great curved swords are really fun. anything with multi hit r2s is great with axe talisman and endure. messmer soldier spear, spiked caestus. axe of godfrey can hit really hard with the right talisman setup since the dlc. hell, even godrick’s big axe is good now and it’s ash of war is nuts.

having a dagger with hoarah loux’s earthshaker is a good one to have handy in the clutch. also maybe something like a cleanrot knight sword with bloodhound step available for swap. if you have 15 faith for gfms, it does really well on strength build with fire attunement, or with fire grease on heavy.

Usually any weapons you felt comfortable with for PvE can work for PvP if you have the right ashes or know its moveset well, crouch R1 with Zwei can work as does its heavy attack. STR versions (usually the shortest weapons) out of any weapon class are worth trying with Heavy affinity and two-handing at that STR level, mix-ups are the best way to catch foes off-guard and Greatswords are always a great choice. DLC has a ton of great weapons options like any you have found, and anything you can slap heavy affinity on will work. Fire affinity works for the Fire Knight Greatsword if you got one along with the Messmer knight ashes, I prefer the Skewer over the Spear personally for countering a lot of shit and roll catching to boot, both are good. Also great on pure FTH builds.

Generally you want something with knockdown or something with a big area of effect to catch squads, Waves of Darkness and Blackflame Tornado are nice on big weapons. Something for roll catch with your weapon class or ash of war, the more mobility on the attack the better for PvP. Some thrusting weapon/attack to catch runners, ranged options for harass, potentially kills if you git gud with hefty rock pots which are great for STR builds if you have the round rocks for them. You can also get into parry tools, Carian Retaliation is the best parry to bring generally but if they're smart they'll expect it if you bring a shield in hand, so soft or hardswapping into parry shield can be a good trick.

Heavy Warped axe. Read the description.

Only brute strength is needed.

Cinquedea with a shield like Blue gold kite and guard counters or running attacks might be fun.

Axe of Godfrey hits like a truck if you're into that thing.

Freyjas greatsword has a great moveset you can have loads of fun with.

Banished Knight Greatsword and Sword Lance have sweet true combos in their moveset and do well in Cold infusions.

sorry idk the answer, but what is your helmet? it looks really cool

Late to the post. I ended up using this weapon to beat the final boss in the DLC and I finally did (it was still hard). It's really funny how much I disregarded this weapon when I got it, so early and so unassuming. Coming back to it made me appreciate it.

Edit: The AoW of Coded Sword deals 36 stance damage. I‘m aware you can optimize this build even more, for example with a second Erdsteel Dagger or Armor that boosts FTH. I use this Armor for Fashion Purposes and one Dagger for simplicity. I recommend Prophet as a Starting Class. Don’t forget to switch to the Erdtree Seal when hitting 66+ FTH.

Best weapons are torches and best talisman is either Daedicar's Woe, either Scarseal, and any Scorpion's Charm.

There is not a single best weapon. It depends on your build, skill and also luck (if you’re invading for example).

Check out Chasethebro on yt, he’s incredibly good in PvP and does various build videos showcasing what you can do with various weapons etc.

For invasion play it's your decision-making that really matters, crazy pvp skill is secondary. Map knowledge is also massive in some areas. This has always been the case but it's seriously magnified in ER where it's often a 1v3.

Get on one of the invasion subs for build ideas but honestly you'd be better just picking something bread and butter like a claymore and concentrating on decision-making, and analyse why you died. It's probably the following:

1. Guy just out-played me 1v1 - rare
2. Got cheesed with some bullshit - common
3. I made a silly decision - even more common and enabled point 2 to happen.

The broken straight sword hits like a garbage truck on meth

My top weapons (for a strength pvp build):

• Claymore
• Greatsword
• Iron cleaver
• Nightrider glaive
• Dual beastman’s curved sword

Top talismans:

• Radagon’s soreseal
• Erdtree’s favor
• Great jar’s arsenal
• Green turtle talisman
• Bull goat talisman

Blasphemous Blade turns PvE into EZ mode to the point where you might lose interest in playing. Beware.

Godslayer greatsword

I enjoyed Ordovis’s Great Sword

Blasphemous blade at a minimum

No shame in just never switching away from golden halberd ;)

SnS and Bow isn’t a PvP build. I’d say get on Google and YouTube. PvP at this point will be very pinpointed on strengths vs weaknesses and that setup you have will not be competitive. If you have Qs, let us know, but I’d say get on Google first.

Bow is hard to master and needs to be with a Dex weapon like Spear or Rapier (I know it’s Int) but still. Sword is great but not with bow.

Those two weapons don't really have a natural synergy in PVP in my opinion. I would either focus on range and do bow + lifetaker or focus on melee and do SnS and GS. Lifetaker buffs the bow and has a lot of utility that can be used. SnS provides a ton of survivability and gap-closing utility.

You would also want to think about perks on your armor. Refreshing for example is good for PvE but not as helpful in PvP. In PvP you would want to use something like tumblers and build around those. Have as many enchanted ward perks as you can, include a couple of freedoms, and then some conditioning for slash and fire.

PvP can get very expensive because it's difficult to get good 3 perk armor pieces. Expect to pay 75k+ on the tp or 125k+ using gorgon essence to craft.

Waves of Darkness trashes everything. Knocks down flyers, high poise, AoE, multi-hit, follow-up attack, hits like a monster truck.

Chilling Mist is my most used AoW. I just throw it on a dagger and I got a quick and easy way to frostbite everything.

Storm Blade is my workhorse AoW. Good ranged option and it shreds when up close.

Ruins Greatsword. It stuns and has range. RG go BOOM

Near - Reduvia

Mid-range - Thunderbolt on a Keen Great Epee

Far - Death ritual Spear or Sacred Great Stars with Golden Land

Black knife blade i just love it....

Best as in favourite or just the weapon that I deems the strongest?

Well answers for both is the greatsword and Lions claw and Dark Moon Greatsword with its Moonlight Greatsword skills.

Reduvia, especially if you have bleed boosting.

Great Stars with Golden Land AoW, especially with sacred boosting. Huge range and damage.

Death Ritual Spear for a general heavy hitting ranged option on big targets.

Mohgwyn's Sacred Spear for, well, almost everything really. Especially good for crowd control.

I love the eleonora poleblade and godskin peeler. You can just spam the skills and win.

In no order the top 3 are likely;

• Rivers of Blood
• Moonveil
• Blasphemous Blade

Special shoutout to;

• Nagakiba with Unsheathe
• Broadsword with Square Off

Comet azur and night comet for the mages. Comet azur needs cerulean hidden tear and magic shrouding cracked tear to be op. I can beat the last 4 bosses with comet azur and max charged flasks.

If you have access to it I’ve loved using the dlc black steel great hammer with prayerful strike as its ash

Giant-Crusher, Zweihander, Star Fists, Great Mace, Beastman's Cleaver, Nightrider Glaive, Prelate's Infernal Crozier, Great Stars, Claymore, Black Steel Greathammer, Warped Axe....

Giant Crusher

Dual Great Stars

Golems Halberd with Lions Claw is a lot of fun. I put a blood infusion on mine with the LoB talisman.

I’ve done all the min/max testing on a Strength/Faith build. Electrify armament on a Heavy infusion is ONLY good for the late game bosses in the base game. Infusing with either Flame Art or Holy far out-damages Electrify Armament for most enemies in most of the game

My ranking of the best Strength/Faith weapons:

1. Dual Rusted Anchors (Pickaxe in the offhand until you get the 2nd one in NG+)

2. Sword Lance (light enough to free up that talisman slot for spell boost instead of equip load)

3. Great Sword

4. Ordovis Great Sword

5. Deathknight Longhaft Axe

6. Fire Knights GS

7. Knighrider Glave

8. Magma Worm Scale Sword

9. Euporia (it’s the most fun though, by far)

10. Freyja’s GS (best infused lions claw in the game)

Note: This list is for PVE. A PVP list would have to include Star Fists and Red Bear Claw

Honorable mentions: Zweilhander, Great Stars, Dual Blacknight Twin Blades, and Great Katana

Depends on your stats split, but you'd really do better with more Str and going Heavy then using your grease or spell buff of choice to add elemental damage.

P.S. Lightning is way better.

You'll have more raw Physical damage with Heavy and high Str (for these weapons). Adding a lightning buff is simply going to add more damage to the physical, so who cares how it scales.

Also, splitting damage with affinities like Flame Art or Fire or whatever is generally less effective than going all in on physical damage and adding a little sauce on top with your favorite weapon glow.

That all said, Dex/Fth with Keen + lightning does also slap hard. I simply wouldn't do that with Greatsword or Rusty Anchor.

What are your stats? If you have around 40+ in STR then I think you would be better going heavy and then applying electrify armament.

You look like you want the FIRE Knights Greatsword from the dlc, unfortunately you need to farm from fire knights in shadow keep but you get some excellent new fire art ashes of war from there too and that thing slaps! Highly recommend, the sword has a good moveset too!