Dragonslayer Greataxe | Dark Souls 3 Wiki

Finding the best weapon in dark souls III is a very hard task. Every single weapon in the game has a loyal following of players that say "THIS IS THE BEST WEAPON IN THE GAME!!!". The truth of the matter is that no weapon is perfect. Every single weapon will fail you and absolutely destroy at some point. Every weapon is situational. The task is finding the weapon that fails you the least while also performing at it's best as much as possible. I have tried many different weapons in the 100 hours I have put into this game, and I understand that some people that is nothing compared to what they have put into this game, but the Dragonslayer Greataxe fails me so little and smashes almost every boss it touches, I have to say that this is the best weapon I have found. The only problem with it is that I have found it suboptimal against invaders. But that's it. You can count the amount of bosses who are very resistant to lightning damage on one hand, and it still maintains a great deal of physical damage. The weapon skill is super powerful and so much fun. If you want to play through Dark souls III, I can think of no better weapon than the Dragonslayer Greataxe.

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The Dragonslayer Greataxe...this is how you turn easy mode on, breezed through NG+ with it, there aren't very many enemies that can just shrug this off.

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If you are a min/maxer you will inevitably end up with this weapon, there is no way around it.

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Killed the soul of cinder on my secound try when i equiped this bad boy

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should i only level strength or have a split between strength and faith?

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The boss deleter

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Unquestionably, the number one PVE weapon.

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L2 hard carried on ng+3 aldrich after getting diddled 6 attempts w greatsword

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Very good against twin princes, not only because Lorian is weak to lightning but its able to hit both of them in second phase.

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I love this thing, it's one of the best strength weapons. Shreds so many bosses and so many players think it's a good idea to trade with the weapon art that does massive amounts of damage. Most anti-climatic spear of the church fight I had cause the player-boss rolled into both the blade and the lightning on the second hit

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Awesome weapon. Infused this with lightning slash and upgraded it to +8 and made short work of Radahn.

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This was brought forward as the Executioner's Greataxe is Elden Ring.

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its the moon cleaver from kenshi

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Best Weapon, otherwise your opinion is invalid.

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Used the dragon slayer great axe for the first time and beat nameless and Gael on the first try and midir on the second. I would like to rate this 0 disabled frail children out of 10 ignorant slaves, Wouldn’t try this again felt like shoving a falling bolt up sister friedes *ss.

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This weapon art slaps hard

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The weapon art is great again Lorian, just be sure to time it right

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some dude imported this to elden ring when i invaded him and im dumbfounded

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I love this thing. Keep coming back to it for PVE

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I love this weapon, but it bugs me that the blade is dull.

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Something this page should mention.
The weapon art has two attacks. The axe and the lightning bolt. If someone gets hit from the side they will only get hit with the lightning but if you hit someone with this head on, you will hit them with both axe and WA lightning which might lead to one shot.

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To blatantly copy a random comment I found on youtube:

Dragon(s)layer Gr(e)ata(x)e

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why does it mention a moveset glitch? this isnt meant to be used like that lol

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It would be so cool if it had the Dragonslayer's stance where it dragged the axe on the ground instead of the block.

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all I've ever wanted is for this thing to have horizontal swinging R1s with the current vertical slamming R2s. C'mon. A giant axe can move more ways than down.

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I can confirm the wa can be parried.

I can also confirm no one ever survived to get a riposte thanks to instability frames + SHAZAM.

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Why do 90% of Aldrich Faithful invaders use this thing? i swear, it's unreal how common this thing is.

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Can someone remove the Bloodlust moveset swap glitch "tip"? Doesn't belong in a wiki at all.

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Wish this was paired with the greatshield similar to valorheart. That would've been the dopest moveset

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Enemies and bosses: Haha it's the ashen o... (sees the ashen one with a BKGS, BKGA, Yhorm's Machete or this)... Oh.

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-Hits like a train carrying 200 tons of dynamite.

-Hyperarmor for lifetimes.

-Not even Perseverance can stop you from getting pancaked by this things weapon art.

-Can't be spaced since it's attacks and weapon art still reward you for missing.

Absolute cancer weapon to fight. It's an automatic pointdown whenever I kill a player who uses this.

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Year 2021 and i still find idiots who thinks they can parry the wa of this weapon and live to tell it. It's about a stupid as trying to stop a nuclear bomb with a finger.

2 hitboxes, ppl. 2!

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can u parry DGA?

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yhorm machete or dragonslayer greatyxe ?

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which is better for PvP the Dragonslayer Greataxe or the Lothric Knight Greatsword?

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I feel kinda guilty using this weapon, it melts everything you encounter and I am in NG++, cant wait to get to Midir...

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Good for slaying dragons.

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WA is the ultimate **** off attack and I love it

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One of the best PvE weapons in the game. WA deals insane amounts of damage. Grab your Farron Ring and enjoy easy game.

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BOOM BAM BOP BADABOP BOOMP POW

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the person below the person below the person below me is a dumbass

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Falling Bolt can deal +/- 2400dmg in +5 with 80str/60dex/40faith (no rings). This thing is a nucler weapon against pve ffs.

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whoever made the comment below me should be put down

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This useless axe sucks asss!! geeeeeeeeeeee, how dumb can you be for picking up this weapon. Ok, it has some uses in term of pve but if you pull out this **** in pvp? mannnnn you'll be pooped on repeatedly. I myself has pointed down quite alot of casuls using this axe with my pkcs (no, fu** you, pkcs is not for casuls) because their attacks were so sluggish while pkcs's R1 is lighting fast. Combining with my top-notch skill. scrubs using this axe are my easy prey.

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if you use weapon swap glitch with dagger, you can combo dragonslayer GA dagger speed into weapon art with a 1400 damage combo. with hypermode morion blade RTSR you get over 2000 damage in pvp. I don't reccomend trying hypermode build. its already strong enough without it. if you dont know what weapon moveset swap is look it up on youtube.

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How to win at DS3: Obtain GS Axe, obtain good shield with weapon skill, equip Farron ring to reduce FP consumption, hit L2.

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step 1. obtain dark hand,
step 2. kill dancer,
step 3. transpose vordt soul into the ice bonker,
step 4. rescue miracle touch lady and her edgy bodyguard,
step 5. summon your new friend to tank while you freeze the armor to death,
step 6. invade with this absolute unit of an "axe"

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I have completed a dragon slayer run on my ng+3. And believe me you will feel op every single moment. For example the shield can stagger winged and outrider knights in every single hit! And the shield bash will always throw enemies vulnerable to stagger to the ground with no iframes! Which you can exploit spamming WA of the axe for massive damage. Also the great axe imo deals the highest damage to lightning weak enemies and to midir. The WA of axe has stamina consumption consumption like 20% less than WA of lothric ugs. I get why this build is so underrated because of pvp reason but I would definitely recommend to try it once.

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I call thee the mighty midir minimizer

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Oh boy it’s a gankers weapon cause this piece of trash can’t be used solo and people that try to are usually idiots who get destroyed pick the pkcs and stop getting destroyed

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it DESTROYS midir, like, even an attack outside his head does the same damage as a non-buffed uchigatana would do in the head, HOLY ****

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How dope would've it been if this was a paired weapon with the great shield?

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Lightning Clutch Ring + DSGA? Thoughts?

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the boss slayer great axe

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Absurdly powerful, particularly for PvE. Falling bolt on this weapon can kill almost any non-beefy fodder enemy, and with a good STR/DEX/FTH distribution can even kill Black Knights if I remember correctly. Just as much of a nuke in PvP, but it isn't quite as good for that cause because it telegraphs even harder than the Fume or Dragon Tooth. Still an extremely fun weapon to use, easily my favorite weapon with it's crude look and destructive feel.

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The WA just anihilates mob bosses like the Deacons and groups of weaker enemies like Ghru or Hollows and even Skeletons. On top of that you can pretty much spam it because of the high stagger and low FP cost. Does around 1250 AoE damage at +5 with 60 Strength and 25 Faith.

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This thing has the most absurd phantom range I've ever seen on a weapon

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I would like to ask that how good is the poise that it gives while attacking?

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So I tried Tears of Denial out while invading. Allong comes a Sunbro about to unload the WA on me. Big brain that I am, try to out trade it with the WA of my UGS.
Guess what? The electricity has a separate hitbox which annihilated my 1 remaining HP. I am a wiser, more humble man now.

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Before defeating boss longer stick after giving ds soul to ludleth shorter stick and ta da ugly looking greataxe

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Yesterday, i was invaded by a dude. I used weapon art and just only one hit his health bar goes down from 1092 to 93 very quick.

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THUNDER...
THUNDER...
THUNDERCATS! HOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOOO

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Anyone know the minimum strength to 2 hand this weapon?

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At +5 with 40 strength and 30 dexterity my damage is 798

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Somebody said that the weapon art can be parried...

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If you use this weapon and stay around SL60 for invasion, it will two shot about 90% of the players. All you need is 40 str.

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Off hand Estoc combos into r1's with this weapon. This has become one of my favorite play styles lately.

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Parry with this while using hornet ring. BOOM

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The weapon art is no longer parryable.

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Finger but hole!

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plzzz in the morning of the 25th of june put down a summon sign plz. i will greatly thank you.

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by her i mean friede.

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i use this weapon +5 2 handed at 37 str 32 fth but cant kill her please help and please respond to this comment. plz snd halp

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This meta greataxe never got old. I love it!

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Very good for midir, ***** that guy

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This thing is absurdly strong in regular NG. I decided to try a STR/FTH character, I was at 30/30, using this at +5, which gives like 720AR two handed, and just absolutely victimized Soul of Cinder. Staggered him off two light attacks, then staggered him again immediately with the weapon art on the wakeup. Whole fight took under a minute. I didn't even play very well. Ridiculous.

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I'm seeing a lot more of these lately. Did I miss something?

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the best way to ruin someone's fight club is to just to spam this when they aren't paying attention. The fun police will not be stopped

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I'm beginning to understand why people think we're toxic from these comments.

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Are ppl really trying to parry this weapons WA? Even if you manage to parry the axe, that one shot lightning strike will pancake you so hard you ll respawn in the dreg heap

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COME ON AND SLAM!

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Nut

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40/40 strength/dex while putting some points in faith (at least 19) can get you up to 750 ar

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Equip the Lightning Clutch Ring, make sure to have decent FTH/STR investment on a higher NG, then bring this baby into the Deacons bossfight. Excellent mob-clearing with the weapon art!

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It's a very good weapon. Great for PvE in general and even invader will be alot more careful around you if you wield this. It's early obtainable, the knight ring is around the same area and it's a real dragon killer (Oceiros, Midir, Lothric). With Farron Ring and a simple infusion in your offhand you can use the WA regulary. 9/10

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Imagine if someone made a sl 13 warrior high wall twink that only leveled strength to use this weapon...

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w0w thIs is 0p neRf FroM sOftWare!1111111!11!11111

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"cAn S0mE 1 giVv iT to MEE I *****ing hate this guy who wrote this

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Can someone give me one of these?

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Can this Weapon be parried? I wanna punish my casul friend

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WA now unparriable. SInce ... ...dunno, didn't found it in patch notes. But in the past it was easily parriable

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From the Creators of R1 spam Dark Sword and L1 spam R.K.P.G comes the next chapter of mashing a single button until you go Hollow. L2 spam Dragonslayer Greataxe. In theatres near you!

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I have 60 strength 60 dexterity and 60 faith and with the lightning clutch ring this things gets an AR of like 820

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If I make the DS GA +5 what strength scaling will I get? Yhorm's gets A scaling.

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Probably the best plunging attack weapon in the game lol. too bad its overused, im kinda sick of seeing it everywhere. but hey if you have fun with it thats all that matters.

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Even at 40 Str and just 12 Faith G.S G.A gets just under 700AR. It's a solid weapon for those with the Stamina and timing to use it in PVE. That being said, after having used it for awhile it does have a couple failings to balance it out; Extremely predictable moveset, all are overhead Smashs to the ground excluding the 2H roll which is the normal push into ground GA move. In a battle Royale or against new players this thing is effective but it's very easy to Parry and roll from. Having both used it and had G.S G.A used against me I wouldn't recommend it for PVP. I know different opinions can hurt peoples feelings but this won't be working on anyone except Turtles and new players. Lastly I do enjoy it's WA which is a delayes overhead with a small lightning AoE in front of you. Very useful for Critical follow ups that nornally knock down most enemies giving you 3 or more damaging hits if they survive. Also ensures you wont miss the easily dodgeble WA. Thanks for reading!

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The wa of this great axe is the perfect counter for other weapon s wa like astora greatsword s or ringed paired greatsword s. That huge slam is really punishing

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The popularity of this weapon opens it up to the same vulnerabilities as all greataxes since the easily predictable, slow, stamina heavy and simplistic moves become easy to avoid for any players who are beyond brainless R1 trades. Still nasty for ripostes and plunges of course.

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60 STR, 40 faith. Weapon art along with lightning clutch ring and some buffs = DESTRUCTION!! srsly though, this thing is just two OP. Just to OP, i LOVE IT!!!!

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