Dark Weapon |
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| Spell Type | |
| Requirement | 16 Intelligence |
 Slots Used |
1 Slot |
| Spell Uses | 4-8 |
| Type | Weapon Buff |
Dark Weapon is a Hex in Dark Souls 2. To cast a Hex, you must use a staff/chime or Special Weapons that can cast Hex.
"Felkin the Outcast applied his art to transform Magic Weapon into a hex.
Adds dark damage to the types of damage the weapon already inflicts.
Those who choose the path of dark are admonished by all manner of sorcerer.
But that does not stop the curious from being drawn to this strangely alluring craft.
Catalyst: staff"
Acquired From
- Purchased from Felkin the Outcast for 2700 souls
Notes
- Buffs weapon with dark damage. Duration scales with Intelligence (As it is cast with a staff): 57 sec. at 16 Int, and up to 99 sec. at 24 Int. Inferior to Resonant Weapon. Equivalent to Crystal Magic Weapon and Sunlight Blade in effectiveness.
- DS2's buff formula differs from other Souls games, instead relying primarily on the targeted weapon's base damage to determine how much AR the spell buff will add. Matching the spell buff with a damage type present on a weapon will add a flat bonus to the total AR, depending on whatever the weapon is infused with and/or naturally inflicts said damage type. A small scaling bonus is also added unless the targeted weapon doesn't scale at all with any stats.
- While this is arguably the best weapon buff for dark-infused weapons, it should be noted that a resonant weapon does slightly more damage (.05, a negligible amount but more nonetheless) and should not be overlooked for a hexer that focuses on chime-based spells.
AnonymousThe best spell in the game. Just put this on anything and watch those numbers go up! It is so cheap too, 16 Int/14 Faith? Oh my goodness, it even gives you 4 (four) casts by default. Seriously I can't NOT get it every playthrough, it's a little too good lol
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The claim that resonant weapon is superior to dark weapon is NOT TRUE! With a weapon having no dark damage, dark weapon adds more dark damage than RW, RW lasts for only ~75 seconds at 99 in while DW lasts for 99 seconds at 24 in, RW takes 2 slots while DW requires only 1. RW is INFERIOR to DW!
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I’m playing SotFS on Xbox, and neither this nor resonant weapon add any damage whatsoever, it’s entirely visual. Is this a bug? It doesn’t change any values on the status or weapon pages, nor after hitting various things does it appear to add any damage. I’ve cast them both on uninfused dark innate weapons, infused dark with dark Innate, and every weapon type.
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Will it deal the same amount of damage if I spice it down to 10 faith?
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The best weapon buff among them all. If you have decent int - use this, no matter what element your weapon has.
Does the game really allow you to buff infused weapons? I just tested it on PS4 (DS2 SOTFS)
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I'm starting to lose my mind..
My dark infused Sacred Chime does 906 damage with Dark Weapon to the Firekeeper, but when I use Resonant Weapon, which supposed to be a little bit stronger, only 901? Both my Int and Faith is on 40, tried using the Sanctum Shield to cast both, and staff/chime for each, same result.
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Can this be used to buff a staff or chime? It doesn’t seem to let me buff mine but I have seen people on YouTube do this
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Felling doesn't sell me the hex. Is there anything special I have to do before it's for sale?
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does this not stack with imbued weapons like the sunlight blade?
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Was anything changed about the buff endurance? Only lasts less than 30 seconds for me now. Nerf?
How much is the base damage? And how much is lvling faith and int on a non dark infused weapon increase it?
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