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Very rarely do I put any points into the same nodes (which you can do up to 5 times for most nodes)on NG. Make sure you flesh out your skill tree to exactly how you want it before putting more pearls into the same nodes. Rather be agile? Go for light armor and some range for when melee is just too dangerous. Want to have high damage resist and tank hits? Go for heavy armor and possibly a shield. You should decide this based on what kind of playstyle you want to run with your character. Heavy or light? This ties in to whether or not you want to use a shield, bow, crossbow, or flintlock. The next important thing to consider when planning your build is your armor. This builds can be just as effective (if not moreso) than a pure build (just one stat), but spreading your points too thin is a recipe for a character that doesn’t really excel in anything. Instead of choosing just one of those stats to base your build around, you can choose two or more in what is called a “hybrid build”. That being said, there are not that many offensive prayers, so I would not suggest building a pure Wisdom build. There are also a number of late game weapons that scale at least marginally with Wisdom, making a Wisdom hybrid build viable. Also determines the effectiveness of Prayers. Wisdom: Determines damage output with weapons that scale with Wisdom.Rings are a huge part of a Magic Build, these are the ones you may wish to toy with: Link of Fire and Sky, Burning Sky Ring, Charged Ring, Conduit of Mind, Crystalmoat Ring, and Storm Ring. That said, if you just equip a Link of Fire and Sky, you no longer need to worry about elemental imbalance. By alternating spells, you can keep your elemental imbalance bar low. If you use too many lightning spells, you'll start to take damage whenever you cast another (indicated by a bar), and the same for fire. Elemental imbalance makes you have to alternate fire spells and lightning spells. One very important note for anyone who wants to run a Magic build, taken directly from my New Player Guide/FAQ: If you start as a mage class you get a wonderful ring called the Link of Fire and Sky which negates elemental imbalance. There are also a number of late game weapons that scale at least marginally with Magic, making a Magic hybrid build very viable. Also determines damage output when casting Spells and Incantations.

Magic: Determines damage output with weapons that scale with Magic.

Daggers, swords, whips, sword whips, spears, poleaxes, reapers, bows, crossbows and flintlocks tend to scale well with Dexterity.

Dexterity: Determines damage output with weapons that scale with Dexterity.

Only weapons that scale with Strength will receive a (x1.5) damage bonus when 2-handing them. Greatswords, greathammers, greataxes, maces, axes, and hammers tend to scale well with Strength.

Strength: Determines damage output with weapons that scale with Strength.

The most common stats to base a build around are (please note that the weapon options below are general, meaning that there are certainly exceptions, such as a sword that scales better with Strength than Dexterity): Anyway, there’s nothing wrong with building a balanced character, but come late game when you really decide which weapons, armors, and tactics you like, you’ll wish you distributed your points more effectively. That being said, a sweet spot for Strength is 34 or 35 if you plan on only two handing your weapon, as that puts your strength around 50. Each stat soft-caps at 50 points, meaning that after a stat reaches 50, you’ll receive diminishing returns in your damage output for any point going into that stat after 50. Each weapon scales with at least one of these stats, meaning that it does more damage (scales better) the higher the corresponding stat is. Firstly, which stat (or stats) are you going to focus on? This is the most important aspect of the build as it governs which weapons you’ll be using. Okay, firstly, when you decide on what kind of build you want to make, you want to plan a few things.

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Feel free to skip this section if you’ve got a good grasp on how stats and builds work. This is information you probably already know, but I’m going to go over it again, because if nothing else, I’m thorough.

I see posts pretty frequently wondering about builds, what weapons should be used, what challenging playthroughs they should try, etc… So I’ve put together this build guide designed to help you plan and play your next (or current) character. It’s me, that annoyingly helpful /u/Asuko_XIII here, with another (hopefully useful) post.