Board Thread:Dark Souls II/@comment-25153660-20140709082811/@comment-5632187-20140826202928

All they did was balance Miracles to be on par with Sorceries. It was beyond ridiculous how easy Miracles made the PvE pre-patch. You could get 80 castings of Lightning Spear for 4 stacks, that's ridiculous. Now the Miracles and Sorceries have roughly the same # of castings for similar damage. Plus, Miracle casters have Great Magic Barrier, Sunlight Blade, Wrath of the Gods, Emit Force, and Sacred Oath. Miracles are far from worthless if you ask me, they still have good damage, decent cast #s(pro tip, Amber Herbs are a thing), and most enemies in the game are still weak to lightning.