Dark Souls II official thread of telling us your journey through Drangleic

[lestatdark]

SvennoJ said:

lestatdark said:

SvennoJ said:
I changed some of my armor for caster benefits, faster casting sleeves, extra spell uses hat, second dragon ring. Now I'm down to only 37.5% equipment load. Maybe I should re-allocate my points, no need for 20 vitality anymore. Can you do that without any negative side effects?

You can relocate without penalties, you'll be booted down to your starting SL. I switched my stats twice in the first playthrough, Soul Vessel is one of the best additions to DS2.

Cool, I'll unlock great lightning spear tonight. That needs 42 faith, but I've been putting points in int instead to get soul vortex at 37, which was quite underwhelming. Looks cool yet pretty inefficient in pve. It would be a lot more useful if you could target pve AoE spells instead of them centering around you. As a caster the last thing I want to do is stand in the middle of a group of enemies. Soul shower kind of works but still manages to almost miss everything. So far Flame swathe has only proved to be very effective with some aoe damage. Too bad it only has 4 uses, it does a lovely 1100 damage :)

A lot of mage builds I've seen revolve around Soul Vortex. Might be a PvP thing only, but it seems to be pretty effective. How about Hexes, using any?