The clutch ring is useless.
And what's the point of getting miracles then if i do 10 times more damage with my regular weapon?
If spells ever did the same damage as weapons, they would be massively OP because they also have range. In DkS 1, you could say this was balanced by limited casts, but you have herbs in DkS 2, and also in PvP limited casts rarely mean anything unless it is less than 3. The point of spells is to be able to do damage from far away without any of the risk of being near the guy you are fighting.
Go ahead and do Darklurker right now after the miracle nerf with Lightning Spears and then with melee only and tell me that casting still isn't incredibly powerful. Also, between the magics themselves I like spears best because they have the fastest travel time (not cast time, travel time of the actual projectile), longest range, and they cast from your hand not your weapon so they have a very standard angle and are easy to aim. They really have to have some downsides compared to other magic to not be straight better than them, unfortunately they made the downside super low casts which is frustrating.
It's still a nerf.
And the ring reduce casting time.
I was talking about the Stone Ring at first, the one that increases poise damage, and whether or not it affected spells. After, I was talking about Blue Clearstone which reduces cast time, but how the +0 and +1 are like 25% and 50% reduction while the +2 was 122% reduction so it seemed too powerful because it jumped up in effect so much, sorry I didn't word it well the first time.
I should get the Chime of Want and try it out before totally abandoning the idea..