Vordt's Great Hammer | Dark Souls 3 Wiki

This is the saving grace for the early big bonk smash builds

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One of the best things that happened to me was when i used wa and traded with a black knight then used a charged r2 and flatted him to the ground

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DS3 Easy Mode:
Class: Pyromancer.
Stats: VIG=22+, ATT=18, END=21+, VIT=21+, STR=30+, DEX=9, INT=15, FT=15, LUK=7
Weapons: VGH + PyrF
Spells: Flesh Sweat, Toxic Mist, Rapport
Rings: RoF, Chlo, PC, XXX

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For me its easly the best weapon ingame. PvE at least:
1. Access Early
2. Big unsplited damage
3. Arguably the best WA
4. Good Range
5. Stamina efficient
6. Knock down enemies i.e. skeletons
7. Frostbite
8. Not to heavy

I did'y find any downside in this weapon if you learn how to fight with it. Greatly recommend.

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Vordt's Freeze Pop

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Just for fun on my 3rd run I picked this up. The hardest part of the game for me was enemies close to a cliff.

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W A C K

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POV: You just got invaded in Farron Woods

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This + Hornet Ring = Instant frostbite on a single riposte?

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can somebody recommend an early assortment of armor for this weapon?

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i wanna get back my first playthrough where i blindly picked this up because B I G S T I C K and just smashed my way through the game. come to think of it i still have that save file!

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Nuclear hot take inbound:

This is the ultimate noob trap weapon.

Hear me out. It's available after just three bosses (one of which is needed to access the actual game), has easy stat requirements to fulfill, can do significant damage with just a pair of R1s, set off frostbite in those two hits for even more damage, and has access to poise. Not just hyper-armour poise, but static poise via Perseverance (with the 6s Great Hammer timer).

With these traits, a new player can get this weapon and have it carry them through 95% of the game without a single bit of brainpower being used. They can spam R1, frostbite the enemy in a few hits, and poise through attacks that most players would dodge away from with little consequence. They can breeze through most of the game, never really facing a challenge, defeating so many bosses on their first or second try without ever really learning how to fight them, and come out the other end lamenting how easy Dark Souls 3 is without knowing they played the most brainless build the game has to offer.

Of course, bosses such as Midir or Nameless King will bring reality crashing home, since they all but require you learn their patterns or die until you do. It's just a shame that lesson likely won't be drilled in earlier, since Vordt's can very well carry any noob through the game.

For further testament to this weapon's power level, in low-level PVP, getting caught in the first R1 of a combo is death for the majority of players, especially if the VGH user has friends to chase you down. In addition, latency is an issue with phantom hits, as this weapon's gigantic 110 frostbite add could pop in the middle of a roll when you clearly didn't get hit (but showed blood on the enemy's screen) and die upon landing. Again, a new player landing this and killing someone with it would think they're better at the game than they actually are, which will only embolden them to keep doing the same thing and never change.

Now, this IS a Souls game, and any method you find for progression is valid. Just like straight sword R1 spam or poison arrow sniping from long distance, big bonk spam is a perfectly acceptable way of beating the game without learning anything.

Vordt's Great Hammer is a fantastic weapon. I'd go so far as to say it's a crutch. Consider picking it up if you want to make the game significantly easier. But maybe you just shouldn't.

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Nuclear hot take inbound:

This is the ultimate noob trap weapon.

Hear me out. It's available after just three bosses (one of which is needed to access the actual game), has easy stat requirements to fulfill, can do significant damage with just a pair of R1s, set off frostbite in those two hits for even more damage, and has access to poise. Not just hyper-armour poise, but static poise via Perseverance (with the 6s Great Hammer timer).

With these traits, a new player can get this weapon and have it carry them through 95% of the game without a single bit of brainpower being used. They can spam R1, frostbite the enemy in a few hits, and poise through attacks that most players would dodge away from with little consequence. They can breeze through most of the game, never really facing a challenge, defeating so many bosses on their first or second try without ever really learning how to fight them, and come out the other end lamenting how easy Dark Souls 3 is without knowing they played the most brainless build the game has to offer.

Of course, bosses such as Midir or Nameless King will bring reality crashing home, since they all but require you learn their patterns or die until you do. It's just a shame that lesson likely won't be drilled in earlier, since Vordt's can very well carry any noob through the game.

For further testament to this weapon's power level, in low-level PVP, getting caught in the first R1 of a combo is death for the majority of players, especially if the VGH user has friends to chase you down. In addition, latency is an issue with phantom hits, as this weapon's gigantic 110 frostbite add could pop in the middle of a roll when you clearly didn't get hit (but showed blood on the enemy's screen) and die upon landing. Again, a new player landing this and killing someone with it would think they're better at the game than they actually are, which will only embolden them to keep doing the same thing and never change.

Now, this IS a Souls game, and any method you find for progression is valid. Just like straight sword R1 spam or poison arrow sniping from long distance, big bonk spam is a perfectly acceptable way of beating the game without learning anything.

Vordt's Great Hammer is a fantastic weapon. I'd go so far as to say it's a crutch. Consider picking it up if you want to make the game significantly easier. But maybe you just shouldn't.

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Works wonders against the Nameless king. Quickly staggers in a few hits both the Drake and the King himself

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this and ledo's great hammer are proof that strenght builds are superior.

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my level 30 twink wields this (dual-handed) for pvp and the caestus for pve.

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Got a turtle problem on your hands? Just freeze them out!

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the sl30 pvp experience

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man the nostalgia of this beastly weapon calls me back to my first playthrough, i was running through blind and found this bad boy after killing the greatwood, boi it took a while to find the titanite but its so beastly and worth it, PROS: good dmg and moveset, really early to obtain, frostbite proc, good looking, strike dmg and good scaling. CONS: heavy, hard to get upgrade materials in early game, cannot be buffed or infused, and takes a while to get used to it. a good weapon and will carry you far in this game with its raw damage.

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hello guys if you ever stuck at abyss watchers just use this it 4-3 shots the boss (+3 and yes u can get that many titantie scales before abyss watchers)

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Great for PvP! Used this until I got the Dragonslayer Greataxe (better for PvE, especially bosses) I pull out Vordt's and swing wildly

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thanks vordt :)

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this beast got me through NG and NG+ and now its getting me through NG++ (all bosses run)

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Absolute pain in the ass to fight against, stun locks you for like 4 seconds if it hits you once making you an easy 2 shot kill with the frostbite proc.

I understand why people use it, because its overpowered as ****, and you know it, but I just don't know how the hell you can fight against this thing.

I tried parrying it, maybe i'm just dogshit at parrying, but this thing can't ever be parried, plus the skill, poise boost.


Seems like a great weapon, never used it, never planning on using it, I'm just stating my opinion and probable rant, i'm trash against this weapon.


Guess I just have to stick to the Broken Straight Sword like the chads in the comments tell me, I'm a casul after all.

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For those that don't know, a fully-charged 2handed-R2 will often flatten many enemys that you might not think can be stunned (at all)....

The twins at the end of the game cannot even get up once you start hitting them this way...

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Dandruff hammer

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*Frosty Bonk*

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When Frosty sends you to horny Jail

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first tried crystal sage in ~30 seconds with this

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Try it on new save. Early hard boss like abyss or pontiff got beaten easily with this hammer just wa and trade using little to no skills

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Had someone invade me in the Ringed City.

Was embarrassed that the Locust Priests kept grabbing me over and over but the invader was nice enough to sit and watch. I guess the invader underestimated me after I three shot them with the frost build up. This thing really catches people off guard.

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Everyone is saying this is a great early game weapon but this thing still shreds in late game even to NG+

If you’re doing a strength build, keep this bad boy in your arsenal at all times. You’d be surprised how many enemies are weak to frost in this game. Hint: Gael.

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DOINK

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A really important thing to take note of whenever you fight against this weapon:

Frostbite ignores your iframes.

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I did over 1500 damage on a ripost with this. I had lloyds sword ring and hornet ring, and when I got the ripost, frostbite kicked in and did 1546 damage on the ripost. This 1500 damage was on the final hit. If you count the other hits, it prolly did 1700+ damage. Its really insane.

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My only nitpick is the poor scaling

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Is this better than Great Club?

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20 str, chloranthy+grass crest, and Vordts+2 (can get all of this by Abyss Watchers) is enough to beat every boss, phantom, and mini boss in the game (minus Soul/Friede/Midir) pretty easily, like even trivially easy for many bosses.

Works especially well on late game builds like casters and quality builds—after the initial investment you don’t have to spend any souls/titanite/infusions to be able to beat bosses, so you can focus on leveling and getting your gear and build ready for late game.

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The gonker bonker.

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your early game heavy bonker

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Why does frostbite land with this when I'm avoiding every attack?

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A decent mid-game strength weapon.

Early game, it's a few too many stats when you want to be investing into vigor, not to mention the huge stamina cost to swing this puppy along with the sheer weight (all before you receive weight-management tools like Ring of Favor, Havels, and Prisoner's Chain). That being said, if you're good at managing stamina and avoiding getting hit, it's one of the earliest weapons that cause almost everything to stagger before it, not to mention Frostbite is a juicy extra proc that doesn't come at the expense of its AR.

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Lemme Smash ,ben is a h*e

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Actually lategame viable since frostbite procs on most enemies

Also has the best wa in the game

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This is actually an awesome early weapon. It looses some effectiveness half way through bc of frost and fire areas, but if you pu***** to late game it becomes a beast again.

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This is incredibly imbalanced PVE weapon. Drops from 1st legit boss. At 39Endurance can strike 5(!) times. Require only strenght and scale very well up to 40 softcap two handed. Great crowd control light attacks - just wide left and right sweeps so you can play without even use camera lock. Oneshots weak enemies. And P E R S E V E R E N C E what allow you to faceroll majority of early-mid game bosses, the first who will give you a hard time is Aldritch with his ability to oneshot you with his rain of arrows. But because this hammer is so god damn OP i just grinded about 80min 2 silver knights on stairs at Anor Lando to get 1kk souls(ring+shield of desire+mimikhead=4950souls), then level up my intelligence(and 4 attunment to get 1 spell slot) and learn "Twisted Wall Of Light" and beat his ass first try(+help the Anri). By the way this is my first ever playthrough in "souls" games. Vordt's Hammer is just to good, it makes game very easy.

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Amazing for PvE. Not so much for PvP, especially this late in the game's life. Almost everyone can roll great hammer swings and frostbite at this point.

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The STR equivalent of the Sellsword Twinblades in terms of PVE
This weapon makes the game a joke on how good it is.

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Consumes less stamina than the great mace and is lighter too, plus frostbites in 2-3 hits in pvp making up for it's lower damage if you do not invest in STR. Recommend to use it till about level 60-80 pvp with only 20 STR and the rest of your stats dumped into STA,VIT and VIG.

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This thing absolutely annihilates in PVP. Since you can two-hand it at STR 20, it’s incredible for low-level invasions. I’m having a blast in my watchdog of farron build, totally destroying people in crucifixion woods

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My personal favorite PvP weapon. The ultimate skrub crusher

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You can avoid the frostbite damage in pvp by rolling through attacks so that it triggers during your i-frames. You won't take the bonus damage again until frostbite runs out.

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If this weapon is good enough for that funny YouTuber Assmongoloid then it is good enough for me! Greetings from Russia

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Gael Killer

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I will never understand why people would ever use this weapon. It's one of the worst

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Does this weapon drain your stamina in three regular strikes no matter how much you have!?

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Trasshh trashgh abssolutely garbage*****ty AR, frostbite damage is laughable, attack too slow, worthless in pvp. I'll just stop using this***** and switch back to my lkss for easier noobs owning.

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An important factor to note when considering whether or not to use this weapon is a lot of bosses are RESISTANT to frostbite damage, but very few are IMMUNE. With this weapon you can still trigger a 300ish damage frostbite proc in 3-4 hits on a resistant boss, rather than the standard 1 or 2 that it would normally take on anyone else. This thing only really struggles against enemies that are truly immune to frostbite, like midir, where the proc doesn't even get the buildup

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Is it just me, or the very first boss weapon is the best?

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Shrek appearance Vordt's Great Hammer Drang set archdeacon white crown = PIMP SET Dude's try it, it's most fashionable look you can get in this game

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This weapon has become even better because bleed got nerfed into the ground. When people roll through Vordt's they still get massive frostbite buildup, which adds an element of pressure that stronger weapons without status effects don't offer. Sure, you'll get more AR on a heavy club or whatever, but the surprise element of frostbite, plus the pressure during roll spam, makes it better imo. If you're having issues using this weapon, you need enough endurance to swing it at least 3 times. Four times ideal. The scaling is best early - mid SL. At sl 60 and weapon level +3 it's very good on a tanky build with 40 str.

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Does anyone know how much this sells for?

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guess

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is it buffed?

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Brr, you were at my side all along. My true mentor ... My guiding frostbite

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Hammer time, b*tches.

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When you get invaded at low level but they see you wielding this beauty and run. Priceless

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Imagine being smacked with this in real life.

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L1 and wave boys L1 and wave with the sweet smashing frost sound

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"Vordt's Great Hammer +5 has 524 AR at 40 Strength." What is AR?

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The perseverance weapon art is truly the icing on this delicious cake of a weapon. Considerable base damage, the frostbite proc will brutalize basically everything in the game. The WA just removes any need for fancy kiting, dodging and poking strats. Just pop it and run at them, just mind your fp. For anyone looking for a reliable weapon to carry them through the whole game with no skill required, this is the weapon for you.

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This weapon will trivialize Ringed Knights. It breaks their poise, frostbites them, and then they're dead.

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Not necessarily the most damaging great hammer, Ledo's, Smough's, and even heavy great clubs and great maces will out damage BUT that frostbite build is so ridiculous that it more than makes up for it. You'll be triggering frostbite every two hits on enemies vulnerable to it and thats a massive amount of extra damage.

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RIP gael

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Does the 110 frost add to the overall AR? So would, say, a 554 AR actually equal 664 assuming no frost resistance?

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66 Str +5 I was getting 596 AR. On the great club +10 heavy I was getting around 706 with warcry.

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Deprived>get 5 sigils> kill vordt> kill curse rotted tree> get this> wait for early dragonslayer axers and twinbladers to invade Never gets old.

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Absolutely broken in pvp, if you have a friend to use Irithyll Straight Sword together you can build up the frostbite ridiculously fast, just pair up with a quick poke fire weapon to reset the frost and everyone dies before they can back off and heal.

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r1r1r1r1r1r1r1r1r1rr1r1r1r1r1r1r1r1rr11 ***** you darkness you need to stop playing this game

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Does luck affect frostbite buildup?

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10/10 I two-shotted a giant crab in road of sacrifices. Would recommend.

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asmonbald

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Use while fat rolling to unlock true potential.

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Big and Clumsy weapon and there's been many times where I've thought to myself 'I need something better than this', however, even when switching weapons to something else, I've inevitably come back to this trusty Hammer...

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Haven't played PVP, still focused on the single player game, but I've pulverised everything in my path with this thing, so far. It's at +5 right now, and the damage output is masturbatorial.

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Every time I use this, I annihilate everything. It's a huge gankspank and can apply frostbite in just two hits. If you pick warrior and only level Str 4 times, you can two-hand it and bully newer players by oneshotting most of them since 2 hits + frostbite does a crapton of damage. Even if you're up against very skilled players, all it takes is a few smacks before they die. Post-Pontiff is an absolute mess with this thing in tow. Out of all the weapons I like using, this is the only one I wouldn't have any problem with them nerfing a bit. Just a bit.

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If you have a bad connection to another player, just turn on the R1 blender.

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Wish this thing wasn't plagued with such a mundane moveset, very solid weapon all other things considered.

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I routinely annihilate invaders with this weapon. There are STR weapons with more raw damage but every time I am invaded I bring out this baby. Even with just 35 STR it smashes through people's defenses and the frost really freaks people out. Rolling R1 spin is almost as satisfying as r2 smashing people into pancakes.

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Fantastic weapon, one of the best for strength and easily obtainable before the Road of Sacrifices.

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Forget the ds axe, THIS is bullying in low level invasions.

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I upgraded this yesterday and tried it out on my Str build. The stopping power on it is tremendous. You can R1 stunlock the red-eye Lothric Knight at the beginning of Lothric Castle and take 0 damage (4 hit kill). For the Cathedral Knights with shields in the Walled Garden, two R1's to their block sends them into instability frames for an easy reposte. The Frost damage is just gravy. Also the WA Perseverance helps some on bosses to take less damage and get more than 1 swing in. My only dislike is the graphical frost effect on the weapon as it is distracting and takes away from the look of your armor. I find myself switching to my Light Crossbow as I'm running around the Firelink Shrine just to get a break from the blur. But other than that, this is a great weapon that you can be using right after killing the Tree boss.

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freeze with vordt, get to heavy morning star, use fire paper before the last bleed hit(or after, whichever you prefer, but in that case you might as well use a fire ceastus)then go back to vordt, repeat.

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This is easily one of the best coop weapons you can get for a Strength build. So many bosses are weak to both Strike damage and Frostbite.

Leave the team buffs to the faith builds, they do it better. Go out in front and tank the boss while bashing their frozen face in with this beast of a greathammer.

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Last point in Notes and Tips, second sentence should be "Its high physical damage..." not "It's high physical damage..."

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Why with 524 AR I only hit 320 per swing?

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This thing is pretty overpowered in low level pvp, connect 2 swings and it easily takes out somewhere around 80% of the invaders health

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This weapon is OP

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works even better with frozen weapon i think from ashes of ariandel

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Looks nice but has an ugly snowy effect, would be great if that can be turned off.

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