47. "pivoting into "death caster" build as i approach the end game" In response to In response to 0 Thu Mar-31-22 02:53 PM by bearfield
my maxed out prince of death (PoD) staff has the highest sorcery scaling of all my staves since it scales off both INT and faith, on my character at 70 and 50, respectively. this is around 375 scaling, which beats rennala's staff and my guess is about even with a maxed out lusat's staff, the advantage going to PoD staff since it doesn't have increased FP consumption. i might try respecing into 60/60 or INT/faith to see what the scaling looks like on PoD staff and the golden order seal. i am hunting the death rite birds to get all the "death" sorceries (PoD staff boosts damage on these) and the death spear. the upgraded slow-moving-homing-death-spirits spell seems kind of busted because you can spam the shit out of it and set up other spells/incants as the spirits are approaching the target. i am cleaning up the secret snow area then it's on to the "last" (?) area after the snowbound molcajete, then NG+ for a bit or for achievements before i run a new tanky str/dex build. the 2nd NG runs on these games are always great because you can go in with a plan since you know the location of all the gear you will need to make your build work
of note: i maxed out on flask count and power but still have 5 golden seeds and a few sacred tears. this is very odd for a souls game as usually they are scarce. i guess i can sell them?