The sidestep weapon art also makes them a lot of fun to use against single enemies with a bunch of health.
Get the dark crypt blacksword upgrade#
The key difference though, is that I prefer to upgrade the Manikin Claws' for regular damage and bleeding, rather than piling poison on top. I mentioned my penchant for DoTs up in the Demon's Souls section, and my reasons for liking these claws are more or less the same as what I mentioned for the Spiral Rapier. I never actually figured out precisely what its weapon art did, but it seemed like it boosted my defences. I often keep it on hand even when using other weapons, just in case smashing is needed. And it being the first boss weapon that I had actively used since Quelaag's Furysword - which makes me somewhat more invested in the weapon, regardless of its efficacy. This is solely due to the frostbite effect. This staff lead to a lot of hilarious co-op moments, since it let me adapt to the enemy's weaknesses (provided that I had prepared the spells to do so), and since I always I stood at the back, I was often the last man standing - ready to get that last hit with a bonk from the staff! The Black Witch Staff is practically a requirement to play as an Omni-mage, since it allows you to cast every type of spell, except Pyromancies, but that's why you have a pyromancy glove in your off-hand! The only reason that I decided to try out the Blue Flame mentioned above, is because I at one point had the crazy idea of making an "omni-mage" character - and went through with it. The design is very simplistic, but enticing nonetheless. The Blue Flame is a decent weapon on its own, but is hilarious when using a Spellblade build and dual-wielding two Blue Flames, with this and the use of one or two Soul Greatsword spells - you'll have most enemies dead in seconds. I guess it is also cool that you get it off Ricard himself. Honestly there're only two reasons why I like it, its style and the rapid stab move. Still following the same theme as before, we have Ricard's Rapier. That and it really suited my pyromancer well. In this case however, it has less to do with looks and moveset, and more to do with lore. Similar to my fondness for curved swords because of them usually having flashy movesets, I tend to enjoy rapiers for their animations.įollowing the same theme as before, we have a Curved Sword. And you can upgrade it to have poison on top - which made it double the fun! In the case of the Spiral Rapier it is one of those rare weapons with passive bleed. I have a fondness for DoT builds, regardless of whether it involves poison, toxic, bleeding, etc. In the case of the Kilij it is one of the few decent curved swords in the series, and I have fond memories of picking up the Crescent Kilij on my first Noble character - and while he killed most things quickly already, the Crescent Kilij still managed to speed up the process. Very few of them have proven to be optimal choices, but that doesn't matter - they're flashy AF.
To my detriment I really like Curved Swords in the Souls games, mostly for the looks of the weapons and movesets. Maybe not because of it, but it was the first regardless. It's similar to Blueblood in that I ended up liking a lot of weapons that were similar. If it were either ugly (like some of the later similar weapons) or really slow and bad (like some of the later similar weapons) I probably wouldn't like the weapon type as much. Bramd was kind of the perfect storm of the "enormous weapons" in the franchise for me, since I think it looks the coolest but also the speed of most of Demon's combat made it pretty fun to use. Kind of the progenitor of some of the other similar swords in the franchise that I ended up liking. Blueblood is pretty vanilla at this point but the speed and power and weird stat scaling and method of obtaining it made it cool.
Get the dark crypt blacksword series#
Based on looks, move set, lore, whatever - what are you preferred weapons in each of the series entries? Count King's Field if you want since I'm counting Demon's and Bloodborne.
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