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i know that LW scales with Mag, how much Mag should someone using LW have for it to be better than CW? (or i am i wrong)

ohhh yea mashing the old R1 button. Its skillful when they kill you with it.
Your the noob when you kill them.
I had a dude apologize to me once. We had a duel and it went for a little while. The then attacked me with his pole weapon and texted me "Sorry for pole noobing you"
So in that statement he realized he couldn't beat me with out the stun lock.

I know i can already see the posts coming "but you can parry it" I get it. But when someone is bearing down on you with a curse weapon pole weapon i dont want to miss on the parry and get a full stamina bar of pole in the face because it STUN LOCKS.

I am curious whether or not your character tendency moves towards white if you banish a BP, like you do when you kill a BP. That would be my only reason for carrying the banish miracle as most of the time a black phantom invading isn't terrible to deal with.

I will have to agree with most people on this thread that the miracle is not broken or cheap. If the person wants to take the risk to cast this miracle, as you need to be close to the BP for it to work, I say power to them if they succeed!

Some people really like to invade to ruin someone else's day on their world by stealing their body. There are also people that like to sit back and wait for an invading BP to ruin THEIR day by banishing them.

Additionally don't BPs have one advantage over those they invade? They can utilize the environment to their advantage as monsters will not attack them ( the exception I know currently is the dragons in world 1). I've seen many videos where the BP was outnumbered because of blue phantoms and the BP ran off into the monsters to heal. The little distraction that monsters provide can give any decent player an invaluable advantage.

That just my opinion anyways =)

So what would your version be?

I assume it depends on whether your character is built for physical damage or magical damage. I'm trying to get a BBS build together and I'm having a hard time figuring out which of the two spells I should get since I haven't had any experience with either of them. Right now my damage stats are

Str: 18 (I'm going to level this down and stick with DSS) 22 (For PFS once I grab it)
Dex: 18
Mag: 18
Will: 18

I apologize for not having my complete build, but I don't remember everything off the top of my head at the moment. Any feedback related to my build, or any general comments bout LW vs. CW would be greatly appreciated. : ) Thanks in advance.

Anyways, the original question was about farming gecko's nest. I have used both spells, and firestorm misses between 1/3 and 1/2 of the geckos, due to not going through obsticles (the mine carts) or over elevations. In NG+ though, with low Faith it will take at least 2 casts to kill them, which means you need to keep OLD SPICE ready. They dissapear if you eat 2 fresh spices.

Fireball:
Pros- ranged, decent damage, large hit area, fire damage, good for stopping a players charge, 2 slots
Con- weakest of the 3, slow
Firestorm:
Pros- a lot of damage, mid-close range, can be used after a backstab, can stop a players charge if you are pro
Cons- 3 slots, easily predictable, leaves you wide open for an attack, sometimes enemies fly at you and deal damage to you

God's Wrath(i am not very familiar with but here is what i know):
Pros- 2 slots, larger hit range than FS, deals the same amount of damage as FS, used after a backstab
Cons- need 4 slots to use with 2nd chance, leaves you open before the attack, VERY slow, scales with faith stat (bad for mages)

I use firestorm so it is just a personal preference