Rock Sling | Elden Ring Wiki

if you don't like this spell you have never used it.

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If you are having trouble with Baleful Shadow, this spell will consistently stun lock him.

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the GOAT early spell for any mage build, works wonders with Blue Dancer Charm, is easy to grab along with the meteorite staff that boosts it's damage.

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This spell seems completely useless, even with a Meteorite Staff. Slow cast time, slow projectile, extremely poor tracking, and doesn't even do that much more damage than Great Glintstone Shard, despite being more difficult to cast and land in all aspects.

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"slight rightward curve" could be a curve on the right (as the spell is) or a curve to the right (opposite the spell) - how could this be reworded to match the spell's actual casting?

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If it only needs 1 memory slot, why does it say 3? I have the int requirement but can't equip it. I have 2 free slots.

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I'm about to rock you... like a hurricane.

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368 scaling staff plus graven mass talisman. A single rock only did about 170 dmg to an armored strength build. My point is that this is not a BoG counter if it can’t even overcome a str builds physical resistances.

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The reason there is only 2 rocks on the icon of the spell instead of 3 is because usually only 2 of the rocks will hit your target due to collision with terrain :)

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Community: "Raya Lucaria is a nightmare as a mage."
Me: *Throws rocks with magic staff*

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pure physical damage, which means no terra magika or magic tear buffs will work on this sadlt

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Wrecks dragons with stance breaks, good for magic resistant foes, and a decent pick for invader npcs. One of 3 staples along with your preferred glinstone, and night variant

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"The projectiles will travel in a light rightwards curve after launching, so the player should account for intervening map geometry." wrong, it does that only while the staff is in the left hand, if the staff is in your right hand they will arch to the left instead

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"Is there a point to this spell now? Glintstone pebble is faster, can be chain cast, and has a higher damage to fp ratio."

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Yes, it deals physical damage, hits hard, goes further and also bypasses enemy dodges. It's a good spell to have in general, I always have it equipped

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It's affected by the damage increase of blue dancer charm, which deals massive damage for early game, but being naked would mean you are weaker than glass :p

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Still good in a ton of pve situations I honestly never got far away enough to see the infinite range in action

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Is there a point to this spell now? Glintstone pebble is faster, can be chain cast, and has a higher damage to fp ratio.

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1.07 completely nerfed this spell. I’m glad I at least got as far as I did before the patch. I’m not very good and relied on being able to keep a distance between myself and the most damaging foes!

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1.07 made rock sling worse now they go in random spots half of the time, while before it would go to the same spot consistently.

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The infinite range on left hand targeted casting was fixed in 1.07.

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Would be nice to be able to chain cast this, feels so janky to cast and stop. Could balance it by making the initial cast fire one rock for lower fp, the second fires two rocks for a bit more fp and the final swing fires three for the current fp cost. Gives the one bread and butter gravity spell a bit more utility so you can quickly fire off one projectile for trash mobs instead of overkilling them with three.

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Why does it have to curve? There's just no good reason for it, and it's so insanely inconvenient. It would've been a ridiculously better spell if it just fired straight

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The guide is still wrong. This deals no magic damage, only physical. Easily tested with the magic scorpion talisman, which does not change the damage at all. This means that it can be boosted with consumables like exalted flesh, but the only persistent means of improving it with equipment aside from your choice of staff are the graven school/mass talismans that affect sorceries. Still a great spell, but I really wish there were some equipment other than the meteorite staff to strengthen gravity sorceries.

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I was wondering why they haven't patched the NPC invaders dodging at the wrong time, then I realized... the AIs are panic-rolling and getting punished for it. It's a humanizing moment for them.

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This requires 18 INT, costs 18 FP to cast, and is boosted by the Meteorite Staff, which you need 18 INT to use. What are you trying to tell me, funny developer man?

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Can it be parried with Carian Retaliation AoW?

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The flight curve of the rocks change depending in wich hand is the staff held. If it is held in the left hand - the projectiles will do a slight curve to the right; if in the right hand - to the left.

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Should really deal strike damage, since they are literally giant rocks.

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I was so happy when I found the right spot to repeatedly cast an avalanche on Smarag's unaware head.

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Even if the spell is extremely good, I think the wiki is wrong when saying it has split damage, unless the magic part doesn't benefit from magick buffs??)
Tested with a meteoric staff, 58 Intelligence, on the giant next to secluded cell:
768 damage
924 (+an other meteoric staff in off hand)
1144 (+golden vow spell)
1144 (+terra magicka)
1144 (+magic-shrouding cracked tear)
So I guess you should use flame grant me strength and similar physical damage buffs instead

Could someone confirm this and add to the wiki that it doesn't benefit from magic buff?

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Absolutely CARRIED. The fact you can get it as soon as you start the game makes it better as well. Will always have a place for my mage build.

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throw three of these casts at a dragon then rush in for slicer spam, insane dps.

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Easily one of the best spells in the game. Carried me in the adula fight.

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If you have the Arrow's Reach Talisman equipped alongside Rock Sling, and if you cast from your left hand, Rock Sling literally becomes a cheaper and physical-based version of Loretta's Greatbow that has crazy range and can hit from max lock-on range (for the most part, since I think lock-on range depends entirely on the area you're in). Couple with the fact that it does massive poise damage on weakpoints, it can take down dragons if you aim at their heads from far away without ever needing to get close.

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Funny enough, the curve of the rock depends on the hand your staff is in; rocks curve right in the right hand, and left in the left hand.

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Not actually infinite range; the projectiles dissolve somewhere around the max range of Loretta's Greatbow. The two rocks on the right just stop descending.

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This spell is the ultimate dragon killer

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this spell can also target the bloody death bird at the palace approach ledge-road grace where people like to do the farm exploit. from above this spell can travel very far

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As of May 17th 2022, this spell + Meteorite Staff is OP.

I am Level 60 and I smoked the Glintstone Dragon.

Cast range is "anything you can target"

*anything* gets poise damage and falls over after 3 casts. I realize this has been nerfed, it probably should be nerfed again.

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This thing does LUDICROUSLY high poise damage to the point where every boss in the game is completely unable to fight back because they just spend the whole time on the floor. Seriously, try it if you don't believe me. A spell designed to keep game journalists from rating the game a 0/10 for the UI not telling them where the nearest assassin's creed point of interest is

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This spell will absolutely carry you through 90% of the bossfights

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AN absolutely fantastic utility spell that I will always have equipped. Yes, there are far more powerful spells, but rock sling has certain properties that give it the upper hand it certain situations. Apart from it being the best spell for dealing poise damage, it spawns the rocks on the ground in front of you, and will do so from walls that are just over head-height, so using it from complete safety is possible as long as you can lock on. I can't emphasize enough how useful this property is. also the sideways arc and summon spread means it can be fired from corners in the rare situation where that might be needed.
It's an incredibly versatile spell that remains useful throughout the entire game. It will always be my go-to for smacking dragons in the face for that sweet critical.

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When wizard grug in doubt
Wizard grug hurl big rock

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This spell is a must-have for sorcerers as it's one of the few spells that doesn't deal magic damage but physical damage. Amazing for bosses that have great mitigation against magic damage. Two of the three rocks that you conjure seem to have infinite range when targeting an enemy (as of 1.04 on PC), which most certainly is a bug, but it makes fights like Astel a walk in the park.

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AKA the "F*ck your input reading and catch these rocks" spell

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Having 18 points in INT, this spell and the Meteorite Staff works great against Magma Wyrms, especially if you should happen to want to stop in Gael Tunnel early game. Anywhere from 3 to 5 casts will stun the gecko and then you can stab him in the brain.

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While it doesnt do strike damage (it's just standard physical), it breaks crystalians in 3 casts.

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Great for killing boss dragons and for grinding the dragons around Greyoll because you can target lock their heads. Deals a ton of damage and KOs in generally about 3 or 4 shots for boss dragons and 2 for baby dragons, giving you time to heal up or deal a crit.
The baby dragons also stay stunned long enough you can get a lot of headshots in without missing the chance to crit before they get back up With the meteoric ore blade, for example, you can get off a full combo and two hits of the next and then stop to crit just before it recovers.

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Deals STANDARD Physical damage, but comes with a lot of Poise damage. Tested against Moonlight Altar Crystalians with an unupgraded Hammer (STRIKE damage) vs 18 INT Rock Sling + Meteorite Staff.

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Seems the latest patch fixed the exploit that let you spam this spell at certain boss fogs (Gaol Tunnel Magma Wyrm for example) and wipe them out without entering the arena. I used this on a number of the cheap bosses in the mini dungeons to good effect, tried it yesterday and the rocks break against the door/fog now.

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This spell, meteorite staff, Meteoric Ore Blade, and gravity stones/fans can make you feel great at the very start of the game.

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it's actually nice that this deals physical damage to deal with enemies like crystallians

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Three hits with this staff in left hand to say 'get down' / Bolt of Gransax in right hand to say 'stay down' / finish on floor with weapon of choice.

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Why isn’t there a map image on this one?

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Between this and Stone of Gurranq, I think Miyazaki is trying to say Rock is the best magic. I honestly can't disagree with him.

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Does any one know if the spell does more damage with this meteorite staff or lusats plus 10

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Unfortunately this and the occasional pebble are basically all you'll ever need and the best choice in 90% of situations. The relatively low cost, damage, range (of 2/3 of the rocks, dunno why one has shorter range), posture damage, low risk, and the fact that enemies dodge when the rocks come out of the ground rather than when they're a meter away from their faces makes it OP as hell. Fun to use, but hard to do so without thinking "I'm trivializing the game for myself."

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For the longest time I thought this was magic damage

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The stance damage on these is REAL. In 3 casts, hitting 7 out of the 9 rocks downs most enemies.

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yeet the rocks

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This is called Meteorite Bullet in Japanese. What genius decided to translate that as 'Rock Sling'

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Very OP, destroyed Fortissax with 45 int.

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Bugged spell. Take a staff to the left hand and 2 of 3 stones will have a maximum distance. So you can use it as a sniper rifle for mage lol

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Carried me so much

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The go to spell for long range nuke from orbit (the top of the ridge) they can't do anything about it crowd control. Not good for tight quarters or where you need speed.

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this was supposed to be my ace-in-the-hole against the crysalians. they seem to be immune to its physical charms and treat it like magic. i hit the spear one about 4 times with it and checked the damage. about a 10th of it's health was gone. int is 70 using lusat's staff+6. i guess miyazaki-san wants me to respec my character and upgrade a hammer to clear certain bosses. pathetic game design.

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this was supposed to be my ace-in-the-hole against the crysalians. they seem to be immune to its physical charms and treat it like magic. i hit the spear one about 4 times with it and checked the damage. about a 10th of it's health was gone. int is 70 using lusat's staff+6. i guess miyazaki-san wants me to respec my character and upgrade a hammer to clear certain bosses. pathetic game design.

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Available from the beggining, and one of the best Sorceries in the game, very long range, homing capability, very high poise damage, perfect specially for dragons, just aim 3 casts at the head.

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Some Glintstone Glove catalysts with this would have been crutch af but judging by the ashes of war, Fromsoft reeeeally didn't want us casting with our hands in this instalment lol.

In all seriousness though, we needed more than this one fully functional (admittedly awesome) gravity spell when blue sorcery got 400 projectiles in a variety of sizes and shades.

There's a dozen incredible gravity spells in game already, just bound to colossal weapon arts or enemy skills - give them to us pesky int casters!

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Map link needs fixin' bro... incorrect location entirely

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Seems to have more range when cast in the left hand.

This spell can hit the Scions that are attached on the ceiling in Fringefolk grave

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Interactive map link for where to get it points to the wrong location

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Typo in the item description. Should be "sends them flying" instead of "sends it flying", as the spell sends multiple rocks flying, not just one.

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When you want to toss rocks but don't want to get your hands dirty, and want to look sophisticated while doing so.

Great early spell for those with the Meteorite Staff.

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Has anyone been able to parry this with Carian retaliation before? From testing I can't seem to get it to work. Very annoying to deal with when getting ganked.

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One of the most OP sorceries for you fellow mage!

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This will be your best friend, my fellow mage.

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Please cast this so i can give you scarlet rot with my pulley crossbow.

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This spell is so OP, staggers everything even dragons in 3-4 hits so you can melt them with crit damage. Also can catch most bosses/enemies that are programmed to dodge all your spells since they will perform a dodge right when the spell is initially cast, but the rocks are actually summoned and projected tenths of a second later, which will catch them right after their dodge.

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This spell is so OP, staggers everything even dragons in 3-4 hits so you can melt them with crit damage. Also can catch most bosses/enemies that are programmed to dodge all your spells since they will perform a dodge right when the spell is initially cast, but the rocks are actually summoned and projected tenths of a second later, which will catch them right after their dodge.

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Longest range spell in the game. I think with enough height you can hit anything. Shoot it at the Bird farm when it's farthest away. Make sure you avoid tree.

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I discarded this spell by accident. Is there anyway i can buy it or get it back. Very dumb i cant

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One of the best early game spells just for stagger and damage

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I don't know if it's a placebo effect from reading it in comments here and elsewhere, but after switching between right and left hand a few times, I believe it's true that this has longer range if your staff is in the left hand. It might have better tracking, too, because after the supposed undocumented nerf, I don't have any more trouble hitting things with it than I did.

Even if the range and tracking has been nerfed, this is still crazy good. The only thing preventing it from being straight-up OP, moreso than bigger/flashier/more damaging spells, is the fact that you're likely to lose to 1/3rd or 2/3rds damage when there are obstacles for the left or right rocks to sail into (the rocks swing a little to the right on cast, at least if your staff is in the left hand, so positioning yourself to put possible obstacles further to the left can help with this.) It's not super high damage, but still does decent damage. It still has good tracking, it still has great range (weirdly, it seems common for a single rock to fall to the ground much earlier than the other two) and most importantly, it still does insanely high stance damage. It staggers large enemies and bosses so fast you need to be careful not to cast it *too quickly* when a fight first starts and the enemy is further away, or they'll stagger so far away you don't have enough time to run up and do the crit before they get up. The only downside is that this can't be relied on as your sole ranged spell due to terrain giving it trouble, you need a backup that shoots something in a more straight line for shooting down cramped corridors or at an enemy on the other side of a doorway. The backup can also be something that does more direct damage to cover that particular role. It will also come in handy in situations where you don't want to wait for this spell's slow casting speed, although I think the casting speed is worth dealing with against a lot of large enemies just for the stagger potential anyway.

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I'm sad to announce... They secretly NERFED our MVP Spell Rock Sling:
I'm not sure about Damage. But the Tracking and ESPECIALLY the RANGE (dear god why? Oh why?) Got a SERIOUS HIT!
I know this because I use this baby to survive and slay and demolish my way through Caelid , blind, first playthrough, all Minibosses and side dungeons/caves/forts/mines and areas clearedand combat encounters - on my first playthrough starting from level 20-30ish as a puny mage (before I
even did Stormveil lol!!) All thanks to Rocksling (plus starter Astrologer Spells and Slicer).
Now However, I went to battle the Glintstone Dragons and Adula on Moonlight Altar Plateau in Liurnia.... And... The Rocks dropped aftera medium range.
In the past this spell - if Lock On was set - would track and fire directly across a very very long distance. Basically if you could lock on, that spell will always reach it's target.
Now, However, I'm whiffing it way more or the rocks fall short before headshotting enemies ... Very frustrating. It was already tricky enough to use.

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It's not located North of the ruins, it's in th ecellar OF the ruins.

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It's not located North of the ruins, it's in th ecellar OF the ruins.

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This has higher range in your left hand. Dunno why.

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Other than Rock Sling, what other spells deal physical damage?

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Other comments have it covered but i've noticed that it targets the enemy you were locked to when you clicked the cast and not when the rocks actually fire so you can't swap targets mid-cast.

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I don't know if it's been mentioned yet, but after doing some testing I've discovered that charging the spell doesn't increase the damage, range, speed or tracking but DOES remove the stamina cost.

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stone toss

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This spell is best for staggering at range rather than high dps. However, you can use a stronger sorcery scaling staff to cast it while holding the meteorite staff in the other hand for the gravity spell potency increase.

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I can honestly say this is the most broken spell to use against bosses for the following reasons:

1. Crazy high posture damage. Stuns every boss in 3 casts or less.
2. Crazy range. If you can lock onto the target, this spell WILL hit them.
3. Efficient use of FP, can be spammed even at lower mind levels.

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I am utterly perplexed; I get more damage from glintstone pebble in almost every cass than I do from all three rocks connecting to an enemy. And this is while using the meteorite staff that would boost rock sling’s damage. Have I just been fighting a ton of enemies with way higher physical resistance than magic resistance?? Because this seems consistent with nearly every enemy, even bosses.

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Some good thing about this spell:

1: lots of dmg if all 3 rocks hit the target, in late game one spamming can be easily 1k+ dmg.

2: can actually stunning bosses unlike pebbles, which gives you more time to spam :)

3: it surprisingly has a longer range than pebbles, so if you really cannot afford the fp cost of super long range of
Loretta's Greatbow, this can become a surprising middleground.

4: Maybe not mentioned: if you want to have a rock-sling spamming build for the late game bosses for cheesy wins (what I did after ashes of the capital), please invest some mind because after casting this spell your stamina will regenerate a little bit which makes you basically a monster dps if you have tons of fp.

Some annoying thing about this spell:

1: if you are battling in a narrow area or any barrier that is near you or the target, the arc traveling path of the rock may hit the wall and thus significantly reduces the dmg.

2: even though it has much better tracking about the Pebble (fun fact, if you use this to a npc invader almost touching you, the rock can actually sling backward to give a "surprise" attack), still not enough for some long path traveling like flying dragons, you have to wait the target stand still for sweet spamming hit.

3: please use target lock when using this spell, for some wired reason without it the rock basically fly to some really underside spots and not tracking enemies in lots of scenarios.

Even with all of those quirks, this spell still becomes one of my spell staples and that's how good this spell is.

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Tried to use it against Crystalians, seems to do Standard damage instead of Strike as it was only doing 14 dmg per burst. F

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Meteor Staff+Easy Headshots on massive opponents+High Knockdown+low cost+crazy range... I hope this doesn't get nerfed, but I would understand if it were. Busted spell and I love it. Also think it's broken in a literal sense, opponents dodge at the cast instead of when the rocks are actually coming at them. Which with such good long range tracking works out terribly on the AI's behalf.

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This single insanely OP spell allowed me to cheese:
1. Glintstone dragon Adula (summon something, aggro it, run to the building and ****ing spam rock sling from the balcony thing - the puny dragon cant do ****)
2. Commander O'Neil (spawn him, run out, jump on the big ass tree root on the left of the entrance, spam rock sling, maybe occasionally jump - bam, he cant do **** either, more like commander O'No)
3. Fallingstar Beast in the Sellia Crystal Tunnel (Yeah the good old through the mist cast)
All in all bs spell and I love it

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I cannot be charged to my knowledge

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