Repeating Crossbow | Dark Souls 3 Wiki

Ye olde machine gun

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Antiquated plain garb+whatever armor+standard helm+chaos blade+winged spear or lothric knight spear with pine resin+repeating crossbow= ISSHIN THE FU**ING GATLING GUN SAINT!

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Before Isshin the Glock saint, there was Gael.

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Got invaded once by an Aldrich faithful, seemed to be surprisingly chill. Next thing I knew, my health had hemorrhaged to nothing and I had no clue what happened, besides seeing an ungodly volley of arrows. I guess this is what caused it lol. Note to self, never trust a crossbow user

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Never mind the stupid glitch. I don't care. This weapon is tons of fun to use. Treating a Soulsborne game like it's a third person shooter is super cool and tons of fun.

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G U N

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My favorite weapon. I'm glad the bowglitch exist so this weapon can go from trash to a monster.

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Look you guys can play with your glitches and all, I just wanna cosplay Mithrix and use his needle attack

And yes I know no one has any idea who that is, nor do they care

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I don't care about what anybody says, im using this to shoot splintering bolts anytime I decide to kill gael. Full auto shotgun ftw!

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"you are cheating. You are breaking the game's core mechanics with an unbalanced glitch."

Oh, so now you care about how is this game supposed to work, you estus-cancelling, ganking twink?

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It is such a poetic thing that Gael wields a sword that stuck onto him for many years to deliver justice as a abused slave who executes the pygmy kings with a executioner's sword that has been beyond chipped with years of experience; and a repeating crossbow which is one of it's kind and a ingenuity invention of the future.

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When the law is corrupt to the core you gotta break the rules, mate. Summoning was intended? Yeah. Ruining the very concept of invasions by summoning 3 phantoms indefinetly with all the advantages of the world? Not intended in the slightest, but defended to death for pure convenience.

Pretty sure you're to blame for elden ring's horrendous pvp, hosts of embers. You ain't having a good time here anymore.

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That one lone host who tries to smack the invader out of his world by himself doesn't have to worry about this glitch. Those who always run to summon their helicopter papas? Nope. Get chakka chakka.

Insert your whiny, hypocritic complaints below, or upvote/downvote this coment if you agree this pvp system sucked from day 1 and fromsoft's lazyness had everything to do with it. Remember, both upvotes and downvotes count.

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There are two types of people:
1: ohoh! I was hoping I could get his crossbow. This looks awesome!
2: *flashbacks*

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greatbow glitch is rude but if youre being a douchey gank and i can use it on a build, im definitely using it on you.

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"Nyaaaah this glitch is unfair nyaaaah" - every ganker ever. Fck off. If you wanna blame someone blame the lazy dudes in fromsoft who ignored pvp balancing for decades.

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I always reserve this for the gank squads, just the other day they jumped off a cliff as soon as I started using it, good times!

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Repeating Crossbow at +1 has almost the same AR as Arbalest +2. This means that at ~20 SL this crossbow is a solid option. They could call you a filthy twink, but as long as you don't have upgraded estus nor prisoner's chain there shouldn't be any wrong, considering how unpopular this weapon is.

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The WA actually has a very good amount of damage per use and decent accuracy with sniper bolts. You can do A LOT of damage to Midirs head or other bigger enemies from the right distance. Also don't even get me started about lightning bolts and puddles.

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WA stunlocks and annihilates harald knights in the ringed city, extremely useful for NG+ or jolly cooperation

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Mf taped his Sunless Shield on a heavy crossbow and turned it into an illegal firearm

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AC-130 ABOVE!

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gank squads: exists

Me with a Death Machine minigun: Hasta la vista, baby.

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If you were to use the bow glitch to kill people in pvp, why not just straight up start cheating and insta killing people? After all you are still cheating either way.

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I was legit having fun with this today. If you use this for the glitch just right, you literally can take out an entire gank squad. Gank squads are the legit source for soul farming.

Because a lot of players carry high amounts of souls.

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Haha pontiff ladder *pulls out repeating crossbow*Die cancer

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Imagine if Gael pulled this and a greatbow out for a third phase

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Jeenine-glitcher-meta incoming!

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I only see people using this for it's glitch. But it definitely doesn't pisses me off as it still requires more effort than ganksquada

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Haha greatbow arrows go CHNKCHNKCHNKCHNKCHNK

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GRIFFITH!!

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i think i would prefer a smaller crossbow which shoots a wave of arrows with 5 damage each.

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Useless but enjoyable, In quick hands one can destroy anything

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Ganks deserve any glitch this can pull off. They aren't playing clean in any way, so why would you?

Don't hate on the dinamite if you re the one to light the fuse.

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*LOADS WITH MALICIOUS INTEND*

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CHAKACHAKACHAKACHAKAbrrrrrrrrrrrrr

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eclipse hit hard

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Let's be honest guys - a lot of us use this dishonorably with an offhand shortbow.

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PUT CHOUR GRASSES ON

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GRIFFFFITHHHH

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ASH CROW OOHHH ASH CROW brrrrrr

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i started trying to figure out how to make a good bow/crossbow build, does anyone know what the best ranged weapon is?

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The mere sound of this weapon's repeating action alone is enough to send anyone running

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Balancing attributes with this, and trying to use the Ultragreatsword, as well as Chaos orb to simulate Guts's cannon arm is gonna be interesting. Probably not that viable tbh, but I'll try

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If only you didn’t have to 2 hand it for the weapon art.

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Gotta put my grasses on

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Miyazaki be like: Haha berserk references go brrrrr

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haha bowcasting go brrr

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Everybody gangsta till the invader pulls out the repeating crossbow with a short bow in his offhand

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Is anyone willing to trade this on PC?
my friend code:134192667

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weirdly does more damage then every other crossbow at lower upgrade levels

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AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH

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why is this outclassed? isn't this the highest base damage crossbow in the game?

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*sees the damage* that's really dumb...

*sees the whole volley* but it's so cool!

*sees the volley's total damage* BUT THAT'S SO DUMB!!

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Can anyone help me? I want to use this thing but I need to know if this thing is even worth it. Which bolts should I use and is the weapon even worth it to use in NG+8? (Yes I'm that high in the game, making a 802 LV build) I just want to use this as a now-and-then fun tool but it should at least do a good job. It would be nice if someone could help me, even if you say don't try it, use another crossbow. I also like the Heavy Crossbow if that's a better choice.

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yay bowglitch
thx fromsoft ahahah

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American magic

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Puck dlc when?

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Only real use... True guts cosplay poke/troll WEP... Now we just need a close range cannon or something that matches visually... Then I'll do it

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Just use this with sniperbolts on Midirs head. Even though the accuracy of the WA is bad they can reduce the spread and the hitbox of his head is so big you'll hit almost all of your shoots. Helped me out a lot in NG, but I didn't test the potential of other crossbows for the same situation so I can't tell if another would be exeptionally better.

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I don't know why they would make a crossbow that doesn't scale. Especially because they're weapons that need high level to be effective in an actual build, so it defeats the purpose of ranged damage utility at higher SL. The dumbest thing is that it's supposed to be a weapon who fought many battles, it would make sense that you could master it by also fighting many battles and becoming stronger, but they said nope, it's just a crossbow that will stay the same, only way to change it is ammunition. If splintering bolts didn't suck then maybe it could have been interesting using it. It's the same weight as a Greatbow and much, much worse than the Millwood or even any other crossbow/bow. I'm disappointed...

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Always get this on my first NG so i can just bombard gundyr in NG+

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Is it worth using while having the minimal stats?

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Is it good? Not really. Is it hilarious and a blast to use? Absolutely.

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FYI it drops from all hollow arbalesters, not just the ones at the roof.

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i used this on the crabs in the bottom of the ariandel. 110 damage with single heavy bolt, 220 damage with all 10 bolts combined. this thing is an utter failure. it does as much damage as 2 bolts, uses the same stamina as firing 2 bolts back to back, and wastes FP and essentially throws away 8 arrows. get this for collection only, it's trash.

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Imagine a +5 FUGS and +5 repeating crossbow used together.

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Takes a lot of GUTS to use this weapon

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With exploding bolts s falloff, i wonder if you can use this from REALLY far as an artillery strike that came out of nowhere. Sure, poor damage but would freak hosts out

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i can deal 170 damage with exploding bolts repeater function if all hits are done you deal 642

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When I heard "repeating" I thought it would be a cool lever action crossbow. The real thing is even cooler, including the cowboy stance

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Don't know why but I love using that thing. It throws invaders so much off and can be great again certain enemies. ALso it is cool as hell

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Revan needs his cheeks clapped

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a weapon that is technically worse than dragon head stone. Mhm....

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It is currently twelve o'clock

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To fullfil your cowboy needs

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Just fought gael with a sunbro who single handedly slaughtered Gael with this, FIRING GREAT ARROWS like a boss, garbage my ass dude

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Best with PvE not so much PvP...

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"With the exception of half the game's other crossbows, this weapon is outclassed by every crossbow." Who writes this garbage?

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Bean Shooter

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just use exploding bolts. bam.

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This is classical Twink weapon. 1. Useless in late game (since players flat reduction + absorption leaves little damage in late game) 2. It can be obtained very late in the game so newbies cant get it in order to defend themselves early on. 3. It has more than enough damage to eat newbie in second.

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Use explosive bolts/splintering bolts, people. That's the secret with this weapon.

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Is there a way to make this viable? I just wish it had a use and wasn't a waste, and I feel like it has potential.

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Worst crossbow ever, 10 shots for no damage. Regret using slab on this.

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Hundreds of years after DS1 and this is as far we’ve come in technology

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I imagine this was built and WA designed not to use FP which would offset it's negatives. Someone from F.S said "this is kind of fun and tactically useful. Welp, nerf it." We can't have Boss weapons any where near as cool as the Bosses themselves I guess.

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20 dex? if i my stats its not compatible with this weapon i cannot use the repeating skill?

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got a hacker use this and have one shot kill arrows

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THE IDEAL WEAPON FOR MY GUTS RUN! YUS!

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despite the good and bad of this weapon, by it's namesake, it should not consume FP...

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Oh yeah got this new smg gonna get my 5 player killstreak on

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This or the avelyn for pvp?

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I actually cannot under stand why People keep trash talking this weapon into oblivion. Yes its damage per bolt is mediocre and yes the WA feels like a child trying to auto-fire an ak 74 with one hand, BUT it is by far not the worst thing to have. Its a great backup weapon for Boss fights when your at low hp and cant risk going near the boss e.g. fightIng twin princes. Just used it on Lothric while Lorian was down and couldnt risk getting hit by the explosion. Simply amazing how rapid fire WA just annihalated this guy on NG+4 (using heavy bolts just to be clear)

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Despite all this weapon's hate, I just can't it down. Currently using it in my left hand instead of a shield as a simple poke tool, not really as a damage dealer. As a crossbow, it does low damage (only barely stronger then the light crossbow) but has low stamina consumption. It does have low durability but this isn't really a problem because most stages can be done without it breaking and repair powder is quite easy to obtain. It is heavy however, tied for the heaviest available, and it has some notable stat requirements. These are notable weaknesses and is something to consider. The light crossbow has similar stats offensively, is easier to obtain and is much lighter, but I think the repeating crossbow has a much better WA (I guess being compared to tackle, that isn't saying much). As stated below, it's weapon art is situational but can really prove itself useful if used sparingly but effectively. Exploding bolts, if manually aimed toward the opponents feet will create multiple "firebomb" like explosions that are hard to dodge and can be a great way to close a duel. Keep in mind that they do low damage. It's more then a throwing knife, but should still be used when an opponent is greatly damaged. The WA itself has quite a slow startup and when facing players, is easily telegraphed. It can be formidable at close range with splintering bolts however, and can stagger opponents with ease. I have found that lightning bolts have helped me a lot in PvE, and do respectable damage (unless the enemy is resistant to lightning, then use explosive bolts). In the end, it all comes down to mastering the weapon art, otherwise I find it hard to recommend this weapon. I picked it up because I like the weapon design and heard all the hate about it, and thought I'd try it myself. Now it is honestly one of my favorite weapons.

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To use the "good bolts" you have to sacrifice Greirat sending him on his third mission to Lothric Castle its the only way i think you get to buy them from returning his ashes to handmaid

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It'd be nice if you could use the WA whilst one-handing, the trade-off being that it can only store one kind of bolt. Would make it much less obvious if you do the WA.

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Funfact, the stance you're given when holding the weapon art button is IDENTICAL to the Aquamarine Dagger stance (minus the fact that you hold the crossbow UPWARD instead of at your side, like the dagger), which is also identical to the Darkwraith walking animation.

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Add info: it fires 10 consecutive bolts with its weapon art although they spread a lot like a cone shape and most of them probably gonna miss unless your target is at melee range and each one deals significantly less damage than a single bolt fired with the regular attack.

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A bit of advice, don't waste a single upgrade material for it.... I mean has anyone found any usefulness for this weapon? It seems weak, slow, brittle, consumes a massive amount of bolts that you constantly demands you to farm souls to buy them. And its weapon art will most likely get you killed in pvp trying to reload it. Honestly i haven't found a single pro to this weapon apart from being funny. For being a weapon from the last boss of the series and one of the toughest, it sure is disappointing.

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