Question: Why don't you infuse your weapon with dark instead of lightning? Iirc, you get even more damage if you stack infusions and buffs of the same element.
This is a great question, let me explain. It is true that you get a small bonus from matching the infusion element with your buff. But the difference is minuscule, we are talking about +8 AR of extra damage for a worse damage type, enemies on average are weaker to lightning meaning you will average more damage with lightning infusion than dark, not to mention that if you face a dark resistant enemy while using dark + dark weapon your damage will be drastically worse than if you used lightning. Unlike ds1, in this game split damage isn't bad and targetting multiple elemental defenses at once isn't a bad idea.
I miss the spice system! Wish Elden Ring would have brought spicing down magic requirements 😅 and dark damage > holy damage purely for aesthetic reasons, ofc. Great video! ❤
@@OfficialMetalhead maybe one day we will see a remake of DS2 or a spiritual successor in the vain of DS2 :) thanks for making such informative content ❤️
Worth noting Kings crown (which is very late) grants +3 intelligence and faith, making it the best stat boost helmet, and can let you lower your required stats to 21 intelligence and 7 faith, or by that point going to 27 of each for +3 to 30 which is the dark softcap
magic weapon does massively less damage. There's no area where you're going to be having more than 8 1/2 minutes of combat between bonfires, it's just not a thing. Having gmw as an option against enemies massively weak to magic or heavily resistant to dark can be an occasional benefit, but those specific scenarios where it's significant enough to be worth using over dark weapon are far and few between. Regular magic weapon is as utterly useless as flame weapon
@@lucaslourenco4528 to add onto what Jerry said, you can use magic weapon during the short amount of time you are getting the stats for dark weapon, but once you actually do get dark weapon then there's just no reason to use it.
@iambeowulf5758 it would be more stat investment for less damage still, we dont use dark weapon because it adds dark particularly, but because of the cast amount, duration and because it adds more damage than other weapon buffs for less stat investment. Sunlight blade for example adds the same damage (but as lightning) as dark weapon, but requires 54 faith to get the maximum duration from it and it only has 1 cast at 10 attunement. Weapons buffs can also be applied to elementaly infused weapons while resins cant, and since most weapons don't scale well infusing them with lightning gives you more damage right away, now if you add a spell buff on top of that you get even more damage for a longer duration than using resins. In the video you see me hit Alonne, who is weak to lightning, with a 40 str dragon tooth buffed with gold pine resin, and it was dealing less damage than a dragon tooth with 25 str infused with lightning and buffed with dark weapon. So even if you were to match your resins to the bosses weaknesses, the amount of damage you get from buffing an infused weapon even with an element that doesnt match the boss weakness makes it better. So yeah infused weapons buff really well and require less stats than getting to 40 str/dex while giving more dmg. Making softcapping said stats just pointless when you can do this. Also take into account the fact that this way you dont need to restock on resins and cant possibly run out.
A; it depends, usually no B; why would you waste 80 levels and use a consumable you have to repeatedly buy more of instead of just spending 30 levels for an infinitely recharging spell
@@OfficialMetalhead Yes, it makes sense. I thought that since infusing a weapon makes it deal split damage, it would be better leaving it uninfused and matching resins, so that you can maximize RoB too, but apparently it's still less damage. Thank you for your answer!
Question: Why don't you infuse your weapon with dark instead of lightning? Iirc, you get even more damage if you stack infusions and buffs of the same element.
This is a great question, let me explain.
It is true that you get a small bonus from matching the infusion element with your buff. But the difference is minuscule, we are talking about +8 AR of extra damage for a worse damage type, enemies on average are weaker to lightning meaning you will average more damage with lightning infusion than dark, not to mention that if you face a dark resistant enemy while using dark + dark weapon your damage will be drastically worse than if you used lightning.
Unlike ds1, in this game split damage isn't bad and targetting multiple elemental defenses at once isn't a bad idea.
@ So essentially, enemies have less resistance to lightning on average, so the dark damage bonus is balanced out? That makes sense. Thanks.
@goingunleashed5826 you got it!
Red iron twin blade infused with lightening and buff with dark weapon is the way. Great vid thanks
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I miss the spice system! Wish Elden Ring would have brought spicing down magic requirements 😅 and dark damage > holy damage purely for aesthetic reasons, ofc. Great video! ❤
@@xXLunatikxXlul many of ds2 mechanics were really cool and I wish they would be brought be back, like ascetics, thanks for the support!
@@OfficialMetalhead maybe one day we will see a remake of DS2 or a spiritual successor in the vain of DS2 :) thanks for making such informative content ❤️
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@OfficialMetalhead is there other flavors of jelly in dark souls 2
@@sweetshousegirl there is strawberry jelly (Flame Weapon), blueberry jam (the magic weapon variants), and apricot jam (Sunlight blade).
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Any weapon buffs for SL1? 🥺
@@AcaciaVix flame weapon
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@@AcaciaVix lol we arent making a video about that one, it has a very niche use case, but we are gonna make more videos just give it time
Worth noting
Kings crown (which is very late) grants +3 intelligence and faith, making it the best stat boost helmet, and can let you lower your required stats to 21 intelligence and 7 faith, or by that point going to 27 of each for +3 to 30 which is the dark softcap
@@AutistiCat2406 its neat sure, but the extra cast from hexers hood into eventually Iron Crown for spell regen makes it not worth it over them
The main power of hexers hood is the extra cast, not the stats. Those are extra
Iron crown lets you swap to SLB+SOATH, which is more effective
It depends, on Bosses, its the best, for levels, basic Magic weapon is better cuz It hás double the usage
magic weapon does massively less damage. There's no area where you're going to be having more than 8 1/2 minutes of combat between bonfires, it's just not a thing. Having gmw as an option against enemies massively weak to magic or heavily resistant to dark can be an occasional benefit, but those specific scenarios where it's significant enough to be worth using over dark weapon are far and few between. Regular magic weapon is as utterly useless as flame weapon
@@lucaslourenco4528 to add onto what Jerry said, you can use magic weapon during the short amount of time you are getting the stats for dark weapon, but once you actually do get dark weapon then there's just no reason to use it.
Why ery body playing ds2 all of a sudden?
@@RyanMathews-ld7hi we always have been
What about getting to the 40 str/dex cap, uninfused weapon, and using dark resin? Would that be similar damage output?
@iambeowulf5758 it would be more stat investment for less damage still, we dont use dark weapon because it adds dark particularly, but because of the cast amount, duration and because it adds more damage than other weapon buffs for less stat investment.
Sunlight blade for example adds the same damage (but as lightning) as dark weapon, but requires 54 faith to get the maximum duration from it and it only has 1 cast at 10 attunement.
Weapons buffs can also be applied to elementaly infused weapons while resins cant, and since most weapons don't scale well infusing them with lightning gives you more damage right away, now if you add a spell buff on top of that you get even more damage for a longer duration than using resins.
In the video you see me hit Alonne, who is weak to lightning, with a 40 str dragon tooth buffed with gold pine resin, and it was dealing less damage than a dragon tooth with 25 str infused with lightning and buffed with dark weapon. So even if you were to match your resins to the bosses weaknesses, the amount of damage you get from buffing an infused weapon even with an element that doesnt match the boss weakness makes it better.
So yeah infused weapons buff really well and require less stats than getting to 40 str/dex while giving more dmg. Making softcapping said stats just pointless when you can do this.
Also take into account the fact that this way you dont need to restock on resins and cant possibly run out.
A; it depends, usually no
B; why would you waste 80 levels and use a consumable you have to repeatedly buy more of instead of just spending 30 levels for an infinitely recharging spell
@@OfficialMetalhead Yes, it makes sense.
I thought that since infusing a weapon makes it deal split damage, it would be better leaving it uninfused and matching resins, so that you can maximize RoB too, but apparently it's still less damage.
Thank you for your answer!
@iambeowulf5758 yeah split dmg isnt bad like in ds1 here, and no problem thank you for your question!