10 Aug only if you’re playing ng+ and above, at that point, I could also farm sunlight blade to accompany darkmoon, who, albeit has lower damage, lightning is far better than magic.

why would he get a girlfriend if he can hang out and jeke jeke off with big hat logan, they both love sorceries it seems

Curved swords! Daggers don't deal that good damage even with the buff. Thrusting swords are pretty good with their running attack that hits twice and Ricard's Rapier's R2 is very good on bosses, but I think that curved swords are better in general

Anon 27 Jun. You can get multiple copies of CMW, attuning only 2 brings cast amount back to 3.

Lol, I bet you didn’t even test this before posting, like majority of comments here. Both Manus and TCC bring the casts down to 1, so it’s the same as darkmoon blade,
second, why tf is less requirements a positive? The higher your int/faith the better, why should I care if it’s 25 and not 30 the more int/faith the better the boost, and if you have the darkmoon talisman you’re already rank 1, I’ll rather have the Darkmoon

Use the latter for bosses and tough situations and the former for everything else

Between daggers, curved swords, and rapiers, which is the best for getting good damage both with and without the spell?

Depends on what you're fighting

Fixed

it adds a flat amount of magic damage to the weapon so using a faster hitting weapon will get more value out of the spell