Sunlight Spear |
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| Spell Type | Miracle |
| Requirements | 50 Faith, and member of the Warrior of Sunlight Covenant. |
| Slots Used | 2 |
| Spell Amount | 5 |
Sunlight Spear is a Miracle in Dark Souls. To cast a miracle, you must use a Talismans or Special Weapons that can cast Miracles.
Miracle born from the fading soul of Gwyn. Hurl sunlight spear.
In the war that marked the dawn of the Age of Fire, Gwyn wielded these rays of sunlight, which remains fierce even as they fade.
Usage
- Attack, Ranged
- Draws a Sunlight Spear, from the hand that holds the Talisman, which is hurled towards the target.
Acquired From
This miracle is attained through the Warrior of Sunlight covenant. As for covenant item, you can have it only once per character.
- Attain Warrior of Sunlight +1 and offer Soul of Gwyn, Lord of Cinder at Sunlight Altar.
Notes
AoE effect that does no damage but knocks back most surrounding enemies.
- Must be a member of the Warrior of Sunlight Covenant to use this Miracle.
- If you leave the covenant and rejoin you do not have to regain rank +1 to use the miracle, only to obtain it.
- Compared to the other lightning spears, the Sunlight spear is larger and has a reddish coloring. Not only does it give increased amounts of damage compared to earlier spears, but it also has a heavy knockback effect.
At 50 faith, using sunlight talisman and ring of the sun's firstborn, the three lightning spear miracles does the following damage on a random undead in the undead burg:
- Lightning Spear - 458
- Great Lightning Spear - 644
- Sunlight Spear (this miracle) - 861
Sunlight Spear in action with Darkmoon Talisman, Ring of the Sun's Firstborn and Crown of the Dark Sun.
- Darkwella
Trivia
- In DS2, this Miracle is described as being powered by immense, wondrous souls.
AnonymousKind of sucks that you can't use this miracle and the princess guard miracles in multiplayer. Guess you need to pick offence or support.
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You can do more overall damage with 10 casts of Great Lightning Spear than 5 casts of Sunlight Spear. This Miracle is not worth even if it did only take 1 slot
- Anonymous
I honestly wonder if it's even worth it. Damage and knockback is great but it can be still dodged like any singe projectile spell. And to use it you have to:
- Get to 50 Faith and NG+
- Be Sunlight Warrior so forget about any pvp covenant
- Waste 2 spell slots for mere 5 casts
Sure it makes sense if you make character purely for co-op boss fighting. So you get summoned before fog gate and fire all 5 spears to trash the boss and then finish it. But outside of this scheme? Nah. Personally I think equiping 2 copies of Wrath of the Gods instead is much more profitable option.
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It's interesting that sunlight and lightning are conflated in Dark Souls. It sort of makes sense from a physics standpoint (magnetic fields and all that), but fire seems like it would be much more obvious.
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Thats what Elden Ring is missing for me, Sunlight Spear my beloved. Hope they add an upgraded Lightning Spear for Godwyn, if he is in Elden Ring DLC
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ok so I offered gwyndolin's soul and got this miracle but still kept the soul, is that how it is?
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It says Sunlight spear only does ~800 max but I've gotten it to do >1000
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if i beat the game with sunlight spear do i get to use it on new game ++
It is quite sad that we do not have the miracles magic adjust written here.
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if you have the ring of the suns first born and the crown of dusk giving this a 40% boost,it will destroy every boss in the game easily
Quick question. Can you offer the soul on NG, because someone dropped me one and I would like to get the miracle trophy without having to go back through the game (to get to all the pvp hotspots). Just wondering, if I can't I will probably still do it, it would just be less convenient
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"the three lightning spear miracles does the following damage on a random undead in the undead burg"
Imagine just chilling and someone hurls a spear made out of lightning at you
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I’m playing remastered on PS4 and I offered 10 medals in NG to get the first rewards and abandoned the covenant reducing my offerings to 5. In NG+ I reached the altar with 5 medals on hand to reach rank 1 again but I was given the option to offer Gwyn’s soul immediately. Confused, I exited the menu, checked my rank and it was not +1 as it shouldn’t be but I was able to go back into the options, offer the soul and obtain the sunlight spear which also netted me the miracles trophy I was chasing. It appears that being rank 1 at any point in the characters time is enough to offer Gwyn’s soul even if you have abandoned and lost that rank since. Any confirmations of this?
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is it worth having for coop over the other lightning spears? 2 attunements slots AND less uses is alot less kills id think. Dx
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This should be the last miracle that I needed to obtain the Prayer of a Maiden achievement. I offered the soul of gwynn to the altar and got this miracle. The problem is that I didn't get the achievement. I have all the miracles listed in the wiki. Does somebody else have this problem?
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Who gives a **** about the DS2 description, whats the point in posting the item description from a game that isn't DS1?
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If I give a friend the souls will he be able to get the sunlight spear?
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So, can I get the spear if i'm not +1 or do I have to join again and raise my rank to +1 ? Becauae I need to leave it for a bit and I want to know if I will have to co-op again to get the spear later ?
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Anybody know why I can't offer Gwyn's soul to the altar even though I'm in ng+? I'm Warrior of Sunlight +1 and have a few souls of Gwyn but I wonder if that's why. I got multiple souls before I entered ng+ because I helped a friend out.
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1. 10 sunlight medals needed to obtain rank 1 for sunlight spear
2. Soul of Gwyn required for sunlight spear
3. Only one is obtainable per playthrough.
How is this hard I wrote this in 2mins without contradicting myself yet this guy can't seem to pull that off.
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What does that mean "you dont have to be +1" but then it states "soul + 10 medals"? Thats contradicting itself
If I offer the soul of Gwyn to the altar after having obtained Sunlight Spear, do I get an additional copy of the spell?
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