discus of light incantation, but it only has “2” projectiles if you count the return.

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If you spam this ability in PVP a house centipede will be laying on your junk when you wake up the next morning singing fly like a bird by Mariah Carey

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Golden Vow + Pest Threads on large bosses works very well.

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Is there a sorcery equivalent of this that does multiple ticks of damage and demolishes huge enemies?

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While absolutely garbage on small targets, this thing shreds large enemies, so its essentially a giant killer.

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Is there an AoW or weapon skill that replicates this?

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If you are struggling on Placidusax or Elden beast then this incant is a must try. You can dish out thousands of damage very quickly if you get just a few seconds opening to cast this at melee range

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Tested it out against Placidusax in coop and it's potentially even more broken than Ancient Dragons' Lightning Strike although it is a lot more of a pain to use effectively.

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Boosted by Blue Dancer Charm

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What damage type is this? Could I buff it with Flame, Grant Me Strength?

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can you get it by killing gowry before doing millicent quest?

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I think this is actually missable on a playthrough. I didnt go back to Gowry until after the final step of Milicent's Quest. Now he is stuck in a dialog loop, and I can no longer purchase anything. Darn.

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You dare use my own spells against me, tarnished?

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Using this against the Elden Beast with 60 int and 30 faith with +10 Golden order Seal yields near 2000 damage if cast at melee range. Had good results helping out folks as a cooperator.

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I've tried every op incantation on youtube, This beats them all.
Kinda sucks vs small targets it's fast low fp and spammable. With 75 faith and +10 erd tree it takes seconds to plow through big bosses.

In pvp it's hard to dodge but the damage is a bit lacking

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So after playing a pure faith caster for almost 200 hours, this is the best incantation for pure damage out there. Fast casting speed, low stamina, low FP cost, strong knockback on weaker/light weight foes and extremely high damage on large, heavy targets. The only *possible* downside might be its range but even then; it's just a little shorter than Lightning Spear.
You could solely rely on this spell with any faith build and wreck all the content in the game.

I decided against using this spell since it trivializes most bosses and negates the use of all the other incantations I could use. This needs a nerf, either to damage, duration, or range.

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This incant slaps!

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Highly spammable. Great vs large bodied enemies and nice to have for things weak to physical damage. Highly situational but so good at what it does. S-tier incantation.

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Tracking on this for pvp is actually quite nutty, if they dodge throught it, does a 360 and hit them in the back or side, get hard countered by shield, but nice against two hander or dual build. Does around catch flame damage.

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I gave Millicent the prosthesis and completed her quest by siding with her in co-op.
Visited Gowry and he still doesn't sell this. There's either a bug, or this page is missing something

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Pest Threads? More like Dragon/Elden Beast shredder.

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Amazing for bosses, but really bad against normal enemies.

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Pest threads made that second phase easy af

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I just saved Millicent but Gowry only sells Glintstone Stars, Night Shard, and Night Maiden’s Mist. Pest Threads is not showing up for me. Anybody know why? I’ve been looking forward to unlocking it. :(

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I don't know what ok doing wrong. In at 50faith and not doing nearly enought damage. My weapon is +9

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The only way to beat the Elden Beast.

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Something worth noting:

This incant seems to hit multiple times on larger enemies. I'm guessing the hitbox itself refreshes every ~8 frames or so in the context of 60 fps. In other words, on small targets, it'll only hit for the number of threads, but on big targets, a single cast has the potential to hit HUNDREDS of times.

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What type of damage does it do, physical?

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How does this spell do against gargoyles?

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This spell absolutely DEMOLISHES the Elden Beast....

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I killed him pretty early in the game and he turned into a bug and didn't drop anything. Just went back and he had resurrected some how lmao but did drop everythin

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I must be using this spell wrong because I have 23 Faith and a fully upgraded Finger Seal yet they're barely doing any damage.

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You can also buy it from Gowry once he returns to his shack after Millicent visits it. I haven’t killed him in my playthrough so I can’t say if his bell allows you to buy it.

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This spell really is good against big bodies. And spammable.

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Kinda broken? At 50 faith it absolutely shreds, was fighting mohg in the Forsaken Depths and it was doing 2k damage per cast, is it glitched or something?

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This is absolutely disgusting against big enemies like dragons, I was doing 2500 damage per properly aimed cast against Lichdragon Fortissax

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How good is it in pvp

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Only reason I was able to beat the Elden beast. A must if you’re struggling

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Oh yeah, it's Macross time.

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So far they have missed every target i have used them on.. even medium sized enemies. Just travel passed them and hit the ground.

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An absolute boss melter for the Elden beast.

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One weird property of this incantation is that some of the projectiles can hit targets while you're behind cover. Because the projectiles fan out around you first before homing in on their target, some of them can reach walls and other obstacles you're hiding behind and connect. They'll connect reliably as long as you have a target lock and are within range. For example, if a group of Raya Lucaria Sorcerers on the way to the Debate Parlor have you pinned down behind a wall or railing on the staircases, you can use this incantation to thin them out from safety. There's probably sorceries and some other incantations that are better for this, but for such a low Faith requirement incantation I thought it was interesting.

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"conjures sticky threads that slow enemies." For how long/how much? No mention in the description

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As said in a few other comments, the attack fires projectiles that go through targets up to its max range or until it's reached the end of whatever you're auto-targeting. It deals non-specific physical damage, meaning it's not slashing, striking, or piercing damage. It is lowered by physical defense only, and can be buffed by effects that boost physical damage as a whole. Does not get buffed by damage-type specific effects like that of the Spear Talisman. The larger the target, the longer time it has to hit the same target several times; the best way to use this is to either with target lock off or aiming at a part that would require the spell to go through the enemy a bit first before reaching the intended target. Can hit several enemies at once if unlocked targeting is used, though target locking allows it to pinpoint all the threads.
As it's still an incantation, it is also boosted by spell casting speed gained from Radagon's Icon, Azur Staff, and dexterity stat; this affects only the speed in which the incantation comes out, not how fast the threads travel or how fast you begin to cast it. The middle animation before they leave you is what is affected.

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this spell seems to have tracking on enemies even if you aren't locked onto them, though it's a much smaller "connect" range than locking on gives it. potentially useful for targeting enemies behind cover, though its relatively short range hinders that aspect.

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This and bubbles from the Doothammer...pardon, Envoy's Long Horn, are large boss killers. The bigger targets are, the better...

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incredible good spell vs dragon ,giants and big enemy like mohg.
i have 80 faith and i dealing 1000-2000 damage depends on aim , one of the best spells for cleric for pve

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Here's how this spell works: You cast it, and the threads hit the enemy. This usually does around 400 damage for me. After a short pause, if the threads are still inside the enemy, they start doing 400 damage every TICK, meaning that in about a second, you'll go from 400 damage to 4,000 or more. There are several keys to making this work. First, the threads will travel for about a second before they despawn, meaning this spell is most efficient at point blank range. If you're casting it at it's maximum range, you'll only see the minimum damage. Second, it only deals damage for as long as the threads are actually inside the enemy. Most enemies are therefore too small to be seriously affected, but this also means positioning is important. The smallest enemy I've found this spell to work on is the giant lobsters. If you stand in front of the lobster and cast it, it does about twice as much as casting from the side, as the threads will travel the length of the lobster.

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Does this do physical damage? can it be buffed by flame, grant me strength?

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