This will give you Medium Base damage and Medium Buff damage. Reach the softcap in one 'physical stat' ( Strenght or Dexterity ), infuse the weapon with the proper infusion ( Heavy for Strenght-oriented or Sharp for Dexterity-oriented ) and the spare point in the relativa casting stats.Lightning Blade with Yorksha's Chime : ~ 213 Bonus AR => 245(PvE)/230(PvP) Greatsword path ( Strenght 28, Dexterity 12, Intelligence 9, Faith 54, Heavy Infused ) Lightning Blade with Yorksha's Chime : ~ 234 Bonus AR => 269(PvE)/253(PvP) How to spend our 60 points: reach the prerequisite of your weapon then put all of them in Intelligence/Faith.īroadsword path ( Strenght 13, Dexterity 12, Intelligence 9, Faith 60, Raw Infused )

This will give you Low Base damage and High Buff damage. Reach the minimal requirement of the weapons of choice, raw infuse it and then spend everything in the caster stats.I'll cover 3 simple ways to build from this point and I'll use the Broadsword and the Greatsword as examples and assuming we use the Clutch Ring of the same element of the buff to get +15% elemental damage for that type in PvE or 8% in PvP. The other stats are at their starting values. I've put 30 in Vigor/Endurance/Vitality to assume we have a total of 90 points between these 3 stats - you can go for example 40 in vigor and 20 in vitality -, but most of the time you want to spend here these points since you need to not be one-shotted or not able to attack multiple times with your weapon. Since we are stopping at SL~120, we had to make choices.Īssuming we are Knights as starter Class, we will have something like:įor a Soul Level of 61 and ~ 60 levels to spend. Of course, they works extremely well with double weapons ( Twin daggers, Sellswords Twinblades, Onikiri and Ubadachi ) since they hit multiple times. They works the best with weapons that hit fast, wich usually have lower AR to compensate. Weapon Buff are a strong resource, but they are not always the best way to go. The question is a little more complex, I'll try to break down assuming we want to stop at soul level ~ 120. For how AR and Damage Reduction works, to achive maximum damage the best way is to soft cap both a 'physical' and a 'magic' stats.

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