are most bosses resistant to holy dmg?

[Nephew Sam]

just wondering

[Nephew Sam]

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[Anzaman]

From my personal experience, very large chunk of them felt resistant to Holy.

Basically if its not undead, it'll resist your damage.

[Nephew Sam]

Originally posted by Anzaman:

From my personal experience, very large chunk of them felt resistant to Holy.

Basically if its not undead, it'll resist your damage.

oof so are cypher patas and coded swords useless in pve?

[Ashtrails]

I mean, what bosses did you encounter so far?
Most things that are Erdtree or Golden Order affiliated will be resistant to holy damage, but the others shouldn't be to a noticeable degree.

[NeverDead]

With the right build and/or the right skills nothing is useless in PvE. Some bosses will melt under a pure holy build, others won't...but will still die eventually from it. So just go for what you'll have fun with, then changed up when you aren't having fun anymore.

[ratfatmatsatlat?hat]

Most end game bosses have high holy resist. Which are the only bosses that matter imo.

Mohg - 40%. Radagon - 80%. Elden Beast - 80%. Godfrey - 80%. Maliketh - 80%.
Malenia - 40%. Godskin Duo - 40%

Generally speaking. If a boss is endgame or "godly" it will have at least 40% holy resistance unless it would make complete sense for it to not. If it is directly tied to the Erdtree or the Elden Ring itself or its "holy" expect it to have much more.

With the exception of Mohg and Godskin fire is much more effective against them and can also scale with faith. I recommend grabbing the "Red-Hot Whetblade" or using a "blasphemous blade" as a backup.

[Nephew Sam]

Originally posted by Ashtrails:

I mean, what bosses did you encounter so far?
Most things that are Erdtree or Golden Order affiliated will be resistant to holy damage, but the others shouldn't be to a noticeable degree.

i 100%ed the game so pretty much everything, i tried a dual marikas hammer build and margit was insanely difficult cuz i was doing crap dmg, then godfrey's ghost was nearly impossible

[Ashtrails]

Originally posted by Oreo Boy:

i 100%ed the game so pretty much everything, i tried a dual marikas hammer build and margit was insanely difficult cuz i was doing crap dmg, then godfrey's ghost was nearly impossible

Yeah, that tracks: Margit loves the old tree and Godfrey is literally a holy hologram : D

[Nephew Sam]

Originally posted by WHYYYY:

Most end game bosses have high holy resist. Which are the only bosses that matter imo.

Mohg - 40%. Radagon - 80%. Elden Beast - 80%. Godfrey - 80%. Maliketh - 80%.
Malenia - 40%. Godskin Duo - 40%

Generally speaking. If a boss is endgame or "godly" it will have at least 40% holy resistance unless it would make complete sense for it to not. If it is directly tied to the Erdtree or the Elden Ring itself or its "holy" expect it to have much more.

With the exception of Mohg and Godskin fire is much more effective against them and can also scale with faith. I recommend grabbing the "Red-Hot Whetblade" or using a "blasphemous blade" as a backup.

not a bad idea, i really like the look of the cypher pata and coded sword so i wanna make a build out of them

[ratfatmatsatlat?hat]

Originally posted by Oreo Boy:

Originally posted by WHYYYY:

Most end game bosses have high holy resist. Which are the only bosses that matter imo.

Mohg - 40%. Radagon - 80%. Elden Beast - 80%. Godfrey - 80%. Maliketh - 80%.
Malenia - 40%. Godskin Duo - 40%

Generally speaking. If a boss is endgame or "godly" it will have at least 40% holy resistance unless it would make complete sense for it to not. If it is directly tied to the Erdtree or the Elden Ring itself or its "holy" expect it to have much more.

With the exception of Mohg and Godskin fire is much more effective against them and can also scale with faith. I recommend grabbing the "Red-Hot Whetblade" or using a "blasphemous blade" as a backup.

not a bad idea, i really like the look of the cypher pata and coded sword so i wanna make a build out of them

The Regal Ancestor spirit is the only major boss weak to holy so. At least you can punch a deer really well. Anything undead is basically weak to holy as a bonus. Its just those dont tend to be major bosses. Stuff like Boat Ghost for example.

[Nephew Sam]

Originally posted by Ashtrails:

Originally posted by Oreo Boy:

i 100%ed the game so pretty much everything, i tried a dual marikas hammer build and margit was insanely difficult cuz i was doing crap dmg, then godfrey's ghost was nearly impossible

Yeah, that tracks: Margit loves the old tree and Godfrey is literally a holy hologram : D

yeah so i guess i will justt follow what the other guy said, i can just get a backup weapon that deal only magic or only fire, if thats even a thing
i kinda wantt to make a unique build that mains holy weapons and doesnt use physical damage

[mewlynx]

the end game line up of bosses is very resistant to holy damage. infusing a weapon with flame art gives it faith scaling, or if you invested into str/dex, there are some faith scaling weapons that do fire damage, for example blasphemous blade and magma wyrm scale sword. or you could use a keen/heavy weapon and use lightning armament.

personally I had my dex at 40, so I used the dragonlord cragsword for the last few bosses with the lightning burst tear to increase my damage

[rudeboy]

Originally posted by Oreo Boy:

oof so are cypher patas and coded swords useless in pve?

They're definitely useful, though I've heard Cypher Patas have a hard time connecting all their strikes on larger enemies they're still very strong against everything else with a pure faith build.

[Velesianus]

Originally posted by Oreo Boy:

cypher patas and coded swords useless in pve?

Cyphers aren't useless but they're, you know, fists.

Afaik the only advantage they have is that they're the only 0 weight paired weapon in the game which is great for a pure faith build with no real endurance.

But again they're fists. Their hitbox is like one pixel wide so even though the weapon skill and L1 dual combo's are fairly powerful you have to be right up on a target to use them.

This isn't so great for the aforementioned pure faith build since with no armor they can't really trade blows.

[Nephew Sam]

Originally posted by rudeboy:

Originally posted by Oreo Boy:

oof so are cypher patas and coded swords useless in pve?

They're definitely useful, though I've heard Cypher Patas have a hard time connecting all their strikes on larger enemies they're still very strong against everything else with a pure faith build.

so are you saying that they do good dmg but range is trash?