Help me understand scaling and blood loss

[trackday]

Everyone says to scale arcane for a blood build, but if I put Bloody Slash on Bandits Curved Sword, blood affinity scales best with str/dexterity, and occult affinity scales best with arcane with no blood loss buildup. Why arcane for a blood build?

[KingJooJooMonke]

Originally posted by trackday:

Everyone says to scale arcane for a blood build, but if I put Bloody Slash on Bandits Curved Sword, blood affinity scales best with dexterity, and occult affinity scales best with arcane with no blood loss buildup. Why arcane for a blood build?

Simply put, Arcane scales bleed/poison build up.

Blood affinity simply adds bleed buildup. Useful if you don't already have bleed buildup on a weapon. Dex will not scale bleed build up

Occult gives your weapon a higher Arcane stat so you can scale bleed/poison build up.

[KingJooJooMonke]

Originally posted by trackday:

So go with Occult, and scale Arcane to the max? Elden Beast isn't resistant to blood loss?

Radagon/Elden Beast are actually immune to blood loss. But if you wanted to get really high bleed build up going Occult then scaling Arcane would be the way to go.

Remember that there are soft caps for each stat. Not sure how the soft cap for Arcane effects build up.

[nfinite.recursion]

The point of bleed weapons is to proc bleed. Raising Arcane increases the amount of bleed buildup per hit, meaning fewer attacks are necessary to proc bleed, meaning it procs faster, meaning you have a higher DPS.

In short, if you're not trying to proc bleed with a bleed weapon, you're doing it wrong. Leveling the other stats isn't useless though. They absolutely should be leveled too.

[trackday]

proc = procure?

[zero]

Originally posted by trackday:

proc = procure?

proc= programmed random occurance; otherwise simply meaning "an event happened, it procced"

the bleed build up went off, so it proced, arcane makes this happen more often.