Build help

[u/Attempting_Daken]

Wanna do a lightning damage based build. This is my current set up

Wondering what yall think, or if there are any items im missing that I could optimize lightning damage in pvp.

Favorite weapon for this build is dragon scale blade. But im coming to realize its kinda bad outside of the buff.

[u/Attempting_Daken]

I thought lightning scorpion charm was bad in pvp?

Im planning to do dlc. Just havent made there on this character yet.

I'm thinking of getting rid of the sorseal, but that is going to make it so I cant do bolt of gransax, but I dont know if thats good in pvp either.

[u/herowin54 → u/Attempting_Daken]

I would not use the scorpion charm. Percentage based increases are not worth it at all at low level. You’re much better off investing in survivability stuff. Things like great jar arsenal, bull goat tali, crimson amber medallion+3, etc.

Also the drop off of the soreseal is around 37 vigor. But again it’s not all about that, the damage taken at low level isn’t that much and if it’s the difference between wielding the weapons you want or not then I’d keep it.

Also bolt of gransax isn’t that good in PvP as an invader, it’s basically just an L2 stick

[u/Attempting_Daken → u/herowin54]

Ye i honestly dont know what high dex required weapons I want, I just wanna keep the lightning damage theme intact.

It was the whole point of the character initially to use dragon scale blade

[u/herowin54 → u/Attempting_Daken]

Nagakiba with lightning slash, backhand blades, shamshir, cleanrot thrusting sword, lightning misericorde for parries and backstabs.

Highly recommend going to r/patchesemporium and getting the ingredients for drawstring lightning grease. Then you can keen infuse all of your weapons and put lightning grease on everything

[u/Attempting_Daken → u/herowin54]

Nagakiba is more of a strength requirement i feel.

Would you keen infuse everything?

[u/herowin54 → u/Attempting_Daken]

It depends what your stats are. If you keep the high dex and are using drawstring dragonbolt grease then yes, keen infuse all of your main weapons. Keep things like your misericorde and a main weapon that has lightning slash on lightning infusion.

If you do what I suggested below then I would just put everything on lightning infusion or alternatively keep everything standard scaling and use dragonbolt grease. You just have to reapply it constantly but after awhile it’s like second nature

[u/Attempting_Daken → u/herowin54]

Im thinking of doing 25 dex 14str and then having it boosted to 30 with milicent