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Great weapon for the early game areas, drops off heavily mid game is complete garbage late game. A shame, but it still has it's uses.

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Is this game any good

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I've put probably 1k hours into this game total, and I'm fairly certain this is my favorite weapon.

It's surprisingly easy to farm as well;
-pick the master key and run to blight town, then grab the great club and the consumable souls scattered around the swamp
-die or darksign back to firelink. between the brave knight souls and consumables you can grab in firelink, you should easily have enough souls to hit 19 strength and two-hand the great club
-the great club demolishes the skeletons easily, the R2 oneshots the smaller skeletons. If you grab all the humanity scattered around and then kill the taurus demon you should end up with ten humanity, buffing your drop chance.

I usually end up with around 20k souls farming a murakamo, so you can save them and by the abyss seal and grab shiva's armor as well. If you're really feeling saucy parry Havel to death and get his ring.
Tada, you've got a full shiva cosplay before even fighting the gargoyles.

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amazing weapon for PvP 28 str 45 dex gets this beast some insane damage. the r1s have slow start up but have very very fast endlag. r1 into kick is strong af. r1 into look for backstab is strong. both the running attacks are strong. the r2s are interesting there okay at best and the rolling attack is garbage. thing hits like a truck and has good backstab damage. 100% amazing weapon right here

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Anyone using this beast of a weapon with 45+ DEX is automatically a fully min/maxed pyromancer at the same time. Lowkey probably the most efficient PvE steamroll build in the game.

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armored core reference?

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Everyone complaining about the str requirement as if it doesn't exist to deter use by those afraid of true power.

I still remember one of my first playthroughs. I mained this weapon and it was an absolute beast. 19 str and two handing the bugger. The speed, high base damage for it's size and that nice scaling for the dex you end up going into easily make up for the str req. Besides the movement is great and all of the above makes it an excellent buffer.

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28 str and only 13 dex, but scales purely off dex? sus.

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i reset just to try this weapon out back in the day
but i still mainly used smough hammer and smough armor when i found the set lol....smough still the coolest character ive seen in a video game to this day


but curved big swords are dope

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I love this weapon, in Dark Souls2 SOTFS it's my primary weapon. And at +15 lightning one-handed, it's fast, strong, and great.

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28 str for E str scalling and 13 dex for B dex scalling?

Better stick with lighting/chaos path.

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28 str for a weapon that doesn't even scale with it???

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Tessaiga?

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Feels like a quality weapon imo, you have to sacrifice a lot of stat points for even 21 strength just to be able to two hand it, plus a B scaling isn't that high

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This is one of the weapons outside of the black knight set ups that can bring pain at game start to op bros with 99 soft humanity and max armor at gargoyles. Don’t forget to get the hornet ring to bust a crit on that azz.

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If you’re a warrior, you can two hand this at the parish with just 19 strength. For extra fun, grab the hornet ring. Lure the dnd boys over the cliff and join the club. To make sure you get it, upload your save before kicking the ninja off a and taking out Shiva. He chased me over a cliff and it was there with the ninja ring and his shield.

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One of my favorite dex weapons for sure. Has a good moveset, good speed and fantastic damage. Barely anything in the game that it won't kill in no time. Only downside is the 20 str required to 2H, definitely pick this thing up if you want a heavy weapon for dex builds.

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Anyone know what this weapon is called in real life? if it even exists that is.

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PVP it's a Top Notch weapon for sure among the best of the best. It is a Greatsword so deals a massive amount of damage and it also has a "B" Dex scaling so it's a great DEX weapon too. The simple slash R1 attack is a tiny bit clumsy-slow , but not too bad (that makes it parry-able... but the damage output is so high that if you fail the parry you get punish, so is kind of dangerous to attempt a parry against the murakumo, still doable of course) , it's an excellent weapon for dealing and learning Dead Angles (probably one of the bests for this) It's absolute great when you go unlock, so Lock/unlock play is a must when you are using the Murakumo (this is probably the reason why you see so many Havel Moms wielding a Murakumo) The rest of the move set is quite balanced (nothing is bad) and it has a BEAST attack: the One Handed running attack (probably the best running attack in the game , or perhaps only behind Katanas running attack).
That said, I've never enjoyed playing with a Murakumo. I can see it's great, and I can see what other players can do with it but I've never had any fun with a Murakumo... Well , you gotta keep trying

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Just got 2 murakumo on one playthrough. I have 28 str and 40 Dex for my +15 claymore. Considering dual wielding with lighting

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By the time you can one-hand it, you're already running a quality build, so I'd imagine this is meant for two hands on a dex build

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So lightning is the strongest choice?

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I played this game more than 100 times, its the first i get a Murakumo on a giant skeleton from downstairs. What a feeling ! Going full upgrade <3

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It shares the same name as an Xbox game made by fromsoftware Murakumo: renegade mech pursuit.

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It’s sad that these weapons are only used for very high damaging backstabs in PvP. I get that it’s a lot of fun to fish for a bs but there’re so many good things going for this weapon other than high crits.

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Hits hard and fast for a heavy great curved sword
(30str-40dex) Im on ng+ now and killed bridge wyvern with this beast it gave 50 000 souls nice

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Shame they didn't lower str requirement in remaster. 20 would be nice.

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Requires 28STR and has E scaling with it. Not worth it imo.

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Lol i started to play ds1 for the first time and this weapon was my first drop on the cementary killing a giant skeleton

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+15 with 28 strength and 40 dexterity gives you 282 + 282 pure physical damage whereas +5 lightning with base stats gives you 282 + 282 physical + lightning! I know split damage equals less dealt to an enemy but this can even be overwritten by the fact you can engage in lower level PvP. I’m shocked by how strong infusions are in this game.

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Amazing weapon, one of the best in the game. Only problem is the weight and insane stat requirement(combined with poor STR scaling for it). You basically need a quality build to use it, and there are better weapons for that, like the Abyss Greatsword(which also doesn't have sh*tty slash damage) Very niche.

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Murakamo best waifu

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I arrived at the shrine and delved into farming this thing after looting the Zweihander. The rate is so low I fully expect to run out of durability before I get it which will result in a trip to the merchant for the repair box.

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I have to take a long break from the series because I got fat and play too much to sort myself out but if I eventually return the first thing I’ll do is make a character solely for this weapon. The Murakumo and more specifically this version remains my favourite weapon in the Souls series excluding Bloodborne.

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Would the most optimal way to farm this early game be to progress to the parish for the drake sword and take the elevator back to the shrine to begin? I know those skeletons are tough as **** right after reaching Lordran which would result in a hopeless farming session unless there’s other early game tricks to killing them that I’m not aware of, could anyone provide insight on this?

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You can squeez most of the damage from crystal because magicdmg dealing weapons eats ass in this game against bosses but guess what crystal weapons sucks! WHY? WHY MIYAZAKI?? WHY WOULD YOU MAKE IT NOT REPAIRABLE???

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I was prepared to grind to get this thing, I went to where the skeletons are in firelink with 410 as item discovery and got it first try. Luck must have been on my side.

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All right you angry hateful nerd, if you don't like something don't reply rather than spew poisonous bile.

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the name of the sword is a reference to the Murakumo Millenium corporation in Arnored Core 1

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The drop rate for this thing must be quite low. Been farming for an hour with 410 item-discovery and still no luck. In fact not once have the big skellies dropped anything.

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At 28/45 (or 40 for non pyros), the crystal kumo is a monster, best pvp weapon in PTDE. Pros : Really good moveset; Very high damage output; Stunlocks; Dead angle/Ghost strike machine; Unparryable running R1s, Fast recovery after R1s. Cons : First R1 is slow; Range could be better; Easy to toggle on sight even on bad latency.

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This bad boi + darkmoon blade= a build to surpass giant dad

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Not a really good weapon imo.

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makes my*****hard

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A dex build needs 19 strength to wield one? Time to work out

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Ya try hard R1 spammin baboons need 2 Stop using OP weapons like this and GIT GUD u f*cking dicklings!!

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no da = hard nerf

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This weapon is the new meta

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Shiva of the east? more like shiva the deceased lol

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