Greatlance | Dark Souls 3 Wiki

An omen of the cancer that is powerstanced great spears in ER

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Use this and make kebab from gank squads

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R1, WA, into charged r2 wake up. Orgasmic.

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R1, WA, into charged r2 wake up. Orgasmic.

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I guess someone rushed Greatlance when he had to get on the plane to Elden ring, cus he left a lot of his cool **** back in his apartment.

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For those who don't know- offhand greatlance can combo into almost any move in the game that isn't explicitly slow. If I remember right, the slowest it has is L2 to Ultra Greatsword overhead R2. Not as good as Halberd or Estoc, but the better confirms are spicy and you can 2hand it for a somewhat decent moveset.

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Step 1) get enemy to 30 HP
Step 2) wait for them to pull out parry wep
Step 3) full charge 2H Heavy
Step 4) watch them try to parry it
Step 5) Laugh

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this sucks do not upgrade this weapon this is so slow u can not even use it without a shield it also sucks with a shield becuz enemy would run away before u even hit him to slow

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Bbc

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Ah yes.. The ultra rapier

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DS2 did lances better, that is all.

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I just can't get this **** to work for me. I can get behind many things - slow moveset, low poise, lack of attack variety... But this godawful tracking on R1s just kills me. I can freeaim, sure, but it's very hard to do with a spear-type weapon.

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My boy... look how they massacred my boy

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I fought this one guy and we both lagged horribly but by some miracle I lived though the lag, I almost killed him afterwards but he had tears of denial on and began to quick step spam and after about 10 seconds of driving into him I managed to prevent myself from being backstabed and finally killed him

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So just what exactly are the various poise breakpoints on this weapon?

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Bruh this weapon is slow af imma just stick to the Lothric Knight spear

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Why do so many trash fat Casul scrub use this garbage? Lose this shiite and pick up a pkcs, best weapon gaming history. I destroy and point down cryhard greatlance scrubs so often. You will get rekked so many time without pkcs. Git gud because "gud" is japanese for pkcs.

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every time I start a playthrough I plan to make x build, use x weapon, then I get the Grealance and before I know it it's +10 and my main weapon

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Pair this with a greatsheild, poisey armor and iron flesh to become the unstoppable force AND the immovable object

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belive it or not, in right hand it's god tier weapon

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I had one person the other day who literally just stood there and whiffed three tries while I was allowed to charge up each time. He clapped after that, and then we got back to actually fighting, but he was too injured to have won. Genuinely hope they learned something from that, and hope they whip some ass later on down the line.

For anyone wondering why your R1 + WA doesn't knock people down, you have to do the strong attack to keep the charge going like it says in the WA. That'll knock them down, and you can full charge an R2 to catch them on the wake-up.

Also, this weapon is great for a Cr1tikal (Penguinz0) YouTuber cosplay. I'd imagine he'd be proud to have a giant thrusting stick lol

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2 hand r2 can be parried people.. just the hit box is wonky asf... Died multiple times to it before realizing the tip has to basically be in you, pun intended, as you parry... Add in currently latency atm and most people just don't bother parrying...

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fun facts about this weapon :
fully charged R2 can't be parried
poise frames on R2 kick in really fast
2HR1 combo's into weapon art for a 800-900 damage combo
R2 has really good tracking and is good to use after a backstab or ripost
the running attack is useful when punishing estus chuggers
running attack will start as soon as you push R1
running R1 locks you in one direction and can sometimes be a disadvantage
R1 can combo into R1 with shield up
has one of the longest ranges in the game
R1 can be parried on reaction so be careful
leo ring will only work if you use non elemental infusions
best infused with heavy
if used off hand, you can combo with straight swords, katanas, rapiers, greatswords and another pike
very good on sl 60-85 build
sometimes a bad thing to use on ganks since it's a thrust weapon and will usually only hit one person

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This thing went from niche never seen tool to ultra tryhard meta in a blink of an eye.

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So a weird thing about this weapon, is that when you perform a jumping attack when two handed it plays the same sound cue like when you miss a backstab, to my knowledge this is the only weapon with this odd quirk but im too lazy to test it with all the weapons.

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Greatlance? More like Best Lance

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I would be really cool if when you infuse it it gets this wooden cloak (i dont now how i should call this ) like if make it flammy it gets red wood , when sharp a metal cloak and when poision infusin a purple cloak .

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if you saw sucker with this and a greatshield. ready your mini shield/katana you gonna have to parry this sucker

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I miss the entire Lance class from DS2... So many cool weapons are lost in DS3. Heide Greatlance for lyfe!

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Ultra-Greatrapier

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from the creators of R1 spam, here comes: R2 spam

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this weapon is underrated as *****, but actually it rocks in PvP since you can just spam its R2 and it will probably not be parried and also will stunlock them to death and can't be effectively blocked by any shield, specially if infused with magic damage hahahahaha

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Greatlance in left hand hamburger in right hand kill many peopel this way

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Very underrated weapon Light combos into weapon art Full 2 hand heavy cant be parried Left hand rapier recomended for rushing and quickstep players

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PERFECT PENETRATION

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Anyone else notice this looks exactly like the heide greatlance from dark souls 2, exactly like it

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More like the "good, I guess"- lance

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Greatlance in right hand, lothric war banner in left, in herald set. War banner weapon art and charge with the lance and have fun playing heavy cavalry charge and watch the fat kids fly.

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The greatlance is a really fun weapon; I'm-a-horse- playthrough, CHAAARGE

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Since when did this*****tty long stick get the attention of so many dumbass trash casuls? More and more noobs are spamming this garbage in pvp and it's annoying

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All this weapon needs is a pair of balls hangn' from it and you could poke everything in site...

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This weapons one-handed r1 makes you step forward further than other weapons in it s class and staggers almost like a hammer. Offhand dragonslayer s greataxe or yhorm s machete and rumble some health bars

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I've seen some players swear by this weapon. What's the deal with it? Is there a secret way to use it, because in my experience I've been about 40/60 in pvp on a qual build, and the few wins have been from out-ranging, which any polearm can do

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I feel like this weapon could be an absolute monster with Carthus Rouge or a blood infusion. You could follow up the L2 with a Blood Corvian Dagger or Crow Talons.

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I cant link it (dont know how), but there is an amazing guide to this on reddit. This weapon is really underrated as it is, just go check it out. One more thing to add to that guide though, you can dead angle this. If you unlock and turn in a circle and r1, it does a sweep, kinda inconsistent though.

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Anyone know if blessed could be better than heavy on a str/fth build? I doubt it, but curious if anyone has ever tried

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Works nicely with a Carthus Rouge and both Pontiff Eye rings.

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Reminds me of DS2 Felicia the Brave and her diesel powered greatlance.

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Has anyone ever blessed infused this weapon? Whats the ar looking like?

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This big pokey boi's fully-charged two-handed R2s cannot be parried. Free Leo counter damage in PvP on those not in the know.

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Heavy or Refined? I'm doing a Maldron cosplay and need to know the highest AR possible with staying below level 200.

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Greatlance is love; Greatlance is life

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Don't really care for PvP but this thing can rack up some damage in PvE plus it has some great range. Can do about 300 dmg per poke on the winged knights just before Lorian.

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This weapon looks especially badass when buffed with fire.

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This thing's R1-L2-R2 ls a true combo that does 800-900 dmg on a 50 STR build with Human pine resin and Leo ring. Absolutely beautiful. HONK HONK THE PAIN TRAIN HATH COMETH

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Pain train returns?!

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Hark! houst thou call such a fine weapon badeth?! Does thou not know of the power of RODA RORA-ETH?!

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Lloyd's Sword Ring + DMB buff applied Thomas the Train theme intensifies

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Might be because I'm bad at PvP, might be because I'm unlucky, might be both, but the Greatlance is just not that great of a weapon.

The Greatlance:
is slow;
has weak HA, leaving it unable to trade with most, if not all HA weapons (non-HA weapons are fine);
running attacks as well as backstep attacks use up a lot of stamina;
running attacks have bad tracking;
is easy to parry (can be circumvented by playing unpredictably);
despite being a Pike, can still lose space-trades (probably me messing up)(should note that the Greatlance isn't the longest Pike).

The one nice thing about the Greatlance though is that it has a 2H R1>L2>R2 true combo.

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Heavy / Sharp / Refined which gets most AR ??!?!?!?!??!?

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It got quite good true combo up to 1k+ dmg

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broken straightsword is better in pvp than this. im not joking.