Shojindo wrote:
Nice job on Marty. I still need to do that fight. Might be a good break up from the chalice grind soon. Also don't at all take this the wrong way because I love your videos. But that Ludwig damage kinda blows. It's making your life harder. The Blades of Mercy put out tons more damage than that. Of course I don't have your range or arcane power so always a trade off but, try it on your next alt. It's going to be very hard for me after this BoM run to respect any other weapon.
I have a Skill rating of 12 and an arcane of 40. There's no way a BoM would be better for my current character.
Ultimately, though, my favorite build for the Souls games was big sword because I like being able to just sweep through packs with ease and love the reach. Also, the last two bosses I faced actually have fairly decent fire and bolt resistances unlike the remaining bosses, so those two will tend to skew damage low.
My second character is going bloodtinge focused with some skill, so he might make halfway decent use of some BoMs, but ultimately I'm focusing on gunshots(buffed Reiter, ashed Evelynn), which apparently actually gets easier rather than harder later in the game when enemies have more easily targetable weak spots.
I'm still debating who to run as my third character, so if that character backstory lends itself to a skill build, I'll probably do BoM, though I'm also considering Str and a hammer if that fits the character better.