Moonveil gets insane stagger potential. And with how cheesy it is against npc invaders and certain enemies I can understand why it got so far.

I don’t understand why people pick the Black Knife over the Glintstone Kris. I mean sure the Black Knife looks cooler and all, but the Kris is unquestionably the most powerful of all the daggers. With the right build, you can easily pop 3K damage in one shot of the AoW.

Just finished a SnF sword playthrough, and I have to say: it completely shook me to my core. The weapon, although having a high skill ceiling, is incredibly powerful. No joke I killed (real) Mogh and Radagon in like 20 seconds . With the right build, the azure comet aow was doing upwards of 6k damage a pop. On the other hand, the flame aow will always hit malenia and deal 3.5k damage; if you play the fight safe at mid range waiting for her to chill out, it literally becomes a joke of a fight.

One thing that I think will always paint these kinds of polls is; people who used these weapons on a first playthrough or while using one of the early “get OP” builds. There are tons of ways to break ER: and a lot of people got through the launch period using one form or the another. But patches and testing are too scientific of a way to gauge how the community feels about weapons lol

Peoole seem to flock towards the more flashy weapons that gave a unique effect as opposed to just good stats. That explains why the Black Knife won so handly. The Kris is also just not a popular weapon and I assumed it was another throwaway dagger when I voted.

I'd say the great stars is better than the long horn because of how versatile it is, it's solid damage, it's good range, health regen and bleed, whereas the long horn only excels at shredding large targets

"Stormhawk Axe is not the best axe because Stormcaller ash of war on something like bleed greatsword does more damage"

We Stan ghizas wheel

Very fun ranking the weapons. Really enjoyed your input on the outcomes, keep up the great videos.

Golem's Halberd anf Axe of Godfrey are slept on

The Grave Scythe is the best weapon, it's a beast in both pve and pvp and it looks cool af similar to how the Scythe in Bloodborne is.

i started this game using katanas with bleed (still fun for me), but when i discovered the great moon sword... damn boy. its AMAZING, dont care if its op, for me the effect, the beam, the design, even the secondary mission to get it, its flawless. ( i never tried the rykards sword, but this poll makes me wanna try it)

The Sword of Night and Flame is a powerhouse of a weapon, in my most recent playthrough, a sorcerer who just meets the Faith requirement, the thing is a beast, while the Flame part is undoubtedly weaker than it could be, it still hits very hard, and the beam, I've done over 2k damage with that thing. Its my pick for overall best Strait Sword in a FromSoftware game, surpassing the Ringed Knight Strait Seord from DS3.

The best curved greatsword is the magma wyrm scalesword. It has the highest dmg, the second most range, uses fire meaning it has the most buffable dmg type and also has a crazy dmg aow.

You should rank the build types next. Updated for 1.09 of course

I love the pickaxe, it has great damage output and has a scaling in pure strength I powerstance it with, another pickaxe but I should probably use the rusted anchor aswell

Might be because community also consider pvp aspect too, Knight greatsword is really great for pvp combat, ordovis is more for reaction swap to catch another player off guard with its aow

Vykes works great in PVE. Act like the madness doesnt exists and you have a really strong fire weapon. Silurias Tree is a better bossing weapon but Vykes is a better mobbing weapon

SOTNAF is insane damage by fire, shield/stance comet-broker and easy access in early game (+5 or +6).

seeing the royal greatsword get knocked out immediately after finishing a run where I ripped through the game with it... that shit hurts...

I don't know why there is a poll for people’s opinions when numbers prove which "weapon" is best. Also if a person has "biases", why are you dumping on them when you ask for their opinion? A strength build will disagree with intelligent build choices on principle. One is ranged and the other is melee... a different comfort level. A dead corpse is not effective and looking cool while dead is irrelevant. 😢

I just like nagakiba. Everyone likes their own weapons, nagakiba for me is just very flexible for a lot of builds. Tho i don't use it a lot thats what i choose. Objectively another would probably be better but i wouldn't know cuz i haven't tried it. Same goes for a lot of people who chose other weapons over what is objectively the best.

Just realised the wing of astel looks like serpicos blade from berserk

Ngl Ordovis’s great sword top five weapon it does like 5k for 15 Fp

My ranking would be: 1) Darkmoon great sword 2) Blasphemous Blade 3) death's poker 4) mohgwyn spear 5) bolt of gransax 6) Bloodhound's fang 7) Nagakiba

It's funny that people rank weapons for the pve, imo. You can make almost everything work against mobs and boss enemies. So this looks to me like a tier list of weapons that require the minimum amount of effort. Edit: and there are many faults here... e.g. bandits is the cs with the most range, it may be longer by it's pure physical appearance but the shamshir hits actually wider because of the better/unique moveset...

Bolt of gransax vs blasphemous blade for ranged aow spam

I'd like to see a pvp version!

surprised how little beastman curve sword was voted

Rivers of blood never should have been nerfed for pve, there was no reason for it. You couldn’t get it until late game and you don’t have to use it unless you want to, now the only reason to use it over the nagakiba is if you like how it looks and don’t care if it drastically underperforms compared to it. Before they were probably more comparable with damage, with the nahakiba having permanent great range and rob having the ability to get even better range on it ash only and normal katana range on its regular attacks. That feels like more of a play style decision than what we have now.

you forgot one thing about stormhawk axe it has higher stagger than normal stormcaller so it's more consistently strong for most enemies, and in pvp it's unfair honestly

Can you do a unique ash of war tier list?

As far as whips, urumi lost because nobody uses whips lol. Id bet most ppl who voted never used them beyond maybe playing around when you first get a new weapon

EDIT: These decisions were also made based on PvE as I don't do PvP... so take that as you will. Beastman's Curved sword I feel is the "best", but I was judging it based on a Str/Arc bleed build. It out performs even the Bandits and Scavenger curved swords on a Dex/Arc bleed build. As for the SoNaF, I voted for that because I'm currently on a Int-Fai build and that weapon freakin ROCKS. Yeah... the ash of war isn't exactly fast (nor is it "expensive" as you claim it to be, sir :P It's not CHEAP but it's not that bad either, and if you're running it right you should also have ways of restoring your FP just fine... FP > HP flasks, Assassin Cerulean Dagger talisman / or Carian Filigreed Crest, etc), but it can really put the hurt on most enemies. You've got physical, magic, and fire options along with the necessary sorceries and-or incantations to help stagger enemies and then blast 'em! Giving you plenty of time to use your ash of war.

Sword of night an d flame is not int fai if you spec into one it is a lot better

Bro Ez pvp build Nagakiba with spinning slash Straight up busted

My opinion nothing comes close to the Nagakiba

bro im in your stream right now

I understood this is Clearly only pve when i saw Death poker > claymore... And everything afterwards made sense

Hammers better be S tier. Or my wife’s boyfriend will make me sleep on the couch again.

Can you please make a PVP version of this?

I think a lot of these weapons depends on how you play. Because i feel like the darknoon great sword is over rated. The heavy attacks are great, it is a good weapon. But i dont get the same thing everyone else does apparently. I play much better withother great swords

Darkmoon Greatsword is better than Blasphemous blade. More damage and frost build up.

I’m in the middle part of the game and been struggling thru rob and Margot’s can someone give me some advise?

I love it when streamers say "Idc about your opinions in my tier list, iT's mY tIErliSt" or the classic "iT's oNLy mY oPInIOn", like petty bitches. But trashing his communities tastes and calling people lowkey idiots is okey. This guy is not the only one believe me but I loathe hypocrism

Gargoyles twinblade is the best

The Bastards Stars version of Nebula is in my opinion much better than the wing for everything but speed and cost, you have more aoe so better crowd control and you swing the flail itself doing more damage, plus it also moves you which could help in certain situations. although it costs 5 more fp but that's fair.

Mohgs spear is the best to me after seeing what it made me do to Malenia, poor little girl.

Whips are best weapons in the game, it’s crazy you always pretend like they aren’t

Its all wrong because the best weapon in every category is the Cinquedea.

RoB has been mid for a while. Nagakiba with spinning slash is terrifying

Cool

heavy epee beats helice

*promosm*

I'm only here for pvp content. I guess I'll wait

You should do more testing before getting such a fat head about things. At least with daggers glintstone doesn’t even come in 3rd. The crystal knife does the most theoretical dmg, the most for around 70 points to spend is erdsteel and is only barely beaten by a crystal knife with 99 int and dex while the glintstone sits middle of the pack when building completely around it. Erdsteel dagger and it’s unique double dipping into faith scaling when sacred or flame is head and shoulders the king of daggers post power stancing and status build up changes. Hope I see a video exploring it as a build seeing as the KZfaq community seems to have overlooked this weapon.

Im cuuuuuummmmmiinnnngggg! Oh lord Im about to bust!

"Best" and "worst" are opinions dude. U should know this. There aren't exceptions. Taste is completely subjective.

My brother in christ, healing is what the flask is for. If you want more healing, i will recommend hand of malenia with godskin swaddling cloth and crimson seed talisman.

Dude this community is lame as hell and don't think for themselves, at least the majority as proven here. It hurts to say because i love these games

To be Fair your takes are usually pretty terrible

I love how u let everyone know if the lists are "correct" or not lolllll. None of us are special bruh.

Rivers of blood is definitely better than nagakiba. Bleed is just broken no matter how you look at it. Its still cheese and even if it way weaker its just always going to be good