What's the difference between Dark infusion and Chaos infusion?

[abyss]

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[exarchofswing]

Chaos does fire damage, Dark does dark damage. they both scale with int/faith

[abyss]

Originally posted by ViableBuild:

Chaos does fire damage, Dark does dark damage. they both scale with int/faith

yeah but is there a reason to pick dark over chaos or chaos over dark?

[Valkinaz]

Many PvE enemies stagger when they hit by fire attack. And as far as I heard - many pvp enemies have lowest resistence being dark.

[exarchofswing]

Dark for regular damage, Chaos for crits

[abyss]

Originally posted by ViableBuild:

Dark for regular damage, Chaos for crits

ah okay, thanks for the answer

[abyss]

Originally posted by Hashem:

Originally posted by Abyss:

yeah but is there a reason to pick dark over chaos or chaos over dark?

Most players have low dark resistance, but chaos deals more critical damage.

alright, so main weapon infused with dark and dagger with chaos

[abyss]

Originally posted by Hashem:

Originally posted by Abyss:

alright, so main weapon infused with dark and dagger with chaos

Yeah, that's how most peopledo it. Genericdarkbuild number 456

im currently making a level 120 build with dark lothric knight sword and chaos dagger, do i go 30/30 int and faith or 40/40?

[TrueArchery]

Originally posted by Abyss:

Originally posted by Hashem:

Yeah, that's how most peopledo it. Genericdarkbuild number 456

im currently making a level 120 build with dark lothric knight sword and chaos dagger, do i go 30/30 int and faith or 40/40?

30/30. Infused weapons scale like ♥♥♥♥ beyond that.

[abyss]

Originally posted by TrueArchery:

Originally posted by Abyss:

im currently making a level 120 build with dark lothric knight sword and chaos dagger, do i go 30/30 int and faith or 40/40?

30/30. Infused weapons scale like ♥♥♥♥ beyond that.

alright, thanks

[Necrophite78]

Originally posted by ViableBuild:

Dark for regular damage, Chaos for crits

But doesn't the crit modifier (which differs per weapon) determine the amount of crit damage? Sounds strange to me that only the type of elemental dmg determined how much crit dmg you do.

[Seferofe]

Originally posted by Necrophite78:

Originally posted by ViableBuild:

Dark for regular damage, Chaos for crits

But doesn't the crit modifier (which differs per weapon) determine the amount of crit damage? Sounds strange to me that only the type of elemental dmg determined how much crit dmg you do.

Reason he said that is because dark damage is bugged for ripostes/backstabs when using the hornet ring, so it does less damage than it should. Though most think that chaos infusion is bugged, but they have it the wrong way around. Dark infused weapons will do a tiny bit more damage than chaos infused weapons on crits without hornet ring though.

Also yes, crit modifier and AR determine the riposte damage, though daggers have a hidden crit modifier which is why they're so insane.

Assuming someone had the exact same defences all around, then a chaos dagger, lightning dagger and crystal dagger with the same AR would do exact same damage, while a dark dagger would do about 200+ less.

[abyss]

why necro

[Seferofe]

Originally posted by Abyss:

why necro

Huh, been ages since I fell for one of these. Surprising, though this sort of topic appears all the time so it looked normal when I went on it.