LogFAQs > #942032777

Your build will really spike in power once you start to explore the chalices, or at least run around in the nightmare frontier a bit. Once you get a few elemental gems you'll be able to set up a second, third, or even fourth weapon. You pretty much nailed the two biggest problems with the tonitrus. The move set is SO basic, and the low durability can give you limited usage of the weapon. But yeah, with minimal investment into making it actually good, it's still the strongest of my current weapons. It's hard to justify not using the Tonitrus when it's SO good.

I'm currently carrying FOUR around most of the time.

Saw Cleaver - Uses my best Bolt damage gems. Good for general usage.
Lost Saw Spear - Uses my second best Fire get set up. Good for general usage against fire weak or bolt resistant foes.
Saw Spear - Uses my best Fire gem set up. I equip this when going into a boss room. Cursed to have low durability.
Tonitrus - Uses my best Physical gem set up. I equip this when going into a boss room. Has low durability naturally.

Basically the first two are for exploring areas and floors, have plenty of durability and I can use them to fight normal enemies along the way.

The second two are my optimal fire and bolt damage respectively, and I save these for once I get to the boss. When exploring a chalice floor you don't always know what's waiting beyond the fog gate, bu generally either my fire saw spear or my physical tonitrus set up is a viable weapon.

The main reason I'm doing a physical set up for Tonitrus is because it gets bonus elemental damage, and a huge amount of arcane scaling already. Now ideally later on I'll be able to get gems that boost all damage, for higher physical AND bolt damage, but for right now it actually makes sense to increase the base physical damage as much as possible and just rely on my arcane stat for the bolt scaling.

For my arcane tools I literally have to change my set up depending on what boss I'm fighting. The Tiny Tonitrus is really good in a lot of cases, but I really appreciate having the Executioner's Glove available for usage as well. I've actually noticed a trend of bosses who resist volt damage tending to be susceptible to the Executioner's Gloves, so that's pretty cool.

Also took down Ebrietas and got my Isz Chalice.

The fact that I'm staying at a fixed, relatively low level and keeping all my weapons at +6 has started to make some of these bosses pretty legitimately challenging. But I'm having fun as a result. I was still able to hit her pretty hard with the Tiny Tonitrus, I think each cast was doing around 1200 damage so I saved it for the end of the fight and used it to chip away at her health once she got more dangerous and aggressive. Ended the fight with like 4 vials and 3 QS Bullets.

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all the rest weren't so unfortunate
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