Ghost Blade | Dark Souls Wiki

CONS:
- very hard to drop (banshees are pretty rare compared to normal ghosts)
- terrible scalling
- not enchantable
- no bleed or aux effects
- not required for achievement
- without upgrades still counts as +5 weapon in online matching

PROS:
+ better basic damage than normal daggers
+ can damage ghosts

So it looks like a kitchen knife and is as useful a kitchen knife.

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Took around 9-10 runs with 410 item discovery, killing both banshees per run.

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i love daggers

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Took me less than 20 runs to get it with 410 discovery. Hard but doable.

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poooooooooooooooooop

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This is the weapon I started with on my randomizer run, which is awesome because now I can actually get some use out it.

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It is a fine weapon, if you actually get it at lower levels.

But I didn't know it was this hard to get. I got it by accident when I went to that zone exploting. It was the first enemies of that zone that gave it to me.

And I like it, but I use it more as a complement to the magic I use as a sorcerer.

Honestly, it is not worth farming, but it is fine enough if you actually have it.

In early game, 150 is pretty decent damage for such a light weapon.

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Literally a piece of **** on a stick in terms of damage. Looks cool doe.

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Pathetic

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Damn, looks cool but that strength requirement is a big turn-off.

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Se alguém quiser trocar a Ghost Blade comigo, posso dar a Espada Grande de Artorias +5 por ela.
PS4 - RaulFRH

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Don't farm this thing, You don't need it for the Knight's Honor trophy.

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This thing randomly dropped during my soul level 1 run. Truly I am blessed by the kitchen knife gods.

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Rating weapons based on looks:
Looks like a kitchen knife, not worthy for its rarity
4/10

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I tried to farm with 10 humanity's and the ring, took me an hour and nothing. Then i just replaced the ring with the Sympol of Avarice instead and i got it immediately. So try that out guys.

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why would i use this when i have the jagged ghost blade, which is easier to get, inflicts bleeding and has a higher damage when +5 than this one in +5. the only advantage between this and the jagged is that this one has critical and is a very little bit lighter than the jagged

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Been playing this game since 2013 and I didn't even know this weapon was in the game lol

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Did an all dagger run (harder than you think) and figured I'd grab all 6, spent 4 hours trying to get it, gave up and beat the game, next playthrough (I was going for a magic/str pvp build) I got it on the FIRST ****ING BANSHEE, thank you dark souls

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I've found a not terrible time to use it is if you're doing new Londo first at a low lv build for dark hand, if it happens to drop it's useful for that level, then just use the hand of succ

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Methinks, this knife belonged to Ricard’s Wife

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God damn. I farmed about 130 transient curses while trying to get this knife. Took a while even with 10 hum and the gold serpent ring.

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kitchen knife

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My method for if you want to farm this rare item:

(instructions are based on NG file)

-Get 10+ Humanity
-Equip Covetous Gold Serpent Ring
-Have Symbol of Avarice ready to go (I start with it off, you can keep it on or put it on as you're about to get to the Banshees as I do)
-Have a weapon that can quickly or easily 1-shot Ghosts. I used +15 Balder Side Sword (+Transient Curse) which 1-shots with any R1 attack (except following roll)
-Be sure you've drained New Londo and have kicked the Aqueduct ladder down for the shortcut

-Start at Firelink Shrine
-Run downstairs and take the lift
-Send the lift back up as you leave
-Leap over the wall and run to New Londo
-Consume a Transient Curse as you get to the end of the 2nd plank bridge
-Kill the 2 Ghosts and run up the stairs
-Kill 2 more Ghosts at the top of the stairs, then run off the edge/down the slope toward the Aqueduct shortcut
-Climb up the ladder (Equip Symbol of Avarice as you climb for pro speedrunnner strats)
-Run straight & down the stairs, through the doorway, running R1 to kill the rising Ghost, head right, follow the lip, running R1 to kill the Banshee, pray
-Run back the way you came and follow the Aqueducts to the haunted funhouse. Ignore the Ghosts that follow from here
-Drink up and enter the haunted house. Stay in the first room you enter, with all the pots. This is the most dangerous part by far - I kill all the Ghosts here before proceeding, as it usually takes a few seconds for a Banshee's drop to appear on the ground and I don't want to get overwhelmed before I can loot. Drink/R1 through the onslaught until they stop coming. Should only take a few seconds.
-Run to the Banshee's room, running R1 to kill her and the 2 rising Ghosts, pray
-Bone out, unequip Symbol of Avarice during your character's rising animation (MAXX pro speedrun timesaves), and repeat

You should be operating at a profit of Transient Curses as you'll be killing a lot of Ghosts with 410 Item Discovery, or close. The Banshees also drop Transient Curses, which will give you a lot of false hope moments. Keep at it, this is one of the rarest farmable items ingame!

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-dark spirit boogeyman has invaded -Halloween theme starts playing

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I got it first try when I first played and I didn't know it was that good

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I just wish there were more banshees. Currently farming for this and only having two chances per run is painful.

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Didn’t even know this thing existed

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This weapon + ring of calamity + curse + dusk ring + soul level 1, sounds good to me.

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It's cool looking and good for a collector, but a transient curse far out does the usefulness of a ghost damaging knife, and ghosts drop transient curses for me like spare change

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Take a bandit knife, reskin it so it looks like a steak knife, replace the r2 with a slower*****tier slash attack, remove bleed altogether, and while your at it make it upgrade with twinkling titanite so you can only go to +5 with no elemental upgrades and remove the amazing dex scaling completely while making it have only 2 enemies in the whole game that have a chance of dropping it and make that chance 1% and you get the ghost blade. As bad as that all sounds I really like looking like a crack smoking murderer slashing and stabbing the ***** out of people with this kitchen knife, but keep in mind that the scaling is atrocious and with every level you add on after level 1 this weapon gets worse and worse due to the other options you can take instead but I love it on my scumbag darkbead lvl 10 character it hits like a wet noodle but can get the job done like a rapier tbh the way it handles makes it feel like the estoc of daggers but way *****ing harder to get and you dont get the bleed effect TD:DR way worse bandit knife with no bleed thats hard as ***** to get thats only really useful at extremely low levels when its going to be excruciatingly hard to get but looks cool and is rare but honestly not worth the grind unless your planning on staying around level 10

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I need only this weapon please somebody contact me Xbox One DS Remastered SigningTester28

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*Prepares to farm for hours to get the blade. *Goes for the first run through the city. *Blade drops on first banshee. *Praises the sun.

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a mediocre SL1 weapon that you don't get when you need it ... Dark souls way of zen i guess

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i have this weapon, who need this weapon my id on ps4 is: centralrip

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My completionist ass spent well over an hour farming for this weapon. Finally got it, upgraded it... and immediately put it in my storage box, lol. It's a butter knife that deals about as much damage as you'd expect, and cannot be buffed. But before storing, I did manage to kill the sentinels outside the Chamber of the Princess bonfire. Just took about ten minutes each, lol. It's a shiv designed for those who seek a REAL challenge, not for wusses like myself.

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Left hand

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It can block ghost attacks too.

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do not even think of using it. certainly one of dark souls' worst weapons

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