Elden Ring - Clawmark Seal

>40 strength
>19 faith
>ome-handed Heavy Greataxe +7
Base AR: 309
Lightning Weapon w/ Clawmark: 395
Lightning Weapon w/ Finger Seal: 398

Nice game soulbabs. Does the strength scaling literally only apply to beast spells?

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Any seal that scales with different stats like STR or INT only applies to offensive spells. Weapon buffs only scale with FTH.

The beast spells remind me of the Crimson Crane Fist from HNK.

>Only Faith applies to offensive buff Incantation scaling, making this Seal a bad choice for those using such spells (Bloodflame Blade, Electrify Armament, Black Flame Blade, etc)

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Stupid fucking game

Retard. If you want to use Lightning Weapon then use the Gravel Stone Seal.

I think the clawmark just blows.

This really needs to change, FTH/INT builds are absolutely cucked as is since the only FTH/INT weapon in the game is the laser beam projector.

Just like Quality is absolute garbage.

I have 40 strength, 23 arcane, and I'm working my way up to having around 25ish faith. I use beast vitality, flame grant me strength and gold oath alot and I wouldnt mind some light fire magic sprinkled in. Those self buffs are static right? I tend to use grease instead using FP. Is magic shield buff static too? I only have like, 12 int.

No, it's great if you are doing anything except healing/buffing

i use the beast seal for urgent heal and poison cure, my faith is too low for anything else

That explains a lot. The armament spells were giving me fuck all boost. Fuck me for trying to do a Str/Fai build.

>I wouldnt mind some light fire magic sprinkled in.
The fire eyes explosion is really good and only requires like 16 faith

actually that depends on what kind of buffing/healing you are doing
Heals over Time effects don't actually seem to scale with FTH or incantation STR, and Body buffs (Golden Vow, FGMS, Dragonbolt etc) don't either.
It's only direct heals and Weapon Buffs that are fucked by split Seals, and even then Weapon Buffs kind of suck ass in this game because you can't apply them to like, 80% of the weapons you can use.

Body buffs I believe are static. That includes shit like Golden Vow, Barrier of Gold, Dragonbolt, Flame Grant me Strength and anything else I am missing.

>+18
>60 str
>12 fth
>beast incants still don't do shit
This doesn't do what it's supposed to, at all

Sacred Seal Guide:
Info-
>Weapon Buff incantations are calculated with only your Fth stat in mind, use Gravestone, Godslayer or Finger Seals when buffing your weapons.

>Gravestone Seal (x/x/x/60 = 282)
>Godslayer Seal (x/x/x/60 = 291)
>Finger Seal (x/x/x/60 = 286)
Best seals for pure Faith all the way until 70 faith, Godslayer and Gravestone are the main ones to use really as they get a boost on the offensive schools of Incantation, Lighting Spear and Blackflame orb, pick your poison or just use both and exchange depending on situation, Finger is okay too but you won't get any buff.
>Erdtree (x/x/x/60 = 273)
At 70 fth this becomes the best seal overall, it gets a HUGE boost if you go all the way to 80 (70 = 313, 80 Fth = 353)
>Giant's Seal (x/x/x/60 = 273)
Kinda bad, also you get this extremely late and the buff to Giant Incantations gets overshadowed by the other seals having better scaling.
>Clawmark (50/x/x/25 = 240, 50/x/x/40 = 274)
Best for Str/Fth, scales super bad at high stats though, use is best at high Str and medium to low Faith only making use of Faith for self buffs and some offensive use.
>Dragon Comunion (x/x/x/40/40 = 315, even x/x/x/25/45 gets you 304 scaling)
Amazing seal for Arcfags, you can do low investment on Faith and dump into Arc and get huge results.
>Golden Order (x/x/45/45 = 338)
Who the fuck uses both stats after the Night and Flame nerf? Use it only if you have both stats invested in.

>Frenzied Flame
This one has a C/C/C/B Scaling which makes it pretty good for quality builds with medium to low faith (25ish) for the buffs, the problem being that Dragon Communion is bugged at the moment and will apply instant Frenzy into the enemy, no point on using this unless you want to play fair and square during duels.
>20/60/10/40 stats you get 250 Scaling, better than anything else at just 40 Faith, if you do 40/60/10/60 you get 276, pretty good for mixed builds.

none of the scaling for seals make sense to me, the shitty starting finger seal has better scaling than a seal you find in the later half of the game.

it all depends on your stats and what you are building
if you are just power leveling FTH then the Finger Seal only gets outclassed by the Erdtree Seal which you find at Volcano Manor, which can come pretty late depending on where you go

ER is a dexCHAD game. STR rips in piss.

morons do no go faith unless you plan to drop 70-80 into it

don't all the other seals give a 15-20% boost to a specific type of incantation? Makes sense to me that the basic starter is a generalist, while the others are stronger at their type but weaker at all the others

actually that's not true, I forgot about the Godslayer Seal that will beat Finger's Seal for pure FTH casters.
Erdtree seal will beat Godslayer's Seal but the damage boost to Black Flame spells is actually pretty nice

See, pure Str and Str/Int are great. It's just Str/Fai and Quali that got dumped on.

STR/FTH gets its redemption after the mid point of the game in the form of Blasphemous Blade.
Quality might be good but at like, NG++ maybe?