Penetrating Sword Build

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Build summary	A build for fun or seriousness, combines long of PS with SWS.
Recommended starting class(es)	Wanderer
Recommended Soul Level	123
	Recommended stats (Leave at default (**) if not raised)
Vitality	50/45
Will/Intelligence	15/15
Endurance	40/40
Strength	22/22
Dexterity	45/50
Magic	8/8
Faith	16/16
Luck	**
Recommended equipment	RH1: Penetrating Sword +5 RH2: Talisman of God LH1: Adjudicator's Shield +5 / Dark Silver Shield +5* LH2: Backup weapon of your choice, Curved Swords or Fatal Weapons for backstab/parry *DSS is good if you have a low magic defence, are somewhat skilled with parrying, and it still offers 100% protection against physical damage. Adj Shield is useful if you have a status ailment as it will somewhat offset it. Armor: Anything you can roll in, Ancient Warrior's set is the most useful, but light armor such as Black Leather, Shaman's, Saint's, Venerable Sage's, Binded, or Old Ragged sets are good substitutions. If you want to be like the Penetrating Sword Black phantom from 1-4, his armor is: Chain Mail Helmet Fluted Plate Mail* Fluted Gauntlets* Fluted Leggings* *The Fluted Armor Set is heavy armor and will impede stamina regeneration. To help counter this and provide you with increased equip weight, substitute the Regenerator's Ring for the Ring of Great Strength, which provides 50% equip weight. At 40 END with and equip weight of 69, it will boost that 69 to 103.5. If your equip weight is above 50%, you cannot roll, and the Ring of Great Strength will help with that. Rings: Body Form: Eternal Warrior's Ring and Regenerator's ring/ Ring of Great Strength Soul Form: Eternal Warrior's Ring and Cling Ring Blue Phantom: Friend's Ring and Cling Ring Black Phantom: Foe's Ring and Cling Ring Consumables: Sticky White Stuff, Grass, Spice
Recommended spells/miracles	Miracles: Second Chance (YOU SHOULD KNOW THIS BY NOW).
Gameplay tips and progression	This build is more just for fun, but it can be deadly if mastered for pvp. It combines the Penetrating Sword's longer reach than other straight swords with SWS, buffing your weapon to give you an advantage in pvp situations. The Wanderer is your starting class; it provides you with a handsome amount of Luck and Dexterity. Starting out, this build is going to look weird. You can't get the Penetrating Sword until you've beaten an Arch Demon from one of the other 4 worlds and even with that the level it's in is a common place for invasions. BUT, since this build can also be considered a Dex build, take full advantage of using other weapons that scale with dexterity ex. Curved Swords, Katanas, Sharp Weapons, etc… The Penetrating Sword +5 will has an A rank in Dexterity, giving you an excellent physical dmg bonus from the low base of 90. SWS will provide you a 110 magic dmg bonus, which will provide very useful for pvping users with Warding or againsts Bosses with low magic defence ex. Flamelurker. A PS +5 has a long reach and better piercing attacks than most Straight Swords, giving you an advantage against enemies weak to pierce attacks. PROS: Not much need for upgrade stone farming 2-Handed attack stunlock combo, same as BBS Weapons are not too difficult to get, no need for Char/World Tendency Change* Common but Unique Easy to Master, given this is not your first character No need to create unique weapons with Demons' Souls CONS: Colorless Demon's Souls are required, hard to get all in NG Outclassed by other Straight Swords that are customized Deals damage in bursts Magic Damage comes only from SWS Have fun with this class, make the Penetrating Sword a deadly weapon.

Comments

Astrichthyes 21 Apr 2011 07:24

Light weapon? Not even an option really because you only have 10 magic (might as well save a few SL's and use SWS for the same exact benefit in damage). At 30 mag, you add 243 AR with the iCat. This is simply a basic dex build with 4 points wasted in magic and an extra 4 in strength to wield the PS. The damage output is just way too low to really even be considered. I'd personally have this setup if i preferred the PS:

SL 125:

45 vit
15 int
40 end
22 str
30dex
30 mag
16 fth
7 luck

10mag LW = 110magic damage? Interesting!

m0ose 21 Apr 2011 17:39

As you've stated your LW adds 110damage which is exactly the buff you can obtain from Sticky White Stuff (SWS), so really you have not just wasted 4 points in mag, but also 4-7 in intelligence. Additionally I'll mention you've got an open spell slot @ 18intel. Warding is 2spells slots so @18intel you cannot maintain Warding & LW.

Astrichthyes is right about the 30/30 mag/dex being ideal /w iCat & Penetrating Sword because that's where the hard break is for diminishing returns; combined with low base dmg & hi-requirements for the weapon the best choice is to put the remainder of the points into vit/end.

What you should do is check out The Defiler build & learn how to use the Penetrating Sword like a boss. +1 for originality, -1 for research.

Edit: PS the iCat has a magic requirement higher than 10… so you're using a cracked catalyst for your damage buff…

Edit 2: /w those stats iCat will give you only 25 magic damage buff. /w the mana cut ToB will also give you 25, however both are still terrible in comparison to SWS, however if you're set on 10mag LW buff the best option is Wood Catalyst @10magic which'll give you 148damage, not bad. & since mana isn't cut in half you'll only need 14intel.

Last edited on 23 Apr 2011 03:20 by m0ose Show more

Re: 10mag LW = 110magic damage? Interesting!

(account deleted) 23 Apr 2011 15:28

Hmm, thanks for the reply. I made this build a little too hastily. I'll take away the points from magic and int and put them into Dex, and just use SWS instead of LW.

10mag LW = 110magic damage? Wrong!

m0ose 24 Apr 2011 19:25

If you checked out my build you'd notice the the dex above 30 provides a bonus of just 1.1 AR per point, which is a complete waste of stat points. You're better off with 20 more vit.