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I like that a greatsword in the hands of large knights look like straight swords and ultra greatswords look like greatsword weapons

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i can finally cosplay as a ds1 player thanks fromsoft

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Poor demon king did not deserve the pain this thing can bring

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Old Demon King Deleter Ahead....

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It's kinda short, but make good use of perseverance and that won't matter too much.

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Who cares if it's not "as good as" claymore or onyx blade? When you start moving towards someone carring a greatsword with perseverance, the first thing they feel is fear.

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I just wish it had thrust as first heavy attack.

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-UGS-like AR on a quality build despite being a greatsword
-DS1 poise activation button for spammy R1 apes in pvp, also lets you manhandle everything in PvE
-20%+ dmg against demons because lore
-looks swaggy as ****
10/10

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Member, Poise Boyse

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Ahhh, this is RagztheKing510 signature weapon on the PS4. He's pretty dope lol

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The best weapon in the entire game. Imagine getting the most well rounded weapon type along with the most chad weapon art. Absolutely dumps on all of the spammy fast obnoxious **** in both pve and pve. Like getting to use the mace and claymore at the same time. Simply beautiful.

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Aggressive gank counter, WA and go for normal R1 to get them to fck off or R1 and go for backstab fishing. Most ppl commenting here dont know wtf they are talking about.

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One handed rolling heavy attack is just amazing, especially with the leo ring

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Great for PvE - lvl up vigor, put some heavy armor, pop Perseverance and R1 smash your way to end credits.

PVP though... sketchy choice. It's very short, it doesn't have R2 pokes, it's weapon art is situational at best. Perseverance is ok against bad players, but even the lowest dum dum after few hits will learn to keep distance until your perseverance runs out. The only good thing is damage, but what's use of it, if it's much harder to outspace opponents and land a hit?

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Pretending it's a refined claymore with perseverance works well and good I suppose, but I love the 1H moveset on this thing. After some R1s, an unexpected R2 can easily rollcatch and setup a follow-up R2 thrust. Landing the killing blow against an invader this way and letting your character hoist the sword back to their shoulder in the signature style is a great feeling

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The ol reliable of dark souls 3

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One of my preferred PvP weapons on a quality build. Used the WA to dominate a 3v1 gank at once (greatclub, exile curved sword and friede's sythe) Tanked all their attacks at once and got a kill before I bailed.

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This thing hits like a truck. Too bad it's significantly shorter than Gael's.

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POV: you have a quality build

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If you’ve fought D PLAYERSLAYER in PVP that guy uses this thing like it’s the best weapon in the game

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Beat weapon in the game hands down pair this with heavy armor decent health high stability shield you become a diamond cannon on high level builds

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I found this weapon's moveset very effective against Darkeater Midir, the running R1 is a horizontal swing which makes it easier to hit his snout during the openings.

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You know you’re fighting a trash gank squad if two or more of them need this sword. That doesn’t mean they always win though.

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The black knight glaive has C dex and D str and the black knight SWORD has C str and D dex (couldn't they just balance it out!!!)

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Very nice weapon against the Demon Prince. Even when used with minimum stats.

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Visions of poise

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Use with pontiff knight curved sword as your secondary weapon and any small weaponart shield in your offhand.
Hosts will jump off cliffs, phantoms will crystal out. Make them run with the poise and then it's roll catch city. All aboard the r@pe train!

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- Great damage (542 1H, 560 2H at +5 with 40/40 STR/DEX)
- Great attack speed
- Great moveset
- Weapon Art's infinite poise/protection buff lets you ****ing man mode bosses
- Most importantly, it looks amazing
I've not used it much in PvP, but PvE this thing is insane.

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How big is WA the damage reduction?

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best used on quiality build, its OK on a str build, and pretty bad on sharp build
this weapon carried me through 10 playthroughs and 699 embers

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i wish they had a black knight straight sword. they need to rename rkss to bkss because it seems more fitting. idk i just wish fromsoft could somehow connect all the lore from all the games with like a dark souls 4

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This seems to be the weapon of choice for those people who seem like they hate the game. You know the ones, clearly looking to PVP but will do ANYTHING they can to make it not fun- using surprise attacks, gestures and throwing poop. ...Maybe I should just use it

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Props to the chad that made this post, all that math and this guy could work at nasa, not even joking.

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Just wanna throw this out there, but I don’t think there’s a single BK wielding this thing in DS3. I know there was one in DS.

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Facing single enemy: ok no L2 it has to be a fair fight
When surrounded: haha L2 goes brrr

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Ah, the old Black Knight Sword, forged to strike harder against the Chaos Demons. This beaut saved my life more than once in the first Dark Souls. I’m happy to see the old girl is back.

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"Fck this excuse of a poise system" : the weapon.

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Such a trash weapon PKCS is better Git Gud already

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This weapon works well for really any boss, but in particular I’ve found that it completely trivializes friede. Activate weapon art and go in for a few hits, you’ll stagger her and any hits you take won’t do much damage. Works on all phases, is particularly useful on phase 3.

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Literally praying to Gwyn himself for a few precious seconds of DS1 poise.

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Weird how some greatsword weapons like this one has hyper armor, but some ultra greatswords like the zweihander doesn't.

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This is basicly easy mode. Love this weapon

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One of the best PVE weapons. Good in PVP too. Perseverance = Easy Mode

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pros:

1. very good damage

2. nice looks, for me at least and cool animation of puting sword back in sheath after r2s

3. deceiving second 1hr2 poke

4. good range and nice poise damage on 2hr2 that should be used only to surprise enemies

5. very good wa, although it works very good with beginners in pvp, advanced players will only make you lose stamina and fp, can be used strategiclly and can save your life in some situations

cons:

1. cant be buffed and infused

2. to reach full potential one needs a quality build, at least 27/40 so more stat investment

3. 2hr2 looks nice and all, but it s situational, claymore poke r2 being superior in terms of range and damage

other: a very good weapon that can carry the ashen one through the entire ng + 7 cycle. Has almost ugs class damage, 560 AR with 40/40 build 2h, and if this weapon could have been buffed or infused, it would have been op af. Very good vs demons and the wa can turn the side of a battle in an instant. Imo is the second best gs in the game, behind claymore

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God Tier Pvp weapon

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Love the moveset on this weapon. Very shifty. One Hand R2 - R2 can be delayed for some really tricky pokes. Two Hand R2 - R1 (heavy then light attack) does a similar sneak slash.

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I've been using this weapon for so long I've mastered the 1hr1 for rollcatching. The incredible 1h phantom range means that I've often killed people as they are rolling away. Popping the l2 is a great way to survive rough situations or even retake control of a fight. The key is to pop it just as they start to hit you. Usually this is enough for you to overtrade and potentially kill them. This works in most 1v1 trades, but there are some weapons you really shouldn't try this with. For example yhorms cleaver, smoughs hammer, and ledos hammer are some of the weapons that you will seldom trade profitably with. Usually if I encounter these I switch to my red hilted halberd, pop power within or start backstab fishing. The same goes for any curved gs, but more because of range than damage.

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The 20% damage bonus is applied to every enemy with "Demon" in their name? Are there exceptions?

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Just started using this, and I can honestly say I'm moving from Dark Blade to this. I liked Dark Blade a lot, but this sword just has such good power and it's an amazing sword if you're looking to pick up a greatsword.

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Used this sword exclusively when i got it and beat every boss including the dlc with it. Great sword. 2 handed this thing and destroyed everything.

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I'm gonna use the WA just to kill my r1 spamming dark sword friend when he thinks he's winning and then never use this weapon in PvP again

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God's Sword

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if your caught in a combo with this thing mainly R1 R1 R2 R2 or R1 R1 jump attack the damage is sickening

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Edgy trash casuls who think that the R2 of this***** can actually hit someone are either delusional or retarded. I can just R1 my pkcs a few times and you noobs are done. for.

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I'll be honest, I'm mostly in it for that one-hand second heavy-attack poke.

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Also known as the ultimate anti-meta/cancer weapon. Get back to og ds1 poise for enough seconds to get those casuls back to the coffin

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Very good and well rounded weapon, the only thing to worry about is using the WA around decent players, they'll just back away and waste your FP. But once they get greedy, you can end their whole career

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Best trade weapon in this line, 70% absorbe if u time it, and with great damage,

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Overall, an incredibly unbalanced weapon. And people thought the Dark Sword was bad, at least it doesn't hyper armor through everything.

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Killed dancer in 5 hits with this thing, solid weapon.

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this thing + any wa shield = HOLY ****

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From what I've seen, this thing hits like a truck

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If you're having trouble with the Demon Prince in the ringed city DLC, this weapon right here pushes their***** in. High damage, fast attacks, fairly low stamina consumption. The hardest thing about the fight with this weapon is making sure you don't get greedy with all that damage ;)

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why is the soft cap for strength lower if it has better scaling than dex?

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You can build an amazing high level tank build if you pair this with heavy armor and Dragon Slayer Greatshield just need lots of vigor strength dex and health

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When killing the 3 Ghru relaxing at Farron Keep Perimeter, I noticed that I get more souls when backstabbing with this, compared to any other weapon. Without any extra items (covetous ring, shield of want etc), I net 421 with the Black Knight Sword--compared to 350 with Fume UGS. Roughly about 20% increase. Haven't tested on any other enemies. Are they are demons, is that why?

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That sure is a nice pair of Ringed Knight ultra greatswords you got there. It would sure be a shame if I pushed L2 and completely shut your meme weapon down.

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Oh, perseverance? -blocks first hit and parries-

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Casual using this weapon: Ugh, it's so bad and it's not a sword! Please nerf this greatsword! Me, an intellectual: L2 + Attacking = Gg too easy.

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So...uhh the Black Knights Sword..is actually a greatsword…… and the Black Knights Greatsword..is actually a ultra greatsword...I really do see flawless logic here:P

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I’m not a skilled player, just went through NG+ with a lothric knight chaos sword and I came back to this incredible BKGS to get rid of the hardest bosses in the game IMO (lorian/lothric, gael, souls of cinder) !! Awesome weapon

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That thingy and high stability shield makes Twin demons in "The Ringed City" DLC almost as easy as Iudex Gundyr. With +20% DMG to demons lower weight and stamina consumption then BUGS it is probably the best weapon for demon infested DLC.

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Instead of a poise-up wa, it would be great if it had a wa to temporaly use this sword as a straight sword, just like the black knights use it

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My Favorite weapon of the entire series .i didn't understand it in ds2 though .it looked different and needed faith to equip and used by sayans for some reason

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Did anyone else think of the fume knight short sword when they saw this

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P O I S E B U T T O N

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weapon is good but holy shit it has the most bugged out, cheap and impossible phantom range of any weapon in PVP!!!!! needs to be patched

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Me: Carefully plans out strength poise build that can get close to 50 poise while still having decent strength to be able to do good damage and wield big weapons, allowing me to poise through pretty much everything.
My opponent: Does not know his spacing or how to roll bs and wears incredibly light armor... BUT he knows were the poise button is!

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I love this thing so much fun, it is just annoying when i equip a resin and then try to apply it and remember that you can not buff.

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Can this be substituted with the Hollowslayer greatsword?

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I find this (theme-fittingly) good to pair with the Black Knight Shield (or any other Weapon Skill shield with good stability).

Typically when fighting, especially with heavy weapons, because of stunlock

(1st hit)
(stunned)
(2nd hit)
(unstunned)

most people just spam R1 even though it's unnecessary.

Because they spam R1, they won't have the chance to kick your shield until after the R1s. I usually:

(block 1st hit)
(activate Perservance between 1st and 2nd hit)
(swing some R1s)

While you won't be poise broken, you're still gonna want some decent armor (medium sets are sufficient) because you're gonna be trading.

You don't always have to use Perseverance after blocking, but I do that when against stunlock-heavy/true combo weapons.

If you do get kicked though, prepare to lose <50% of your health.

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I wish it had better scaling. C-D doesn't seem very good for such an iconic weapon. It's also quite an ugly weapon. Love the move-set though.

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Great weapon for dealing with weapon arts that rely on long and wide hit chains like the ringed knight paired greatswords, Friede's great scythe, or Farron greatsword. Pop perseverance when you see them coming at you like a blender and you'll land two R1s while knocking them out of their WA.

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Added AR Softcaps and scaling information

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Best weapon for gankspank success. Just time the weapon art right before they attack an watch them all melt before your juicy goodness

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AKA: The single greatest weapon in the entire game.

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I tried this thing in PvP today and holy***** it is godly. Easily destroys those fat guys with big two-handers that want to trade. The WA, high damage and extra poise damage... perfection.

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insane sword, have it at +3 right now, probs gonna use it through the rest of the game

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god like at roll catching

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Perseverance can be used as rush tactic, because you CANNOT be poise broken or staggered under any circumstances (in terms of PvP).
For that reason, I find the WA very useful against ultra/great melee users, or true combo users. Just activate Perseverance in anticipation of an attack and wail on them (if the opponent's damage output is high, it might not be a good idea to trade).

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How long does the WA last and will the poise effect casting or just weapon attacks?

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I didn't see anything that says which attacks are parriable and not parriable

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I'm following my playthroguh of DS1 in DS3, Claymore hard leather armor until I get this sword and complete the rest of the game in a breeze

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this sword (along with the other blk knight weapons) will absolutely destroy the demon prince. killed him second try with this on ng +7. would have been first try, but was using a different weapon then.

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I remember my very first run through the game while using this weapon. Got invaded by three aldritch defenders and thought they were NPC invaders with how easy and fast they went down.

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On 99/99 this weapon's AR is 623

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Fun thing to do: When killing folks in Ringed City, wear not much like the magician's clothes and Leonhard's mask, then run up on a pack of folks with rosaria's ring on the steps of hell and when they are fighting those harald knights, get close, pop iron flesh and walk right into them with that and perseverance and kill everyone very quickly. It's how I finished my Rosaria and my Moundmaker quests...

With good players, this generally only catches them once, if at all, but its still fun and my favorite method of murdering packs. It can also work pretty well with heavier armor in the Spears of the Church fight. Kills the host in two or three shots and you might win, but you only get one shot at that before he and his dogs rip you apart.

But very satisfying when it works.

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this piece right here is no joke, son... it'll turn you to spaghetti real quick... hit you with that perseverance then rrrrrrra

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to think this weapon have higher base damage than fugs. poor guy.

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The backstep + R1, the running R1, and the rolling R2 are the three most beautiful attacks in the game.

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