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7 str/int colossal swords. 7, Karl

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Probably my favorite meta weapons to fight against out of any meta I've experienced. They're a huge uphill struggle to compete against but punishing them feels very rewarding.

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Unga bunga weapon type for unga bunga players

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I'm not a big fan of watch dogs. i kinda hate them.

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I miss the Lothrick knight gs… especially the part that you could scale lightning damage with faith

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Coming from DS3 where fast and small weapons were king for true combos and recovery frames for PvP I was craving to see ultras get the love they deserved because in DS3 they were mediocre at best. In ER it's the total opposite due to sheer amount of variety in Ashes of War and using crouch and jump attacks allows the player to overcome the slow nature of these type of weapons. Strength bros eating good this time around.

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The new patch is absolutely incredible! I always HATED the horizontal moveset, and now vertical swings are back! I rebound R1 and R2 and it feels just like the good old days with the Royal Greatsword :)

Vertical swings just feel so much more powerful (which they are because they're heavies duh) but more than that, your character behaves like they can actually handle the weight of the sword and it's so, so satisfying.

Gush over, thanks Miyazaki

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they could just use starcaller cry too if they so dedicated to reskin final boss dlc weapon & make it light attack follow up into lightspeed slash & heavy attack into promised consort just like sword of night & flame.

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Do any ultra great swords do any physical damage other than standard and pierce?

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There are some pretty cool weapons here, but overall the ultra-great-swords aren't as exciting as in Dark souls III. Also the fact we got multiple reskin in the dlc just bring them down even more...

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So they gave us 3 re-skins because "lore"? I would have rather taken new weapons entirely

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the reason there is no pvp hate here is because the colossal users are the one hating on everthing else and calling sh** like twinblades or sychtes weeb weapons when this is the most "I watch cartoons" weapon class ive ever seen

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If you have bad internet, use any one of these swords in PvP. The number of times I've been hit multiple times by colossals due to hosts' packet loss or other network bs is genuinely wonderful. R1 = win button.

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So i just played and completed DS3 (finally). Why the heck does none of these colossal swords have a vertical R1 moveset?

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Back in my day Big swords were strength and dex weapons

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still no drakewing/fugs/dragon gs equivalent but we get 2 **** radahn reskins, gg

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Why, WHY almost every single ultra shares the same moveset. What happened to my beloved vertical r1 :(

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DS3 ain't die for this

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the table values are shifted over by one because someone doesnt know that 'any' isnt a defense stat

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I mostly play with dex weapons, and doing a str character it's funny how some of my most hated bosses become mere jokes. Eat gravel, Commander Niall.

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The most beautiful colossal sword in the game, in my opinion. I used this as my starting weapon for the DLC, and oh boy, this thing is the strongest STR/INT colossal in the game, perhaps ?
It packs a really decent moveset and range, and as magic DMG is quite good overall, only a few enemies resist it, so the pure damage compensates. The ash of war sucks tho, only use this thing on some occasions, it lets you be so open to attacks that in bosses it's impracticable. The DMG and the frostbite are ok I guess. If you're cooping and the aggro isn't on you, it can be used somewhat safer, but I never bothered.
My plan was to use this for the start of the DLC but ended up using it basically the whole playtrough, it was my "Ok, I'm going to kill this thing" button, as OP as STR builds are if you focus on stance breaking, this sword demolishes bosses. My talismans were basically Two-Handed Sword, Dragoncrest Greatshield, Axe, and Erdtree Favor +2, depending on the need, I changed one or another, my stats were something 45 STR/INT and at the end of the DLC with all the blessings, I packed 1900 AR +
Well, that's it my favorite colossal sword in the game, it's gorgeous, it's strong, and you need to marry a doll to get it 11/10.

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I just don't understand why fromsoftware didn't made the greatsword of radahn with just a stance Ash of War instead of two separate weapons

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Why are there so few purely physical damage collosal swords? A lot of them require some kind of INT or FTH investment...

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i still miss the ds2 moveset

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ancient meteoric ore greatsword comically outranges the greatsword. its insane how long it is

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For anyone who gets tired of us complaining the lackluster movesets, especially on colossal weapons, go play FromSoft's Bloodborne (as long as you have a PS4/PS5), give it an honest shot, then come back here and you will get why some of us are critical with some of these said movesets.

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why are the maxed out stats all wrong?

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ive come back after 2 years what happened to gugs why did you change it

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If you use this weapon tupe, you are a noob.
It requires high stats to use and we all know that increasing you stats makes the game easier.
Git gud scrub and use a club.

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missed opportunity to make things like ruins, godslayer, and maybe other ugs deal strike damage like cathedral knights greatsword from ds3.

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Fromsoft would be chads if they added vertical UGS to dlc yet have it require 0 str, 99 dex, int, fai, and arc, lmfao.

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the reason there isn't a vertical UGS is because that moveset sucks. move on with your life and go play ds3 if you love it that much

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It bugs me that Fromsoft randomly decided that the Zweihander, a greatsword known for being super light (around 2x the weight of a longsword), would weight more than any greathammer (even though some of them are literal blocks of steel).
Fire knight one is on the same boat, that thing is thinner than paper foil yet it weights the same as the Dragon Greatclaw!!

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>5 new colossal swords
>1 STR/INT, 1 STR/ARC (with magic damage), 1 FTH, 2 quality/INT
Forget femboy steed Giga-Radahn, the real final boss of the DLC is the garbage weapon variety for pure STR users

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What the heck is going on with miyazaki that we have the full game AND a big dlc and NOT ONE colossal sword has the vertical swing moveset you saw tons in ds2 and ds3???? Was that too OP? More than the crazy stuff in the dlc? Cmon

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There's what, 7 int colossals?And then only two fai and one arc. Like, seriously, did we really needed so many int colossals?Especially considering that two of them could've just been a single weapon with a stance AoW instead of two separate swords that are identical in everything but from L2 and guard stats and another one is literally ctrl+c ctrl+v of Troll Knight's GS except, again, with a different L2 that should've been on basegame TKGS anyway.

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Ok, so I always thought that the Godslayer R1 (same as fire knight's) is quicker than the average R1 UGS swing, but someone told me that:

"FKD neutral R1 starts frame 18, meanwhile regular R1 of UGSs starts frame 17, so it's objectively slower."

Could anyone confirm or deny that?

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No vertical colossal in the dlc is a huge bummer, especially since war cry has the animations for it.

Damn.

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Ancient Ore Meteoric Greatsword is still listed incorrectly on this page. It requires 35 STR, 10 Dex, and 19 ARC. It doesn't require INT.

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man did we really need 7 str/int greatswords?

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The last thing I ever expected was copy pasted weapons, they all could have just been ashes of war. What a ripoff.

I lost a lot of confidence in fromsoftware with this one

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So we got 5 yet none is really for pure str and 3 were reskin.
c'mon this is kinda unfair...

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Did the DLC not grant a vertical swing ultra?...

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2 new weapons and 3 re-skins this feels like DS2

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Uncle sodomy weapon type

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People who dont have anything long and girthy to play with naturally play with these while simultaneously signifying to the rest of us that they are insecure

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royal greatswords skill is so fun mega frontflip into ice blast also it looks cool too :D

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Just call it colossal greatsword because almost all of them have the word greatsword in them

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Apparently we are getting a colossal sword with Godslayer's GS R1 chain and Zweihander R2s in the DLC, as per Youwy's last video regarding SotE. Nice.

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The mere thought of having some sort of colossal katana when the DLC arrives is enough to make me shiver profusely

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I think the watchdog's greatsword is underrated because of the guts greatsword

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Only valid weapon class in the game

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UGS kids are malding

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DS3's Ultra Greatswords would not be proud of their offspring if they would know about this crap

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If they don't bring the vertical slam light attacks back in the dlc I'm gonna go hollow

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doodoo

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Some colossal malding here in the comments

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if you repeatedly crouch, wiggle & poke with one of these, you're no better that a dual great spear user.
if you also have an off hand thrusting sword you're actually more toxic.

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tf is this

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The worst UGS lineup in all of fromsoft games

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I want to start a war. Zwei > guts.

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clang

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yapping level today: catastrophic

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basement dweller weapon class indeed. One comment was enough to get all these weebs butthurt

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Holy hell these are so dull in comparsion to the previous games

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Ruins Greatsword is truly legendary.

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The Godslayer Greatsword is by far the ultimate weapon in the game, just practice on landing the AoW and nothing can stand in its way.

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Most of them look too cartoony/anime for me. I love zweihander and I love Goslayer. I'd love to have some thin colossal swords in the DLC, something closer to Faron GS, or Astora GS than gugs

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"Clown weapon class"
I'm sorry for the stomp buddy i know the R1's can be mean to your bleed build

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"Clown weapons; you can easily counter it." I annihilate people with colossal swords. Bet he's one of the people I 1v3rd. 

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clown weapon class, pick a real weapon (literally anything else) whenever i see someone using one of these things i just pull one out too and screw with them. when they can't get carried by hyper armor they just fall apart, it's so funny

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Give us the spine of a fire giant as a UGS kind of like if we got a UGS combo of Sword of Milos/Blasphemous Blade, make it a STR/FTH weapon, and then give it a skill that buffs the wepons so every time you swing or thrust it a wave of fire comes out of it

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It’s funny how half the colossal swords have the word greatsword in it, even though greatswords are different weapon classes entirely.

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All I see here is the Greatsword and then a whole bunch of trash

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The 4567th rolling r1 was the mixup

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The 4567th rolling r1 was the mixup

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They need their recovery time made less just a bit because currently this problem alone makes them rather unusable in a lot of places. PvE, you can line up a perfect punish and attack once but an enemy that cant be staggered with this will hit you before you can recover out of your attack. PvP, you can simply dodge in and backstab the poor chap before he can recover out of his attack.

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The true colossal sword experience: somehow your attack misses for the 94758686th time in a row but it doesn't really matter because when it hits it will destroys your foe's health bar. Who cares if using a colossal it's as slow as a slug? Stance breaking everything in your path and seeing the big damage number on the screen comes to save the day once again.

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bring back RKPGS from, not those fugly radahan swords but a real paired ugs to make the gs crowd seethe

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IDK why this isn't mentioned anywhere, but this weapon class has, at least in my experience, a physical damage negation increase when swinging regular attacks. You can see this in PVP, as attacks do substantially less damage if they're swinging compared to if they aren't.

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I would casually jump onto fextra every few weeks and drop a "what is GUGs?" just to stir the pot. Now that it's gone, "what happened to GUGs?" causes just as much strife.

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RIP GUGS the 2nd best fextralife meme (first is on ds2 elite knight set xomments)

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Are these weapons parryable?

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The only thing someone needs to do to entirely invalidate these weapons in PvP is to use a Dagger, the recovery times are so short you can bait any attack so they miss, hit them once, then roll away before they can even attack again, completely unpunishable. Every attack from a Colossal Sword is reactable, so the only way they would be able to hit you is if you let them or they predicted when you would try to attack, they attack in anticipation as a read, then your brain doesn't catch up to your hands and you make a mistake and trade on accident. Lights Bows are just as bad if not worse, just roll away any time they try hitting you and perform a rolling shot, they literally can't do anything to stop you other than literally changing to a faster weapon. This is why every user of these weapons is spamming the crouch and rolling attacks, they are the only attacks in the move set that are barely fast enough to be usable in a setting where the opponent is of equal skill and kind of know how to fight Colossal Swords, and even still they are too slow to the point where they get bullied by Daggers and Light Bows. You can still beat 99% of players you encounter online who aren't aware of the counters, but it's still completely disheartening to occasionally watch my character get shanked to death for trying to do anything with a Colossal Sword.

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why did they change GUGS?

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Hope DLC has a colossal sword with a vertical moveset

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Is every UGS R1 in this game that dragging sweep?

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i have all of them

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big sword go brrrrrrr

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I sorely miss elegant and deadly Black Knight Greatsword. Landing a first hit of R2 on your opponent and comboing it into burger flip was something else.

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I miss the vertical moveset from Dark Souls 3

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The true EZ mode of Elden Ring = colossal swords

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Wowowwowo big sword

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Grafted Blade > Greatsword

Higher maximum damage, easier to upgrade.

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All of the great weapon classes have ballooned into straight up final fantasy sized nonsense. Demons and DS1 are the only games to have decently sized massive weapons. It all went downhill design wise with ds2.

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**** you from, give me astora already.
kind regards,
tarnished

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Really wish they had a Konda-style sword in this game like the Fume greatsword from DS2 and 3

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Why did they change GUGS?

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The PKCS is light, manageable and offers relatively high points in casul slaying.
-PKCS Pope

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PKCS is astonishingly better u are all casuls
-PKCS Pope

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