Spell Balance Suggestions

[ACuriousGrey]

I still 100% believe it'd be good to maybe increase the impact slightly[like 2 or 2.5] but have the projectiles consume on hit so it doesn't enter the shred state. Make it bleed 1stack per hit[max of 5] giving more function to the aura and the passive that can be purchased in the tree overall increasing synergy  and preventing the massive shred that can occur while giving it a more synergized feel overall. I think it'd do some good to consider this.

As towards the DR maybe 15% instead of the 20% it currently is[cleanable like the rot status effect?] but again its 6 seconds which can be played around easy enough as they only really get about 2 spell casts during it

This would absolutely make the blood blades spawned by scarlet circle and blood sacrifice so much more balanced. I wouldn't even mind if they hit for 3 or 4 SD + bleed as long as they're consumed. To put it into perspective, they hit for I think 2 SD per tick and often tick several times in a second- I'd say it's easy to hit 12 SD or more per blade per second.

In a spar with someone that has 343 power, I get hit with ~600 damage per tick blood blades. I have around 70k HP, and blocked either one or two of them, I don't remember, and proceeded to watch half of my block bar disappear. My block bar is around 23k HP, and so that means I took effectively 15k to 20k damage while only getting hit by half of the blood blades. The math checks out to around 36 SD base (it's 44 SD after Scarlet Circle DR shred). While only being hit with two of four. So that means I would have gotten hit with 72 SD base for all four, or 88 SD if you take into account the DR shred.

To put it more into perspective, with just two blades from this spell, I can, with the exact same power numbers:
Do more damage than precision slash + fatal combined.
Do more damage than sanc flash + lifebomb combo.
Do more damage than standing in any AoE in the game throughout it's entire duration (Holy and Occult AoEs especially).
Do more damage than most combinations of any two master spells.

And the worst part about this is that it's not even reliable to use or get ruined by. When I tried to test it in a more controlled setting, the blades' hitboxes were of course janky, but the amount of times they ticked wasn't consistent either. I stood there, and got ticked once, then moved one single tile and the same blood blade ticked seven times in that movement.

In conclusion: I fucking hate this spell.