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6:3 generic katana/interesting katana ratio, might as well delete 5 of those which is more than 50% of the katanas in the game. "We had some gameplay ideas we wanted to do but the artists have stopped working on the project so here you go" *throws 6 identical basic katanas on the table*

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I'm glad we all agree moonveil is bad in a ds3 fan wiki instead of on the moonveil fan wiki or to the devs so they will actually nerf it.

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i just use them because they are cool but im not a weeb i hate anime i hate japan

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I've used katanas in pvp for a little while now (mainly chaos blade) and a thing you can do that I haven't seen anyone mention is use the hold WA to go straight into it after an attack, which lets you access the WA r1 or the parry earlier than it might visually seem. I've found this to be most useful when I miss a running r1, because as the opponent comes to whiff punish I can access the parry very quickly. This gives me the riposte more often than not to the point of running hornet's ring in a dedicated slot on my build because it gets so much value. The riposte boost combined with my ar boost from flynn's ring and power within on my 60 dex sl120 chaos blade build will very easily get over 1.1k damage at medium absorptions, outright ending the fight a lot of the time. Now if the enemy is being cautious with going for the whiff punish wou always have the r1 attack from the hold position, which is a nice mixup and has good range and speed. Katanas do not get a lot of hyperarmor so I think sacrificing some absorption in exchange for light rolls is the better thing to do when running katanas as you don't want to be poise trading anyway. I think the equip load may also affect the range on the jumping r2 because i go absolutely flying at sub 30% load, but I haven't confirmed this. With light rolls you will be very mobile and will be able to create space or close on on the enemy easily, which is good becuase spacing is everything with katanas imo.

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Damn, I forgot DS3 had 8 katanas. Then again, I guess I didn't see them often in pvp or co-op like I do in Elden Ring...

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When 2 handed, fully charged r2 truecombos into the 2nd uncharged r2, and after that the wa r1 rollcatches 90% of the time. Might not work as well with some katanas like black blade or dark drift, but on chaos blade it's as brutal as an ugs combo.

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remember when katanas weren't the meta...
yeah so do i...
i miss that time...

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Jetstream sam cosplay time

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the only gamers who speak japanese and scare me are the ones who are actually asian

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Playing these just bcus im Doing a Sasaki Kojiro cosplay :|

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Basically greatswords without poise

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Souls community is like using katana makes you a weeb but using curved swords doesn't makes you an Arabian?!

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which non split AR katana has the most? is it the Chaos blade or the Black Blade?

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test comment

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no broken hyperarmor no fun nobody uses katanas on PVP these days ER PVP will suck if From Soft balance the weapons hyperarmor so badly again

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Fck off katana weebs ill just keep destroying you with my crow quills and lkss

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Katana user tend to be the scummiest players this community has to offer. STEAL FOLDING spamming losers

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Katana user tend to be the scummiest players this community has to offer. Running attack spamming losers

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If you could buff the katanas in this game, would you do it? And how? I would personally give them hyper armor and make them do a bit more damage (and possibly increase their durability)

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shashumga

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TEH KATANA STEEL GOT FOLDED 999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999^999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999999 TIMES!!!!!11!!1!!1!1!11111!11

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Sword Master cosplayer here, this weapon is fun for non-twink invasions around 20-35 sl

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As a dex player I can’t really find a reason to use these. They’re inferior to straight swords in every way. But in the end everything loses to UGSs in both pve and pvp so it doesn’t really matter anyway

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Weeboo

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Neckbeard weapon

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PvP nowadays is basically who makes the mistake of getting hit 1st. So, for anything less than a 'Great' weapon, it comes down to range & speed. Unique katanas aside, apart from taking maybe 1-2 more attacks to kill a guy, any reason to use the others over the Washing Pole?

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Katanas deserve much better than that. Much, much better than that. I should know what I'm talking about. I myself commissioned a genuine katana in Japan for 2,400,000 Yen (that's about $20,000) and have been practicing with it for almost 2 years now. I can even cut slabs of solid steel with my katana.

Japanese smiths spend years working on a single katana and fold it up to a million times to produce the finest blades known to mankind.

Katanas are thrice as sharp as European swords and thrice as hard for that matter too. Anything a longsword can cut through, a katana can cut through better. I'm pretty sure a katana could easily bisect a knight wearing full plate with a simple vertical slash.

Ever wonder why medieval Europe never bothered conquering Japan? That's right, they were too scared to fight the disciplined Samurai and their katanas of destruction. Even in World War II, American soldiers targeted the men with the katanas first because their killing power was feared and respected.

So what am I saying? Katanas are simply the best sword that the world has ever seen. This is a fact and you can't deny it.

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刀は太った器用さのカジュアルのためのものです

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Artorias' favorite weapon class, in case you want an accurate cosplay

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Darkdrift=worst katana frayed blade=best katana

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I found a reference video of the katana Parry.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QR2J6qV9N7g

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Here is the range of all Katanas from Longest to Shortest:

*1 Hand R1 :
1-Washing Pole : 22(The Running R1 is ~32.5)
2-Chaos Blade : 20.5
3-Uchigatana : 20.5
4-Frayed Blade : 20.5
5-Onikiri and Ubadachi : 20.5
6-Darkdrift : 19.5
7-Bloodlust : 19
8-Black Blade : 19

*2 Hand R1 :
1-Onikiri and Ubadachi : 14(1st L1),21(2nd L1)
2-Washing Pole : 19
3-Frayed Blade : 18.5
4-Chaos Blade : 18.5
5-Uchigatana : 18
6-Darkdrift : 16.5
7-Bloodlust : 16
8-Black Blade : 16

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All this nippon swords and none could beat the one, the only, ultimate Dex weapon pkcs. Like really, none of you scrubs could beat pkcs users in a fair fight.

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pkcs > trash weaboo wepon class

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I really like how katanas are portrayed in this game. In so many films and video games they are portrayed as magical godlike swords that can cut through steel and that are indestructible, but in dark souls, they are actually realistic, they do slash damage (meaning they are bad against armour) and they have low durability, which is also realistic (katanas were prone to dinting and cracking) while still maintaining a cool (but not unrealistic) moveset and good damage against lightly armoured enemies.(what they were made for)
Thank you FromSoftware for not pandering to the desires of katana fanboys!

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G l o r i o u s nippon steel, folded over 1000 times...

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wow epic

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I miss the manslayer from ds2 :(

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Really hoping katanas will be great in the demon souls remake, they are fun to use but can be tricky to use in pvp and some pve.

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For katana fanatics who are mostly into faith/int builds like me... Most infusable katanas scale just as well elemental as they do dex.. tables need an update... Uchi, washing, and black(my fave).. enjoy

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Wish alonne's bewitched blade made it over bloodlust as the seppuku sword.

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Any reccomendations? I’m making a dex build and I wanted to know which has the highest ar at any cap.

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mother *****er

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Whats the worst katana in this game, im planing to make a build using crappy weapons of all types of weapons, so for i got broken ss for the ss class, handmaidens dagger for the daggers class, exc

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Wish these performed better with lightning/blessed. I guess it's truly too powerful to have god and anime on your side

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For weapons that should be two handed, Katanas are generally better one handed. They get a significant attack range boost when 1-handed, and the damage increase from using them 2-handed is minimal. There doesn't seem to be any real advantage to 2-handing, other than mixing up animations or wanting to use L2 (hold) while you have an item in your left hand. Also, there's a common myth that the Chaos blade has better parry frames. THIS IS NOT TRUE. Uchigatana, Black Blade & Chaos blade all have the same parry frames, frame 8.0 - 16.1 @60fps. Washing pole actually has the longest parry window, 8.0 - 8.3 @60fps. For comparison, Caetus is 8.1 - 16.3, however it has an extra 2 frame reovery time and the katanas get a damage absorption bonus while using the parry.

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I bet my father will start respecting me if I use one of these

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Which to use?

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"Main downfall is their durability." This is Dark Souls 3. You have to actually be TRYING to break your stuff.

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Lucky for katana users, there Is subtitles In game.

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Protip for Katana users with the Hold WA: Use parry and slam R1 right after while holding L2 the entire time. Super clean transition from R2 to R1, works in reverse too. Parry can be an effective feint against parry-centric opponents and the followup R1 can be slowed slightly to great effect.

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If I wan't to make Katana run, which start class is better to choose? As I understand, Thief should be best? Or Deprived?

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R1 , you were at my side all along

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The scabbard stays on your left even if you equip the katana on your left hand. It fixes the clipping issue of the washing pole.

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Can you parry katana parries or am I going silly?

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There are 8 katanas and that's 8 katana types too many

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I searched up all dark souls 3 weeaboo weapons and this was the top result

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So basically, katanas are slower thrusting swords in pvp Change My Mind

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Is the parry part of the usual WA still bad? I read on the buckler shield page that this has the least of all parrying equipment.

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I don't particularly like to use the katana class of weapons in this game but if you think about it each and every single one is unique in it's own class it really shows the diversity of weapons in this game this class of weapons really is the poster child of weapons in this game each katana is completely unique and different from the others and yeah people are gonna go about making comments like weeb dildo but really grow the ***** up not everything Japanese is weeaboo ita from a culture of warriors and these were their weapons but back to the point I love how each katana is unique and completely different in terms of looks and stats like the black blade is the shortest but has one of the highest damages the 3rd highest on a build with 24 strength and 80 dex to be exact while the chaos blade comes in second and frayed comes in first but that doesn't matter because every weapon that classifies as a dex weapon relies on player skill not mashing r1 but katanas stand out more because they have so many differences unlike the curved swords that have so many that are similar in that they have that cartwheel kick and spin slash now granted the stance weapon art for the katana isn't very unique between each one the stance weapon art really adds another level of unpredictability but like I said I don't use them a lot because the start up to their attacks are so slow versus when they actually swing it's very fast and they can easily be parried on both the attacking weapon art and normal attacks but that is all mitigated by a weapon like the black blade where so few people use it and it's so different in terms of size and speed that it makes it extremely difficult to parry and the best reason is to use the heavy attacks they are so delayed and have so much more range than other attacks like the one handed heavy attack dashes forward or the two handed heavy steps forward and pancakes enemies and its phantom range is insane and people in this community are so divided on meta weapons and making everything Japanese weeb that it makes us look like the worst community ever so why not instead of dividing everyone into casuls, meta tryhards and weebs why not actually act like a normal community and not bash everyone for every tiny thing like wanting to trade weapons or mocking them for using a type if weapon because in this game there are weapons like katana or curved sword that require more skill than r1 spamming witha straight sword or locking people so that you can kill them in 2 swings of an ultra great sword

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Running attack, rollspam, r1 r1 r1 r1 r1 r1 r1, repeat

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Una pregunta como me clavo ami persona la katana por que evisto que gente lo ase se clavan las katanas al persona y les baja vida

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The only katana I use is bloodlust, just to end my suffering.

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Community complain about katana users > The majority of them uses cancer straigth swords whit absurd phantom range and ultra boring "skilfull" strength weapons, like dragonslayer's axe. And the casuals are dex weapon users, so much coherence in this*****ty community.

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the frayed blade shows no dark damage in the katanas menu

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Lol this game is made by Japanese people with a lot of references to Anime/manga. Yet you guys hate katana so much.

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Hold is good for parry, but that's about it for weeb dildos.

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All of the infueable Katanas do surprisingly well when Hollow infused with 20/40/40 (STR/DEX/LUK), outdamaging the Sharp infusion even before the bonus Luck when at 15 hollowing or more. My personal pick though is the Washing Pole for it's damage and reach. So if you're going for a Luck/Dexterity hollow build consider using a Katana, the Black Blade and Washing Pole do the most damage.
Though the Frayed Blade outdamages them all (the Black Blade two-handed with two maxed out Hollow infused weapons/items hits 441 AR while the Frayed Blade hits 462 AR), but that's a late-game weapon (unless you're godly enough to go through both DLC's when you meet Gael in the chapel) and you don't get the bonus Luck. Plus you have to kill Midir to get it, and that's easier said than done.

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Reeeeeeeeeeeeeee

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I hate katana users, cause their main form of dealing damage are just those annoying running r1's. Like, geez, if you only want to poke people, use a meta spear or something.

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I can confirm that you can still parry wo/ FP, though it doesn't appear to affect stamina usage or parry frames.

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It's baffling how Katana's get the short end of the parry stick. Having FP cost should be enough to cover its inclusion in a WA, but the fact that it only has 4 active parry frames out of 22 in the parry animation is beyond sad. You'd either have to be a MLG duelist or born Japanese or an anime character to read your opponent AND pull it off at the right time.

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meh i prefer straight swords because they look cool and bonus there some of the most effective, katanas just look lame to me

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why all the hate for the katanas?? i am a new player so i don't get it.... are they suppodet to be overpowered or something? appart from that they are fairly realistic since they are real weapons so why all the comments about anime loving people and that.. it has nothing to do with popular anime culture it's just a sword and a very lethal one in that part..huge hammers and axes 3 meters long that weight 150 kg and can be swinged around like nothing look way more funnier to me than katanas

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Cancerous weapon class, ruins the medieval Europe vibe.

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Blood rushing weeb sticks

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What's the long sword equivalent of the katana?

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dex.exe

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How to make a katana build:
dexdexdexdexdexdexdexdexdexdexdexdexdexdexdexdexdexdexdexdexdexdexdexdexdexdexdexdexdexdexdexdexdexdexdexdex
Have fun, samurai!

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Oh come on, these are all thrusting swords. Katanas are like glaives are to halberds; a subcategtory of thrusting sword. What kind of idiot uses anything other than the running attack with one of these weeb dildos?

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Pls bring back power stance

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The Frayed blade is certainly the best katana I just love that shockwave catching opponents trying to roll away, only a true samurai holds their blade with both hands

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Katanas right now suck,just good player can play wit them.Some weapon like alabards and machete moveset are really hard to beat,the only way is roll attack or backstab mix wit some run attack and roll chatc wit the weapon art.Some alabards are impossible to beat like the helicopter alabard wit r1+helicopter weapon art combo,this kill the roll attack after r1.The only way is to be cancer wit run attack.No way good luck and fuk miazaky a from software for this***** called 'pvp'

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It's hillarious to see whenever people complain about Katana's broken hitbox they say "git gud" hoping they don't fix it.

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I read katana got a buff...how much? Seriously I don't see it but I went pure pyro and stopped using them

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i can finally commit ritual suicide!

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i'm pretty pissed off because with the frayed blade's icon being almost entirely black i couldn't find it and ended up getting the old moonlight spell because i thought it was the only item you could get with Midir's soul. be nice if they made it's icon more visible.

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They should of made bloodlusts Weapon Art Apply more bleed on it, Since you Stab yourself with it, hence, "Bleed build katana"

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Still not as bad as katanas in ds2

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I knew it wasn't just me. This problem needs fixing pronto, PvP is almost cancer

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If you are running a pure dex build, I would definitely recommend that you use the chaos blade with an s scaling in dex.

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Honestly I don't think this class is actually as bad as it's been in the past. Compared to some of the stuff going on in game right now like the Estoc and Gundyr Glaive's absurd poise damage (and formers' range.), BK Glaive's touch of death combo, Dark Sword but really Straight swords in general just being absurdely good, BKGA, Twin Wardens' near insta-bleed combo to name a few things...it kinda feels like Katanas are actually among the more honest weapons in the game for once. They're at least not as BS as they were in DkS2.Relatively speaking though, the long as hell Washing Pole being as fast as an Uchi and just as strong is pretty ***** stupid.

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>They are easily spammable with an instant damaging running attack which has 3 times the range of a spear.Somebody is salty :^)

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BROKEN... need fix.

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Black blade is the beserker blade

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No Berserker Blade this time around?

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No Blacksteel Katana?

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cole

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