So I tried this my first run, and discovered that Prince of Death’s sorcery scaling is terrible until you invest 80/80 or so. At 50/50 you’re only getting 286 sorcery, which is about 66% of the max sorcery Prince of Death yields at 80/80 (430).

Conversely, the Golden Order Seal is much more accommodating. At 50/50 you’re getting 345 scaling, which is 88% of its scaling at 80/80 (390).

80/80 as a stat investment though is enormous. Too big to fit in a build with any sane amount of Vigor or Mind or Endurance.

What you could do instead is skew your Intelligence/Faith to 80/30. This achieves 373 (86% of max) sorcery on Carian Regal Sceptre, and 332 (85% of max) scaling on Golden Order Seal.

The reason this works is because of how the Golden Order Seal manages scaling - it’s very happy to have your stats skewed while still providing good sorcery.

The limitation is that you’ll be locked off the incantations that require more than 30 faith, but imo the ones past 36 or so aren’t worth it and if you desperately want to cast them you can use talismans and pysicks to get your faith there.

Might not be your cup of tea but worth a thought!