A couple of quick notes that I didn't outright address in the video (and a correction!): - Sunlight Blade: While Sunlight Blade would do more damage per second to a resistant enemy (i.e., Seath), gett it locks us out of using Darkmoon Blade as it breaks the covenant and you need to be in the covenant to use DMB. I mistakenly responded to some people that DMB was better against Seath but that's not true; it's like 183 damage versus 62 damage. That'll teach me to not respond to comments in the middle of the night lol. A lot of the later game bosses are generally equal in terms of resistances to magic and lightning, especially Gwyn who has a lightning defense of nearly 2 so I think DMB is just better. - Canvas Talisman: Apparently, the canvas talisman outperforms the Darkmoon talisman based on the faith I was at in the run. I had no idea! Unfortunately, Patches may or may not have tripped and fell into a hole, so his services were unavailable... - I had a graph on screen that I was going to explain but I forgot to do so. The blue dots represent a weapon with an AR of 100, 200, and 300 with all physical damage, and the orange a weapon with those same ARs but split between physical and elemental infusion. As you can tell, an infused weapon is much worse than an uninfused weapon, as that graph doesn't even account for possible weapon buffs.

This made it to my recommended page within 5 minutes of posting because KZfaq knows me too well

You're telling me the HAND AXE is the second highest dps weapons in the game?!

Viewer : "I can't wait to see which legendary weapon he'll use to destroy the bosses!" TrevTheDev : "AX!"

mathematically optimized FPS? Oh, DPS... thats fine too

You can always farm darkwraiths for titanite slabs. The drop rate is 0.21%

I do find it a bit ironic that one of the best dps weapons is the SL1 weapon

Love this crunchy, dense, nerdy shit. It's scratches my brain just right

Finally a permanent red tear, power within setup video.

Your math focused approach is really nice to give you a unique angle vs other souls KZfaqrs. You’ve earned my subscription for sure! I’d love to see you tackle Bloodborne

I remember my first playthrough in 2014 thinking that Richard’s rapier was underwhelming… boy was I wrong

Holy sh*tballs dude I was a detractor from the first vid had a few criticisms and none of them were even RELEVANT to this run (outside power and a weapon buff) like I was super confussed about banning tail weapons. I will say I think it's arguable that sunlight is more "optimal" just because it's a bossfight to get not a farm for 80 bird ears. You outdid yourself far more work than I would have done on a followup unless I was very annoyed lol. As for my weapon I would have guessed iether the black knight Halbert or the zweihander with buffs. Big swing make big numbers

The challenge was given and you heeded it, you have my respect. Hand-ax tho. . . who'd'a thunk'it. . .

This is making me wanna do another DS1 playthrough

Excellent video, just as last time. I knew from the moment the video started that Ricard's Rapier was gonna be the main receiver of Darkmoon Blade but did not expect the Hand Axe to be the secondary. I knew it was good but not *that* good. RTSR+Power Within with a powerful weapon buff like Darkmoon Blade can turn any weapon that can receive it into a powerhouse tbf but seeing the boss healthbars melt like that was definitely satisfying. With how short of a window many of the bosses died in I do think it's worth noting that the Dragon Torso Stone is usable while outside the Covenant, you'll just have to use the lowest level version of it which is still a large damage boost, just not as potent as any of the other ones present.

Zweihander+no armor is the true way to play 😠

I like how you can hear his pain when explaining his min maxing

I'm sorry but not using the power of friendship is a strickly unoptimal choice

Found this channel two weeks ago and I must say the output and quality you put out is amazing! Keep up the good work, I really enjoy these videos and would love to see some ds2 & ds3 action at some point as well.

exactly the kind of content i like to see. i appreciate that you've stuck with it, revised previous mistakes, and further optimized your route. excellent video!!

Ok fair play, subbing out of sheer respect for the follow up

Sunlight blade would have dealt more damage on many enemies than the Darkmoon blade. Eg Seath has 207 lighting defense but 690 magic defense.

This makes me feel happy because way back when I knew weapon buffs were weird in DS1 and specifically tried this set up of ricards rapier with dark moon blade (cheat engined it in just to see cause the farm would be a pain to get the covenant to max) and yeah... Those results were absolutely hilarious.

Been following for a bit, and I can tell that the work you put in these vids will definitely be paying off soon. I can't imagine your subs not shooting up in the near future. Great video as always, brother. Can't wait to see what the future holds for this channel! (y)

Hey i just watched the other video and was hoping to see your improvements. What a pleasant surprise to see you just uploaded

Great video! Rare to see a video be so good on so many points. Good commentary and explanation, great editing and great execution in-game!

I just finished the other video moments ago. Well done thank you for this personalized service.

Love the unique take on how you approached this! Earned a sub my guy

randomly had this in my recommended. i didnt watch dark souls content in a while but i loved ds1 and spent way too much time in it.. great video

My face when I click on the video with "Mathematically Optimized" in title, and there's *math* in it

This is so cool man, I have not done any exploratory work into DS1 but I dig into systems for optimality just like this for other games in my free time. I love your approach here, it’s similar to how I approach my projects but more rigorous. Looking forward to seeing what you do next, glad the algorithm finally delivered me to my people

Amazing KZfaqr 🖤 can’t wait to see you with thousands of subs

Love this idea! I hope you do it for all the souls games!

I’m so god damn happy you uploaded Trev I’ve been binging your vids in the background while I do homework or play dark souls and your vids help me through a good deal of stuff! Keep it up man I wanna see more

Awesome video, your sifting through data def paid off. Do Dark souls 2 next!

more videos exactly like this please. 9/10 video rating, 1 knocked off for not farming the 0.21% drop rate Titanite Slabs (as already mentioned for ultimate DPS. Great work. Love math focus. Love statistics and DPS and calculations. Proud of you.

its absolutely incredible to melt the bosses instantly, loved the video :D

The fact you only have 2k subs is criminal. Great content as always about my favorite game

29:13 man that manus fight is so funny

Honestly Ricard's Rapier is exactly what i would have guessed, six hits in the span of 2-3 second is huge for whar you're going for.

And there we have the BKS, I was wondering why that wasn't there in the previous video. This is indeed an improved version.

Amazing stuff. And I would love to see you do this for all the FromSoftware games ❤

amazing work! was really happy to see this on my home page so soon. keep it up ^^^^

Really great work, I didn't know you could even do this much damage in NG

i don’t really have anything interesting to comment but i hope the interaction benefits your channel because ive been enjoying your content

The last-second heals are giving me second hand anxiety

When I want big boy damage. I always go with. Man serpent greatsword crystal +5 Power within Sunlight blade Darkmoon blade Attunement 14 Strength 66 Faith 40 Darkmoon talisman Pyro flame (ascended is preferred) Dragon torso mode with roar FAP ring Rtsr Finally low health. With all buffs active you'll get over 2,000 damage with either of the weapon buffs. I think you can get this setup at around SL75, if I remember correctly.

A vid like this for ds2 would probably be insane cause of the length of the game and amount of content

Ive just spoken to my girlfriend abt how I like to play dark souls optimizing my builds as fast as I can, AND THIS VIDEO SHOWS UP THATS LIKE HUGE THANKS MATE LOVED T

Great watch I look forward to more

Now beat Dark Souls with mathematically minimized dps

This video is giving me the itch to replay Dark Souls

Thanks for the great amount of information.

This is a great video! keep doing your thing.

I kind of want to see how this would look on a NG+7 run with all the player stats at their soft caps - see what kind of weapon setups stand on top when both you and your opponents all have their limits broken

Quickest subscription of my life, amazing content, keep it up

Subscribed. Love this type of content

Haven't seen the entire video but you can use the Sanctus shield to get to get a HO regen of 2HO every 2 seconds. This, with power within, curse and the rinf that halves your HP for a magic buff (I believe more magic uses?) makes you heal the same amount of HO lost from PW. This setup is basically a "safe" Hyper Mode. It helps because you can take your time in killing the boss as you will never die of natural HP loss

Dude will blow up and I'm here for it

Hell yeah brother I was hoping we'd get another 😤😤

In terms of DPS I would've thought it'd be Chaos Blade at 10+ humanity, since it does gain some very high damage scaling. But I suppose the fact it can't be enchanted ends up putting it down a few ranks.

Dont forget about the broken stright sword. Actually has really high dps

This dude gets isekai'd that world is doomed

Hey just a quick note: For Four Kings, you can continue doing damage to any king during their death animation, and it will apply the damage to the boss's shared health pool (even though the king you're attacking is 'dead' already). You definitely had enough damage and time to get a 1 king kill!

Before I watch, knowing the great scythe is the best weapon on a 40/40 quality build, I'm curious to see what wins best DPS under specialized builds.

Seeing this for all the other games could be interesting.

Fun fact: You can continue to damage the Four Kings' shared healthbar during a single King's death animation. Just keep swingin' till you stop doin damage

i don't know basic math but here i am watching this

The faith meme build is real!

This is awesome

As someone who's never delved into optimized damage, I guessed the Lifehunt scythe because it always seemed crazy strong

You have earned my sub

I don't even care much for Dark Souls. But I love me this nerdy shit.

it's been like 15 years, but I distinctly remember that rapier being unable to be infused...

First build I beat DS1 with was Ricard's and magic weapon buff. Such a fun build

a litte engagement farming for you.

amazing!

This is the build I was looking for

I hope you can do the rest of the series.

As for farming for specific items, you can copy paste your current game's save file somewhere before you kill the enemy, then kill the enemy, if you do not get your drop, overwrite the game file with the previous one you copied. This way you save time, don't remember exactly where the game file is located, something like "NBGI" and something with a long string of numbers. You would have to search it up, I haven't done that in some time.

I knew it was some rapier, they're always OPOP

Awesome video!

It was at this point, when I got ACTUALLY excited about the phrase "let's tackle DS with even more math" that I realized how happy I am to be a fucking nerd

Literally just watched the other dark souls vid yesterday, then this happens👍🏾

yesssssss you been workin!

I like playing capped strength and bonk with stick because of the super high damage it ends up having over everything else before you unlock weapon upgrades. I am curious to see what is actually best

ps: the aoe attack of the dragon king great axe kills kalameet in 2 hits, so thats probably the most suitable weapon for him

I think there's a crystal lizard in the great hollow that drops a slab too

I’m gonna do this run too! I played a run doing abusing Sunlight blade with minimum stats and canvas talisman alongside Power Withen and Balder Side Sword and I was just destroying bosses left and right and did every DLC boss first try easy, but this looks like even more damage! Much love!

A version 2, nice!

I would have thought the great scythe would have been one of the highest dps weapons but I forgot about weapon buffs.

Man i have 100s of hours in dks 1 from back in the day.. i dont remember those clams at ALL.

Man I thought I had a quick ornstein and smough on my channel

Hey, really glad to see you included a graph at the 5 minute mark! Unfortunately, the dots are not labeled, and you didn't explain what the blue and orange dots mean (or what their difference is) before the graph left the screen. May I ask what those dots are marking?

0:27 this time with even more meth

Hey boss, IIRC the reason why your math might be a little iff is because DS1 has a "counter damage mechanic". Counter damage has to do with the extra damage you do to someone when you hit them right before or after their attack animation plays. The resulting Damage is calculated as your regular damage multiplied by a factor of 1.2 (120%), if the Leo Ring is worn that is multiplied again by 1.4, resulting in a total 1.68 factor. So, depending on when you're hitting the enemies and what DS1 considers an 'attack' you could be doing 1.2x damage more or less than you're counting. Give it a margin of error.

those grey boxes could use being slightly transparent I think

Good video!

I'm curious, how does this DPS idea hold up to the boss one shots that are categorically possible? Would Firestorm/Chaos Firestorm not beat this in DPS by the nature of the one shot? And doesn't calculating the DPS off one animation set arbitrarily inflate the number vs the practical DPS? Cause even if we reduce the fights purely to the animation length of attacks it seems to me that the one shot option would come out on top compared to needing to complete multiple loops of the high damage animation. Like with Quelagg the animation loop of the hand axe needs to complete 6 times to kill, while a tricky jump attack to the human part can do the full health bar.

This is sick