Saint bident wtf?

[Valkinaz]

Ok can someone explain to me how it works? Saint bident has 13/12/-/16 prerequests and D/D/-/C scaling. At +10 it provides aound 330 AR on old char(hexer with 40/40 int/faith). I go and make it blessed - around 290. 40 ar less despite becoming A at faith scaling. How tge hell it works like this?

[LisaIsBraces]

Why would you use blessed? Blessed is bad for most weapons, use lightning blade.

[y u do dis Fromsoft?]

blessed infusion reduces str-scaling, dex-scaling and the base damage of the weapon. in this case, i guess the base damage reduction hurts most.
i experimented a bit with the saint bident aswell a while back. it really sucks with most infusions. even lightning is pretty bad.

[Valkinaz]

Originally posted by LisaIsBraces:

Why would you use blessed? Blessed is bad for most weapons, use lightning blade.

Becouse as a physical infusable weapon with mainly faith scaling it looks like weapon that was outright designed for blessed infusion. However as you see, uts indeed not

[LisaIsBraces]

Originally posted by Valkinaz:

Originally posted by LisaIsBraces:

Why would you use blessed? Blessed is bad for most weapons, use lightning blade.

Becouse as a physical infusable weapon with mainly faith scaling it looks like weapon that was outright designed for blessed infusion. However as you see, uts indeed not

Blessed isnt good, use lightning for faith or lightning blade spell.

[Valkinaz]

Originally posted by LisaIsBraces:

Originally posted by Valkinaz:

Becouse as a physical infusable weapon with mainly faith scaling it looks like weapon that was outright designed for blessed infusion. However as you see, uts indeed not

Blessed isnt good, use lightning for faith or lightning blade spell.

Lothric Knight Greatsword at 26/16/40 begs the differ

[LisaIsBraces]

Originally posted by Valkinaz:

Originally posted by LisaIsBraces:

Blessed isnt good, use lightning for faith or lightning blade spell.

Lothric Knight Greatsword at 26/16/40 begs the differ

Literally the only weapon good with blessed

[Markierer]

Saint Bident is only worth as heavy infused with a strong buff.

[Ferrarius_Christi]

If you have 40 int 40 faith try dark or chaos imho, blessed infusions are only worth considering on a faith str build with health regen

[TrueArchery]

Originally posted by LisaIsBraces:

Originally posted by Valkinaz:

Lothric Knight Greatsword at 26/16/40 begs the differ

Literally the only weapon good with blessed

It's also pretty good on the dragonslayer axe and drakeblood greatsword. It's really unintuitive that the bident doesn't work like these things, like legit every other blessed spear deals more damage - plow, partizan, whatever.
But the reason why the former 2 weapons actually have competitive AR is the innate lightning damage which is flat by default, but gains a fth scaling from the blessed infusion in addition to the standard effect of the blessed infusion which is that physical mainly scales with fth now.

Lightning works for the bident though as its physical AR still scales with faith. Very respectable AR and it's one of the longest if not THE longest spear. Additionally, this thing works well on dark builds with a dark/chaos infusion. Again, high AR because the physical AR still scales with fth. The main difference to the other infused spears is always that the AR split is more towards 1:1 than 1:2.