Talk:Dragonslayer Spear (Dark Souls II)/@comment-223.62.178.112-20140525060138/@comment-5524716-20140527150611

If you're not running a faith build, and just want the lightning damage as a suppliment to fight enemies with better physical resistance, run dex/str and take the Heide Spear or the Heide Lance, as it is actually longer and does more poise damage than the Dragonslayer Spear (also, to clear up a mistake made by the AWC below me, the Dragonslayer Spear and the Heide Spear both do 20 poise damage). If you want to use the Dragonslayer Spear effectively, run a dex/faith build. Lightning damage scales with faith (technically, it scales with the lightning modifier, but that increases with faith) on all weapons, so you will want some investment into faith for either weapon. This weapon's main draw is that its strong attacks fire a lightning spear-like projectile at a heavy durability cost. Plus, as the AWC said, it's slightly longer than the Heide Spear, but it's still shorter than the Heide Lance.