89 I believe

99

I perfer to max out at 69

if you get the dancing dragon mask you can upgrade your attack power with five skill points

About +11 (main bosses) and realistically with the mask. . . About +5 more, but that's 25 skill points to farm. But with time and patience and sweet spots to farm you could in theory max it at 99.

I got 14 pts now without the mask. I'm just about to go into ng+

14 without the mask

13 in the true ending path

Did you use the advanced Sebimaru which has guard piercing attacks? I did it your way, because I dont like cheesy tactics which probably won't work in later NG+s.... and I don't want to learn their moves when they oneshot me with every hit.

You can cheese her an even easier way though, if you bait her across the bride she literally doesn’t even attack

I'll look into it

Because the mobs scale with you, I think it actually doesn’t matter what so ever sadly

The mobs don't scale with you. At 12 I'm one-shotting mobs in the estate. I wasn't one shot ting them when I first got there.

the more the better, theres no min max in this game

There’s a soft cap at 14

Unlike in Dark Souls, there's no real alternative to upgrading your health and attack power, so just do it every time you get a memory/enough prayer beads.

5

5

I've done it once and it was 5

14, 27 and 51 are the softcaps, with damage per point dropping off drastically at each cap. CptBrian in the comments below did a spreadsheet where he crunched the numbers (Link: pastebin com/raw/U06XyqZ3 )

Seriously? So even the normal foot soldier takes no damage?!?

Jep i basically do no dmg at all to any enemies, either it really does scale that way or its a thing to punish cheaty Bois

The trainer I saw only lets you set attack power between 0-89 and resets if you go over so there's probably something going on when you just go straight to 99.

Proof of this?

Then what would be the point of Attack Power then lol. You're clearly wrong here.

I one shot everything in the estate at AP 12. The mobs don't scale with your AP. A very minimal test proves that.

Enemies scale with every new game plus cycle (up to NG+7 or whatever the cap is). Nothing to do with player stats.