A tanky healer who can buff and defend allies, allowing them to take the brunt of blows while their teams burns things down.
Before engaging in combat you'll summon your Spirit Ashes and then buff you and them with Golden Vow to increase damage and defenses. Use Barricade Shield when facing Bosses or tough enemies to be able to tank while your summons or companions burn enemies down.
Boosting Faith will also increase your damage and healing/buffs so prioritize this over Strength, and only use Strength to meet weapon and shield requirements.
Once you gain Heal you'll be able to heal yourself and allies around you, prolonging the life of your summons.
Faith & Vigor
Faith
Vigor
Endurance & Strength
Endurance
Strength
A Dexterity/Intelligence build that uses the Nagakiba and the Chilling Mist Ash of War.
A melee build that focuses on out healing damage taken while shredding enemies to death with the Butchering Knife.
The Noble Swordsman Build is Dexterity build and an essential "all-game" build that players can use throughout the entirety of the game. This build uses a single straight sword, it does not come equipped with any other weapon or shield, and it is phenomenal for stance-breaking and critical attacks.
An Arcane Build that focuses on the use of the Bloody Helice weapon and its weapon skill: Dynast's Finesse
An Arcane Build that focuses on the use of Dragon Incantations.
A dual-wielding Arcane Build that uses Bleeding and Dragon Spells to obliterate enemies.
An Bleed Build focused on Arcane and the use of Eleonora's Poleblade to deal incredible damage very quickly and set the Hemorrhage status effect.
An Arcane/Faith Build that focuses on the use of Dragon Spells, as well as boosting general Incantation and melee damage.
An Arcane/Faith Build that focuses on casting incantations from range, only meleeing when absolutely necessary.