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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
- 2 Handed stats
- Gets less than 2 AR per level after the softcaps.
- Does not benefit from high int despite the base requirement.
Location/Where to Find
- Dropped by Pontiff Knights in Irithyll or bought from Greirat, or from Shrine Handmaid if given Greirat's ashes, for 6000 souls once he returns from his first outing
Moveset and Videos:
(If your name is not on THIS list, please do not post videos here. If you wish to post videos, please click the link and apply in the thread)
Pontiff Knight Curved Sword Upgrade Table
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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 |
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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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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!
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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.
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Why use the Pontiff Knight Curved Sword when you could use PKCS instead?
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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
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“Whats wrong big boy? Never had used a meta weapon to R1 spam before?” - some PKCS user, prolly
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This weapon seems a colander, but has more durability compared to the nodachi
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I really like this weapon, but the Lost Sinner Sword is so far superior
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Generally I use this only for blocking attacks, not for harming others
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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
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This weapon isn't even that overpowered anymore, but its legacy will never be forgotten
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Objectively worse Earth Seeker. Debate me on this, I dare you.
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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.
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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.
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pkcs = you
murky = the guy about whom your gf yells you not to worry
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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?
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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.
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This weapon is overrated. The Claymore and The Black Knight sword are better than this meta weapon.
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I know it's good and all but I wish you could do more than r1 and the occasional l2 with this boi
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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
Ah.. you were at my side all along... my guiding curved sword..
Give me your thing... your twinkling titanite.. for my Pontiff Knight curved sword..
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?
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Why can curved swords like Pkcs or sellsword twinblades parry?
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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...
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"The large blade appears to be eaten away by insects, making it lightweight but also brittle."
"Highest durability of all Curved Swords."
Yeah, right.
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Still waiting for someone modded this beauty into elden ring...
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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.
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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.
i put a picture of this sexy weapon on the ceiling of my bedroom so i can stare at it before i go to bed.
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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?
I am the PKCS user not the man
I will never be him
The PKCS giga chad
praise you, PKCS man
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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
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can I get an actual comment saying if this weapon doesnt **** itself immediately in late game in PVE
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this item used to be the most hated weapon in ds3
its now become a meme
praise the PKCS man
PKCS is the best weapon ever made by FS, RoB can never live up to the legendary legacy of the PKCS or its user, the PKCS man!
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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.
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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
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Really like the weapon art. Feels good with executioner sword offhand.
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remember when this and MHS were broken and insane?
yeah good times...
i miss this
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Upsides of Elden ring:
No more PKCS guy :)
Downsides of Elden Ring:
No more PKCS guy :(
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i like to use pkcs as a knife to cut the dogs i eat after every invader i kill with my 3 friends
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i came to this weapon because there are allota people calling this weapon better than other weapons
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Does the special (the ice blade) scale with luck ?? Cuz some times it can do 600 dm. or 190 smth dm.
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Why tf do they have 90 durability, is it stated somewhere in the lore that the pontiff knights stole vibranium from african people?
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Dark souls 3 fextralife wiki comment sections will always be one of my favorite places on the internet.
- 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
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say whatever you want about this weapon, at least it isn't MHS
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ooooohhhh the smell, the toxicity of this comment section. reminds me of the PKCS page on the DS3 wiki
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Walking into this wiki and encountering all of this feels exactly like the cutscene with Filianore
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Can be used on SL1 runs, just needs carthus milkring + hunters ring to work
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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...
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I was this was 2012 so I can call this sword ***. Now I cannot express my hate.
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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?
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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"
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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.
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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"
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Pkcs pope is just an illusion,
He can't hurt you
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