Painting Guardian's Curved Sword | Dark Souls 3 Wiki

You can be inside your opponent and still miss with this stubby lil guy.

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Kick becomes a cartwheel!

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L2 L2 L2 L2 L2 L2 L2 L2

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Before anyone asks, R1 to weapon art isn't a true combo. The only thing I would have wanted from this weapon...

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i have a 40dex/45luck build and just realized that it keeps an A scaling in dex even if infused with hollow, it seems to fit my build perfectly

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Wow, remember when this weapon was super cool in DS1 due to high DPS and the super useful bleed aux? Wow, remember when this weapon was super cool in DS2 due to the busted instant parry in off-hand? WOW, ISN´T IT AMAZING HOW BAD THIS WEAPON SUCKS NOW?

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Name's longer than the weapon itself.

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I wish this weapon was as good as it was in DS1, it's still a decent weapon but I feel like it was super good in DS1

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Banana

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1.5 weight.. Infuse sharp and 2-hand it with OWCS, Pontiff's Right Eye and cast Carthus Beacon or Power Within.

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I finished DS1 "cosplaying" as Painting Guardian - used their armor set, used 2 of their swords, target shield and throwing knives. And just want to be sure - to get second PGCS I must start NG+?

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This is the sword you would assume most fools would use. But then you realize those fools that use it actually know how to use it. And you should fear those fools more than any other fool.

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It has S scaling on dex at sharp+3

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This things scabbard makes no sense

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this thing would be delicious for a sorcery build

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I never got into the PvP scene in the first game, I just want this weapon to be good so I can kill people with a banana.

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0/10 no longer insta-parries, breaking the game like a cheap dinner plate

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I have tested it on a magic build. The cons are the very short range of the weapon with only the speed of a curved sword, and the small damage despite a TON of stats involved (cause to the "too good" scaling). So that's difficult on meta level.

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this actually gets triple A scaling when infused with dark

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I just infused a painting guardian sword with dark and the scaling goes E/B/A/A , not E/B/B/B. This thing is crazy good if you mix both int and faith with dex.

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This weapon was broken in the 1st Dark Souls as well, so to speak, praise the insane damage!

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Fellas, it's an infusable flip-curved sword (the fastest R1s in the game when 2H) that averages ~400 AR WITHOUT buffs. I use this as my offhand on my Dex/Luck build, main-handing Frayed Blade, as its a parry tool, I can infuse it hollow for the +5 luck (my build has 35 luck + 5 luck from offhand for Frayed Blade bleed-outs), helps against weapon classes that katanas struggle with (greatswords in particular since the R1 speeds are very similar but katanas don't have HA; GS's like to get right in my face and hope I trade, but PGCS is so fast 2H'd that they have to back off), it's one of the very few weapons I can trigger bleed consistently with thanks to the R1+WA (not a true combo, I don't think but I land it reasonably often), and all for 1.5 UNITS. SERIOUSLY?? I promise, get your spacing down and this thing is an under-appreciated GEM.

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Scales beautifully with or without infusion I would like to try using in a dex build maybe. It would seem to go well with Dex and Int and crystal.

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Yea wow such fun need 3 WA to make the BLEED PROC with a BLEED INFUSION, while with any other weapon you can do the same damage with one R1, kk.

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If you have a regular painting guardian curved sword and you use Carthrus Rogue on it with 40 levels in stamina you can hit another player/enemy 10 times causing a bleed build up of 550.

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So I found this sword has a decent combo, not too broken considering that it's a bit hard to land but, if you land the weapon art you can combo into both R1s and maybe a third/cartwheel slash if your opponent has a brainfart like the few I just fought did.
With almost 500 AR (Plus 9 with sharp infusion at 40 dex 18 strength and Lightning Resin) I do an upwards of 900 dmg with just that combo (without the third R1/Cartwheel)
I find it's very fun and challenging to use, teaches you REAL spacing and proper SKILLZ (Not really)
Decent so far, but I wonder if it could oneshot with the pontiff eye ring and OWCS and a spell buff with decent scaling for maximum dmg.
Feel free to tell me the results anyone had if they tried it!

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R1 R1 R1 R1 R1 R1 R1

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Dex scaling S at +5 only

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Has S scaling in Dex when +7 and sharp infused, no idea if you get the S scaling earlier than that. Needs more testing.

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So, according to the 'Parry' page, this weapon has the "highest parry frame window". Anybody got numbers on this?

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This weapons has a sheath despite being larger at the end. It looks really stupid.

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spam the spinny attack and stunlock enemies to make bob ross proud

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Weapon isn't very good, however, its a very fun weapon to play with. I run a dex/luck bleed build and throwing hollow on this thing is a pure joy. Excellent dex scailing with the extra hollow scailing (adding my stat bonus' ar equals about 337). I usually mix up when I want excess bleed damage or raw damage numbers by keeping carthus rouge and carthus flame arc on me. With thr rouge i usually bleed targets in one loop of the weapon art but due to the lack of range I switch to arc to raise my raw numbers. I stack this with Carthus beacon, old wolf sword and pontiff's right eye. My dps is phenomenal and in pve I destory most bosses in a stamina bar. I offhand the corvian knife for better range abd nobody really expects it.

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ok... coolest looking curved sword... the shortest curve sword... and the worsed damage with preety much all infusion... why

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using this on my Bob Ross cosplay... Palette knife OP!

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Just checked my +9 of this weapon with a Chaos Gem and found that it has attribute bonus of E/B/A/A with 38 on Bleed, do confirm if you can please.

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Infuse with lightning, 40 dex 40 fth has ~425 ar, dual wield/use in off hand, very strong

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it has 30 bleed, not 33 anymore :(

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Dark infuse have A Dex, A Int, A Fth

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Fromsoft, why you no make sword paired weapon? :c
then give it the same weapon art as the 1h r2 attack combo from the first game?

i miss my double spin :(

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I think everyone should use any weapon they choose but don't use it the try hard way and spam

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Infusing this little thing with heavy makes it a really good STR backup weapon, with that A scaling

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I think this weapon is a spatula! You can paint very fast whole landscapes with it. (#Bob Ross!). If you think this further their "special fighting style" is just how they used this tool to paint. Ninja style!

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does it replace the kick with a backflip when in the offhand? also, does it need to be active to do so, or can you two hand another weapon and still get the backflip?

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does the good DEX/INT scaling with crystal gem make up for short range?

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With the crap range, best ways to play are hit and run or full on aggression. Slap on a right eye for more damage on combos and roll catches or even left eye. Flynn's ring for some extra damage. Might as well use red tearstone and morrion blade since you gotta make every hit count and lead into long combos. WA can roll catch. WA can't be angled too far left or right (can't even go a full 180). R1 into WA doesn't work; they can roll away before WA finishes. I got an AR of 404 with 20/60 str/dex with 30% equip load and flynn's ring. Overall, 5/10 meh weapon

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At +10 bleed infused with 50 luck it has 87 bleed

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FromSoftware...

People were asking you to buff this sword. It was pretty bad, and not many people used it.

An infinite, guardanteed stunlock combo isn't what they had in mind.

Fix this s***.

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I see you've got no stats for the poison infusion. I just hit mine with a poison gem at level 6. Here's the stats:

Physical: 113
Critical: 100
Bleed: 31
Poison: 49

Everything else is the same as a normal level 6.

I love this thing now, by the way. Four quick hits to a silver knight, then run away... two minutes later they're dead.

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Collected the "blue version" in the new DLC but I cannot find it in my inventory and short after I got the message that told me I "miss the licence for this dlc" (paid for my Season Pass...) and returned to title. I reloaded and I could play further but the blue PG curved sword is still gone. Even thought I imagined things but later I found enemies using this weapon. So....where is it?

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**Warning**
If you see anyone using this sword keep your distance. After patch 1.11 the weapon art recieved a bug. You cannot escape NO MATTER WHAT! Use 2h greatsword, magic, miracles, pyro, just don't let them get near you. If they do you are dead. Poise buffs also work well. If you can't be staggered they can't win. If you get staggered you will die.

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Did the patch screw with the WA or sth? It seems to be near impossible to escape if it connects

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spin2win

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I carry this around infused with Chaos as a secondary weapon in areas with enemies weak vs. fire. Nice damage, and the stun caused by lighting enemies on fire usually gives enough time to finish them off. Best thing is it only weighs 1.5, so you won't have to put on lighter armor just so you can carry around another weapon.

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10/10 best crepe flipper

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Any tips on what infusion to use on this? I was thinking blood, refined, or hollow.

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This curved sword is not good...its terrible. It has the same range as a dagger and the damage is just awfull, I put 60 on dex and the Ar was still lower then 450. It desperatly needs a buff. FromSoft plz...I wanna do painting guardian cosplays without going through hell.

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Ninja Havel.

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This sword has a move that replaces the kick. When tapping forward and atk you do a quick slash then a backflip to create distance.

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You can't buff it with thunder when it is already infused with thunder.

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With 40 STR/40 DEX, a refined Painting Guardian's Curved Sword has 346 AR.

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it got bleed effect(which can stun).it got fast strike(which mean you can land it before enemy strike).it got low stamina usage(like a dagger).you can add Pontiff's Right Eye Ring for 15% damage boost on successive attacksa high stamina character can pretty much stun lock enemies and finish them in 1 round.where as other weapons CAN'T finish enemies without stopping to regenerate more stamina.this makes it great for taking on regular enemies.could be extremely effective for farming(tested on silver knights in anor lando for large titanite shards).its upgraded using titanite shards, so you can get it to +6 without sacrificing upgrade choices.great for dex builds, but might also work for str/other build with the right infusion.could be used on left hand to provide all that goodness AND parry.you should definitely try it out. (just do +6 and give it a test run)