Do Ability requirements stack?

Dibsville did a pretty good job at explaining it, but I'll reword it just in case you were confused.

Weapons have a scaling of E, D, C, B, A, and S. The higher the scaling, the more damage points you gain for that weapon everytime you increase the stat it scales with. E giving you 1 extra damage per point, and S giving you about 6-9 extra damage per point(or way more depending on the weapon)

If you have a weapon with C-scaling in both dex and strength, then the weapon will gain damage points when you add into both of those stats.

Edit: When you get to 40 points into strength or dex, then the damage gained per point decreases to 1 or 0.

Example: Dragon Bone Fist has S-scaling in strength and gains 4 or 5 damage points per every 1 stat point. From 40 to 41 though, it gains 1 damage point per every 2 or 3 levels.

Ah 50 it is then thanks for clearing that up

Wolfsbane wrote:Ah 50 it is then thanks for clearing that up

You should still check the numbers. Even though weapons with S scaling raises consistently, it's still way less potent than before.

Logan's catalyst
25->30 int: +60 magic adjustment
30->40 int: +49 magic adjustment
40->50 int: +27 magic adjustment
50->60 int: +3 magic adjustment

Dragon Bone Smasher:
20->30 strength: +46 power
30->40 strength: +46 power
40->50 strength: +6 power
50->60 strength: +5 power

Longbow(wooden arrows):
20->30 dex: +47 power
30->40 dex: +47 power
40->50 dex: +6 power
50->60 dex: +5 power

See what I mean? I'm not saying you should never raise something to 50, but just that you'll get a considerably less amount of "bang for your buck".

On a sidenote, those aren't ability requirements, they are stat bonuses

And he was wondering about the stat bonuses/damage output that comes with it

Enchanted Weapons = up to 50 int
same for occult/divine and magic. 50 int or faith.

Weapons that scale with faith or int naturally, like velka's rapier, only scale well up to 40.

Talismans and Catalysts hit diminishing returns at different value's differing by the item. The Sorcerers Catalyst hits it at 30, and the best talismans and catalysts hit it at 50.

Strength And Dex is always at 40.

Attunement hits diminishing returns at 16, and gets worse and worse up to 50, where further points do literally nothing.

Endurance stops giving stamina at 40.

RULE OF THUMB IS
All Stats stop scaling well or at all by 50, Strength and Dex do it at 40, as do some int and faith weapons.

i believe that diminishing returns hit at different stat values depending on the scaling…E scaling will hit diminishing around 30 and practically halt at 40, while S will scale well until 50 and completely halt at 60. or something like that.

Dibsville wrote: the Caestus has higher Strength scaling than Dexterity scaling, so it's better to go with Strength on that.

WRONG.

Cestus has equal scaling with str and dex. So either stat works. I have two +11 cesti, same scaling. Mugen agrees.

Cesti are best on a quality build. 40 str and 40 dex gets you the most out of the weapon.

No amount of scaling saved me from the M. butterfly. I literally let Beatrice take it down and prayed it would stopped hitting me lol How do you beat that solo without a shield I mean sheesh. especially with the flickering That was hard as hell

Audio cues for you, watch videos for approximate timing to dodge the homing balls

Yeah I've seen em but with the flickering there is no hope only luck