Gold Tracer | Dark Souls Wiki

For PvP its a knowledge check. pretty easy to deal with once you know how. if u have low poise, equip wolf ring. tank r1 into parry the second. if they dont r1 spam. just run in for a poise bs. if that gets hit canceled you can heal any damage you took and go for the same thing again. if you have Black flame and they have less than 61 poise. you can out range it completely black flame has hyper armor on it aswell so its easy winning hit trades. equip bellowing and dusk for max results. you can also use flip spear if you want the process to take like 10 minutes. if the gold tracer user is worse than u kick -> parry buffered backstab.


if your the gold tracer user. use poise space well and dont be too predictable with r1 timings. the weapon lacks finesse so its easy to read if u turn brain fully off. if your at low SL's it doesnt even matter just run up to the host and mash that r1. but i would encourage you to PvP at SL 135 Oolacile Townshit. u will see all the counters to the playstyle

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i'm already tracer

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Was playing the game with Scimitar +15 and was heavily struggling but when i swapped to this everything became trivial. Am I robbing myself of the difficult experience?

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I've been invaded by people using this weapon in Undead Parish, with my +5 Battleaxe and 0 poise beginner armor. A large part of the reason I don't feel sorry for invaders in the later games. That's the future they earned.

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PKCS??

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shiny

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Bleeds through Shields, dealing -30% HP for the enemy.
Can't buff this weapon, but don't need to, since enemies can just run around or put a Greatshield up for 60 seconds. (which you can cause bleed through)
This weapon has no kick animation, but doesn't need it, since you can just cause bleed through shields.
Stun locks and bleeds opponents easily with some of the quickest attacks in the game.
Only needs 40 DEX to get it going, so you can become very tanky.

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fun fact: you can be a flipping havel and use this in pvp meta levels if you have good enough stats
have fun!

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Can i use this to parry?

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I've tried moonlight r2s against gold tracer havels with seemingly infinite poise and it worked pretty well. The estus chug attempt just to meet my dark bead was the cherry on top.

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i mean i do kinda want the artorias soul as well soooooo

whoopsie she died

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I just faced a havel monster invader who spammed this while I was in Duke's Archives >_<

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Dark Souls 1 PKCS???

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very beautiful blade Ciaran i see you also have a keen eye for a elegant weapon choice

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Get poise or die if u facing it
I had no good time dealing with it

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Don't be predictable with your moveset in PvP to avoid parries. Mix two and three hits, a few fakes and roll catch. Then you are worthy of this weapon. Mindless R1 spammers are the people that give this weapon a bad rap.

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Its not perfect by any means. Short range, easily parried, and not spectacular in pve. But it compensates with great bleed damage and a devastating r2 mixup that can shred most people in seconds.

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the irthtyll ss of ds1

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Not balanced, but who ever said balance was fun?
But seriously, this weapon is the bane of my sorcerers existence, she has no poise and/or bleed resistance and all around squishiness. It goes very well with another of the games cancer (effective mechanic), poise

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R1 R1 R1 R1 R1 R1 R1

Dark Souls really have an amazing combat sistem

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I agree with some of the comments here. This is one of the most OP weapons in the game (PVP wise)... AND at the same time is the Worse, imo. If you are new to the game all you learn from it is how to spam... If you know the game already maybe you can do a little better, but not really: at the end of the day if you are not spamming with it, why are you wielding it?
It's a DLC weapon (most of the DLC weapons and armor are not really that good, is like FS didn't care by that time about what would happen with them in PVP... "meh whatever lets make with his useless tail a useless whip" attitude).
They just went nuts with this one, SuperFast/lots of Damage/ Bleeding effect... The weapon has two "flaws": the range is kind of bad (so you can kind of back of), and the criticals are bad (thank God)... also you can't buff it (unless you cheat = tumblebee puajjj)

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Balanced as always

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I pair it with my +15 halberd for NG+. I use the halberds one hand R1 to attack single, slow targets from a distance, and GSTs one hand R1 to clear small rooms of multiple, weak enemies. Can also work with claymore in the right

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It's a piece of crap

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I must be using it wrong cause it seems pretty underwhelming against other players. I guess it doesn't help that it's on my roleplay Princess Guard character against havelmoms and giantdads lol.

Anyone know how those R1 backstep attacks work? They look pretty cool but it seems like they don't actually dodge anything.

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This thing was so poorly balanced. It has really cool strong attacks but has a 2HR1 so busted you basically never see strong attacks in pvp. It becomes very one-dimensional and essentially boils down to if you have enough poise to tank the R1.

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I don't use this for R1 spam. I use it for the glow effects

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why dex weapons are more fun to use? I made the Lord gwin ultra sword and its moveset are so boring

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I wanna be Tracer

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Here it says bleed buildup is 50 per strike, on the Bleed effect page it says 30. The latter would make more sense but if anyone knows for sure that it procs bleed in 2 hits I'd like to know that too.

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it is super important to learn how to parry this weapon for pvp. if you cant, you wont have a good time with the r1 spammers..

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40 dollar, 40 dollar, 40 dollar, 40 dollar!

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Can someone explain the main appeal of this weapon? Is it because it's fast and has bleed? On paper, the damage doesn't seem great at first, but then again, that scaling ... maybe i should just try it.

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Why r we still here, just 2 suffer.

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Gold Tracer is love, Gold Tracer is life : it stands with us against turtles, ganking havels and magic spammers. Do not resist the R1 spam, embrace it instead.

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Is this weapon really good for pvp?

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Curved swords are so trashy try-hard in this game.

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R1R1R1R1R1R1R1R1R1R1R1R1R1R1R1

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The R1's are probably the mightiest attacks in the game, but when paired with Dark Silver, I actually prefer holding it in my left for quick bleed buildup. When using the hornet ring, Dark Silver does STUPID high damage with even just a back stab, and by keeping a shield in the second left-hand slot for parrying heightens the potential for OHKO even further.

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So judging by the remaster I see DS3's curved swords are just part of a long tradition of nuts curved swords.

Seriously though, this thing is so strong that it almost feels a little unfair. Even without the bleed it probably would.

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The most overpowered weapon in dark souls 1

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