Board Thread:Dark Souls II/@comment-5264386-20140611115320

Hello to whoever happens to read this,

With the recent release of the latest calibration (1.06 on Xbox), the durations of weapon buffs were changed to scale with the player's Faith or Intelligence, depending on the spell of course. Well, I can verify that this is true, since I decided to do some testing. There aren't a lot of results, since my caster build had high-ish prior to the calibration. Anyways, here's what I've found so far:

What does this tell us, though?
 * 1) Predictably, Flame Weapon's duration is stagnant, since pyromancies don't scale with Intelligence or Faith
 * 2) Resonant Weapon got nerfed. Hard. Changing Faith by five points did nothing to add to its duration (which is probably reflective of how it needed to be nerfed).
 * 3) Between 37 and 42 Faith, Sunlight Blade gained only 10 seconds of duration, suggesting that the scaling returns may not be that great at higher levels. Sunlight Blade also got nerfed a bit, since its duration used to be 90 seconds. I also initially only had one more point of Faith than the requirement to cast it (36).

I intend to do more testing; next time, I'll use Navlaan's hood to boost intelligence to 45 to see how the results vary for the Magic Weapon variants and Dark Weapon. 