Talk:Soul Spear (Dark Souls II)/@comment-66.207.231.187-20140731193908/@comment-11348656-20140806093647

Soul spear is stronger than great lightning spear, but have less usage and bot special properties are situation-related: lightning spears are great in watery areas while soul lance is incredibly useful for piercing mobs in narrow corridors or when aligned.

Crystal solul spear is way stronger (about 30% more: I averagely hit for 850/spear with 65 int) but has only 2-3 usages. It's best for bosses or very difficult situations. Still, it requires only one attunement slot. Sunlight Spear is very destructive (more than 25% than crystal spear) but requires 2 slots while having same usages than crystal souls spear.

I would suggest you to use miracles or sorceries only based on your playstyle. If you have both faith and intelligence very high (50+ like me) I would suggest overall sorceries over miracles, because it has a more complete range of attacking spells.

But if you manage to have a lot of slots and strongest versions of lightning lances (maybe in ng+++ for ex.) you can manage to make well too.

Unfortunately after the most recent patch, lightning spears have been nerfed in usages and standar lightning spears also lost power, so I don't suggest to have a full array of lightning miracles. Just strongest ones. But even here, It depends on your play style.

What I can tell you is that I am in NG++ just using sorceries and I have to admit that once you can cast 12-14 soul spears against boss battles it becomes quite easy and cheap.

I hope to have helped you somwhat.