Dragonslayer's Axe | Dark Souls 3 Wiki

Perfect for my death dealer cosplay.

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this and a light crossbow will get you through sl1 no worries

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what is the best infusion for damage?

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Somehow I was able to do it after defeating Pontiff and Aldritch

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behold, the last great axe fromsoftware has ever made, praise Creighton

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So I just noticed an interesting(mildly) thing about this weapon. While 1h, If you sprint and heavy attack or leap attack(forward and L2 simultaneously) and follow up quickly with a light attack, you'll do the charging light attack(same as if you sprint and R1), not the regular light attack. Kind of a mini combo?

I checked a couple of others to make sure it's not the same with all weapons and I'm not just an idiot(it's my 4th From game, but first run through of ds3). Are there others that behave similarly?

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But this ax is not a Creighton ax that this is a Shieldless Lothian ax Description of the ax in Dark Souls 2: The beloved black ax of the gallant Shieldless Lothian, formerly of Forossa.

No warrior matched the ferocity of unbeatable Lothian, but he abruptly retired from the battlefield and was never heard from again. Some say that he grew tired of the frailty of human foes, and set off to slay the legendary dragon.

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But this ax is not a Creighton ax that this is a Shieldless Lothian ax Description of the ax in Dark Souls 2: The beloved black ax of the gallant Shieldless Lothian, formerly of Forossa.

No warrior matched the ferocity of unbeatable Lothian, but he abruptly retired from the battlefield and was never heard from again. Some say that he grew tired of the frailty of human foes, and set off to slay the legendary dragon.

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This thing is a monster. It can carry you through most of the game. Fast, strong, innate lightning damage and infusable. Shame you get it relatively late. In DSII, a Lightning Blacksmith's Hammer +10 was the strongest weapon in the game (not in terms of pure AR or anything, but the weapon that could destroy the highest number of enemies and bosses). I feel like this is DSIII's version of that. Being able to infuse it makes it versatile. For most of the late game I found myself switching back to it because few weapons could top it.

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Can’t think of any build that doesn’t benefit from this weapon. You just need a trusty, fast and hard hitting lightning weapon and this one’s it.

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They ruined your legacy

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WHAT THE ****, on a quality, 40/40 build, at +10, "sharp" infusion makes this thing deal more damage than the "heavy" one.

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I miss this weapon in elden ring. I'm not a twink, but this was the ultimate faith melee weapon. Casting lightning blade on this was good times.

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80% of all the invasions i get (and i like getting invaded) are with this axe and this axe only. i understand the will to win and overcome with the only bestest weapon there is, but doesn't it get boring? i wouldn't mind getting killed and pointed down by a pkcs user at this point, would be some variety at least

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Raw Dragonslayer's Axe + Lightning Blade nets you some serious AR. Helps my Herald character wipe bosses relatively easy. For pvp I would recommend picking up Lightning Stake & Lightning Spear w/ Sunlight Talisman to mix things up. Whenever someone tries to get in close use the talisman's perseverance skill to cast Lightning Stake w/ poise, then bash them with some r1's from the axe, maybe a lightning spear for roll catcher to finish them off.

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such a ****ing slept on weapon in high level pvp, I'm pumping out almost 850 ar (with buffs) on a 130 character

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I'm sitting at 40 faith and just discovered this weapon on the wiki. Got super stoked and re-specced my stats for it, before I realized that I had sold it at some point :-(

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best infusion? doing faith/ strength build with a little dex

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Casuls choice

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how can u use this if u r doing sl1 run, i hear that u need to use sum rings but which ones?

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If I finish the Sirris quest before this summon is there somewhere to find this weapon?

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actual degen weapon. so ridiculously strong and for what

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He dont drop me the axe after i killed him, i miss something or i just unlucky?

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it performs incredibly on my faith build
at base requirements + 60 FTH blessed infusion gets a respectable 502 AR one handed and with no WA. lightning infusion only gets 10 more AR, so id rather get the regen
using it raw and buffing it with lightning blade with yorshka chime +10 gives a huge 718 AR for just an axe with max damage achievable being 745 (2-handed + WA)

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I don't ever summon when I'm not fighting a boss, so seeing an invader that is using this at sl20 makes me go "OH ****"

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Filthy Noobslayer's second best friend

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Imagine being so bad at PvP you have to gift this to your low level player in order to win at low levels. I ain't even mad, it's just baffling to me. Don't play the game.

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Is sharp a good infusion for this? I’m looking for a good “heavier” dex weapon to try besides the Astora gs. Any other recommendations are appreciated

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good infusions for a faith build?

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Great weapon, I totally agree that it's the best weapon in the game for someone new to the game trying to get the hang of things. As this weapon is only good as a raw weapon (unless you have 50+ dex, then you can make it sharp, however, that's pretty crazy because at 50 dex there are massively better opinion than this, so it would be absurd to use at that point) which makes it ideal for newcomers. Creating a fire longsword early, the deep battle axe that you find early, and the raw boardsword or mace depending on personal taste, you have then have all the most important elemental weapons once you get this and a couple options for good pure physical damage as well. Takes you through your first playthrough with ease.

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The pkcs guy doesn’t want any smoke from this sl1 monster of a weapon.

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My build is a sharp dragonslayer axe with black fire orb, carthus flame arc, frozen weapon, and whatever other weapon I need. This is op agains most enemies and only really got stuck on dancer after getting it. I struggled with pontiff but as soon as I grabbed this weapon I destroyed him.

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The Gankspanker 9000. Almost any build can benefit from this bad boy. One of my favorite weapons in the game.

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Easy mode for first playthrough. Even midir falls to this. I really wish I knew about this weapon and quest when I was new to the game. Only negative thing I can state about this weapon, is that raw is the only good infusion for it, otherwise it's pointless, it does not scale in the slightest. I'm at 40 str/ 40 dex, and raw still wins out over refined. But that's the only negative thing I can think of, and besides, by the time you hit SL 120 you should be able to figure out a proper build that you like to play, in which case this will not be your primary weapon.

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I missed this weapon cuz i killed pontif early had forgotten all about the invasion in the church :-( oh well NG+
Realized it after it was too late...
Wish we coukd get invaded whike embered as well...

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There is some way to infused this axe with frost wepon?
I want to make a Kratos build

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You know this is a good weapon because the PKCS guy is too scared to comment

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In case anyone else is having problem with Creighton not invading (despite following the Sirris quest to a fault, being embered etc.) make sure you walk right up to the grave where a corvian is kneeling. The one behind which is an undead bone shard. But the key is to run around the grave counter-clockwise WITHOUT attack the corvian. When you get the message that he invaded, then you man kill the bird. I'm not sure how or why it is related, but i managed to get Creighton to spawn only on my 3rd playthrough and with many tries.

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Easiest build in the world. Knight, use any raw weapons you want but make sure you plan to save upgrade materials enough to get this axe to it's highest possible level as soon as you get it (+7 or +8), making sure to save one raw gem, and they can be farmed in the beginning of the game. Make sure to follow Sirris's questline to a tee, otherwise you are screwed. Get this weapon, infuse with raw, upgrade it with highest priority and buy all the lightning resin you can. LvL vigor and end to 40/40 and the stats required to wield this weapon obviously. At SL 73 your build is fully complete. If you wanna LvL up more you can put points into whatever you like, but at SL 73 you have a character that can take and dish out massive damage (483 AR). Effective in both PvP and very effective in PvE, it will carry you to new game +3 without issue. If you decide to invest in faith, possibly higher.

You can use any combination of rings you want, recommend the ring of favor (of course), RoSP in PvE, then whatever you want. Cheers, you have the easiest build in the world.

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Lightning Clutch ring with ring of steel +3 makes it even more ridiculous around 660 AR with raw infusion and pine. Works good in both PvE and PvP, unless the invader is also rocking a +10 raw. Have someone drop the lightning clutch because you don't get it until late game.

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This is by far the best raw weapon in the game. At +10 it rocks a ridiculous 483 AR. It's split game but most enemies in this game are weak to lightning, including 95% of the enemies in the DLCs, and buffing with gold pine ups the AR to 603, which is insane for a raw weapon that only requires 18/14. With the low requirements it makes this the ideal weapon for low SL characters, and can carry you up to NG+2 easily, again insane weapon in PvE. And no one is going to give you any problems with this weapon at early lvls in PvP when you are rocking it buffed at 603. Can't say enough good things about it. For new players, using this weapon is setting the difficulty to easy, but its DS easy so still mad hard. Cheers.

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This axe is amazing. Infuse it with raw and use gold pine resin and you have the best SL1 weapon

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If you're rocking a 60 faith build run raw,blc even if you have 50 50 in strength and dex respectively its only 30 more damage than raw. So minimum requirements maxed buff damage you're sitting around 705 damage (split of course) if you plop on oath and even clutch (8%pvp)you're damage climbs 560 lightning damage + 273 physical netting you 733 then if oathed(pvp5%) 769 damage.This is what I've been getting i think with both buffs it could be less since the game only shows pve damage which this thing is disgusting.

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Im used to run to dancer with bandit knife so i have never seen those invaders

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get this to 6+ and slap a human pine resin on this thing and it becomes the dancer slayer axe. also works great on oceiros.

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Man i ****ing hate this weapon. Every single invader in the road of sacrifices use this axe to just absolutly anihilate low level scrubs

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I'm not a low level invader but this weapon is cool I like it

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The preferred weapon of low SL invaders far and wide.

Not something that really requires any skill to use, moreso just a weapon that in my experience is used to give fresh runs and noobs a hard time.

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Can someone drop it for me please?
PSN id : m38-mf__1998

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This weapon got me through all the DLCs on ng and through vanilla up to ng+3 at SL40 solo. A great weapon for those that want to do a low level run (or several) or for the people that suck at PvP and need a crutch though it wont help out the latter very much.

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if you put carthus flame ark on this weapon does the lightning damage get replaced or is it added on?

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For the love of whoever, please stop invading the High Wall for twinking, go to the forest or even undead settlement, I'm sick of starting a new playthrough and some schmuck just walks on over dealing 150 damage or more per hit with this when I have 600 HP with an ember at soul level 18, like the best weapon at this point in progression is broadsword or the deep battle axe and those aren't going to hit for 150 but rather 80-100. Either way though the dark hand is 10x worse and if you are planning on invading at the High Wall just keep it in your back pocket in case you meet another twink, it's not fun getting 4 shot with improper gear.

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Is there another way of getting the Dragonslayer's Axe after you kill Pontiff?

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Can I use this for a strength build? If so, what do I need to do to get the best out of this weapon?

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I'm new to ds3 and working on ng+ I missed this weapon my first run and JUST MISSED IT AGAIN! if anyone on PS4 Is willing to sell this to me I will give a 20$ PS currency card for everything Creighton the Wanderer drops when you kill him a 2nd time. PS network name is Trash_Random

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That thing has high damage but its not even a good twink weapon tbh. Its stats requirement are too high so you either use 1- 2 ring slots or end up with low HP at SL 15 and under. I absolutely love low level PvP, and this is one the the weapon i know i have an advantage against right of the bath. Its got damn poor reach for how slow it is, limited to weak move set with a next to useless R2 in PvP, and everyone knows you cannot trade against it because of its high damage. Any half decent player can cause just as much if not more mayhem and damage with a raw broadsword just because of the speed and move set.

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How are you suppose to fight off this invasion AFTER Sirris questline (which includes killing Aldrich) with Sulyvahn still alive? Doesnt you have to kill Pontiff to get to Anor Londo and Aldrich??

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Is a sharp dragon slayer axe better then a sharp lothric sword?

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So far I’m 808 AR one hand with this axe...been fun trying out new builds

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can you get it offline?

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For this reason, this weapon falied for me a couple of times while doing a backstab to a darkwratih, my character started the move, bud the enemy kept striking. Will keep trying, I love this axe from DS2 and would hate to lose it.

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This used to scale with faith in DS2, atleast it's still a great weapon.

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