Thursday, July 7, 2016

Best Dex Scaling Weapons in Dark Souls 3

It's been a very long time since I've posted anything. Lately, I've been spending a lot more time playing dark souls 3 than I have fighting games. I still play fighting games but I just don't have as much time to dig in deep like I did a few years ago. However, I still love these games and I'm going to try to analyze and present some good information to players who are looking for help or are just looking for the same answers to questions that I have had.

First off: this list is geared towards pure Dex builds, which I have just started building. Fun fact I didn't realize about Dec builds is that the second softcap is at 60 Dex. Hybrid builds and quality builds can shoot for 40 dex but pure Dex should shoot for around 50-60 for optimal damage. Non-optimal stats are TOTALLY viable for duels (just watch Praise the Sun, he almost never bothers with optimal stat.s), but optimal stats are almost required for taking on gankers in invasions.

Second: This list is just for best scaling. This is not a weapon tier list. Every weapon can be viable in PVP duels and every weapon is viable in PVE. These are just weapons that will scale to dex better than other weapons. Keep an open mind for some other weapons not on this list because base damage is important too. Play with what you like, this is just a list. Also note, all weapons are +5 or +10.

The list:

S Weapons:

Chaos Blade
Dagger (sharp)
Scimitar (Sharp)
Painting Guardian Curved Sword (sharp)

A weapons:
Farron Greatsword
Bloodlust
Shotel (sharp)
Rapier (sharp)
Ricard's Rapier (sharp)
Murakumo (sharp)
Harpe (sharp)
Claw (sharp)
Manikin Claws (sharp)
Great Scythe (sharp)
Corvian Great Scythe (sharp)
Winged Spear (sharp)
Carthus Curved Sword (sharp)
Rotted Ghru Spear (sharp)
Rotted Ghru Dagger (sharp)
Sellsword Twin blades (sharp)
All clubs sharp (untested by me, this is fextralife info. The clubs seem really strange to get A scaling)

B scaling:
Storm Curved Sword
Exile Greatsword

Most other infusable weapons receive B scaling when sharp except Halberds, and Axes. Those receive C. Some of these weapons still might be pretty good for your build depending on base damage. The other few that do not receive B are terrible with scaling period or scale better with odd infusions.

Bad dex scaling:
Bandit's knife
Mail breaker
Corvian greatknife
Astora straight sword
Drakeblood Greatsword

If I remember correctly those are all C or D, which still might be viable for your build but will not be optimal. So there you have it, plan your dex build around some of the weapons and enjoy! Duel on and happy hunting!

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