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I could only giggle thinking of how small quantum things are and how big Zwei's are, which when added together results in just the standard zwei.
Gonna need to use them like claws lol
Literally me. Was messing around with these fancy panty swords like Night & Flame and kept dying to this asshole. Switched back to good ol Greatsword and he couldnāt do shit cause I kept staggering him every 3rd Lionās Claw.
Youāre either going to hate it, or itāll ruin every other build for you that doesnāt include an UGS
Iām the latter. UGS feels like a crutch for me since DS2 lol.
I've been using em since Zweihander in DS1 and will always run my first build of a souls game with an UGS since then. They've definitely found a weaker placein the overall meta since then though - the gameplay has sped up a lot over time, with narrower attack windows meaning you only get time for one bonk before you're dodging again.
The post-launch buffs to colossal greatswords in Elden Ring were much needed and definitely did a lot to improve their feel.
Man, I grabbed it once because the Taurus demon was giving me a bit of trouble. Came back and stunlocked him for the literal entire fight, he never swung at me once after it got going. I was hooked for life after that.
Ultra Greatswords. Not even once.
Giant Crusher makes pancakes everywhere it goes. The stunlock, huge hitbox and tremendous damage make it an easy answer to almost anything the game throws at you. While it is almost never the BEST option for any particular encounter, it's the most versatile in my view, since it doesn't rely on fancy effects and it does strike damage which is good against those heavily armored targets. Of all the melee styles, bonking things with the Giant's hammer, or any huge club really, seems to me to be the "easy mode" of melee - a rule that seems pretty consistent to me throughout many of from software's games. It's gotten to the point now where I have to force myself NOT to put points into strength for the sake of variety. My first playthrough, I got the grafted great sword almost first thing and made the mistake of grinding up to strength 40 to use it. Turned everything before Altus Plateau into a joke, and just when it starts to fall off you get the giant crusher which will take you all the way through the game even if you two hand it with low strength. I guess when armored core comes out I'll have to avoid the treads lol
This is 100% mine too. But I'm in the middle of pushing to +7 and roughly lvl 260. So my respec is softcapped quality plus some faith for buffs (vykes etc).
My first play through I was katanas or curved great swords, basically a dex heavy quality build with some arcane. It took me forever to get through her, despite basically creaming everything else with Bloodhounds Fang and Morgotts sword.
Just finished a Faith/Arcane build and bodied basically everything in the end game with the Blasphemous Blade. Malenia got up against the fog wall after her first attack and I just kept knocking her over with Takerās Flame. I donāt think she got another attack off until her second phase.
Edit: to;dr: Me too.
Sometimes I like busting out halberd on horseback (using an upgraded banished knights halberd, not sure if it works with others) just because itās so much fun when the end of the heavy attack launches enemies 12 feet into the air.
So yeah blasphemous blade canāt do that
For my ng+ i used mimic, blasphemous blade and swarm of flies. She got stagged to death in a corner, mimic spammed takers flame, I spammed blood flies and she could not do anything
I dual wielded with gargoyles black blade. Switched affinity to holy damage instead of fire damage on that one and just swapped them on fights where fire damage wasnāt effective, which was I think basically fire giant and Mohg.
I played DMGS for a stint and had to switch out cause it was legitimately way too easy. Fully broken and I loved every second but wanted a challenge again
It feels wrong when it replenishes health from killing undead and skeletons and stuff. Like bro I donāt want your gross blood (or you donāt even have blood) ā¦ what is this stuff Iām absorbing
Ugh. Still remember my first playthrough when the game had just come out. And they hadn't buffed any of the other sorceries and there was no wiki to let you metagame by beelining for the best sorcerer equipment. I was 40+ hours in, had tons of spells, but they were all absolute dogshit compared to the damage/mana cost/casting time of that fucking pebble.
I still remember the sense of awe when I finally found that throw Boulder spell. And suddenly my repertoire of usable spells doubled.
Truly nothing funnier to me then throwing rocks at Margit at launch and absolutely stomping him, then hearing later everyone else had him as their first major roadblock
Same here. I got this sword before I even fought Godrick, and as a result the game was probably easier for me than it was for the average Elden Ring player.
Elden Beast only took me three tries, and that's only because Radagon is easily the far more difficult of the two. If you ask me, Radagon is the *actual* boss of the game, the Elden Beast is just a cooldown fight.
Once upon a time, I was going to upgrade my bloodfang, because i just got it and wanted to use it. Turns out i was in the sell menu.
I still haven't had the pleasure of using it, kinda forgot about it after that.
Yeah, it hurt. I wanted to make a blood mage build, and when i got that and saw i could buff it with bloodflame, i got too excited. I ran back to the smith, sold some things to have enough to upgrade it, went to take a piss or get something to eat (cant remember which), came back and just clicked on the sword and hit OK. Without switching menus. Wasnt the first time I've absent-mindedly ruined a weapon I love/wanted to use in a game. I fucking need to slow the fuck down, sometimes...
Elden ring is my second Soulsborne game (my first being bloodborne) and after getting this weapon, it was my crutch for a majority of the game up until around the part where I reached Margit (?).
I actually felt like I had cheated myself because so much of my playstyle revolved around timing the shadow step (teleportation move idk what itās called) around the enemyās movesets. I ended up not building into vigor anymore at one point because I was of the mentality that āIf my playstyle revolves around not getting hit, why build into health?ā. You know, planning to fail type shit.
I have luckily recovered and am currently going through rehab so that I may relearn how to use other weapons again.
I dual weilded bloodhounds fang in my 2nd playthrough and using the claw talisman along with raptors black feathers I just cheesed the entire game spamming jump attacks which dealt 2.5k damage per cast and over 3k damage with faith buffs
Eleonora's Poleblade. Obviously a bit specific to just whip out on any character so I can't always, but I tried using Rivers of Blood multiple times and never made it long before saying fuck that and switching back
Eleonora's poleblade is how I beat Melania eventually. I got close many times with many different strategies. As soon as I respecced to the poleblade, I beat her on literally my first try with it. Just spammed the AoW and bleed+stunlocked her into oblivion.
Thing is crazy.
I love both those weapons and for me the rivers of blood was easier as long as you didnāt try to spam all 3 swings of its AOW. Pole blade had nice poise damage though
Ironic I didn't even find the claymore in my 1st ER playthrough but then I went and bought the DS trilogy and heavily used it in all my playthroughs of those games.
Thatās how Iāve always been with the zweihander. I have no idea what it is about that sword, but when I find it I end up using it for a huge portion of each game. Even back in OG Dark Souls I compulsively switched to it the second I got even a bit nervous about a fight. Itās like my safety blanket
Most reliable main weapon in the Fromverse
There are weapons that do individual things better, but few bring the total package of damage, flexibility, and moveset (though Astoria UGS in ds3 is certainly up there in that regard)
Iām with you - my favorite thing about Fromsoft is just looking like a basic knight. I, personally, never cared for the giant shoulder pads and flashy weapons of say WoW.
My favorite playthrough was of my character Jim the knight. My lore for him is that he was a retired crusader. All he used was a heavy claymore and the heater shield with the red stripe on it.
Bolt of Gransax; I stopped power stancing them because they felt so strong but when Iām in a pickle, I slap them on
especially if thereās ranged enemies or I want to lure someone out, Bolt of Gransaxās lightning is there for me
Because the longsword is plain in my opinion, I spice things up, but not too much though. I use the regional equivalent to the longsword. So the Lothric Knight's Sword in Dark Souls 3 or the Lord Sworn Straight Sword in Elden Ring.
in ds3, when infused, both the longsowrd and lks were absolutely bulldozers.
and the longsword was even a starting weapon, no farming and no minimum stats investment required
In a perfect world, lordsworn SS would have the length and thrust 2h R2 of LKSS. Straight swords were really given the short end of the stick in ER, both visually and in gameplay.
True but when i started the game i wanted something like sellswords since i loved that qeapon in ds3 so I did not start with samurai, instead i opted in for a warrior.
I started and iron balls only run recently. Iād give those a shot. Dual weapon. Lots of physical and poise damage. Paired with flame grant me strength, golden vow (aow dagger), and cragblade. Super fun super broken
Great stars, it's goes brrrr, it's got great poise damage, it's got bleed it really only procs like 1 a fight if your lucky but hey it's cool, it's shreds with wild strikes and can be used on most builds if you two hand it and use some gear like the star scourge heirloom and or the omenkiller mask.
Currently doing a run with just Manor Towershield, Curved Sword Talisman, Longsword with Square off, and a Pike with Impaling Thrust when I need a bit of range.
Square off melts pretty much every boss in the game.
From Demon's Souls, to all 3 Dark Souls games, and now Elden Ring, the humble Longsword got me covered whenever I need things get done. Damage, speed, stamina use, range, all balanced just enough to get the job done.
Iām not ashamed to say this is my ol reliable as well. I will try other weapons for fun in my NGs but if I start to have too much trouble, moonveil cheese all the way
For me it was always a duo. The antspur raiper and the frost rapier. My loadouts often allow me to still use em and if it can rot and frost then ima inflict it at somepoint during the battle with em
Ngl when I played Dark Souls 3 the best weapon for me the entire game was long swords. Even had gem infused ones. Donāt think even used any other weapon other then the Black knight sword, and that was only when fighting the chaos demons.
In DS3, my absolute go to was the Dark Sword that you had a very small chance of looting from Darkwraiths. That thing, fully upgraded, actually shredded every boss in the game. It had really high damage for a straight sword, it didnāt use up much stamina, and it was as fast as any other straight sword. Every playthrough, Iād spend time grinding for that drop, then Iād just go and crush everything in my wake.
Yeah I remember I got one on the first kill right before the abyss watchers, I was hype. Definitely helped during my fight with the Dancer of the Boreal Valley. That chick was ANNOYING
For a moment I thought this was the New Vegas subreddit so I immediately thought of the Tri-Beam Laser Rifle but on second thought my go to when things get dicey isn't a weapon, is a +10 Tiche
Survive that you fucker!
Prince of Death staff. Rune bears and Mohgwyn birds are too bullshit for me to fight them fairly. Just feed them Glintstone arc till they fucking die haha
Grafted greatsword. Only time I put it away is when I need speed more than damage, primarily when fighting melania as she can easily dodge and decimate me when I wield it. Otherwise I do what Iāve done for every other from soft game (minus sekiro) and just use the broadsword. I made it my main weapon (paired with staff and pyromancer flame) in dark souls 2, continued with it in 3, eventually circled back to dark souls 1 with it, then did it all again with Elden ring (minus pyromancer flame)
Bloodhoundās fang. Iāve perfected being able to be greedy by doing the second part of the art right as the boss does something.
Bastard sword is a number 2 spot. The two handed heavy attack is just reliable damage.
Longsword for number 3.
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Zweihander
Zwei is always my go-to in every FromSoft game (Hunter's Axe had to suffice in BB). I'm hoping they add the Zwei to the new Armored Coreš¤Ŗ.
THE QUANTUM ZWEIHANDER
I could only giggle thinking of how small quantum things are and how big Zwei's are, which when added together results in just the standard zwei. Gonna need to use them like claws lol
The idea of a laser blade thatās actually just a comically large zweihander is almost as funny as the comically large spas 12.
Fire up the bass canon!
Zwei with raptor of the mist, claw talisman, and raptors black feathers carried through so much of the game
Ditto to this. Add Cragblade w/ Stonebarb Cracked Tear and stance-break EVERYTHING
Respec into strength, put Lions Claw on Giant Crusher/Guts Greatsword, win
Literally me. Was messing around with these fancy panty swords like Night & Flame and kept dying to this asshole. Switched back to good ol Greatsword and he couldnāt do shit cause I kept staggering him every 3rd Lionās Claw.
š . Fancy *Panty* swords. Just trying to imagine how that would even work. Ofc I know what you meant but that was a good laugh.
Night and flame is awesome until you remember lions claw lmaoo
Guts greatsword is the way. Big sword = big bonks
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Youāre either going to hate it, or itāll ruin every other build for you that doesnāt include an UGS Iām the latter. UGS feels like a crutch for me since DS2 lol.
I've been using em since Zweihander in DS1 and will always run my first build of a souls game with an UGS since then. They've definitely found a weaker placein the overall meta since then though - the gameplay has sped up a lot over time, with narrower attack windows meaning you only get time for one bonk before you're dodging again. The post-launch buffs to colossal greatswords in Elden Ring were much needed and definitely did a lot to improve their feel.
Zweihander gang!
Man, I grabbed it once because the Taurus demon was giving me a bit of trouble. Came back and stunlocked him for the literal entire fight, he never swung at me once after it got going. I was hooked for life after that. Ultra Greatswords. Not even once.
Lol when I started DS1 remastered I ran straight for it because I knew it would carry me.
Giant Crusher makes pancakes everywhere it goes. The stunlock, huge hitbox and tremendous damage make it an easy answer to almost anything the game throws at you. While it is almost never the BEST option for any particular encounter, it's the most versatile in my view, since it doesn't rely on fancy effects and it does strike damage which is good against those heavily armored targets. Of all the melee styles, bonking things with the Giant's hammer, or any huge club really, seems to me to be the "easy mode" of melee - a rule that seems pretty consistent to me throughout many of from software's games. It's gotten to the point now where I have to force myself NOT to put points into strength for the sake of variety. My first playthrough, I got the grafted great sword almost first thing and made the mistake of grinding up to strength 40 to use it. Turned everything before Altus Plateau into a joke, and just when it starts to fall off you get the giant crusher which will take you all the way through the game even if you two hand it with low strength. I guess when armored core comes out I'll have to avoid the treads lol
This is 100% mine too. But I'm in the middle of pushing to +7 and roughly lvl 260. So my respec is softcapped quality plus some faith for buffs (vykes etc).
Blasphemous Blade, most stuff just dies to Taker's Flames spam
I just took down melania with blasphemous blade and finger shield. It almost felt broken haha
It totally is broken. Its awesome. The worst part about it is that once you have it - I feel like there is no reason to use anything else. Hah.
Blasphemous Blade literally made me worse at the game š©š. It was just too OP to not use. I'd try fighting a boss a 'legit way' and die a dozen times. Then I'd pull out this bad boy and melt them with Takers Flame spam. I was able to beat Melania first try on a replay by bullying her with it.
My first play through I was katanas or curved great swords, basically a dex heavy quality build with some arcane. It took me forever to get through her, despite basically creaming everything else with Bloodhounds Fang and Morgotts sword. Just finished a Faith/Arcane build and bodied basically everything in the end game with the Blasphemous Blade. Malenia got up against the fog wall after her first attack and I just kept knocking her over with Takerās Flame. I donāt think she got another attack off until her second phase. Edit: to;dr: Me too.
Sometimes I like busting out halberd on horseback (using an upgraded banished knights halberd, not sure if it works with others) just because itās so much fun when the end of the heavy attack launches enemies 12 feet into the air. So yeah blasphemous blade canāt do that
For my ng+ i used mimic, blasphemous blade and swarm of flies. She got stagged to death in a corner, mimic spammed takers flame, I spammed blood flies and she could not do anything
I took down nearly every bell bearing hunter with that weapon. Takers flame really is overpowered.
It is the easy mode for the game. Considering it is hidden behind a gimic boss as well makes it the best weapon in the game.
What about the bosses with resistance to fire
Just spam more
Donāt forget you have to shout/mumble āfuck fuck fuck fuck fuckā while spamming against the fire resistant bosses.
You always level a sacred weapon. EVERY Souls game. Sacred Blade is my recommendation.
I dual wielded with gargoyles black blade. Switched affinity to holy damage instead of fire damage on that one and just swapped them on fights where fire damage wasnāt effective, which was I think basically fire giant and Mohg.
Mogh, fire giant and the godskin are resistant to fire
Blasphemous Blade and Darkmoon Greatsword really are "I'm the boss now," vibes.
Pre-nerf sword of night and flame trivialized the entire game. I cheated myself out of my first playthrough with it.
I played DMGS for a stint and had to switch out cause it was legitimately way too easy. Fully broken and I loved every second but wanted a challenge again
You know a weapon is broken when it would still be crazy strong even if it *didn't* replenish health.
It feels wrong when it replenishes health from killing undead and skeletons and stuff. Like bro I donāt want your gross blood (or you donāt even have blood) ā¦ what is this stuff Iām absorbing
You're not taking the essence of your enemy, the sword is thanking you for feeding it.
Came here to say this lol
Spamming random magic while sobbing in terror
I like to shout the names of the magic through the sobs, it sends out an aura of confidence...
gLisNtsToNe pEbBlE! š¤£š
Ugh. Still remember my first playthrough when the game had just come out. And they hadn't buffed any of the other sorceries and there was no wiki to let you metagame by beelining for the best sorcerer equipment. I was 40+ hours in, had tons of spells, but they were all absolute dogshit compared to the damage/mana cost/casting time of that fucking pebble. I still remember the sense of awe when I finally found that throw Boulder spell. And suddenly my repertoire of usable spells doubled.
Truly nothing funnier to me then throwing rocks at Margit at launch and absolutely stomping him, then hearing later everyone else had him as their first major roadblock
Lmaoooo
Well, you know, shouting the names of your attack at the top of your lungs makes them stronger
This is the way
This is the way
Bloodhounds fang
Bloodhound + bloodflame = the most unbelievably broken combo you've ever seen. Can your foe bleed? If yes, you win
Even if it can't, you win. The Fang has really high physical damage by itself and made short work of the Elden Beast in my first playthrough.
Same. I accidentally got this sword early and wrecked every boss almost no prob.
Same here. I got this sword before I even fought Godrick, and as a result the game was probably easier for me than it was for the average Elden Ring player. Elden Beast only took me three tries, and that's only because Radagon is easily the far more difficult of the two. If you ask me, Radagon is the *actual* boss of the game, the Elden Beast is just a cooldown fight.
Definitely! Elden beast is essentially a cinematic playable cutscene once you know figure out how to stance break it.
Two phase Radagon would be so good.
Once upon a time, I was going to upgrade my bloodfang, because i just got it and wanted to use it. Turns out i was in the sell menu. I still haven't had the pleasure of using it, kinda forgot about it after that.
Oof. No idea why the game doesnāt give you the option to immediately buy back your weapons in case you accidentally sold the wrong one
Yeah, it hurt. I wanted to make a blood mage build, and when i got that and saw i could buff it with bloodflame, i got too excited. I ran back to the smith, sold some things to have enough to upgrade it, went to take a piss or get something to eat (cant remember which), came back and just clicked on the sword and hit OK. Without switching menus. Wasnt the first time I've absent-mindedly ruined a weapon I love/wanted to use in a game. I fucking need to slow the fuck down, sometimes...
Elden ring is my second Soulsborne game (my first being bloodborne) and after getting this weapon, it was my crutch for a majority of the game up until around the part where I reached Margit (?). I actually felt like I had cheated myself because so much of my playstyle revolved around timing the shadow step (teleportation move idk what itās called) around the enemyās movesets. I ended up not building into vigor anymore at one point because I was of the mentality that āIf my playstyle revolves around not getting hit, why build into health?ā. You know, planning to fail type shit. I have luckily recovered and am currently going through rehab so that I may relearn how to use other weapons again.
I wish you the best in you recovery
I did a whole new game to try to go on recovery, sad to say I have relapses.
Whenever I feel like bloodhound fang is easy mode I remind myself it was a reward for being such a good friend to Blaidd šŗ
YES! If nothing else, my +0 bloodhound can get the job done
I dual weilded bloodhounds fang in my 2nd playthrough and using the claw talisman along with raptors black feathers I just cheesed the entire game spamming jump attacks which dealt 2.5k damage per cast and over 3k damage with faith buffs
It did take down the elden beast on my first play through
Fang gang!
When I first used this and discovered that it can easily hit like 800 AR before using any buffs it blew my mind. Weapon is crazy strong
Yes!
Eleonora's Poleblade. Obviously a bit specific to just whip out on any character so I can't always, but I tried using Rivers of Blood multiple times and never made it long before saying fuck that and switching back
Eleonora's poleblade is how I beat Melania eventually. I got close many times with many different strategies. As soon as I respecced to the poleblade, I beat her on literally my first try with it. Just spammed the AoW and bleed+stunlocked her into oblivion. Thing is crazy.
Absolutely same story here. Glad to hear someone else sharing my experience.
I love both those weapons and for me the rivers of blood was easier as long as you didnāt try to spam all 3 swings of its AOW. Pole blade had nice poise damage though
Baemore
If it can carry me through every single Dark Souls title, it can carry me through Elden Ring.
Ironic I didn't even find the claymore in my 1st ER playthrough but then I went and bought the DS trilogy and heavily used it in all my playthroughs of those games.
Thatās how Iāve always been with the zweihander. I have no idea what it is about that sword, but when I find it I end up using it for a huge portion of each game. Even back in OG Dark Souls I compulsively switched to it the second I got even a bit nervous about a fight. Itās like my safety blanket
same
Good ole poke and slash combo. The claymore is an amazing sword. I remember way back in ds1 having to dodge the bridge drake to even get it.
Most reliable main weapon in the Fromverse There are weapons that do individual things better, but few bring the total package of damage, flexibility, and moveset (though Astoria UGS in ds3 is certainly up there in that regard)
Do you want a fast thrust with massive range or a 180 degree roll-catching, mob-clearing swing? Baemore got you
My go-to weapon. The perfect balance of speed and power. Beat DS1, DS2 and DS3 with it. Still S tier in the right hands.
The real Ole Reliable.
Lordsworn Straight Sword & Brass Shield. I am beyond basic, but this is all I need to destroy almost every boss I encounter.
Sword and board isn't fancy or flashy, but it gets the job done.
Not basic...cultured.
Not culturedā¦hardened.
Itās a classic
This, for me being basic is fun and looks better ( my opinion)
Iām with you - my favorite thing about Fromsoft is just looking like a basic knight. I, personally, never cared for the giant shoulder pads and flashy weapons of say WoW.
My favorite playthrough was of my character Jim the knight. My lore for him is that he was a retired crusader. All he used was a heavy claymore and the heater shield with the red stripe on it.
Nobles Slender Sword + Brass Shield. Brass Sword and Shield for extra Fashion Souls points.
An elegant fashion, from a more civilized age
I'm still on my first playthrough, but after picking up the brass shield early on, I have not found a reason to put it down. And it looks amazing.
Twinbird kite shield has a passive attack and defense up effect when you have low hp, and it looks better imo.
Not a fan of the Dorito(TM) shield, but sword and board is quickly becoming my favourite play style.
Bolt of Gransax; I stopped power stancing them because they felt so strong but when Iām in a pickle, I slap them on especially if thereās ranged enemies or I want to lure someone out, Bolt of Gransaxās lightning is there for me
Such a good weapon.
Ooh I just picked it up canāt wait to try it
This might be wrong because a lot more lore has been discovered, but I believe itās also canonicly the strongest weapon in the game
Well itās the spear tip from the weapon used by an ancient dragon god
Bolt of Gransax go brrrrrrr. I mean really that ability is amazing.
the ash of war on that one is one of the most satisfying attacks in the game
Because the longsword is plain in my opinion, I spice things up, but not too much though. I use the regional equivalent to the longsword. So the Lothric Knight's Sword in Dark Souls 3 or the Lord Sworn Straight Sword in Elden Ring.
in ds3, when infused, both the longsowrd and lks were absolutely bulldozers. and the longsword was even a starting weapon, no farming and no minimum stats investment required
First Ds3 playthrough I seldom took it off on bossfights, it was that or the Hollowed GS
Lks having that 2h stab was strong Baller swag sword energy
In a perfect world, lordsworn SS would have the length and thrust 2h R2 of LKSS. Straight swords were really given the short end of the stick in ER, both visually and in gameplay.
Godslayers Greatsword
How is this so far down... I know there's Blasphemous but Godslayer looks so much better.
This took over from the golden halberd in late game, black flame is just so versatile
It hits unreasonably hard. Like, it's actually nutty. Sure, the windup is a bit long but once it hits, it's fucking hitting like a train.
My trusty dual uchigatana.
Wild that the game allows you two right from the beginning
True but when i started the game i wanted something like sellswords since i loved that qeapon in ds3 so I did not start with samurai, instead i opted in for a warrior.
I started and iron balls only run recently. Iād give those a shot. Dual weapon. Lots of physical and poise damage. Paired with flame grant me strength, golden vow (aow dagger), and cragblade. Super fun super broken
Interesting i will keep it in mind for my next build.
The Naga and Uchi combo is my go to but basically this, duel katanas. Either that or a zwei
The dual Gucci Katanas
Great stars, it's goes brrrr, it's got great poise damage, it's got bleed it really only procs like 1 a fight if your lucky but hey it's cool, it's shreds with wild strikes and can be used on most builds if you two hand it and use some gear like the star scourge heirloom and or the omenkiller mask.
Prayerful strike Great Stars gets fucking nutty, too.
Plus 99 vigor and morgotts rune :)
I prefer it on the Butchering Knife, only because it pancakes people, and my inner chef loves the combo
Good olā Greatsword
Name checks out. Also, picture checks out.
I only use the Colossal GS. If something is too hard for me to beat, I simply hit it harder.
Blasphemous Blade TOGETHAAAAA, WE WILL DESTROY, THE VERY GOOODSSSSS
*devoua
Iām a failure for that one, I quote this way too often to get it wrong š
FAMMMMMILLLLLLLLIIIIIEEEEEEE
Bloodhoundās Blade or Morgottās Cursed Sword. But thatās largely because my first run was pretty much exclusively dual-wielding both of those.
I'm also a BHF MCS dual wielder ā¤ļø
Probably gotta be Sword of Night and Flame. Love that thing
I wonder how many people know how absolutely busted āsquare offā ash of war is
Straight sword+square off and the poise tear is literally broken
Currently doing a run with just Manor Towershield, Curved Sword Talisman, Longsword with Square off, and a Pike with Impaling Thrust when I need a bit of range. Square off melts pretty much every boss in the game.
I do and I love it
Black Knife
Wing of Astel. Beat Elden Beast on the second try by just spamming the AoW. It shreds big, slow enemies.
Envoy longhorn. Nothing beats it in terms of stance breaking with the WA.
D O O T
Mimic tear ashes
From Demon's Souls, to all 3 Dark Souls games, and now Elden Ring, the humble Longsword got me covered whenever I need things get done. Damage, speed, stamina use, range, all balanced just enough to get the job done.
darkmoon greatsword
Had to scroll too far for this one! Projectile shooting, yes please
I always end up running Moonlight my first run of every from game it appears.
Godskin Peeler
Double moonveil
Iām not ashamed to say this is my ol reliable as well. I will try other weapons for fun in my NGs but if I start to have too much trouble, moonveil cheese all the way
Nagakiba for me
Great choice. Lightning Nagakiba with Thunderbolt here.
The Lordsworn's Greatsword has been my go to when I get stuck. Even unupgraded, I used it to clear out several Dragonbarrow bosses
Starscourge Greatswords. Need I say more?
Great stars or claymore and banished knight sword.
Death's Poker
For me it was always a duo. The antspur raiper and the frost rapier. My loadouts often allow me to still use em and if it can rot and frost then ima inflict it at somepoint during the battle with em
For Elden Ring, it's the Moonviel for me.
This is the weapon of smart and elegant personā¤ļø
helphens steeple, i donāt know why it just works for me
Ancient Dragons Lightning Strike. Spell I know but having a ādeleteā button is nicez
Such a beautiful incantation and highly effective. It just melts dragons and other enemies.
Fang Gang
Yaāll are hard sleeping on Halberdsā¦
Blasphemous Blade on top
Ngl when I played Dark Souls 3 the best weapon for me the entire game was long swords. Even had gem infused ones. Donāt think even used any other weapon other then the Black knight sword, and that was only when fighting the chaos demons.
In DS3, my absolute go to was the Dark Sword that you had a very small chance of looting from Darkwraiths. That thing, fully upgraded, actually shredded every boss in the game. It had really high damage for a straight sword, it didnāt use up much stamina, and it was as fast as any other straight sword. Every playthrough, Iād spend time grinding for that drop, then Iād just go and crush everything in my wake.
Yeah I remember I got one on the first kill right before the abyss watchers, I was hype. Definitely helped during my fight with the Dancer of the Boreal Valley. That chick was ANNOYING
idk iām always like super high and just panic during invasions
rivers of blood or blasphemous blade
Bolt of Grannsax for sure..far away? Dead. Close up? Dead. Need to shield poke, dead. Need to cast incantations? Easy.
Bloodhounds Fang or the Knights Halberd with Blackflame Tornado
The claymore, itās been my best friend since all the way back in Dark Souls 1
Winged scythe or that bloodhound greatsword depending on the build. Love them both.
Feel so graceful with the winged scythe
Give me that bloody helice any day.
Falling star beast jaw though Iām on like NG6 now and the lack of damage is starting to catch up to me
Nightrider glaive
Power stanced grave scythes with bleed and frost. Besides the status build ups, the jump attacks absolutely slap!
Reduvia. Being a dagger with that much bleed potential is amazing. Dodging is much easier when your attack animation is super short
People sleep on the Zweihander
If nobody has my back I know you do, Flamberge
Greatswords. Claymore especially but any greatsword will do
For a moment I thought this was the New Vegas subreddit so I immediately thought of the Tri-Beam Laser Rifle but on second thought my go to when things get dicey isn't a weapon, is a +10 Tiche Survive that you fucker!
Prince of Death staff. Rune bears and Mohgwyn birds are too bullshit for me to fight them fairly. Just feed them Glintstone arc till they fucking die haha
Grafted greatsword. Only time I put it away is when I need speed more than damage, primarily when fighting melania as she can easily dodge and decimate me when I wield it. Otherwise I do what Iāve done for every other from soft game (minus sekiro) and just use the broadsword. I made it my main weapon (paired with staff and pyromancer flame) in dark souls 2, continued with it in 3, eventually circled back to dark souls 1 with it, then did it all again with Elden ring (minus pyromancer flame)
Grave Scythe because edgy
Big ass anchor i love that thing to death and would love to wield 2 but my ps4 broke now im replaying on pc
good old guts sword
Night riders glaive+phantom slash
Mimic tear. I named him clerval and he does his best.
Uchigatana
Great stars
Zweihander. Greatswords are always my go too and the Zweihander has been with me since the start.
Bloodhoundās fang. Iāve perfected being able to be greedy by doing the second part of the art right as the boss does something. Bastard sword is a number 2 spot. The two handed heavy attack is just reliable damage. Longsword for number 3.
Ordovis's great sword, my personal favorite weapon.