its an end game dex int weapon found near an end game str int weapon, I'd guess they were probably trying give options to people who were ready to start moving builds into new directions after maxing a primary skill.
I know it’s not the same, but for all of you who need copium waiting for this on a run in the mountaintops, clayman’s harpoon and AOW Ice spear exist. Then by the time you get death ritual spear you’ll have a nice pair for powerstancing. Cold/magic Clayman’s and ice spear SLAP on pve. You can occasionally catch people turning corners in pvp as well. Just note the sound of the AOW as a good opponent will hear. Just note that the scaling leans to STR and death ritual leans dex. Shouldn’t matter if you’re running magic on Clayman’s tho.
Except you'll either have to beat at least one of those bosses, their areas (which adds up at least 2 more mandatory bosses, 3-4 if you're not masochistic enough to go for Mohg or Radahn that early) AND the one that drops the weapon very underleveled, or grind a lot to fix that and end up significantly overleveled for the areas you left behind.
This is THE most inconsistent weapon skill in the game, it will either hit for 2000+ damage easily on even smaller targets(like regular soldiers) or deal like 400 to a God damn dragon. I can't even tell why, when it lands, it lands and deals good damage, but it can decide not to for... some reason.
If im correct, it has a limit on maximum number of spears that can deal dmg to a single target, so even if you hit all the spears on a massive target, you wont get the full dmg
