A weappon for a battlemage

[76561198120849404]

Just started playing Dark Souls 3 and got past Vordt. Am intending on doing a battlemage (minimum requirements to use claymore/longbow as it's the first bow one gets if they didn't start as thief, or uchigatana. sorceries will be used as a supplement). Just wondering if the uchigatana or the claymore would be better crystal infused. Or any other weapon.

[JustBad]

Bestoc would be a good choice.

[Kabraliah]

You get a pretty good rapier from a boss soul later, and it has INT scaling.

[Akutare]

Originally posted by ~ M ~:

You get a pretty good rapier from a boss soul later, and it has INT scaling.

It sounds almost like they just want a weapon for a buff build though. A bow isn't really needed if you're using offensive spells.

[CallumTheClot]

Not weapon related but you're definately gimping yourself if going part sorcery. It now has reverse scaling (faith as well). Pyro is a far better option as a supplement, as it requires less stat investment to be useful and still has warrior style buffs etc. Try going 15/15 faith/int with pyro to complement your warrior. trust me you will be unstoppable. PVE-wise anyway...

[Krono]

Originally posted by Akutare:

Originally posted by ~ M ~:

You get a pretty good rapier from a boss soul later, and it has INT scaling.

It sounds almost like they just want a weapon for a buff build though. A bow isn't really needed if you're using offensive spells.

He's talking about infusing his weapon, and you can't buff a weapon if it's infused. It's not like ds2, it's back to ds1 rules in that regard

[JustBad]

Originally posted by Krono:

Originally posted by Akutare:

It sounds almost like they just want a weapon for a buff build though. A bow isn't really needed if you're using offensive spells.

He's talking about infusing his weapon, and you can't buff a weapon if it's infused. It's not like ds2, it's back to ds1 rules in that regard

You can buff infused weapons if they have a physical infusion. IE: Raw, Refined.

[Krono]

Originally posted by LordsOfCinder:

Just wondering if the uchigatana or the claymore would be better crystal infused

[karl-emil]

Originally posted by featonby981:

Not weapon related but you're definately gimping yourself if going part sorcery.

Crystal magic weapon says hi.

[Krono]

Crystal being the key word there

[76561198120849404]

Okay. have a sample build based off knight as starting class:
SL 80 (Have no idea what the low "meta" soft cap is)
VIG 20
ATN 24
END 20
VIT 15
STR 14 (For Crest Shield)
DEX 20 (For casting purposes- Using Uchigatana-probably crystal infused. Will righthand the staff)
INT 40 (The low softcap)
FTH 9
LCK 7

[Krono]

Don't really see anything wrong there. If you're doing this for pvp I'd put another 10 points in vigor though, its soft cap is at 27