Silver Knight Straight Sword | Dark Souls Wiki

Great secondary weapon for int/dex or faith/dex builds during a standard playthrough, obviously thinking about the archives and the crystal caves when the enemies get high magic def. It's not THAT bad, but you'll notice they start taking a whole lot more hits to kill than usual if you keep using your enchanted or divine weapon. Switched to this bad boy, my listed damage was only barely lower with this (+5) at 23 dex than it was with my divine claymore (+10) at 40 faith. And since it's straight physical, it cut down the golems and seath much quicker.

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PROS:
+ good look
+ good damage
+ decent poise damage
+ decent speed
+ decent range
+ enchantable

CONS:
- medium scalling (not so big difference between 22 and 40 dexterity)
- twice as heavy as other straight swords
- no long range thursting attack

Overall it's good weapon if you want some heavy slashing on build with higher dexterity. You can chain attacks for long combo that will stagger enemy (instability dmg boost) and make quick work of it. It has no other tacticts but this is simple hacking is totally enough to complete whole game even up to NG+6.

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Not avaible in ds3 so Ds1 is better

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lorewise, the sword is enchantable, despite being a unique weapon, is because sliver knights fought dragons daily so they had to imbue it constantly with lightning

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Was getting beat down by Ornstein. Then one of these and I farmed and upgraded it and bam! No more Ornstein!!!

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Just a neat bit of info, this sword has very high motion value for it's R2 attacks and do quite a bit more damage with these attacks than it's AR would suggests.

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I wish it had thrust attacks...

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I think this might be the best Straight Sword in DS1 overall:
1. You get it mid game, easy to max out to +5 with Twinkling Titanite because you can farm the giants in Anor Londo for 2 hours and you get the souls to max it out at the Giant black smith that sells Twinkling Titanite.
2. Insane base damage that is not split + can be buffed with sunblade, reisins etc. Insane dmg on 2h heavys that can 2 shot even the skeletons in Tomb of the Giants.
3. Solid moveset with overheads attacks + looks decent compared to Balder Side Sword.

Overall high damage, good move set, looks decent, can buff it, can max out instantly its a great weapon.

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Hands down this and the black knight weapons are the best end game alternative to a +14 or 15 normal weapon if you ever made the mistake of killing Andre like I did my first play through. It’s Buffable and has great damage output at +5. This weapon carried me to the end of the game.

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Great weapon for a 50 faith sunbro. Base dmg beats other straight swords. Looks great with sunlight blade and immaculate design. 9/10 weapon.

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This sword helped me kill oriestine and smogh

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I couldn’t beat manus. And then I got this sword. Everything changed. Artorias my dude, you should have picked up one of these.

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Looks great and very nice base damage. Scaling is a weakpoint, and moveset lacks a nice thrust. With good dexterity, it puts out very solid damage for a 6 weight, reasonably fast weapon. Could be a really nice sword to use in midgame if lucky enough to drop one in Anor Londo, but loses some of its edge when you get +15 weapon upgrades in the late game.

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Wish it was available in DS3 with some cool lighting buffing wa.

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Great damage, easy to upgrade early, S tier design, use it

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I was going threw me first play though with a lighting faith/strength build and I had a bss, I found this weapon and loved it but got disappointed it can’t be leveled to lighting :(

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Perfect for dex builds who use straight swords but don’t have a titanite slab yet, assuming you can handle the weight. Very easy to upgrade and nice moveset. Even after bringing balder swag sword to +15, I still use skss sometimes to switch things up or in situations where I want vertical slash.

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Alongside a silver knight spear it's a best weapon for leveling a dex character. Thanks to twinkling titanite from crystal lizards and anor londo blacksmith you can upgrade this thing to +5 fairly early in the game and comfortably use it till you get enough titanite chunks for a "real" weapon.

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Best looking weapon in the series imo

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They should've swapped the moveset and attack speed of this thing with the balder knight sword, would've even made more sense lore-wise

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Rating weapons based on looks:
Supee fancy, almost as good as the astora sword
9/10

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why is this not divine (anymore?) but the spear still is? ):

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1. level faith
2. sunlight blade
3. you can run but you cant hide

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Best looking sword ingame, and pretty solid too. Too bad it doesn't have the greatest scaling, this thing could steal much more spot on pvp or pve with a B or A scaling on DEX.

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Does it matter which version you're playing that you can buff this weapon? (resins and miracles)

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Got a bit more lucky in past runs but damn.. on my latest run i have at least 30 Knights and no Sword in sight. Can someone drop me that on the Switch (EU)?

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Doesn't this have extra poise damage or something?

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Is drop rate still 2%? I got three in a row.

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This sword unironically carried me through O&S, it randomly dropped from a Silver Knight and then mowed through them

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Best looking straight sword in the series.

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Very aesthetic sword and the R2’s are amazing. It’s also worth noting that the swing speed seems identical to other straight swords, it’s only the pause in between each R1 which is longer. Straight swords cannot stun lock with R1s in pvp so this isn’t a disadvantage here unlike say Quelaag’s sword which loses the 2 handed stunlock that the other curved swords have or the heavier greatswords that can’t 1 hand stunlock compared to the claymore.

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I love it. Longest straight sword and look cool. Awesome move set, light R1 is a little slower than longsword light R1 but the first heavy R1 is incredibly fast, can chain with both light R1 anytime. Fast slash in wide area and fast heavy swipe down in narrow area, super useful. Only disadvantage is it have a little lower scale than other straight sword, but it base dame is higher so it only be out damage a little by other straight sword when have high strength.

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i'm never lucky, even farming humanity from the rats in the depth don't give me much, but i had the absolute luck by getting this sword on my fourth knight, finally a bit of luck in my life

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Yo

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Should be noted that it has slightly slower attack speed compared to other straight swords.

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I farmed for this sword for 2 hours with 10 humanity and the covetous gold serpent ring and couldn't get it. I did however get 4 silver knight shields what have a lower drop rate. Are there any items that increase item drop rate other then those two?

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Is this the sword that can be seen in the intro cutscene?

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I usually don't use this word for swords, but that is one sexy sword.

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Good sword for a gandalf bulid if only the dex requirement wasn't so high

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The scaling on DEX is actually really good when you consider the base damage.

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Let's be real, if this had stat quality/moveset equivalent to the claymore, balder side sword, or gold tracer nobody would use anything else.

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max this and buff with sunlight blade and you'll kill smough in 5 hits

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S scaling in fashion

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Whenever I do a Dexterity character, i always get 10 Twinkling Titanite from Crystal Lizards before Anor Londo, I farm this sword and upgrade it, and then I destroy O&S.

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How much Dex do you need to two hand it

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Is it possible to get this weapon higher than +5?

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This is the best looking sword in all the dark souls series because it reminds me of Aragorn's Andúril especially the sword's guard too bad it's not available as a drop in Dark Souls III

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This is the sword from the opening cinematic, the shot where you can see both the dragon and the knight's hand wielding it also, the camera is focused on the handle, brilliant shot. Always wondered if you could actually get that sword in-game.

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A fantastic elegant sword that can’t be obtained in DarkSouls3, great...

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Dex scaling should at least progress into a high B when fully upgraded. Don't know why devs made 80% of mid to late game weapons so lackluster.

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Fantastic sword. I've used this against O&S several times.

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This cannot be enchanted.

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Great for a holy knight fashion souls

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Its parry kill animation is rather nice

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best sword for my every dex base build

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Does anyone else agree that this sword looks reminiscent of Aragorn's Anduril from Lord of the Rings?

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You can chain a heavy after two light attacks though

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Either way it's one of the best-looking weapons in the game

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best looking straight sword in the game. If it only had the moveset of balder side sword...

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Baldur Side Sword is much better.

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Just get a +15 baldur side sword with 45 INT and CMW takes your attack to 700.

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Can you modify it to a fire sword?

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It doesn't have a regular/thrust moveset it's got a regular moveset.

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Shows lightning effect but doesn’t do lightning damage?

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Too bad From wasn't kind enough to put this in Dark Souls 3. :(

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I like that sword with all Silver Knight set +5 :))

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