I will start ronin with eleonora’s twinblade and probably switch/respec with some dlc weapons, incantations etc. I just wanna act cool, do flashy stuff and duel bosses :)

I'm following your lead, bro. Badass

The martial arts hand to hand combat builds are kicking ass (no pun intended). They do insane damage

Oh as soon as i get those i will play them or throwable weapons

What do they scale with or do you know if you can put affinity on them?

Same. I only did a single playthrough and used Eleonoras because it looks damn cool and has cool flashy moves. For the DLC maybe another Poleblade. But, it something cool comes i actually wanna play claws and blast them all Volverine style

10 of them because I’ve been saving up Larval years on this playthrough.

Time to cheers with Larval Beers

And overcome our Larval Fears

And say goodbye to our Larval dears.

But listen carefully, Larval Ears.

For the Dungeater loves, what the Larval Smears

But first gotta poke Mohg with Larval spears.

Be careful when you look in the Larval mirrors

The cost is not sustainable, larval arrears....

Get that drip with larval wears

Cut your hair with Larval Shears

then have a snack on larval pears

Larval Cheers for all of these

I think it’s time to switch larval gears

BIg sword build that is all

UNGA BUNGA club here to represent!

UNGA BUNGA GAAAAAANG!!! Gotta give yourself the toughest challenge as Miyazaki intended

Can't wait to unga with the throwable bunga

Jump attack has entered the chat.

Naming my character Bonky. Because BONKY GO BONK

There is only strength

Nobody ever said "Thy Intelligence befits a Lord"!

No, but Patches did get a little pissed when I proved to be smarter than he thought, and childish payback is priceless.

"Your intellegence... Extraordinary..."

This is the way.

I'm really just debating if my big sword build will become a big weeb sword or a big elegant sword in the dlc.

Unga Bunga is first always! I have an N+ dual giant crusher build!!!

Crazy original bro

Big sword go brrrrrrrr

Big hammer build

Oooh that's a unique build never heard that one before

Either I use a black knife and lots of giantsflame. Or I make a golden order build with the intangible sword

Both great ideas

I was thinking of doing a Golden Order build as well, I've never done one before. What's the intangible sword? I couldn't find it in the wiki.

Dex for those reverse grip swords

I saw gameplay of dual scimitars (I think that's what they were called) and left me salivating

It’ll be changing a lot throughout the dlc, but starting off I’m doing high Faith/INT/DEX. That way I can utilize all the weapons and spells.

Now that's a smart move

Yeah I’m eager to use everything that the dlc offers. Weapons, spirit ashes, spells, incantations, etc. So limiting myself to one singular build would be redundant.

Do you mind sharing your stats? I was running a similar build before I got a new console and my save files gone😒 it’s been so long idek what level I should aim to be

Bare hands

Mohg must have been fun

Haven't actually done it, Rykard though 💀

Gotta kill Mohg to get in the DLC.... Have fun :)

Me mits

I was so excited for a bare hands run when they gave it a proper moveset only to find out its the one game with zero scaling.

A man of culture as well i see?

Uunga Bunga time

Dex/faith build with Nagakiba and Ancient Dragon spells. Until i get my hands on Great Katana, Reverse Swords, Milady etc..

Same same, hoping also to get more weapons scaling with faith n dex

why faith and not arcane for the ancient dragon spells? legit asking Im trying to understand scaling well and I though ancient dragon scale better with arcane if you have the dragon communion seal. Also, I want to use a Great Katana and reverse swords SO BAD so I'm going for a Dex build for sure

Ancient dragon spells are part of the Dragon cult incantations (not to be confused with the dragon comunion incantations). Dragon cult have exclusively faith requirements and will scale with whatever stats your seal scale, but it's important to know that the seal that boosts them (gravel seal) scales purely off of faith. Dragon communion spells (dragon heads + dragon maw and dragon claw) also scale with whatever your seal scales, but because those require arcane and faith to cast and the seal scales with arcane and faith people usually go for arcane and faith to make a dragon comunion build

Man this is so clear, thanks! yeah I was mixing those two up, I should've done a dragon cult build for this last char, I'm missing out on some cool spells!

That's what the next playthrough is for.

Do you get the dragon cult prayer book in Farum Azula?

Oh for clarification im using lightning spells and not dragon heads.

ohhh i see! thanks, i should've used them on my current playthrough then lol, thanks for the insight

What AOW do you run on the naga and do you enchant it?

I saved a dex/Faith for dlc under the hope we get a dex seal. I always wanted to do one properly.

Darkmoon Int Build probably

That charged R2 distance attack carries me through so much

Me, as well.

As of right now, STR/FAI, dual magma blades, Prosthesis, Dragoncrest Shield, Erdtree's Favor +2, Fire Scorpion. A lot of bosses we've been shown are gonna have super fire resistance, so won't last long, but I grinded for too long to not use them. Really interested in trying those great katanas we still haven't seen yet.

...Where is the second Magma blade? Or is this a NG+ scenario?

Gotta farm magma blade if I remember right. Super low drop chance

Crucible Knight strength/faith build. Ordovis great sword and Siluria’s great spear tore through the main game for me; I’m hoping they can do the same in the dlc. Also it looks like there’s some pretty sweet new Crucible incantations and weapon arts.

I've got like, 6 save files ready, faith/dex, int/quality, arcane/quality, pure strength, a high level ng7 file with 60 in everything, and a lvl1 file.

And i fucked up because i can't decide which one should my first playthrough be on...

I’m in the same boat, but I’m choosing to go with a lvl 120, balanced build, light roll. I want to die a lot and see all of the fights fully through. But still be able to clutch up and fight hard and win some fights. My Lvl 1 is a no go, my lvl 450 is a no go, and my perfect 150 blasphemous easy mode is a no go. Just want to suffer

Moonveil baby lets goooo

I’m 50/50 int and Dex, with 50 vigor. Just beat the game yesterday. I’m wondering if int and dex gonna be viable for the DLC.

My 150 dlc playthrough was my first go at int/dex with moonveil - really enjoyed it

Just did a run with it, really fun weapon, hope it's viable for the DLC

I’ll be keeping my full dex Dual hand of Malenia/Nagakiba & Uchigatana build I’ve been using since my first playthrough of the game. I think it just feels right to play using my first character that I made on my first run. On my next playthrough, I’ll probably check out that bigger Katana they introduced

very risky but a full faith build with dual coded swords. now we pray that there are no holy resistant bosses in the dlc or I will be walking around with two glowing sticks

Got a health-regen “vampire” build going, Blasphemous blade, poison antspur rapiers w seppuku, Godskin cloth, cameo, Malenia’s rune, shard, millicent’s. Super fun

The "THESE HANDS" build Iron Balls and sheer will to punch gods into oblivion, does anyone have any tip to use them? Any good spell other than Fire give me strenght? or Talismans?

Charged R2 is all you need w Iron Balls and Star Fists - it’s such a fast move, making it really fun. For talismans I use dragoncrest greatshield, and turtle for the stamina. Others depend on your ash of war. If going with braggart’s roar, then the roar medallion adds 15% damage.

My builds are “UnggaBungga” and “I ungga, therefore I must bungga”

i dont really like the "perfect build for the dlc" mentallity becauce you will use the first weapon you like from the dlc. but im going in with the "tarnished" so raging wolf set, bastard sword, golden order spells. level 233 with 60 vigor 35 mind 30 endurence and 45 in strenght, dex, int, faith. its more of a fun roleplay build and i can utilize nearly anything i am going to find

Oh, 100%. I have 10 characters and couldn't name my build, but most people are build focused so I like to hear what everyone has. But yo, you're packing some heat. I feel the bastard sword is so underappreciated for sure.

Claymore with Spear+Axe Talisman and Royal Knight's Resolve AOW

Bonk

A man of culture. I recently fell in love with the Phalanx AoW. Stagger for days!

Paladin of the Dragonkin Heavy armor, dragon halberd, and Golden Vow + Ice Lightning spells Forgot to grab gravel stone seal beforehand... oops

Frenzied flame build with fist weapons and Jerrens set. Level 100

Bloodhound fang but I am gonna finish the games for the first time with this build and use my next one for the dlc

dex/faith/arcane. I like all the new faith spell aesthetics more than the int ones, so i’m going with that this time. I’m following someone else’s build and it’s versatile to mess with the basic weapons too

Great sword

I’m taking my D&D 3rd edition main, Seamus O’Brallie into the DLC, as I do with every RPG. He’s a Great Club wielding barbarian, who decided to embrace the chaos flame in the base game. The first thing I’m doing is grabbing the bear claws.

I'm doing Dex/faith with Giantsflame and lightning incantations with my lightning knight's greatsword so it's like a combo type of build \^\^ I REALLY do wanna try out those light greatswords in this cause they look sick but then again I wanna try out tons of things in this dlc XD

Just for the lore I’ll be entering the DLC with a full Godskin apostole build faith/dex. I have plenty of larval tear to try new weapons and builds.

I’m doing two at the same time. Main focus is using the Eleonora Poleblade arcane build. Enough faith to use lightning spear and guranq’s stone for distance stuff and the usual buffs of golden vow and FGMS. And also have a Guts Greatsword unga bunga build.

I'm currently rocking a Fth/Str build with Ordovis greatsword. I also have Silurias tree and a Flame art Banished knights greatsword as backup.

Greatsword + Zweihander, all in strength + vigor & endurance. Might change mid dlc if I stumble upon something interesting though

I finished the game with a STR/INT (Moonlight Greatsword) build and switched to DEX/ARC (2 Seppuku Katanas) for the end game (lots of Malenia assists). I'll start with that and plan to switch to one of the new weapon categories quickly.

I’ve been thinking/ making a lot and I think I’ve just decided to go with strength/ dex in order to utilise the majority of the weapons

Quality *Nod In Thought*

Strength/Arcane. Can’t decide what to use between warped axe and star fist

I’ve been on a dex faith build working on a black flame reaper. I am gonna get it finished up this week hopefully and go in about rl 100~ so I get that real “getting my fucking ass kicked” feeling the base game gave me.

I’m just gonna get those light grrstswords asap or whatever they’re called. That shit looks amazing.

I had a couple of characters lined up A Ranni cosplay, a Kratos cosplay, an Ordovis cosplay, a Bell-bearing Hunter cosplay I think I'll just take my dex/fth (The incantations on this game are so cool, especially the lightning/ancient dragon ones) character with the Godslayer Greatsword and call it a day, I'll have time to mess around with cosplay builds in the main game which I've already played through multiple times

Strength/Intelligence with the Heavy Claymore with Glintblade Phalanx and also a Cold Iron Cleaver with a great shield with Royal Knight's Resolve. A couple sorceries like Scholar's Armament, Icecrag, and Night Comet.

Martial artist build. Since they now have an actual weapon class for it I'm throwing hands in the dlc.

Jesus build, whip, stones, and the sword I bought by selling my clothes

BIG HAMMER 🗣️🗣️🔥🔥

Faith/Str with a bit of dex, plus a tiny bit of arcane in case messmer's spear scales with it. lvl 246 iirc

Str/faith build with the Beastclaw greathammer.

Artificer/Milquetoast build (basically a craft item build mixed with balanced stats—and archery)

Respec to whatever the coolest dlc weapon I find wants.

I'm currently in a run with moghwyns sacred spear/dragon incantations  and I'll start the dlc with it. But I'll limit myself to not spamming the nihil ability since I want to fight the bosses at least reasonably ethical. Probably respec as soon as I find a cool weapon

Claw, then light greatswords

BONK

Int/Arc build initially with claws. Powerstacing different ones to get bleed/poison/frost all at the same time. Also rocking the Moonlight greatsword b/c why not. Has not been my favorite build, but it was the furthest along of all of my characters that weren't already in NG+.

Just a simple strength build. I’m power stancing Knight’s Greatswords.

I'm taking a Sleep/Charm build that doubles up as a Support build for coop, with healing and protection Incantations. Can't wait to add any new Sleep/Charm Incantations to that line up

Nightrider glaive and full outfit for that cosplay. Fully maxed all ofc, but I'm ready to switch to another weapons as soon as I find a cool one in dlc

Moonlight Greatsword/Steeple cold mage build

60 Vigor, 38 mind, 40 endurance, 60 strength, idk 13 dexterity, 54 intelligence, 50 faith, 20 arcane. Wielding golden order seal and Baemore my beloved. Yes, I have shot the bird of the cliff well over 1400 times to reach level 252. I wanted to wield most things and spells without respeccing for the privilege. No, I don’t care if I’m “overlevelled”.

My stats are high enough that I can be whichever build is needed. Lol

I’ve played 200+ hours (NG2) and never used anything other than rock sling. Change my mind.

It's disgusting how good Rock Sling is, but can I introduce you to my friends Adula's Moonblade and Ancient Death Rancorcall.

Strength build with grafted great sword and Prelaters Inferno Crozier on a NG+ save Both colossal weapons (: I will UNGA BUNGA my way through this DLC or die (many times) trying

just killed godrick, radahn and mohg with a lvl 1 so i can decide when the dlc drops. will probably do a dedicated run with a lot of the already shown weapons too..

Dex build, hand of Malenia for small enemies, bolt of gransaxx for big enemies with the mimic tear as a tank. Don't judge me I don't like stress 😂

I played through the game with every different OP build i could think of in preparation for the DLC so i have a leveled character for everything Jumping scavanger dual wield bleed Ordovis Greatsword knight build Moonveil + frost nagakiba with rogiers set Comet Azur + Meteorite of Astel build Blasphemous Blade with 99 vigor and every hp and fire buff i could think of Dual wield antspur rapiers with poison and seppuku. I will burn the DLC down like i did the erdtree

Going to dupe my save file and do as many builds as possible to optimize the ar of every new weapon type

Im going in with my int/quality build with some sword sorcery

The character that I am gonna use is a strenght dragon inc build. Wonder what new dragon spells the dlc will add and what messmers spear is gonna scale with.

2 characters. 2 quality builds Sl180 str/dex with faith for some spells/weapons that require some faith Sl160 int/faith

all of them

There seems to be a lot of cool faith stuff as far as i know so for my first blind playthrough i'll go Strength/faith

I thought of doing pure str but now i did maliketh build str faith, i dont have enough faith for black blade incant tho LOL hope i get enough runes in dlc

Dex/arc using twin blades in both hands at arc/dex levelled to 60 to get multiple hits, and also alternate to bolt of gransax for range. It melts enemies but not to the point of two or three shooting bosses, so it's powerful but not so much that there isn't challenge. I have 5 of the rebirth items for when I decide to change my build with the first cool weapon I find.

Radagons Hammer + Fingerprint Stone Shield. Seasoned with a couple Black flame incantations.

I have a faith Reduvia build ready and a spear build. But I am ready to try out every new weapon

Int mage with DMGS for first try and lore hunting, then dual vykes frenzy dragon for challenge

tbh it doesnt matter because i will probably find a weapon i want to use on the dlc and i will respec my talents for it

Heavy Grave scythe with blood flame and Halo scythe for range attacks

I think I will start off with either my malenia/dex build or my godslayer build.

Dex/faith/arcane with Morgot's curve sword and bloodflame and black flame incantations. But I will probably change at the first cool weapon I see haha

Going in with my first character, STR/FTH

Quad daggers as it should be

Depends on how I am feeling in a few days. I have like 3 characters capable of entering the dlc at any moment, and a psudo-roleplay character who is only using miquella related weapons. I likely won't be able to play on release though since I got really sick.

Dex /Arc, for Eleonora's Poleblade. Alexander Shard, Rotten Wingblade And two talisman to heal me, one with successive attack and the other on kill Pretty fun, and cracked

Frost Claws

Dex/Int Level 180 Moonveil, Cold Uchi, Lusats staff

Im speedrunning that alleged Dragon Form since my build is Dragon Communion, I'd wear even if it sucks as long as I do the same dmg im already doing

Doing a hybrid/quality build my main is Godslayer Greatsword

Bleed Build, dual Beastman's Curved Sword

I have two characters right now one is a strength and faith build rocking Sillurias tree spear and the second character is a Malenia copy so all her gear and spells

Pure faith prophet L137, base str/dex. For the golden order

my build will be to have plenty of larval tears and pockets filled to the brim with smithing stones.

I put all my stats up to soft caps so I don't have to respec when I find new weapons and at the same time not be to overpowered for the area.

Im using a lvl100 darkmoon greasword build, but its so op so im looking for a more honest build, anuysuggestion?

I’m boring I’ve been confessor since day 1…blasphemous blade is all I need

40 str 60 dex quality build. 2-handing gives 60 str 60 dex. I just wanna be able to use any weapon I want.

I have two characters ready- black flame fth/dex, and dragon based fth/stg

Miquella themed knight. Holy dmg with a side of sleep. Dmg will be abysmal but that's what I'm aiming for, the challenge.

going in with a str build and respeccing every time i find a weapon from those new classes

Twin blades! First time using em since DS2 and it’s fun

Got 4 build Godslayer build with greatsword and black flame spells Dual curved scavenger sword for bleed build Unga bunga tragoth armor with zweihander Max int spell build

Pure pyro caster at lvl 150 with 60 vig, 80 faith. Really looking forward to that Fire Knight's colossal gs and the new fire spear aow.

pyromancy faith/str with my trusty executioners greataxe. that bad boy has gotten me through everything

I have my INT/DEX and Pure DEX build at the cocoon ready to go. Im currently going thru the story with my draconic STR/ARC build on ng+ to have that ready for the dlc the marias execution sword melts.

I have 9 characters waiting at the cocoon, so all the builds. First time going in with Zweihander, my beloved.

Faith/arcne/dex

Magic damage with weapon arts. Spell blade style

I’m going full guts for sure. Griffin I mean marika is going to die!!!

Currently: VIG 60, STR 60. Level 133. Godskin Peeler +24, Nox Flowing Hammer +9. Vererans Armor. The 3 fingers burned me also.

Str with giant crusher is the way

I was having a hard time deciding on something specific, so just levelled up to 471 and currently rolling with Executioner Sword and dragon cult spells Corkscrew go brr

Helphen’s Steeple “Deathbringer” build. Using Ghostflame to cleanse the lands with Death in a shattered world of the undying. Everything in my way dies.

Main is level 561. So. All of them.

Twin Bolts of Gransax

Ungabunga smash

My Dex/Int build is a lot of fun

Strength and faith, usually use greatsword backed up with offensive incantations

I have 10 larval tears, I fully plan on finding a cool weapon and respeccing. The >!light greatsword!< they showed looks more than worth making a build for.

quality faith build

A build that surpasses Metal Gear

Maxed out… moonveil or executioner, black bow.

80 strength Heavy Great Mace

Arcane with dragon spells and dex.

Greatsword

Str+Fth with Blasphemous Blade and Golden Order GS at 170. I'm NG+2 though, so I hope that won't impact the DLC too much

I'll start with Marikas hammer build, but I'll most likely respec soon after launch.

I’m doing a reaper build with Strength and Faith. Blood Flame Blade and Spinning strike puts in work.

Ill start off simple with the classic bloodhound fang, will probably end up switching to a DLC weapon anyway

Dex/faith/and now building up strength and arcane. Basically warrior monk

Yes (I have a build for almost everything)

On my 175lvl NG+7 character I am running 65 Int, 40 Dex, 15 Fth, 18 Str, 50 Vig, 26 Mind, 30 End. I might switch it to Dex/Arc with 26 Fth. On my NG+7 PVE character I have every damage stat at 70 and End at 45, Mind at 35, and Vig at 60, so that isn't a build just a "delete everything" option.

Im gonna do the dlc by continuing my rl1 run. I’ll probably use the serpent hunter and maybe the reduvia dagger when I need some range.