whats a good weapon for strength-arcane?

[Vlad Frankovich Hassonovich]

and is it worth pumping faith up to requirements for dragon incantations?

[Lenox]

I'm building my character around this:
https://eldenring.wiki.fextralife.com/Marais+Executioner's+Sword

Unsure about Dragon Incantations.

[Sparhawk 59]

Dragon spells are good for certain enemies, rotten mist rekts Radhan
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VRqZyjGmoHM

[IvanGovnov]

powerstance mohgs spears

[achilleas_demetriou]

Originally posted by Sparhawk 57:

Dragon spells are good for certain enemies, rotten mist rekts Radhan

thanks to malenia

[The Icecream Snowman]

I've had decent use from the Prelate's Inferno Crozier with Bleed infusion. It is able to bleed some enemies in a single hit.

You probably know that bleed adds arcane scaling to both weapon damage and the bleed buildup. A Zweihander might be a decent option, or the Great Stars could be very effective with extra bleed on it.

As for dragon incantations, there are two types.

Dragon Communion are the actual dragon spells you get from dragon hearts. These are buffed by the Dragon Communion Seal (the red one). It scales well with arcane, so add in some bleed spells like Flies and Bloodflame Blade.

Dragon Cult spells are the lightning based spells. These are buffed by the Gravel Stone Seal.

Placidusax's Ruin is neither. It is the most powerful (and costly) dragon-type spell, however.

I tend to let my mimic do the spell casting: they have infinite focus and I don't want to dump loads of levels into that. If you don't have many points in faith, get the ice and decay dragon spells, they are very useful support spells for wearing enemies down.

[Vlad Frankovich Hassonovich]

Originally posted by IvanGovnov:

powerstance mohgs spears

sounds very cool, can you get both in a single playthrough?

[Vlad Frankovich Hassonovich]

for dragon incantations it doesnt seem worth it to do it if you are pumping strength a decent amount, maybe ill look into it on new game plus

[The Icecream Snowman]

I don't think you can get two of the same boss weapon in one game cycle: although you can use a mausoleum to get a second, Enia only has one of each item for sale, and you buy them with that soul.