Does blood affinity scale with Dex?

ELDEN RING Everyone says to scale arcane for a blood build, but if I put Bloody Slash on Bandits Curved Sword, blood affinity scales best with dexterity, and occult affinity scales best with arcane with no blood loss buildup.
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What does bleed affinity scale with?

All Occult Type affinities will lower all native Status buildups on the weapon they are applied to, but will allow these buildups to scale with the Arcane attribute. Poison and Bleed affinities will add Arcane scaling Blood Loss or Poison buildup to a weapon if applied, respectively.
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What affinity scales with dex Elden Ring?

What are affinities in Elden Ring?
  • Standard: A neutral state with no affinity. ...
  • Heavy: Enhances Strength scaling at the expense of all other attributes.
  • Keen: Enhanced Dexterity scaling at the expense of all other attributes.
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What element scales with dex?

The Lightning Affinity adds Lightning Attack to a weapon, which scales on Dexterity. The Sacred Affinity adds Holy Attack to a weapon, which scales on Faith.
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Does bleed scale with Dex?

Bleed scales with arcane, raising Dex will only increase physical damage output on MV or any katana. is RoB a more powerful bleed weapon than MV fully upgraded? Yes.
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How To Scale Blood Loss Or Bleed Scaling In Elden Ring

Does Dex increase bleed damage?

For a badass Bleed build with stacks of damage, you'll want to primarily focus on putting levels into Arcane, Dexterity, and Vigor. It's also always worth putting some levels into Endurance.
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What is the best Dex weapon for bleed?

While Rivers of Blood once easily topped the list of the best Elden Ring Dex weapons to use for a powerful Bleed build, it received several nerfs , including a reduction in PvP Poise damage in patch 1.08. If you want to wield this weapon, go to the Church of Repose in the Mountaintops of the Giants.
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What is the best Dex weapon?

Guys which dex weapon is best?
  • For Daggers, Miséricorde or Wakizashi are amazing as off-hand picks. ...
  • Straight Swords, PS Noble's Slender Swords are an absurdly strong set up.
  • Greatswords, the Knight's GS/Claymore are pretty good when Keen infused.
  • Colossal Swords, Zwei or nothing, the Godslayer's GS sucks ass.
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Is Bloodhound Fang a Dex weapon?

The bloodhounds fang is one of the best dexterity weapons you can get early game in Eldon ring, and this Elden ring tutorial is going to allow you to get the most damage out of your weapon on your Elden ring playthrough.
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What is the best pure dex katana in Elden Ring?

Of all the katanas in the game, the Uchigatana, Nagakiba, and Hand Of Malenia are the best for pure Dexterity builds.
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How do you add bleed affinity to Elden Ring?

To apply different affinities to armaments in Elden Ring, players must first unlock Ashes of War in Elden Ring by obtaining the Whetstone Knife. The Whetstone Knife can be found just south of the Gatefront Ruins at the bottom of a set of stairs to the side of the main path leading to the ruins.
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What's the best affinity in Elden Ring?

Elden Ring: Every Weapon Prefix Affinity, Ranked
  • 8 Sacred.
  • 7 Magic.
  • 6 Cold.
  • 5 Standard.
  • 4 Heavy.
  • 3 Blood.
  • 2 Quality.
  • 1 Keen.
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Does lightning affinity scale with Dex?

Lightning infused weapons scale with dexterity. If you want lightning damage that scales with faith, use the electrify armament incant, or vyke's dragonbolt if you don't mind becoming weaker to lightning damage.
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What stats scale with bleed?

Stats for a Bleed build

Mostly you'll want to stack Dexterity, but having a lot of endurance and health doesn't hurt. The Dexterity stat is directly tied to your damage scaling, while Endurance assures that you can get in plenty of hits to stack Bleed on bosses as quickly as possible.
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Does Rivers of blood scale with Arcane or Dex?

Rivers of Blood Stat Requirements

Most builds stay away from Arcane because it is only useful for Item Discovery and certain spells, but Rivers of Blood scales with Arcane. Because of this relationship, Rivers of Blood is one of the very few Arcane-scaling Bleed weapons in Elden Ring.
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Is occult or blood better?

If you have high arcane, occult will have a lot more AR and somewhat lower bleed. I vastly prefer occult over blood for high arcane builds. Occult is only really good for weapons that have innate bleed scaling, though. If a weapon doesn't have innate bleed, occult won't grant it bleed.
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Is the Claymore better than BloodHounds Fang?

Claymore is more versatile, owing to the fact you can slap any ash of war on it. Infuses well to almost any build, and you can adjust ashes based on the situation. But the Bloodhound's Fang tends to be better on average than most other ashes of war.
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Is BloodHounds Fang still good?

Bloodhounds Fang is the 2nd best pure melee weapon in the game next to Serpent Hunter when you are a skilled melee player. Serpent Hunter is a strength weapon though. Now this changes dramatically if you are a less skilled player. Then lots of weapons become better than BloodHounds Fang.
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What Dex build for Bloodhound Fang?

For this build, you'll need 18 Strength and 17 Dexterity to wield the Bloodhound's Fang. This will also allow you to use the Bloodhound Claws, which have a slightly lower requirement for each stat.
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Are Dex weapons faster?

Dex weapons edge out in the speed factor as well as the substantially less Stamina drain with each attack. That is the trade off. Besides katanas have natural bleed properties in addition to high critical damage, hitboxes and lag aside, STR and DEX weapons are about equal.
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How important is Dex for a fighter?

Plus it helps with things like saving throws that could help keep you on your feet and able to fight. Dexterity is only important for AC which is your most important defense stat. So don't ignore it. 10 Is to low for a fighter, you should go at least 12, but I'd recommend 14.
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What's better Uchigatana or Nagakiba?

Nagakiba, they have the same damage but nagakiba is longer. Nagakiba is similar damage but better reach.
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Does arcane increase bleed?

Arcane just increases the amount of bleed buildup per hit. If you don't use Arcane, it means it takes more hits to proc bleed. Of course, instead of putting points into Arcane, you could use Blood Grease or Bloodflame Blade on the weapon.
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Where is blood katana?

Rivers of Blood is found in the late-game area Mountaintops of the Giants. Once you've gained access to this biome through the main quest chain, you'll find the Church of Repose in the southeast of the map.
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Does blood loss scale with arcane?

An uchigatana or a bandit knife can cause bleed, but they do not scale with arcane natively, so arcane will therefore have zero effect. Arcane WILL affect bleed buildup if the weapon has arcane scaling, or is given arcane scaling through Ash of War affinities.
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