Purpose of new builds

I'm guessing people create new builds/toons for simple reasons like playing finishing the game and pvp.
However sometimes there's more to it.


My builds so far and their objective

1 - vitality/tank build with elemental weapons medium roll heavy gear and shield. Some support magic/miracles. Secondary objective: armor collector

2 - fast roller with high strength and dex for claymore scaling. Pure melee. Secondary objective: weapons collector

3 - glass cannon with max slots and spell collector

4 - pyromancer collector. Haven't played much with this one yet. Will probably try a dex weapon

5 - miracle collector. Strength build with heavy armor and fat roll

6 - katana user with 2 slots and enough int to cast crystal magic weapon. Only uses buff type spells. This one was also about finishing the game without using a shield and not visiting every area like I tend to do.

7 - Special weapons user. One slot to cast repair. Objective: abuse special moves (stone great sword, dragon king's great axe etc.)


I'll be running out of save slots soon but still have a couple of ideas:

- a thief that uses parries whenever he can

- a dex faith build (mostly for ornstein's spear)

- a pure dragonoid

- a hunter that will progress using only the bow (yeah this one is stupid)

- a guy that will simply go for the finish while avoiding every single unnecessary fight and exploration. Not a speedrun, not a low level run, rather just sticking to what must be done to finish the game.


What about you guys?

Do you create builds for other reasons than simply playing?
Do you like to role play, try a specific weapon, tactics etc.?

I only make new builds when I want to try out a different weapon/strategy

Anything from trying out a new stat/weapon, to trying out a new form of combat, to just plain roleplaying.

Thanks for replying. Guess this as been covered before.

I'm wondering how the game will react if I change the save directory to make room if I need to (PC)...

It's impossible to make an artorias build. You need a limp arm

Apart from that anything worth mentioning?

I don't exactly roleplay much but was thinking - after watching the amazing series Rome for a second time - of creating a legionnaire.
Would prefer a spartan but unfortunately we don't have a kopis.

Indeed.
Would never thought of that. Nice one.
I wonder if Arty didn't have a busted arm...
What a bad *** he would be.

Roleplay-wise, one of the most hilarious videos I've seen was a guy with a tonberry build from final fantasy. Knife, cloak and iron skin complete with FF music.

bla wrote:Indeed.
Would never thought of that. Nice one.
I wonder if Arty didn't have a busted arm...
What a bad *** he would be.

Roleplay-wise, one of the most hilarious videos I've seen was a guy with a tonberry build from final fantasy. Knife, cloak and iron skin complete with FF music.

If he had his arm ok and his shield with him, we would still be standing in front of his fog door.

On the other hand, I don't want to see him jumping and flipin around the place with that huge shield. I got enough cartwheeling Giant's Moms for a lifetime, don't need to have a boss around it as well.

essentially i end up picking one stat then put most of my points into that while taking the rest to a point where i can use weapons that compliment the build. i try to add enough endurance to fast roll with light armour and mid roll in heavy armour on each toon. i then put enough points in vitality to take me the rest of the way to level 99.

thank goodness for mugenmonkey

Mr. Tart wrote:

bla wrote:It's impossible to make an artorias build. You need a limp arm

Dark hand and never using it is enough to replicate it. I use the fog pyromancies to replicate the slime that he throws at you instead of a cataclyst as i feel it's the best i can do. Of course you can't make perfect, but you can try.

the Artorias build is one of the most fun to play. but i've found that it's really hard to do properly at the PVP butter zone (SL99 to SL130)

Sentiel wrote: I got enough cartwheeling Giant's Moms for a lifetime, don't need to have a boss around it as well.

And he doesn't bow either

bla wrote:

Sentiel wrote: I got enough cartwheeling Giant's Moms for a lifetime, don't need to have a boss around it as well.

And he doesn't bow either

He just roars and stabs you in the face and follows it up with a helm splitter.

YOU DIED

Sentiel wrote:
And he doesn't bow either

He just roars and stabs you in the face and follows it up with a helm splitter.

YOU DIED

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You mean he doesn't do that already?

A small update:

My special weapons guy is fun. In the forest i ran around attracting all the ents. Two hand dragon king's great axe and explode. Roughly half of them gone (6 or 7?). Only wish I could get 2 repairs in one playthrough...