Placidusax's Ruin | Elden Ring Wiki

I gotta say, Placidusax is probably tied with Maliketh in having the flashiest remembrance. Both things you get from it are just so cool.

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"These are the dying wails of the Dragonlord who once dwelled eternal beyond time."

"ZU'U UNSLAAD! ZU'U NIS OBLAAN!"

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Best option for countering sleep builds. Get low poise armor - and use BFP> Then use placidusax's ruin whenever they close in for the sleep proc. It'll toss them back, and put you on the ground (not asleep). Since the sleep halberd is exclusively physical damage they won't be able to kill you with trades either.

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I honestly think it needs to be buffed in PVE

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Dragon jumpscare

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Work well with malenia every patch, now 1.09

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Can confirm that placidusax's ruin does fire damage after the initial lightning burst. There's a unique trait the ruin's laser carries:

It won't trigger the event flag! that fire damage is supposed to.

Means we can use this for two things.
A. Super efficiency with the +50% fire damage from oil pots (since ruin won't deactivate the oil buff until it naturally times out)
B. Bonus affinity with a frostbitten -20% on all absorptions.

Tl;dr
The lightning burst is a nice option in pvp... But for PVE and super large targets, this beam is godlike. Just remember to use those oil pots, and stack more fire damage.

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Petition to make it so that it has two heads one that does what it does now and another you can aim/follows your lock on

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"beam deals fire damage" wrong, tested on giant flowers since they have a unique animation when lit up and they only staggered normally (plus gankers in so called pvp only had the normal knock back death animations instead of the fire death one while panic running lmao)

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raptors of the mists is really good for dodging his laser if you're in a tough spot

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If you get good at manual aiming the beam you can track your opponent with it after you hit the explosion to frametrap them. It's still a last resort effort or part of a long combo chain though. Never use it locked on unless it's the last ''uppercut'' part of it.

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I Dunno if this applies to pvp, but I noticed that if a mob is knocked back by the initial shockwave then they tend to typically end up in the beam's paths.

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The lightning claw placid does would have been cooler than his breath. Prove me wrong

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Incredible incantation, makes me win a lot of close duels

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The stay on the floor and die incantation. Animation simulator. It's basically bound to kill one of your teammates, and even if you run crimsomwhorl, their ungabunga teammate is a step away crouch poking you as soon as you get up. It's sad that this things whole usability relies on cheesy insta-damage. The incantation costs so much fp and the actual rest of the skill basically is a cutscene. The fp cost combined with the bad control means you're likely using this under the fp tear, which just makes this even more brainless.

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People complain about elden stars quote-on-quote "undodgable projectiles" when this literally has a single frame massive damage explosion

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My ears hurt

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I'm surprised that this isn't part of any kind of Incantation type. I would suspect that it would've been deemed a Dragon Incantation at the very least, but maybe this is more so meant to be an Incantation of unknown Type, or more so long lost type thanks to the gradual erosion, decay, and complete destruction of Farum Azula and it's Ancient knowledge that has been lost to time...

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i loved when he said "its placidusaxin time" and placidusax'd all over that guy

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Surpricidusax for the jumpscare finisher

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The instant cast explosion of damage on this needs to be nerfed for pvp. Absolute joke

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I think this may not actually do fire damage, I tested that the actual beam doesn't remove the frostbite status like other sources of fire damage, so it either does holy damage or lighting damage, or it is some kind of bug and it is supposed to remove the status.

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the best way ive figured out aiming the laser is to think of it like adjusting against recoil in an FPS. Move the left stick against the beams direction when it goes past your target, and it will narrow the spread.

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Can’t tell you how many times my mimic has used this and scared the **** out of me.

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at last, eggman's super laser piss!
obama cowers before me!

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Gettin' tired of all this gankers that make every single invasion a living nightmare? Just follow this simple steps: equip azur staff and your talisman, memorise dragonclaw and then this spell, use dragonclaw first and immediately when the animation it about to finish use Placidusax ruin. It shoots the laser really close to your body and straight, covering an area ideal for deleting everything and everyone in your path.

Fear not the gankers my friend, and let the feast begin

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You can tell me "This doesn't count as a Dragon Communion Incantation" but with the way they styled that visual for the spell description, I can't really help it, and it looks like a pretty awesome final D-Communion Spell for the arsenal.

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Cooler version of fan daggers in duels when your enemy is low on HP. Initial explosion is completely unavoidable and unpredictable.

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Has it been tested that this deals Fire damage rather than Holy damage?

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I think the reason this isn't buffed by the Dragon Communion Seal or considered a Communion Incantation is because the ancient dragons, (Placidusax included) are made of stone. Arcane in Elden Ring typically relates to blood, which ancient dragons don't have.

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So, this is really weird. According to the wiki, you can control the beam "just like other dragon breath attacks." I think this statement is a little misleading, idk if I'm going crazy, but I think you can control the beam, but the "control" you have over it is NOTHING like the other breath attacks. First of all, you don't control it with the camera, you actually use the left stick. Secondly, you aren't actually "aiming" the beam when you "control" it, the beam has a set path it will move through, but if you move the left analog stick in the opposite direction the beam is trying to move, it slows the horizontal movement of the beam so much that it "basically" hits the same spot (not really but I'm sure someone better than me could get the aiming pretty precise with practice), but it's pretty finicky. also the beam changes direction halfway through it's animation, so if you don't move the stick in the other direction at the right time you can actually propel the beam away from your intended target at the speed of ****ing sound.

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i wish they used his nuke attack instead of this for an incantation

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It has 70 poise damage, basically instant initial shockwave and the beam is controllable by using left and right movement keys. Broken as a finisher in PvP and very good against large bosses.

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I duplicated the remembrance for this piece of s**t posing as an incantation. It has almost no control despite what it says here about being able to hit the same spot, my f**king arse hit the same spot, post a video clip or it didn't happen. This needs three memory slots and it looks like the devs decided that wasn't enough and made it uncontrollable. The named dragon communion incantations are many times better than Placidusax's ruin, and before anyone says it, I'm not throwing my rattle out of the pram over an incantation you need to use smartly, I'm all for having to think ahead and use an incantation or weapon art at its best advantage to get the most out of it. That's not what this is though, Placiduasx's ruin is worthless and again if anyone is going to reply saying they can hit what they aim at, post a video or it didn't happen.

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Do unused remembrances stay in your inventory when you start NG+ and will the mausoleums allow for them to be duplicated early in the NG+ playthrough?
I'd rather not have to wait until late game to beat both bosses again before I can get the second choice from the remembrances with Enia.

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Three memory slots though? that's a big penalty. Just out of curiosity, are there any sorcery spells that also require two or three slots to equip like some of the incantations?

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I call it placi's GNAAAAAA

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Flaccidsex Ruin

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Actually it makes sense why this is neither ancient dragon nor dragon communion incant. Placidusax wields red lighting and that is the weapon of ancient dragons and the color of the initial lightning explosion. BUT his incant is grouped with the normal dragon incantations, where normal dragons use their things.

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I AM MIDIR

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The initial lightning blast of this incantation actually comes out faster than anyone can react so it's an invaluable finisher in PvP for any faith build that wants to win in style!

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Good for scaring the gold-tinged-excrement out of people in closed spaces but not so good if you actually want to hit something you're aiming at

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Can confirm, the communion seals boost damage, but, instead of 15% its 1.5%

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if this is going to be able to be casted instantly then so should rejection. im tired of being trapped by enemies in a corner and i literally cant do a thing about it unless if i have 36 faith and 62 fp points.

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This catches a lot of people surprisingly enough. Most people will be able to dodge the first laser but almost always get hit with the last up strike and I have no idea why.

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cooler comet azur tbh

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I wish it didn’t have a wonky path at which the beam travels cause this incantation is really cool.

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Would have preferred any of Placidussax’s other attacks as an incantation than this or have this have only been one head with a more controlled laser with slow tracking instead of the inconsistent mess that it is right now.

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Placidusax Jumpscare

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The initial explosion is ridiculous. Honestly, I thought people were glitching, but no, it's just classic elden ring "balance". Let's nerf this please, the radius is huge and there is ZERO windup and i mean NONE. There is no way anyone dodging this period. Literally everything in this game is either underpowered or overpowered for pvp, but this **** might just be the reason I stop playing after 10 years. Ngl, an actual child could have balanced pvp better and we're 5 patches in, come on.

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What we wanted from midir in DS3 we get in ER from placidusax

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easily one of the best finisher moves for thunder based melee combat, the explosion alone is pretty much unpredictable in PvP and anyone below 25% hp usually gets blown away.
however, it's more suited as a counter attack rather than a direct attack, because if you miss you'll be wide open for a punish.

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This spell is ****ing awesome don't care if it's good or bad I love it

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Suddenly, King Ghidorah

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If you chain cast this with dragonclaw, the beam originates from the floor position of where you casted it. This is useful in PvP if the opponent decides to get right under you. Its probably a bug/glitch tho, pretty funny tbf

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Big Bad Beam

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15k combo damage (!!!) to fire giant in snowfields at 76 faith with+10 erdseal. Was mostly optimized for spell damage with talismans and buffs but probably could do more. It hit with lightning AoE then 3-5 hits with flames. Mostly it hits twice with fire, maybe 6k combo damage. For reference blasphemous blade flames hit from 2200-3100 on most mobs(not sure on fg)

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This spell is so busted in small arenas. Pop a mimic tear, and start spamming. It's an instant W against any boss who can be staggered. The mimic tear loves to use this, and when you both use it, the boss melts. It deals ridiculous poise damage, and is extremely safe after the buff. If the explosion and all three beams hit, that's an easy 4k damage.

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discount midir

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discount midir

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Can anyone tell me if this thing has hyper armor and when? If it doesn't it's bad. Casting time is too long. You will always get hurt if you are fighting a boss alone.

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Got caught out by this in PVP on my CGS character. We were both at low HP, him with his faith caster build ran straight at me so I got ready to bonk, and he blew me up. Very surprised by the initial explosion, caught me totally off guard.

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Had no idea this had an initial explosion. I was dueling on my bonky CGS character, fighting a Faith build. We both got each other low, and he jumped at me and finished me off with this. Savvy tactic.

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In PVP, get your opponent to <30% hp, jump in front of them and instantly cast this. They are dead. Nobody expects how fast this is and if it's the first and only time you use it in a fight, your opponent will be waiting to dodge your jump attack instead so they will never i-frame this. Absolutely unbeatable in that situation other than staying 10m away.

It is fairly punishable if you cast it without instakilling your opponent and the beams come out pretty slow if your opponent is using ranged attacks that can knock you out of it. The solution to this is to not use it for anything other than finishing off your opponent.

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Unleash the power of Kevin!

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Using this spell in pvp is the most fun I’ve had in a while. Invade people in crumbling ruins and knock them off!

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Aww man. The icon shows both heads and I can only summon one head to fire lasers? Sad.

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Bit disappointed that when using this you don't summon both heads at each shot a beam that starts at opposite ends and then criss-cross for some wicked damage and spread. Be more fitting of Placidusax's power and make it stand out more than the lesser, more typical Dragon Incantations.

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The initial explosion has some of the fastest damage frames in the game, even faster than Catch Flame. It is good in PvP to finish off a low-health opponent. Unfortunately, even with the free aim good opponents can learn to roll the beams and get a good punish, so it's utility in a 1v1 is otherwise very low. Cool to fire into a melee, though.

You can use this in PvP to either nuke large crowds of weak enemies, or as a stylish punish against bosses with long stun animations/phase change animations. At this level there's always a better option, but nothing looks this cool.

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why is this not a dragon communion spell?

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this incantation does not belong in the dragon cult category. Like catch flam, flame sling and fire's deadly sin, Placidusax's ruing doesn;t fit any category. Remove the false information

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Only good for low tier garbage, a lot of the dragon incantions you just get knocked out of or get exposed. May have some use pvp but i see no worth in pve. Not to mention it barely hits, is this meant for close range or long range? Just terrible.

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this thing is hard to control, doesn’t do too much damage, leaves you exposed for a while if you miss, and takes up 3 slots, so it’s practicality is rather limited. But I’d be lying if I said this didn’t look cool as ****, and so it has a place on both of my faith related builds for that very reason

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......Scale the damage down and change the animation so it can free aimed more easily. Seeing people say its nice for a finisher because of the explosion, but that's pretty sad you'd think since that makes up such a small part of the cast animation. It would be super nice to reliably hit with the beams just with lower damage to compensate.

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I think the incantation should have two heads, just like placidusax, as it would take away the issue of being easy to dodge in pvp and the lack of consistency in pve.

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Jesus Christ. You can summon King Ghidorah.

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3 slots for aoe damage that rot breath can do with 1 slot with far greater ease of use. nice.

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Oh hey Godfrey, are you still spamming your AoE attacks from back there? That's cool, let me just hover mid-air away from your attacks while i zap you with my Lazors.

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Is this lightning damage?

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From what I notice, spells and incantations belonging to the same type/school have the same background parchment art. For example, Blood incantations have the same background parchment with Mohg's sigil. Placidusax's Ruin doesn't seem to have any background parchment so I think it's unique and doesn't belong in any type at all.

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As people learn how this thing works, this incantation becomes more and more risky to use. If you fail to hit your opponent with initial blast, you are stuck in very, VERY long animation, and anyone is completely free to come to you point blank and blast your arse with whatever they want.

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Great as a finisher. The first part of it comes out almost instantaneously. Like faster then a dagger almost.

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So...has anyone managed to learn the "recoil pattern" of this spell like a CS spray? I'm going to **** myself the day I go against someone who perfectly aims this thing

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Elden stars and then this Jesus christ

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I find it extremely useful against Malenia. It staggers her and she can't even hurt you for the whole time of incantation. If you are struggling with soloeing her, I recommend you this spell

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Kind of hard to aim... reminds of me a tank's gun, the way it has limited elevation and depression angles due to the cramped size and short roof of the tank. Except, Placideusax isn't a tank, its a dragon head, so please let us aim it more, higher and lower! So fun to use and has some utility, its just so close to being truly amazing

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Spell Type: "Dragon Cult Incantation" - But not really:

1). Not listed with other Dragon Cult Incantations or any Incantations
2). Does not scale with any Seal or Arcane
3). Unable to Aim - lightning/fire goes all over the place
4). Cost 600 Stamina
5). Use 3 Slots

FS...Please Fix this Incant - this could possibly be the BEST Incantation in the game.

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Spell Type: "Dragon Cult Incantation" - But not really:

1). Not listed with other Dragon Cult Incantations or any Incantations
2). Does not scale with any Seal or Arcane
3). Unable to Aim - lightning/fire goes all over the place
4). Cost 600 Stamina
5). Use 3 Slots

FS...Please Fix this Incant - this could possibly be the BEST Incantation in the game.

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Spell Type: "Dragon Cult Incantation" - But not really:

1). Not listed with other Dragon Cult Incantations or any Incantations
2). Does not scale with any Seal or Arcane
3). Unable to Aim - lightning/fire goes all over the place
4). Cost 600 Stamina
5). Use 3 Slots

FS...Please Fix this Incant - this could possibly be the BEST Incantation in the game.

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It should be noted on the page for people who miss it: This does NOT require arcane.

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While not recieving any bonuses from any seals nor having a casting animation symbol as far as I can see, it is actually grouped with dragon communion spells in the menu, not dragon cult. Considering there are other spells that do not benefit from their catalyst but are clearly in a specific group, I think it is safe to call this a dragon communion spell. Also worth considering that ancient dragons CAST lightning, they don't breath it. They instead breath fire.
While the dragon cult uses the same magic that ancient dragons cast, dragon communion directly channels their inherent power, making this spell closer to that lore-wise. A dragon communion spell that happens to come from an ancient dragon, similar to how magma wyrms aren't technically dragons but they are close enough to channel.

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I'm sorry for those Dragon Communion bros out there. Being a Dragon Cult Incantation, this works to a devastating extent with my Faith/Dex Ancient Dragonlord Lightning Build. I usually use it as a finisher and damn does it make you feel like a destroyer of worlds lol I feel like Armin everytime I use this. (If you know, you know. I'm sorry if you don't!)

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does it, as of 1.04, still not ****ing count as a dragon spell? Come on! such a missed chance for one of the coolest abilities

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FINALLY, after 1.04, Placi's Ruin actually works as a giant **** off button!

After costing 3 spell slots, quite some FP, it now has P O I S E and deals about 4500+ damage across 3 beam hits.

Tested in NG+7 against the Cleanrot just by Elphael's Prayer Room at 80 ARC and the faithful canvas, with the dragon seal. It was enough damage to actually kill the knight.

Granted it may still suck against big bosses but at least it's good for the mid-tier, miniboss worthy enemies

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Finishing a boss with this really makes you feel like King Ghidorah.

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The cast seems to generate a knockback explosion dealing 60% of a single beam tick, or 20% of the total potential damage (640, then 3100 across 3 beams)

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Why does it have instant AOE? It's like from hates PvP

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For those wondering, this is not a dragon communion spell because communion spells require you to literally eat the heart of the dragon. You aren't eating Placidusax's heart to get the spell, you're transposing it from his remembrance.

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It’s really a shame that 90% of incantations are completely impractical, their some of the coolest stuff in the game and really brings out the feeling of being in a fantasy world, hopefully one day from will make a game where all of them are useable Instead of just the basic “throw _____ at enemy” spells

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True combo with storm stop destroys the world

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