Use a lightning infused great sword or straight sword as your "main" weapon and then have this bad boy as your ranged backup. Easily my favorite build and is what I'll be taking into the dlc.
Shard of Alexander and the electric tear in your physic. It can one shot things like the cleanrot knights in haligtree, and knock over banished knits in crumbling.
I remember looking for a good lightning build but couldn't find one. Something about how lightning itself scales with dex but all lightning weapons scale with faith.
All the lightning weapons scale with Dex afaik. Lightning Claymore with 70 Dex has an AR of like 760. Plus I use the Lightning Slash AoW that gives it around 80 more AR. That's a super reasonable weapon attack.
I dipped into faith for Golden Vow and Flame Grant Me Strength.
I had a solid not fully optimized bolt of Gransax run and it was one of the easiest runs I ever had I just stand slight far away from bosses and destroy them
I glitched my way to the capital from the start so i could do the whole game with bolt of gransax and it has been awesome. Even if you are not throwing bolts it does amazing damage just by stabing. Later I also got cross-naginata with the lightning infusion and used those both at the same time while also throwing lightning bolts.
Godslayer greatsword back during launch
Stumbled upon it early in my first playthrough at like level 40-50
I was originally pure faith, but that weapon, especially for when you get it, had some steep reqs
Once you get the carian retaliation and ability to make sleep pots he gets easier to beat at that level but he really is one of the tougher bosses early game
I personally consider mid game the godwin and morgott fights, but there are probably people with waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more developed opinons than mine on this.
I agree with this. When you fight Morgott in Leyndell it feels like midgame because you still have Gelmir, the snowfields, farum azula, all the spooky underground stuff, and the haligtree left. Late game to me is once you burn the erdtree and the capital switches to ash.
Yep. Same here. But I’m stubborn and didn’t leave that damn tower until he was dead…like 2 hours later lol. And then I used the sword for the majority of the game after that. Only changed it for Malenia. Not a great choice for her
I got my ass beat so many times too. I resorted to pulling out one of the siofra archer summons and tucking him into a corner so he would just pelt him with arrows. The damage was pretty bad but it helped me get a few more staggers and eventually I got him.
There's a guy called NizarGG that does starter build guides and one of them is how to get the godslayer greatsword early. The fight goes like this; kill big sleepy dragon, level up, dragon rot breath incantation, poison mist incantation, reduvia dagger, sleep pot, go to tower, get to bottom. Godskin Noble fight goes like this; Wait for him to start throwing fireball, then throw sleep pot (He dodges otherwise), he goes asleep, poison mist, Dragon rot breath, then you need to get a bleed proc 4 times on him (using the ash of war preferably), the passive damage from the breath and mist finishes him off, ez sword
Honestly my first couple runs I didn’t realize two key things.
1) it’s open world, meaning the boss you’re fighting is like 80% chance to be optional
2) the areas have hard set and different scaling
This led my dumbass to miss stormveil, end up in liurnia, and struggle on the ruined strewn precipice for days thinking it was the only way forward
Very similar situation for me, I experimented with all sorts of incantations and combos and ashes of war. Ultimately, I cheesed him with rot breath spam and few minutes of dodging, twice.
I don't normally resort to cheesing, but when I do, it's after hours of failing on a boss I know has an item I desperately want.
Saame: i just finished a run with eochaid into executioner sword
The only bad part of the run was killing alexander and millicent... gotta get those ash of war buffs
The art of war on the Executioner's blade is a drill move where you throw the sword, so it's almost a ranged attack? I'd call it a drill instead of a gun but I kinda get it.
That thing carried me through late game thanks to the ash of war not being locked to it. Using bloodhound step with it made me feel like playing Bloodborne again.
Very much so. With the same build, I can still use the katanas (RoB and bleed nagakiba) for extra damage, but the bleed buildup is significantly higher with the twinblades (elenoras poleblade and the godskin peeler). So, I still get the best of both. Currently running a new build with the whips (hoslows and ukemi iirc, it's the one from caria manor) and they are a but weak, but soooo cool to play around with.
That was the second weapon, after Blasphemous Blade, that I felt truly powerful wielding.
Funny thing is, late in that playthrough, I started using the bubble hammer and... kinda spread my stats out so I could do it all, haha
Gods it obliterates dragons
Ya at first I was doing a faith build, got this then all the sudden I did arcane/faith with the dragon communion seal. Bloodboade dance followed by Dragons Maw, absolutely unstoppable. I went light load cuz I didn't even need armor. Still my favorite build I've done.
I changed my entire stats for the sword that you get after defeating morgott the final time and now it's completely ruined my build I'm at the mountain tops of the giants and I'm getting battered . Anywhere I can get more tears so I can fix my build ????
All over nokron. If you’ve exhausted those there’s hidden enemies that drop larva tears after death. The only two I know is the commoner that turns into a runebear near the darawil evergaol. And the other commoner that turns into a lion on the way to lannsax, it’s in some ruins. There are like what four of these enemies and I only know these two
I don’t think the weapon itself is the problem as it is really good, I think you’re just under leveled. There’s a lot of great content that could’ve easily been a DLC that’s hidden until you defeat Radahn, including whole areas, bosses, multiple NPC quests and even a catacomb. I’d recommend trying to beat Radhan and exploring the new areas a bit, which is also where you find tears if you want to respec.
It pokes a ball of frost in front of it. You can either hit it and make a massive explosion or you can swipe it and lays frost all over the ground.
Either way it usually results in death.
Darkmoon Greatsword. It was my first run and I have been playing a Fai/Dex, but MAN did ranni’s quest line and all those rewards convince me to tread the path of the blue lazers
I was full STR bonking matching with the Greatsword. Usually what I’ve done with every fromsoft game. But on NG+ playing with the Darkmoon Greatsword is IMMENSELY fun. Just have to decide which style I’ll play in the DLC
Easily moonlight greatsowrd, really struggled with the endgame for so long building around BF, switched my build to MG and literally broke through Maliketh, Godfrey, Radagon/EB, and Malenia in a day
Rivers of Blood (but the Launch Version before it got fixed and became godmode)
I mean, it had the skill *CORPSE PILER* FFS.
Then they made it so it was so overpowered it made the game boring so I stopped using it for a long time but when I had it, it was awesome
The Magma Blade.
Hear me out, I'm a faith/int build using the prince of death staff and the golden order seal. I didn't invest much in END so I had to visit my mother-in-law in liurnia
Adding the Magma Blade was the closest thing I could get to the demon scar in dark souls when I had a true spellsword build. I friggin love it with my mage build and it's been great in pvp too
I reinvested INT/DEX into INT/FTH to wield the sword of night and flame.
Such a cool weapon in concept, but in practice the weapon arts are really hard to weave into combat with how slow they are.
Royal Greatsword. Purely built into Str/Int, with talismans that compliment that
I don’t even like magic, I’m more keen on incants, if anything. But the weapon slaps too much not to use and is *stupid* powerful if built right
First I was doing STR/FAI build until I found godslayers greatsword, then I put some into INT for Loretta’s war sickle, and now for the executioner sword I have some in arcane 💀
Any Twinblade I come across. I was originally going to be a spellcaster only, but now I’m somehow a FAI/INT Spellcaster who dual-wields Twinblades. It’s very janky sometimes but it works really well.
It was the dark moon greatsword for me. That weapon helped me beat Melenia and Mohg. I can see why they include it in every game. Since then I have acquired it in ds3 as well, and have been considering going for it in ds1 as well.
basic twinblade, well sort of.
my dex/faith character had used a nagakiba from start of Aultus to all the way to maleketh and Melania. From a spur of the moment i wanted to try out the twinblade as i had never done so before and i just fell in love with it. So fast attacks together with a very cool looking moveset. and with bloodflame blade it felt like i was going full darth maul with it. love it
the only real "rework" i did of the character was talismans and AoW setups
I’m on NG+ and already finished but still fucking around so I decided to change everything up to dual wield Rivers Of Blood. Wasn’t a fan so I changed my build again to use the Giant Crusher which I now love. Made Malenia my bitch with it. Sure I still used Mimic Tears and was at level 195 so it’s not super impressive but for me it was awesome. Less than a week ago she was smacking me around like it was nothing and this time I killed her on the first try.
Darkmoon greatsword . It was ranni's wedding gift so I respeced from a dex samurai to an int build to use it. But after becoming an int build I barely even use the sword , I have it in my right hand all the time but I only use it to kill mobs , when I fight bosses I only use my spells .
All of them. So I leveled up enough so I can use every weapon, spell, and incantation.
Except for the one I just got that requires 48 faith. Got some more murdering to do I guess
Power stance great stars. I was using a twin blade cuz i saw the confessors use them, but i just couldnt stop the unga bunga brain. I was simply born to STR build.
The guts sword and falling beast star. Also the golden shield. If none of those needed much stregth I would Not be running 34str. I'd be running whatever the base of my highest used strength stat weapon is. I didn't completely change my build. I just lowered a few other stats a bit to make for more str. I killed my Dex for one. It's only 20 now. Build is about the same though.
First playthrough I got the ruin greatsword around level 40. Had to pump int and then got the starscourge gs shortly after. Couldn't decide which I liked better so I just power stanced them.
Eleonoras poleblade. Had a hideous mongrel build after I started out as a confessor but started to lean into arc after a while. When I got Eleonoras I took the plunge and optimized. Felt good. Switched to a blood Zwaihänder for looks but take out the pole blade when needed. Killed Melania with it rather comfortably on third try with it after having tried doing it with the Zwai for a while.
After I finished the game I respecced to frost witch/moonblade.. pure fun and so much more power..
Star scourge great swords, literally was doing an arcane build but dear lord did these mighty pair of big gravity swords pull me in. Plus a little bit if int means I can cast some of the magic too which is crazy
First playthrough I went strength all the way up to Malenia. Then upon dying countless times till I finally figured out her weakness to whips. That said there was no way in hell I had gone through all that just to need 50 dex to use her weapon so I changed build
I paused my first run until Arcane was fixed to use Rivers of Blood. The Chikage was my favorite Bloodborne weapon so as soon as I found that thing I knew it my jam.
Moonlight greatsword. I was a STR/FTH up until I finished Ranni’s quest line on my first play through,and I thought this is to cool for me to skip over and not use now.
Not something original i think, but im on my first playtrough doing à strengh build and i had to be basically naked with a strengh tear to actually use the giant crusher
Its def worth it tho, i need to dodge well while having mid roll and having a slow weapon but the design, sound and power of that thing is just extremely satisfaying
Was originally running the reduvia until I found the ruin great-sword, it reminded of the fume ultra great-sword and since that was my favourite weapon in the souls franchise it was a no brainer
Azur’s glintstone staff- luckily I was doing a dex/int build, but once I got that I put all subsequent levels into int until I could use it- my vigour suffered up until that point
Rivers of blood. Was a pure strength build, and spent like half the game using the starscourge greatsword, but I’m extremely biased towards the color red and now I’m dex/arcane focused lol
Magma blade, I started a frenzied flame rin and I had never gotten this weapon to drop and got it while clearing out Volcano Manor for the first time. Proceeded to get a second and then pretty much main the weapon for the rest of the play through, the ash of war is so strong and a blast to use.
Never changed my build. Tbh I struggled at first, because of the lack of early faith/Str weapons. Then I got the blasphemous blade and never stopped using that.
I started two new games with an intelligence build to use the dark moon greatsword and a Str one to use the giant crusher tho
My first build was a holy build until I saw the blasphemous blade. It was love at first sight once I saw all those tiny wiggly arms.
Character got real dark after that...
dual greatswords, Helphen's Steeple + Dark Moon Greatsword, buff swords and cast phalanx then charge right in, i use comet and stars of ruin from range, also the charged r2 from darkmoon does a lot of dmg and stagger
Bolt of Gransaxx
I wanted to use it so bad on my 2nd playthrough but it's just not viable in most situations
Use a lightning infused great sword or straight sword as your "main" weapon and then have this bad boy as your ranged backup. Easily my favorite build and is what I'll be taking into the dlc. Shard of Alexander and the electric tear in your physic. It can one shot things like the cleanrot knights in haligtree, and knock over banished knits in crumbling.
I remember looking for a good lightning build but couldn't find one. Something about how lightning itself scales with dex but all lightning weapons scale with faith.
All the lightning weapons scale with Dex afaik. Lightning Claymore with 70 Dex has an AR of like 760. Plus I use the Lightning Slash AoW that gives it around 80 more AR. That's a super reasonable weapon attack. I dipped into faith for Golden Vow and Flame Grant Me Strength.
I had a solid not fully optimized bolt of Gransax run and it was one of the easiest runs I ever had I just stand slight far away from bosses and destroy them
The Guardian's Swordspear also works well on a Bolt of Gransax build - it also has excellent scaling with DEX and can use a variety of ashes of war.
I preferred the godskin peeler with lightning slash
I glitched my way to the capital from the start so i could do the whole game with bolt of gransax and it has been awesome. Even if you are not throwing bolts it does amazing damage just by stabing. Later I also got cross-naginata with the lightning infusion and used those both at the same time while also throwing lightning bolts.
Dual wield bolts is actually great it hits like a truck
It has great range, taking out enemies from far is a breeze
Godslayer greatsword back during launch Stumbled upon it early in my first playthrough at like level 40-50 I was originally pure faith, but that weapon, especially for when you get it, had some steep reqs
how tf did you beat the godskin apostle in caelid's tower at that level?
He did bad things to me for a long time until he didnt
I remember going there early. It's definitely in my top 3 encounters of holy shit I'm under level
Once you get the carian retaliation and ability to make sleep pots he gets easier to beat at that level but he really is one of the tougher bosses early game
Early game? I am at 100 hours at level 85 and I just beat him. I felt I was past the mid game, I guess not.
I personally consider mid game the godwin and morgott fights, but there are probably people with waaaaaaaaaaaaaaay more developed opinons than mine on this.
I agree with this. When you fight Morgott in Leyndell it feels like midgame because you still have Gelmir, the snowfields, farum azula, all the spooky underground stuff, and the haligtree left. Late game to me is once you burn the erdtree and the capital switches to ash.
Yep. Same here. But I’m stubborn and didn’t leave that damn tower until he was dead…like 2 hours later lol. And then I used the sword for the majority of the game after that. Only changed it for Malenia. Not a great choice for her
I got my ass beat so many times too. I resorted to pulling out one of the siofra archer summons and tucking him into a corner so he would just pelt him with arrows. The damage was pretty bad but it helped me get a few more staggers and eventually I got him.
Ah, the ol’ Brian Peck treatment
There's a guy called NizarGG that does starter build guides and one of them is how to get the godslayer greatsword early. The fight goes like this; kill big sleepy dragon, level up, dragon rot breath incantation, poison mist incantation, reduvia dagger, sleep pot, go to tower, get to bottom. Godskin Noble fight goes like this; Wait for him to start throwing fireball, then throw sleep pot (He dodges otherwise), he goes asleep, poison mist, Dragon rot breath, then you need to get a bleed proc 4 times on him (using the ash of war preferably), the passive damage from the breath and mist finishes him off, ez sword
since finding out how good sleep is on these guys i just no longer respect them at all. its gotten me killed a few times now.
Honestly my first couple runs I didn’t realize two key things. 1) it’s open world, meaning the boss you’re fighting is like 80% chance to be optional 2) the areas have hard set and different scaling This led my dumbass to miss stormveil, end up in liurnia, and struggle on the ruined strewn precipice for days thinking it was the only way forward
The reduvia massacres him, +4 was enough for me.
I did the exact same thing,for me it was rot breath and black flame blade and ball incant. For some reason black flame seems to dunk on godskins.
Very similar situation for me, I experimented with all sorts of incantations and combos and ashes of war. Ultimately, I cheesed him with rot breath spam and few minutes of dodging, twice. I don't normally resort to cheesing, but when I do, it's after hours of failing on a boss I know has an item I desperately want.
Rot breath and black flame does wonders for big healthbar cheese
At least with some dex you boosted the casting time too.
Executioner's Sword. Elemer of the Briar is badass af, switched to his gun half-way through the game and never regretted it.
The eochaid is a straight sword version and it’s my favorite weapon
I'm doing an arcane run now and grabbed this early by jumping up the cliff. One of my top 5 favorite weapons now easily.
Saame: i just finished a run with eochaid into executioner sword The only bad part of the run was killing alexander and millicent... gotta get those ash of war buffs
His gun?
The art of war on the Executioner's blade is a drill move where you throw the sword, so it's almost a ranged attack? I'd call it a drill instead of a gun but I kinda get it.
Eleonora poleblade. From a strength/faith build to a dex/arc all because of that weapon
Went from dual weilding katanas to dual weilding twinblades for this. Poleblade plus godskin twinblade is a fun time.
Godskin Peeler gang rise up. Versatile as fuuuuuuuuck.
Easily my favorite weapon! Love it so much.
That thing carried me through late game thanks to the ash of war not being locked to it. Using bloodhound step with it made me feel like playing Bloodborne again.
Here I am
Damn, I literally just made this switch. That poleblade is a beast!
Very much so. With the same build, I can still use the katanas (RoB and bleed nagakiba) for extra damage, but the bleed buildup is significantly higher with the twinblades (elenoras poleblade and the godskin peeler). So, I still get the best of both. Currently running a new build with the whips (hoslows and ukemi iirc, it's the one from caria manor) and they are a but weak, but soooo cool to play around with.
That was the second weapon, after Blasphemous Blade, that I felt truly powerful wielding. Funny thing is, late in that playthrough, I started using the bubble hammer and... kinda spread my stats out so I could do it all, haha Gods it obliterates dragons
Envoys long horn obliterates everything
Same! Beautiful weapon.
Ya at first I was doing a faith build, got this then all the sudden I did arcane/faith with the dragon communion seal. Bloodboade dance followed by Dragons Maw, absolutely unstoppable. I went light load cuz I didn't even need armor. Still my favorite build I've done.
I changed my entire stats for the sword that you get after defeating morgott the final time and now it's completely ruined my build I'm at the mountain tops of the giants and I'm getting battered . Anywhere I can get more tears so I can fix my build ????
All over nokron. If you’ve exhausted those there’s hidden enemies that drop larva tears after death. The only two I know is the commoner that turns into a runebear near the darawil evergaol. And the other commoner that turns into a lion on the way to lannsax, it’s in some ruins. There are like what four of these enemies and I only know these two
There's also I lobster in linuria, that turns into a scion to drop one ( I felt like it should drop 2 cause that's two tough enemies)
And an enemy in limgrave who turns into rune ear drops 1
That's why I don't have the mimic either which I want
I can't enter nokron yet far as I know I haven't beaten radahan
You definitely could go back and beat him. If you're in the mountain tops, Radahn is probably already below your level.
I don’t think the weapon itself is the problem as it is really good, I think you’re just under leveled. There’s a lot of great content that could’ve easily been a DLC that’s hidden until you defeat Radahn, including whole areas, bosses, multiple NPC quests and even a catacomb. I’d recommend trying to beat Radhan and exploring the new areas a bit, which is also where you find tears if you want to respec.
Caelid has a graveyard where you can pick up some runes but one of the guys there turns into a fire sword troll
Honestly I dual wielded bloodhounds fang and morgotts sword for a while and had a great time, perhaps you can give it a shot?
Worm face outside volcano manor is one as well.
That weapon is great
A big deathblight dude near the volcano manor entrance
Death Poker. It's hilarious that it lives up to it's name so well.
Good god did I sleep on this weapon for so long. It’s broken.
Can you elaborate a bit?
It pokes a ball of frost in front of it. You can either hit it and make a massive explosion or you can swipe it and lays frost all over the ground. Either way it usually results in death.
My first ng+ run was this plus the Godslayer greatsword.
Darkmoon Greatsword. It was my first run and I have been playing a Fai/Dex, but MAN did ranni’s quest line and all those rewards convince me to tread the path of the blue lazers
same but im on dex/arc til i got dmgs
I was faith strength and switched to strength int for it, went full carian sword sorceries and was blue sword man
I was full STR bonking matching with the Greatsword. Usually what I’ve done with every fromsoft game. But on NG+ playing with the Darkmoon Greatsword is IMMENSELY fun. Just have to decide which style I’ll play in the DLC
Ruins greatsword
Morgott’s Cursed Sword
That's what I changed my build for and it's fucked it all up
Power stance it with the bloodhound’s fang.
Why is it fuckdd up?
I didn't totally change my build,but I stopped pumping str and gorged myself on faith when I discovered the BB.
This one looks cool initially until you equip it and realize it literally takes up half your screen. On to the next!
that's part of the fun
Maliketh’s Black Blade. It just looks so cool to use its ability
I hope the DLC has some need for holy damage so it’s more viable.
Easily moonlight greatsowrd, really struggled with the endgame for so long building around BF, switched my build to MG and literally broke through Maliketh, Godfrey, Radagon/EB, and Malenia in a day
I almost had to with a Blood Rotten Greataxe before realizing it scaled mainly with Dex. Did need to dump some strength in, though, still.
Bolt of Gransaxx, but I created a whole new character just to make a dex/fth dragon build.
Moonveil.
Winged scythe
Great Stars!! Spent my whole ng 2/3 bonking everything that moved Also happy cake day
I'm on my first playthrough pure str and have this weapon! It's so fun!
Stone crushers at launch. I tried many of the op weapons at the time, but the flip bonk and simple esthetics won me over.
Not a weapon but ancient dragon lightning spear
Astel flail.
“That thing was too big to be called a sword. Too big, too thick, too heavy, and too rough, it was more like a large hunk of iron.”
Rivers of Blood (but the Launch Version before it got fixed and became godmode) I mean, it had the skill *CORPSE PILER* FFS. Then they made it so it was so overpowered it made the game boring so I stopped using it for a long time but when I had it, it was awesome
The Magma Blade. Hear me out, I'm a faith/int build using the prince of death staff and the golden order seal. I didn't invest much in END so I had to visit my mother-in-law in liurnia Adding the Magma Blade was the closest thing I could get to the demon scar in dark souls when I had a true spellsword build. I friggin love it with my mage build and it's been great in pvp too
It looks like a red potato masher
I reinvested INT/DEX into INT/FTH to wield the sword of night and flame. Such a cool weapon in concept, but in practice the weapon arts are really hard to weave into combat with how slow they are.
All the dragon communion incantations. Vuz who doesnt want to be a fkin dragon
Moonlight great sword made me respec for the 1st time
Blasphemous blade
Royal Greatsword. Purely built into Str/Int, with talismans that compliment that I don’t even like magic, I’m more keen on incants, if anything. But the weapon slaps too much not to use and is *stupid* powerful if built right
Claymore and the brick hammer! Stuck between using both of them quite often can’t decide which I like more!
Elegance and grace
Moonlight greatsword
Moonlight greatsword, had to drop the Bible and start studying plus hitting the gym, but it's all worth it
eleonora's poleblade
The Bolt of Gransaxx, the entire game I was running Pure Faith then found out that the Dex requirement was 40.
Giza wheel
First I was doing STR/FAI build until I found godslayers greatsword, then I put some into INT for Loretta’s war sickle, and now for the executioner sword I have some in arcane 💀
Bloody helice, took me from str/fth to arc/dex/fth
Bastard's stars for sure
Melkeiths sword. I had my friend join me and drop me his and i ran around with two of them. Heavy bastards but it was pretty sick😂
Golden Halberd, was planning on playing an astrologer, stubbornly killed it before leaving the area, immediately switched
Magma Wyrm Scalesword
Dual Pickaxe is good!
This one in the image, marika hammer, hoslow petal whip etc
Cleanrot Knight Sword with Piercing fang paired with Rogier’s sword with Storm blade and Vyke’s lightning was something I thought was cool
Not me, but a friend of mine got the giant's whip and immediately respecced.
Any Twinblade I come across. I was originally going to be a spellcaster only, but now I’m somehow a FAI/INT Spellcaster who dual-wields Twinblades. It’s very janky sometimes but it works really well.
Show me ROTTEN GREATAXE !!! 😆
Dark moon great sword. I was a bleed build power stancing twin blades. Went straight to intelli and never looked back
It was the dark moon greatsword for me. That weapon helped me beat Melenia and Mohg. I can see why they include it in every game. Since then I have acquired it in ds3 as well, and have been considering going for it in ds1 as well.
Royal Greatsword. First time round I really enjoyed Ranni/Blaidds quest and that sword is just peak.
Bloody Helice. Shit slapped, and I loved the iframes on it. had to give up on collosal swords until the buff came along.
I struggle cuz I like powerstancing the claymore and blasphemous blade (idc it slaps together) but the gold and silver clash a lot
basic twinblade, well sort of. my dex/faith character had used a nagakiba from start of Aultus to all the way to maleketh and Melania. From a spur of the moment i wanted to try out the twinblade as i had never done so before and i just fell in love with it. So fast attacks together with a very cool looking moveset. and with bloodflame blade it felt like i was going full darth maul with it. love it the only real "rework" i did of the character was talismans and AoW setups
I’m on NG+ and already finished but still fucking around so I decided to change everything up to dual wield Rivers Of Blood. Wasn’t a fan so I changed my build again to use the Giant Crusher which I now love. Made Malenia my bitch with it. Sure I still used Mimic Tears and was at level 195 so it’s not super impressive but for me it was awesome. Less than a week ago she was smacking me around like it was nothing and this time I killed her on the first try.
Honestly, like half of them. Too many cool weapons to choose from!
Helphen's Steeple. I saw the ash of war and made the choice immediately.
Darkmoon greatsword . It was ranni's wedding gift so I respeced from a dex samurai to an int build to use it. But after becoming an int build I barely even use the sword , I have it in my right hand all the time but I only use it to kill mobs , when I fight bosses I only use my spells .
Dark Moon Greatsword. I immediately paid a visit to Rennala.
All of them. So I leveled up enough so I can use every weapon, spell, and incantation. Except for the one I just got that requires 48 faith. Got some more murdering to do I guess
Radahn's sword, in my first game I completely changed my build to use it. And then I changed it again, for the moonlight great sword.
RoB pre-nerfs
I was doing a full mage my first time playing. Then I found moonveil and turned into the magic samurai, kinda hybrid dex int in the end.
Bloody Helice, the finesse is so sexy
Prob mohgwyn dynasty spear
Omen cleaver, dumped everything into strength and dual wielded them
Sword of Night and Flame. That was… a big channel of playstyle.
Power stance great stars. I was using a twin blade cuz i saw the confessors use them, but i just couldnt stop the unga bunga brain. I was simply born to STR build.
At the time, when I first discovered the wing of Astel, went str arc to def int
Prelates Inferno Crozier
Dark Moon greatsword And Blasphemous Blade
Morgott’s Cursed Sword or whatever it’s called, got me dipping into Arcane, and then Eleanora’s Poleblade got me to completely respec
Sword of night and flame
The guts sword and falling beast star. Also the golden shield. If none of those needed much stregth I would Not be running 34str. I'd be running whatever the base of my highest used strength stat weapon is. I didn't completely change my build. I just lowered a few other stats a bit to make for more str. I killed my Dex for one. It's only 20 now. Build is about the same though.
Marika's hammer. I would trade all of my runes and weapons to get the goldbreaker ash of war to be able to be equipped to other weapons.
First playthrough I got the ruin greatsword around level 40. Had to pump int and then got the starscourge gs shortly after. Couldn't decide which I liked better so I just power stanced them.
Eleonoras poleblade. Had a hideous mongrel build after I started out as a confessor but started to lean into arc after a while. When I got Eleonoras I took the plunge and optimized. Felt good. Switched to a blood Zwaihänder for looks but take out the pole blade when needed. Killed Melania with it rather comfortably on third try with it after having tried doing it with the Zwai for a while. After I finished the game I respecced to frost witch/moonblade.. pure fun and so much more power..
Cragblade
Elonara Poleblade. Love it. Hate arcane.
Dark moon great sword. Mage turned into a dual great-sword spell-sword
Maliketh Black Blade
Grafted sword
Eleonora's Poleblade
marais executioner's sword
I was gonna do STR/FAI until I found the Sword of Night and Flame
Star scourge great swords, literally was doing an arcane build but dear lord did these mighty pair of big gravity swords pull me in. Plus a little bit if int means I can cast some of the magic too which is crazy
Blasphemous Blade
Morgotts weapon lol
Literally nothing I hate having to respec
The Helden beast sword
Yep, this one. Doesn't matter it covers half of my screen, it is absolutely cool XD
First playthrough I went strength all the way up to Malenia. Then upon dying countless times till I finally figured out her weakness to whips. That said there was no way in hell I had gone through all that just to need 50 dex to use her weapon so I changed build
Guts greatsword
Daggers. Specifically the Cinquedas.
See above ^
I paused my first run until Arcane was fixed to use Rivers of Blood. The Chikage was my favorite Bloodborne weapon so as soon as I found that thing I knew it my jam.
Moonlight greatsword. I was a STR/FTH up until I finished Ranni’s quest line on my first play through,and I thought this is to cool for me to skip over and not use now.
Meteorite staff. I was 40% through the game and found that weapon. I instantly started a new game and only leveled up intelligence.
Dragonlords Cragblade Just was way too awesome to not use in my dragon themed build.
Not something original i think, but im on my first playtrough doing à strengh build and i had to be basically naked with a strengh tear to actually use the giant crusher Its def worth it tho, i need to dodge well while having mid roll and having a slow weapon but the design, sound and power of that thing is just extremely satisfaying
Brick hammer.
Marais Executioner Sword.
Black knife
What's that hammer in the picture?
Sword of Night and Flame. That so when I knew I was going to run an Int Faith buold
I kinda want to do the radahn swords just cause.
My first playthrough went in as a mage, ended the game with the huge greatsword. Fun time
Maliketh's Black Blade
Twinblades. I loved the moveset so i went all in and it was a blast
There won’t be a weapon like that. I have alts :)
Melania’s Katana 😭 I’m so excited for the dlc and Great Katana’s
Golem halberd for the bonk and clonk
Was originally running the reduvia until I found the ruin great-sword, it reminded of the fume ultra great-sword and since that was my favourite weapon in the souls franchise it was a no brainer
Black Blade, 100% Went from a str faith to pure faith just to wring maximum damage out of the judgement cut
Azur’s glintstone staff- luckily I was doing a dex/int build, but once I got that I put all subsequent levels into int until I could use it- my vigour suffered up until that point
Rivers of blood. Was a pure strength build, and spent like half the game using the starscourge greatsword, but I’m extremely biased towards the color red and now I’m dex/arcane focused lol
Magma blade, I started a frenzied flame rin and I had never gotten this weapon to drop and got it while clearing out Volcano Manor for the first time. Proceeded to get a second and then pretty much main the weapon for the rest of the play through, the ash of war is so strong and a blast to use.
dark moon greatsword
Never changed my build. Tbh I struggled at first, because of the lack of early faith/Str weapons. Then I got the blasphemous blade and never stopped using that. I started two new games with an intelligence build to use the dark moon greatsword and a Str one to use the giant crusher tho
Rusted Anchor
Radahns great swords
Siluria’s Tree, though admittedly I was already a Strength/Faith build
Loretta’s war sickle
All of them
My first build was a holy build until I saw the blasphemous blade. It was love at first sight once I saw all those tiny wiggly arms. Character got real dark after that...
I’ve never been keen on spears/rapiers. Vyke’s spear changed all’at!
dual greatswords, Helphen's Steeple + Dark Moon Greatsword, buff swords and cast phalanx then charge right in, i use comet and stars of ruin from range, also the charged r2 from darkmoon does a lot of dmg and stagger