Background: Mohgwyn's Sacred Spear is often hailed as one of the best bleed weapons in the game, unfortunately for me, it is attached to what is possibly my least favorite weapon class in the entire game. (Sorry for any Great Spear lovers). So, this video is me stumbling through using a weapon that is both really powerful and one that I didn't particularly care for in a way. haha.

For this Build: This build is an Arcane/Strength build that utilizes the power of Mohgwyn's Sacred Spear's weapon skill, Bloodboon Ritual to inflict incredibly high fire and bleed damage. This build is incredibly simple. The talisman set-up leans completely into maximizing the power of "Nihil" including things like Lord of Blood's Exultation, Fire Scorpion and Shard of Alexander. And from there, that's pretty much the play. Bloodboon Ritual can be cast up to three times consecutively, deals very high bleed damage and fire damage and applies a Bloodflame Blade-like buff after using. This skill along can chunk off large portions of boss's health pools with ease. The ideal stat spread of Mohgwyn's Sacred Spear is more Arcane than Strength because it increases the natural bleed build up of the weapon (90 bleed with 60 Arcane) and the bleed build up of Bloodboon Ritual. Speccing a bit into Strength is still worth because it does have decent Strength scaling. That is about where the theory crafting for this build ends. Great Spears have passable movesets (in PvE) at best and feel pretty slow as a whole. Your main damage dealer with this build will be the weapon skill, but as I mentioned before, that makes this build pretty user-friendly and simple. The only real downside with this weapon is a lackluster base moveset, Bloodboon Ritual has an animation that is pretty slow and this weapon really loses efficiency against bosses that can't bleed (looking at you, 7 minute long Elden Beast fight) or that won't give you the openings to commit to Bloodboon Ritual (Hoarah Loux).

Relevant Stats:
Vigor: 40
Mind: 20
Endurance: 30
Strength: 43
Dexterity: 14
Faith: 15
Arcane: 60

Talismans:
1. Shard of Alexander: Increases the power of weapon skills by 15%
2. Fire Scorpion: Increases Fire damage by 12%, decreases physical damage negation by 10%
3. Lord of Blood's Exultation: Raises attack power by 20% for 20 seconds when blood loss is triggered
4. Ritual Sword: Increases attack power by 10% when at full health
Flex 1. Axe talisman: Increases charged heavy attacks by 10%
Flex 2. Claw talisman: Increases jump attacks by 15%

Physick: 1. Flame Shrouding Cracked Tear: Increases fire damage by 20% for 3 minutes
2. Stonebarb Cracked Tear or Spiked Cracked Tear

Drip: Lord of Blood's Robes, Alberich's Bracers and Sanguine Noble Waistcloth

How to improve this build: So, without just "This thing is a bleed stick, it's a no-brainer weapon", there are plenty of ways to improve this build's damage. First, this weapon peaks at 80 Strength and 80 Arcane, which would bring Mohg's Sacred Spear to an AR of 829 when two-handed (vs this build's 753, a 9.2% increase in power). From there, increase Faith to 33 in order to have access to Golden Vow and Howl of Shabriri (although Flame, Grant me Strength would still be fine given this weapon's natural affinity for fire). Beyond that, I would also suggest incoporating the use of offensive incantations for attack variety and considering more weapons than just Mohg's spear for versatility.

Chapters:
0:00 Margit (No Damage)
0:40 Godrick (No Damage)
1:37 Radahn (No Damage)
3:20 Draconic Tree Sentinel
4:16 Goldfrey (No Damage)
5:32 Morgott (No Damage)
6:31 Niall (No Damage)
8:15 Loretta
9:34 Malenia
13:56 Fire Giant (Clutch)
17:50 Maliketh (No Damage)
20:06 Hoarah Loux
22:37 Radagon
24:24 Elden Beast

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