99 strength guide

[ARSM™]

i wanna do a full 99 strength build, and i wanted to know if there was a guide or anything

like, level this this and that and get this weapon

just wondering, thanks

[Tax evasion]

level strength.
Pick any weapon that requires strength.

If only there was the DS2 chicken nugget in this game..

[Taco Cat]

Stop at 66 str because 2-handing your weapon will give you 99 str. I recommend using yhorm's great machete.

[Reykam]

Like the other guy said, 99 str is useless you just cap it at 66. The best pure str weapon that you can get really early in the game is vordt's hammer, if you want to know the absolute best weapon with the highest ar with 66 str is the dragonslayer greataxe as far as i know, second the black knight greataxe and third yhorm's machete. You would still get more ar with at least 40 points in dex because preatty much any weapon even str based one benefit a lot from dex.

[Taco Cat]

Originally posted by Reykam:

if you want to know the absolute best weapon with the highest ar with 66 str is the dragonslayer greataxe as far as i know, second the black knight greataxe and third yhorm's machete.

Checking the accuracy here using soulsplanner with 66 str and 18 dex:

Dragon Slayer Greataxe: 736 AR (with split damage)
Black Knight GA (buffed): 703
Yhorm's Great Machete (buffed): 778

[Auric Carnage]

Originally posted by Reykam:

Like the other guy said, 99 str is useless you just cap it at 66. The best pure str weapon that you can get really early in the game is vordt's hammer, if you want to know the absolute best weapon with the highest ar with 66 str is the dragonslayer greataxe as far as i know, second the black knight greataxe and third yhorm's machete. You would still get more ar with at least 40 points in dex because preatty much any weapon even str based one benefit a lot from dex.

Unless the weapon specifically scales with Dexterity, the only reason to get 40-50 dexterity would be for the sake of speed. The rate at which one attacks/acts is influenced and capped at 50 dexterity.

[40+13x-3=17x-363]

Get 66 STR and use a heavy great club or Vordt's great hammer until you get Yhorm's great machete/Ledo's great hammer.

Originally posted by Paladin Carnage:

Originally posted by Reykam:

Like the other guy said, 99 str is useless you just cap it at 66. The best pure str weapon that you can get really early in the game is vordt's hammer, if you want to know the absolute best weapon with the highest ar with 66 str is the dragonslayer greataxe as far as i know, second the black knight greataxe and third yhorm's machete. You would still get more ar with at least 40 points in dex because preatty much any weapon even str based one benefit a lot from dex.

Unless the weapon specifically scales with Dexterity, the only reason to get 40-50 dexterity would be for the sake of speed. The rate at which one attacks/acts is influenced and capped at 50 dexterity.

And nope, dexterity doesn't increase the speed of attacks or anything else besides spell casting speed.

[Seferofe]

Originally posted by TacoCat:

Originally posted by Reykam:

if you want to know the absolute best weapon with the highest ar with 66 str is the dragonslayer greataxe as far as i know, second the black knight greataxe and third yhorm's machete.

Checking the accuracy here using soulsplanner with 66 str and 18 dex:

Dragon Slayer Greataxe: 736 AR (with split damage)
Black Knight GA (buffed): 703
Yhorm's Great Machete (buffed): 778

Black Knight GA is actually a bit better on a quality build, reaching 739 AR with warcry. Also the standard Greataxe when heavy infused with warcry reaches 753 AR.

I don't think Yhorm's would be the best option unless you want to 1-hand it though, since like the Great Machete the R1 doesn't combo when 2-handed. Though it doesn't really matter if you're just doing PvE.

Edit: Also forgot Ledo's, which I believe reaches 732 AR with the weaponart on a 66 strength build.

[Taco Cat]

Originally posted by Seferofe:

Originally posted by TacoCat:

Checking the accuracy here using soulsplanner with 66 str and 18 dex:

Dragon Slayer Greataxe: 736 AR (with split damage)
Black Knight GA (buffed): 703
Yhorm's Great Machete (buffed): 778

Black Knight GA is actually a bit better on a quality build, reaching 739 AR with warcry. Also the standard Greataxe when heavy infused with warcry reaches 753 AR.

I don't think Yhorm's would be the best option unless you want to 1-hand it though, since like the Great Machete the R1 doesn't combo when 2-handed. Though it doesn't really matter if you're just doing PvE.

Edit: Also forgot Ledo's, which I believe reaches 732 AR with the weaponart on a 66 strength build.

I would have added Ledo's, but it wouldn't let me do the WA in soulsplanner

[Vinyltavia]

Originally posted by TacoCat:

Stop at 66 str because 2-handing your weapon will give you 99 str. I recommend using yhorm's great machete.

Real Chad's go for 99 str just to wallop someone with a weapon one handed.
Also its doubly great if you're as scantily clad as the Pillar Men

[Seferofe]

Originally posted by TacoCat:

Originally posted by Seferofe:

Black Knight GA is actually a bit better on a quality build, reaching 739 AR with warcry. Also the standard Greataxe when heavy infused with warcry reaches 753 AR.

I don't think Yhorm's would be the best option unless you want to 1-hand it though, since like the Great Machete the R1 doesn't combo when 2-handed. Though it doesn't really matter if you're just doing PvE.

Edit: Also forgot Ledo's, which I believe reaches 732 AR with the weaponart on a 66 strength build.

I would have added Ledo's, but it wouldn't let me do the WA in soulsplanner

I know. Though thankfuly Fextralife says how much AR the weaponart adds, which is apparently 7.5%. Used that and the unbuffed AR to work out the max damage.

[Wormling59mep]

Go to 50-60 str. From then on, each skill point does about 1 more dmg or so.