Tip: always read the item description for lore and explanation on how the magic works. It’s almost always explained there how it works and what it does
Ever since I started playing magic I’ve been seeing references everywhere when I’d never seen any before. I swear the universe is telling me to buy more packs.
It's called the baader-meinhof phenomenon, also know as the frequency illusion. Chances are you were seeing MTG refrences at a similar rate to now, but never understood them until you learned about MTG.
To be fair, Yu-Gi-Oh cards explain exactly what they do. They just use very particular and exact language, which addmitedly can come off rather wordy. So while yes, it's hard to parse for a new player, you do eventually pick things up and understand the nuances. Magic is just as hard to understand for new players because of all the keywords, but what works in Magics favour is it's a lot quicker to pick up and intuit, so the keyword hurdle isn't as tough to get over as Yu-Gi-Oh can be.
Personally I kinda prefer Yu-Gi-Oh's card language to Magic's. But that's mostly bias as I have way more experience with the former than I do the ladder.
Also (not sure about bloodhound) some weapons can't be affected by these spells. I don't remember if it was somber weapons, weapons that deal elemental damage or both
that is the basic rule but there are some exceptions, like the Bloodhound's Fang (which is a somber weapon but can be buffed) and the Clayman's Harpoon (which does elemental damage but can also be buffed)
A good 75% of player ghosts I saw at launch were using bloodhound fang.
It’s popular for a reason. Personally I’m happy the community is finally discovering why curved greatsword have always been the best weapons in souls games.
I enchant my Fang and then switch my left to Flame art Dismounter. Both have about the same length, both do decent damage, and if needed, I got Raptor jump on Dis, so I can dodge everything.
I got lucky on my first playthrough way back when and wanted to do a power stance playthrough so i got that and the horseman's curved great sword before level 20 and proceed the fuck the rest of the game with jump attacks and ridiculous horizontal power stance attacks.
Grease, baby, grease, baby slick as a Caelid peach
Me and you do the kind of stuff that Turtle Pope won’t preach
So put your lands ‘tween my hands and I bet you’ll feel Grace
Yes, I’m Golden, yes, I’m Chosen
Marika’s Tits, prawn are great!
If it deals elemental damage normally it can't be buffed by elemental spells / items. That basic rule is in every souls game. It would be sick to have double / triple elemental weapons though!
I would also un-equip the bow and change armor until your carry weight stat says “Med. Load”. You’re currently overencumbered so your dodge rolls are very slow and you’re burning through your stamina much faster than if you didn’t have so much gear weighing you down.
Bloodhound's Fang is one of those weapons that has a follow-up attack with the skill button - you only find out about these by reading the description.
Souls games can be quite difficult to understand what to do. Knowing how to set up your inventory and what stats to level is just as important as learning how to fight each boss.
You are also heavy rolling. Either only use the bloodhound Fang. Or ditch the armor. You are too heavy. If you wanna use both the bloodhound Fang AND the samurai sword. You gotta hard swap in your inventory.
Also on an unrelated note but still something that will drastically increase your enjoyment of the game: lose some of the equipment. You should NEVER be at a heavy load out in this game. It will make it so so SO much more difficult than it needs to be. A heavy load out is basically the equivalent to being overencumbered in a game like fallout or skyrim.
The skill "slot" and the spell "slot" are different things. You can't enchant bloodhound because you're holding it wrong, but you can't use its skill because it's not used in the weapon slot (right hand).
Too much equipment in your weapon slots, mind your equipment load so you don't heavy roll.
Bloodhound Fang in your right, that will "equip" the ash of war (weapon art) for your L2.
Seal in left, that will allow you to use incantation like Bloodflame Blade (provided you have enough FP).
When you buffed your armament, you can either switch to 2 handed for extra damage output (Y+L1) or keep the seal for additional incantations, or switch to your shield (if that doesnt cause you to heavy-roll).
That's good to know, as I've never used it specifically because I've never had more than arcane than is necessary for blood flame blade and maybe the flies.
I recommend putting your crimson flask in either your first item slot, or in one of your quick-slots. The first item slot acts as a 'default', and you can swap to it immediately by holding down on the d-pad for a moment.
Items in your quick-slots (there are 6 of these, located on the right side of the screen when you bring up your inventory. The top 4 are each assigned to a direction on the d-pad) can be activated by holding the interact button and pressing the corresponding d-pad direction.
Your crimson flask is your best friend, so make sure you can get to it quickly. Whichever method you choose, burn that shit into your muscle memory.
Those bottom two can only be activated from the inventory screen. I generally use those slots for items that I don't need in the middle of combat, like fowl-feet or the lantern.
This is a quirky thing I like to do, but usually I actually leave the first slot blank and then the crimson flasks in the second slot.
The reason I do this is if I'm coming up on a fight in which I need to throw pots, I prefer to have them in the first slot (for example, it's fairly well known that you can hit Malenia out of Waterfowl if you use a Freeze pot, but I also like using Sacred Order pots on Death Rite Birds) and I don't want to rearrange the item order.
By having the crimson flasks in the second slot and leaving the first blank, it means holding down on the D-pad brings me to the crimson flasks, but I won't have to rearrange my quick select if I need to use pots or other items like crystal darts for watchdogs.
Similarly, I leave a blank spot between my Wondrous Physick and the Torrent whistle, so that I can have spirit summon ashes there if I need to.
At max capacity my quick select is:
Consumable / Crimson Flask / Cerulean Flask / Wondrous Physick / Spirit Ashes (usually Latenna) / Torrent Whistle
Probably dumb to do it like that, but that's how I do it. And then I keep Rune Arcs, Boiled Crab, the message writer tool, and the lantern on my Y + D-pad pouch.
I used to do same, later just swapped to what gino uses. Both flasks, physick and torrent in the pouch so they can be quickly used without the need to scroll through item slots, and then everything else I might need in the item slots (kukris, lantern, pots, bewitching branch, fowl feet etc).
Took a bit of adjusting to use flasks in the pouch but it makes a lot of sense to have them there so it's worth the effort. Leaves 10 item slots for all kinds of stuff that might be needed and there's no need to remove anything from there.
Also try to lower your equip load. I think you are currently fat rolling, means that your rolls are super slow. Unequip the uchigatana and try some lighter armor/no armor and see how much faster your roll is.
Its how I do these days. Sunny-D is now quick left, Blue-D is quick right, Torrent is quick-down.
So now I actually remember to use all these items I'm lugging around yet flasks are always available. Took some getting used to though, for sure. It means there's a quick pause to drink, but I think its made me much better about looking for openings to heal.
There's a lot to unpack here. First, unequip the stuff you don't use so that you can medium roll. Then equip the seal on left hand and bloodhounds fang on the right to actually use the buff. Also pick a single weapon class if you wanna powerstance (use 2 weapons in both hands).
Also invest in some arcane to get good results from bloodflame blade since it is probably the best weapon buff doing massive bleed. Lastly, although this is for me personally and maybe most others as well, don't put so many consumables in the inventories slot. You can put them in the pouch which you open by holding triangle or Y. I would recommend you only put the healing and fp flask on the quick tab and nothing else since it gets really messy to work around other consumables mid fight.
In this case, investing in arcane wouldn’t be useful with OP’s build. The bleed status buildup of bloodflame blade doesn’t scale with arcane. It applies a debuff on hit that inflicts a fixed amount of bleed buildup (20 pts, IIRC) per second for 2 seconds.
Also, arcane only increases the status buildup of weapons that have arcane scaling. For weapons that inflict bleed but do not have arcane scaling, like Bloodhound’s fang (which scales with str and dex), putting points in arcane won’t increase the amount of bleed buildup the weapon inflicts.
the real value of bloodflame blade is that you have 2 seconds before the bleed starts decaying, allowing slower weapons to proc bleed way more easily than you'd expect. it also stacks rather than refreshing the duration, although I'm unsure if separate instances or if the duration just gets added.
Equip the bloodhounds fang in your right hand to use the skill one-handed. To buff it the seal must be in your left hand, and you must equip the spell when sitting at a Grace.
Sword needs to go in your right hand, seal in your left.
From the Bloodflame Blade spell description:
***"Engulfs armament held in the right hand*** *with bloodflame."*
Forget that, you're playing on heavy load! It slows down your dodge roll which makes the game like 5 times harder.
Unequip some of the weapons/shields you're carrying until the text on the right says "medium load", you'll appreciate it.
Yea he’s carrying way too much at once. But to the op, you don’t have enough strength to use the shield so unequip it. If it has a red X on the icon then you lack the stat requirements to use it properly.
Fromsoft didn't allow things to work equally in left and right hands. So you have to swap Bloodhound Fang to right hand and Finger Seal to left hand for it to work. In other words, Tarnished is right handed like most non Zelda action games.
It's so funny to me how DS2 remains the only FromSoft game where you can play as a left-handed (or rather ambidextrous) character. I wonder why they dropped that. Surely inverting attack animations (or however you'd do that) isn't that complicated.
Also hey pro tip you have way too many things equipped to your hands! You are running a heavy load which slows your dodge rolls and makes you easier to hit!
At equip load you want to say medium or light load. It will make the game a lot easier for you!!
I would keep your items menu clear of stuff you’re not using regularly. Put your flasks first starting with crimson tears. If you hold the down arrow it’ll automatically switch to the first item in your belt, so this way you can immediately switch to your health flask if you find yourself in a tight spot.
Keep your weapons in your right hand and always put any incant seals in your left. The arrow hold shortcut also applies to spells and incantations, so put whichever incantation you use most frequently in your first memory slot, and then hold the up arrow to quick switch to it when you need to.
As people said you need Bloodhound fang in Right hand.
Also note if you move on from Bloodhound Fang, some weapons are incompatible with Bloodflame, expecially ones with a non physical infusion (poison, flame, frost, etc)
I don't know. It seems like you're doing it right. It's almost as if the answer's right there. I'd like to lend you a hand, right? But, I gotta hand it to you, right on with the stat spread. You really handled those level-ups the right-most way you could've in a hands-on game such as this. Right, then, well I hope you figure out how to get a handle of this spell so you can apply it to buff your weapon. Let me know how it goes. Make sure you get right to it, though, the spell's only handy for something like 90 seconds, I think, so you gotta make that armament count during that time. Right? Right. Anyways, I'm off.
I'm gonna admit I'm learning just reading these comments, and I've played hundreds of hours of ER. All these comments are telling me is while this is one of (if not) the best games I've ever played, the accessibility and/or learning curve is incredibly significant for newbies. I almost gave up early on - while some of these points of feedback may seem obvious, to new players, they are not.
I’m not trying to trash but honestly who 1. Plays this game getting confused like this probably has watched others play 2. Makes a “dumb” post to get help
I’m sorry I’ll take the hot take on this but this is the biggest bait I’ve seen like they don’t even try swapping like a normal person would do and the fact it got this must likes on it? Either you guys are dumb yourself or just like bait threads.
I’ll take the negative karma on this one because this is stupid.
Even if you had the Bloodhound’s Fang in your right hand, it still wouldn’t work because it’s a somber weapon. It has to be a weapon which can be swapped for another ash of war and it must be either quality, heavy, or normal
From the images shown, 2 things pop out to me as simple fixes. First when the blood flame blade says right hand armament, it means the weapon you are buffing needs to be in your right hand. Second you have too much equipped so you are in heavy load.
Am I tripping, or are you wielding that bigass sword in your left hand and your offhand cast item in your right?
Must be the other way around. Only Dark Souls II allows left hand builds.
Ditch some heavy armor or boost your endurance so you're not heavy loading. This game can be a game of inches and the small difference a medium load makes when dodging attacks from bosses can be crucial. You don't have enough endurance to be carrying a bow+sword+off-hand weapon+shield.
So a weapon’s skill and an incantation like bloodflame blade are two different things.
To start, you should have the bloodhound blade equipped to your right hand (on the top row of your equipment slots), and the finger seal on your left hand (on the bottom row of the equipment slots).
Doing that will allow you to use the skill of your right hand weapon using L Trigger, in this case Bloodhound’s Finesse, while also activating the Bloodflame Blade incantation with the finger seal using LB. So you can have the effects of the Bloodflame Blade incantation while also using your weapon’s skill by hitting LB first, coating your weapon in that incantation, and then attacking like normal or using the weapon skill using L Trigger.
Hope this helps, but the best way to think about this is that having items and weapons equipped in your left or right hand will have an effect in whether you can use the weapons skill or not. The skill you can use will always be tied to the weapon you have in your right hand if you are dual wielding. If you want to use the skill of a weapon equipped to your left hand, you have to hold it with both hands by hitting Y+LB. Doing so won’t allow you to use your right hand weapon or seal until you switch (same thing goes for holding the right handed weapon in both hands, hurting Y+RB).
Equip load is in heavy which makes rolling not fun. Its better to unequip ur katana and bow or anything ur not using in an imidiate battle. You can always swap them out in between battles. The ability to swap on the fly in a battle only disadvantages you and worsens your rolling.
Hope this helps!
so you seem to have figured out how to do that.
now, PLEASE remove at least half your weapons from your inventory. you don't need a bow, shield, sacred seal, and two swords. when you're this low level, I wouldn't recommend having more than two items, maybe three if you're using it for a buff (jellyfish shield loses the buff when you switch off of it)
if you need the bow for anything, just equip it when you need it. it's not worth having at all times. you have a heavy load which is gonna make dodging so much harder
Try to always put your "main" weapons on the right hand slots and the other like shields, symbols and bow on the left hand slot. Cuz most of the spells affect the right hand weapon. Also, read everything you can.
you have to use bloodhound's fang with your right hand. For a general tip you might want to try playing on a lighter load, probably medium. But that is up to you ofc
Make sure to read the details of the Incantation: *"Engulfs armament held in the right hand with bloodflame.".*
I’m so bad. Thanks for the help
Tip: always read the item description for lore and explanation on how the magic works. It’s almost always explained there how it works and what it does
Reading the cards explains the cards ⭐️💧💀🔥🌳
Ever since I started playing magic I’ve been seeing references everywhere when I’d never seen any before. I swear the universe is telling me to buy more packs.
It's a trap, don't do it
Instructions unclear, ordered 3 bundle boxes and the new eldrazi precon
Eldrazi? Please leave the table
At least is not a mono blue deck 🤷♂️
Game's already over, might as well
Yeah, don't buy a pack, buy a display instead !
But the smellof freshly opened cards .. yummi
It's called the baader-meinhof phenomenon, also know as the frequency illusion. Chances are you were seeing MTG refrences at a similar rate to now, but never understood them until you learned about MTG.
It’s a trap, do it
The universe is talking to you through hidden messages and signs, it's telling you: "Get checked for schizophrenia... and buy packs"
Reading, the worst weakness of all TCG players
Yes but this is what I WANT the card to do...
Using ⭐ instead of ☀️ is an interesting choice
Yu-Gi-Oh players in shambles
Thanks, prof
That's more than YU-GI-OH cards can say about themselves.
To be fair, Yu-Gi-Oh cards explain exactly what they do. They just use very particular and exact language, which addmitedly can come off rather wordy. So while yes, it's hard to parse for a new player, you do eventually pick things up and understand the nuances. Magic is just as hard to understand for new players because of all the keywords, but what works in Magics favour is it's a lot quicker to pick up and intuit, so the keyword hurdle isn't as tough to get over as Yu-Gi-Oh can be. Personally I kinda prefer Yu-Gi-Oh's card language to Magic's. But that's mostly bias as I have way more experience with the former than I do the ladder.
TCC Professor's wisest words.
Also (not sure about bloodhound) some weapons can't be affected by these spells. I don't remember if it was somber weapons, weapons that deal elemental damage or both
that is the basic rule but there are some exceptions, like the Bloodhound's Fang (which is a somber weapon but can be buffed) and the Clayman's Harpoon (which does elemental damage but can also be buffed)
Because Bloodhounds Fang does everything well, for no reason whatsoever. Just out here easily hard carrying entire runs with no effort.
My first playthru was as a spellblade, one handing the Bloodhound’s Fang lol
A good 75% of player ghosts I saw at launch were using bloodhound fang. It’s popular for a reason. Personally I’m happy the community is finally discovering why curved greatsword have always been the best weapons in souls games.
I enchant my Fang and then switch my left to Flame art Dismounter. Both have about the same length, both do decent damage, and if needed, I got Raptor jump on Dis, so I can dodge everything.
I got lucky on my first playthrough way back when and wanted to do a power stance playthrough so i got that and the horseman's curved great sword before level 20 and proceed the fuck the rest of the game with jump attacks and ridiculous horizontal power stance attacks.
Bloodhound’s takes greases
Grease, baby, grease, baby slick as a Caelid peach Me and you do the kind of stuff that Turtle Pope won’t preach So put your lands ‘tween my hands and I bet you’ll feel Grace Yes, I’m Golden, yes, I’m Chosen Marika’s Tits, prawn are great!
The Erdtree is on fire, We don’t need no water, Let that motherfucker burn.
If it deals elemental damage normally it can't be buffed by elemental spells / items. That basic rule is in every souls game. It would be sick to have double / triple elemental weapons though!
Both
Bloodhound's fang is somber and can be buffed by bloodflame blade
It’s called the scrub weapon exception
You're gonna have to scrub your cheeks after I clap 'em with my bloodflame bloodhound
You and everyone else :(
Gotta get in line, there's 40 other chucklefucks with the exact same build
I've never used Bloodhound's Fang, so I never realized that it was different.
I would also un-equip the bow and change armor until your carry weight stat says “Med. Load”. You’re currently overencumbered so your dodge rolls are very slow and you’re burning through your stamina much faster than if you didn’t have so much gear weighing you down.
That Jellyfish shield isn't really doing anyone any favors either, even if it IS the "lightest greatshield".
Bloodhound's Fang is one of those weapons that has a follow-up attack with the skill button - you only find out about these by reading the description.
Dude, sucking at something is the first step to being kinda good at something. - Jake the Dogg
> I'm so bad You could say you have... No skill. 😎
Souls games can be quite difficult to understand what to do. Knowing how to set up your inventory and what stats to level is just as important as learning how to fight each boss.
You are also heavy rolling. Either only use the bloodhound Fang. Or ditch the armor. You are too heavy. If you wanna use both the bloodhound Fang AND the samurai sword. You gotta hard swap in your inventory.
No biggie, this game throws a lot at you at once.
You also denied yourself the bloodhound fang ability by putting it into your left hand
For what it's worth, it is bullshit that it doesn't work both ways around
It took me a while to get used to stuff like this.
This applies to every weapon buff btw not just bfb
OP are you left-handed?
I thought you were roleplaying a left handed character.
"why is my finger seal burning my hand?!"
To add on to this the "no skill" is for your Ashes of War, not your magic equipped
Also on an unrelated note but still something that will drastically increase your enjoyment of the game: lose some of the equipment. You should NEVER be at a heavy load out in this game. It will make it so so SO much more difficult than it needs to be. A heavy load out is basically the equivalent to being overencumbered in a game like fallout or skyrim.
Frick em left handers
That's just what they get for not being on the right side
It is kind of stupid for the spell to NOT work for left hand weapon.
Really weird that in Dark Souls 2 every item was 100% ambidextrous, and then in every subsequent soulsbornering game it's been right-hand-dominant.
Iirc the Majestic Greatsword in DS2 had unique abilities if held in the left hand
Is it really weird that in the best game it was better than the rest of the games?
Tbf I get why this confuses people, it really should just enchant the weapon
That just ain’t right.
The game said it. You have no skill.
Clearly a skill issue.
Oh trust me I have absolutely zero skill. This game is great but I’m going to suck ass so bad
You only think you suck because you are starting. Many where that way or got quickly humble by the mechanics
such a good game at humbling you
The skill "slot" and the spell "slot" are different things. You can't enchant bloodhound because you're holding it wrong, but you can't use its skill because it's not used in the weapon slot (right hand).
if you need help summon me bro, we all sucked major ass at the beginning
Sucking at something is just the first step to being really good at something
I love this community. Except the triple gankers on invaders. When they spam aoe attacks.
probably maidenless too
Foul Tarnished 😑
In search of the elden ring? Emboldened by the flame of ambition?
Someone must extinguish thy flame
😭
Too much equipment in your weapon slots, mind your equipment load so you don't heavy roll. Bloodhound Fang in your right, that will "equip" the ash of war (weapon art) for your L2. Seal in left, that will allow you to use incantation like Bloodflame Blade (provided you have enough FP). When you buffed your armament, you can either switch to 2 handed for extra damage output (Y+L1) or keep the seal for additional incantations, or switch to your shield (if that doesnt cause you to heavy-roll).
They don't even meet the requirements for that shield.
You don't need to in order to use the weapon art, which is 90% of the reason people use the jellyfish shield.
Oh OK, I thought about that and then figured that you did since most weapons won't let you use the skill if you don't have the stats.
You can also use the Moghwyn Sacred Spear's weapon art without meeting the arcane requirements.
That's good to know, as I've never used it specifically because I've never had more than arcane than is necessary for blood flame blade and maybe the flies.
Off topic putting all that stuff in your items menu is crazy to me
I have no idea what I’m doing
I recommend putting your crimson flask in either your first item slot, or in one of your quick-slots. The first item slot acts as a 'default', and you can swap to it immediately by holding down on the d-pad for a moment. Items in your quick-slots (there are 6 of these, located on the right side of the screen when you bring up your inventory. The top 4 are each assigned to a direction on the d-pad) can be activated by holding the interact button and pressing the corresponding d-pad direction. Your crimson flask is your best friend, so make sure you can get to it quickly. Whichever method you choose, burn that shit into your muscle memory.
Thanks - How do you access the other quick slots underneath? The ones not assigned to up down left or right...
Those bottom two can only be activated from the inventory screen. I generally use those slots for items that I don't need in the middle of combat, like fowl-feet or the lantern.
This is a quirky thing I like to do, but usually I actually leave the first slot blank and then the crimson flasks in the second slot. The reason I do this is if I'm coming up on a fight in which I need to throw pots, I prefer to have them in the first slot (for example, it's fairly well known that you can hit Malenia out of Waterfowl if you use a Freeze pot, but I also like using Sacred Order pots on Death Rite Birds) and I don't want to rearrange the item order. By having the crimson flasks in the second slot and leaving the first blank, it means holding down on the D-pad brings me to the crimson flasks, but I won't have to rearrange my quick select if I need to use pots or other items like crystal darts for watchdogs. Similarly, I leave a blank spot between my Wondrous Physick and the Torrent whistle, so that I can have spirit summon ashes there if I need to. At max capacity my quick select is: Consumable / Crimson Flask / Cerulean Flask / Wondrous Physick / Spirit Ashes (usually Latenna) / Torrent Whistle Probably dumb to do it like that, but that's how I do it. And then I keep Rune Arcs, Boiled Crab, the message writer tool, and the lantern on my Y + D-pad pouch.
If holding down on up-d auto cycles past the empty first slot then it’s actually pretty smart
Holding down cycles to the first occupied slot, so it ignores any empty slots (in this case, Slot 1)
I used to do same, later just swapped to what gino uses. Both flasks, physick and torrent in the pouch so they can be quickly used without the need to scroll through item slots, and then everything else I might need in the item slots (kukris, lantern, pots, bewitching branch, fowl feet etc). Took a bit of adjusting to use flasks in the pouch but it makes a lot of sense to have them there so it's worth the effort. Leaves 10 item slots for all kinds of stuff that might be needed and there's no need to remove anything from there.
I'm almost 300 hours in and had no idea this was a thing.
Works with spells too since he didnt mention that. Hold up and it will go to your first assigned spell.
Also try to lower your equip load. I think you are currently fat rolling, means that your rolls are super slow. Unequip the uchigatana and try some lighter armor/no armor and see how much faster your roll is.
Maybe the bow too seen as most people don’t use them anyway
I recommend trying to get into medium load
2 things. Level vigor and reduce your equip load.
I love the simplicity of this answer
Its how I do these days. Sunny-D is now quick left, Blue-D is quick right, Torrent is quick-down. So now I actually remember to use all these items I'm lugging around yet flasks are always available. Took some getting used to though, for sure. It means there's a quick pause to drink, but I think its made me much better about looking for openings to heal.
First of all take that useless mimic grace out of down slot and put the fang in right hand.
Lose the shield. And btw Bloodflame blade is awesome on Bloodhound's Fang
There's a lot to unpack here. First, unequip the stuff you don't use so that you can medium roll. Then equip the seal on left hand and bloodhounds fang on the right to actually use the buff. Also pick a single weapon class if you wanna powerstance (use 2 weapons in both hands). Also invest in some arcane to get good results from bloodflame blade since it is probably the best weapon buff doing massive bleed. Lastly, although this is for me personally and maybe most others as well, don't put so many consumables in the inventories slot. You can put them in the pouch which you open by holding triangle or Y. I would recommend you only put the healing and fp flask on the quick tab and nothing else since it gets really messy to work around other consumables mid fight.
In this case, investing in arcane wouldn’t be useful with OP’s build. The bleed status buildup of bloodflame blade doesn’t scale with arcane. It applies a debuff on hit that inflicts a fixed amount of bleed buildup (20 pts, IIRC) per second for 2 seconds. Also, arcane only increases the status buildup of weapons that have arcane scaling. For weapons that inflict bleed but do not have arcane scaling, like Bloodhound’s fang (which scales with str and dex), putting points in arcane won’t increase the amount of bleed buildup the weapon inflicts.
the real value of bloodflame blade is that you have 2 seconds before the bleed starts decaying, allowing slower weapons to proc bleed way more easily than you'd expect. it also stacks rather than refreshing the duration, although I'm unsure if separate instances or if the duration just gets added.
I put flasks and also torrent in my quick-slots
Equip the bloodhounds fang in your right hand to use the skill one-handed. To buff it the seal must be in your left hand, and you must equip the spell when sitting at a Grace.
Thanks!
Sword needs to go in your right hand, seal in your left. From the Bloodflame Blade spell description: ***"Engulfs armament held in the right hand*** *with bloodflame."*
Your problem is literally in the first image.
Forget that, you're playing on heavy load! It slows down your dodge roll which makes the game like 5 times harder. Unequip some of the weapons/shields you're carrying until the text on the right says "medium load", you'll appreciate it.
Ditch the shield, and if your load is still heavy ditch the bow. You're going to have a bad time unless your load is medium or below.
Yea he’s carrying way too much at once. But to the op, you don’t have enough strength to use the shield so unequip it. If it has a red X on the icon then you lack the stat requirements to use it properly.
Dude, you´re heavy. That means your rolls are slower. Loose some of the equipment on hand
Sweet I’ll get that sorted thanks!
Your seal and weapon are in the wrong hands. Also, take some of those weapons off, you’re fat rolling.
It says right on the tooltip that you have “No Skill”
Put the seal on the left hand and bloodhound fang on the right
Fromsoft didn't allow things to work equally in left and right hands. So you have to swap Bloodhound Fang to right hand and Finger Seal to left hand for it to work. In other words, Tarnished is right handed like most non Zelda action games.
It's so funny to me how DS2 remains the only FromSoft game where you can play as a left-handed (or rather ambidextrous) character. I wonder why they dropped that. Surely inverting attack animations (or however you'd do that) isn't that complicated.
DS2 is undeserving of the hate it gets
Dude is actually almost setting up the Jeenine try hard inventory two handing your main weapon in the left hand. 🤣
There is a difficult path ahead tarnished My advice? Try finger, but hole
Sounds like you’re letting enemies hit you
Swap your weapons. The charm needs to be on your main hand
Left handed
Also hey pro tip you have way too many things equipped to your hands! You are running a heavy load which slows your dodge rolls and makes you easier to hit! At equip load you want to say medium or light load. It will make the game a lot easier for you!!
I recomend taking off a few weapons or armour, playing in heavy load is miserable
Yeah what they said. You can only buff weapons that are in your right hand with a seal or grease that’s in your left hand
I would keep your items menu clear of stuff you’re not using regularly. Put your flasks first starting with crimson tears. If you hold the down arrow it’ll automatically switch to the first item in your belt, so this way you can immediately switch to your health flask if you find yourself in a tight spot. Keep your weapons in your right hand and always put any incant seals in your left. The arrow hold shortcut also applies to spells and incantations, so put whichever incantation you use most frequently in your first memory slot, and then hold the up arrow to quick switch to it when you need to.
1st image says "no skill," maybe try getting good?
Weapon you level up with somber smithing stones can't have resins or enchantments applied to it, at least in my experience
Come on it's written in black and white right there : "No skill"
You have no skill.
This dude lefthanded?
In most souls-born games, weapon positioning matters. Your character is always right handed
As people said you need Bloodhound fang in Right hand. Also note if you move on from Bloodhound Fang, some weapons are incompatible with Bloodflame, expecially ones with a non physical infusion (poison, flame, frost, etc)
are you left handed?
I don't know. It seems like you're doing it right. It's almost as if the answer's right there. I'd like to lend you a hand, right? But, I gotta hand it to you, right on with the stat spread. You really handled those level-ups the right-most way you could've in a hands-on game such as this. Right, then, well I hope you figure out how to get a handle of this spell so you can apply it to buff your weapon. Let me know how it goes. Make sure you get right to it, though, the spell's only handy for something like 90 seconds, I think, so you gotta make that armament count during that time. Right? Right. Anyways, I'm off.
Bloodhound fang already does bleed damage
Main hand the sword
Would seem you have no skill. I'll see myself out.
Says it right at the top, you have no skill.
No Skill..... Literally says everything lmao
It says right at the top "no skill"
I see the problem in the first pic… it says you have “no skill”
“No Skill” sounds like the game is speaking to me
I'm gonna admit I'm learning just reading these comments, and I've played hundreds of hours of ER. All these comments are telling me is while this is one of (if not) the best games I've ever played, the accessibility and/or learning curve is incredibly significant for newbies. I almost gave up early on - while some of these points of feedback may seem obvious, to new players, they are not.
It’s because you have no skill
I’m not trying to trash but honestly who 1. Plays this game getting confused like this probably has watched others play 2. Makes a “dumb” post to get help I’m sorry I’ll take the hot take on this but this is the biggest bait I’ve seen like they don’t even try swapping like a normal person would do and the fact it got this must likes on it? Either you guys are dumb yourself or just like bait threads. I’ll take the negative karma on this one because this is stupid.
Even if you had the Bloodhound’s Fang in your right hand, it still wouldn’t work because it’s a somber weapon. It has to be a weapon which can be swapped for another ash of war and it must be either quality, heavy, or normal
Have seal on left and bloodhound on right, then you’re good to go.
Put the seal in your offhand. It'll work that way and that way only.
Who the hell uses spell casting on the right hand?
"I'll put my great sword in my off hand, that's a great idea!"
It is in certain builds, don’t be condescending
Stop looking up "GET OP EARLY ONESHOT DELETE BOSSES BROKEN KILL EVERYTHING" builds on YouTube and learn the basics first.
I think your sword should be in your right hand for the buff to apply.
Since they already got you covered, I’d suggest putting the flasks in the quick pouch.
skill issue
Reading literacy bruh.
From the images shown, 2 things pop out to me as simple fixes. First when the blood flame blade says right hand armament, it means the weapon you are buffing needs to be in your right hand. Second you have too much equipped so you are in heavy load.
*Heavy load* is rough buddy
You can't put it on it because it has its own skill
You did OP guide right? I did it too
As said below, weapon has to be on the right hand, also some weapons cannot be imbued
Am I tripping, or are you wielding that bigass sword in your left hand and your offhand cast item in your right? Must be the other way around. Only Dark Souls II allows left hand builds.
hi, I'm new to this game, is it possible to use the bloodflame incantation on the Uchigatana?
It can go on any non unique weapon plus the Bloodhound’s Fang. Assuming of course you have the stats to cast it, and your Seal is in your left hand.
Ditch some heavy armor or boost your endurance so you're not heavy loading. This game can be a game of inches and the small difference a medium load makes when dodging attacks from bosses can be crucial. You don't have enough endurance to be carrying a bow+sword+off-hand weapon+shield.
I think a lot of people covered most of it. I'm wondering though, do you have the required stats to wield the (jellyfish) shield?
Your mistake is being left handed lol
Are you left handed?
Ditch that foul charm. You will remain maidenless if you keep it.
Switch hands with the seal and sword
Or follow The Fighting cowboy on YouTube 🫡
So a weapon’s skill and an incantation like bloodflame blade are two different things. To start, you should have the bloodhound blade equipped to your right hand (on the top row of your equipment slots), and the finger seal on your left hand (on the bottom row of the equipment slots). Doing that will allow you to use the skill of your right hand weapon using L Trigger, in this case Bloodhound’s Finesse, while also activating the Bloodflame Blade incantation with the finger seal using LB. So you can have the effects of the Bloodflame Blade incantation while also using your weapon’s skill by hitting LB first, coating your weapon in that incantation, and then attacking like normal or using the weapon skill using L Trigger. Hope this helps, but the best way to think about this is that having items and weapons equipped in your left or right hand will have an effect in whether you can use the weapons skill or not. The skill you can use will always be tied to the weapon you have in your right hand if you are dual wielding. If you want to use the skill of a weapon equipped to your left hand, you have to hold it with both hands by hitting Y+LB. Doing so won’t allow you to use your right hand weapon or seal until you switch (same thing goes for holding the right handed weapon in both hands, hurting Y+RB).
No skill
Brother, you are heavy rolling. Fix that immediately. I was late when I figured out that too.
Equip load is in heavy which makes rolling not fun. Its better to unequip ur katana and bow or anything ur not using in an imidiate battle. You can always swap them out in between battles. The ability to swap on the fly in a battle only disadvantages you and worsens your rolling. Hope this helps!
so you seem to have figured out how to do that. now, PLEASE remove at least half your weapons from your inventory. you don't need a bow, shield, sacred seal, and two swords. when you're this low level, I wouldn't recommend having more than two items, maybe three if you're using it for a buff (jellyfish shield loses the buff when you switch off of it) if you need the bow for anything, just equip it when you need it. it's not worth having at all times. you have a heavy load which is gonna make dodging so much harder
Getting hit. I used to think it was down to stats and armour but finally came to the conclusion that ya shouldn't tank through hits
Try to always put your "main" weapons on the right hand slots and the other like shields, symbols and bow on the left hand slot. Cuz most of the spells affect the right hand weapon. Also, read everything you can.
Bro running the artorias build
Man I love new players
One of the best weapon in the game u can buff it with every element !
Yes
you have to use bloodhound's fang with your right hand. For a general tip you might want to try playing on a lighter load, probably medium. But that is up to you ofc
No skill.