American McGay posted:

I gave them the armor because I feel compelled to do every quest thing but now I'm regretting it cause it hasn't gone anywhere and I was using the bracers because they were sick looking.

MeatwadIsGod posted:

I definitely want to do a bleed build next time. I've found so many cool weapons for it that I can't use for now.

Everyone in my roundtable is dead or gone who knows where. Underground I found D's brother but he was all muttering and crazy because I accidentally killed D whoops

American McGay posted:

I gave them the armor because I feel compelled to do every quest thing but now I'm regretting it cause it hasn't gone anywhere and I was using the bracers because they were sick looking.

Pablo Nergigante posted:

You can get it back later.

Chuck Buried Treasure posted:

I’ve been putting all my points into strength and occasionally vigor and pounding everyone flat with first the grafted greatsword and then the Berserk Guts greatsword once I was able to upgrade past it, but I just decided to put a couple of points in dexterity to use the bloodhound fang and I’m liking it a lot. I miss the sheer impact of the other greatswords but the higher speed makes faster enemies easier to deal with and the bleed does great against bosses when it procs. Might play around with the Ashes of War some, I haven’t really messed with it before and I like the skill it comes with a lot but it seems like it would be worth it to change the scaling to be based more heavily on my 45-ish strength instead of my 17 dex.

Harrow posted:

I regret to inform you that you can't use ashes of war on the Bloodhound's Fang since it's a unique weapon

Chuck Buried Treasure posted:

I’ve been putting all my points into strength and occasionally vigor and pounding everyone flat with first the grafted greatsword and then the Berserk Guts greatsword once I was able to upgrade past it, but I just decided to put a couple of points in dexterity to use the bloodhound fang and I’m liking it a lot. I miss the sheer impact of the other greatswords but the higher speed makes faster enemies easier to deal with and the bleed does great against bosses when it procs. Might play around with the Ashes of War some, I haven’t really messed with it before and I like the skill it comes with a lot but it seems like it would be worth it to change the scaling to be based more heavily on my 45-ish strength instead of my 17 dex.

American McGay posted:

I got the tude now posted:

i'm having a nice time with the bloodhound sword. exploring is so much fun, i keep looking for ways around the gated progress and there's always some kind of 'cowards path' i hope i'm not ruining any sidequests trying to see as much of this game as i can before having to do more dungeons.

scary ghost dog posted:

the wakizashi dagger powerstances with katanas if you want to do a miyamoto musashi build. it looks very cool

scary ghost dog posted:

Spanish Manlove posted:

Oh yeah, dex/int or dex/arc samurai next playthrough for sure. No shields, dual katanas all the way. Gonna take a bit of time to let myself forget stuff and try to enjoy it all semi fresh again

Plebian Parasite posted:

Do you keep your inventory in ng+? Wondering if a lot of these weapons you only get one of you can dual wield the second time around.

American McGay posted:

Harrow posted:

I love that there are actually some pretty great Str+Int weapons in Elden Ring, too

The forgotten stat combo finally gets some cool weapons.

American McGay posted:

MeatwadIsGod posted:

I definitely want to do a bleed build next time. I've found so many cool weapons for it that I can't use for now.

Everyone in my roundtable is dead or gone who knows where. Underground I found D's brother but he was all muttering and crazy because I accidentally killed D whoops

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For a fun arcane build that completely explodes just about everything I have thrown at it, dual wielding these two rapiers is a lot of fun:

https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Antspur+Rapier

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https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Frozen+Needle


They can both be acquired on a fresh character without having to fight any major bosses at all. There are two required fights, the blood knight guy at Fort Haight to get the dectus medallion half and the first rapier is dropped by a not too hard too beat NPC if ya got some patience.

You can infuse the Antspur Rapier with a blood move of your choice (it should be blood slash tho) and blood infusion and it will still keep it's Rot build up. I got enough str/Dex just to wield them and got arcane to 40. Now you can mash L1 on bosses and watch their lifebars loving explode between bleed going off multiple times, frost going off, and rot finishing the job if they are somehow not dead. I was able to kill Radahn with this before he even had a chance to enter his second phase. Even with enemies that don't bleed they are likely still effected by Frost (Seems like most everything is) and Rot.

The heavy investment into Arcane also means you're discovery rate is gonna be pretty high and I've been gettings tons of weapons/armor drops from enemies that it looks like you can only get from farming them. This will make those drops a whole lot more frequent. There are some talismans you can get to make this really goofy but most of them are deep into late game areas so if you're starting out with this, something like Marikas Scarseal, or even just the dex talisman to add some damage on there will work in the meantime

Ghosthotel posted:

Cross posting this OP stuff im currently using for a bleed build.

What’s hosed up is since using these weapons I’ve found like 20 other weapons I wanna try similar things with lol. I think weapons that have bleed/rot/frost effects that can also be infused have the potential to be pretty hosed up.