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| Type | Main Attribute |
| Effect | Attribute required to wield advanced armaments. Also boosts attack power of dexterity-scaling armaments, reduces casting time of Spells, softens fall damage, and makes it harder to be knocked off your horse. |
Dexterity is one of the Stats in Elden Ring. Stats refer to various properties that govern your character's strengths and weaknesses, as well as how they are affected by interactions in and out of combat. Dexterity primarily affects a player's ability to wield Dexterity-based Armaments, as well as the damage dealt by such weapons. It is one of the 8 Main Attributes that players can spend Runes on to level up, increasing the Stat's effectiveness and influencing their relative secondary stats. Stats such as Dexterity are an important aspect of character progression in Elden Ring.
Dexterity Elden Ring Guide
- Dexterity (DEX) is a Main Attribute that primarily allows the wielding of Dexterity-based Armaments (Weapons). It also acts as the primary modifier that influences the damage dealt by such weapons.
- Weapons in Elden Ring have a minimum Stat requirement that needs to be met before the weapon can be wielded. Most weapons require investment in either the Dexterity or Strength stats, or a combination of both. For example, the Scimitar requires 12 DEX and 8 STR to equip. Some weapons may also require points in Intelligence, Faith or Arcane in order to wield. This is especially true for spell-based weapons such as Glintstone Staves and Sacred Seals.
- Weapons are also given a Scaling Grade denoting the degree to which they scale with an attribute. Each point allocated to the Dexterity stat increases the damage dealt by weapons with Dexterity scaling. A weapon with a Dexterity scaling grade of S will benefit the most from the Dexterity Attribute, followed by grades A, B, C, D, and E.
- Note that attributes will incur diminishing returns at higher levels, significantly reducing their benefits after a certain point with regards to weapon scaling. This is often referred to as the 'Soft Cap'. A 'Hard Cap' also exists in which additional points in an attribute returns little to no benefit.
- When scaling the attack power of a melee armament, like all stats, Dexterity soft caps differ depending on the weapon and the damage type being scaled. Scaling on physical damage is often 18/60/80 by default, 20/60/80 on keen affinities and some unique weapons, and 16/60/80 on quality affinities. Note that in the rare case that magic, fire, lightning, or holy scales on dexterity, the soft caps are always 20/50/80.
- When scaling the incantation scaling of the Frenzied Flame Seal, Dexterity soft caps are 15/30/45.
- Dexterity also affects the cast speed of Sorceries and Incantations. Every point in Dexterity increases the cast speed slightly.
- Dexterity also appears to impact the draw speed of bows. A previous iteration of this page also suggested it may increase arrow velocity, though this is unconfirmed. Further testing required.
- Points in Dexterity reduces Fall Damage, as well as making it harder to get knocked off Torrent.
How to Increase Dexterity in Elden Ring?
Dexterity is one of the Main Attributes that players can spend Runes on in order to level up.
- The ability to level up is unlocked shortly after meeting Melina for the first time near the beginning of the game.
- Leveling up can be done at any Site of Grace once unlocked.
- The amount of Runes required to raise an Attribute increases with each character Level.
- Runes are obtained primarily by defeating Enemies and Bosses. Certain consumables such as the Lands Between Rune can also be used to gain a fixed number of runes.
Dexterity-increasing items
- Prosthesis-Wearer Heirloom (+5)
- Millicent's Prosthesis (+5)
- Radagon's Scarseal (+3) / Radagon's Soreseal (+5)
- Consort's Mask (+1)
- Okina Mask (+3)
- Imp Head Long Tongued (+2)
- Flask of Wondrous Physick - Dexterity-knot Crystal Tear (+10 while in effect)
- Godrick's Great Rune (+5 while in effect)
- Oath of Vengence (+5 while in effect)
Dexterity Cast Speed Guide in Elden Ring
As previously mentioned, Dexterity affects the cast speed of Sorceries and Incantations, and putting points into dexterity slightly increases the casting speed. The noticeable difference in casting speed varies from spell to spell.
- All spells have two consecutive animations, the startup animation and the casting animation. Dexterity affects the startup animation while the casting animation remains constant for all spells.
- The length of the startup animation will slightly decrease with each point invested in Dexterity. At 0 Dexterity, you'll play the entire startup animation before the actual cast, at 35 Dexterity, you'll play 50% of the startup animation before the actual cast.
- The cap for casting speed is at 70 Dexterity, meaning once you've invested 70 points in Dexterity, you'll skip the entire startup animation and go straight into the actual casting animation. If you go past 70 Dexterity, the casting speed won't increase anymore.
- There are some items that provide virtual Dexterity for spellcasting. Radagon Icon grants you +30 Virtual Dexterity and Azur's Glintstone Staff grants you +40 Virtual Dexterity. These items effectively increase your casting speed if you have them equipped. This means you can achieve the max casting speed at 70 Dexterity if you have both of these items equipped and have the same effect without investing any points in Dexterity.
Level Progression for Dexterity in Elden Ring
Information about Level Progression will be added soon
LEVEL |
ATTACK POWER |
| Lvl 1 | Attack Power Progression goes here |
| Lvl 2 | Attack Power Progression goes here |
| Lvl 3 | Attack Power Progression goes here |
| Lvl 4 | Attack Power Progression goes here |
| Lvl 5 | Attack Power Progression goes here |
Minimum Dexterity Requirements for Weapons in Elden Ring
Weapons with no Dexterity requirements are not shown.
Elden Ring Dexterity Builds
Elden Ring Dexterity Notes & Tips
- Notes & Tips go here.
AnonymousCrazy how you can get 43 dex on a rl1 account for three minutes of 33 dex just permanently without physick.
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Strength is great definitely but dex makes up for it in speed and the ablity to liquefy bosses ridiculously fast only build I don't have a shield for (other then my parrying one).
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it would be a lot more useful if dexterity reduced the time it takes to get up after being knocked down, rather than reducing the chance of being knocked off your horse.
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Imagine being so insecure to unironically despise a stat in a video game. Unga bunga only and then they're twigs irl lmao
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Imagine being so insecure to unironically despise a stat in a video game. Unga bunga only and then they're twigs irl lmao
Video demonstrations on Youtube seem to contradict the cast speed section on this page. As of 2024-02-01 this page says *only* the startup animation is affected, but videos show that the startup is the only part that is *not* affected. I'm confused. Can somebody help me understand, and maybe update this page if it is wrong? For example RageGamingVideos has a video that seems to show equal startup cast time at various dex values with and without talismans, but the later stages of cast animations are actually what speed up.
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Worst stat in the game for non-hybrid PVE. Deal with it.
The majority of 'dex' weapons are better off on an Arcane Bleed Build. Strength has plenty of fast weapons and even uses some "Dex" weapons better than Dex does. While also getting an actually useful bonus in physical defense. While also getting a dedicated Seal, which Dex doesn't have.
Oh wow you get bonuses in a bunch of garbage that doesn't matter like fall damage resistance and mounted combat? And an exclusive katana you don't get until after you kill the post game super boss and also isn't even the best katana in the game? Incredible.
The only thing Dex can do that other builds can't do better is throw out ranged Ashes like Beast's Roar and Thunderbolt while power-stancing or two-handing. It's the most niche of niche advantages. Playing pure Dex in PVE is basically choosing hard mode.
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It's almost 2024 FFS. Somebody update wiki with Lazuli Glintstone Crown (+3 to DEX/INT).
Bam. Just made somebody's RL1 Death's Poker dream into a reality. YOU'RE WELCOME.
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heard around that it also increases the duration of some buffs like endure and the blind timer for darkness? this true?
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Should probably list consumables here that scale well with dex, like spark aromatic with A scaling.
Shotout to the "genius" who decided dex will increase casting speed instead of mind.
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Dex is best muhahagafaga, sit down str users, you got nothing on my nimble ass
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Folks who lvl this like to eat banana in slow motion at public places while making eye contact.
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7 strength weapons get S scaling and 3 dex weapons get S scaling
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Dexterity already had tonnes of advantages in Dark Souls 3 but now Dex also makes it harder to get knocked off Torrent? lol
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70 dex for max casting speed
thx for not mentioning that on the dedicated wiki page btw
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Dexterity is directly outclassed by strength on most infusible weapons. Most of the time strength also got weapons in dexterity associated classes that scale better with heavy infusion and outdamage the other weapons, chain-link flail for example. Excluding somber weapons, the only classes where a keen weapon outclasses the heavy weapons are spears and whips.
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Only 3 weapons get S scaling in dex 2 daggers and a whip. Kinda wish there was more S scaling weapons
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Mind should increase casting speed. #Bestsouls2 comes in with another W and has casting stats improve casting speed when upgraded.
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I love dex but why is it so weak compared to EVERY other offensive stats
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I finally decided to not lvl this… which led to my gf finally sleeping with me, my mom saying she loves me and my dad finally coming back after the cigarette break. It was a tough decision but it was worth it…
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I'm making a caster build and was wondering what the soft cap for casting speed is WITH radagon icon
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Why dose this stat also effect a bunch off random **** like falling and riding a horse. How dose moving your hands fast make your legs stronger?
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Dexterity actually doesn't work when it comes to reducing the likelihood of getting knocked off of Torrent. Either it's a bug with which the devs are taking their sweetass time, more than a year in fact, or a mistranslation. Either way, that's stupid.
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With weapons being easily infusable now, and STR giving defense bonuses and 2H bonus even at level 99, DEX has simply been eclipsed when it comes to melee builds. Even an Uchigatana is better when two-handed with Heavy infusion.
In ER, DEX is much more of a side-piece for caster builds, INT in particular for the casting speed increase. Arcane builds tend to do better with DEX-innate armaments as well, since multiple hits induce blood loss more quickly. Some weapons, like Bolt of Granssax, also aren't infusable. But other than that, you're better off putting points into STR and focusing on stance-breaking.
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With true combos gone this stat is worthless, I liked to use str in older games but its different now. Arcane is the way to go for blood and lightning builds with Rahdahn rune.
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This page is missing Lazuli Glintstone Crown, which increases Dex by 3.
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does dexterity increase potion drinking speed? i'm too lazy to read through it all.
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Id really like to see a table for casting speed increase and how much it affects different spells and/ or charge speed of spells. Probably a big ask.
If someone more experienced with formatting the wiki could make a table, here are the dexterity requirements for all weapons.
(NOTE: Weapons with 0 dexterity requirement are not shown)
5 - Torch
7 - Iron Cleaver, Curved Club, Spiked Club, Mace, Hammer, Nox Flowing Hammer
8 - Hand Axe, Battle Axe, Warped Axe, Jawbone Axe, Celebrant's Cleaver, Greataxe, Longhaft Axe, Executioner's Greataxe, Gargoyle's Greataxe, Gargoyle's Black Axe, Stone Club, Morning Star, Battle Hammer, Rotten Battle Hammer, Cranial Vessel Candlestand, Prelate's Inferno Crozier, Troll's Hammer, Staff of the Avatar, Rotten Staff, Caestus, Iron Ball, Star Fist, Misbegotten Shortbow, Soldier's Crossbow, Light Crossbow, Carian Glintstone Staff, Steelwire Torch, Beast-Repellent Torch, Sentry's Torch
9 - Dagger, Lazuli Glintstone Sword, Banished Knight's Greatsword, Serpent-God's Curved Sword, Highland Axe, Rusted Anchor, Warpick, Ringed Finger, Venomous Fang, Harp Bow
10 - Cinqueda, Shortsword, Longsword, Broadsword, Weathered Straight Sword, Lordsworn's Straight Sword, Carian Knight's Sword, Crystal Sword, Rotten Crystal Sword, Golden Epitaph, Bastard Sword, Lordsworn's Greatsword, Iron Greatsword, Gargoyle's Greatsword, Gargoyle's Blackblade, Helphen's Steeple, Troll's Golden Sword, Watchdog's Greatsword, Noble's Estoc, Sacrificial Axe, Rosus' Axe, Curved Great Club, Greathorn Hammer, Beastclaw Greathammer, Pickaxe, Duelist Greataxe, Rotten Greataxe, Watchdog's Staff, Short Spear, Clayman's Harpoon, Gargoyle's Halberd, Nightrider Glaive, Gargoyle's Black Halberd, Dragon Halberd, Spiked Caestus, Katar, Shortbow, Heavy Crossbow, Full Moon Crossbow, Carian Regal Scepter, Ghostflame Torch, St Trina's Torch
11 - Celebrant's Sickle, Ivory Sickle, Noble's Slender Sword, Cane Sword, Miquellan Knight's Sword, Dark Moon Greatsword, Zweihander, Beastman's Curved Sword, Ripple Blade, Envoy's Long Horn, Iron Spear, Pulley Bow
12 - Misericorde, Great Knife, Bloodstained Dagger, Erdsteel Dagger, Crystal Knife, Scorpion's Stinger, Glintstone Kris, Black Knife, Sword of St Trina, Sword of Night and Flame, Knight's Greatsword, Alabaster Lord's Sword, Starscourge Greatsword, Greatsword, Maliketh's Black Blade, Rapier, Mantis Blade, Grossmesser, Great Omenkiller Cleaver, Envoy's Horn, Marika's Hammer, Chainlink Flail, Celebrant's Skull, Great Stars, Envoy's Greathorn, Fallingstar Beast Jaw, Partisan, Ripple Crescent Halberd, Lucerne, Halberd, Banished Knight's Halberd, Giant's Red Braid, Veteran's Prosthesis, Erdtree Bow, Arbalest, Jar Cannon, Carian Glintblade Staff, Staff of Loss
13 - Wakazashi, Reduvia, Blade of Calling, Claymore, Ordovis' Greatsword, Flamberge, Marais Executioner's Sword, Estoc, Cleanrot Knight's Sword, Bandit's Curved Sword, Scimitar, Shamshir, Falchion, Monk's Flamemace, Siluria's Tree, Vulgar Militia Saw, Pest's Glaive, Grave Scythe
14 - Parrying Dagger, Ornamental Straight Sword, Troll Knight's Sword, Grafted Blade Greatsword, Scavenger's Curved Sword, Beastman's Cleaver, Meteoric Ore Blade, Forked Hatchet, Golem's Halberd, Dragon Greatclaw, Axe of Godfrey, Pike, Celebrant's Rib-Rake, Lance, Mohgwyn's Sacred Spear, Commander's Standard, Golden Halberd, Scythe, Whip, Grafted Dragon, Hookclaws, Raptor Talons, Longbow, Horn Bow, Erdtree Greatbow, Hand Ballista
15 - Blasphemous Blade, Nox Flowing Sword, Magma Blade, Magma Wyrm's Scalesword, Uchigatana, Gargoyle's Twinblade, Gargoyle's Black Blades, Stormhawk Axe, Crescent Moon Axe, Spear, Inquisitor's Girandole Torchpole, Glaive, Loretta's War Sickle, Bloodhound Claws, Composite Bow, Serpent Bow
16 - Warhawk's Talon, Forked Greatsword, Great Epee, Dismounter, Omen Cleaver, Onyx Lord's Greatsword, Icerind Hatchet, Varre's Bouquet, Crystal Spear, Rotten Crystal Spear, Spiked Spear, Cleanrot Spear, Vulgar Militia Shotel, Guardian's Swordspear, Halo Scythe, Winged Scythe, Thorned Whip, Magma Whip Candlestick, Red Branch Shortbow, Pulley Crossbow, Crepus's Black-Key Crossbow
17 - Death's Poker, Rogier's Rapier, Godskin Stitcher, Wing of Astel, Flowing Curved Sword, Bloodhound's Fang
18 - Regalia of Eochaid, Inseperable Sword, Royal Greatsword, Frozen Needle, Zamor Curved Sword, Monk's Flameblade, Moonveil, Rivers of Blood, Twinblade, Twinned Knight Swords, Scepter of the All-Knowing, Flail, Family Heads, Ghiza's Wheel, Albinauric Bow, Golem Greatbow, Lion Greatbow
19 - Sword of Milos, Bloody Helice, Shotel, Urumi
20 - Antspur Rapier, Dragonscale Blade, Butchering Knife, Winged Greathorn, Devourer's Scepter, Cross-Naginata, Death Ritual Spear, Vyke's War Spear, Hoslow's Petal Whip, Black Bow, Greatbow
21 - Golden Order Greatsword, Eleonora's Poleblade
22 - Godslayer's Greatsword, Nagakiba, Serpentbone Blade, Godskin Peeler, Axe of Godrick, Bastard's Stars, Treespear, Clinging Bone
24 - Sacred Relic Sword, Nightrider Flail
25 - Eclipse Shotel
35 - Morgott's Cursed Sword
37 - Dragon King's Cragblade
40 - Bolt of Gransax
48 - Hand of Malenia
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Missing both the Lazuli Glintstone Crown (+3) and the Imp Head (+2) for Dex increasing items.
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Please add Imp Head (Long-Tongued) to the list of Dex increasing items. +2
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The way they tied dex to casting speed makes sense. Imagine- "Harry Potter, GRIP your wand HARDER!" Muscles all tensed up won't let you cast faster. I love making all builds. Str/Faith, Dex/Int, Str/Dex, Int/Faith, Dex/Arcane, and so on. Why go "TEAM" Str or Dex? Remember movie Twilight? When girls went "TEAM" him or him? That's what reading comments remind me of. Just silly. Just enjoy one of the greatest game ever made. We are all lucky to be living in this Era right now.
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"It's not like I'm gonna lvl you or anything B.. B... Baka!"~
Closet dex user disguised as str Chad.
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I wish someone would make a table showing all weapons with dexterity (and other stat) requirements like they have on the Dark Souls 3 Fextralife wiki.. Would make it a lot easier to figure out stats.
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Dex is fine if you're using normal people dex weapons, and i am posting this here knowing full well that fingerprint pokers and dual katana gremlins are going to dislike. I do not care
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I feel like of the five main damage stats, DEX is the least useful. STR lets you use greatshields and gives you extra defense, INT and FAI let you use magic, and ARC gives you status scaling and the item discovery bonus. DEX's most useful bonus is the cast speed buff, but that only works for hybrid builds. Pure DEX doesn't really have any advantage compared to other builds.
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Whoever thought it was a good idea to tie cast speed to dex should get slapped slapped so hard.
Imagine that would happen if weapon attack speed was tied to dex, people would go nuts.
> Dexterity also affects the cast speed of Sorceries and Incantations. Every point in Dexterity increases the cast speed slightly.
How much?
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More Dex = faster casting. But as in many things in this game, it's all qualitative. From provides no measurable other than 'this is gooder' or 'this does damage.'
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Strength people complain about any other stat and then do literally one move over and over again like that’s fun
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"Let me turn your runes into DEX" -- said no finger maiden ever
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Does anyone know how Dex affects (numerically or statistically speaking) being knocked off Torrent?
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While I prefer a balanced STR/DEX build for melee, the sheer usefulness of this whenever I'm casting cannot be denied. IIRC it's about half a percentage point decrease in casting time, per point spend, so at lvl30, you're casting 15% faster. This can be taken to truly terrifying heights by those who use sorceries/incantations and not much else, because anyone that has an INT high enough to cast Azur's Comet, and has a DEX of 60+ is going to be launching virtually any spell in the game at you lightning fast. If you have the one item that makes it so spells cost zero FP for about 20-30 seconds, and have a high DEX, you're pretty much a DBZ character by the endgame when fighting bosses. I've seen two players pull off a dual 'Kamehameha' against Mohg that melted his health bar to the point he never made it all the way down the stairs or even got the chance to attack once, they were that fast getting the spell off. That or launching off endless guided missile....I mean Glintstone.....spam in such huge amounts like it was a bullet hell shooter. Against those slow STR builds that fatroll, give them the laserface that never ends. For the guys who think they're the next LMSH and can dodge bullets, let them try to dodge ALL the glintstone bullets with either of the two homing spells or the sword phalanx spells chain cast repeatedly like a machinegun. For those supporters who always buff you with 4-5 spells before a boss fight - and you should do a bow gesture every time you summon one - the sheer speed they can stack buffs even in the middle of a fight - or a heal! - is VERY worth the effort of looking for that type if there are multiple summon signs near you to 'shop' through.
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Yo guys, what does it mean?
> When scaling the incantation scaling of the Frenzied Flame Seal, Dexterity soft caps are 15/30/45.
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Am I the only one who levels Dex and Strength together until I get the soft caps for both of them. I like the best of both worlds
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I expected dex to increase attack speed on melee armaments, I'm surprised to know it rather hasted casting speed...
Lol at people thinking there’s anything shameful about leveling dex. Y’all must be confusing dex with arcane, surely.
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Tying cast speed to dexterity is some of the worst decisions they've made, almost as bad as ADP from DS2, and they seriously decided to brought it over to elden ring from dark souls 3. They should've tied it to Mind, as that stat does very little and needs buffs.
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Oath of Vengeance (Grafted Blade Greatsword’s Ash of War) also increases dexterity by 5.
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Pretty insane how you can get up to 43 DEX with an SL1 character in this game
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Every telling how much shamefull is going into DEX and every damn second guy on PvP jumping with scythes or Katanas.
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There are only two kinds of people in the world. Normal people and those who level dex
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Everytime you put a point into dex somewhere in the world a puppy dies.
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Is it known if each point of DEX has an effect on cast speed? Or is it only certain milestones (ie every 10 points)?
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dex also affects wether or not enemies will notice you while you are riding on the horse. as proof you can test the following:
near the zamor ruins bonfire there are 2 birds sitting to the right of the zamor ruins. if you have 12 dex while attacking the sitting bird on the low ground while on the horse, the other bird will start attacking you 100% of the time.
If you instead have 40 dex the bird on the high ground will ignore you 100% of the time.
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so i did some testing on casting speed. it wasnt super thorough but i got to the following result:
dex is capped at 125 points. at 125 points itll decrease cast time by 25 percent on spells that can be chain casted like night comet.
like mentioned above, both the radagon icon and the azur glintstone staff give 40 virtual dex each.
That means if both are equipped youll have 80 virtual dex and youll reach the cap with 45 real dex, if only 1 is equipped youll reach the cap with 85 dex.
so each point in dex, real or virtual, decreases cast time by 0,2%.
its totally worth going for the cap, even the difference between 20% and 25% however marginal it might sound is very noticeable in action
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I feel the need to go to the church of absolution and pray every time I put a point in DEX
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Lazuli glintsone crown increases dex more than the others listed for the helm slot. Also int
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Does dex also increases the scalling in magic damage on Carian Regal’s Sceptre?
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I lvled this up while wearing tree sentinel armour... am I going to hell?
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Never thought I'd say this, but Dex is fun as hell in this game. STR kinda got shafted, which is truly saddening, but I'm glad they made dex into a stat that can actually be played around in a fun way
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70 is hardcap for casting speed, atleast on sorcery, already try it, it increase every time u hit 10 points, 10,20 etc. and after 70 u can't get any faster, putting azur's glinstone staff & radagon's icon also won't effect the speed.
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Which type of incantation cannot be sped up? Dragon Communion? Or Dragon Cult? Or Both??
Why is there a picture of a gun when you look up dex lol
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