Running a pure FTH build and looking for the best general use weapon

[Melchiah]

I thought it would be as easy as just slapping Sacred on whatever weapon I wanted to use, but turns out holy damage sucks.

Is there anything with a good FTH scaling that I can rely on for general use, or am I doomed to just use Flame Art and switch to Sacred if they are resistant to fire?.

[Atech]

Plasphemous Blade

[Elazul]

When I was running faith before I reskilled I ran just a plain Uchigatana and scaled it towards faith. If you have the Sanctified Whetblade you can scale the Uchigatana for faith and keep the Unsheath skill which is really nice.

[Baron01]

Any weapons with single scaling stat will have low damage output, Coded Sword is a prime example of it. Such weapons are meme or fashion souls material but will never perform even remotely close to what standard or best weapons in the game can output.

[Drukaris]

OP "holy damage kinda sucks as general purpose weapon"

people on steam "heres some weapons that deal more holy damage"

[NC31]

Baron01님이 먼저 게시:

Any weapons with single scaling stat will have low damage output, Coded Sword is a prime example of it. Such weapons are meme or fashion souls material but will never perform even remotely close to what standard or best weapons in the game can output.

>not enjoying blessedly pecking shield users to death through their dinky bits of metal
You're missing out.

Drukaris님이 먼저 게시:

OP "holy damage kinda sucks as general purpose weapon"

people on steam "heres some weapons that deal more holy damage"

It's not about what's best, it's about fun. Options are good, and, as the rest of the thread shows, there's plenty to spit out damage. The thread goes beyond OP's build and extends to all players who are looking for holy damage, for whatever reason.

[Melchiah]

JAYM-Z님이 먼저 게시:

If you prefer straight swords the Coded Sword I found is really nice for a faith build. I think it's at the round table hold in the royal capital - so you get it kinda late into the game. You'll probably want something decently upgraded with physical or some other damage type as a backup though for anything that has high holy resist (which is thankfully not that common)

That's weird, I felt holy was worse than flame art, and ever since my attempt against margit with a +5 sacred uchigatana I gave up on holy. It also doesn't help that holy damage doesn't keep skeletons dead (I still have to finish them) unless it has the pretty sparkly lights.

Drukaris님이 먼저 게시:

OP "holy damage kinda sucks as general purpose weapon"

people on steam "heres some weapons that deal more holy damage"

Pretty much, yes.

[A-Silly-Bun-Bun]

Blasphemous blade will do the work for you. Or anything fire infused tbh. Get a flame monk weapon put flame of the redmanes on it and you are good to go

[SmallGespenst]

Pure faith is kinda pants as builds go so I'd recommend either strength or dex with a faith lean. it's worth noting that Flame Art exists as a faith scaling infusion that isn't holy, and quite a few of the innate fire damage weapons have faith scaling, but that's pretty much it besides holy damage which is situational to say the least.

[Melchiah]

Ectier님이 먼저 게시:

Blasphemous blade will do the work for you. Or anything fire infused tbh. Get a flame monk weapon put flame of the redmanes on it and you are good to go

Yeah so far I've been rolling with Flame Art (you can even get it earlier than Sacred), so basically my pure FTH build is just a Pyromancer with heals... how nice.

[Drukaris]

have you tried the blasphemous blade?
stat requirements are kinda all over the place but it uses somber stone to upgrade which makes it more affordable and the weapon itself is pretty good and its weapon art aswell

edit ... i see someone was faster

[A-Silly-Bun-Bun]

Melchiah님이 먼저 게시:

Ectier님이 먼저 게시:

Blasphemous blade will do the work for you. Or anything fire infused tbh. Get a flame monk weapon put flame of the redmanes on it and you are good to go

Yeah so far I've been rolling with Flame Art (you can even get it earlier than Sacred), so basically my pure FTH build is just a Pyromancer with heals... how nice.

You can make holy damage work but a lot of the good weapons are late game. Also the final boss resists holy like no ones bussiness. Also godslayer greatsword is a beast but it weighs a lot

[JAYM-Z]

Melchiah님이 먼저 게시:

JAYM-Z님이 먼저 게시:

If you prefer straight swords the Coded Sword I found is really nice for a faith build. I think it's at the round table hold in the royal capital - so you get it kinda late into the game. You'll probably want something decently upgraded with physical or some other damage type as a backup though for anything that has high holy resist (which is thankfully not that common)

That's weird, I felt holy was worse than flame art, and ever since my attempt against margit with a +5 sacred uchigatana I gave up on holy. It also doesn't help that holy damage doesn't keep skeletons dead (I still have to finish them) unless it has the pretty sparkly lights.

Drukaris님이 먼저 게시:

OP "holy damage kinda sucks as general purpose weapon"

people on steam "heres some weapons that deal more holy damage"

Pretty much, yes.

Holy is pretty ♥♥♥♥♥♥ early game but once you've properly levelled fth it will deal a ton of damage. The skeleton thing is weird, I think certain attacks do keep them dead (for example the Coded Sword's weapon art).

There are fights where you may want to use bleed or some other damage type like Melania and probably Elden Beast but otherwise it's fine late game.

[Melchiah]

Ectier님이 먼저 게시:

You can make holy damage work but a lot of the good weapons are late game. Also the final boss resists holy like no ones bussiness. Also godslayer greatsword is a beast but it weighs a lot

Funny you mention Godslayer, I've been using godslayer incantations (and seal) the most over my playthrough cause I love how it burns their HP (literally), I might go for that one.

[Baron01]

JAYM-Z님이 먼저 게시:

...The skeleton thing is weird, I think certain attacks do keep them dead (for example the Coded Sword's weapon art).

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Weapons that can apply Holy essence to them will permanently kill undead enemies. This includes weapons such as Treespear or Code Sword. It is the active skill and its buff, not the passive holy damage a weapon deals.

[tranquillant]

Deviant님이 먼저 게시:

winged scythe and halo scythe dual wield them they are really pog the halo scythe have amazing weapon art good for bosses the winged scythe is good for pvp to put in right hand wichever weapon art you gonna use

+1 for Winged Scythe... the Angels Wing weapon skill is simply a monster.