Best Poison/ Bleed build?

[Beautiful Gaston]

Making a poison/ bleed build. I'm planning on using pyromancy for mist, and channeler's trident is a staple. What are some other fast racking poison/bleed weapons?

[Аkiminator]

Forget about pyromancy, waste of levels and not effective. Try poison heide knight sword + poison page's spear/poison heide lance. Boost it with sanctum soldier gauntlets and crest of rat. Something from moon butterfly set.
Poison only is worthless, u need something moss punishing, like crystal soul spear or climax

[Beautiful Gaston]

Can't tell if you're trolling or not

[Yal]

Sanctum Gloves + Crest of The Rat is sound advice, at least.... both add a chunk of Poison BNS when equipped.

[Beautiful Gaston]

Yeah I might use shadow gauntlets instead for some extra bleed or Butterfly cuffs. But I was more looking for suggestions of weapons

[Rizilliant]

Poison, and bleed are just ineffective in pve.. But I still always try to make one.. If you kill Tark, the scorpion, you can buy a thrust weapon from the old lady in Majula.. Obviously the whip from Singer soul... Dagger from Najka.. Asthetic Majula to 3 and you can get the complete butterfly set, and shield (but this more often than not screws you with npc's, because its easily forgotten.).. Then gauntlets, and weapons from the Sanctum dlc..

The problem is, by the time bleed, or poison happens, enemies are almost dead anyway.. Now in Ng+ and beyond, it may help clearing areas, but dont expect it to work on any bosses.. I have a bleed/poison build now (for the second time), and it just doesnt work well..

As much Dex as you can, as its the best bonus for those two stat modifiers.. And Pyromancy is ALWAYS good.. unless youre Rp'ing your player, and it doesnt fit.. The Dark Pyro hand sucks though, as you must be as hollowed as possible, for it to be effective, or on par with the normal one, which is 50% of your health gone 25% with the ring..

[Fredericks of Cursewood]

Dark Fog is probably the fastest poison buildup. It has a 25 int requirement which can spiced down. Takes two attunement slots. It also has a lot longer range than the pyro poison spells which means that with binoculars you can poison enemies at a considerable range. With the witchtree branch it also cast very fast compared to most spells in the game.

There are lot of enemies and even bosses in the game that can be poisoned. At least in NG, if you double cast Dark Fog on a boss and they don't start to take damage; then they probably can't be poisoned.

I refer to Dark Fog as Ganker be Gone. Works well on the Gank Squad in the Sunken King dlc although most of the trash enemies in this one are immune to poison. Most of the trash enemies in the Iron King dlc are susceptible to poison. Haven't made it do the last dlc yet.

The thing about poison is that it requires a degree of patients to fully work.

[TrueArchery]

Dark Fog >> Poison/Toxic Mist. As said, these Pyros are useless.
Any fast-shooting bow + Poison Arrows.
Incredibly effective in PvE. Makes the most annoying enemies little kittens.

Melee it's more of a PvP-thing. Spotted Whip, Poison Claws, Manslayer, Sanctum Mace...

Bleed is just ♥♥♥♥. But in case you wanna try it, Forlorn-weapons. Notched Whips. Ashen Warrior Swords (left one infused, the mainhand one buffed with Bleeding Serum).

Also don't use the Butterfly Cuffs. They're trash compared to the other status-supporting gauntlets. Better use the headpiece or anything else. They're just there for keeping the poison-bar up, they can't poison anyone (but friendly merchants) alone.

[♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥]

1) As much DEX as you can
2) More stamina
3) 2 spotted whips
4) sanctum soldier gaunlet
5) Rat crest
6) Toxic Mist/dark fog
7) If you want to some fancy-looking outfit, look at moon butterfly set(but it is nearly useless, trust me)
And here we go, the most toxic build ever.

[myoptic]

The problem with poison builds in PvP is that they can be easily countered with a ring swap and a common fruit.

And most poison builds broadcast the fact that they are a poison build from a mile away.

And for PvE they are redundant. All you need is any bow and a stack of poison arrows.

[elitepredetor99]

Forget bleed it's terrible. However poison is not to bad in ng, try using dual daggers powerstanced with poison infusion, you should poision enemies in 3 powerstanced combo which takes like 4 seconds. Also have a bow with poision arrows as backup. And don't forget sanctum gloves.

[CloudSeeker]

Bleed? Why bleed? Bleed is worthless unless you play DS3. Poison is awesome however.