Halberds are a type of Weapon in Dark Souls 3. These Weapons usually do moderate damage and have long reach. Halberds are generally either a fusion between a spear and another weapon, thus combining straight thrusting attacks and wide swinging strikes, or are simply a cutting or chopping weapon on a long shaft, which is swung across and overhead at a distance. These weapons often have trouble performing in close range or tight quarters.
Just like Reapers, they have a "sweet spot" mechanic that awards players extra damage. Even though the sour spots return as well, the damage difference between the sweet spot hit and the sour spot hit isn't as harsh.
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125 40.0 |
0 25.0 |
0 20.0 |
0 20.0 |
0 25.0 |
100 20 |
0 0 0 |
16 D |
12 D |
0 - |
0 - |
75 8.0 |
15( -/13) |
Sold by the Shrine Handmaid at Firelink Shrine for 1500 souls. Dropped by Hollow Soldiers with Halberds in High Wall of Lothric |
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126 40.0 |
0 25.0 |
0 20.0 |
0 20.0 |
0 25.0 |
100 20 |
0 0 0 |
15 D |
13 D |
0 - |
0 - |
75 7.5 |
8 (-/14) |
Looted from a corpse to the right of the entrance to Emma at her church in High Wall of Lothric. | ||
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135 50 |
0 30 |
0 25 |
0 25 |
0 30 |
100 25 |
0 0 0 |
26 D |
16 E |
0 - |
0 - |
145 14 |
10(-/18) |
Dropped by Winged Knights wielding this weapon (rare drop) | ||
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130 40.0 |
0 25.0 |
0 20.0 |
0 20.0 |
0 25.0 |
100 20 |
0 0 0 |
14 D |
14 D |
0 - |
0 - |
80 8.0 |
11 (-/-) |
In the sewers of Undead Settlement, next to where you find the statue of Velka. | ||
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150 40.0 |
0 25.0 |
0 30.0 |
0 20.0 |
0 25.0 |
100 25 |
0 0 0 |
28 D |
18 D |
0 - |
0 - |
115 9.0 |
8 (-/14) |
Found in the boss arena for Champion Gundyr. | ||
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145 45.0 |
0 30.0 |
0 25.0 |
0 25.0 |
0 30.0 |
100 25 |
0 0 0 |
30 C |
15 E |
0 - |
0 - |
500 13.0 |
15 (-/15) |
Craft via Soul Transposition from Soul of Champion Gundyr | ||
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118 40 |
0 25 |
75 20 |
0 20 |
0 25 |
100 25 |
0 0 0 |
18 D |
18 D |
12 B |
12 - |
85 10.0 |
20(-/-) |
Drops from Fire Witches in Irithyll of the Boreal Valley. | ||
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119 40.0 |
0 25.0 |
0 20.0 |
0 20.0 |
0 25.0 |
100 20.0 |
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12 D |
0 - |
0 - |
75 6.0 |
20 (-/-) |
Purchased from Shrine Handmaid after giving her Paladin's Ashes. | ||
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141 45.0 |
0 30.0 |
0 25.0 |
0 25.0 |
0 30.0 |
100 25.0 |
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11 E |
0 - |
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95 11.0 |
8(-/14) |
Buy for 3500 souls from Greirat | ||
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132 40 |
0 25 |
0 20 |
0 20 |
0 25 |
100 20 |
0 0 0 |
26 C |
16 E |
0 - |
0 - |
90 13.5 |
17/20 |
Can be bought from the Stone-humped Hag at The Dreg Heap | ||
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124 45 |
0 30 |
0 25 |
0 25 |
0 25 |
74 25 |
0 0 0 |
19 D |
0 - |
10 E |
14 D |
80 12.0 |
-(-/17) |
Drops from Shira when you face her in the final area of The Ringed City | ||
AnonymousI'm a halberd fan, but god damn what the hell are these halberds in elden ring, they all suck!
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the sweet spot mechanic helps with avoiding parrying, I have been using halberds in pvp and I can say the amount of times people try to parry my halberd and actually get the parry are low, this may be because of sweet spot mechanic I think
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Im usually not the type to use 2 different weapon simultaneously, but this thing just rocks. Blessed Halberd in main hand, Lightning Scimitar in offhand, plus Canvas talisman with Lightning storm ready to cast and Lightning arrow for pressure.
Halberd to spacing and pokes, scimitar for rollcatching people rolling into you or for unexpected parries (not many people know it can parry). Also gold enough for crowd control. Lightning storm for people who like to stick to your ass. The only problem are aggressive greatsword users, as they have just enough poise to tank through pokes, and pokes are rather slow. Also, SPEARS. They will ruin your day, they pretty much hard counter that thing, especially long ones like RKS. Otherwise really solid.
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How much poise do you need to trade using a halberd, and what can you trade with?
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This class has by far the worst 2 handed heavy attack. Useless and has no function gameplay wise.
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ok, but why are these used mainly as thrust weapons? Like, the entire moveset is thrusting
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I hate how the glaive type halberds are the only ones with hyper armor.
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How do you beat these things in PvP? The vertical moveset makes it hard to space and net lag won't let you get around them. Plus most of them combo into their weapon arts so one hit will take away more than half of your hp
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imagine if there were a 'weapon art' that basically did the Church Pick's transformed L2 hip check, and doing that allowed you to switch between halberd movesets; from pokes to overhead smashes and vice-versa.
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they need to fix it up, crucifix has dark damage where crit should be and theres more mistakes like that throughout
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clicking Weapons at the top of the page where it says "Halberds are a type of Weapon in Dark Souls 3." brings you to the wrong link,
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Know what I miss? Blunt halberds. Mirdan hammer, archdrake mace etc. Those thing looked cool as hell and were shield eaters. That being said, at least halberds have realistic moves in this game
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halberds use the sweet spot mechanic (hitting with a certain part of the weapon does extra damages) such as other weapons like spears or scythes. but for this class only will sometime happen a bug where you get both the normal and sweet spot damage in one single hit. occurs rarely but often enought to be noticeable. latency probably explains that
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Anyone notice that when using Glaives sometimes...it does a double hit? Like you'll swing at someone once and you'll do double damage?
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The regular halberd is the ultimate weapon in ds1 and ds3, fight me, I will use a halberd
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instead of giving us winged knight halberd,halberd and immolation tinder they could have gave us syan's halberd (for hybrid moveset),blue knight halberd (instead of halberd),dragonslayer halberd (instead of winged knight halberd and immolation tinder because better dmg output with sorcery) and at least give 1 halberd a moveset from DS2 but hey f*ck DS2 amirite.
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14/8/2017 Crucifix data is messed up, someone left the dark damage field blank and put it in countervalue instead.
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I need help with choosing the best all round halberd, any opinions?
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I don't know if it applies to all of them, but at least Red Hilted Halberd, Lucerne, and Glaive; the sour spot does strike damage.
I noticed something was weird against the slugs in the swamp, sweet spot was doing heaps heaps more than sour spot; then I noticed that sour hits crumbled skeletons in the catacombs.
That means that the normal halberds only do thrust damage with the tip, otherwise standard or strike damage. Possibly means sour hits break guards more easily.
I suppose the war cry skill is supposed to compensate for the relatively low AR, so has anyone had success with this? I might try it on my str/fth build.
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patch notes: Increased player’s resistance to physical attacks, and increased damage done to opponent’s guard when equipping Halberds.
Halberds add to your defensive value? or they just increased the block values?
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Perhaps this class should've been called "Polearms". But this is a complaint I've been making since DS1. The glaive, formerly known as the scythe, is neither. It's a bardiche, as is Gundyr's halberd.The Black Knight Halberd, or Glaive now, is a glaive-guisarme, but at least they're in the right ballpark. I have no idea what to call the Winged Knight Halberd. Probably some kind of mutant fat glaive, kinda like the Winged Knights themselves.And then there's the Immolation Tinder, which is... nothing on this earth.Also, the lucerne looks more like a bec de corbin to me.In short, 2/9 of the weapons in the halberd class are actually halberds.Good job, From.
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It is kinda disappointing not to see the blue knight halberd return from dark souls 2, that was the one weapon that allowed me to go through the game with ease, kinda
...at least that's what I seem to hear all the time. Don't get me wrong it's an issue across the board really, but I seem to hear complaints about phantom range from Halberd types more than any other.But then, the polearm/halberd type weapons have always had sort of wonky range issues against other players in the previous games. I'm long done trying to figure out how From Soft's netcode works so maybe it's safe to just assume the weapons' reach is longer than it seems when you go up against one. lol
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range, damage, and speed all combined into a glorious amalgamation of pvp and pve extravaganza that don mean it aint easy to use mate
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if PKCS and all other curved swords were removed, I'd take up a halberd, and start killing casuls.
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