Build Suggestion For Crypt Blacksword

[Neulz]

Well I have this sword and loved it, it has 60 Poise and staggers enemies so nice. I need a build suggestion for my Knight build. My Vitality is 8 now and I don't know how many would be enough to dodges like without armor or enough.

[Fr!sol!n0]

Just go for light armor if you use a heavy weapon. Unless you want a tank build.
Use the minimum amount of stats required for the weapon and possibly some for a buff.
Pump the rest into everything else (except ADP; that ♥♥♥♥ is dex for dummies)

[TrueArchery]

Min stats (40 Str, 10 Dex and 12 Int & Fth) & Raw infusion. 640 AR.

For comparison: 20 Str, 10 Dex and 30 Int & Fth: 761 AR.
For FAIR comparison (equally many levels spent): 20 Str, 10 Dex & 22 Int & Fth: 703 AR.

As you can see, going Dark and Int/Fth only increases the total AR by 10% at similarly many levels spent and by ~19% if you look at the 30/30 softcap.

So... only Raw still gets the full Ring of Blades benefit, +50 AR instead of +30 that the Dark one gets. Its AR is also more physical-based which is a good thing.
The Dark Clutch Ring adds 30 (Raw) and 42 AR (Dark), but lowers all your physical defenses by 80. That translates to roughly 16 more damage that you take by each physical attack. Doesn't sound like much, but racks up. My point is - the ring isn't that good and taking rings into account, the AR differences become minor.

Basically, you trade some percent peak performance against more reliable physical damage and the 1h moveset. It deals a ton of damage anyway. You can use Dark Weapon anyway, although it won't be as effective. I forgot whether you can buff it with resins at all, if yes that's another good point for Raw.

I don't know where you want to cap your level, whether you want to cap it at all or what you current level even is, but if you want meaty armor below like level 200, go min requirements + Raw. At and above, go Dark and up to 30/30 since you've the stat point to spare anyway.

[TrueArchery]

Originally posted by Dark Diamond:

Originally posted by TrueArchery:

Min stats (40 Str, 10 Dex and 12 Int & Fth) & Raw infusion. 640 AR.

For comparison: 20 Str, 10 Dex and 30 Int & Fth: 761 AR.
For FAIR comparison (equally many levels spent): 20 Str, 10 Dex & 22 Int & Fth: 703 AR.

As you can see, going Dark and Int/Fth only increases the total AR by 10% at similarly many levels spent and by ~19% if you look at the 30/30 softcap.

So... only Raw still gets the full Ring of Blades benefit, +50 AR instead of +30 that the Dark one gets. Its AR is also more physical-based which is a good thing.
The Dark Clutch Ring adds 30 (Raw) and 42 AR (Dark), but lowers all your physical defenses by 80. That translates to roughly 16 more damage that you take by each physical attack. Doesn't sound like much, but racks up. My point is - the ring isn't that good and taking rings into account, the AR differences become minor.

Basically, you trade some percent peak performance against more reliable physical damage and the 1h moveset. It deals a ton of damage anyway. You can use Dark Weapon anyway, although it won't be as effective. I forgot whether you can buff it with resins at all, if yes that's another good point for Raw.

I don't know where you want to cap your level, whether you want to cap it at all or what you current level even is, but if you want meaty armor below like level 200, go min requirements + Raw. At and above, go Dark and up to 30/30 since you've the stat point to spare anyway.

What does mean AR?

I can buff it with Dark Weapon! Why Raw Stone is good?

AR = attack rating.

Raw is good because it is efficient. Low stat investment, still good damage. At high levels it's obviously useless. But at high levels you can have sufficient stat points in everything so it's hard to call it a "build" any more.

[TrueArchery]

Originally posted by Dark Diamond:

Originally posted by TrueArchery:

AR = attack rating.

Raw is good because it is efficient. Low stat investment, still good damage. At high levels it's obviously useless. But at high levels you can have sufficient stat points in everything so it's hard to call it a "build" any more.

But I want to infuse it with dark. Is it bad? Because your strength basically doubled when you two wield.

Dude. If you want to infuse it with dark, INFUSE IT WITH DARK. Do whatever you want, you asked for build suggestions, I gave you mine. The "why"s are written above. It isn't rocket science.

[TrueArchery]

Originally posted by Dark Diamond:

Originally posted by TrueArchery:

Dude. If you want to infuse it with dark, INFUSE IT WITH DARK. Do whatever you want, you asked for build suggestions, I gave you mine. The "why"s are written above. It isn't rocket science.

Dude I've just asked if it's bad or not don't be so salty. lol.

The term salty being misused once again. I just don't like repeating myself when everything is written above but people somehow lack reading comprehension.

[TrueArchery]

Originally posted by Dark Diamond:

Originally posted by TrueArchery:

The term salty being misused once again. I just don't like repeating myself when everything is written above but people somehow lack reading comprehension.

Misused or not, terms and words are changing and accepted so based on usage from the people. No you didn't. You just were sounding rude you know? I just asked a question because didn't make sure if it's bad or not and you were driving angry a bit for no reason. So I call it salty instead of rude because it wasn't actually rude but sounding like so. Because salty people do so. If you don't like to repeat yourself then don't ever try to help people. There are many others who are willing to.

Dark has a better peak performance, as shown above. Higher AR usually equals more damage. You sacrifice the 1h moveset and are at a disadvantage against very dark-resistant enemies, but that's it. Not sure how anyone would jump to the conclusion that it's bad because of that. That's highly illogical. It's a matter of preference and you already said you're fine with solely the 2h moveset.
Furthermore, you seemed to insist on wanting to dark-infuse. I basically told you "well then do it, if you insist on it why even bother with dragging this debate out". I'm aware of definitions changing, but you're simply using the term "salty" incorrectly because I'm neither angry nor upset nor anything like that. Just saying stuff straight to the point.
And don't cherrypick, I said I don't like to repeat myself when everything is written above. That's fundamentally different to repeating something in a spoken conversation or to repeating stuff that's floating around on the internet somewhere else. Because man - scroll up and read it. It can't become any less effortless, lol.

[TrueArchery]

Originally posted by 󠀡󠀡󠀡󠀡Suppaaaaaaaaaaaa:

I have some problem with understanding

Yeah that has been pretty apparent to me, but glad that you realized your problems. So now we're on an equal footing I guess. I also appreciate that you thought of me half a year later, I love you, too. On a side note, you mean horizontal and vertical swing arcs and CAPSLOCK is being used for EMPHASIS ;) Also, it technically isn't CAPSLOCK because I usually keep Shift pressed when typing multiple capital letters.

[supersand]

Originally posted by Fr!sol!n0:

Pump the rest into everything else (except ADP; that ♥♥♥♥ is dex for dummies)

Should get at least 24 ADP, otherwise you commonly get hit even in rolling frames. Try a new bandit at 3 ADP and try rolling some attacks, your going to eventually see something that had no business hitting you but did because you had low ADP, which is BS but its how they made it