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The video delves into a comprehensive guide on the "Sword Sage" build, optimized around the "Sword of Night and Flame" in a game. This build emphasizes balancing intelligence and faith to maximize the weapon’s damage potential, which includes both physical and magical attacks. Key aspects of the build include using the Prince of Death Staff for its scaling benefits with intelligence and faith, and employing powerful spells like "Ancient Death Rancor" and "Ranker Call" to stagger enemies and create openings for critical hits. Essential gear includes the Meteorite Staff early in the game, later switching to the Prince of Death Staff, the Queen's Crescent Crown for an intelligence boost, and various talismans like Marika's Seal and Radagon Icon to enhance stat efficiency and spell casting speed. The strategy discussed combines ranged spell attacks with weapon skills, playing similarly to a spellblade. The build’s stats focus on achieving 24 faith and intelligence to meet weapon requirements, with other notable stats like 20 vigor and 21 mind for balance and effectiveness. The video also hints at future enhancements, such as staffs scaling with both intelligence and faith, and mentions the upcoming development of a level 100 paladin build. Overall, the guide aims to provide a robust and versatile setup for players looking to optimize their gameplay with the "Sword of Night and Flame."
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In this segment of the video, the creator discusses their “Sword Sage” build, focusing on the “Sword of Night and Flame.” This sword requires 12 dexterity, 12 strength, and 24 faith, and it can deal physical, magic, and fire damage. The build largely centers on enhancing intelligence and faith due to the weapon’s damage scaling. Key weapon arts include a magic-damaging comet beam (R1) and a fire-damaging AoE sweep (R2). Essential equipment includes the Meteorite Staff, useful for early gameplay, later replaced by the Prince of Death Staff, which scales with both intelligence and faith and boosts the damage of death spells. Use of the Carrion Filigreed Crest reduces FP costs, making powerful attacks sustainable.
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In this part of the video, the speaker explains the weapon and equipment choices for a specific build. They emphasize using a light weapon like a dagger with the “Determination” skill to boost sorcery damage. The Queen’s Crescent Crown is recommended for its intelligence boost without negative effects, and the need for at least 34 intelligence is highlighted. For armor, maintaining a medium roll with the best available gear is advised, with improvements as the game progresses.
Key talismans include Marika’s Seal for boosting faith, intelligence, arcane, and mind—necessary for current spell requirements but to be swapped out later due to extra damage taken. Radagon Icon increases spell casting speed, while Carian’s Filigreed Crest reduces weapon skill costs by 25%, allowing frequent use of the Sword of Night and Flame.
Two spells are used: “Ranker Call” and “Ancient Death Rancor.” Although their damage isn’t at its peak without the Prince of Death staff, they still inflict significant damage and stagger enemies effectively. This staggering creates opportunities to use weapon skills or attack.
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In this part of the video, the speaker explains the mechanics and strategy behind using certain spells that stagger enemies, providing openings for critical attacks. These spells do not cause blight buildup on other players or enemies. The main use of the spells is to offer a ranged attack option and to stagger opponents, particularly effective when combined with weapon skills or critical hits from horseback. Although the damage isn’t very high, it can be buffed with determination. The build is discussed with a focus on the Prince of Death staff, which significantly boosts damage output. The speaker describes it as playing similarly to a spellblade, combining ranged spell attacks with weapon skills.
Attributes for this build are outlined: 20 vigor, 21 mind, 12 strength, 12 dexterity, 34 intelligence, and 24 faith, noting that the stats shown are modified by the miraculous scarcity item. Key attributes include 24 intelligence and 24 faith to utilize the Sword of Night and Flame, with 34 intelligence needed for Ancient Death Rancor, illustrating the importance of balancing faith and intelligence to maximize spell efficacy. The Prince of Death staff offers scaling benefits from both stats, making it an essential tool for this build.
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In this part of the video, the speaker discusses the benefits and future potential of the meteorite staff in the game, noting that while it currently scales only with intelligence, later on, there will be staffs that scale with both intelligence and faith, enhancing sorcery scaling significantly. They emphasize that a vigor of 20 is the minimum recommended for any build at this level, and a mind stat of 21 is insufficient as more mind is needed to spam abilities effectively. They provide final tips for the build, highlighting that the spells Rancor Call and Ancient Death Rancor are highly effective in co-op situations for staggering bosses and in PvP by disrupting invaders. The speaker mentions that no staff or seal in the game allows casting both incantations and sorceries, which is why they favor the staff for this build to use death spells effectively. They conclude by mentioning the wrap-up of their level 50 builds and hint at an upcoming level 100 paladin build they are still testing.