Amazing. For most of my game on my 80 strength build I've been using a medium shield for parrying, and my Grafted Greatsword for attacks and criticals. I noticed that the Bloodstained Dagger scales with Strength, so I fully upgraded it and started swapping to that when I go for the critical attack, but it doesn't seem to do any more meaningful damage than my Grafted Greatsword even when I bind an elemental affinity the boss is weak to. With the Golden Hippo fight I found that getting in a couple of two handed fully charged heavy attacks did more damage than getting critical with the dagger. Any ideas where I'm going wrong?
Bloodstained Dagger is not a high-crit weapon. Maybe that's why you won't get high-crit damage. Grafted Greatsword is a true monster weapon when talking about strength build. So yeah, if your build is focused on strength, I think you won't notice any difference. except if you use Miséricorde with a dagger talisman.
You're insane
Amazing.
For most of my game on my 80 strength build I've been using a medium shield for parrying, and my Grafted Greatsword for attacks and criticals.
I noticed that the Bloodstained Dagger scales with Strength, so I fully upgraded it and started swapping to that when I go for the critical attack, but it doesn't seem to do any more meaningful damage than my Grafted Greatsword even when I bind an elemental affinity the boss is weak to.
With the Golden Hippo fight I found that getting in a couple of two handed fully charged heavy attacks did more damage than getting critical with the dagger.
Any ideas where I'm going wrong?
Bloodstained Dagger is not a high-crit weapon. Maybe that's why you won't get high-crit damage. Grafted Greatsword is a true monster weapon when talking about strength build. So yeah, if your build is focused on strength, I think you won't notice any difference. except if you use Miséricorde with a dagger talisman.
if you are at 80 strength put away the shield and get a second greatsword