I'm a huge fan of sword and board, the shortswords have excellent combos and still have a big enough parry window. That being said, I've no problem with any of the weapons. All have advantages and disadvantages. The big bonks are fun too, just find something that feels right and get some practice.

I'm having the best time using Long Sword + Grand Sword.

Swapping between two-handing the long sword or pulling the Grand Sword offers some great variety in strikes and speed for any given situation while doing plenty of damage either way.

Any weapon is good aslong as you have the build setup

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I think you are spreading yourself too thin with your offensive stats being only around 30-40. Ideally, by level 100, you’d want your main offense stat to be at or near its hard cap (i.e. 75). Here you’re at level 200, and neither of those are at 50 (soft cap) yet.

That being said, there are good weapons that scale equally across 4 offense stats. One that comes to mind is Rosamund’s Sword. Not sure how the mixed scaling would compare to say, a pure Agi sword at A+ scaling when you have maxed at 75.

Leda’s Sword, Serpent Flail, and all of the fire knight weapons keep passable Dex scaling on flame art infusion.

Black Steel Twinblade! It’s one of the new split damage weapons that you can actually infuse with other types of damage and ashes of war. It’s so good, it has the same running R2 as the godskin peeler.

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Pick one between 2 handed tali and shard, and replace with dragoncrest

51 poise overrated tbh. learn the fights and you wont need it

get more seeds, by ng+ i had 12 red flasks and 1 blue flask

Pretty solid ngl

Lord of bloods exultation maybe

The 11 faith and int requirements on the last like 3 weapons seems interesting

Note that they're all set to Heavy when applicable because the preset character was a STR build. But you can see via stat requirements a general idea of scaling.

So the new colossal sword has

• Faster Godslayer Greatsword Moveset
• Zweihandler Poke
• Innate faith scaling while still being infusible
• Low weight for its class

Only downside so far seems to be those requirements.

That fire knight Greatsword looks kinda like it’s getting maxed out the min I find it

So many infusable weapons, boy I’m excited

The more gold you have the more you are worth. Gold and position tied directly to spiritual worth and purity. A more “golden” soul is more valued one. To fall outside the order is have gold taken from you. This even ties in with Marika granting the golden sap of the tree to the favored.

Blows me away when people can’t see this is why the “golden order” has a very sinister bend to it.

I appreciate that you showed the first two swords with their descriptions and the last as just the image to reflect how hard it is to get the nobles swords to actually drop

Any chance staves are being considered? Would like to see a weapon type fitting for a Mage character.

For STR/RAD combo I love using dual Grand Swords - Luminous Abiding+ Ebonlight Abiding. use catalyst for some offense or defense buffs, Eye of Loash and go SMASH

P. S. I got spare on +10 and I can give them to you

There is a sword you can get early that scales with radiance only if you want to go full on holy

A 50/50 build usually isn't that strong in the beginning. You'll probably need to lean on one side for a while. Well at least until you get a decent weapon for what's on your mind.

In Radiance, Judgement!

Both work well, depending on what you prefer. My first build was centered around Bloody Glory, which works best on a Radiance build with some strength and has massive bleed scaling. Having this much Radiance also means that your spells are quite strong, giving you not only the buffs but also a decent ranged damage option.

If you prefer big hammers, you could also go for 50/50 with either Devotion's Might or the Righteous Pulveriser.

Every build starts with a weapon you want to build around. And you find respec stuff throughout the game. You could do something like warped axe or iron cleaver and a greatshield and basically punt everything besides str but there are axes that scale better with other stats so it just depends what you end up wanting to build around 

There are different types of Shields and Elden ring summer for just absorbing an attack, and others, if they have a 100% physical, will completely block attacks if you have high enough stanima. You'll have to make some compromises early game like not wearing a helmet or wearing medium armor if you want a heavy shield or heavy armor and a medium to light shield. Axes maces hammers all scale with strength, but if you want a fast weapon like a short sword or a katana, go with dexterity. I am currently using maces for my current run and love it. If you want to do a sword and shield run, the only stats you'll need to focus on are vigor for health, stamina for blocking and attacking, and strength for your weapon damage. Try not to dip into other attributes you don't need like intelligence arcane faith and so on it'll only limit your ability to defend yourself and attack. I know and incantations are tempting but stick to crafting items like fire grease and throwable items. There are soft caps in stats which means leveling past that limits the return in that stat hard caps waste points End game stats Vigor 60 Strength soft cap is 60 max is 80 Endurance 40 soft 60 max If you want to use limited Faith 15 for basic Incantations like heal and flame grant me strength that's boosts attack

The Hammer and Chisel is considered the most op weapon in the base game, but for my money, Hallowed Sword is 2nd best!

Each weapon has two parts that add special abilities, that are found in the map, and each playthrough, you can upgrade each weapon’s damage five times with Quenching Acids, of which up to 13 can be found each playthrough/new game plus (in first playthrough, you can use five quenching acids on a weapon, then in first NG+, five more, as I understand it, etc)

The first upgrade piece for the Hallowed Sword is in a chest behind the first Grisha boss you will encounter (and behind that Grisha in a cave is the best Shell imo, Solomon, the shell for Resolve, Resolve bars being what’s used to use those special weapon abilities that the two parts upgrades give you, as well as a few others)

Both the first upgrade piece for the Hallowed Sword and the Solomon Shell can be got before defeating that Grisha, just by running past it lol

I believe the merchant on top of the hub castle sells one quenching acid, for tar, and there are guides online for the locations of the others. They make an incredible difference btw

I beat the whole game using the holy sword upgraded to +5 (the first one you get in the tutorial)

IMO it is a very good weapon, it is versatile, not too slow and not too fast and very good damage, the others I found very slow except for the axe.

You can improve it with Quenching acid, sold by the merchant x3 near sister génessa in the swamp.

Yes, you use quenching acid to upgrade the base damage of weapons, then each weapon has 2 weapoon specific upgrades, e.g. Hallowed sword is the mechanical spike. Keep exploring, you'll find them. And to answer your question, yes, the Hallowed sword is worth upgrading, I finished the game with it.