Board Thread:Dark Souls II/@comment-11372593-20140719083612/@comment-68.146.118.212-20140720010851

I use witchtree branch for casting, for its speed and its being more powerful than the sorcerer's staff I was using before. Sometime I use Drangleic armor set with Hexer's hood. Sometimes I like to use the Lion Mage set, because it looks so good. Sometimes I also use the desert sorceress set for the same reason, it's sexy and has great magic defense.

For miracles I use Disc Chime because I love how it doubles as a shield. I've also got Caitha's Chime for it's incredible Dark damage, but so few miracles use it unfortunately.

For weapons I prefer to use poison wherever possible, I got the Manscorpion Targ's stinger sword, that I love! It does a lot of damage even without the poison, and you can attack and block simultaneously. Other than that, Poison Spotted Whip, or just your every day Fire longsword. I like to use poison arrows and poison daggers a lot too.

Maybe I just need to get more confident in PVP, but mainly the reason why I started this thread is because, every time I level up my intelligence to get that next greater spell, the spell has been nerfed and it's rather anticlimatic. The latest was the Soul Geyser spell, I was excited when I finally got enough INT to use it but the excitement was short lived, discovering that it has been dratically nerfed. It seems like every good spell has been nerfed.

I think that there should be a petition to restore ALL of the spells. Even Melee only players would want that, I would think, since they must get bored with the lack of challenge - it's the danger element that makes the game exciting after all, I would think that it would be more exciting if you knew that getting hit with that spell would seriously damage you and not just cause a dent.