Carthus Curved Sword | Dark Souls 3 Wiki

This Curved sword might be nerfed, but I love it's design, the Ebony black blade with elegant texture on the surface, middle east style pommel, guard and handle, it is so beautiful.

I wish I could hired some blacksmith to forge this sword as my collection

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used to be carthus noob sword now its garbo

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ngl, even after a few years of playing this game, this sword still kicks ass, the range is still great, the weapon art combo catches people off guard, and it still does ongodly amounts of damage for pure dex builds, i mean, the bleed build up is so useful in drawn out fights and at 80 dex it does 65 more damage than the pkcs, no matter what anyone says, this is still my go to curved sword

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I pity this sorry thing

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I use one on my dark build and win fights fairly easily. It's still a curved sword, after all. Sure the follower saber is probably overall better, but only slightly, and Carthus looks much better two handed.

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"oh no its not op anymore, we gonna cry ;( but f ck pkcs tho". You all crybabies, this sword is still very good, its just not good enough for a simpleton to win every fight.

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It´s like seeing a long time rival and enemy just become a sad, miserable wreck. Where once was contempt now there is only pity...

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if this never got nerfed it would have been the pkcs im glad its not

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Still the best curved sword under the sun thanks to its high bleed. And that's all there is to say, folks.

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Simbad's sword

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Incredibly powerful infused with Bleed at 40 LUCK. Managed to kill Crystal Sage at Grand Archives before he could even teleport for the first time on NG+. Bleed happened 3 times, taking 45% of his total HP and an additional 600 HP from the 3 times bleed was inflicted. That's not even counting the raw physical damage.

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pkcs with bleed

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I dunno if this is a dumb idea, but... poison infusion and high luck; is that any good? The bleed seems to stay the same, and when poison infused, it looks to be as powerful as the bleed would have been on blood infusion. Probably would wreck stuff, but I don't know.

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Less range than a scimitar now. Utter trash.

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Sharp gives A scaling to Dex

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Mom I want the PKCS! Mom: we have the PKCS at home. The PKCS at home:

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It's not a greatsword, but it's still sheathed on the back. Any other straight-swords and curved-swords that do this?

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Holy f*** these PKCS users on every fextralife page commenting how good their skill mandatory PKCS is and how much better it is than any other weapon.
They legit got ADHD and probably play the souls series for like 2 years

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We all know that this sword is completely garbage now so what are you waiting for? Go grab that better ccs that is called pkcs and git gud

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Still puts pkcs to shame nowadays, despite being nerfed to oblivion. Such a beast!

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Restore the Fume Ultra Greatsword to it's former glory!

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Most beautiful curved sword. Wish it had a scabbarb like pontiff knight curved sword.

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YES!

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If I infuse it with hollow, would it be best if I put points in both Dex and Luck, or should I just put them into purely luck?

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I miss you :(

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Would this thing be any good on a strength build? I want to make a strength build that uses an offhand ultra but I don't want to just put yet another LKSS on my right hand. I've always wanted to try out curved swords (and their fast swings would probably compliment the slow but hyperarmored swings of a Fume UGS) but I don't have any dedicated dex builds to use them on

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it's still perfectly viable... i like it at lower lvls

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Although it got nerfed, it's still great for INT/DEX build. Lightning infused with 36 DEX/ 40 INT puts out around 430 AR after using Deep Protection. This and Sharp Saint Bident are my main weapons on this build. One is good with buffs, and this one is amazing with infusion. Good damage, nice reach, lit moves and amazing weapon art. Melts through most PvE bosses, excluding Nameless and Dragonslayer Armour. Definitely still good even after the nerf

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Gaaaaarage

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Didn't know this got nerfed. Does that mean I can allow myself to no longer feel bad about using Storm Curved Sword?

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"We balanced it so well that nobody will ever use it again! Good job team"

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Why is there no mention on the page about the nerf? It was all people talked about for months. This went from a weapon that everyone was using to a weapon no one would ever use again in the course of 24 hours. Like I understand both sides, but the update that nerfed this sword basically patched it out of existence. A good balance was never found I guess.

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Where to start. Less range nerfed to less than a scimitar... Stamina use nerfed so a swing uses as much a greatsword, damage nerfed below comparable weapons. Weapon swing speed nerfed so all flip curved swords completely outclass kick ones. Why can't Fromsoft nerf things without going off the cliff with it?

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Restore to it's former glory

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Still good for chaos and dark builds due to the CCAA scaling at +10. Otherwise it has now been surpassed by other weapons due to the nerfing. Only time I ever see it used in PvP now is for dark builds.

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I don't understand why this weapon, and several like it got nerfed. IMO it would have been a better move to just up the stat requirements instead of gutting the weapon. Isn't that what happened to the dragonslayer axe? I totally understand if the weapon is way OPed, but I feel like it would be much better if they did it that way. Like the FB, you create your build around the weapon itself. Maybe i'm just swore I never got to use this weapon before it got nerfed, I really don't see anyone using it in PvP anymore. Aside from dark builds because of the scaling, that's one cool think I guess.

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It's definitely balanced for pvp. Incredible pve as well, seriously, it can and will melt bosses like oceiros or gravetender. Unfortunately, nobody looks for a balanced weapon for PvP, and i must say it's kind of comparable to a LKSS in terms of reliability. Take that as you will, it's definitely good, but not EZmode

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These twerps whining about their OP meta weapon getting balanced. Folks, the damage got nerfed to balance its reach, which is awesome, and its speed, which is only slight less awesome. It was indeed too powerful before when it had top-of-class damage at a modest weight *and* great reach *and* bleed proc *and* fast attack animations *and* one of the best running-atacks in the game *and* an unparryable weapon-art. You can whine about straight-swords now, but never at any point have straight-swords had that quite that many things going for them. Carthus Curved Sword was cancer. Now it's not. Get over yourselves.

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If there would be a mod to undo any nerfs while keeping the buffs.....i would gladly take a ban. It makes no sense that even a scimitar is more powerfull than this now. Its not just this wespon. I guess fashion souls applys to weapons as well. Besides, the sharp gem turns anything into insanity anyway so......still a very decent weapon. Not as OP as the two twinblades, but that might actually be a good thing.

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It takes 18 strength.

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The dark and chaos infusions give you A/A scaling at +10.

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RIP the legend, it has been 2 years and in a game now dominated by 1 handed straight sword r1's and rampant unpunishable rolling, your unique attributes have been sorely missed.

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Still a great weapon nowhere near the level of try hard people make it out to be

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I think the sharp scaling got changed. Sharp at +0 raises the dex scaling to a B right from the start now.

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This sword should be called "Tryhard Miyasaki"

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This used to be a good weapon before getting nerfed, it wasn't really op at all. then a bunch of idiots who couldn't handle it in pvp had to complain to From Software about it and get it nerfed. Twice. After all the time and effort I've put into getting and upgrading it, it just isn't that good anymore. It doesn't even matter if it's just gonna be used for pve, the stat reduction still applies. I really feel I've ripped off of both money and time. So what I'm going to do is 'nerf' From Software. I won't be paying any money for any future From Software game I'm going to get (if From is going to make anything worth getting from this point onward.) That way at least, I can prevent getting ripped off money.

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Random trivia: I believe it is the only curved sword that is sheathed on your back. Use with brigand Twindaggers for true Arabian Knight action.

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has less range then scimitar and demon scar.

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Sharp gives A now.

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The only reason this thing was ever good was because it was always used with quality hollow builds with 40 str and dex and 35 luck with it having a hollow infusion then apply carthus rouge and you'll get amazing damage and pull high amounts of bleed damage off too and I see why it was good but did bleed really need to get the need that it did cause at 40 luck with a blood infused carthus curved great sword had 99 bleed which is amazing but because if the need it's not even viable in pve

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Finally, a curved sword without that godawful kick replacement.

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I dunno why you literally never see anyone use this anymore. It was completely broken, they rightfully nerfed it and now it's just a really good weapon.

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Pirate Build

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The look on the weapon, if you look closely, has a similar look on those weapons that uses Damascus steel/wootz steel as a base.

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This weapon isn't even that good anymore, but people continue to call it cancer and so on because they keep clinging to the past.

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"Easily farmed"? I spent *three hours* in the Catacombs with the SoA, SoW and CGS+3 and even got *four* Sharp Gems, but no sword! You sure this is an easy to farm sword, or is my luck just bad?

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This on a hollow build is the best weapon in the game.

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Sharp scaling is incorrect. I am currently running one sharp +7 and it's already on A scaling in dex.

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i want to have this as my main bleed source... does infusing it with bleed have any advantages? according to the table it has 8-10 more bleed damage than the other infusions.. or is it better to infuse it with something like sharp/heavy/refined depending on your class?? is the 10 more bleed that important?

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is this better refined or sharp because this wiki is so goddamn outdated i have no idea

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This page just got memed on.

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Would this or uchi be better infused bleed for a bleed build?

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I really want to use this weapon in pvp as it looks cool as heck, but I'm afraid of getting a point down just for using the weapon ;-;