What is the most powerful sword in Dark Souls?

Ranked: 15 Most Powerful Weapons In Dark Souls
  • 8 Balder Side Sword.
  • 7 Black Knight Greatsword.
  • 6 Estoc.
  • 5 Moonlight Greatsword.
  • 4 Black Knight Sword.
  • 3 Zweihander.
  • 2 Claymore.
  • 1 Black Knight Halberd.
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What are the best swords in Dark Souls?

Here are the best swords in Dark Souls.
  1. 1 Lothric Knight Sword. Speaking of spamming light attacks, this sword is the pinnacle of that.
  2. 2 Estoc. ...
  3. 3 Zweihander. ...
  4. 4 King's Ultra Greatsword. ...
  5. 5 Gael's Greatsword. ...
  6. 6 Moonlight Greatsword. ...
  7. 7 Quelaag's Fury Sword. ...
  8. 8 Gold & Dark Silver Tracers. ...
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What weapon does the most damage in Dark Souls remastered?

The Demon's Greataxe has the highest potential raw damage, due to nice base attack rating and S-scaling in Strength. A Crystal Demon's Greataxe +5 wielded with 99 Strength has 767 attack rating. This weapon can be enchanted.
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What is the biggest sword in Dark Souls?

Overview. Ultra Greatswords, as their name suggests, are the biggest, heaviest, and quite often, strongest type of sword you can acquire in the game.
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What is the best melee weapon in Dark Souls?

Dark Souls: Top 10 Melee Weapons, Ranked
  1. 1 Dark Sword.
  2. 2 Fume Ultra Great Sword. ...
  3. 3 Claymore. ...
  4. 4 Smelter Hammer. ...
  5. 5 Greatsword. ...
  6. 6 King's Ultra Greatsword. ...
  7. 7 Uchigatana. ...
  8. 8 Gravelord Sword. ...
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What is the best boss weapon in Dark Souls?

Dark Souls: The 10 Best Boss Weapons
  • 8 Smough's Hammer.
  • 7 Abyss Greatsword.
  • 6 Manus Catalyst.
  • 5 Moonlight Butterfly Horn.
  • 4 Dragonslayer Spear.
  • 3 Quelaag's Furysword.
  • 2 Lifehunt Scythe.
  • 1 Chaos Blade.
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Is the Claymore better than the Zweihander?

Claymore swings faster and has a faster weapon art animation to break enemy guards but the Zweihander, throwing people in the air with an oversized weapon can be very satisfying. Also, for an ultra greatsword, it swings fairly quick.
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What's the strongest weapon in Dark Souls?

Ranked: 15 Most Powerful Weapons In Dark Souls
  • 8 Balder Side Sword.
  • 7 Black Knight Greatsword.
  • 6 Estoc.
  • 5 Moonlight Greatsword.
  • 4 Black Knight Sword.
  • 3 Zweihander.
  • 2 Claymore.
  • 1 Black Knight Halberd.
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What's the heaviest weapon in Dark Souls?

Great Axes are the largest and among the heaviest weapons in the game, requiring the highest strength to wield.
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What is the fastest weapon in Dark Souls?

Daggers are the absolute fastest and can do significant when buffed. Other fast weapons aside from hand axe are curved, straight, rapiers, and maybe spears. Painting guardian sword is a rather good fast weapons that isn't used too much.
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How do I get Drake Sword?

The Drake Sword is obtainable in the Undead Parish. To obtain the sword, the player must deal enough damage to the Hellkite Dragon's tail to sever it, placing the sword in their inventory. One method of doing this is to stand on the right side of the bridge under the drake and shoot its tail with a bow.
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Is Zweihander good in ds1?

The Zweihander can be a very strong weapon early in the game due to its close proximity to the starting area and relatively low stat requirement of 16 Strength to two-hand the weapon. Even un-upgraded, its base damage and staggering abilities are formidable for the Undead Burg area.
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Is the Zweihander a good sword?

The Zweihander remains a staple weapon for early Souls gaming, and its power and versatility makes it a great starter weapon for anyone building out a strength-oriented melee playthrough in this excellent RPG.
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What is the best one handed sword in Dark Souls?

The Balder Side Sword is easily one of the best one-handed straight swords you could use against enemies, and it's also better than some greatswords. This sword has everything you could want: great range, excellent damage output, and low stat requirements which make it viable with almost any build you use.
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Is the Drake Sword worth upgrading?

This weapon doesn't scale with any stat, so it will be out damaged quickly at high levels. It's NOT recommended to spend Dragon Scales upgrading this weapon as the increase in damage is too small.
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What is the best strength weapon?

Elden Ring: 15 Best Strength Weapons, Ranked
  • 8 Giant-Crusher.
  • 7 Ruins Greatsword.
  • 6 Godslayer's Greatsword.
  • 5 Nightrider Glaive.
  • 4 Starscourge Greatsword.
  • 3 Grafted Blade Greatsword.
  • 2 Brick Hammer.
  • 1 Greatsword (Gut's Greatsword)
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Is great AXE good?

It's a pretty good weapon for both a quality and strength build. Does good damage and with considerably fast attack speed. Although not a fast as dex weapons. It's a damn good weapon.
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Is the Black Knight Halberd the best weapon?

In my testing the Black Knight Halberd does more damage than all the other end game weapons, attacks faster, drains far less stamina and its R1 attack benefits from counter damage. Not to mention its giant reach makes getting the counter damage bonus and taking no damage very easy with good timing.
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Is the obsidian greatsword good?

While the Obsidian Greatsword has no scaling, it has great base damage and good weight for a greatsword. Its low requirements make it a good greatsword for players who do not want to invest in either strength nor Dexterity.
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Is Quelaag sword good?

The sword is pretty decent, it stacks fairly well with Dexterity, and has good fire damage that increaases if you have Soft Humanity. For Physical damage though, there's better options for Dexterity weapons. So it's a bit of a Niche use weapon, but where it is good, it's devestating.
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How do you reinforce +6 in Dark Souls?

Weapon Reinforcement

To upgrade (on any path) past +5 (to +6) requires a blacksmith. To upgrade (on any path) past +5 (to elemental "+0") requires a blacksmith (see above). To upgrade (on any path) past +10 (to +11) requires a blacksmith.
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Is Zweihander better than Drake sword?

The zwei is also pretty solid, but it's more efficient for a STR oriented build. The Drake sword is only useful if you plan on keeping the base requirements to wield it because of its lack of scaling. A quality build will be better off with just about any other straight sword.
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Is claymore better than Drake sword?

If you have good stats, the claymore will display higher damage, thus the drake swords damage will be as low as it seems. There is no illusion about damage. It can't be lower as it seems. If you have good stats, the claymore will display higher damage, thus the drake swords damage will be as low as it seems.
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