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Lowly Tarnished will look at a sword that shoots laser beams in multiple directions and say "Meh, it's a buffing tool at best". My brother in Marika where is your joy and whimsy

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For the honour of Greyskull!

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“Raise thy sword by the light...
and head to the place where the sword's light gathers...
There, thou shalt find the colossi thou art to defeat.” — Dormin

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Light = self buff = better for solo.
Dark = defense shred = better for co-op/summoning.
Kinda' ironic when you think about it.

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You have finally returned Servent of Dark Star Dugradigdu... Gorun Nova

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Should I powerstance light and dark on ng+ for a ying yang type build? Light and dark combo? Anyone got armor ideas for that?

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The body buff remains even if you swap it so its awesome for a coded sword/FTH build.

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this kind of reminds me of the sword from Shadow of the Colossus, especially with the light based power and all

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For those of you wondering, the buff lasts for approximately 1 minute, I timed it myself, and it stacks with all other buffs, as it’s a player based buff, once again tested myself with every kind of buff I had access to in my NG+ 5 save file, tested on the 2 golems outside of the grand lift of dectus.

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This and the sword of darkness should've been light greatswords, since we only have 3.

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Can someone explain to me why power-stancing this with the Coded Sword isn't a good build? I get that it doesn't do as much damage as using the AoW, then swapping it out I'm sure, but power-stanced short swords have a solid moveset, and not having to juggle your weapons around to reapply the buff seems worth it to me. Genuinely asking a question here, not trying to be contrary.

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Look's like the Gilded Sword from Majora's Mask

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Only good if there was a way to fuse both swords together just like in Demons Souls.

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thanks for gutting this thing's potential as anything other than a buff-casting tool
a 20% holy damage body buff is nice, but screw you Miyazaki

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One of the best looking weapons in the game. I'd prefer if the scaling was reversed like D in str and C in faith, but I'll keep it anyway. The buff is pretty cool too

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Man I'd main this if the scaling in fth was just a little less pathetic ...it's a beautiful weapon, just why miyazaki!!!!

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Coolest Straight Sword in the game, unfortunate that they gave it the worst weapon art in the game. The only use of this weapon is to buff yourself and it's really sad because it's such a beautiful weapon that had so much potential

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Luminas from Metroid Prime 2 must have created this...

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Despite scaling, the base damage is high enough that it is still higher than most infusable sword with sacred infusion. The skill takes 1000 years to cast so you are not reapplying this in a boss fight easily when you are solo. There is no special moveset for this. This is just a standard holy sword that buff you 20% holy damage once in a while. Best usage for this weapon is using it to buff your holy damage source. Coded sword get benefits from this quite a lot.
Biggest point is it look beautiful. Probably top 1 or 2 of the best look straight sword, right next to Miquellan Knight Sword.

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I have both Sword of Light and Darkness. Used Darkness for the debuff then switched to Sword of Light and used Light. The damage was ridiculous and I haven't even optimized this build.

Seems like under the right circumstances, dual wielding these could result in nuclear explosion levels of damage.

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Oh miyazaki. Grant me this one wish. Please make the secret weapon with a special unlock weapon and designed around light, NOT HAVE A D SCALING IN FAITH

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Is anyone else having issues with the buff? I will activate it, wait for about 40 seconds(buff lasts for a minute, btw), and try to re activate it, but it will end the buff instead of resetting the timer.

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Might as well be a casting item

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Omg this sword is so beautiful

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This is not a bad weapon, but I feel like the lasers need to beam more closely to the locked on target, or have some kind of tracking.

Using this skill is kind of risky in PVP. If you fire it off, you are stuck in the animation and beams do not follow the target at all.

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From my testing the buff lasts for 1 minute

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From my testing the sword gives holy damage buff for a minute

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WA is easier to pull off than you think and the buff is nothing to sneeze at either. This + golden vow on a str/faith build can get really good damage. As a straight sword believer, my faith has been rewarded.

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sword of eclipse opportunity missed. This is your mw3.

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I take this buff-skill that also can hit something over every skill that is just a buff and nothing else

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24 faith requirement and only a D in faith? Was this weapon left unfinished? Why doesn't this have AT LEAST a low B in faith

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essentially buff stick for all holy build

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It's visually more pleasant for me than SoD, and the WA is very impressive and satisfying. It could be really good for big enemies, if worked honestly, but FS doesn't want honest damage from this and alike.

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Really hoping they come back to this and the Sword of Darkness to change the scaling. We've already seen they are willing to change the scaling up quite a bit with the Carian Sorcery Sword, and even in DS3 with Sunlight Straight Sword which went from a quality weapon to a pure faith weapon back then. Just take some scaling away from strength and give it to Faith. These have the potential to be the coolest pure Faith weapons, but they need the scaling to back them up.

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Just a small thing I noticed; this sword looks a lot like the starting sword from Shadow of the Colossus, and just like it SotC it reflects light, Miyazaki is a fan of Ico, so he likely has played SotC. Not guaranteed by any means but it could be a small reference

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You should be able to combine the 2 swords into 1 to get an AoW that can do both AoWs. Like the Lothric and Lorian sword(s).

Just don’t make it a greatsword… better yet make it a paired weapon.

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Light buff + Last Rites buff seems nice, since one is a body and the other an aura buff. 20% boost to holy damage, and the flat 25 bonus from Last Rites followed up with Golden Land/Shadow Land, and/or Elden Stars. Haven't got the sword yet to try it, but seems pretty awesome in my head. Curious is the Light buff increases Last Rites damage also.

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Surprisingly low scaling with faith for how "legendary" the method for obtaining it is... and considering it's name...

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stacked this with holy shrouding tear then powerstanced it with coded sword and started landing over 1200 damage on jumping attacks, what the ****

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majora's mask gilded sword swag!

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I HAVE THE POWER!!!!!!!

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disco sword

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Is there a limit for how many times you can switch between sword of light and sword of darkness?

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If only Gideon the all hearing except for anything to do with the dlc had one and started spamming incantations

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Why is the sword of LIGHT, used for rituals, covered in LIGHT, only have a D scaling in faith. What the actual ****

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I cant raise it at unte altar theres no light or nothing what am I doing wrong

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Literally only good as a buff stick.
Weapon is shat on by Sacred Relic.

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With a sword that is clearly so focused on Holy rituals, really a shame this thing only gets D in FTH on either form. I guess though that the main purpose is clearly the Holy Buff/Debuff that either sword gives to you or the enemy with the AoW.

Sure, you get roughly ~60 more AR if you dedicate STR to it, but only going with base Fth or gnough for Golden Vow really doesn't take advantage of the AoW buff of that Sweeeet +20% Holy damage, which would likely help balance out the AR loss from only have 14 STR, and unlike Sword of Dark you don't actually have to hit the opponent with the AoW because Light is a self-buff.

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The weapon itself may seem somewhat meh, but the AoW hits like a truck if you pop it at cose range.

Been coopping the two Death Knights and even with three people, this thing's AoW stunlocks him, flinching him each tick, and I regularly stance break them with it.

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As of my testing at the Albinauric Genocide Route - 7/14/24

The weapon art holy damage buff stacks with Golden Vow (as expected)

What was unexpected is that after casting vow, and then using the weapon art, and then swapping off the weapon to a second Golden order seal - the buff remained. I'm not sure how that's happening, but I welcome the extra holy damage.

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What a sick ash of war Animation، on North versions

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I HAVE THE POOOOOOOWWWWEEEERRRR

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Great weapon but the ash of war got some problems: it's multihit that takes way too many time to fire off, so on pve is hard to land the hits, on pvp it's impossible (because of a bug holy damage buffs also don't work on pvp). It's counterpart has a single hit aow so it's easier to land on pve and pvp (you still be opened to be hit on pve but won't be backstabed on pvp since aow covers your back) also the damage debuff doesn't overlap with any other buff you may have so you're in for more damage potential all in all they should buff light aow and this sword is one of the best looking in the game

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Don't forget that any holy type ashes of war don't get any damage buff from shard of alexander or godfrey icon in pvp.

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Considering as a Strength build you're likely going to have 25 faith ANYWAY to cast Golden Vow, the Faith requirement on this is pretty moot. Just use it to cast the Ash of War, get the Light buff, then go ham with something that does holy damage. My recommendation, the Erdtree Greatshield. It's a LOT of fun doing 2k-3k damage to enemies in a single counter.
Plus it's an alright straightsword in it's own right

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Highest stat requirement is faith but it scales best with strength. Make it make sense.

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Claidheamh Soluis

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Why tf is the altar at Ruins of Unte asking me if I want to raise it to the dark even though I tried it at both morning and noon?

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I love the idea of this weapon art in theory. A buff that also has an offensive component to make people back off and let you buff mid-battle. Unfortunately in practice, it is absolute dog-water. You are locked into an animation for 30 years, one which says "please backstab me" to other players, and "please combo me to death in 2 seconds" to PvE bosses. The only safe way to use this weapon art is outside of combat, which makes the whole idea of it pretty pointless. Cool looking sword though.

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I wish this weapons WA was similar to Lothrics Holy Sword. Theres too many of these Holy weapons with hoops to jump through to do damage and not many that are just good utilities. Give it a unique stance, make light fire off a quick railgun, make heavy do a wave or pulse. That way the WA can be "useful and do damage" and not be "flashy but weak"

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I'm here to add to the fire: this should be a faith weapon, not a str weapon. The stone sheath sword already scales primarily strength, so what's the point?

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I highly recommend trying bothe Sword of Light and it's twin (Sword of Darkness) when you Ng+. SoL increase holy damage with its AoW and SoD decreases enemies resistance against holy damage allowing you to deal +20% on top of using Haligtear(+15), Sacred Scorpion(+15), and maybe a Golden Vow(+15-20% I don't remember) easily puts them both at 1,000 AR at plus ten AS STRAIGHT SWORDS, incredibly powerful hopefully won't get nerfed but also super stylish and cool weapon combo, it feels like both of them were supposed to be a pair/obtainble in the same playthrough with how much they synergize togeather!

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The buff is huge for Cipher Pata and Coded Sword due to their pure holy damage

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Using a high level character with equal stat spread, this weapon (with the light buff) appears to be scoring critical hits on larger than the Executioners Axe with Cragblade.

Stats:
Str: 80
Dex: 80
Int: 80
Faith: 80
Arcane: 10

Sword of Light+10: ~8500
Executioners Quality Greataxe+25: ~7700

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Shadow of the Colossus Build

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Does switching the swords between each form erase upgrades put into it? I imagine not but just asking

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Link build v2 time!

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You can turn the Sword of Light into the Sword of Light if you go to one of the other altars. Not confirmed but it probably works the other way as well

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The Chad praise the sun sword vs the emo edgelord sword of dark (vs the Chad stone sheathed sword users)

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Head to the Ruins of Rauh, there's an area with scarlet rott and in it is a wide open room filled with kindred of rot, there's an invisible platform beyond the room that leads to a tower. There you will find the ability to turn the sword to light if you regret getting the sword of dark.

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...Ok but can I get the Stone sword in NG+ and then get the other variant and have both at the same time?

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oohhh… you’re supposed to use a hefty pot to get in there? i just glitch jumped my way into those places with torrent. ha!

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Does anybody have any clue what "from the quick of the root" means? When I google it I literally only get the weapon description lmfao

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holy valorheart at home:

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much cooler than the darkness variant

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This weapons scaling is similar to Miquellas Knight Sword… it’s totally usable on a mainly faith dex build but even better with str. People complaining haven’t even used it. Every weapon doesn’t need A scaling. The Coded Sword exists for pure faith builds

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Wish this had high faith scaling as its probably purely going to be used by fundementalist builds:(

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Uhhh I put it on the altar and got the sword of darkness

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"The altar area is only accessible after using a Hefty Furnace Pot and throwing it at the head of the deactivated Furnace Golem that blocks the entrance so that it moves away." you can jump back of castle with a horse to the inside

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More faith and more faith and more faith and more faith and mo-

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I was able to turn the Stone Sword into the Darkness version, then later on after finding another shrine I turned the Darkness version INTO the Light version. Not sure if you can just switch it back at will but I strictly used the Dark version to become the Light, not the stone. Just thought that was worth pointing out.

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I tested the buff it gives (What I used was "Warrior jar shard" witch did increase damage, "+9 Sword of light" and "+9 Sword of darkness") the sword of darkness skill did 835 damage to a shielding limgrave enemy, and then I rested to respawn him and used the Light skill before getting to him to get the buff, then the Darkness skill did 1003 damage, to the same enemy while shielding, so it is roughly a 15% increase in damage but it would probably stack with darkness if something got hit with darkness 1st as it lowers holy resistance as it says on it's wiki

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if you ever want to change the sword of light into the sword of dark ore vice versa it is possible by just visiting the altar that you want to change the word into respectively

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Can you please explain where the invisible walkway is to get to the alter in the tower near Viaduct Minor Tower site of grace? And please use NSEW directions. They help out a whole lot. Thank you.

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Pretty cool looking sword, fancy ash of war, bizarre scaling choice. If they manage to fix that it'd be a fantastic pairing for a faith build rather than just fine.

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If anyone wants to use both Sword of Light and Sword of Dark add me, PSN LionelNietszche

They are apparently droppable so just backup your save first and we’ll drop each other which ever one the other doesn’t have.

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If anyone wants to dupe it to get light and dark my PSN is LionelNietszche

Just backup your save first! Add me if you have questions or wanna do it

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amazing sword thats ruined by not being able to change its ash of war. seriously in what scenario are you gonna use that ash of war in combat, dogshit

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There's 3 altars in the game, the one at unte ruins, the one at rauh ruins, and the one in the fog rift catacombs, depending on which altar you pick up the stone sword at, the other two become light and dark. For example, I picked up the stone sword at unte, the one in rauh is light, and the one in fog rift is dark.

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When i first stepped into this area i got heavy shadow of the colossus vibe's, finding this sword was like "yep that's SOTC inspired"

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I'm unsure how I feel about the Sword of Light as a buffing weapon. It's a Straight Sword so it's moveset is great and the AoW damage is nice however the AoW is a Body buff which will make it overwrite common Body buffs like Howl of Shabriri or Flame, Grant Me Strength. In the case of pure Holy damage builds it is a nice option to have over using Howl of Shabriri to boost damage since while you lose 5% damage you aren't taking 30% more damage but as soon as any other damage type comes into play that gap in damage boosts widens.

I do like its AoW much more than the Sword of Darkness though which is a shame because the debuff the Sword of Darkness give is probably more useful to builds that want to pump out as much Holy damage as possible but getting the debuff on the enemy feels like ass because of how long it takes for that swords AoW to start.

I feel if the Sword of Light matched Howl of Shabriri's numbers and buffed Holy damage by 25% or worked like Flame, Grant me Strength with a 20% Physical + Holy Buff this weapon would be far better. I still quite like it though as a pure Holy damage buff alternative it just has room to be better without being busted, especially with how bad of a reputation Holy damage has in this game.

Oh and since everyone else has posted about it I'll make the obligatory hate post that it's pretty stupid that a Holy damage boosting weapon only has a D scaling in Faith but gets a C in Strength....

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Alright, I just got to the Altar in Unte Ruins, and it is dark and giving me the prompt to make the Sword of Darkness. For some reason, I cannot open replies right now to check why I have a Dark Alter instead of a Light Alter there, so I did some digging and investigating on my own.


I first checked the Altar at nighttime, but then I went back to the Sight of Grace without reloading the area and set the time to Day and checked the Altar again - still Dark. I then fast-traveled back to the grace to reload the area and still at day time checked the Altar again, and it was still Dark.


I then decided to check some other sources online and different sources show screenshots of different Altar States in the same Location, so I think there is some way to change if you have a Light Altar or a Dark Altar at a given location. If I had to guess what Light/Dark related thing I might have done that may have set my Unte Ruins Altar to Dark mode is that I killed the Furnace Golem blocking the gate into the ruins before interacting with the Altar. Maybe I had "snuffed out the nearby light" of the Golem and that turned it Dark.


Unfortunately, I did not back up a save to check the Altar's state before I killed the Golem, as I only noticed the Altar was there after I had put down the Golem. I may need to verify this on a future playthough.

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oh good, another holy damage buff that probably won't work in pvp cause they never fixed the holy damage bug

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Dark Sword 2: Holy Boogaloo

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"I HAVE THE POOOOWWWWEEEEERRRR!"

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this is weird, cuz i got sword of darkness in the ruins of unte for some reason, not sword of light

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You don't need to kill the furnace golem. Just go left at the golem and then follow the area. Then when you get to the rot area face the stairs out and ride that way. After some pests the altar area is there over an invisible bridge.

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Most underrated dlc weapon imo: getting 1.1k dmg with a r1 without a good setup

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Sword of Light, ash of war increases holy damage done BUT it scales D in faith...

My disappointment is immeasurable, and my pure faith build is ruined.

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