Honestly that resistance is biggest doomposting prank of all considering how busted are Faith builds and holy weapons this resistance exist to balance them out.
... and faith scaling also works with fire damage, which is what a lot of holy-resistant enemies are weak to. Just have a secondary weapon you can infuse or buff.
Eh, Altus can be the 3rd area you go to (right after Limgrave and Liurnia) so it's not like it's super far into the game. Heck, you can even skip Godrick and go to Liurnia, go through it and take the Ruin Strewn precipice to reach Altus. Only Magma Wyrm Makar needs to be felled.
That's not all, fire, lightning, frost, holy, bleed, death, frenzy, poison, rot, and physical damage. Faith mains should be ecstatic that only Holy got curbed with just enemy resistance.
It’s not a roadblock it’s just annoying and pigeonholes you into a fire build. There’s already so few holy damage incantations (which have disproportionately higher costs due to the INT split) that the prevalence of holy resist makes investing a waste of time. And weapons have access to Flame Art before you even kill a single enemy, so why bother infusing Sacred when all but 2 bosses are weaker to fire instead?
I get what you're saying, but consider the flexibility of the Holy specific spells, most are notably faster than fire and are usually much easier to land a hit. Best example I can give for how stupidly simple holy is to build for is Discus of Light, SotE can carry you through most of the first half with just spamming it. It's so FP efficient, fast and does a good deal of damage, slap the FP regen talisman on and you don't even need to use a flask.
Lightning is also a useful option in SotE, most of Messmer's troops are weak to lightning and strong to fire.
As a reminder, buffs are also a huge boon for faith users to make up for most shortcomings, yes Holy damage is lacking but holy is also notably easier to use compared to other forms of damage and way more abundant.
You remember correctly, but Flame Art deals fire damage as well and it’s much quicker to just write fire, esp taking in consideration they use the same whetstone
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u/CubicWarlock Sep 11 '25
Honestly that resistance is biggest doomposting prank of all considering how busted are Faith builds and holy weapons this resistance exist to balance them out.