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Never killed Crystal Sage so fast with Bandit Knife +3 and a fire resin

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Using this with iron flesh and hollow/blood infusion are hella fun

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This weapon especially at very low level is salvation pve wise.
The best weapon in the game to Shred all endgame bosses, see you Soul of Cinder

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Bleed build.
Blood or hollow?
Which infusion is better with high luck

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Infusion -> Hollow, Sharp or Bleed ?

Helppp ...

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Wow. I wish I had realized the power of this sooner. I've completed the base game, Ashes of Ariandel and am a little over halfway through The Ringed City and only just now did I check it out. I haven't put a single point into luck,but even so, once I got it to +9 and put on a Blood Gem, holy hell. It's so incredibly fast, and with 56 bleed, it absolutely shreds enemies who can be bled. For NG+ I'm going to have to respec to put points into luck and see just how insane a Blood Bandit's Knife can be.

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This weapon is remarkably effective in PvE. I've been ripping through NG+ with a faith / dex build, alternating between Sharp and Blood Bandit's Knife, supplementing with buffs and occasionally pyromancies or Dorhys' Gnawing. Quickstep completely humiliates some otherwise very tough bosses AND it keeps the fights fast-paced and fun. Naked Slicey Boi fears no evil!

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Crystal Sage nightmare

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Hello DS3 player, I am come to you for a little favour, and I will carry this message to everywhere in DS3 community.
There is a glitch that allows you to summon white sign mad phantom in Gael’s Arena (Credit to Dashingsaint), if you keep Shira alived while she invade you (you can escape her simply sprint out her aggro range), you won’t trigger gael boss cutscene, and then you could put down you purple summon white sign or summon other white purple.
Thus, a new fight club is founded, an arena in a long lost dessert under the sunset sky which sprinkle with fainted galaxy.
If you’re watching this, kindly please help me share this and invite any ds3 enthusiast you known to this new fight club, your little effort would be much appreciated.
SL25+2, SL40+4, SL60+6, SL72+8, SL90+10, SL125 Meta, SL 351++, all SL range are acceptable.
Welcome to the Gael’s Sunset Arena, the most beautiful map in the entire series, the last arena at the End of World.
I will await you there, in the End of the World, and we shall fight eternal, shiny and incandescence.
LONG MAY THE DARK SOULS COMMUNITY LIVE

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I love this weapon. It's very good at the beginning of the game, and invaluable for an early Dancer fight. But unfortunately it's completely pointless in PvP. Bleed is so bad it's not even funny, and compared to Chaos Dagger, Corvian, Murky, Rotten Ghru, even Mail Breaker, there are just better daggers to build around.

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Shut up it's a kitchen knife

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Raw infusion is completely useless, even at low levels.
Not sure what the damage is at minimum base stats, but with 10 str and min dex, it deals 99 damage uninfused and 90 infused (with no upgrades).
Was about to raw infuse it before noticing this

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I did a whole video to demonstrate the absolutely gorgeous damage of this weapon and how useful it is at early game, even with no upgrade and early game stats. ------- https://youtu.be/k6ESDQtzYqI -------

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I'munna shank ye. gimmie ye munies!

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This or Murky tho

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Best bleed weapon in the game. You just need base stats to wield, 40 luck + blood infused. Add a poison infused ghru dagger and melt those casuals in pvp who think hollow infusion + resin is the way to go for a luck build. Try Death

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Only dumb fat Casuls would use such a trash weapon!
PKCS is so much better!
Real Pros and skilled players only ever use PKCS, the best weapon gaming history!

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One of the best weapons for bleed builds, if not the best. Starting weapon, incredible speed coupled with the overpowered quickstep ability allows for decimation of most bosses. I use it with 40/40/40 STR/DEX/LUCK and hollow infusion. Apply carthus rouge for bosses and you won't be disappointed.

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best dagger imo, as if the high base damage with good scaling on litterally the fastest kind of weapon in this game was not op enough, it also causes bleed damage every couple of attacks, doing over double the normal damage in that one hit. beating crystal sage and the deacons of the deep with this little monster was like a stroll in the park, so easy i literally barely took damage from both bosses, did not need estus and easily killed them first try by just spamming dual-handed r1.

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How do you rob someone in the souls universe?
Do you just walk upto them, flash them a knife and go "GIVE ME ALL YO SOULS"
or do you just murder them

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I think I'm gonna keep this in my back pocket when I make my bow build.

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Love this weapon in pvp. I’m not the best pvper ever, but I pretty much stick with either black knight sword and perseverance or this. Infuse bleed gem and quickstep around their attack and punish. Probably win like 9/10 matches with this which is pretty high for me.

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Would it be better to infuse Hollow + Carthus Rouge or go for a Bleed gem ?

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You can get some good use in PvP if you pour a lot of time into really mastering it. Totally God-Tier in PvE. Bleeds nearly everything in 3 hits and is super duper fast with low stamina cost. Best infusion is Bleed or Sharp. Crit damage is low but might as well make use of it. Use that quickstep and backstab for days! 2 handed moveset is great with an opening thrust attack. Wasn't fond of daggers beforehand. Now I'm a Dexfag and proud of it.

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This or painting guardian's sword?

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Gonna start keeping a knife in my boot... tired of getting disarmed

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I really miss it's 147 critical rating from DS1.

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Note that this weapon has the best physical AR when bleed infused of anything else in the dagger class bleed infused. And since it further stacks the innate bleed proc, logically that makes this the best choice for bleed infusion of any dagger, Tough call between sharp infusing this and applying resin, or going full bleed infusion. For PvE I'd say the former is better, for PvP I'd say the latter is slightly better (so you can switch between it and other weapons).

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Destroyed the Dancer with a +4 this on Human Pine Resin. Hug her right leg and hack away.

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Wait is this faster when used offhand

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Refined gem plus 10 beat the entire game level 87 I love it

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Will this interrupt ultra before poise frames start?

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I don't see people using this at low level, it is brutal since it causes damage, bleed and fast staggering, so it is easy to break guards, very useful cause there are too many low lvl people using shield

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pure*****

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+10 blood with carthus rouge at 30 equipment load with finns ring, red tear stone, hornet and morion blade backstab is basically a one shot in pvp

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A +8 bandits knife with 34 luck gets 69 bleed buildup. Excellent bleed build weapon

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Best for nothing but Hollow infusion for a Luck Build

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Your best friend in every SL1 run! My personal best choice against Friede, who gave me the most trouble on my first run...

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Since having 55 luck yields only 3 extra bleed with Blood infusion according to this page, I would reccomend keeping one of these around on any build for PvE purposes. Bosses such as Gael will be much easier if this is in your inventory; a special occasion weapon, if you will. Even if it feels cheap (which destroying enemies with this can at times), you’ll never regret keeping one around.

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This weapon isn't typically noted for its prowess in PVP, however...if you catch an opponent in a tight spot or attack them mid-casting, you'll bleed them out in seconds.

Regarding PVE, this thing is a beast. You'll bleed most enemies in 2-3 hits. I recommend keeping a secondary weapon such as Anri's to take down unbleedable enemies.

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I was having an enormous amount of trouble with Friede until I realized how insane Quick Step is. I was able to iFrame through everything she through at me. Um, wow?

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Feels good to do a bleed run and kill Dragonslayer Armor with this. Midir is gonna take me a while though...

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Bleed infused knife becomes really powerful weapon against demon princes. Just stay under them and mash r1, they bleeds after every 5-6 hits)

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When i started the game for the first time i loved this weapon and i couldn't use any other weapon because every other weapon was too slow.

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why everyone thinks pvp of ds3 is bad lol i always win with 40 endurance 40 dex and quickstep weapon art spam while i am able to hop away from nuclear blast with this
i frames and i always tell ever1 to git gud and point them down even i have 10 hours in game ever1 needs to git gud lmao.

--every bandit knife user ever

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Using the weapon art with carthus bloodring and never using dodge rolls feels like playing bloodborne.

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"Aah, you were at my side, all along.

My true mentor...

My guiding butter knife..."

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Bleed Bandit has now 72 bleed

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a bleed bandit knife +9 with 50 luck has 71 bleed

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I'm kinda late since it's been almost a year after the release of Dark souls 3. But I will say it anyway. This weapon is not the best for PVP, but KEEP this weapon whenever you PVEing. Bandit's Knife + Carthus Rouge is the ultimate weapon for bosses. I'll give you one example of Gundyr, the first boss.
When you take Gundyr sword from his chest, you can attack him before he even gets up right, well I spammed the***** out of Bandit's Knife with Carthus Rouge while playing at NG 5+, Gundyr had HALF HP when he did his first attack. Bleed is the ultimate stat for NG+, it scales with maximum HP. This said, even the hardest boss in the game, also known as Nameless King, will***** bricks while fighting you. Don't use it on his dragon tho.

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This weapon is the epitome of dark souls: difficult and frustrating but fun as hell. Just watch out for a few things.
1. Curved swords and straightswords. These weapons are fast enough to catch you after quickstep and have faster swing than bandit knife immediately after a trade. Basically, you're *****ed when going up against these.
2. Prioritize dodging over dealing damage. This helps a lot.
3. This weapon is super easy to party. Both r1 and r2 can be parried with the same timing. So don't throw out an attack immediately after a quickstep all the time.
4. This weapon CANNOT roll catch. Don't get angry because of this.
5. Be super aggressive all the time. Low stamina consumption is a beautiful thing. Be up your opponent's ass as often as possible and you can tear them a new one.

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Buff the FUGS

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is it worth it?

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I was using this in DS1 as a Thief, and dear GWYN it's OP. Fast attacks? Check. Bleed? Check. High durability, even for a starting weapon? MOTHER. *****ING. CHECK. Just, wow. Whoever made it OP in From, thank you!

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A +10 bandit dagger with blood infusion increases the bleed aux to 49 with 40 luck

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I've invaded a lot using this dagger for fun and I realized it's stronger than I expected.The weapon is very fast and the opponent can be staggered by consecutive hits (poise mechanics in DS3 lol...)The damage itself isn't big but the bleed status can be dealt easily with few attacks.I've tried also the Poison infusion and few hits were able to put both poison and bleed on the target with a very dangerous effect.Really surprised.