Paladin build?

[Kruxxor]

I'm wanting to make a kind of Paladin build, I initially wanted to run around with heavy armour, a shield, a 1 hander that I would buff with electricity.
Apparently the electricity buff only scales off of Dex though?

So then I thought I would buff my weapon with fire, although there's no such spell to buff your weapon with any other element other than lightning.
(There's Blood Flame Blade, but apparently this has a terribly short duration?)

Is a Paladin / Magic Knight Str/Faith build possible?

[Key]

Either you go with a Magic Knight or a Paladin, combining both would be comically bad.

Granted Magic Knight doesn't have any real buffs to work with, as sorcery is mostly damage focused. It's also a little harder to optimize because it's gonna need a decent investment in both endurance and mind, but definitely doable.

STR/FTH works exceptionally well by design, but there's 20 million ways to build a paladin with it, depending on what you want to do.

If you want to use electrify armament I'd suggest focusing on strenght and getting the minimal faith for the incantations you want to use, as you cannot buff infused weapons. And no, lighting damage from Electrify Armament does not scale with DEX, it's entirely decided by the faith portion of the incantation scaling on the seal you use to cast it.

[靐]

STR/FTH. I have used haligtree shield with blasmo blade and it was super fun, but I was already finished few ng runs so I had plenty of endurance. And yeah, tree sentinel armor too. Spells idk I used some draconic powers for memes.

[Twisty]

Flaming Strike AoW works well for this.
It launches a flame sweep then buffs your weapon for like 20-40 seconds I think?

IIRC the initial flame attack scales with STR while the buff scales with weapon level.

You can easily go STR/Faith for this to use other buffs and holy incantations.

[ssj grumpig]

Fire weapon grease lasts for a fairly long time, frees up FP for other buffs

[Jámez Bondo]

Just go full str build and ditch the lightning, it's cringe anyway. Take enough faith for golden vow and some mind to use your AoW repeatedly. Square off is fantastic on 1-handers and it fits the knightly theme as well.

[Kruxxor]

Originally posted by Jámez Bondo:

Just go full str build and ditch the lightning, it's cringe anyway. Take enough faith for golden vow and some mind to use your AoW repeatedly. Square off is fantastic on 1-handers and it fits the knightly theme as well.

My first playthrough was a Str build 2 handing Golden Halberd. I wanted to try something other than STR build again (Also did STR build in DS1, 2 and 3)

[Knavenformed]

You could just pair it with a dex based one hander if you really wanted