Ordovis's Greatsword | Elden Ring Wiki

This thing is like the DS1 Zweihander on steroids

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The hyperarmor on the L2 is absolutely busted. I had someone hit me twice with an UGS while I charged it and I still got it off. At 52 poise.

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another l2 sameshit moveset greatsword, amazing

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Ordovi's Vortex is incredible.
Uncharged is just a better R2: almost as fast as uncharged R2, more damage than fully charged R2, crazy hyperarmour, and AoE on top of that, only for 15 FP (12 with Carian Filigreed Crest).
Charged does earthshattering damage, is boosted by both Shard of Alexander and Godgrey's Icon for absurd damage, instantly stunlocks most enemies that somehow survive the hit and still costs 15 FP.
I'm marrying this sword and nobody is going to stop me.

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if this thing had the knight's gs moveset I wouldn't use any other weapon

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Dang, I was really hoping this would have their lunging thrust running attack.

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I guess not, but do Axe Talisman + Spiked Cracked Tear work on the charged L2 special attack?

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The hyper armor the AoW adds seems pretty substantial. Tried a bit on NG+ with Dagger's Talisman, Carian Filigreed Crest, Assassin's Crimson Dagger and the Sacrificial Axe in my off hand. If the AoW doesn't one shot an enemy, it will likely stagger then. You can trade through any damage, and recover a nice chunk of HP with the Assassin's Crimson Dagger. I'm sure the Dagger's Talisman isn't necessary for most PvE enemies but it nice on bosses.

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ITS TIME TO SLAM

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sure, yeah, unique L2s are cool the first few hundred times. but I would have given both nuts to have this thing's moveset include the ground-dragging heavy attack, the running horizontal slash, the heal-punish thrust, basically *any* of the swordfighting techniques the crucible knights themselves use.

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If you use faith-knot crystal tear with this, not only to you get some more AR from the extra faith, but you also end up with a perfect 25 faith, which is exactly what you need to cast golden vow. Do with this what you will (nuke bosses in half).

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Drink stonebarb cracked tear and just go to town with the AoW on Malenia. Breaks her stance with 1 fully charged use. Follow with a critical then charge it up again and repeat until she is dead. I felt bad.

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Bothers me a tiny bit that this has slightly different base damage allocation and scaling to the crucible knight spear, but different enough to mean that a build that's build for one of the crucible knight weapons doesn't necessarily support the other. For example the crucible knight spear is perfectly fine on a faith leaning str/fai build due to equal base damage and equal scaling but this sword demands a strength leaning str/fai build. It stops being an issue at high enough levels when you can just invest heavily in both though.

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hehe funni magic swordcopter goes swosh swosh swosh BOOM

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L2 spammers weapon of choice. PKCS requires more skill than this tryhard weapon-PKCS Pope

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You just never, EVER get tired of using this thing's weapon art.
Few weapons capture barely contained divine fury as well as this one.

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Duo Godskins < Valiant Gargoyle < then this

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For anyone wanting to make out strength just for this weapon, I ask you to reconsider once hitting around 50-60 strength. Once you hit 60, instead of aiming for 70, go for 10 more faith than is required. If your weapon is max it will not only do more damage with putting the next 10 points into faith, but will also give you access to golden vow which buffs weapon damage. You could also do this switch at 50 since it is about 6 less damage if you put the next 10 levels into faith, but it makes up for it and more with golden vow.

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In theory it sounds cool doing a cosplay of a crucible knight but the manlet sized tarnished makes it seem like child's halloween costume.

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i wonder if this sword is actually made of copper. not only does it look like it, but both this sword and the regalia of eochaid have skills where you telekinetically move the sword, and that sword's description says that its copper is the conduit for that ability. the crucible armor also seems to be made of the same material as this sword if the color is anything to go by, and its description states it "holds the power of the crucible of life" which boosts crucible incants, abilities which consist of you forming an appendage of some sort and manipulating it like its part of your body. if you think about it these abilities are not too far off from each other, you're essentially channeling your will into something that's not actually part of your body and moving it like it is. in conclusion, "primordial gold" might just be copper question mark? not a whole lot to go on tho, maybe the dlc will give us some more eochaid stuff

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Based holy damage

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This weapon art and Greater Combustion, are 2 of the biggest reasons not to chase someone in PvP.

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The versatility, the synergy with other weapons and incantations, the poise breaking and the surprisingly low fp cost aow with a massive aoe and wild hyperarmor, the majority physical damage, being a greatsword in general...

One of the overall best weapons pve in the game needless to say.

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I wanted so badly to use the shield effectivley with this, but one handing it with 55 str and 47 fai make me lose over 100 AR.

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I once stance-broke malenia out of her waterfoul dance with this sacred earthshaker

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Just here to say: crucible axe helm+ altered crucible tree chest + the rest of it gives 69 poise

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Oddly, this weapon was correctly spelled as Ordovis' Greatsword before released which is the correct way to spell a pocessive word that ends in S. But then was changed to Ordovis's Greatsword which means Ordovis is Greatsword. I don't know of any other grammatical mistakes besides the intentionally cartoonish medieval dialog.

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Doesn't Thundercloud form has the highest stance damage of 70?

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The charged ash of war eats through enemy poise like anything. The charged ash of war if it fully connects does 66 poise damage on pve enemies, the highest that can be achieved in a single button press without using poise damage boosting cracked tear.

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The Poise-breaking Machine.

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As a str/fai build, this guy has been carrying me for the 2nd half of the game after the Golden Halberd carried me the first half. Don't let anyone tell you holy weapons are trash in this game, they have actually made my playing experience relatively easier than it probably should've been lol.

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Does the charged Ash of War benefit from consecutive hit buffs?

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The best looking greatsword in my opinion

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I and my fellow Strength-Faith enjoyers appreciate this weapon quite a lot. Praise the lord!

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**slaps** this bad boy can melt and stagger holy resistant enemies like nothing

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Why does with weapon have such a high strengh requirement? Even the Blasphemous Blade only requires 22 strength although it has a higher weight. For balancing reasons? The Blasphemous Blade is still far more viable than this weapon.

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You don't know true terror until a fully charged "aspect of the crucible: horns" lands on you and you land right at the center of this weapon's already charged ash of war.

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Slap this together with Godfrey Icon and watch the game just melt away.

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Best weapon in elden ring. Ash of war is insane

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i wonder why this is pierce? there is no pierce attack in its moveset. all i can think is that maybe the skill is the pierce type.

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I'm kinda disappointed that this thing charged heavy isn't that poke that can get you from across the room that the Shield Crucibles can do.

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Can't believe no one has mentioned how good this thing is for cheesing Malenia... srsly, hit her with the first charged L2 and you've won the fight! Rinse and repeat til she's dead.

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My favourite weapon in Elden Ring

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With 60 strength, the physical damage of this weapon still makes it still useful for the final bosses with, but I still find it wanting when it comes to killing Malenia.

Magma Wyrm’s Scalesword is a good weapon to switch to for killing her, but be warned that you will need 15 points into dexterity to use it.

Otherwise both weapons seem to benefit the most from use on a 60 Strength and 40 Faith build.

The Clawmark Seal and Two handed weapon use get a you a tarnished that competes with the power of a pure strength player and the incantation casting of a pure faith player.

Faith can be easily dropped to 25 if you are alright with losing out on getting decent incantation damage.

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it's always the spinny weapons...if the weapon spins, it does 5k damage.

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After the buff, this thing absolutely slaps. The uncharged version is insanely fast now and does good damage with massive hyperarmor and good AOE. The charged version, when combined with Godfrey Icon and Shard of Alexander, can absolutely nuke the health of some bosses. I haven't even gotten to the best part which is that this thing does a ridiculous amount of poise damage. Two fully charged weapon arts will basically stagger any boss. This, combined with the extreme hyperarmor, means that I can see a viable hit-trading build with heavy armor where you just spam the fully charged weapon art to destroy bosses, since only a few big attacks can truly interupt the weapon art..

Recommended to spec mostly into strength rather than faith since the physical is where the majority of the damage comes from, plus it has much better scaling with strength.

The only problem I have with this thing is that the range of the actual weapon seems shorter than average for a greatsword. Other than that, it is worth it to go through the horrendous double crucible knight boss fight for. Cheese them with Blasphemous blade and get this baby.

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could anyone give me AR stats for this?
wondering if i should balance or focus a single stat

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I used it before the buff and it was definitely the best great sword. But now it’s just over the top. L2 speed boost was welcome but unnecessary. The hyper armor on uncharged is absolutely ridiculous though, no reason I should be able to face tank a great hammer on reaction L2. Fortunately most peeps spamming it don’t level faith past the minimum, so I steam roll meta chasers spamming it with my own L2. I hope they revert the hyperarmor on uncharged L2

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Update the sword, its now pretty good. No ROB before 1 06 but after 1.07 its a plain Jane game. Nothing stands out, nothing exciting. Just pick whatever and your good. Glad I played before the game was butchered

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Damn this thing is good now. Maybe then even overbuffed it? The increased speed is nice but its also have a massive hyperarmor which might be a little too bit too much

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God damn did the update make the uncharged ash quick, bless From for actually nerfing crouch poke crutches and buffing this beauty. 10/10

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this and the armor make the crappy dungeon they're in completely worth it

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If you’re going for a Crucible Knight playthrough, consider the Regalia of Eochaid instead. Much better AoW and isn’t as sluggishly bulky.

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The ash of war on this will get you maidens instantly

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i like how the sword still magically floats if you dont have the fp for the skill

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When it comes to weapons like these, just spin to win!

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I use this in my off hand with the blasphemous blade, I love it.

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such a cool weapon which makes it a total shame that it’s almost not worth it to have the fight the boss and go through the god awful dungeon

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The time has come and so have I

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If only this thing had the disgustingly long range thrust that the Crucible Knights themselves love to use whenever you so much as think about sipping your flask, it would've been perfect for a cosplay build, but of course it just gets the standard greatsword moveset, they could've atleast have given it the same r2s as the Claymore, big sadge.

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Ordovis's Vortex is great

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Absolutely dogwater weapon

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Was so hyped when I first got it, the CKs have such a nice moveset with it and.... then it's the same bs moveset that almost every single other greatsword has. Very, very disappointing. At least the aow is unique and fun to use, so there's that at least.

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The weapon art is cool but considering how the knights who wield this love to jab it into your face every time you try to heal, i think it should've gotten some poke moves

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hahaha four digit damage numbers funni

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A pretty good weapon with decent scaling and a weapon art that's a little tricky to use without a good amount of poise. Great for people dressing as crucible knights. I don't pvp at all but even I can see it would be suicide to try and use that AoW

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Greatsword of artorias?!

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The damage is pretty good but the weapon art is trash, even uncharged it takes a long time to activate so probably be knocked out of it and the range is bad so you need to be right up to them.

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for everyone who says the weapon art need hyper armor, it does get extra poise when you let go of the charge. just dont be stupid, if you see something charging you, let go and most of the time youll eat the hit and get some damage off. yall are blinded by the need to fully charge everything

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Maybe it's a stretch, but, could the name of the knight wielding it (Ordovis) be a reference to the Ordovician, a geologocal period of time which came before the Silurian (The other knight's name being Siluria). Both these periods were part of the paleozoic, during which life, as we know it, saw some dramatic changes from an evolutionary point of view.

We know the Crucible is more or less the evolution of life in Elden ring, so it could make some sense that the knights that worship it are a reference to these geological periods.

Another period of time that followed this one is the Devonian, so it could be possible that a future Crucible knight's name will pe Devon or something along those lines.

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No unique moveset like most unique weapons. just a reskin of lordworn greatsword with a very slow and weak ash of war that doesn't even have hyperarmor. like at least give it one of the crucible run attacks that catch rolling or chugging

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Why does this not have hyper armor? There are skills out there that have longer reach but have unnecessary (but welcomed) hyper armor but on a skill that has like 1 foot reach you don't get hyper armor. This weapon is just sad.

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was disappointed when i saw that it doesnt have the same dash attack that he does.

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Swish swish swish swish swish swish

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Got ahold of two of these bad bois, made em +10 whith full crucible set. Stats: 40 vig, 40 endurance, 50 str 50 faith. As well as all crucible spells and erdtree heal. By running through the full game, and beating every boss you come by, whith the gold scarab talisman and a little bird farming it's a pretty powerful build

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Only thing this needs is hyper armor for the weapon skill. Can get knocked out of it far too easily.

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Oh my good lord Jesus when my shrek lookalike character spins this blade I’m almost dropping tears… so beautiful

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Wait?? Under tips and tricks it can't be enhanced by magic or items, but under upgrades it can?? Which is it??

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The best greatsword for STR-FAI Build; Insane damage also from ability.
Optimal in combo with Blasphemous or Gargoyle's Blackblade (above all Blackblade because Blasphemous scale little better with DEX)
65 STR 45 FAI with Radagon Soreseal 880 AR double handed, 826 single hand.

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Would anyone here recommend this as a powerstance-option with the Blasphemous Blade (If both Str/Fai are around 40+)?
I know scaling wise there would be better combinations but i'd like two the most (looks and all...)

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Pretty good on Strength Faith builds, but the real damage comes from strength, faith can be req only.

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i dont care about damage, this thing looks really cool.

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Man, this would have been my fav weapon if greatswords had heavy thrusts. I mean Ordovis himself does a lunging thrust from 5 m away.....

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Does this weapon effective on majority enemies / boss in the game ? I mean, it seems alot of enemies have a good resistance to Holy Damage (i said that, because I use it in my str / faith build, and hesitate to upgrade this to +10).

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This is my main weapon on my str/fath build, and I think its a fantastic sword. It hits hard, and the weapon art is really fun to use.

The moves are like any greatsword so nothing special there. The Vortex is powerful, but youll need either proper timing or high poise to pull off a full charge. (which you dont always need) It has an AOE so can take out multiple enemies, and when you slam it into the ground it has a ripple effect depending on how much Vortex was charged. These ripples each due rapid damage that quickly stacks up, and they cause enemies to stagger on each one. If youre quick with a heavy follow up, you can cause a stance break.

For a Paladin like build, its powerful and a lot of fun. Plus it feels like a badass smite when you bring it down! Probably not the most "optimized" choice, but top tier still.

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When should I use this over gargoyle blackblade? I love the weapon art but I can't see a reason to use this instead.

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why is this heavier than the horned greatshield?

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I cannot overstate how much I like this in the left hand with Blasphemous in the right. I’ve got a 55 Fth/45 Str split, and while the Blasphemous has the better weapon art and damage, the Ordovis’ still has a very high AR… but also seems to be a bit longer than the Blasphemous, giving you just a bit of extra reach when dual wielding.

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does the weapon art scale with the weapon scaling?

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If you're having trouble with the boss fight, the spear crucible knight will often resort to a ranged spear throw while Ordovis himself will usually try to stay in melee range. You can use the spear throw to create spacing between the two and get some hits on Ordovis, and once he is down the spear knight is pretty simple. Just watch out for his fist impale grab attack and you should be fine. Also, if you are running a strength build, the Staff of the Avatar's Ash of War has really good hyper armor if you feel comfortable taking some damage and getting out.

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it's base damage is way lower than other faith/str weapons like Golden halberd and Blasphemous blade. Golden halberd has worse faith scaling and blasphemous has worse strength scaling, but they still out do this one. Ordivis GS is a good powerstance option to left hand with blasphemous though.

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Scales really well with both STR and FAI, managed to get into 800+ attack rating reasonably fast.
May be the best weapon for STR+FAI builds.

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Goddamn if this thing just had an R2 thrust, it'd be perfect.
So close, still cool as **** regardless.

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Got this today after so many tries. For a greatsword user, the hardest part is the first phase cause both of them move at the same speed. So its hard to separate them and find an opening. Just keep running around and hitting 1 time when they have abit of distance between them
Try to focus the spear knight first, after u get him to like half HP he gets 2 lunge attack which makes it faster. Kite his lunge/claw thingy then hit him.
Have to be patient. My fight was like 30 mins. Get the blessed dew talisman (heals hp over time), worth it for long fights

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The sword is a definition of Sounds good, looks cool but does not work. Frist of all it's holy dmg does not prevent skeletons from coming back. It's weapon art is total letdown. Initial wind up can be interrupted even with dagger or rat bite (even while equipped in heavy set - tested in crucible set). The dmg is mediocre as well as range. Only redemption is that, before actual dmg of weapon art the animation of weapon slam does also dmg, however it is light dmg with AR of 1 handed - even if you two hand it prior to weapon art. Gargoyle Black blade is much better for STR/Faith and has far superiror wapon art.

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poker strat with mimic = GG

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gonna be a master at parrying after this

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ornstein and ornstein. 10/10 fight. peak soulsbornekiro....ring?

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very easy way to beat the 2v1 without summons for me is use a shield with barricade shield and just do guard counter on the spear guy after he dies the 1v1 shouldn't be a problem

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with strength and faith build using sacred vow this does just over 1000 dmg for me

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