The soft cap is 50. Arcane and Skill go well together for the
, but you either have to do a quest line or kill
.
I would probably stick with Arcane and Skill at this point. Putting points into Bloodtinge is going to take up too many echoes to be effective. I would focus on skill, and raise Arcane as needed, if you want to switch to the Cane, while eventually getting the weapon I mentioned above.
Arcane is mainly for weapons that have elemental gems in them, but the problem is the good gems are typically only in high level chalice dungeons.