- Mon Sep 05, 2022 7:16 pm
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for everyone mentioning how it doesnt work with crits or its awful, the way any grease or traditional buff that "adds damage" works is that it basically coats the weapon with a spell that does its own independent, fixed damage every time the weapon makes contact regardless of whether its a ten hit flurry or a charged r2 or crit. they are especially useful on any multi hit melee attacks and fast weapons, also paired weapons since you can buff both. its been this way in ds1 and ds3 and there have always been myths about them multiplying with crits or having some secret synergy with weapons that deal the same element in damage ( main example is in ds3 ppl used dark blade to buff the mad kings crucifix since it does dark damage even though this achieves nothing and lightning/darkmoon blade is always better since dark blade is weaker, this would only be useful if you had dark clutch ring and the waifu mask to buff dark damage) but this isnt true. id only ever recommend using this on fists/claws, two handed twinblades or weapons that have unique multi hit r2s or weapon arts that youd spam, and its only useful if you have a hybrid build since there are no pairs of buffable weapons and buffs that scale primarily with the same stat so you need a ton of investment into 2 stats, probably the best choice for this setup would be a strength twinblade with 55str 80int
