What is the best dex build?

[Dellicious]

Hey guys I am trying DEX (50) all I know is Blacksteel Katana +10, (2H or Dual Wield) Poison Manslayer +5, Bows (Hunters, Short)...what else do I need to focus on? What's my best approach?

Thank you!

[Sunshine]

Spider Rapier and Ricards Rapier has S scaling, Curved Dragon GS has S scaling.

[Crippling Meme Addict]

aka if you wanna use a op noobish overlvl build...

if you dont. go for the build you want. but i swear if you as much as think about spamming dark magic, using havel fast rolling with dual havelyn and santier spear. i will rip you soul out and chew them to the gutter...
aka please dont noob build :)

[Wolfe]

Chaos Blade or Syan's Halberd are both fantastic for PVE and PVP.

Dex Scaling is pretty bad in DaS2 so don't worry too much about finding an S scaling weapon.

I'm not sure if you're putting anything into FTH or INT, but you might want to so you can get an imbued weapon and a buff in the mix because pure melee isn't particularly strong in comparison to a buffed imbued weapon.

[Sunshine]

im pretty anti-katana other than Washing Pole. hunters bow is great for dex build. in general I prefer to fight with rapiers and bows in pvp

[Kranaz]

I think it would serve you better to take a lot of that Dex and put it into a magic stat, infuse your weapon (Int + Magic infuse, Faith + Lightning Infuse, or Dark.)

Keep up the appropriate spell to further increase your weapon's damage. If you go Int with magic infuse you would cast Magic Weapon to increase your magic damage by 50 and a percentage on top of that.

[Dellicious]

Thanks for all thehelp guys. I am NG+ and approaching SL 180, but let's just say SL 200

I could go DEX 50, FTH 50, would this be a good idea? and if so what should I be doing, infusing good DEX weapons with lightning? and that would be better than just purely having 80 DEX for example?

and since DEX is high in poison would I do something like a S scaling DEX bow (hunters bow) infuse it with lightning and fire poison arrows with it?

Thanks and sorry I am new at this.

[Sunshine]

that could work, but keep in mind that infusing stuff may lower your S scaling in dex. I cant give you number for sure but you will likely have to check and see.

If you want to do a faith + bow setup, you can consider the Bow of Want. it has an inherent lightning attack and also a special sun-spear type attack

[AllYouNeedIsKILL]

Get the Spotted Whip from the Demon of Song Soul, it's a great poison weapon, got a B in dex scale and can get 200 in poison damage, even more if you infuse it with poison.

[Sunshine]

Originally posted by ALLYOUNEEDISKILL:

Get the Spotted Whip from the Demon of Song Soul, it's a great poison weapon, got a B in dex scale and can get 200 in poison damage, even more if you infuse it with poison.

or if you're feeling trolly, the Butterfly Shield gets to 400+ poison.. incredibly useless in higher level fights though

[Dellicious]

Originally posted by SRRT Thaddius:

that could work, but keep in mind that infusing stuff may lower your S scaling in dex. I cant give you number for sure but you will likely have to check and see.

If you want to do a faith + bow setup, you can consider the Bow of Want. it has an inherent lightning attack and also a special sun-spear type attack

Infusing a Blacksteel Katana keeps S scaling in Dex but I heard it is lowered? according to the wiki anyway

[Sunshine]

you can always tell when infusing, White = No Change, Red = Lower, Blue = Higher.. even if it doesnt leave its immediate tier of points.

As long as youre not running a 99 dex build, its probably worth it to lower the dex scaling if the chunk is by a minimal amount because the elemental AR it gains should be far higher than your losses.

But thats all dependent on your stats + weapon specifics

[Forblaze]

Originally posted by CM Dell:

Infusing a Blacksteel Katana keeps S scaling in Dex but I heard it is lowered?

I'm not sure if there are invisible subtiers or if each weapon has a numerical value used for scaling that is then translated into rank, but not all Ss are the same. The same is true for all ranks, but S is an especially large tier.

[Sunshine]

Originally posted by Forblaze:

Originally posted by CM Dell:

Infusing a Blacksteel Katana keeps S scaling in Dex but I heard it is lowered?

I'm not sure if there are invisible subtiers or if each weapon has a numerical value used for scaling that is then translated into rank, but not all Ss are the same. The same is true for all ranks, but S is an especially large tier.

This. and for some weapons, one will have a higher bonus from a C scaling than another will have with a B scaling. i dont know any specific situations off the top of my head but have experienced it a few times

[Storm]

Originally posted by CM Dell:

Originally posted by SRRT Thaddius:

that could work, but keep in mind that infusing stuff may lower your S scaling in dex. I cant give you number for sure but you will likely have to check and see.

If you want to do a faith + bow setup, you can consider the Bow of Want. it has an inherent lightning attack and also a special sun-spear type attack

Infusing a Blacksteel Katana keeps S scaling in Dex but I heard it is lowered? according to the wiki anyway

It keeping the S scaling is just a display bug. It actually scales more like B after you infuse it.

[Nichtswisser]

Dex damage scaling is very poor, you either need to go the poison route or infuse +buff with elemental damage to get a decent damage output.