Blessed Longsword good enough?

[Anon8920]

I am going faith build and other than saint bident or the sword by the two dragons, whats a good holy weapon?

[Starve Jowbs]

if you wanna put a blessed gem, you should know the dmg will decrease, 'couse the healing buff but still good to play, i have a regen build that use only blessed weapons and claymore works well, but if you wanna do dmg, i recommend lothric ultra greatsword with lightning gem or any other good quality build weapon

[Terrorize Exercise]

Blessed infusion is pretty bad overall. You'd get far better results just making a strength build and topping your faith to 20 in order to use blessed weapon and deep protection on a Heavy Long Sword instead. Blessed weapon also doesn't get any stronger with stats so once you got 15 faith for it its done, 20 faith is for deep protection.

Unless you are going for a Lightning blade DMB or some other niche faith miracles its just recommended to stay at 20 faith if the stats are only regarding your weapon.

[Anon8920]

It's my first DS3 faith build. Until I get the sunlight blade or the giant coal (lightning gem) like level 80 I should use heavy or sharp infusions?

[Starve Jowbs]

you want sunlight blade? i can drop it for you

[Anon8920]

I'm gonna try to rush dancer with my rosario reshaped build and grab the sunlight blade on my own. Hopefully I can get gud.

[ressenmacher]

Blessed infusions will work, but they're rather weak overall and absolutely not worth it on their own - you trade a lot of potential damage for +2 HP/s . If you want to run a blessed weapon that you're actually using to deal damage, you really need to build your whole character around being a regen tank to get any real benefit from it.

If you end up going with a Blessed build, I recommend the Lothric Knight Greatsword. It's one of two weapons in the game that is infusable and has base lightning damage, which gains faith scaling when you Bless infuse it and helps make up for the AR hit. Put a blessed Caestus or parry shield in your offhand for another +2 hp/s, throw on the Sun Princess Ring for another +2, and you sit at a baseline +6 hp/s. Regen miracles like Replenishment, or the WA of Fillianore's Chime, can further augment this and make you very hard to kill, especially if you invest into heavy armor and high Vitality to reduce incoming damage.


As for good faith weapons, pretty much anything will do well Lightning infused. Common picks are the Lothric Knight Straight Sword, the Saint's Bident as you noted, the Claymore, etc. The unique scale weapons are mostly lacklustre; Morne's Greathammer and the Dragonslayer Greataxe are pretty good for strength/faith builds. Sunlight SS is pretty good, especially if buffed with LB or DMB.

Oh, and as a bit of a weird aside the Sellsword Twinblades and Drakeblood Greatsword are really good on buff builds because both of them attack ten billion times a second to maximize the benefit of high flat AR additions (and with the Drakeblood you can stack DMB or LB on top of base elemental ARs to plow through flat defense like a Mac semi)

[Anon8920]

@Starve Jowbs I'll take a sunlight blade plz. I can give you one on my main shortly afterwards.
SL 45 is kinds rough during second stage