Dark Souls

Dr_Tom said:
Divine weapons suck, even for faith build characters. Here's my tip to get the most out of your Faith/Str character. Get the Great Club and reinforce it to 15. Kill Gwyndolyn on your first play through and get Sunlight Blade, it's one of the best weapon buffs in the game. On your second play through, join the Dark Moon Blade covenant. After 10 souvenirs of reprisal Gwydolyn will give you the Darkmoon Talisman and Darkmoon Blade miracle, this is the best weapon buff in the game. Now you have 2 amazing weapon buffs and should have an AR of well over 1000 when you buff your Great Club with either of them, and an AR around 650 when not buffed. I have a Str/Faith character with 50 faith and 28 strength(soul level 132) that usually 2 shots people when I invade. If I get a back stab it's usually 1 shot and they're dead because my back stabs do over 1700 and most people have around 1500 hp.

Either that or get Grant. The Grant hammer with 34 strength and 40 faith has an AR of about 725 making it one of the strongest unbuffed weapons in the game.
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I was afraid that Clubs and hammers would be the way to go with a strenght/faith build. I never liked using them and the move set for them bothered me. I probably wont do a second playthrough with this character as I'll probably just end up capping him out at level 110-120 and pvp'ing people.

You have any thoughts on the much talked about but never completed whip playthrough? Me and my buddy are going to try it and record it.
 
You can use Str based swords, just make sure it's a got a good parameter bonus off strength. I think the Claymore has a decent one....umm, I'm really not sure on swords. When I made my Str/Faith character I went straight for clubs. The real important thing about str/faith build is +15 reinforcing a weapon that can be buffed.

As for only doing one play through. If you took the master key, it should only take you about 3 hours to get back to Anor Londo on play through 2. Otherwise if you're set on only 1, then just get Darkmoon Blade miracle. the one draw back to the miracle is that you have to be part of the Dark Moon Blade covenant to use it. But I'm always part of that covenant anyways so it's fine by me.

Also, I've never used whips in Dark Souls so I have no idea a build for one would work. I've pretty much only used the Uchigatana and Great Club. Though I've recently started playing with the Balder Side Sword and finding that pretty awesome, even with the slight damage reduction compared to the Uchigatana.
 
Dr_Tom said:
Divine weapons suck, even for faith build characters. Here's my tip to get the most out of your Faith/Str character. Get the Great Club and reinforce it to 15. Kill Gwyndolyn on your first play through and get Sunlight Blade, it's one of the best weapon buffs in the game. On your second play through, join the Dark Moon Blade covenant. After 10 souvenirs of reprisal Gwydolyn will give you the Darkmoon Talisman and Darkmoon Blade miracle, this is the best weapon buff in the game. Now you have 2 amazing weapon buffs and should have an AR of well over 1000 when you buff your Great Club with either of them, and an AR around 650 when not buffed. I have a Str/Faith character with 50 faith and 28 strength(soul level 132) that usually 2 shots people when I invade. If I get a back stab it's usually 1 shot and they're dead because my back stabs do over 1700 and most people have around 1500 hp.

Either that or get Grant. The Grant hammer with 34 strength and 40 faith has an AR of about 725 making it one of the strongest unbuffed weapons in the game.
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clubs are bad IMO their just to slow, they only work in small close quarters , too easy to dodge, to easy to parry. i have a faith dex build and it works great along with a divine washing pole katana, its easily the best character ive ever made, wrath of the gods and the katana to finish them off. katana is fast and safer, causes bleeding, exept gotta watch out cuz it does not stagger as much and will not stop your oponenst atack if they have enough poise, but thanks for the tips! ill be using that sunlight blade! and dark moon blade combo!
heres a cool funny vid:
 
Inmortal said:
clubs are bad IMO their just to slow, they only work in small close quarters , too easy to dodge, to easy to parry. i have a faith dex build and it works great along with a divine washing pole katana, its easily the best character ive ever made, wrath of the gods and the katana to finish them off. katana is fast and safer, causes bleeding, exept gotta watch out cuz it does not stagger as much and will not stop your oponenst atack if they have enough poise, but thanks for the tips! ill be using that sunlight blade! and dark moon blade combo!
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Clubs are slow, but if you wear the right armor and have high poise it doesn't matter. I run around with at least 102 poise so I can take a hit from anything and not get knocked back. So as someone is trying to hit me, I hit them. Generally we trade damage and that's a trade I'm more than willing to take seeing as more than half their life is gone usually.

I've been playing around on my dex build character and found I really love wearing the hornet ring and using the Dark Silver Tracer. For a dex weapon that thing does massive amounts of damage on back stabs. Unbuffed I generally see over 1000 damage. The weapon just unfortunately sucks on anything not crit(back stabs and parries).
 
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