Weapons | Dark Souls Wiki

After spending hudreds of hours in ER I came back to DS trilogy and I dont understand how weapons' design went so much downhill. DS1 has less attacks: there's R1, R2, rolling, jumping, running. No weapon skills, no additional jump attacks, no additional running attacks. And yet somehow those weapons feel much more unique than ER. Almost every weapon is different, makes you play differently. DS2 has cool movesets, there's so much variety in weapon classes that are treated as copy-paste in ER. And in DS3, even though they made it R1 game, the DLC weapons are absolutely incredible, they have another moveset under weapon skill button. Sadly ER is mostly boring uninspired copy-pasted moveset with thousand AoEs and blast waves of different color as weapon skill...

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praise the sun!

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where is blade of dark soul

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he he!

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tibfyvnbtffncock

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I just collected every single weapon of the game. If someone wants to try this insanity, here is the list of the worst weapons in the game to collect:
- Channeler’s Trident
- Stone Greataxe
- Ghost Blade
- Oolacile Catalyst (the hardest)

This weapons can be collected by farming and all of them have less than 2% drop chance, so be prepare for several runs to got it.

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Good PvP options:
dagger, bandits knife, rapier, and dark silver tracer as standard toggle tools.
balder side sword,
Claymore, Man-serpent Greatsword, moonlioght greatsword, and abyss greatsword (without int and faith)
Greatsword and zweihander are both good backstab sticks.
murakumo is very Potent
Gold tracer, shotel, falchion, quelaag's furysword, are all good r1 spam options
Chaos blade is the best weapon in the game
estoc is really good without deadangles
hand axe is good
greataxe is okay and black knight greataxe is amazing 2h
mace.
great club is the iconic backstab stick itself.
demon's spear, pike, and silver knight spear are all really strong spears

come to the townshit i need more PvPers. the PvP is pretty damn fun when you learn it :^)

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Weapons that I recommend for a first playthough: balder side sword, claymore, zweihander, uchigatana, battle axe, reinforced club and halberd.

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Hey

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every grey guy i see in this game is either using halberd or zwei and isn’t wearing any armor

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I decided to collect every single weapon on the list. Everything. What the frick Michael Zacki, why do you hate me?

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I am that guy i use the hornet ring paired with a mask of the mother. i am him. i enter your world and backstab you on repeat with a Chaos claymore at SL 55. i will one shot you if you dont have vitality leveled up. you will do 50 damage a swing because my chain armor is +10 along with my knight gauntlets and hollow soldier waistcloth. i wear my poise diaper with pride casul.

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Not enough good options to make variable builds

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I've had the best luck with the black knight Greataxe

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porco dio

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dont even tell me talismans arent the best weapon for killing ceaseless

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I LUV GREEEEEEEEASEPOSTING ON DARK SOULS WIKIS!!!!!!!!!

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Dung pie is the best weapon

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Weapon

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i want to do a build with a weapon i have never used before. so everybody please leave your favorite weapon in the comments and i will sift through them for abuild, thanks! [T]/

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Daggers: Nyah, can't reach!
Straight Swords: Yeah, fight me casuls!
Greatswords: Crash: YOU DIED
Ultra Greatswords: Clonk, Crash: Victory Achieved
Curved Swords: Fight me POISE BOI
Curved Greatswords: I love swapping these...
Thrusting Swords: Poke poke, SWING
Katanas: I AM THE TRUE DEX WINNER!
Axes: CHOP CHOP
Greataxes: Chop, Crash!
Hammers: *Mace Fan* Yayyy I got a mace for christmas! Yay! *Other hammer users* Bonk
Great Hammers: ITS BONC TIME!!
Spears: Poke poke, broke your poise!
Bows: *Sniping from somewhere*
Crossbows: Ahh, reloading!! Wait, this is Dark Souls...
Staffs/Catalysts: My superior intellect outranges you!
Talismans: Dear god, please heal me.
Pyromancers: FIRE STORM!
Whips: *silence*
Greatbows: Crash, beeendd... PEW!
Halberds: Slash slash, poke, squish!
Fists: I AM MANY PUNCH MAN!!!

All sterotypes of Dark Souls players, in a nutshell.

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Be ware of the man who rants weapons based on his look.

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hello, SL1 noob here. what weapons are normally used for SL1 runs in DSR? i was thinking possibly a lightning or chaos claymore since i think you can 2 hand it at 10 str but i'm not sure.

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HOHOHO ITS'A ME SANTA CLAUSE!!!!!!!!!
AND I WANTED TO REMIND YOU TO USE THE MACE!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
THE MACE IS THE BEST WEAPON IN AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAALL OF GAMING HISTORY AND IF YOU USE ANNNNNNNNNNNNNNNNYYYYYYYY OTHER WEAPON YOU ARE A NAUGHTY CASUL AND WON'T GET ANY PRESENTS TO CHRISTMAS!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
HOHOHO MARRY CHRISTMAS
FROM SANTA CLAUSREEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEE

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I want a "jack of all trades" kind of weapon that isn't great at one thing. but isn't countered from another thing...
Does anyone have any suggestions?

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How 2 get stray demons catalyst?

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ALL HAIL OUR GOD, THE PRIME HEIFER!!!!!!!!!!!!!

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They need 2 add a catalyst that casts everything!!! It should also do nine quadrillion damage with S scaling in everything, that swing at the speed of light and have an attack range of nine quadrillion lightyears!!!

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Smough's Hammer is the best weapon in the game!!!

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what does "special" mean in their description? does it mean they can only be farmed? does it mean they cant be infused?

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My favourite weapon is Yhorm's Great Machete from ds3, any similar recommendations for ds1?

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what is a good buffable weapon?

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What is a good dex weapon that doesn't feel like twinking

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best wepon is the zeiwihander cus of its ability to do such high dmg with the hornet ring but only for pvp
best wepon u would like to use is the claymore it is a great sword and can easily be used by any starting players not only does it take less time to hit an npc but it does high dmg when upgrraded to max

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Actually, if you beat six NGs including Artorias of the Abyss without using any other weapon than the Straight Sword Hilt, leveling up or getting hit even once and then cut off manus tail, you get the blade of dark soul, which isn't mentioned in the wiki.
It is a Straight Sword about the length of the Broadsword, but its actual hitbox is far shorter than its model. Its stats at +5 are: 5 physical damage, 1 Critical, 1 Stability, 1 durability, 99.0 weight and no scaling. Damage type is Slash. It isn't enchantable.
If you think, you are gud enough, try gitting it!!!

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PKCS should be added to Drak Souls 1 and 2 in an Update.

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There is a great to everything=great bow, great whip, Great hammer, great fist, great catalyst, great flame, great halberd, great talisman, great spear. great axe, great piercing sword, great crossbow, great greatsword, great lord greatsword, great curved sword, GREATEST!

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every weapon is wrost weapon
change my mind

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If u cut the tail of manus it will give u blade of dark soul and why its not in this wiki

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Are there any weapons that scale with faith, and dex besides the dragon slayer spear, doing a dex faith build, and i don't want to put much in str

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what is a good early game str build weapon for the depths?

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"There is no best weapon in dark souls"
Black Knight Halberd. Ymfah's words echo: "imagine trusting fextralife lmao"

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Where is greatcrossbows. I want an avelyn that shoots dragonslayer arrows

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I can't wait for the ultra greatbows

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I deadass thought the way to get the moonlight greatsword was through the moonlight butterflies soul or something, not a very inconspicuous tail on a dragon the size of a 2 story building

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Give me something fun to try. Something to stick out from all the dark bead mages and great club users.

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which one best

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i want ultra great hammers

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I had no idea Priscilla had a tail. On my 12th playthrough and finnally got it. Also just got the moonlight sword nvr really cared before until I found out I had it in my bloodborne gameplay.

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Making faith build, any weapons that scale with faith without use of infusions

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How many weapons is too many? I’ve got a dex/int build on the go just got to Anor Londo for the first time with: magic scimitar+5, Fire Uchigatana +5, raw mace +5, lightning spear +3, great scythe +7, scythe +3, spear +10 to convert to butterfly horn, pyro flame +10, magic longbow +5, spider shield +5, sorcerer catalyst with 32 int. Toying with the idea of ascending a long sword or Baldur sword with lightning too... It really planning on putting much more into str - at 16 for the time being.

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For strength build, demon greataxe gave S scaling in strength at +15

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Why does my Black Knight Halberd+5 do consistently more damage than my Murakumo+15 even though the charakter menu says 515 DMG for the Halberd and 568 DMG for the Murakumo?

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Am trying to make a penetrator cosplay (Demon's Souls) but i don't know what weapon to choose does anybody have any suggestions

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What about shields, you can use them as weapon

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Hello there :)

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Weapons, just realized what they were after beating game 10 times

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the strangest weapon is propably the sword hilt

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Im just wondering what is the strangest weapon for max sl i understand the painting guardian sword is really good for this but i just need some help for others

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Only Fire Mage ?? Lame...

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Thanks

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Yeah, DkS1(R) can be alittle misleading when it comes to weapons but a general rule of thumb is; If it has decent Scaling and can be brought to +15 it will out damage nearly any weapon (in it's class) that can't be Buffed/Reinforced past +5. Most of all past NG+ when Caster/Melee builds run together. With just a few exceptions that Scale from 3 or more Stats. Like Greatsword of Artorias (Regular) that Scales effrctively with 4 stats and a Divine Modifier. This rule doesn't apply to Armor however as Black Iron Set +5 has the 2nd highest Physical resist and 1st Fire resist. Giants Set has the highest Physical resist at Max. Not Havels. Just a heads up, Drake Sword is useful for the first 4th-3rd of the game no matter your build. Easy to get, flat 200 damage.

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As a Souls Veteran I can confirm it is a good idea to use weapons. Very underappreciated mechanic.

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What is the best weapon for ng+ and on

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Is there a way to print this ?

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are weapons ordered by inventory order?

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notes on dropping for friends? the leveling and all that

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Skull Lantern is missing

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If you downgrade a weapon does the level matchmaking drop as well?

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HI