Great Machete | Dark Souls 3 Wiki

This weapon on Heavy +10 absolutely rules, the vertical R1 animation can trigger head attacks reliably vs dancer for example. the damage is pretty good, the attacks are fast and tbh it has decent stam consumption. also don't forget to use L2 to sharpen it when the bosses do their phase change animation. Finished the whole game in 14 hours with it on my 1st playthrough. tbh idk if the weapon carried me or what but regardless i had a ton of fun with it! 10/10 would swap to this if it dropped again.

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What items to I need to upgrade it to +7???

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Somebody needs to update this page, this weapon gets an A scaling in strength at +9

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this plus paris hat plus assasin set = bloodborne cosplay

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Amazing weapon. Used it to kill just about every end game boss, I liked it more than Vordt's hammer in my pure str

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Some of these infusions are a first for me, I didn't play DS2. How is refined, which I assume is quality, at such a disadvantage to raw with no scaling ? I'm missing something.

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For a great weapon this swings pretty fast.

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I just haven't found a good replacement--it's too reliable. Every other heavy moveset feels so slow in contrast to it.

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First weapon ever to carry me through the game. Just a random drop saved me from quitting all together.

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IMO, one of the best kept secrets of DS3, if the first attack connects, with a low to mid poise enemy, pve or pvp, it's game over, stun locked baby, with a rolling R1 finisher.
Killed every boss, even Midir, with it, as well as many pvp kills.
The attack animation is super fast, allowing first hit.
Rolling R1 is a mini AoE in front and sides and can interrupt most attack animations.
It's weakness is crowd control and is a stamina hog, both of which can be managed with good spacing!

8 days to ELDEN Ring!
Praise the Sun!!!

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Anyone know if the hollow version is any good? I have 35 strength ,16 sec and 41 luck. Thought it'd be a cool hollow weapon since base version only has a C in strength anyways

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Best place to farm this weapon is Undead Settlement - Dilapidated Bridge. There is a large undead with a plank on his back right by the bonfire. No other enemies in the way

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you'd think this would drop from the Smoldering Ghru since they wield a weapon model that actually looks like this weapon, but...no. it drops from the guys holding a side-handled saw blade???

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Using this right now and tbh it's my go-to weapon atm

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Had a bit of a rough time farming this weapon. After numerous attempts I went and got the claymore and buffed it +1. Went back to undead settlement and I **** you not the first of the enemies that wields this drops it…. Thank you dark souls

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This weapon is incredibly terrible and it sucks since it’s pretty cool. Neither the range nor damage justify the lack of a two hit combo. With Yhorm’s it makes sense since it does the most damage out of all the weapons in the game and has insane range but this one is just bad. Not worth using unless you want to face PvE and enemies specifically weak to slash damage.

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i wish it had bleed like the enemies who drop it

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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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Honestly one of my favorite weapons for a low-level run-through of the game. If you're running through at level 24-30 to do crucifixion woods pvp on NG it will make your quest much easier. This weapon makes nearly every NPC trivial as its range makes it so you're already mid-swing or mid-smash before they even start an attack animation. Its not incredible for 1 on 1 pvp but its nice to not be able to be parried while 2-handing it. It has
a low strength requirement to be able to not worry about being parried. Huge range and a small stun aoe even if you don't hit them but they're near the impact.

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I seem to occasionally catch people in two-hit combos while two-handing this weapon. My theory is that not everyone knows that they can dodge after the first one, so some of them either time it wrong or simply don’t try, and let the pain wash over them while they contemplate happier times; times when their skulls did not have a cleaver lodged in them.

Point is, don’t count this weapon out based solely on this one drawback.

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"Miyazaki can we have Bloodborne on PC?"
"We already have Bloodborne on PC"
Bloodborne on PC:

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BONK!!!

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It would make more sense, if the demon pyromancers in smouldering lake were to drop them

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Used it 2h with Heavy for first playtrough pure str build, works really good in early-mid game, stuns almost everything, even if you miss, good range, weight and stamina usage, even can buff itself. Only thing is bad is range on 2h roll r1.
But then i found Greatsword...

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you can get it at where the dilapidated bridge where that one big guy walks back and forth where the giant is shooting arrows in the graveyard

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I need help on dancer of the boreal valley I can't beat her I have +5 great machete and ok stats I need tips

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I don't have this weapon yet. Do the 2 undead before the Cathedral drop it? It might double as an Evangelist farm

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Do I use this weapon because it's top tier? Nah, I use cause it looks better than Yhorm's.

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I actually was farming the spiked mace for my pure strength build and got this bad boi right here. Completely friggin forgot about it and now it’s my main along with the spiked mace and vordts hammer. I got summoned by a guy while I was trying to get some souls to level str and noticed he was warrior class as well but still rocking the battle axe, so I just to drop one of my extra 5 of these and told him to 2 hand it and destroyed that trees balls. Gotta keep these new bois playing. As my dad once said “We may tell these scrubs to git gud, but we shan’t pass the time to help one git gudder-er”

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Gets an A at +9.

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So sad:
1- Weapon players use is not like the enemies.
2- Doesn't have a Server WA like the enemies.
3- Doesn't have the Bleed enemies have.

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Calling this weapon predictable is like calling a ganker a poor sport. It's true but an understatement. The range and damage are great for the weight, but literally everything it does is a downward smashy smash. Gives me DeS flashbacks

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Ah, don't you just LOVE it when your inventory gets cluttered by about 50 of these.

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Spacing and speed make it pretty good for PvP, but the way it cleaves through PvE makes it hard to put down until you find your build's weapon of choice while leveling a fresh playthrough. Most surprisingly fun weapon I've tried.

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The strength bonus with Heavy +9 is now 'A' instead of 'B'

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i use this weapon at 10, sharpen and with lighting. 5 hits and its done

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man is this weapon f***ing boring to see

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Its weird that its not dropped by the demon/ghru clerics in the demon ruins. I mean they literally wield it, the butchers in undead settlement dont.

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Sharpen lasts for 35 seconds, unlike what the sharpen page says. Very good pve weapon for mid levels where yhorms costs too much stam and weights too much.

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C'mon m8, literally every fokin weapon in the game, from the broken straight sword to the fucking gotthards have a guaranteed combo.
It is NOT an opinion, at this point, it's a straight up FACT that it is an UNUSUAL way of balancing the weapon.
If yer gonna talk shet about opinions, make sure they actually super count as opinions, you on-the-fence bastard.

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I prefer using this machete over Yhorm's. Why use this when the other is better in every single way, ignoring the heavier weight? Well, you see Yhorm's machete all the time in PvP, unlike this weapon. Also, I personally think this weapon kind of looks cooler. Yhorm's machete is just a bit too large for my taste, no pun intended.

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the heavy infusion take the scaling to A on strength

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What would be a good set to make a Capra demon cosplay?

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My Heavy Great Machete +10 says it has an "A" modifier for str. The table here has it as a "B" modifier.

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Can someone drop this damn thing for me I have been farming for 2 hours and still haven't got it my own is twanderingpigeon

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I'm currently using this and I noticed that even at +7 it has a poison rating of 87 which is a lot higher than what it says.

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Anyone else notice that when you use the sharpen weapon art your VS thrust absorption drops? Mine went from a 26 to 4.

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So we just kind of throw some unfounded speculation in there in the description? There is no evidence whatsoever that the weapon isn't working like intended, and if one wants to consider it an "odd way to balance the weapon" then ok, but I didn't think wiki descriptions were designed as a forum for people to share their opinions on game balance. That would be why there's a discussion section.

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Finally got one after 40 minutes-ish of farming outside Crystal Sage with 260-310 item discovery.

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I had two drop at the same time from two of these Hags with the sawblades and the big Pot on their back in the corridor behind the illusion witch boss - for anyone wanting to farm this. Moveset dosnt seem so good tho

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Not bad but does not look like that in the opponents hand. They wield a saw like weapon to cut through wood probably (has big teeth) not this giant cleaver. Strange decision there from ...FROM.

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Does the weapon art of this increase damage, or does it restore HP with each hit, because the Butcher Knife also has Sharpen and it restores HP.

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This machete is a drop, you can farm it from Crystal Sage Bonfire. take right and try to kill the Giants there. it will be drop from them. i tried hard to get it and after many tries still can not get it. what i did then is that i increased my Luck from 7 to 8 and after that in first try i got it. happy farming ;)

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A powerful strength weapon good hyper armor and stun aoe. Not bad stamina consumption either. Infuse with hvy to pwn newbs

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Is this just a really rare drop? I keep getting titanite shards and rubbish.

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it has less range and damage but it takes less stam and is lighter its still worth using

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Saw Cleaver on DkS3 :D

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In my opinion this weapon is best STRENGTH BUILD EARLY GAME WEAPON, you get it roughly like what after probably 6 bonfires give or take a few, and when slabbed it deals 400+ dmg, only thing is its bad for new comers because its rolling attack is absolute *****...

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Both machetes are axe classed, and most axes dont have combo unless warcried.. It's not a bug, look at lothric knight sword, too, it has no combo either just stabs.. NOT a bug, not all weapons get a combo genius.

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The item description lists this as a worker tool in the undead settlement, and it drops from the big plank guys there. There's a problem though. Those guys don't use the great machete. Their weapon looks like a serrated version of Yhorms Great Machete and causes bleeding, yet they drop a Great Machete. The only enemy in the game that actually does use the Great Machete is the Smoldering Ghru in the Smoldering Lake, but they don't drop it. I'm glad it's available early game, because it's my favorite weapon right now, but that doesn't make sense to me.

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People constantly try to parry me when I'm 2 handing this weapon. They must not realize it's a greataxe, because I've never had anyone attempt to parry my DSGA.

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What does this have over the great axe in late game??

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Brings me to my first time being invaded in Ds3.... Dude runs up with the Xanthous set on and sharpens this *****er right in front of me... I promtly killed myself like the little ***** that I am.