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Pontiff Knight

Curved Sword

icon wp physicalAttack
123 physical defense shield icon 45
icon magicbonus
-
magic defense shield icon
30
icon firebonus
-
fire defense shield icon
25
icon lightningbonus
- lightning defense shield icon 25
icon darkbonus
-
dark defense shield icon
30
icon wp critical
100 icon wp stability 30
icon weight 3.5
icon durabilitiy
90
Requirements & Bonus
icon strength 22
icon dexterity 22
icon intelligence 22
icon faith 22
D D - -
12 18 10 -
weapon type icon Curved Sword damage type icon Slash
skill icon Frost Blade icon fp cost 8 (-/14)

Pontiff Knight Curved Sword is a Weapon in Dark Souls 3.



Curved sword wielded by the Pontiff’s knights, frigid spirits that linger in Irithyll.

The large blade appears to be eaten away by insects, making it lightweight but also brittle.

Skill: Frost Blade
Execute large spinning motion to embue blade with frost, and follow through with a strong attack that slashes with a giant blade made of frost.



Notes and Tips:

  • Cannot be Buffed or Infused.
  • Reinforced with Twinkling Titanite.
  • Highest durability of all Curved Swords.
  • Has the longest 2-handed range out of all the Curved Swords.

 

 

Softcaps & Scaling:

  • Pontiff Knight Curved Sword +5:
    • 2 Handed stats
      • 12/18/10/0 = 273 AR = Base Stats 
      • 26/18/10/0 = 319 AR = Str Softcap
      • 12/40/10/0 = 347 AR = Dex Softcap
      • 26/40/10/0 = 392 AR = Overall Softcap
      • 40/40/10/0 = 403 AR
  • Gets less than 2 AR per level after the softcaps.
  • Does not benefit from high int despite the base requirement.

 

 

Location/Where to Find




Moveset and Videos:

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Pontiff Knight Curved Sword Upgrade Table

  Attack ValuesBonus Parameter Bonus Auxiliary Effects Damage Reduction (%)
Name
icon wp physicalAttack
icon magicbonus
icon firebonus
icon lightningbonus
icon darkbonus
STR
DEX
INT
FTH
icon wp poisonbld
icon wp frost
icon wp bleed
icon wp physicaldef
icon wp magicdef
icon wp firedef
icon wp lightningdef
icon wp darkdef
Regular 123 - - - - D D - - - - - 45 30 25 25 30
Regular +1 136 - - - - D C - - - - - 45 30 25 25 30
Regular +2 146 - - - - D C - - - - -  45 30 25 25 30
Regular +3 171 - - - - D C - - - - - 45 30 25 25 30
Regular +4 192 - - - - D C - - - - - 45 30 25 25 30
Regular +5 214 - - - - D C - - - - - 45 30 25 25 30

 



Table Key

 

Requirement Parameter Bonus Attack Values Damage Reduction % Auxiliary Effects Others
icon-strength_22.png Strength
icon-strength_22.png Strength
icon-wp_physicalAttack.png Physical  Physical icon-wp_bleed.png Bleeding  Durability
icon-dexterity_22.png Dexterity
icon-dexterity_22.png Dexterity
icon-magicbonus.png Magic  Magic icon-wp_poisonbld.png Poison

 Weight

icon-intelligence_22.png Intelligence
icon-intelligence_22.png Intelligence
icon-firebonus.png Fire  Fire Frost Frost  
icon-faith_22.png Faith
icon-faith_22.png Faith
icon-lightningbonus.png Lightning  Lightning  Curse  
    icon-darkbonus.png Dark  Dark    
    Critical Critical
 Stability
   
    Spell Buff Spell Buff
     
     Range      

Parameter Bonus: Strength, Dexterity,Magic, Fire, Lightning and Dark bonuses - The scaling multiplier applied to the [Attack: stat]. Scaling quality is from highest to lowest as follows: S/A/B/C/D/E.The higher the player's [Str, Dex, Mag, Fire, Light] stat, the higher the [Attack Bonus: Stat] is (found on the player status screen). The higher the scaling letter, the higher the percent multiplier applied to the [Attack: Stat].This resulting bonus damage is added to the base physical damage of the weapon and is shown in the equipment screen in blue numbers as a "+ X". 
Durability: The weapon's HP, when the durability hits 0, the effectiveness of its attacks become weakened to the point of almost uselessness. When an items durability is low, a message will come up saying "Weapon At Risk!" at this point the weapon does not perform at it's best.
Weight: How much the item weights when equipped. 
Stability: How well the player keeps stance after being hit
Attack Type: Defines what kind of swing set the weapon has: Regular(R), Thrust(T), Slash(Sl), Strike(St)

 

 




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    • Anonymous

      Can someone pls inform me of PKCS comment pages, so that my heart will be warmed? Thank you so much PKCS praisers and anyone who will help me out!

      • Invaded someone using this, they roll caught me more times than I can count, I then had an aldrich faithful invade with me, we killed him and I spam guard, asserting dominance, invaded them again. I got roll caught, I died. Yea I think I learned my lesson.

        • Anonymous

          some guy on the manus page of the wiki said cutting his tail off gives this weapon and I didn't get what he meant

          • Anonymous

            The blade is brittle

            Also highest durability among curved swords

            This, folks, is why FromSoft are so lovable despite the torment they gave us sometime

            • Anonymous

              Best single use weapon in the game for duels.

              So stat friendly you can easily spare the levels for tears of denial and vitality to wear super heavy armor too. After the curved sword nerfs the weapon class was mostly balanced, but this one kinda slipped through the cracks.

              • Anonymous

                After the end of Dark Souls 2, the world was split into 2 -- PKCS and Murky. This marked the beginning of the era known as the Dark Souls 3 Meta.

                • Anonymous

                  I must be lucky or something, cuz I never had issues with players in PvP with this weapon. Honestly, I can't really remember facing many people that used this weapon and I played DS3 a lot over the years. Maybe because I was on Xbox, I dunno. For me it was the CCS, in the early days, before bleed was nerfed out of existence and the range was crazy, that gave me problems. Fast weapons that do massive bleed with weapon arts that you cannot parry messed me up a time or two. But I kinda miss them as well. I miss DS3 altogether. Pretty dead these days. Ya'll hear the rumor Bloodborne is getting a full remake?

                  • Anonymous

                    It's an okay weapon in the base game, but an amazing weapon you can get early on with the Dark Souls 3 Convergence mod. Playing as a Cryomancer focusing on dark and obviously frost magic, plus buffing it with dark makes it massively strong and you can buy it immediately. Can easily take you through the whole game if you want, although the mod is insanely sick and there are so many incredible weapons to choose from, you'll quickly move on. Highly recommend PC users check this mod out. Can't wait to see what they do to Elden Ring in the years to come.

                    • Anonymous

                      I hate when people use items that are relatively useful without even considering if *I* want or know how to play against them. It's like they don't even know how my imaginary rules work

                      • In cell biology, Protein kinase C, commonly abbreviated to PKC, is a family of protein kinase enzymes that are involved in controlling the function of other proteins through the phosphorylation of hydroxyl groups of serine and threonine amino acid residues on these proteins, or a member of this family.

                        where is the S?

                        • Anonymous

                          top 10 weapons that beats the pkcs...
                          number 10 murky hand scythe! this bad boy might look innocent and small to you but you know what they say looks can be deceiving. with 40 dex sharp + 60 fai dark weapon + dark clutch ring youll be doing about 500-550 damage!! in addition this its faster and stunlocks your enemies! murky hand scythe is so terrifying after you teach the pkcs users their lesson they will alt f4 next time they see you!
                          number 9...

                          • Anonymous

                            "The large blade appears to be eaten away by insects, making it lightweight but also brittle."

                            "Highest durability of all Curved Swords."

                            Yeah, right.

                            • Anonymous

                              If I see RKSS Canceler, I just pull this out. It instantly changes my life! Thank You PKCS for making PVP more fun. SHOUT OUT To Those PKCS Guys out there! Keep killing those pesky Gankers with those Whiff Punish and Roll Catches.

                              • Anonymous

                                To any latecomers curious about this weapon's notorious legacy:

                                The PKCS is, all things told, not even that crazy powerful. Curved swords are quite good in DS3, particularly in PvP, and PK has just enough little incremental advantages to be considered arguably the best, and for that, it was very popular. It has the longest range, the preferred 'light' scimitar moveset rather than the 'heavy' falchion one, and uses less stamina per swing than Carthus Curved Sword. No, Elden Ring players, its weapon skill has very little to do with its power profile, though it is a fine L2 as they go in this game. Basically, if someone toasts your buns with this, they could probably do it with any other curved sword, but if they barely eke out the win, you can blame the PKCS's marginal privileges.

                                • In cryptography, PKCS stands for "Public Key Cryptography Standards". These are a group of public-key cryptography standards devised and published by RSA Security LLC, starting in the early 1990s.

                                  • Anonymous

                                    Seriously, this "copypasta" thing in general is beyond played-out. It's such a tired schtick at this point that you can stop reading them after a couple words, so why even take the time out of your day to try to force some unfunny meme? You already posted it a dozen times, am I supposed to laugh harder with every mindless comment? Do you smirk to yourself in delight as you type "pkcs good casul!!1!" or are you just drooling all over your Mickey Mouse bib, expressionless, like the rest of your life? Most of the weapons in these games are obviously interchangeable in terms of 'viability,' and I use that term very loosely, because you can beat every boss & some players bare-handed using a dance mat if you have the time & patience. I guess to be fair, at the very least, anyone with a few hours in a Souls game will know there can be stark power differences between weapons because of how much better The Crescent Axe is than everything else, you'd really have to be the most ignorant urine-stained brainlet ever squirted into existence to think this ****ing Gulf War wind sock could halfway compete. The only niche this rolled-up bedsheet could serve is proccing frostbite so The Crescent Axe will hit even harder... but the ultimate reality is that swinging anything other than The Crescent Axe is even more a waste of time than typing unfunny comments on a niche videogame wiki. And having anything but a WA shield in your offhand would prevent you from disintegrating everything in the game with the greatest weapon art ever conceived, and The Crescent Axe definitely doesn't need a dandruff debuff from this herpes popsicle to do that. After The Crescent Axe has been in the series for 12 years, tell me, which weapon looks ****ing mint as hell and which one is full of holes after a run-in with some crickets?

                                    • Anonymous

                                      pkcs is a quality weapon, performing well on 26/40 and 40/40, its not a pure dex weapon
                                      please fextra commenters please for once know what you're talking about

                                      • Anonymous

                                        Tried this in my dex build. I gotta say, the only special thing about pkcs is the weapon art. Outside of it, even the rotten ghru's curved sword outshines it, not to mention how forgettable it becomes when you acquire the frozen weapon spell.

                                        Just stick to the sellsword twinblades. Or if you want a weapon to 2hand for the r1 spam, use carthus's cs, wich has decent bleed for the dps.

                                        • Anonymous

                                          ds3 casul here
                                          what the **** is up with this weapon? i see people talking about it all the time on this site, so there must be.. some kind of big ds3 pvp culture surrounding this weapon but I just don't get it

                                          • Anonymous

                                            Why tf do they have 90 durability, is it stated somewhere in the lore that the pontiff knights stole vibranium from african people?

                                            • Anonymous

                                              nerf this weapon i am shield user havel poise demigod of the poise but i get hit by some weird look bendy boy that does like 2 dmg prob irl but it magic yes but no because not a a pickaxe so why does it dmg my rock armor

                                              • Anonymous

                                                Props to Greirat for getting me my PKCS without ever having to leave the undead settlement, I have killed dozens of new players and their overleveled summons and I won't stop soon. Watch where you pop that ember or dried finger on the High Wall or it might just become your grave... kid...

                                                • Anonymous

                                                  Seriously, this "copypasta" thing in general is beyond played-out. It's such a tired schtick at this point that you can stop reading them after a couple words, so why even take the time out of your day to try to force some unfunny meme? You already posted it a dozen times, am I supposed to laugh harder with every mindless comment? Do you smirk to yourself in delight as you type "pkcs good casul!!1!" or are you just drooling all over your Mickey Mouse bib, expressionless, like the rest of your life? Most of the weapons in these games are obviously interchangeable in terms of 'viability,' and I use that term very loosely, because you can beat every boss & some players bare-handed using a dance mat if you have the time & patience. I guess to be fair, at the very least, anyone with a few hours in a Souls game will know there can be stark power differences between weapons because of how much better The Crescent Axe is than everything else, you'd really have to be the most ignorant urine-stained brainlet ever squirted into existence to think this ****ing Gulf War wind sock could halfway compete. The only niche this rolled-up bedsheet could serve is proccing frostbite so The Crescent Axe will hit even harder... but the ultimate reality is that swinging anything other than The Crescent Axe is even more a waste of time than typing unfunny comments on a niche videogame wiki. And having anything but a WA shield in your offhand would prevent you from disintegrating everything in the game with the greatest weapon art ever conceived, and The Crescent Axe definitely doesn't need a dandruff debuff from this herpes popsicle to do that. After The Crescent Axe has been in the series for 12 years, tell me, which weapon looks ****ing mint as hell and which one is full of holes after a run-in with some crickets?

                                                  • Anonymous

                                                    Chaoshander Giantdad
                                                    Bandit
                                                    Soul level- 99
                                                    48 Vitality
                                                    66 Endurance
                                                    12 Attunement
                                                    16 ****in' strength
                                                    10 Dexterity
                                                    But don't tell anyone you leveled that up, u ****in' ******
                                                    What are you? A Casual?
                                                    GIANT'S
                                                    GIANT'S
                                                    GIANT'S
                                                    Become UNSTOPPABLE
                                                    What rings you got, *****?
                                                    Havel's Ring.
                                                    Ring of Favor and Protection.
                                                    Stamina,
                                                    Health,
                                                    Endurance.
                                                    EVERYTHING you could ever want!
                                                    Black Flame.
                                                    Black Flame.
                                                    That means New Game+
                                                    *****es!
                                                    Father Mask- the best looking mask in the game.
                                                    And of course, *don't ****in' forget*
                                                    Your chaos Two-hander and Grass-crest Shield
                                                    Well, what is it?
                                                    Are you PRO yet?
                                                    It's time to ****in' PWN some noobs.
                                                    "Initiate phase one"
                                                    "Power up the BASS CANNON"
                                                    "FIRE"

                                                    • Anonymous

                                                      The epiphany came to me just the other evening, like countless other craps, I was heaving hard and pushing like a pregnant broad summoning gleams of sweat and stress veins on my forehead. Then, suddenly I simply decided to lift my left leg high while simultaneously arching my torso and leaning my right butt cheek on the toilet. It would seem that this bodily configuration aligned my organs perfectly, creating a pseudo submarine torpedo tube that idiosyncratically mustered each log of excrement into a perfected clean drop into the bowl, resulting in a satisfying splash and a minimal amount of wipes thereafter. Further to this, I hypothesized a bowl movement that didn't require the usual pumping and pushing to eject the last blurb of brown nor a need, which is sometimes required, to 'chop one off' for a quick toilet exit. I shall call this move - the Pontiff Knight Curved Sword.

                                                      • Anonymous

                                                        Chaoshander Giantdad
                                                        Bandit
                                                        Soul level- 99
                                                        48 Vitality
                                                        66 Endurance
                                                        12 Attunement
                                                        16 ****in' strength
                                                        10 Dexterity
                                                        But don't tell anyone you leveled that up, u ****in' ******
                                                        What are you? A Casual?
                                                        GIANT'S
                                                        GIANT'S
                                                        GIANT'S
                                                        Become UNSTOPPABLE
                                                        What rings you got, *****?
                                                        Havel's Ring.
                                                        Ring of Favor and Protection.
                                                        Stamina,
                                                        Health,
                                                        Endurance.
                                                        EVERYTHING you could ever want!
                                                        Black Flame.
                                                        Black Flame.
                                                        That means New Game+
                                                        *****es!
                                                        Father Mask- the best looking mask in the game.
                                                        And of course, *don't ****in' forget*
                                                        Your chaos Two-hander and Grass-crest Shield
                                                        Well, what is it?
                                                        Are you PRO yet?
                                                        It's time to ****in' PWN some noobs.
                                                        "Initiate phase one"
                                                        "Power up the BASS CANNON"
                                                        "FIRE"

                                                        • Anonymous

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