What is the best build for Backhand Blade and Milady?

[Cunning]

I am quite enjoying both Backhand Blade for AoW: Blind Spot and Milady for AoW: Wing Stance. The weapons have great move sets.

The build I am trying is sort of bleed: Vigor 60, Dex 60, Arcane 45, Mind 15, Endurance 20. The remaining stats are just at minimum to wield other weapons, s.a. Great Stars for Strike.

Both Backhand Blade and Milady are blood infused and scale B with Dex: this is why I set DEX higher than ARC. I also read that ARC 25 is enough to bleed enemies but 45 is the first soft cap.

I am not very good at theory crafting especially when it come to Arcane. Can you tell this build is good enough or would you suggest something else instead?

Cheers!

EDIT. This is purely for PvE.

[Tr3m0r]

I could be wrong but I would think it depends on how much bleed it procs with arcane vs dex mostly. Both ashes of war are doing physical damage correct? So you wouldn't need to worry about just doing arcane damage from the ash of war. So then I'd assume it just comes down to what the bleed proc is when you set it to blood infusion vs dex. Arcane should shoot that blood number up pretty high.

In my experience I didn't really do dex and arcane as I focused on one or the other. The ability to proc major bleed from say a bloodfiend arm or piercing damage spear would take my focus of arcane over dex exclusively outside of stas to wield. Katanas and the like would be dex based but I would use blood flame incantation to add damage.

Edit: dex I don't think will bring blood numbers up but the damage it does with the addition of say 45 blood or whatever it is. Blood infusion affects the bleed number which is where a high arcane will absolutely decimate each time it procs. So you would have to play with the configuration and see how the stat distribution looks to you based on what you want to happen. But blood would ideally want mostly arcane imo.

Take what im saying and then verify cuz I may be way off.

[SoundsOfNight]

Backhand blades are so yesterday.

[paincanbefun]

i don't know the theory craft well, but i'm at 80 Dex and 15 Arc, stacking bleed, and i'm still proccing it to buff with Backhands, so 60 Dex 45 Arc looks more optimal

i think 45 is the cap for status buildup, yes, and yeah, Blind Spot really even the score against some enemies. better than a shield

[SoundsOfNight]

Originally posted by Cunning:

Originally posted by DragonSoundxSG:

Backhand blades are so yesterday.

I don't know what that means. It would nice if you elaborate and perhaps provide some arguments.

Everyone was running backhand blades before the deserved nerf. Now they are mediocre.

[CazadorDeLobo]

Fortunately, the game is easy enough and there are no leveling restrictions as a PvE only player, so quite literally max out every aspect of your character and that's the "best" - anything more complex is often less effective against AI, since the AI is tuned to beat out the majority of trades and interactions of players via input reading and programmatic, procedural encounters.

tl;dr I'm back to offer the peak advice of "just hit the level cap"