Blueblood Sword (lvl 125 PvP) Build

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Build summary	A PvP Optimized BBS Build That Utilizes Light Weapon
Recommended starting class(es)	Wanderer
Recommended Soul Level
	Recommended stats (Leave at default (**) if not raised)
Vitality	40
Will/Intelligence	18
Endurance	38
Strength	18
Dexterity	18
Magic	30
Faith	18
Luck	25
Recommended equipment	Right Hand 1: Blueblood Sword (Quite Clearly) Right Hand 2: Talisman of Beasts Left Hand 1: Dark Silver Shield +5 (When facing magi) Left Hand 2: Insanity Catalyst Armor: Ancient King's Armor Rings Soul Form: Cling Ring + Foe's Ring/ Friend Ring/Eternal Warrior's Ring Body Form: Eternal Warrior's Ring + Clever Rat's Ring/(Fragrant Ring [PvE])
Recommended spells/miracles	Spells: Second Chance Light Weapon That is all.
Gameplay tips and progression	Here's how I did it: Start off by beating 1-1 and Phalanx (get the thieve's ring!) Go to 4-1 and use turpentine on you're starting dagger. Works like a charm. Work your way through 4-1 and get the Crescent Falchion +1, Compound Long Bow, Regenerator's Ring, and Adjudicator's Shield. Start leveling up vitality and endurance first, get them to about 20-25. Then get 14 strength and 12 magic. Use you're new Crescent Falchion to take you through 2-1 and 2-2. Be sure to get all 9 chunks of dragonstone in 2-2 for later. (the suicidal lava diving is worth it) =] Obtain a Mirdan Hammer from killing the miners up the elevator in 2-1 (the one's with hammers). It took me 3 or 4 times. Not too time consuming. Then beat 2-3 (potentially the easiest boss in the game) for the Pure Dragonstone and some easy souls. Upgrade the Mirdan hammer to a Dragon Mirdan Hammer +5. It may take some serious bearbug killing in 2-2 to get 25 shards of dragonstone, but that's all you need. It's worth the 358 non-scaled attack stat; which lets you fly through NG and NG+. And it can really deal damage to those pesky invaders. Then beat world 5, making sure to grab the dark silver shield from Garl Vinland. Forge the BBS. But for now, the Dragon Mirdan Hammer +5 should still outdamage it. Go and backstab Doran to death using the thief's ring strategy. Do the rest of NG as you choose; just be sure to grab the Hero Demon's Soul and the Silver Demon's Soul for Second Chance, and Light Weapon. PvP Strategy: When invading, or being invaded, the second you arrive in another world or the second you see the invaded message, cast second chance. If you're invading, invade with your Dark Silver Shield in the left hand, and the ToB in the right to cast second chance, and then switch to the ICat. Then run around, find the host, and when you do, run around a corner and buff yourself with light weapon. Then switch to 2handing your BBS, and roll dodge attacks and combo your enemy when he/she is out of endurance or is recovering from recoil. Just a 4 hit combo can normally send a user into second chance, and will sometimes outright kill. My personal favorite combo is R1 R2 R2. It looks cool AND is powerful =] Well, If there's anything I'm missing or any criticism you want to give, be friendly about it. Comment below or PM me. Good luck! Tell me how you like it!

Comments

Phantasmagazzles 11 Aug 2010 02:25

why did people negatively rate this? ): if you're going to rate a -1, at least tell me why…

Novalime 12 Aug 2010 09:20

Hmmm… I'm no expert, but you are getting negatives because of the unnecessarily low endurance and luck for a higher magic stat.

The Blueblood Swordsman is a melée build through and through so having 40 endurance is a must-have. The Blueblood Sword damage IS based on luck so 30+ is what I would shoot for. The increase in magic does nothing but increase the effectiveness of Light Weapon and make some spells stronger but no where near PvP ready. It serves no practical purpose whereas endurance increases max stamina and luck raises the BBS damage AND drop rate for items.

Thus, the negatives. There really isn't any good way to make an unusual BBS build (believe me, I've tried).

Phantasmagazzles 12 Aug 2010 16:49

i always knew that would be a problem. i completely disagree with you when you say my magic is unnecessarily high. the bbs build in PvP is relient upon light weapon. the endurance is only 33 because in pvp, you need 38 to pull off the BBS 6 hit combo. but in my opinion 33 is enough because, to be honest, you won't see anybody pulling off the full 6 hit combo anymore unless someone doesnt know how to block or roll. and i wasnt sure about what to do with magic and luck… because, i always see 30 luck and 20 magic. or 20 luck and 30 magic. so i originally had the build at 25 and 25. maybe i should put it back to that. but thanks for the feedback. (:

EDIT: and 24 intelligence is to learn warding. it works very well.
EDIT: EDIT: uhh… I'm an idiot. I completely forgot that it's not possible to use warding and SC at the same time… I'm going to fix this waste of 6 levels…

Last edited on 19 Aug 2010 19:10 by Phantasmagazzles Show more

SMF1985 08 Jan 2011 02:30

+1 from me good build. your right about the magic to that is the BBS only weapon really it is reliant on LW. you only need about 30 endurance or so to do ur combo and have enough left to roll away if u have to. i like the idea of warding too because it could save ur butt if ur SC gets popped. i think my stats would prbably look something like.
Vitality: 40
Int: 24
Endurance: 30
Strength: 18
Dexterity: 18
Magic: 30
Faith: 18
Luck: 25
If you dont want warding i would put the extra points into vitality for some extra survivability.

Regarding BBS build(s) posted

(account deleted) 18 Mar 2011 15:04

Hi,
I never give -1 for I feel you put in effort to even create this build.
While I do have a question to everyone that has posted this caliber of build on wiki, I don't think overall this build is bad.
I would ask though why starting as a Royal wouldn't be benefiicial.
At 125SL here are stats I came up with:

Vit-50
Endurance-36(all you need for combo's)
Magic-40
Faith-18
Dex-18
Intelligence-15(cast second chance, buff using Insanity catalyst all you need)
Strength-18
Luck-20(all you need at minimum)

Doesn't that seem like a better overall stat mix? 40 magic, use left hand uchi(moon, or crescent; moon giving a bit more power damage wise)
You can also use crescent or moon upgrades as secondary weapons once bbs buff runs out.
Moon Knight's +5, MH+5,etc..
I may be wrong, but I don't get why many people feel that taking magic to 40 having a bit less endurance, while boosting vitality up isn't an option.
Someone I dont' remember who, said the starting class doesn't matter.
It does. Royalty. SL 125 using that class, you get more out of than Temple Knight!

DOUBLE POST-sorry

(account deleted) 18 Mar 2011 15:13

Meant SL 135 build, not 125. Forget above post as i see you are looking to go to 125 only range.