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i'll never not laugh at how scared this playerbase got once they read the last sentence of a middling miracle like this

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i'll never not laugh at how scared this playerbase got once they read the last sentence of a middling miracle like this

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Why does everyone I fight in PVP run right into this?! Is this some new technique for free rot status and 1k damage? I genuinely feel concern for people trying to trade with this

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"With the third bloom, she will become a true goddess"

Why is it implying that she will bloom for a third time if we already kill her to get this spell in the first place? Is it a translation error?

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The item description subtly suggests Malenia might not be dead after all - the scarlet aeonia bloomed first against Radahn, second against us the player and a third time upon her death. Suggesting she may now be the "true goddess" in the description, and maybe we'll fight an even stronger version of her in the DLC

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As this spell uses a "stonger version of scarlet rot" it does not proc the Kindred of Rot's Exultation :(((

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awful spell requirements for anyone tryng a Malenia cosplay. Why so much faith when Malenia's weapon is pure dex? am I supposed to believe that Malenia is secretely a faith user too??

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Tested on Greyoll. It totals 7 ticks after explosion for a total of 500 scarlet rot build up

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This spell works incredibly when used at the beginning of the Radagon fight, it will always immediately proc the rot on him and you won’t usually get hard punished because of the spells I-Frames

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I love this incantation so much, if they weren't gonna give hyper armor for the startup they could've at least made it only 2 slots though :(

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Probably my favourite incantation.

The long cast and even long recovery make this an incredibly risky bet both in PvP and PvE but with decent faith and talismans/buffs to up physical damage 9/10 times you hit something with it, they ain't getting back up.

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It says in the item descriptions it's bloomed twice already wonder when the first time was since the second time was during our fight with her. Also, they should have made this just a unique skill you can use while using her sword if they really wanted to make it hard to get so people didn't abuse it they could have made it an end of DLC as they did with the embrace beast rune in Bloodborne for the Beast claws.

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I do not think this spell is affected by Virtual dex / extra casting speed

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I am malaria, blame the Tequila

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Rots all pvp players within 3 ticks on minimum stats with finger seal. I like to lay down poison mist incant since it lasts way longer and people will forget about the poison after the rot disappears. Pest threads encourages players to run into scarlet aeonia. So poison mist into pest threads and then scarlet once they charge in. Cast regen or some other buff if they’re reluctant. Sacred blade or poison mist on antspur is great. I often respec between dex/fth and pure fth on a rot incantation build. Theoretically, rotten avatar staff/duelist axe and claw mark seal may be a great way to play rot paladin too.

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Against melania in co-op more effective then the rotten dragon. Just 3-2 times in her face. She staggers and still gets hit by the ticks and you have rotten the rot goddess. The irony is unmatched, and way easier when done in co-op. Put some poison on her and fire death afterwards and she is patheticly easy to kill.

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So...does this scale with Arcane? Im doing a Faith/Arcane Cleanrot Knight Cosplay build and i have fairly high stats in Arcane.

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this bad boy shreds bosses on my poison build, shut up if you say otherwise, **** you, shut up, i love you scarlet aeonia. its also worth to mention that nobody expects this in pvp and gets rotted in 2 seconds.

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This and Rot Breath inflict a stronger version of Scarlet Rot that scales more strongly with enemy HP. Also, it deals no Rot buildup on the initial hits and instead deals 150 Rot buildup per lingering tick. Oh, also the explosion deals 362 damage at 100 spell adjust, on par with charged Comet, but falling behind Dragonmaw. In fairness, Dragonmaw is ****ing nuts.

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With 55 FTH and +10 finger seal, cannot even one shot the knight in gatefront, lol. I guess there is no point to use it in PVP. The visual is cool enough though.

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Still sub par versus most sorceries or frost.

Given 70% of the game is about rot and it's devastation of the lands, is terrible that rot is only found in the last 5% of the game and doesn't stack up to sorceries or faith incantations.

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Insane spell dmg with a nearby 100% to get Scarlett rot. So far no Boss was immune to it. 2-3 times cast and Most Fell on ng 7. Alone crucible nights are able to still beat the crap out of ya

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does the rot buildup scale with arcane if you use the dragon communion seal?

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Very good incantation. Does like 2000 damage on bosses when the flower opens and applies scarlet rot.
Also pretty flower

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It's not documented anywhere, but this does a stronger version of rot than any other.

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forbidden blooming onion

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this skill reminds me of kitsune tails during the caste

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It’s still bad but at least usable. The biggest problem is that landing a direct hit in pvp won’t rot an opponent, because they have i frames when knocked to the ground. And then you’ll take 2 stormblades for half your 60 vigor, medium armor.

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Blue Dancer's Charm makes even the tick damage rapidly kill nearby players, it's hilariously op in level 40-70 invasions with flocks talisman and ritual swords talisman, add in sacred oath and howl of shabriri (or fire grant me strength if you don't want to be squishy) and you deal almost double damage while inflicting rot lol.

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With 80 arcane it takes 2 full fp bars to induce rot on a dragon,but it takes one of these to induce rot, I'm a pure dragon communion guy but after the nerfs to rot breath this is the move. Frost breath is still the go to eviscerater of tarnished though.

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This doesn't warrant three slots and neither does that sh*t show placidusax's ruin. Compare this incantation to comet azur, it's laughable.
I can cast comet azur at a blistered crow and kill it before it gets near me. No prizes for guessing the outcome when I tried it with this.

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This spell could easily become a top tier spell by doing a couple of the following:

-giving it a different tier of scarlet rot, stronger than the dragon communion ones

-increasing its aoe, tick damage and poise damage slightly.

-increasing the range and speed of the spell significantly. What I mean with this is, having you hover in the air for a couple of seconds, during this time you can be interrupted, which is the draw back of using it, and it’ll teach you when to use it, just like any other spell. Once you launch, hyper armor activates, and you can let the flower bloom without a problem.

-increasing the faith requirement… or decreasing the slots it takes. If the spell is made to be top tier, increasing the faith requirement would be ok as not many would use it, if left unchanged as it is, decreasing the amount of slots it takes would be better

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TACTICAL NUKE

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physical damage? i would have definitely thought this was holy damage

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This one is truely a shame.

Scarlet Aeonia has such an beatuiful animation, but...

1.) it uses three (!!!) slots
2.) it takes forever to be casted
3.) it is way too expensive
4) it leaves you for all eternity nearly helpless to enemy attacks

So sad for the programmers that investet so many time and work in creating this thing of beauty. This incantation urgently needs an update.

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flashbang

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Unless you can get a good stealth hit in pvp (preferably in an enclosed space) do not use. Even if you land on top of an enemy they still have plenty of time to run out without taking damage, due to the delay of the flower opening.

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This procs rot much faster now! And is seriously so much fun to use with the recent buff

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This flower is insanely good. The wiki claims Radagon resists rot, but in my experience a single cast of this is enough to rot him. Hard to line up in PvE vs opponents with ranged attacks or high poise, but if you can stagger with the plunge part it sets up the rest.

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It needs more poise during the flower bud, right before the explosion. You still get interrupted, and the bud still consumes fp even without going off and flowering

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Actually usable now that it's been buffed in 1.07. The most significant difference is that you can now roll out of the recovery animation much earlier, shortly after the flower explosion occurs (in addition to some hyperarmor adjustments and the actual impact causing poise damage). This means with good positioning and timing, it's possible to get it off even against the ridiculously hyperactive cocaine addicts that are the endgame bosses.

You can actually use it to jump over specific attacks/ground AOE's if timed correctly, makes you feel like an absolute badass if you time it to successfully jump over Godfrey's phase transition stomp and inflict rot on him in return. Not to mention it just looks cool as **** in general, an absolute visual feast for the eyes and always impressive to see someone who knows how to use it in co-op.

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What an underrated spell, especially now. Obviously not the strongest and it requires a bit of positioning to use properly but it's still pretty decent. Most of all though its dang fun.

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As of patch 1.07 it still is nowhere near worth the cost or the slot requirements, but it is at least usable now.

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God damn is it pretty to look at.

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This spell is finally worth using after patch 1.07. Maybe.

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Scarlet Aeonia deals pure physical damage

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absolutely beautiful and fun to use don't really care what meta shitters think since they sacrifice all style just for a crumb of damage.

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Just a warning to people thinking to use this in boss fights, you get so much hyper armor while casting this that some bosses from a neutral state will get to perform full combo's on you while you are stuck in the recovery frames. with 55 vigor and 128 flat/48% physical reduction I have been combo'd down from 100% during the recovery unable to control my character in NG. If your planning to use this spell in PVE bossing be very careful when you cast it. No idea why they thought giving hyper armor frames to the longest recovery animation in the game was a good idea.

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TACTICAL NUKE INCOMING

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What does 50 per “TICK” mean?

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Does it scale with anything at all???

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this is my favorite spell in the game and i hate all of you people.

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Has some niche use against enemies with high rot resistance. You'll need to be able to tank a hit or two while it goes off though. Good time to use it is when an enemy is getting up from being hit by a critical attack. Has a cheaper FP cost compared to the double cast of rotten breath and can low profile some attacks while the flower blooms, but otherwise rotten breath has it beat.

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So I killed malenia(who might be blade of miquella), got her cool nuke spell, only to be locked in an huge animation and literally everything just walked up to me and grabbed/comboed me to death? Goddamn rotten breath is better in most ways, which is a shame, because this is much cooler than breathing on people :/

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God this is so visually pleasing to watch and use

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At this point, just use a weapon.

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anyone know how to effectively use this in pvp?

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Most beautiful thing in this game, deserves a freaking boost. Leaves you vulnerable for long time.

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I use this spell very often- it immediately rot every big enemy and ticks so much time ( dragon , rune bear etc) I always managed to survive first bloom and better inflicting rot then dragon breath .

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To all saying malenia bloomed in the room next to her boss arena, you are wrong. You can pick up clothes that are from one of milicents sisters, they are right next to the flower. The travelers clothes, meaning its a sister of milicent that made it there only to bloom

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I see a lot of complaints about no hyper armour or DR on this spell so I’ll offer the thing that let me beat its owner in 2 attempts:

Have we tried popping an Ironjar beforehand? You don’t need to roll to cast it, its movement isn’t based off of your walk speed , so it seems like the perfect temp solution till From decides to care.

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I tried to use this on maliketh. I thought the whole insanely long recovery time was just malenia’s thing, so that we can heal or cast spells to damage her. Boy, was I so wrong, I used it on maliketh, and he just stood there hitting me until I die, while I keep doing that supermodel pose

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What kind of damage, does it deal, how is the scaling %?

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You aren't going to believe this, but Scarlet Aeonia is the only way I could find to beat Mohg on my NG+ run. I've been trying to do it with no spirit ash summons and I didn't want to use the Mohg Shackle. Two days of trying every single incantation I had, respeccing to arcane, every weapon I had, etc. Nothing worked, then I have one last ditch effort when I see Scarlet Aeonia, the world’s most beautiful and useless spell in my spellbook. I had nothing to lose so I tried it. Killed him on the first try lol. Something about it just works on this creepy SOB. And I have never found another place that this spell was worth it.

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This incantation would benefit greatly from hyperarmor. It would still be a risk to use, but at least there would be a potent reward, even if it trades.

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Mentioned this over on the Prosthesis Wearer's Heirloom page but it def fits here too:

"when the young girl encountered her mentor and his flowing blade, she gained wings of unparalleled strength"

If we take this part literally it could mean that Malenia "bloomed" in a battle with her mentor. This would finally put the debate about Malenia's third bloom to rest since all 3 are accounted for in the established canon.

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Pros:

- Looks cool af
- Basically guarantees Scarlet Rot proc on any target that can be rotted

Cons:

- Makes you die because you're stuck in recovery animation for approximately 4 whole eternities
- Takes 3 spell slots
- Attained from the hardest boss in the game (As well as one of the end game bosses, making it basically a NG+ spell)

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This spell travels further vertically during casting than it does horizontally when you actually try to hit something. How tf does that make any sense? I can miraculously levitate like 10 ft in the air and when I majestically crash into the ground I’m only capable of 3 feet max

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So, the only use for this spell is to scralet rot bosses what usually too hard to rot with rotten breath. Like Placidusax, Radagon, fire giant and malenia herself, lol. Still pretty trash consedring it need 3 slots and you may die while sitting in the flower

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Malenia is a god so she gets to show you True Terror. We're some half-dead schmuck that wasn't even worth stealing the limbs off of for grafting (or... however the hell we ended up in the cave instead of glued to Godrick). So we get a nearly-completely useless wet fart of a spell that she uses to send us straight to the nearest Stake/destroy an entire continent in a tantrum.

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damage reduction and hyperarmor while using this is literally the easiest buff ever, if it is really the only buff it is going to get

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why doesn't wearing the full malenia set turn this into a nuke like the actual battle

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As others have already said, it's relatively underwhelming given how long the casting takes and the fact that your character is stuck with a really long recovery animation without any kind of damage mitigation afterwards. Worth noting though that it does apply a "deadly" version of scarlet rot that will absolutely melt boss HP bars, and is technically more FP efficient than rotten breath. But actually landing the attack can be difficult, especially against the late game hyperactive bosses who never stop attacking and constantly dash all over the arena like cocaine addicts, and you're basically guaranteed to trade 1-2 hits in the process especially if you're fighting solo.


But it does look cool as hell, and it's incredibly satisfying the land, I'll give it that much. But honestly needs another buff, either speeding up the casting time significantly or allowing you to roll out of the animation immediately after the flower explosion.

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This one and flame of the flame god are competing for coolest looking yet useless spells in the game and so far this one is number one

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Rot buildup should be changed to 200 on the explosion and 100 on subsequent ticks

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One of the coolest incantations so far even for animation, but needs to be buffed especially for PvE. The casting makes character vulnerable to hits because of slow recovery casting time, and the rotting takes a while to gain effect. I had to spam a few times on bosses, works well with many weak enemies surrounding though.

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some may say that rotten breath is better, and they are right. But this spell has what rotten breath lacks. PRESENTATION!

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why do all the cool looking incantations in this game suck : (

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If you summon torrent while the scarlet fog is still visible he'll get it too as if he's an enemy. I'm pretty sure summons are unaffected though.

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I'd rather get the colorful explosion or the spirits instead of this.

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Nuking Godfrey with it is so much fun, the ecstasy you get from firing WMDs is unparalleled.

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3 slots for a gesture

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since it is an incantation, is it holy damage? is malenias also holy?

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I love this spell I don't care that it's semi bad. It's just so funny to turn into a flower and bloom out scarlet rot

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I love this spell I don't care that it's semi bad. It's just so funny to turn into a flower and bloom out scarlet rot

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Great spell, uh, does decent damage. Just wished it used less than 3 slots and gave iFrames when you're in the flower. You're better off using Rotten Breath if you need rot. Scarlet Aoenia's got the cool factor, though. Nice to look at.

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Dunno why everyone hates on this. After full buff I use this to initiate boss fights. Yes you get hit, but every single time I used it I triggered rot on 1st try. I had multiple bosses where rot didn't set after multiple breaths. Plus this is the stronger version of rot against high hp enemies.
So it doesn't matter how much hp the boss has, 2 of these you trade for 2 hits will do the job.

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What would fix this and have it not completely garbage compared to rot breath would be if they made it so the bud form allows you to fall from greater heights without canceling the spell. Like if it’s a safe height just let the spell land, the recovery is atrocious.

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Extremely funny to use with Mimic Tear. Because Scarlet Aeonia has massive poise, slotting only this along with equipping only a seal will make your mimic have superarmor and eat up most attacks because of how chonk mimic is.

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Can be used against Mohg to rot him during the Nihil Chant, use Purifying Crystal Tear in preparation, and cast the spell on his back as he begins the cast, you have enough time to stand up before he can hit you again.

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Nearly useless--the AoE is so small that you'll barely hit anything in pve, and you're stuck in the crouch animation long enough for your crush to text you back. And it doesn't give iframes, so you usually die before you can do anything else.

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Best looking spell in the game, incredibly underpowered and consumes 3 slots though. Use it only to punish very long animations such as Placidusax's Ruin, another Scarlet Aeonia, Elden Stars, Dragon breath (if you caught them from behind and they keep breathing) and maybe a seppuku if you're fast enough. You need to free aim this incantation to NOT directly hit your enemy, just land close. Otherwise you'll stagger them out of their animation with pitiful damage and they'll roll out of the explosion. Good luck fellow servant of rot.

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This and the full moon spells should give iframes when you’re enclosed in the flower or moon

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"It has bloomed twice already. With the third bloom, she will become a true goddess." So, was the second blooming when we fought her? Considering the lore is connected to a soul we get after killing her, that seems to be the implication?

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Though people don't seem to like it. I like it for bosses and crowds, only thing I hate about it is your stuck vulnerable in the crounched animation for way to long. Wish you could roll cancel out of the crouched animation as soon as the explosion goes off. Sad cause its FP friendly compared to the dragon Scarlet Rot incantations. Plus its nice for faith builds if you don't go Arcane.

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Sadly disappointing considering is uses three slots.

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In other games you get the most powerful weapons/magic spells by killing the hardest endgame bosses. In From Software games, it seems that we get literally one of the worst incantation by killing one of the hardest boss if not the hardest of all. Thank you From Software.

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Sadly not buffed enough—this thing needs to travel way farther and way faster in order to be reasonably usable. The only way to set this up in pvp is in small spaces, or to fully charge a glintblade then immediately cast. It is my favorite spell and I will keep trying to find ways to land it, but I really don’t see how, without significant tuning to travel distance, this thing will ever see play outside of being a meme, sadly.

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I feel that the buff it could get now, would be to the ticking dmg for enemies that stay inside it, cause it should do more dmg tbh.

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Damage is is still pathetic and you are vulnerable during the whole animation.
The only thing that changes is that now you cast it and then die instead of getting staggered ou of it.

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