Talk:Great Lightning Spear (Dark Souls II)/@comment-76.188.193.0-20171216182921

Say what you will about post-nerf lightning, it's still really strong for PVE, especially with the crown of the old iron king or the hexer's hood. If you get a weapon that scales primarily with strength or dex, deals innate lightning damage, and infuse it with lightning, you can get a huge amount of damage, comparable to a strength/dex build. That takes care of your melee combat, and you should kill basegame enemies in 1-3 hits with GLS. I will agree that it's objectively the weakest type of magic, but in my opinion, the other forms of magic are simply overpowered.

In conclusion, the reduced number of casts changed lightning from a boss killer to an enemy killer/problem solver.