holy warrior build

[arador]

is holy-strength adviced?
i played as a fire-strength character
a carian knight
and a merc with two twinblades
i'm at an end for my third run and planning to start a new save
my question is:
is holy good on pve? and can i combine holy with any other affect? like frost-bleed
and most importantly is it fun to play as a holy warrior?
if not, do you have an advice for me?

[arador]

or... i love to play with twinblades,
is a dex-holy build adviced?

[Vinnolo]

faith builds trully shine at the end, with the elden beast, since holy damage heals it lmao, but in all seriousness, either holy or fire based weapons are available with faith, and dex gives you a much wider range of weapons, its more fun imo goin dex-faith than str-faith

[Sabaithal]

Holy builds are generally healing and self-buff builds, primarily because there isn't a lot in PvE that is vulnerable to holy. Most enemies are indifferent or actively resistant, as are the major bosses.

The only ones that I know of that are vulnerable to holy damage are skeletons (not zombies though), and death/ritebirds.

You don't want to go for full holy damage, you want to use primarily buffs, healing, and one or two more situational incantations, alongside a fully capable melee build, in effect.

[arador]

Originally posted by Vinnolo:

faith builds trully shine at the end, with the elden beast, since holy damage heals it lmao, but in all seriousness, either holy or fire based weapons are available with faith, and dex gives you a much wider range of weapons, its more fun imo goin dex-faith than str-faith

thank you, but i must say, i don't like to play ng+ and like you said holy weapons and ashes of wars are coming too late to player. is it still worth playing?

[arador]

Originally posted by Sabaithal:

Holy builds are generally healing and self-buff builds, primarily because there isn't a lot in PvE that is vulnerable to holy. Most enemies are indifferent or actively resistant, as are the major bosses.

The only ones that I know of that are vulnerable to holy damage are skeletons (not zombies though), and death/ritebirds.

You don't want to go for full holy damage, you want to use primarily buffs, healing, and one or two more situational incantations, alongside a fully capable melee build, in effect.

you're right, since the release i want to play a full holy character because it looks perfect. but like you said it isn't a good choice for good damage. it's more like a support to player

[Vinnolo]

Originally posted by arda of mirrah:

Originally posted by Vinnolo:

faith builds trully shine at the end, with the elden beast, since holy damage heals it lmao, but in all seriousness, either holy or fire based weapons are available with faith, and dex gives you a much wider range of weapons, its more fun imo goin dex-faith than str-faith

thank you, but i must say, i don't like to play ng+ and like you said holy weapons and ashes of wars are coming too late to player. is it still worth playing?

thats up to you, dont expect anything groundbreaking, its mostly used for support incantations like the other comment said, not many good ones available early on

[arador]

Originally posted by Vinnolo:

Originally posted by arda of mirrah:

thank you, but i must say, i don't like to play ng+ and like you said holy weapons and ashes of wars are coming too late to player. is it still worth playing?

thats up to you, dont expect anything groundbreaking, its mostly used for support incantations like the other comment said, not many good ones available early on

understood, thank you very much <3

[Xengre]

If you mean a self healing, self buffing (defensive & offensive), tanky paladin then it is very strong. If you mean reliant on holy and lightning oriented damage weapons and spells almost exclusively than you may run into some issues (note holy isn't as resisted as people think, sorcery is actually the worst, its just that there are a few key enemies later that are resistant to it that make it a standout concern but the others are almost the same in terms of rate of resistance/weakness with fire/lightning).

Originally posted by arda of mirrah:

Originally posted by Vinnolo:

faith builds trully shine at the end, with the elden beast, since holy damage heals it lmao, but in all seriousness, either holy or fire based weapons are available with faith, and dex gives you a much wider range of weapons, its more fun imo goin dex-faith than str-faith

thank you, but i must say, i don't like to play ng+ and like you said holy weapons and ashes of wars are coming too late to player. is it still worth playing?

Holy is the strongest element, overall, in PvE actually for much of the game. Its the late game that most are concerned about if you focus too much on using those damage types.

Sacred Blade is an incredibly powerful affinity + buff early and the earliest acquire elemental buff and it trivializes skeletons, deathrite birds, and other undead types while also offering generally high dmg like against knights, etc. You can get fire resin early on but lightning/magic are later and enemies weak or resistant to them are less obvious than undead. If you want to dip just slightly into Caelid you can get the fire ash of war, too, which is really good and also allows fire affinity + buff at same time for heavy fire dmg. Fire is the most common weakness in terms of sheer number of enemies though there are some caveats about that point but anyways its roughly almost as good as holy. Further, the holy pots are extremely strong for the right enemies as they can put out, literally, thousands of damage per hit against undead including bosses like Deathrite birds even at low level. You can use the early acquired holy scorpion charm and mixed physick dmg type to further boost it where the others tend to come later, too, further neutralizing value of the other elements. Its quite an odd choice from FROM.

However, as they prior warned if you stick to strictly holy/lightning you will find resistance.

[Kama Nightfire]

You can still make a faith based character that uses holy even though a majority of mid/end-game enemies are highly resistant to it. Faith also scales weaponry with the Flame Art affinity which gives you a fire option for those that are normally resistant to your holy.

[arador]

thank you for your advices fellers! they are much appreciated <3