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LegitHyperbole on 24 June 2024
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IcaroRibeiro said:
LegitHyperbole said:

I'll try that indeed, I didn't know there was two uchigatanas. I'll have to find the second one before I can respec to Arcane. What exactly is occult infusion, I haven't played Elden Ring in a while, I know I infused bleed onto the uguchigatana but I'm not sure how the mechanic goes. 

You can only get two Uchigatanas in NG if you started as Samurai. The Uchigatana is a catacomb in Northern Limgrave

Occult Infusion makes your weapon getting scaling with Arcane and increase stats buildup such as bleeding and poison. There are few Ashes of war with occult scaling. The best way to give a weapon occult affinity is using the black whetblade, you can find it in Nokron

It's worse than bleeding infusion when it comes to proccing bleed, but it's add strong arcane scaling so thr damage output is high without compromising your ability to make bosses bleed 

At 80 ARC it's only marginally weaker than Keen Uchigatana with 80 DEX, but with much higher bleed buildup: 

11STR 15DEX **80ARC**:  

Occult Uchigatana = 585AR / 88 Bleed  

11STR **80DEX** 8ARC:    

Keen Uchigatana = 596AR / 45 Bleed

Combined this with Mimic tear and most bosses will bleed in every combo

However be aware some bosses are immune to bleeding, many of them actually. If you don't have many Larval Tears you can go for DEX and change the affinity to Lightning, Keen and Blood Infusions whenever you see fit 

If you really to keep INT and be a magic Samurai I strongly advice to use ranged magic and abuse Moonveil's Ashes of War. Intelligence builds are great, but a good spell blade build is about mid-range fights (using Cold, Ashes of war and some ranged sorceries) and your playstyle looked 100% meele for me 

If you want to meele IMO DEX, ARC and STR are better stats than INT

I don't know what to change and I'm down to my last larval tear. I don't wanna fuck things up worse and be stuck with it. It's not terrible anyway, it's just not great or game breaking, it got me through the last few areas of the base game really cozy. I don't see the point in spamming moonveils weapon arte unless the enemy type needs it, it's great for dragons like and that's why I took moonveil in the first place but I just enjoy being mainly melee with the option to attack with it. Would really love to respec with two uguchigatanas but like you said, need to be Samurai. A pity.