| Build summary | Dexterity build utilizing Light Weapon |
| Recommended starting class(es) | Male Temple Knight |
| Recommended Soul Level | 124 |
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Recommended stats (Leave at default (**) if not raised) |
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| Vitality | 43 |
| Will/Intelligence | 15 |
| Endurance | 40 |
| Strength | 18 |
| Dexterity | 35 |
| Magic | 30 |
| Faith | 16 |
| Luck | ** |
| Recommended equipment |
LH1: Shield/Weapon of Sharp upgrade path RH1: Sharp weapon Sharp weapons you may want to consider are : Uchigatana's, Kilij, Estoc, Winged Spear, War Scythe, Secret Dagger, Claws. Armor: Old King Doran's. This build has a greater stat requirement than most others, and special considerations were made to keep it in PVP range. Explanation of Vitality and choice of armor are discussed below. Rings: Cling + Foes/ Friends in soul form. |
| Recommended spells/miracles |
Miracles: Second Chance |
| Gameplay tips and progression |
First and foremost, this is a PVP optimized build. However, it'll do well in PVE because of Light Weapon. Being as enemies in this game are especially sensitive to magical damage, Flamelurker, Tower Knight, Penetrator, and even Allant will be a touch easier. This build was born both out of my love for katanas, and out of my personal crusade against cracked Curse Weapon, which is The alternative buff is Light Weapon, one that is usually reserved for the BBS because of its built in magic damage, but it can work great on pure physical weapons too. Through smart stat planning (Hint: i've done it for you) you can build a LW dexterity build that matches the effectiveness of Curse Weapon in several respects, and exceeds it in others. Stats: 15 Intelligence; 100mp for Second Chance/ Light Weapon 35 Dexterity: Diminishing returns on Dexterity occurs at 30, but in my testing I found the additional 5 to be helpful. 35 dex gives you 300 AR out of a Sharp Uchigatana, only 25 short of its 50 dex counterpart, and with a powerful buff to boot. 30 Magic: This is where the power of Light Weapon comes from, 30 Magic is the point of diminishing return for Light Weapon casted by an Insanity Catalyst (Which is so much stronger than Light Weapon from Talisman of Beasts, please don't use that) 16 Faith: 2 Miracle slots for Second Chance, standard. (+) (-) Summary: This is a very precise, streamlined build designed to output the most damage possible, without making defensive sacrifices. It is setup with enough vitality to survive one of the scariest spam weapons in the game (Kilij) without losing the offensive power which makes it so great, the deadliness of pushlock also can't be emphasized enough, and is truly where this build goes head and shoulders above curse weapon. Take home points that can be applied elsewhere: Loss of vitality can be offset somewhat by strong armor, not so useless after all! |
Nyxd's LW Dexterity Build
WTF IS THIS!!!!
A LW Dex build that I'm remotely compelled to try?
I'd be tempted go 39 end and 45 vit and SL 125 but I'm obsessive about Vit ending in a 5 or a 0. I know you tested this but I still insist you could probably find a different threshold (maybe survive an extra lh kat hit in a pushlock).
I'm just saying jibberish here though…
Ive done so many different variations of Dex builds in the time Ive been playing this but so far this is one of my fav's. I didnt match your suggestions exact but I may get a soul suck today to change that because I feel Im wasting the 3 extra I have in INT. none the less it is a fantastic build which has in only 2 days proved both effective in PVE and PVP
I've tried this build awhile back,so it's good to see someone else has tried it.
I give you credit. For me, I was not really good at utilizing this build to it's fullest.
Reason being, that I am not one to use pushlock for it isn't my personal preference. However, I also will not say that it is unfair, since quite honestly I've fought NYXD when I am host recently many times. With light weapn daggar, he has destroyed me using one full endurance bar with dagggar(light weapon buff) and in left(believe Katana) .
Even though my personal preference is not using push,for those who are skilled at doing so, this build is deadly.
One question I do have for NYXD is why he only mentioned phantom form? In refrence to ring section mentioned just foe and friends?
Is this buiild actually good for phantoms since soul form hits are stronger, or could host be successful in this build?
LW Dex has been out there, I just fine tuned it a little bit for my purposes.
It'll perform about on par with curse weapon for non-push weapons, but it does suffer an HP loss. The smaller the weapon, the better it will do with Uchi's/ Kilij's being about where it breaks even damage wise. For uchi's particularly, the right hand slash attack will > cursed kat damage wise, but do less on the running attack (auto-direct hit damage) Also I speak from the point of view that pushlocking is an accepted tactic now, with shields so common and the escape method so widely known, it is not gamebreaking like it was a year ago.
Dagger pushing is tricky because its more difficult to escape from than regular kat pushes. I tend to reserve that now for only the people whom I know, sorry if it ended games a bit too quickly. I have taken a lot of well known players from start to finish with 1 combo of this.
The reason I dont mention other rings is because I never change them out. When I host, i've got on average 500 more hp (and an additional 250 upon broken SC)
I consider either of the rat rings to be practically cheating. I prefer to minimize the advantage I have on phantoms in this state. PVE'ers can substitute other rings (rat rings, Stamina ring, thieves etc)
Hosts can use this as well, but like all hosts, they lose some killing power vs phantoms. For hosts, just a couple weapons will OHKO phantoms on backstabs, and none can combo a full life bar of damage. All builds will get the same power boost in soul form, in exchange for the HP lost from Body form.
Understand what you are saying,
If it's ok to post here, I wanted your opinion on this buiild I'm currently building.
Instead of the light dex, I am doing a strength/Light w build. Sl 120-125 build
Primary weapon-Crushing knight Sword buffed with light along with brushwood shield.
Stats are; Strength at 35, magic 30, vit 50, int 15 and endurance at 40.(For 120 can take five off endurance)
Never see Brush shield being used but in usinjg it alot in PVE, the movement of it in combo with fast swords is pretty fast. It doesn't parry, but good shiled against fire/physical,etc..
Sure, that's how I would do it. You've stopped at all the diminishing return points, 34 for strength, 30 for light weapon.
LW strength has been done before without any significant loss. Just know that the light weapon buff is a flat increase, where the damage added will be the same to a dagger as well as a DBS. Therefore it benefits smaller weapons much more. If you do want the most damage out put, i'd suggest against using it on something like a DBS or great axe. But for a clay, or knight sword, it can do almost everything the CW variant can. I'm pretty sure LW knight sword will outdamage CW on everything but a backstab/direct hit. Brushwood is a fine PVE shield as long as you don't want to parry.
I speak from the point of view that light spell iron knuckes aer IMPOSSBLE to escape. Truth, or not!
Use it or don't??!!!!
I use this build in pvp and absolutely own!!!!
except i use a hiltless and moon uchigatana cuz farming for pure bladestone sucks. lol
Have a simular build to this one but i took dex to 40 and mag to 25 caus i heard that was better? Have an opinión on this ?