Ricard's Rapier | Dark Souls 3 Wiki

This rapier can be buffed

Submit

Ah, you were at my side all along, from DS1 to DS3. My true mentor. My guiding rapier.

Submit

Hello, my name is Inigo Montoya, you killed my father, prepare to die.

Submit

time to find the guy with six fingers on his right hand

Submit

39dex/60faith
buff it with anything
and its L2>R2 nearly if not one-shots players
this thing is a beast
when it lands tho

Submit

I overlooked this bc of itz base damage but then i tried it znd beat 47 games with it

Submit

Weapon art reminds me of the crow talons. Both are a bit tricky to land. But when they do. Ouchhhhhhh

Submit

Is this still a niche item to pick for bleed/poison because of it's combo?

Submit

Dude imagine a S in dex scaling

Submit

Does anyone know if this can parry in the offhand like the OG rapier?

Submit

I wi***** was as good as ds1 or ds2 Ricards.

Submit

My name is Inigo Montoya. You killed my father. Prepare to die.

Submit

This will do nicely with my Silver Chariot cosplay

Submit

I need to make a build with this...I think I’ll name him
Inigo Montoya...I’ll search from kingdom to kingdom looking for the 6 fingered man, then when I meet Gael I’ll utter “you killed my father, prepare to die”

Submit

HORA HORA HORA, HORA HORA HORA, HORAAAAA!

Submit

That's quite the Faith scaling for the Blessed version. Honestly most of the Int/Faith scaling on this weapon is quite good. Curious.

Submit

Is this thing as good as it was in Ds1?

Submit

More like re- *gets stunlocked to death*

Submit

Is this a good weapon for a low level build? I’m talking SL 30 and below.

Submit

for my griffith build, this or scimtar? (I wanna do NOTHING WRONG when making the build)

Submit

Something i noticed is that the weapon art does WAY more damage when the weapon is buffed, not very surprising considering the amount of hits, but a jump from 400 damage to 1000 is shocking for me. Im not sure if infusions count as flat damage, like dark or crystal, but ill test it out and see if the damage is really high or not. Also this weapon can buffed by onyx blade, unlike other rapiers, so thats nice.

Submit

this with literally any buff on a sharp infusion shreds things, if you can land the WA. like seriously my CMW version does over 1k damage vs heavily armored players, its a beast...... if you can land it. lol

Submit

Pretty decent on a dark build

Submit

Ricardo Milos Rapier

Submit

How does the WA work with pontiffs rings?

Submit

Makes for a decent twink weapon. Buffing it with a gold bundle and catching someone with the weapon art can deal upwards of 500 damage on just a +1 reinforcement. Also since it's a thrusting sword and has low recovery on the r1s it's quite hard to get punished by big weapons.

Submit

For those confused about simple and crystal scaling, simple DOES have better scaling, but has less base. so its kind of like yorshkas chime, where even though its scaling is 50% better then other miracle catalysts, it will be weaker until much more investment is made. but the damage difference between crystal and simple is minor at high stats.

Submit

Actually the simple infusion indeed gives B for dex and S for int. However its damage is still lower than crystal even though the letters in crystal are C and A respectively. Even tested it for 60 dex and 60 int and still crystal is better. I suppose the simple will surpass the crystal on very high attributes like 99/99 dex/int which is silly. Perhaps a flaw in the design of this weapon, or a good example why a letter in scaling doesn't always reveal everything?

Submit

I m pretty sure table has wrong values.. I remember it being a B in dex and S in int with simple infusion.

Submit

SILVER CHARIOTO

Submit

Somebody fix the chart, it says 39 frost damage on the poison infusion.

Submit

btw Griffith used a saber....

Submit

This + mirrah set = NO ONE EXPECTS THE SPANISH INQUISITION

Submit

Fun Fact: Doesn't have a kick attack. Instead has a backstep and poke, like how Curved Swords don't have a kick. Not sure with other rapiers, but still neato

Submit

does the weapon art apply effects? considering it does many hits it might be good for that

Submit

I remember when the fast multi-stab attack of this thing was the coolest thing ever in DS1. In DS3 it's nothing special when compared to many other attacks, it really gives you an idea on how the movesets evolved... not that I'm complaining :^D

"Not influenced by bloodborne" -Miyazaki

Submit

It seems i'm just incapable of using rapiers right. They are so inconvenient for me. I like nothing about them besides fashion.
- R1 attacks have a very low reach and wonky hitbox / target tracking making it extremely hard to hit people unless going point blank.
- The damage is not that good.
- Backstep-slash that replaces the kick is useless, you are now incapable of dealing with shield users unless swaping to another weapon (or two-handing the shield)
- Weapon art is dumb because of how well telegraphed it is. They could've at least give it hyperpoise but no, you can easily be interrupted. Only a very stupid person would get caught by that.

For comparison - Lothric Straight Sword does everything better: higher damage, better reach, aoe, a viable kick to deal with shields, extremely useful weapon art.
I guess that's just me but this particular rapier is just a big bag of *****s and doesn't work in my hands.

Submit

Carthus Milkring does wonders for this weapon. Roll a few times to completely disappear and hide the incredibly telegraphed salute before the multi thrusts. Best used with a WA shield and untrue dark ring to slightly disguise your visibility more during invasions or jolly co-op.

Submit

On a 50 int 40 dex with a crystal infusion the weapon art hits for 1200 on most people it's hard to land but if you can bait people in with spells it will instantly kill most phantoms/invaders.

Submit

Its quite good, excellent weapon for any glass cannon mage type build with 60 INT or FAITH. It will hit an AR of 450+ when buffed and the battle art hits hard, managed to get 1000+ damage out of it around lvl 99. When you want a rapier, use this one or the regular rapier.. I'm not an Estoc hater ( Straight Swords are the evil in this game imo )but you'll feel just better using this against people..

Submit

I'm surprised how good simple infusion is with this weapon. Sure, the weapon art is better if you can buff weapons and simple infusion takes that out but its still a very good option for a pure caster build. 20 dex isnt that high of a req, deals minmal damage diference with cristal or any other infusion that puts elemental damage and restores skillpoints with a weapon that you want to use it. Can't be buffed but that leaves open more slots for spells for a caster.

Submit

With the pontiffs right eye and lightning blade on a quality build and 60 faith it makes everyone onehit.Highest dmg was 1600 dmg in the whole combo.Lg

Submit

The Lunge and Press with the Leo Ring is truly a crushing blow, given the follow-ups the Press brings. Mind your timing with countering, though. Shield of Want works best.*Simple in sword and shield*

Submit

Arya Stark and this weapon is Needles ;)

Submit

Is it better to infuse with sharp or refined at 40/40?

Submit

Does Ricard's parry like the Rapier, or block like Estoc and Crystal Rapier?

Submit

I went ahead and tested the weapon skill of this move on a pyromancer against the drakeblood knight in Archdragon Peak:Unbuffed at 221 AR: 176 total damageChaos infused at 368 AR: 245 total damageBuffed at 402 AR: 457 total daamgeAll other basic hits scaled as expected, with a smooth curve based on AR, but the weapon skill is indeed applying the buff AR multiple times for some pretty disgusting total damage. On less resistant enemies, it was easily hitting for 900+ per weapon skill use. I found that the same is true of Gotthard's weapon skill, which was 166/236/330 for the same tests at similar ARs, but its regular dual attacks (and roll dual attack) only benefited from the buff once.Notably this isn't true for the regular Rapier, which had weapon skill damage results of 133/167/188, scaling smoothly with AR.

Submit

which is better, sharp estoc or shard ricard's rapier?

Submit

If you kick with this weapon equipped you do a small slash and then hop backwards instead of a kick.

Submit

The summoned guy who drops the rapier is wearing Wolnir's crown

Submit

..but they'll probably never know the joy of actually landing this rapiers' L2 on someone while buffed.

Submit

Is it with Crystal + 10 better than the Rapier from the boss soul?

Submit

Looks like the auxiliary effect values for the blood and poison version of the weapon are in the wrong columns; Blood + 10 is showing its aux effect value in the poison column, and Poison + 10 is showing its aux effect value in the frost column. Fix pls?

Submit

Unless i'm missing something, this thing got nerfed hard. Buffed it, and used Carthus pyro to boost damage even more. It fails miserably. I even had it at +10... Was really looking forward to repeat experiences from DS1. Guess i'll stick with my +10 WP.

Submit

So I tested out how the multi hit move of Ricard's (L2) applies buff damage.I found that it applies the same damage to each hit of the multi hit move as it would to a single hit move (like DS1). Basically, Ricard's is really good at applying buff damage.

Submit

anyone knows how it scales at +10 sharp ? A or B ?

Submit

ricards rapier is basically like a easter egg item now with the face its main move in ds1 and ds2 is the focus skill of the rapier

Submit

I'm curious if this will be just as ridiculous with weapon buffs as it was in DS1

Submit