Any good way to use Spiritual Weapon of Priest of Magran?

[Hoo]

Hello. 

I'm considering to play Priest of Magran, but really confused how to use the Spiritual Weapon of Priest of Magran... 

 

I mean, I really don't know what purpose to use melee and ranged dual wielding style is. Two Swords or two Pistols are way better than it imo, but if there is some unique feature and/or merit, I would like to use it. Any interesting build while using this weird summoned weapons?

 

Thanks in advance!

[Boeroer]

It's suboptimal if you have any class combo that grants you Full Attacks (like Priest/Rogue or so) which you wanted to use. Because with a hybrid weapon setup only one weapon will be used fot those Full Attacks (which is a shame).

If you only get Primary Attack abilies and/or auto attacks then the hybrid setup has no drawbacks: you still get the speed bonus of dual wielding and two weapon style, even if you only attack with one of the weapons. The advantage is that you can attack all sorts of enemies on the battlefield without moving but can still use melee features (like engagement). And you can use melee-only and ranged-only attacks, too.  

If you get a lot of accuracy bonuses (like Aware + Devotions and so on) you can use the pistol's modal and combine it with dual wielding/two weapon style which leads to fantastic reloading speed for the pistol. Something like Magran/Ranger can be nice where you use the sword for Hunter's Claw to gain more ACC for example and the pistol with Gunner and Driving Flight for high speed ranged stuff then.

Edited September 17, 2021 by Boeroer

[Hoo]

17 minutes ago, Boeroer said:

It's suboptimal if you have any class combo that grants you Full Attacks (like Priest/Rogue or so) which you wanted to use. Because with a hybrid weapon setup only one weapon will be used fot those Full Attacks (which is a shame).

If you only get Primary Attack abilies and/or auto attacks then the hybrid setup has no drawbacks: you still get the speed bonus of dual wielding and two weapon style, even if you only attack with one of the weapons. The advantage is that you can attack all sorts of enemies on the battlefield without moving but can still use melee features (like engagement). And you can use melee-only and ranged-only attacks, too.  

If you get a lot of accuracy bonuses (like Aware + Devotions and so on) you can use the pistol's modal and combine it with dual wielding/two weapon style which leads to fantastic reloading speed for the pistol. Something like Magran/Ranger can be nice where you use the sword for Hunter's Claw to gain more ACC for example and the pistol with Gunner and Driving Flight for high speed ranged stuff then.

Hmm, so the ranged+melee dual wielding combo is sort of flexibility, right? I know the flexibility is quite important in this game, however, it's... something like... meh for me. 

Probably the Ranger+Priest of Magran would be somewhat useful though. 

[Boeroer]

Yes, the advantage is mostly about flexibility (when using the spiritual weapons). Still: if you don't plan to use a lot of Full Attacks there's no real drawback either. 

I personally would have liked two or even three variants of spiritual weapons per Priest subclass - in line with PoE's weapon options for Priests (Magran: Arquebus/Sword, Berath: Mace/Great Sword, Eothas: Flail/Morning Star, Wael: Quarterstaff/Rod and so on). Would have been easy to implement.

But that's not the case so...

Edited September 17, 2021 by Boeroer