Talk:Golden Ritual Spear/@comment-31615289-20190729054559

Doesn't beat the Crystal Chime until 18/45, identical to Heretic's around 60. Basically, it's a middle ground Catalyst that also gets decent AR. Among Faith-scaling weapons, it uniquely increases Magic damage, making it have a very niche use case in being Faith-based magic damage on melee and a Faith-scaling catalyst in one lightweight weapon slot. Most of its scaling comes after 40 Faith, so it is not useful on low-Faith builds.

It beats out most Crystal-infused Spears when Faith is the same level as Intelligence, and has lower stat requirements than other Spears. Dark and Chaos infusions will beat it, but they don't deal Magic damage.