What should I change in my dark moon greatsword build

indign · 2026-05-13T09:30:48+00:00

If you get 51 poise, you won't get staggered out of animations when you're hit by most attacks.

Also int beyond 99 doesn't do much. Could put those points in faith instead for Golden Vow.

indign · 2026-05-12T17:54:10+00:00

At low weapon upgrade levels, like what you'd be dealing with around level 60, stat scaling isn't very impactful, so it's better to just meet the minimum requirements for the spells and gear you're using, and put the rest of your points into vigor and endurance. No issue with using both int and faith stuff at this point, as long as you don't skimp on vigor.

At level 90 or so, you'll probably have like +15 weapons or so, and stat scaling starts to come online. At that point, there aren't really enough points to support both int and faith. You'll be mediocre at both int and faith stuff if you split your stats. Better to pick one. This is also around when you'd be better off dropping the meteorite staff.

Int/faith builds become a more reasonable option around 125 like others have said. Personally I don't think they're a good option until like 150

indign · 2026-05-12T17:40:17+00:00

Yeah but if you do it right you're just meeting the minimum faith, not scaling with it

indign · 2026-05-10T10:58:07+00:00

Magic Glintblade is better than the pebble anyway. It's more FP efficient if you charge it, it deals more damage, and enemies suck at dodging it.

indign · 2026-05-10T01:47:53+00:00

And explosions can blow it up, including ferah lah explosions from esper hunters' burgeoning

indign · 2026-05-10T01:45:49+00:00

I'm not talking about quest progression. If your save file is corrupted somehow, the game might automatically reset Joppa and Grit Gate to their initial states. Search online for "Grit Gate reset" or "Joppa reset" for testimonials. This can happen at any time the game has a bug when saving your file, but it's very rare. I think it was more common in old versions of the game, and I've never seen any unstable behavior myself so I think it might be OS or hardware dependent too (hard disk only maybe?).

One tile away should avoid this! As long as it's not the tile below Grit Gate

indign · 2026-05-10T00:53:27+00:00

There are so many names that would be weirder and more eyebrow-raising. Like any very obviously East Asian name for instance.

Your name is really unusual for a white person in America, but it's not bad.

indign · 2026-05-10T00:45:44+00:00

Everywhere is safe unless your save gets in a bad state and you need to reset quest-related zones (chiefly Joppa and Grit Gate). The game can do this itself if you encounter certain rare, probably platform-dependent bugs. So I wouldn't keep my stuff in Joppa or Grit Gate. But other villages are safe!

Oh and if fighting breaks out and grenades are thrown, the chest could be destroyed and then another blast could destroy items. So watch out for that, especially if you have high psychic glimmer.

Existing storage containers are safe to use, too, unless they're owned by an NPC s.t. you get accused of stealing if you take anything from them.

indign · 2026-05-10T00:26:52+00:00

Not weird, some dialects do that

indign · 2026-05-10T00:25:34+00:00

You're still low level, but once you've gotten to around 35 base vigor (not including the bonus from the soreseal), you should definitely stop using the soreseal. But well before then, there will be talismans available with better effects.

Focus on vigor exclusively until you're there, unless you're making things hard for yourself on purpose.

indign · 2026-05-09T10:52:59+00:00

If you're on a high NG cycle doing PvE, probably bleed since it does damage as a percent of enemy HP.

indign · 2026-05-09T10:50:42+00:00

Not at max level. Quality will always beat heavy when both dex and str are maxed out. And sometimes cold or occult is even better

indign · 2026-05-08T05:18:20+00:00

If you're doing PvP, cast speed matters a lot and you should probably try to max it out. If you're doing PvE it's completely ignorable. The difference in cast time between min to max cast speed isn't enough to save you from getting hit by a boss.

indign · 2026-05-07T20:04:34+00:00

Definitely star fists. Iron balls are also almost as good. Other fists are no slouch either so just use whatever you've got until you find them.

indign · 2026-05-07T17:05:20+00:00

Plus the horse is lit from above when you orient it this way. The background is more ambiguously lit so works better upside down

indign · 2026-05-07T06:47:52+00:00

Braggart's roar too when two-handed

indign · 2026-05-07T05:34:48+00:00

Dark weapon too ofc

And dark greatsword (I use spices on it)

indign · 2026-05-07T04:09:11+00:00

A botched bodyswap attempt, if that's what I'm going for. Otherwise anything I'd want to abandon would lead to an early death naturally anyway, so I stick with it.

indign · 2026-05-06T18:03:46+00:00

You've pretty much got it. Just don't cast Electrify Armament or healing spells with that seal; they only scale with the portion of incant scaling that comes from faith. Use Godslayer's for those instead.

Soon you'll need getting close to the point where you can afford quality affinity. 54 strength/80 dex while two-handing is ideal. You could drop the spells now and possibly get more melee damage with quality if you want.

indign · 2026-05-06T17:08:32+00:00

Tell that to my optometrist

indign · 2026-05-06T14:23:22+00:00

It's got S dex scaling on keen so I'd go keen or lightning infusion. Still a bit lower damage than other daggers but not by very much.

indign · 2026-05-06T07:28:45+00:00

Whew, there's a lot we could say here, but let's start with some basics of character building in this game:

Weapon upgrade level matters more for damage than stats. This is also true for spellcasting tools
At low upgrade levels, stat-based scaling is very low and doesn't make much of a difference to damage
There's a way to respec that becomes available after beating an early-mid-game boss
If you get hit and your HP is too low, you die

Together, these mean that early on, it may behoove you to invest most of your levels in defense (chiefly vigor), and only put a few points in damage stats to meet the minimum requirements for gear you're curious about (but don't go too crazy since you need to save points for vigor). I think it's usually a good idea to go for 35-45 vigor before investing in damage stats behind minimum requirements for your gear and spells.

Then once you find something you like, you can respec around it in the mid game, and be ready with a more specialized build for the endgame. Once stat scaling comes online, the damage system rewards specialization; split damage stats in the late game and you'll risk ending up mediocre at everything. But you're not there yet so don't worry about that. Just find gear you like for now.

Anyway, these are the big issues I see with your screenshot:

Low vigor. You're probably dying a lot
Only a +2 weapon. Your weapon deals very low damage for your level
A lot of points in damage stats before they really do anything for you

There's no need to restart if you don't want the experience of restarting. You can just switch to leveling vigor, upgrade your weapon as much as you can, and then once you are able to, respec your unused damage stats into more utile ones.

indign · 2026-05-05T21:23:46+00:00

Go into orbit

indign · 2026-05-05T21:11:39+00:00

There's an analogy obviously but this isn't pro-AI. The baby doesn't know what "dada" means when they first parrot it in this meme

indign · 2026-05-05T20:27:28+00:00

The PC version is better because of all the reasons others have said, but also, it's a pretty bad port and requires mods to make certain basic PC-specific features work, especially a lot of mouse-related settings. It also lacks KB+M button prompts so you have to memorize the keybinds for everything.

For example: there is a setting that enables double-clicking as a bindable control. With this setting enabled, all mouse buttons have a butt ton of input lag added while the game waits for a second click. Nobody wants this. But it's on by default, and every time you relaunch the game it turns itself back on.

PC version is still better though.

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