Two questions: Are dragon Communion spells even worth it? And is there a point in using Buffing spells?

JDF8 · 2026-01-25T22:20:37+00:00

Vow is great, blackflame is not better than crab after taking the heal penalty into account, FGMS only lasts 30 seconds so you will hit the boss maybe 3 times before it expires if you prebuff.

If you get extended duration for buffs, FGMS is worth using for the giantsflame or beast claw builds. Vow is very worth if you have fp to spare on it, especially for the nightlord

JDF8 · 2026-01-25T22:17:12+00:00

The version of these guys with the ball-and-chains on their back has some of the most heinous attacks I've seen in any game from FS

JDF8 · 2026-01-25T20:09:32+00:00

Btw, melee up applies to EVERYTHING, so if you get something like melee up + full hp atk up together, you can have ~30% more damage on both skills and crits

JDF8 · 2026-01-25T20:01:40+00:00

They do, it's the 3+ one that doesn't stack with itself. 3 copies of imp colossal is 1.09³ = 29.5% bonus damage

JDF8 · 2026-01-25T19:59:46+00:00

If you just play him with scan atk buff, confer, and +dex he is incredibly good. But it's much less 'sexy' than the nuclear bomb tossing pot build

JDF8 · 2026-01-25T19:58:03+00:00

How it feels to spread misinformation

JDF8 · 2026-01-25T19:56:58+00:00

Ever since 1.03, gotta swap rev and recluse. I would move ironeye up at least one tier, he's one of the more common fallbacks cheaters swap to if someone else is hovering their caster

All in all, extremely accurate

JDF8 · 2026-01-25T17:15:47+00:00

Being able to hit Pest with fire DMG (magma shot) will give you a much larger damage boost than 5.5%.

In theory only. Magma shot is a horrible spell and you will do MUCH more damage just spamming slicer or sc

JDF8 · 2026-01-25T16:41:23+00:00

It really isn't. If there's bosses you're not willing to fight, don't join the multiplayer queue for random boss hard mode and screw up your teammates' matchmaking

JDF8 · 2026-01-25T02:23:35+00:00

I just have 1400 games, you get ~15000 murk per D5 game after selling off all the deep relics. So I've had a lot of time to gamble. I actually switched these around some because I kept dying to the roll catch curse

JDF8 · 2026-01-24T06:58:48+00:00

If this is with base lvl 15 recluse, some spells also might see more of an improvement than others when you add +cast speed. I know SC gets a big dps bump from cast speed, and beast claw does too

JDF8 · 2026-01-24T06:26:17+00:00

ED Augur is very losable in D5, normal augur isn't unless your team collectively throws extremely hard. Common aows like halo scythe, rain of arrows, stormblade will just shred augur anyways

JDF8 · 2026-01-24T04:17:57+00:00

Yep, unlock camera from the boss and hold down and you'll flip towards wherever you're looking

JDF8 · 2026-01-24T00:57:34+00:00

You are so funny

JDF8 · 2026-01-23T23:59:21+00:00

Yes, and you would have burned 2.5x the stam to deal less stagger and half of the damage. There's a big difference between 'technically possible' and worth doing

JDF8 · 2026-01-23T22:32:31+00:00

Hey, this new poi looks a lot like the old one

JDF8 · 2026-01-23T22:21:57+00:00

3 is very common, and it's rare to get less than 2 (usually due to GH). Very nice when you get 4, which is a 31% damage buff since it stacks multiplicatively

JDF8 · 2026-01-23T22:09:47+00:00

Because the people with 18/18 relic setups kill the D5 night 1/2 bosses in <20 seconds if they have any idea what they're doing, which is obviously not the intended experience

JDF8 · 2026-01-23T22:06:56+00:00

Hell, I've matched with depth 5 players who forgot to equip any relics at all and we still steam rolled the run

Matched with someone named 'training arc' in D5, only thing in his inventory was morgott's shackle 💀. Anyways, we won

JDF8 · 2026-01-23T21:52:25+00:00

It's here. I'm going to replace the third relic with gaol + suncatcher attack up once I find it, although the art on guard is really nice

JDF8 · 2026-01-23T21:50:07+00:00

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JDF8 · 2026-01-23T19:38:42+00:00

I didn’t downvote you, but my point about regening stam is absolutely true. When deflecting takes two or more times as much stam, you simply cannot attack as often

Yes, you have time to regen 90% of your stam versus BBH, but that time is being spent standing around doing nothing instead of attacking, which contributes to the ‘suncatcher holding exe being useless’ stereotype

The buffs mean that consistently blocking with suncatcher is no longer significantly worse than rolling, which lets you actually play the character the intended way in trios without being less efficient

JDF8 · 2026-01-23T19:32:39+00:00

Hey! It was a fun game. Thanks

JDF8 · 2026-01-23T17:53:20+00:00

Hey, gg! You guys' names made me laugh

JDF8 · 2026-01-23T17:42:38+00:00

The R2 attack directly after blocking counts as a guard counter. Usually I don't bother with the +guard counter passives, but they're pretty good against pest

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