Best Weapons in Elden Ring: Shadow of the Erdtree (2024)

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It Is even strong enough to still deal dmg to holy resistant bosses with the Ash of war, goated weapon

I've beaten the dlc with this weapon, I have also utilized blind spot as a dodge + damage on the final chain of hit combo from bosses.

Do Hornsent’s quest for the most busted Ash of war Swift Slash for backhands only. It’s gonna get nerfed hard.

Don't forget best in class stance damage, and Great Club's moveset

This was so cringe…I thought it was cool he did a fist only run then I saw him kill Dancing Lion and Rellena in under 5 tries and I was like what? Looked at his damage and he was doing more with 1 R1 than I was with charged R2 collosal great sword. I had to say “hold on a minute this guy is cheesing lol”

This boss pissed me the f*ck off last night and after I beat it I grabbed the weapon and went to bed immediately. I haven’t found a str/fai weapon I’ve wanted to use since the hammer. I’m definitely trying this one.

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I swear to god I'm using this weapon out of pure spite for the boss!

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There's 2 in the DLC. Both found in the shadow keep

Cross Naginata shield poke is OP AF in the DLC. Most bosses can be bleed+cold poked to death. Specially with the new sekiro tear

what is poke? and where can i find the most powerful shield in the game? thank you

I used the dueling shield with cragblade for Gaius and Messmer but for the final boss the holy protection was not enough even with holy infusion. For phase 2 of the final boss I have the holy infused black steel greatshield. I never died summoned for help and I beat him spamming meteoric ore greatsword AoW but with help with someone that had the fingerprint shield and a bleed rapier.

Greatshield talisman and shield grease

Okay I'm convinced on trying these when I do the DLC. I have a Dex-based shield poke guy who's frankly terrible that I was going to respec into strength. Do the new shields scale better on dex, though?

God I want that Carian rapier to be fixed/buffed. Sword sorceries are by far my favorite way to play the game, having an actual sword you can use and have piercing thrust to get through blocks, deal actual stagger damage, and riposte with sound amazing. But as it is, it deals half the damage compared to just a Academy staff. Big sadge.

Right, OP left out the best weapon in the game

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The sword ive had with me since day one. Lordsworn straight sword. It has yet to fail me once

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I got ahold of that thing yesterday and equipped it just to see it's move set and AoW. After like 30 seconds I decided this was going to be my NG+ weapon. The charged heavy is cool af

Should be in instead of axe of godfrey due its S scaling in strength. Axe of godfrey is more of a quality weapon than pure strength

It counts as a strength and arcane weapon, right? It has decent strength scaling too

Ultra Great Colossal weapon

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MONK WEAPONS! Seriously, always been a bit saddened by the fist weapons in fromsoft games. now going from caestus to triple kick jump. I'm really hyped for these. Interested about the L1 throwing weapons too, but generally it'll be the monk weapons. I hope they have cool movesets too, besides just the Ash of War which the triple kick likely is.

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Monster Hunter Longsword style Katana I bet.

based on a real thing. an extremely obscure and goofy exclusively-duelling weapon, but real, shown in hans talhoffer manual

Why wouldn't these already exist? Odachi are thick and proportioned well. The nagakiba looks like sephiroths sword and is already in the game.

hopefully a longass katana that has a proportionate handle and moveset. i want to love naga but its so goofy

That's whats I was thinking. A strength scaling katana like the odachi from Nioh

Dont know if it's holy powered or not but it was a gatling gun crossbow for sure.

minor erdtree as a weapon

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One of the main issues I had with my 40 hr playthrough of ER was that I got really bored with my upgraded main weapon. I had some other options but they all were so weak and I just couldn't be arsed to upgrade them all over again to get bored with them lol

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Just give me a cool new Int/Fai weapon and I'll be happy!

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Wings of Astel and magic infused clayman's harpoon are both great

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Guardian Swordspear is good early game (though you might have to farm). Once you get to Leyndell grab Bolt of Gransaxx, IMO the best part of dex builds and up there with the other top tier weapons since you can be hyper mobile around boss arenas and sniper for huge damage

I wish they'd buff the carian knight sword. I put the carian grandeur ash of war on a maxed regular longsword with magic and get more damage due to the better int scaling. If they made the carian knight sword maybe charge grandeur faster or scale purely with int and strength, I think it'd be amazing

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Dual curved swords. Lightning infusion (comes from a later-area whetblade). Talismans/buffs that improve rapid attack damage. Highest DPS I've seen without status effects

One thing I'd love to see one day is GRRM's myth published. Something like his Fire & Blood would be amazing. I am on the opinion he did much more than a lot of the playerbase gives him credit for and would love to see how he approached the worldbuilding. The lore of this game is quite juicy and one of the best parts for me was just seeing all the nods and callbacks to the past. For me this game goes much deeper than any other From's title in that regard and I don't see it without Martin laying some pretty dope foundations.

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The whole attack power thing is weird. I feel like they need to show some examples or something, cause I can't wrap my head around how a Sekiro style power stat that increased linearly is supposed to work applied to all the different potential builds a game like Elden Ring had. Is it just a basic damage modifier to damage dealt and received? Does it scale your stats or something? Heck, does it affect what gear you can equip, or does the DLC still rely on core stats for that and this power rating doesn't matter at all? There are a lot of questions I have, especially since FromSoft doesn't exactly have the best track record with balancing their systems.

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If you had to compare Relanna and the Dancing Lion to any base game bosses difficulty wise, who would they be?

Hello, thank you for the AMA! I'm curious, can the perfume weapons be infused? The footage showed fire and ice perfume; are there any other kinds you saw? Any that scaled with arcane?

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IMHO every souls game has almost the exact same weapons. Not that I would know, since I always use the claymore though.

TBF 3 out of the 5 you listed are from the DLC expansions. When shadow of the erdtree finally drops I bet we will see how cool weapons can be in eldenring.

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I've been doing non-boss content with the Backhand Blades, with a bleed infusion on my FTH/ARC build they shred basically everything and their AoW lets you dodge anything, it's ridiculously fun. For bosses I picked up the Fire Knight Greatsword with the flame skewer AoW and use that with my Dragon Communion incants

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I'm using the Eclipse Great Shield with Milady and Wing Stance. It's wonderful. The Evlopse Great shield goes really well with the Solitude armor set. You just have to have a lot of carry weight.

Milady with the wing stance ash of war is carrying my ass thru this DLC. The dive kick thing it has is insanely good

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