Should be in instead of axe of godfrey due its S scaling in strength. Axe of godfrey is more of a quality weapon than pure strength

The sword ive had with me since day one. Lordsworn straight sword. It has yet to fail me once

It counts as a strength and arcane weapon, right? It has decent strength scaling too

Right, OP left out the best weapon in the game

Straight swords carried me through most of my first play through. Plus, the moveset for power-stanced straight swords is pretty fucking cool.

I got ahold of that thing yesterday and equipped it just to see it's move set and AoW. After like 30 seconds I decided this was going to be my NG+ weapon. The charged heavy is cool af

Been some of the most reliable weapons in every souls game. In DS3 a longsword with stance and a 100% neg weapon art shield could counter pretty much any other build in the game. Sadly I forsook the classic in elden ring when I first started cause PvP balancr was horrendous at first but maybe I'll give it another try.

I feel that way about the Claymore but it carries a sense of notoriety since everyone has loved it for a decade now lol. But yes straight swords are always fantastic.

I’m hoping they improve the two quality builds in str/dex and especially int/fai with more weapons, better scaling, or even new elements to improve said scaling. I love quality in Dark Souls, whether I’m using any and every weapon or any and every spell. I miss the days of hexing and pyromancies running off both, then altering my weapon to go that route too

Theyre straight up invincible. Got max rank in arena with this and carian retaliation/golden parry medium shield. SS S combo has always been meta. No other build is anywhere as strong if you play it right. Having perfect frames that also parry magic and another that is a damn aoe ranged parry on a medium shield, thats both faster and lasts longer than a buckler is just stupid.

Went on a 27 game winning streak until i saw a dual whip user and fought bleed builds and frost builds all day, not a single one was a hard fight.

Medium shields due to carian and golden is too broken and honestly needs a nerf. But since no one js using jt it never will be nerfed lol, which is good for its users. Lordsworn has amazing moveset, range and also a 1.1x crit modifier which stacks with ERs hornet ring the assassin talisman.

For all the broken stuff people call bleed is and RoB they have never once been actually strong in PvP.

Fang dex scaling is absurd. You get the talisman that reduces skill fp costs early enough you spam the shit out of its bonkers weapon skill.

I love this weapon so damn much. I play it in NG+

Same - first playthrough and I've been using BF since I got it (thank you Blaidd). BUT I just recently received and switched over to the Magma Wyrm Scalesword. It has both physical and fire damage and scales at 'C' in both strength and faith. Downside is it's quite a bit heavier (I'm still at medium load but just barely).

Could be the best. Others have higher damage against certain enemies but Bloodhound fang has no weakness and can be greased.

I rarely used it on my first two playthroughs, but on 3rd NG, I got it right away, scaled Dex and upgraded it over others. It is way more fun than I realized. Like others have said, that bloodflame takes it to another level.

It adds some nice range to the melee, closes the distance, and jumps back to that safer distance, all quickly. You're not as likely to get stun locked as you are with some of the slower buildup AoW.

Same. Every build ends up str, faith, or both.

Number 1 easiest weapon for sure. I feel like moongrum whenever sometime invades me with this thing

I have yet to use it. I haven't done a dex weapon run yet. Only Strength, Strength/Faith, Intelligence, and now Ranged Dex. It MIGHT be an option next run lol

I only have three favorite weapons and all of them are the Bloodhound's Fang.

Is the Claymore that OP? Noob here so please don't mind, I really want to know. I tried it but found the piercing attack very situational and rather prefer Longsword and Bloodhound's wider area attacks.

Nightrider glaive w/phantom slash

Rusted Anchor w/prayerful strike

Dragonscale Blade

Bolt of Gransax

Crucible Knight weapons (ordovis greatsword & siluras tree)

5. All

6. Weapons

7. Are

8. Valid

9. Blasphemous blade

Honestly tho, VERY good weapon 🤣 currently doing an unga bunga playthrough and it's SOLID. Stance break almost anything with ease 😎.

Double flails from the night cavalry was my ng+ build. The poise damage they do is crazy. 3 jumping power attacks staggers just about anything in the game.

I love my greatswords in all their flavors.

I just couldn't be arsed to upgrade them all over again

Yeah the upgrading sucks. I still managed to play the game with 7 different weapons and 4 shields, but I wanted to play with even more but that would have cost so many runes. Late-game I just used cheats to upgrade all weapons to +24, which would still be possible with a lot of grind, and it was even more fun to play with a bunch of different items.

If you don't want to use cheats or upgrade too many weapons, I recommend using like 2-5 weapons with different damage-type/weight/playstyle, upgrade only these, but use different Ashes of War and switch up the AoW-Affinity. This still changes their playstyle a bit and you can play around with all different elemental damage/effects. Don't forget that unlike Dark Souls you can always change the AoW Affinity without any cost!

I just spun up a dex guy and only beat Margit and I am at sotemveil now using the uchi. Any area in particular to keep an eye out for good dex weapons? I’ve beaten it once as a strength sorcerer but never dex. 

Unless Wing of Astel was nurfed, god the AoE ability of its LT attack carried me. Do it right it will stun lock most bosses.

Claymans harpoon with the ice spear ash of war is probably still my fav weapon!

(Isn't it a str/int weapon though? I can't remember having played a Dex/int character but I've used that spear A LOT)

Bloodhound's Fang

I don't know if this is the best place to ask, but I really got sick of the game because of this weapon, can anyone tell me what a viable replacement would be? I have 60 hours of gameplay. I tested hammers, some swords, but nothing seems as powerful as spamming Bloodhound Finesse.

At this point in the game I don't know how to find another weapon as good, but I also can't stand it anymore.

Edit: thank you guys for the tips

Loretta's Sickle works fine for me, thankfully. Not really a katana guy

Great Stars for me. Normal weapon which means it can be infused but also buffed with incantations and greases. Has bleed build up and because it's a heavy STR weapon, it hits hard. The weapon does strike type damage and not many enemies are resistant to that damage type. It also heals you for each enemy hit by a certain amount. Prayerful Strike goes great with it and heals me more than my flasks do. Other good ashes of war would be Lion's Claw, Prelate's Charge, Wild Strikes and Gravitas for taking down flying enemies. If you want to make an HP regen build without having to spam the Blasphemous Blade all day like a one-trick pony then this weapon is your best bet.

Also, did I mention it looks freaking awesome?

I was happy to stick with this weapon on my first run. What a good weapon. Even though I only read the skill description when traversing mountaintop of giants lol

I'm keeping the Greatsword in reserve until i can get the flame enchant on it. Nothing I have compares to the Golden Halberd in sheer damage at the moment, and the move set isn't bad.

It may not be the best in the game ever, but it is extremely good and you can get it really easily early game. I'd happily take a weapon that I can take through from start to end as it means I won't have to keep changing builds

I'd say that's easily one of the top 10 weapons in the game, if nothing else because it is OP enough to carry you through the game.

For PvE, I'd say

• Star fists

• Death's poker

• Blasphemous blade

Depending on skill level.

When you're getting hit a lot and need to survive, the blasphemous blade is just overpowered as hell. Huge AoE damage WHILE healing you both for enemy hit and enemy killed? Sign me in

When you don't get hit as much, death's poker is just crazy good thanks to its ash of war. When used up close can deal absurd amounts of damage, melting basically anything. Easy to buff, too

Star fists may seem weird but as you get really good at running around enemies and you know what your best windows for damage are, these things are just extremely consistent. Axe talisman, spiked crystal tear and a fully charge attack that is as fast as a colossal light attack. Slap cragblade on them for hugr chunks of damage and, most importantly, poise breaks back to back to keep any boss down while you're always safe to roll away thanks to short recovery

The death's poker is basically a magic staff with only one spell (its ash of war). You can hit with the sword itself and it does decent damage, but nothing great.

Because of this, you should only pump intelligence when using it (since the skill only scales with intelligence). At 80 intelligence and with the right buffs, I've seen it deal 15k damage in a single skill use which is kinda crazy.

Without using tons of buffs you can stay simple with stuff like shard of alexander, magic cracked tear, magic scorpion charm and Rogier's set (not necessarily all of them) to easily get 5-10k damage. Not to mention that you could still stack golden vow, a body buff and even terra magica.

At that point though it's just overkill because you don't have to oneshot them, you can just spam the ash of war and melt them with minimal buffs

The secret is to use the ash of war (R1 version) from up close, so that the actual swing seemingly connects

If you are ever tempted to give big bonking weapons another shot I'd suggest colossal weapons, specifically powerstanced Golem's Halberd. The crouching R1, backstep R1, running R2, crouching L1, and running L1 are all reasonably fast attacks. If you keep an uninfused Golems H. in your main hand you get to use charge forth with a colossal which is a fast forward-moving attack that covers a ton of ground quick enough to catch even running away invaders if they take a second to breathe. Obviusly the best attack will be the jumping L1 but having so many fast mix ups is really fun. I tried this set up with a coop buddy very recently and it changed my mind about how slow collosals are.

Swordspear completely caught me off guard with how good it is. It's got a fast moveset with good range and infused with keen has great dex scaling. Especially considering how early you can get it, it's a must have for dex builds.

This, dual wielded with the bloody helice in my off-hand.

This weapon is so good I felt dirty using it and changed my whole build to get away from it. It was like heroin.

my go to. in every game except DS2 where it had a weird moveset. Even in BB where they named it something else, we all knew it was a claymore.

It stays in my offhand until it's time for co-op.

If you like fashion but want poise, it pairs really well with the tree sentinel armor imop

Only good compared to other Halberds because other halberds movesets are ass.

This, crazy weapon and so sexy.

I'm so glad I used it because I was having a rough time towards the end though. Destroyed Malenia on the first try

Blasphemous Blade, I slept on this weapon for too long, don't make the same mistake!

Hunting Horn is a deep and fun weapon even while solo, can bonk like the hammer and has fast movespeed thanks to the self improvement melody, really satisfying to land hits with, manage buffing your party (if you have one) and most importantly, everyone thinks you are a beast and appreciates your help

hammer. KO monster and then hit the B/circle button to bash their skull in.

Insect glaive my guy. Dash so much even you aren't sure where you're going

All of them. Build all the glaives.

My first impression of the Lance was slow and boring. I was very, very, wrong.

You stick to the monster poking and smacking them until they fall. Hopping around to slice off tails. Punishing monsters that try to smack you. Bracing and stabbing them in the mouth after a roar.

It jumps away? Set your Lance and charge. Want a mount? Jump mid charge and smack while in the air. That wounded beast running home? Charge after it and run it through.

When a Black Diablos comes out screaming from under you and you land a clutch counter, the cable just pulls you all the way to its head. Release all that ammo into its face and make sure it charges all the way to the wall.

I tried Lance towards the end of my time with World after I googled the ranking for how popular each weapon was. I saw Lance at the bottom and said, “well shit, I guess I’m playing Lance now”. I’m not a tank role player. I’m always making dexterity builds in games. Hence I love the sword and shield. But I thoroughly enjoy Lance. I’m playing it now in World. It is satisfying as all get out, just standing there like a beast shrugging off hits from monsters multiple times your size. Also, you get the added bonus of the weapon being huge. So you really get to appreciate all the design the developers put into them.

Negrigante was soooo much fun to tank with Lance.

in the dlc.. find the black steel greathammer… trust

The claymore

Honestly this is a top 5 weapon in the game.

What is the weapon right below rivers of blood? Looks totally unfamiliar

EDIT: and the giant thing below estoc

The one you like using.

You mean... BOLAS

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The last upgrade isn't that great of a difference. I'd recommend leaving the weapons at +24 if you don't have enough spare materials: the DLC weapons are quite fun and you might at some point wish you'd saved the materials for those.

Black Knight Sword. You can get it very early in the game and it will carry you all the way to the last boss. Also you only need to upgrade it to +5.

At least it's available early.

It uses the Halberd moveset, right? That's well praised. Then it has great dex scaling.

I think there's no halberd that scales just off strength, so if you want one and to be efficient with your levels the scythe seems great. It definitely seems to be one of the big three dex weapons, though I don't think it's fast enough to utilize the normal wants of a dex weapon. Being quick enough to poke between enemy attacks while still being able to roll.

I should try it out one day. People keep on saying it does insane damage.

Bro ik, I use tin crys cat with cry mag weapon, shit shreds. I tried out sunlight blade but I couldn’t dig that I couldn’t use a shield, cat and talisman in my left at the same time. I found that at 40 faith sunlight with ivory talisman did less damage than cmw with tcc at 40 int. Also I can use magic weapon and great magic weapon before o and s so I opted for that

Balder sword, a scale in dex, early in the game to farm if you want it.

Claymore, it’s on the way to the parish and has probably the best move set with slashes and thrusts with c str and c dex scaling

Silver knight sword, ok scaling, (I can’t remember the exact,) looks beautiful: very important

Fap ring, bc duh

Child mask, light, stamina regen and if you’re lucky you can get it pretty much immediately

Stone knight set, can get it fairly quickly, on par wit havels set, looks cool, and the gauntlets and greaves are like .5 lighter than havel