Faith Build.

[Moistflapsacc]

Trying to figure out a good melee/caster faith Build. I'm at Margot but I'd like to find something before hand

[Citizen of Zozo]

Pure Faith, Dex/Faith, Str/Faith, Arc/Faith, or Int/Faith?

[Moistflapsacc]

Originally posted by Citizen of Zozo:

Pure Faith, Dex/Faith, Str/Faith, Arc/Faith, or Int/Faith?

preferably fth/str

[Kapakc]

Go pure faith and use catch flame. Also get rotten breath in Caleid. And get pest threads by doing Millicents questline.

[Lisan Al-Gaib]

Originally posted by Moistflapsacc:

Trying to figure out a good melee/caster faith Build. I'm at Margot but I'd like to find something before hand

Blasphemous blade is good

[Citizen of Zozo]

Golden Halberd is very strong for a Str/Faith and it's obtainable immediately. Plenty of other good weapons down the road though. If you end up leaning more into Str than Faith, the beast incantations with the beast seal are fun for PvE and the quicker ones (like Beast Sling) are excellent for harassing opponents in PvP.

[Packet ( ﾟ ヮﾟ) Overflow]

Go farm the halo scythe and pick up the dragon lightning prayer book. With the scythe and the Lightning Bolt incantaion, you will have your two best direct nukes of different elements. Then add Catch Flame for a good and fast fire option. Eventually pick up the madness spells and get your Focus up. Both the sniper shot and the shotgun one are great damage even in PVE.

For more of a melee focus, take down the starting tree Sentinel asap as his golden halberd is a top tier str/fth weapon for a lot of the early game.

Notable str/fth weapons absolutely worth picking up:
Golden Halberd
Blasphemous Blade
Magma Wyrm's Scalesword
Godslayer's Greatsword
Maliketh's Black Blade

[Moistflapsacc]

Originally posted by Citizen of Zozo:

Golden Halberd is very strong for a Str/Faith and it's obtainable immediately. Plenty of other good weapons down the road though. If you end up leaning more into Str than Faith, the beast incantations with the beast seal are fun for PvE and the quicker ones (like Beast Sling) are excellent for harassing opponents in PvP.

yeah the halberd is pretty good but im not much of a fan. if anything im just trying out builds before i try pvp

[Moistflapsacc]

Originally posted by Packet ( ﾟ ヮﾟ) Overflow:

Go farm the halo scythe and pick up the dragon lightning prayer book. With the scythe and the Lightning Bolt incantaion, you will have your two best direct nukes of different elements. Then add Catch Flame for a good and fast fire option. Eventually pick up the madness spells and get your Focus up. Both the sniper shot and the shotgun one are great damage even in PVE.

For more of a melee focus, take down the starting tree Sentinel asap as his golden halberd is a top tier str/fth weapon for a lot of the early game.

Notable str/fth weapons absolutely worth picking up:
Golden Halberd
Blasphemous Blade
Magma Wyrm's Scalesword
Godslayer's Greatsword
Maliketh's Black Blade

isnt the halo scythe hard to farm early game? or should i do so after leveling up a bit

[Packet ( ﾟ ヮﾟ) Overflow]

I think all you really need is a decent weapon (like the Golden Halberd) and you can do it. if you need some levels, do the old golden bird foot + morningstar + Greyoll combo for a fast 100k runes at the start of the game.

[Moistflapsacc]

Originally posted by Packet ( ﾟ ヮﾟ) Overflow:

I think all you really need is a decent weapon (like the Golden Halberd) and you can do it. if you need some levels, do the old golden bird foot + morningstar + Greyoll combo for a fast 100k runes at the start of the game.

idek what those are yet lol but ill try. thx for the help

[NeonRed]

Originally posted by Moistflapsacc:

isnt the halo scythe hard to farm early game? or should i do so after leveling up a bit

Hell, I can give you 1-2 Halo Scythe's if you think it'll lead to fun.

[Go0lden_Archer]

For 150 I run as follows below. For lower then 150, lower the mind/endurance as needed....

Vigor: 40
Mind: 40
Endurance: 40
Strengtyh: 18
Dexterity: no
Intelligence: no
Faith: 60
Arcane: no



For equipment...

Brass shield + greatsword (Blasphemer if you dont mind aestetic ugliness)
Gravel stone seal + Gravel stone seal
Giant's Seal + Giant's seal
(I switch seals depending on how I feel, or what boss Im gonna fight)
Flock's Canvas Talisman, Godfrey Icon, Lightning/FIre Scorpion Charm, Greatshield Talisman (Because I discovered shield after Ng+6 and realized guard-counter is fun :D). Old Lord for coop instead of shield talisman.

For incantations....
Black Blade (I start with it, specially good in coop, bosses go brrr in seconds by 2-3 players burst afterwards)
Lightning spear (Bread and butter, if I dont feel like going in melee)
Ancient Dragons' Lightning Strike (Big boss? Big pile of oneshot)
Burn, O Flame! (For those smaller bosses, that are resistant to lightning)
Swarm of Flies (When I feel like it, I just grab the Silver Tear Mask)
Fire grant me strength
Golden Vow
Blessing of the Erdtree (Coop specific, running Old Lord Talisman here)

There are many more that are useful, but I prefer to be melee first, caster second. So unless Im fightning big bosses, where I can cast red lightning, I go smack them, and guard-counter them.
So far works good, in both solo and coop. Ran couple Ng+ with it, and plenty of end-game bosses in coop. Never die, always win (Unless host goes suicidal)

[Cooperal]

I would say that strength pairs better than dex purely because of that claw mark seal.

I spent most of the game using THE greatsword, with only 17 faith for lightining spear (25 by the end). Beastial vitality is the most FP-efficient heal and does not scale whatsoever, and neither do the defence buffs or status recovery incantations, which made having high faith mostly inconsequential. Even better their FP costs are recouped very quickly if you can kill 6 pests while equipped with the ancestral spirits horn talisman.

However there are some scaling buffs which still do not scale off of strength no matter what, such as weapon buffs. And ultimately even the claw mark seal scales more with faith than it does with strength. So something like lightning spear will still do very worthwhile damage if you dump into strength, especially if it is the opponents weakness, but it won't match what a pure FTH-user can do with most of the other seals.
It will still one/two-shot most pest enemies as long as you're fighting in an appropriate place for your current power level, and is capable of knocking quite a chunk of health off bosses when your other incantations aren't finding much use.

I started with Vagabond, which fits decently with 4 less levels wasted on INT and ARC.

My level 150 stats ended at:
52 vig
25 mnd
27 end
70 str
14 dex
9 int
25 fth
7 arc

I didn't respec but there is still room for improvement/tailoring. Like two of those points in dex are useless for me because my weapon only needed 12 but I wanted to toy with other weapons for a bit. Mind at exactly 25 was purely a matter of preference because as long as your base mind is between 20 and 45 mind, Godricks rune will provide 30 FP for the next five additional points in mind. That is a pretty decent fraction, especially when you are lacking the FP capacity to use a full cerulean flask.

And the stamina game is already very manageable without high endurance investment, instead using great jars arsenal to help with the defence/mobility side of things. Any of those points that I didn't feel that I needed from mnd/end/dex could have been dumped into vig or faith instead.

Further adding to the defence was the greatswords guarding ability which is superior to most small shields in the game, even competitive with some medium shields. The only really annoying thing is that it didn't give me much room to play with the non-infusable faith weapons.

[Moistflapsacc]

Originally posted by Kapakc:

Go pure faith and use catch flame. Also get rotten breath in Caleid. And get pest threads by doing Millicents questline.

nah, rotten breath is for people who suck