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“You see those warriors from Hammerfell? They’ve got curved swords. Curved. Swords.”

it's still disappointing that no enemies in the game are vulnerable to Deathblight, especially considering there are only 3 ways players can apply the status. would've been really cool to walk up to Gideon and watch him monologue in a cloud of Fia's Mist

There should be a couple dual wield combos with synergenic weapons of different classes. Like the nox sword and nox hammer, or the clean rot knight spear, reaper and sword. Or even the carian sword and carian septor

I enjoy every single minute of this series, from the build ones to the "most op", im aimming to the 100% of the game, the wiki and your videos are a blessing, my most truly thanks.

The Shamshir (and scimitar, I think) has a unique r1 chain! It's a little faster, and it moves you forward more as well. Worth noting!

a couple things you forgot to mention: there are two different movesets for scimitars. there seems to be a light and medium moveset for the R1s. the most readily accessible comparison is between the Scimitar and the Falchion, where the former is much more expressive and diagonal, and the latter is much more stiff and horizontal. also, curved swords have a Feint attack. if you try to backstep while charging a heavy attack, you will quickly swing forward and cartwheel backwards. you can even press R1 after this for a backstep attack. i believe the animation differs slightly if it is a light or medium curved sword.

Elden Ring is one of the 1st games I've ever played that truly makes every weapon usable. If you like a weapon, any one at all, you can make it work. So many games throw 100 weapons at you with only 5 of them being worthwhile. Elden Ring you can play however you want to plauy.

Almost everyone recommends using Millicent's Prosthesis in any dex build focused on hitting the enemy in rapid succession, and I can see why. It's a powerful talisman that's practically perfect for that sort of build. But I just can't bring myself to betray Millicent. She's a friend and ally to my Tarnished, I'm not going to stab her in the back to increase my own power. (Sidenote: I'm a total softie when it comes to any kind of moral decision in games. I'm pretty sure the "meanest" thing I ever did in Elden Ring was waiting to kill Gostoc until after I'd killed Godric as revenge for stealing my runes. Cut down the thief in his moment of unearned triumph and all that jazz. His dying words honestly made me feel guilty. Had I killed a black-hearted thief? Yes. I also killed a man who was likely a mistreated servant at best and a slave at worst in less than a minute after he finally tasted freedom. I don't feel too bad about killing him, but it sure as hell didn't feel good when I did it.)

Wing of Astel is also super powerful as you can get a plus ten version before altus plateau, without having to even visit gelmir for the stones as you find all levels of somber in the underground areas.

The shamshir is a good choise if you want to one hand with casting in your left because of it's slightly faster r1 moveset.

I had decided to farm 2 bandits curved swords, and got lucky enough to get two drops within my first about 15-20 kills. Sometimes fortune smiles upon us!

Personal favorite is the shamshir, but I have to shout out the beast man curved sword. The unique jumping attacks are insane especially when adding claw and raptors cloack. The damage for a single heavy r2 can destroy some mobs with low recovery time making for great potential.

Have you seen those warriors from Hammerfell? They have curved swords! CURVED.... SWORDS!

Watching this in line with chasethebro's weapon showcase is what makes elden ring so much fun

On a 80 arcane build, an occult Scavenger has the highest AR and also highest bleed build up. On 80 dex build (and even 60/50 dex strength) a bleed infused Bandit's curved sword has 2nd highest AR and bleed. The bottomline is if you are going for pure bleed, scavenger and arcane is the most efficient way to go.

I love these videos, I learn so much and wind up trying out a ton of different weapons that I otherwise wouldn't know to use. I also end up watching sections over and over to get a better intuitive sense of the stats or play style. Keep them coming!

actually, the shamshir cleary has a different maybe slightly faster r1 combo

Beastmans curved sword is my favorite because it feels so nice when the spacing is just perfect to split my face open.

I started warrior and was planning to mix up my weapons but I fell so in love with the dual curved sword moveset I ended up using them through the whole game. Plus the serpent god sword looks sweet and was really helpful for clearing new areas with the lifesteal.

I really hope they update the mantis blade moveset so more moves involve the full length of the weapon. It really gives me saw cleaver/beasthunter Saif vibes and it's a shame it's moveset is so limited

Other great talisman to use with curved swords is the godskin swaddling cloth, which regenerates your hp with successive attacks. It can be found in a cave at the freezing lake of the snow place

For most the game, my favorite sword combo has been Wing of Astel with Cold Serpent God's Curved Sword using Carian Grandeur. It's a very good ash to have in certain situations, but not super often.

Serpent god's sword is a great early game weapon. No matter what build you are trying to do, you can off-hand this sword while using anything else and still get the HP regen, so it works well with any build that hit-trades a bunch. Also it stacks with all of the hp stealing gear from volcano manor.

Something else I think was left out of this video was how the curved sword class on it's own has a unique type of attack not found in any other class aside from the thrusting sword and heavy thrusting sword classes, called a feint. If you charge an R2, and then try to backstep, you will do a quick flip backwards while slashing at what may be in front of you. This is an excellent way to throw your opponent off guard in PVP, and puts distance between you and your enemy while still dealing damage. It counts as a full backstep, too, so if you're powerstancing curved swords, you can follow it up with a quick dash forward and get in even more hits. With thrusting swords, the input is the same, but rather than a slash, you do a quick thrust while stepping back. This makes it easier to execute a thrust counter while again putting distance between you and your opponent.

small correction here, the shamshir/scimitar do NOT share the default moveset of most curved swords. They have different light AND heavy attack chains, unless power stanced with another curved sword

You didn't mention the unique r1 chain of the shamshir or scimitar, it's much better than the regular r1s of curved swords

Magma blade is one of my favorites I just hate the farm. I really want to use 2 of them but the drop rate is horrendous

I’m a huge fan of the R2 on the flowing curved sword. Just looks so good

rocking the serpent god and a bandit flame art with blood hound step

Shamshir has a unique R1 Moveset, it is not the same as the others.

Glad this is up I was missing this series a lot

I really appreciate the time he puts into these videos.

My favourite type of weapons. Thanks you) flowing curved sword r2 is amazing

Bro didn’t even notice that scimitar and Shamshir share a unique R1 moveset that’s probably my favorite moveset for curved swords.

0:00 Intro 0:21 General pros and cons 2:34 Magma Blade 4:08 Nox Flowing Sword 5:39 Wing of Astel 7:18 Eclipse Shotel 9:14 Scimitar 10:15 Falchion 10:59 Shamshir 11:41 Grossmesser 12:26 Bandit's Curved Sword 13:28 Shotel 14:38 Scavenger's Curved Sword 15:36 Mantis Blade 16:33 Beastman's Curved Sword 17:39 Flowing Curved Sword 18:34 Serpent-God's Curved Sword

Loved the dodge-roll over pronunciation of "prosthesis"

Definitely using the Scavenger's Curved Sword for a Bloodborne theme build. I wish I could just yank off the head of the Vulgar Militia Saw to really get that Bloodborne esthetic but this will have to do- Plus some beastial incantations on the Dragon Comun. Seal.

FromSoftware really had to just reskin the Demon's Scar from ds3 for the magma blade

What armor torso are you wearing with the nox sword? The red and blue with chain mail

Platinumed this months and months ago, hoping for dlc news soon

You haven't done Curved Great swords yet, wanted to see what was recommended for one of them and was hoping to see if you guys had a video on it, I do enjoy listening to these cuz this video helped me chose between the scimitar and falchion as my starting weapon before wanting to get the flowing curved sword for the R2. (Plus I wanna look fancy af when fighting)

2:42 magma blade aow is a valid guard break counter against fingerprint shield

The one time when this series' title is not clickbait

Been waiting for this video, great work! I'm using 2 x Bandits with lightning infusion this playthrough and I'm melting everything, great fun!

I finished the game, got all trophies, and reached the max level a long time ago, but I still watch your videos. Congratulations on the amazing work!

Awesome coverage on these! It would be cool to see heavy thrusting weapons soon. Ik it’s a small group of weapons and there’s not much room for diversity but if there’s anyone who can find creative and effective ways to run them in PvE it’d be you I’m sure.

We needs these videos faster

Curved Swords are my favorite. I'm partial to the Shotels, they look so cool, and I love dual wielding them!

@Fextralife The R1 chain of the Scimitar is NOT the same as other curved swords, hence their usefulness despite their lower damage stats.

The Beastman Curved Sword is the best, imo, because even with blood affinity, they scale with strength primarily. With my str at 80 and arcane at 60, it has 112 bleed buildup and still maintains most of its power. I tried catching a glimpse of my damage after the multi hit talismans kicked in, plus the white mask and bleed talisman, and it was up over 1k damage PER HAND. Combined with proccing blood loss with about 2 L1's, or strapping on the assassin talisman and raptor feathers I was destroying everything. Best part is, you can switch to a big bonk weapon if you're against someone immune to bleed.

Scimitar info seems wrong. From `Elden Ring Wiki` : "This weapon has a unique R1 chain shared with Shamshir, consisting of more graceful, flowing attacks. Functionally very similar to the normal curved sword moveset, yet faster and it does advance the user further."

The shamshir just feels good for some reason

I cant not use bloodhounds fang on every playthrough.

Waiting on the heavy thrusting straight sword. OP.

I'm surprised you didn't notice that not all the curved swords have the same R1 chain.

The magma blades are my favorite. They catch a lot of people off guard with the AoW

For the god serpent curved sword, your spirit ashes dying triggers the healing, so large group summons are a definite plus with that thing

Dual wielding Occult Scavenger Curved Sword is absolutely fantastic. I fortunately had a friend who could drop me two of these with the Seppuku ash of war attached at the start of a playthrough, and the amount of damage from a single jumping or running L1 was awe inspiring. Both Omen demigods died before they could even enter their second phase. Didn't get Nihil'd once. Second time ever fighting Melania, first time doing so without Spirit assistance. Killed her first try. Ulcerated Tree Spirits often did not have time to enter their second phase. They were also shockingly good against slash resistant and bleed immune enemies, especially once my arcane got high enough to profitably switch from Bleed to Occult infusion in the mid game. The damage bonuses from multi-hit talismans, Golden Vow and Fire Give Me Strenght meant even theoretically hard-counter enemies weren't that tough. I also love the utility of high arcane builds with just a bit of faith investment. Rotten Breath from horseback really makes up for the sub-par mounted moveset. I am currently doing a Hand Of Melania playthrough, but eventually I definitely want to give Cold infused curved swords or daggers a shot, I found the dual-wield status build so fun.

Duel curve swords bleed build was my favourite play through! 😍

need to see colossal swords next

Thus is the first "****** is the best weapon type in elden ring" that I agree with

Sweet another OP vid. I seem to always learn something new in this series. Thank you for the great vid.

Straight swords next just for consistency :-)

Thrusting Swords next? I’ve been liking the Moveset a lot recently

Occult scavenger curved swords may have higher AR than blood bandit curved swords but they don’t apply as much bleeding. So technically it’s not “better” against enemies susceptible to bleed.

Don’t sleep on the fact that the strength requirements for a lot of the curved swords are really low. This makes them ideal for Astrologers that don’t want to waste any points at all in strength but do want a good melee option. Shamshir is great for this sort of approach and you naturally can pick up Wing of Astel later. If you’re mostly casting spells, those swords are all you ever need to still have an amazing dual wield melee fallback that weighs almost nothing.

I absolutely love the Eclipse Shotel. I really fell in love when I hit NG+ and scored a second one. Dual wielding this beast in PVP is fun!

Dear From Software, need a mechanic called kill shot, or something, which, when certain criteria is met allows us to take a limb from enemies. Almost like a..."Finish Him" kinda style unique based upon another idea I've cooked up called,"Armament Mastery Feats"...🤘

The magma blade is great but good luck getting it, probably the worst farm in the game

While I'm enjoying all of these spotlight videos I'm bouncing off the walls waiting for Fex to do curved greatswords, and then explain why Bloodhound Fang is the sword I should toss all my other swords for. Which very likely means...I should just equip Bloodhound Fang and get on with my freaking playthrough. Thanks Fex...I needed that!

Hope to see how op are the great spears, love this series, have a lot of neat info on the weapons.

First off, if you're gonna dual-wield curved swords, do yourself a favor and grab the Swaddling Cloth talisman, you'll end up getting a lot of HP from that. - Also... Getting the Scavenger's Curved Sword early on is actually pretty easy. Even from level 1 when you first enter the game, you can very well run to get the two Dectus medallion halves (look up their locations) since they're found in chests, you don't need to fight the bosses to get them. - One of them you get anyway 'cuz it's right next to the Radagon Soreseal. Then run up in Altus, stay on Torrent, go up the ladder and over to grab the sword and you're there. Make it poisonous in an arcane build, and go fetch the Kindred of Rot Exultation, which you can also grab decently early in the game, and you're golden. It's especially great in NG+ like that, since you can run and get the 2nd one right at the start of NG+, and you don't even need to kill Margit to get it. You can get into Liurnia by crossing that shattered bridge with the finger reader crone near the castle, and run along the ledge and past the wolves, and you'll get to the part where you'd exit from Godrick's throne room and touch grace. You can even grab a bunch of golden seeds along the way if it's your first game, but you'll be missing out on some of the early game quests by triggering the "entering Altus Plateau" part of the game which will cause some NPCs to move places. Arcane-Dex build really feels amazing to use though, bleed is great, dragon slap is amazing, you can use Rot Breath to have both rot and poison on enemies at the same time, and the Dragon Communion seal ends up giving you probably the best incantation scaling you can hope for. - Then you can grab the Blood spells like Flies, Bloodfire claw, spellblade that, then switch to the curved swords with something like Bloody Slash (awesome in PvP as well for how much damage it deals all of a sudden), or seppuku. And you have a lot of alternatives of weapons you can swap to whenever you wanna try out something different. - Any weapon with Blood infusion or Keen and Bloodfire Weapon (cross naginata or grave scythe with phantom slash, omfg), the albinauric weapons that have exclusively arcane scaling, the one-handed version of the Executioner's Sword, the serpent bow, the poisonous katana that you can power-stance with Rivers of Blood, cross naginata... If you like to try out different weapons for different move sets without dealing 50 damage swings, then I certainly recommend going this route, and then the poisoned scav's curved sword just ends up being the absolute best thing in the world, imho. - That thing will shit on bosses all the way up to NG+5 with no problem.

Magma Blade probably benefits from a spellblade sort of build where you invest in Incantations as well. That way you can get pretty decent damage while still taking advantage of spells. Strength/Faith builds work pretty well anyways.

What about Morgott's Cursed Sword? It's classified as a curved greatsword but is not in either the curved sword, or the greatsword video. Edit: The Magma Wyrm's Scalesword is also classified as a curved greatsword but also isn't in either of your videos for these weapon types. Will you be able to include them in a future video? Thanks for the great tutorials.

Agree 100%, best sword by far. Bandits and Scavenger are the most viable for any build. Scavenger is nice because you can run a bleed build with anything. For example, I started a new toon with a scavenger blade and faith ash. So I get bleed and faith on the same weapon. That way you can run the blood loss stuff as well as faith. Takes things down pretty quickly. Never messed with the Magma Blade, will have to give that a try.

Say: Millicent's Prosthesis makes proper sense, 10 times fast. A joke of course, amazing video as always, I just couldn't help but notice that little tongue twister around a minute in.

I did a play through with dual wield scavenger and serpent swords. It was fun.

Built a new dex / arcane status build given I’d always been either miracle / cube focused or spell blade in most souls. Incl pushing beyond ng7 with a faith/str/int buiid recently and needed a change. All I can say after trying PS Uchis is they were dumped once I noticed two of these sitting in my inventory in liurnia and giving them some love, they absolutely crush. It applies most affinities very well without sacrificing too much damage. in the case of bleed, but then when using a cold infused main, offhand buckler/bandit with bleed, I thought I’d be searching for the bleed proc once swapping offhand from buckler to bandit bleed, didn’t search for long. First time I’ve melted crucibles in early game, including Tanith’s mental health support worker that i was able to take on comfortably at 40. After having collected 10 RoBs, going to pick one up for this guy and see how it stacks up..

Wing of Astel is pretty nice as a melee weapon for a mage build, the heavy attack projectiles allow you to stay a bit further away from the enemy and Nebula does really good stagger and compared to most Sorceries with any appreciable stagger capacity it comes out basically instantly.

Can you please do hammers/great hammers next I’m trying to find a good strike weapon to use for an Ice knight playthrough

Personally I use a wing of astel paired with cold bandit curved sword. Works similar to the dragon warrior build where you use talismans to build up AR then release high damage nebulas.

You forgot the fact that on the wing of Astel the r2 or rt while charging if you press o or b you can dodge back and still hit or send a projectile

The savenger's curved sword feels a lot like the pontiff knight's curved sword from DS3. And it has a cool little statue on the handle that might be an iron virgin or a woman holding a baby.

A Scavenger’s Cold Curved Sword +25 with Wings of Astel +10 are a devastating pair when using Bloodhound Step

I never knew about wing of Astel r2 projectile so weird I used the weapon for a whole playthrough and never once did I think to press r2 XD, I guess because the running and jumping attacks are so good that using heavy was not something I considered.

I've been waiting for this I wanna do curved sword build for my NG+

I've spent alot of time perfecting the use to the backflip mechanic and it has saved my ass more times than I can count. Plus a backflip killing blow in PVP is almost a guaranteed rage quit LMAO 🤣😂

Great vid man, do you think wing of astel can be power stanced for new game +2 or +3?

Up to this point I did not know eclipse shotel has a follow up in it's weapon skill. And I have 2 of them at +9 for pvp.

Really enjoy this series.

If you cannot stand fighting Tree Spirits the Magma Blade's Ash of War absolutely DESTROYS them. The pool alone with decent stats takes chunks out of their hp and should you be able to hug up next to them it's lights out or light's up

Scavenger with cold and the magma blade proc everything for days

This video makes me so mad that I never tried the wing of Astel in my magic playthrough

I like the magma swords. The stagger Rate is Awesome

9:18 + 11:02 I think you "kinda" made a mistake there friend. Most curved swords do share the same light attack moveset, however, the Scimitar and the Shamshir are the only curved swords with a "flowing" R1 combo. In the beggining of the breakdown of these swords, you claim that they have the "default" moveset, when the default is actually the one that is most common across the whole weapon class, aka, the Falchion/Grossmesser/Bandit/etc. This moveset being more "flowy" also adds "slightly" more reach to some attacks of the combo. This light attack moveset is yet another reason to wield these weapons.

Appreciate it 🙏

Hey fextra, I'm a huge fan of your channel, have been following your rpg stuff for years, I think the first I saw of you was pillars of eternity guides back in the day. I recently got my hands on Elden Ring and tried out a claymore build. It just feels so, underwhelming. Ranged and magic seem so much better. Which build would you recommend to a new player, trying to max out my fun and OP ness in the game? Cheers mate

Another solid vid. Repeat after me: Seh-poo-koo

Some of us Rest in Peace since they seem to hate the dark souls 1 and 3 falchion moveset for no reason