Saint Bident | Dark Souls 3 Wiki

This weapon looks amazing and synergizes really well with a buff Faith build. When the game came out, this weapon was notoriously bad since it required a Faith investment with no scaling and in return provided laughable damage; how the times change! This is one of my favorite weapons to use Darkmoon blade on at 40+ Faith with Yorshkas Chime. The damage you get is ludicrous and with the reach this weapon gives, you will dish out damage from relative safety. Throw on a silver shield and you have a pretty versatile set-up so long as you remain buffed. Love this weapon, one of my favorite spears in Dark Souls 3.

-Con

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joe bident haha (my family doesnt love me)

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attacking with this weapon is something weird

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Can anyone confirm that Simple +10 goes to D/D/C/B?

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The only weapon with decent faith scaling until Sunlight Straight Sword, plus it's absurdly long while keeping the faster spear moveset.

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the upgrade table for blessed is wrong. i'm at +6 blessed and the faith scaling is A.

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I want to infuse this with a Dark gem just for the heresy.

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Really nice pokey-stick for a Strength-Faith build. Probably not something you want as a primary, but it's quite useful against Midir.

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holy **** i had no idea you could infuse this. no wonder my ar is so laughably bad

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It fits with the story, but it's also kinda false advertising to say that it gets power from faith & has an A scaling when Blessed, but also has the worst damage in that infusion.

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i have 30 faith and lightening infusion but i’m only dealing like 50 damage to people wtf, why is it so weak??

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for a 40/40 dex faith build would it be better to go sharp with dmb or lightning

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Relevant

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why is the max table and blessed/lightning maxed not the same scaling on fth?

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I find it funny how this is longest spear in the game because your character holds it from the back instead of the middle.

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wait, why does the faith scaling increase with the crystal infusion? why dosen't it add int scaling with a lightning infusion? f*ckin miyazaki int adjust faith catalysts

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Hands down, best spear in the game.

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this seems to have the direct hit mechanic from demon's souls. damage is weak, unless you hit with the very edge of the weapon. most times you'll be out of range or you'll get the reduced damage for being a pixel too close.

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Infusing this with lightning brings back the old good demon spear

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This thing looks amazing with Darkmoon Blade, which I actually prefer over an infusion build anyway. The trick with buff builds is that it's rather easy to wait out the buff, and so you need to choose weapons that are good at pressuring, and also weapons that would benefit from the buff more so than just innate elemental damage. Spears and rapiers fill that niche really nicely because spears and rapiers are pretty good at pressuring because of their running R1s and roll-catching capabilities, respectively, and, more importantly, would lose a lot of counter damage (especially with Leo Ring) as counter damage is calculated strictly from your "Thrust" AR and not your elemental infusion AR.

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The scaling seems very unique on this one, heavy infusion seems to retain the faith scaling, refined infusion actually increases the faith scaling, lightning infusion retains the str/dex scaling.... needs to be looked into.

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This things range is annoying. I swear, never see it in duels, but every gank squad has atleast one to chase you down, interrupting attacks from a distance.

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i think wolnir's greatsword can be actually good if we could buff it like the saint's bident.

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As of 2/21/19 the Scaling listed here is old/wrong. Rank 10; Standard DDxC) Heavy CxxC) Sharp EBxC) Refined DDxC) Crystal DECB) Simple DDCB) Chaos DECB) Lightning DExA) Blessed DExA) Dark DECB) Blood DDxC +51 10Lck) Poison DDxC +57 10Lck)

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One of the best Spears for Faith builds in the game. Wieghs much less than D.S.S and D.S S.S. Buffable/Infuseble, favors Lightning, Chaos and Dark. Also has 350 AR around 50 Faith with Min Dex/Str. I'd have infused it but I like to swap between Buffs. I imagine this'll really shine in NG+ Refined or Hollow. I've got 40 Dex, 50 Faith. Str and then Luck is next. I play in my free time, I'll post when I get around too it

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dark and chaos infusions both have a good chance of being powerful with only faith investment, alongside lightning, giving you options.

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I have 12/12/60 str dex and faith respectively, I infuse the saint bident with a dark gem and it hits for 476 AR, pairing that with a lightning longsword that hits for 458 AR you can now have 2 weapons with different elemental damage for Faith, Lightning Saint Bident has 504 AR but we all know that dark is better for PvP

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Such a weak, WEAK weapon. Without any buffs this thing does less than 200 DMG to online players, 250-300 with no armour and around 400 MAYBE for those wearing clutch rings and other weakening rings and buffs.

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When i looked at Chaos Bident +4 It´s scaling was E E D B not E E D D need to be changed^^

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Anyone willing to give one to me? I would really appreciate it . Xbox gamertag is. x snypes 38 x

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this weapon when infused with lightning has a reverse damage cap starting at around 70 faith. the damage per point ramps up for each point put in after up to 99.

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Saint Bidet

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40/40 dex/faith, DMB, Leo Ring = hello, Gargoyle Spear 2.0

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Can confirm: Lightning infusion retains physical damage scaling. At 12/12/50 str/dex/fth, it has nearly equal amounts of scaling in lightning and physical. The only difference being the base dex and str increase the physical scaling a touch, but it’s a drop in the pond at +10.

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Wait, does this really have 100 bleed aux. And why does it become 37 when infused with bleed...

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The wiki's stat on lightning infusion is incorrect: at +5 the rating is already A.

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this thing has a weird modifer bonus damage when u have flame buff with the pyro glove at with just base stats for wep and 40 fth, i was 4 shotting alot of people at sl 150

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Has anyone tried going str/faith instead of dex/faith with this? The reason I ask is that the biggest problem I can see with this is that you’ll inevitably want to poke from behind a shield, which means high stability is a must and great shields would be ideal.

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Anyone know the softcap for the Blessed infusion?

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When this weapon is infused with lighting, chaos or dark does faith still affect physical damage?

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what does the faith scaling affect for this weapon, when not infused by Choas, Lightning, or Dark?

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I love this weapon. The blade looks like a Halo Energy Sword. Combined with magic pine risen, it looks and plays not bad for medium to late game.

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does the lightning +10 upgrade really have a A faith scaling ?

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Could you imagine if instead of nerfing the Gargoyle Flame Spear they buffed it, made it look fashionable instead of ugly, and then allowed infusions and buffs on it? Thats the Saint Bident.

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isn't this a pike?

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With heavy i get a c in strength and Faith on me build which has 50 str and 30 faith i get 409 ar plus lightning buff gets me to 546 ar so this is quite vible darkmoon might be better on it though

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bell gargoyles in DS2 are using a weapon that looks quite similar to this.

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So, even this late in the game, this seems to be the new Washing Pole; at least judging by the number of arena people I've seen with it who basically almost exclusively use its running attack.

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This isn't just DMB / SLB fodder any more. Dark saint bident on even a 30/30 INT/FAI build is a beast for catching roll spammers. Stupid length and good damage and chip.

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Just think. if a npc used this they would do op dmg

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it seems to have a higher faith hard cap than most weapons my faith is at 60, but if I wear the priestess ring(+5 faith) it gains 6 damage, any one know what the hard cap is?

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It went from E, E, D to E, D, C, and now to D, E, C? I'm glad that they improved the Faith scaling, but why nerf the Dexterity scaling? We can't have the Silver Knight Spear, so let us have a good Dexterity scaling spear, From!

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Really good with lightning infusion as it already scales with faith it ends up having about 100 more physical ar than anything else (504 total at base stats w/60 faith)

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With the recent buff to Chaos/Dark infusion and Saint Bident's innate long reach, it could potentially become "Gargoyle Spear Ver 2 for pyormancers". At str/dex/int/faith 12/16/40/40 and dark infusion, it has a combined AR 499 (219 physical and 281 dark), a little higher than Gargoyle Spear at 15/18/40/40 before its nerf. Saint Bident also has lower str/dex requirement and is lighter, ideal for pyromancer builds that would like to pour more points into other stats.

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Nerfed to B sharp scaling.

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Highly underestimated weapon. The biggest advantage is that you can double dip on the faith scaling since it is buffable. At base physical stats and 60 faith while one handed, it has an attack rating that is roughly 100 AR higher than a normal spear at base stats. Then, add Lightning blade or Darkmoon blade to that and you end up with a spear that has roughly 650 or so AR depending on your chime. This means that a true "Pure Faith" build can still fight on par with most quality or pure strength builds and still be able to cast powerful miracles.

Side note, the bident pairs incredibly well with the Crucifix of the Mad King. if you go 27 strength / 60 faith and 2 hand, a heavy bident will have a base AR of about 400, and the Crucifix, a buffable a strength/faith weapon will also have a huge AR and hyper poise while 2 handed.

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Buffed with Ltg. Blade; 533AR w/ 40DEX 35FTH, sharp infused. I think that is quite good for using one-handed.

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Gains an A scaling in Dex at sharp +10 now. Very solid buff.

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Don't let some of the comments or peoples negative opinions let you underestimate this weapon! Incredible reach and a solid spear for poking in-between casting miracles on a faith focused build. I'm currently using it for my healer build that focuses on co-op and dark moon invasions and nothing says ally more than casting healing spells while poking at an enemy invader who is trying to kill your host ally as a dark moon ally.

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Weapon got buffed. Starts off with E E - C now

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I've got an E/D/-/C scaling on this at +5. It got buffed recently? Or does the wiki just need an update?

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Ironically when you infuse this with blessed, it lowers the faith scaling… i mean sure it gets the HP regen but the AR just takes a complete dump… and yeah I realise this happens with most blessed infusions, but man you would think it would improve the weapon… Even lightning isn't that great. seems the best bet is to go raw or sharp/heavy/refined depending on your stats and then buff with your lightning/darkmoon blade

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wait a second... this has physical faith scaling right? so lightning infusion increases faith scaling to C. so wouldnt faith give you extra damage in lightning AND physical damage?