Way too many low level players buy a giants sword, when their magical power is usually incredibly low. If that money was put into balancing their profile better, I think everyone would benefit

I was criminally offended when he completely ignored the Fel sword's actual purpose: BETTER DUNGEON HEALING It causes both of the healer's already solid abilities to be easier to use, and makes healing circle make any healer nigh-on unkillable in the right situation. This makes any decent tank-healer combo completely invincible against even Maxor's frenzy (No pre-wish) or Storm's giga lightning (assuming both have enough EHP)

The thing is the dragon fuse glove is that it takes up that slot which could have the gauntlet of contagon and with the implosion belt with that you do very good clears and 35% more damage to mobs around you and it costs 4m extra

I noticed during the dps test comparison of the Livid dagger and the AOTD he seemed to be jerking his mouse with the Livid dagger in order to hit the target less instead of the optimal strategy of just sitting there and hitting the mob. If the rev can get inside of you like it usually does when you stand still all of your attacks become backstabs. Even without it if you are simply tracking the rev without backstabs then the livid dagger usually performs about 20-40% better depending on your setup.

You can get the dragon fuse glove for no more than 1.5m by just crafting dragon boots (which ever one costs the least money) and sacrificing the boots at the altar then selling any other drop that isnt ritual residue. I know this because I've done this multiple times and it's very easy to do and saves a lot of money

don't forget a 5 star livid dagger attack speed is buffed from 50% to 75% in dungeons

Exactly the type of content I am looking for. someone who can do in depth testing for me so i dont have to waste coins on a better sword. thank you!

*TLDR: Comparing weapons is more complicated than you think.* very nice video, just wanted to make a few quick comments because there are some things you seemed to miss, while yes aotd is very good, livid dagger is too, just not with the setup you where using it with. when used with a dps setup livid dagger will kill pretty much any mob really fast, faster than something like a shadow fury or even sometimes a giant sword, when paired with ferocity the attack speed from the livid dagger becomes far more impactful. just for a little suggestion, when comparing weapons it is a good idea to at least try to make a setup epitomized for each individual weapon. although with this you would also need to take into consideration the different playstyles that come with each weapon, for example with the livid dagger you could lean fully into the dps aspect and use a tiger pet and dirty reforge and put your talismans on bloody, or you could try to balance it so that you do a mix of dps and shd by going with a lion pet, suspicious reforge instead of tiger and dirty reforge, or someone could do what you did and simply not optimize their setup for the weapon they are using at all, and as you can see, that leads to very underwhelming results. Similarly when you where talking about the aotd you also failed to mention the fact that it can also function as a mage weapon as well as a mele weapon Another thing, with the gaints swords someone could instead of going with the standard shd setup one would normally use with giants sword, you could use somewhat of a hybrid dps/shd setup and use a lion/tiger pet with the sword on suspicious reforge and talismans on bloody. Final Note: this is not even taking into consideration things like stars, recoms, hot potato books, enchants/ultimate enchants, which would not only increase the damage but could also either increase or decrease the gap in damage/dps between weapons, this is also not taking into consideration things like armor and equipment. *TLDR: Comparing weapons is more complicated than you think.*

giants sword is the bare minimum for lcm in master mode, nothing else comes close until dark claymore, so while getting something like a giants sword might be really dumb for an early game/ mid game player, eventually it becomes needed for a certain class. granted once you get that far you should have a bit of money😅

I personally went from aotd with the gauntlet, to livid dagger because I could switch out my equipment with the gauntlet of contagion. I could later sell the livid dagger when I wanted to get something better. But in terms of DPS the Livid dagger scales much better because of the attack speed. For things like starting the crimson Isle it helps quite a bit.

Having owned both a shadow fury and giant sword the damage increase from my ofa shadow fury to my gs(had standard enchs with som3 t6) wasn't really worth it tbh should have just spent the coins on my accessories

Having a livid dagger or shadow fury with a flower of truth is a great combo for dungeons, flower for room clear, and livid or fury for minis and bosses

Doesn't wanna make the tests unfair by using the correct power stone for the weapon but makes it unfair by intentially reducing the amount of dmg a weapon can do by using the incorrect power stone wtf?

I fw fankus edits soo much

I think it's worth saying just in case, since you mentioned "if you craft everything yourself" when talking about Aspect of the Void. While AotV has no requirement to use it does however have a Enderman Slayer VI requirement to craft. So if you wanted to use one you'd have to buy it as AotV or you might end up with an AotE and a bunch of mats that you need to resell when you realize you cannot craft it.

Counter Point: Giant's Sword ability go BONK

Reason for getting warped aotv: even tho it’s worse, If I rly just wanna annoy my friend’s I’ll recombinant my current heroic aotv, and then put warped on it purely for the different furfsky texture.

crazy how a maxed livid dagger(not hypermaxed, just maxed) is worth about the same as an upgraded shadow fury yet it deals much more dps with most builds, and due to how attack speed works, with certain reforges and armor sets it deals slightly more dps than a decently upgraded giant's sword that costs 5x more coins

Thanks this was very helpful. Could you do a tier list of the overall weapons and armour?

now he gotta redo it with the bers update weapons

It’s always worth to get a Giant’s Sword when you drop it on your 50th S+ F6 run cause you’re RNG carried like me

before the end update shadow fury was so good it only costed 20m and was a huge damage upgrade from almost everything but now with it costing 50m its really not worth it and if you really want a big damage sword you should go for giant sword even tho theres not much use for big damage swords

I LCM'ed with both OFA Shadow fury and OFA Giant's Sword, i can 100% ASSURE you that the Shadow fury is WAY better, not only the 170m (non clean) price difference but the damage was 122m (Shadow Fury) and 98m (Giant's Sword) , I tested them both in the same run , so i have the same blessings. My setup was maxed Ancient Storm (with slots unlocked , fumed, wisdom 5/legion 5, and recombed) with the Goggles too, and as a pets I used Wither skeleton and Ender dragon (epic).

Take a shot every time he says "Aotd and Dragonfuse glove"

I went from livid dagger to shadow fury and my melee dmg doubled.

What i don't like is u're using all the possible gear to upgrade the aotd, like superior armor, ender dragon, dragonfuse glove, but u don't do that on the other swords.

Overall, i used most of the listed weapons. The Shadow Fury and The Giants Sword(and even the Warped AOTE) do benefit more from higher tier enchants(or OFA, if you hate yourself) and high magical power then all of the other weapons listed, hence they shouldn't be the main priority with weapon progression for earlier stages of the game and get much better the more advanced you are, but they quickly get replaced by something better. The Aotd is a great secondary weapon to the Juju shortbow in dungeons. Although i agree with the Ender Dragon Pet place in the progression because of its versatility (good ehp and damage for all classes), but the epic pet alone is hot garbage for 350mil, recommended to only go for the Tier boosted (even tho no shelmet is a pain). And also, Hyperion (or any other wither blade) before Terminator. Any wither blade is the best weapon in terms of versatility, best mage damage, very good melee damage. Unlike the Terminator, its damage is great inside and outside dungeons. Melee dps is around, if not better then, the damage of the Giants Sword. Its price is definitely something else, but in the end its worth it.

Having a legendary ender dragon, 600m-700m in talisman (700-800 MP) and still using an AOTD will not cut it. I feel like you did not take into account for the armor upgrades which you will obviously make while progressing. You could safely say that a person with such money invested, has around 2b-2.5b net worth and a necron set. You would surely have thought about swapping it out for either a Juju or a Shadow Fury or a Giant's Sword. Maybe even a mage set within that span of progression.

Recently got the AOTD and grinded Crypt Ghouls to get xp to enchant the AOTD to the max, and now I don’t have to worry about getting another weapon when I can get the Dragonfuse glove

I would really like to see a guide on increasing magic power efficiently. Also what is your opinion on warden helm for slayer, dungeons, ghosts?

I don't remember which series it was (Hardcore Ironman maybe), but Thirtyvirus proved Fel Sword is broken. At the time it didn't have a cata req if I remember correctly. It briefly spiked in price to like 2m, but then the admins added the cata req, and the Fel Sword fell back into irrelevance to most of the community.

I won’t lie, I thought he said “Dirt Claymore” instead of “Dark Claymore” and was like “WHAT THE F- WHAT DID I MISS?!” 😂😂😂

Reaper Scythe is also a really solid choice imo. Only 23m for 333 dmg, also rev 7 is easy to reach.

hypixel skyblock is a game where if you want an item or its upgrade, you dont think about IF you want to buy them but rather WHEN you should buy them

i completed f5 when dugeons didnt have cata repuierments so i was at cata 7 with a livid dagger and my friend was very confused at how i can use it

Make the same video but for mage plz because nobody talks about it

Update: AOTD is actually cata 12 now along with strong dragon

Aged kinda badly… BoL is here, AoTD now earlier, 250 million coin Midas here, etc.

0:35 "high cata requirment" 14 and 19, there's no way that anyone seriously thinks those are high cata

This guide is a bit weird for me at first bcuz every progression video I’ve seen so far starts out with aote, raiders axe or aotd then working towards getting livid dagger and shadow fury. But considering so many updates such as crimson isle with the equipments, the aotd with the right upgrades could literally be an endgame weapon . Upgrading from aotd to wither blades is pretty weird but regardless, absolutely love this video, sort of a up-to-date guide to increase your dmg as mid to late game player.

I got a feeling that the man just REALLY hate livid dagger

I really liked the video, it was very informative. Sadly i feel like mage / archer just completely destroy melee. I hope that they change some things up soon, as if you don't have a hype, using jinxed vodoo doll and fire veil wand you can deal way more damage than even using a giant's sword.

I believe the progression model should be aotd then livid dagger Listen you probably didnt know that attack speed gets boosted by stars in dungeons m,aking it actually 75 attack speed and the occasional backstabs and 100 cc makes it viable for tanks healers and makes it so if mid game players had problems with crit chance they could stop putting tunings to crit chance but instead damage and use more damage reforges. After that once u hit cata 20 sell livid dagger and get both flower of truth and fel sword as they are both good weapons that are cheap the flower of truth can clear and fel is good for mini bosses and u can use the money u saved to do revs and get combat exp and kills. After this, this is off the list but definetely get a juju/soul whip. The soul whip does do more damage as a berserker because it is a rod and has easier clear than juju and easy to use and it is also good for tank agro in f7 but its fishing 26 which is quite difficult. Juju is definetely a good choice because it boasts more dps then soul whip and easy to get and bruh eman 5 isnt hard I legit used 3/4 ender and revived heart and fel sword to do it lmaoo. And then once you have juju or soul whip I would sell the fel sword which you got kills on which is easy profit because you can sell then for 3m which u boujght for 20k and u can keep ur fot if u really want. And then after that since melee weapons are really good for dps I would hold off and invest in combat levels talis etc. Like 100-200m before you go for shadow fury. Now imma be honest with juju u can do good dps even as berserk and if u chose soul whip A REALLY REALLY good clear weapon especially with the pierce its kinda useless. BUT because i told uj to grind revs u have rev 8 hopefully and you should buy shadow fury ( high single damage weaon) and aots so you can aots swap and do massive damage. And you might tell me that is overkill but aots can be used many places and for slayers and everything else shadow fury is good And for bers u kinda need aots. I would also upgrade my armor to frozen blaze and epic blaze pet as it boasts a lot nmore survivability and only weilds a tiny bit less damage. So the final setup progression shoujld be aotd livid dagger fot fel sword Juju/soul whip Shadow fury aots

AOTD has req. When upgrade to dungeon weapon so Livid dagger is batter to unlock req. AOTD req. Is higher

As a fel sword enjoyer I see this as a win

2:24 aotv can be dungeonized, you just need to reforge it to warped.

Great content, very useful. Actually glad I looked up your channel and catch your streams.

To summarise - giant sword should be optained but only as a loot from chest in dungeons, cause you will still need to farm it since mastering f7 won't be possible with 24 cata lv

Also, there’s a lot more amazing options after the new updates such as felthorn reaper, or bouquet of lies. And shadow fury has a requirement of cata 14 not 15z

i needed this video before i bought my livid dagger :(

I would of loved if you tested reaper scythe

Hm it would be very hard to compair bc you need to inclode pets but the daedalus axe could be a a good candidat as well. Since the stats are okay (if you add the effect that it 2x the pet stats) and it has a lot of uses like beeing the best farming tool for mushrooms, max magic find, and 30 coints per kill. I think it doesnt even have a combat req. But im not sure. Yes it has some downsides like not beeing dungeonizable and you need to have a high taming level but still it is quite good and maybe overlooked.

With the new berserker update, how would bouqeut of lies, bone reaver, and felthorn reaper preform? I currently use a bol, and its probably on par with spirit sceptre clearing (even better if you use young dragon) and does good dps when you left click and right click at the same time. I tested it against the felthorn reaper and giant's sword while killing an m3 guardian and the bol was the slowest, but not by much. Imo bol is very good and is cheaper than a sf.

Hey man, this helps to understand how weapon 'progression' when it comes to where I am right now, but could you do a video on accessories? Like how many there are/how to best get them? The only one that is currently like that is from another KZfaqr but is very outdated so I think you may be able to explain how different accessories can slowly add to your damage

I never really struggled because of my main weapon choice "Skytils >> Slayer took 168.6s to kill AND IT WAS A T2"

AOTV is not meant for damage, it's used for teleporting more efficiently than an AOTE and many player using an AOTV probably have no intention to ever use it as a damage weapon. Apart from that this was a great, informative video that can be really helpful to early game players.

why use superior dragon? use a more relatable armor set like sa or zombie knight or something like that not superior dragon armor who nobody uses

The livid dagger's life steal is crazy tho

in my opinion you should've switched powers to get more fair dmg, for example FOT could do way more then aotd if you used silky, also you completely forgot that livid gets another +25% atk speed in dungeons making it do quite a bit more DPS then aotd

Can u do a mage progression guide?

Old hub gives me goosebumps

Now ppl can solo f6 in sa, a livid dagger, a power orb and a decent pet while playing bers because of syphon and the bers buff

Reaper scythe is underrated

Probably the most helpful Hypixel Skyblock video i have Seen so far in terms of combat and weapons. Really appreciate your work, keep it up. :)

update: bouquet of lies is also really good. and its a clearing weapon not just for the huge amount of damage it does.

You forgot to test the back hit of the Livid Dagger😮😮😮😮

"high catacomb requirement"

great video but i think a ofa livid dagger would be a better option then going till f6 with a aotd

The thing is, no matter how much i max my aotd I can never do as much damage as livid dagger or shadow fury

Dont go melee use a juju

I still got my Shadow fury from back when it was less than 20mil. No point upgrading to the giant sword. But the shadow fury is pretty neat. 50mil is a bit much tho... but still

This video aged....well, actually. Commenting here after the Dungeons Berserker update of 9/12/23, and honestly- reading comments here, just balanced your stats before even getting a giant's sword or similar.

Forgot about armor however, as nobody is sticking with superior for the whole game. The best upgrades are Frozen Blaze with a blaze pet, until you can afford an edrag, or necron with any dmg pet until you can afford an edrag. At that point, necron is the only viable set in dungeons for meele, and outside of dungeons its pretty much required to go hypemage and run kuudra for crimson

Now we need armor, i need armor that works virtually all situations, except eman slayer ofc. Right now really considering frozen blaze, but i also curious about necron xD

I've seen some people who like running dungeons very early on kind of neglect the talisman bag, because the stats you get from buying talismans are minimized compared to stats you get from other upgrades such as recombobulators due to them scaling with catacombs levels and stuff in dungeons, so that kind of justifies buying a Shadow Fury instead of sticking with AOTD while spending more on talismans

I think selling aotd and dragon fuse glove to buy a sf is better. It really depends on what you need. If you already bought a ton of talismans and the rest are very expensive then buy SF, if you dont have any talismans get those. Since on your profile your aotd did around 68k damage and sf did 91k. But on my profile all the weapons I have tested have no enchants but have 5 stars, fuming potato books, fragged for SF and aotd had dragon fuse glove. Aotd did 85k while my SF did over 140k. I don't know if it is my setup or armour. But I think it really depends. But I do agree GS is not worth it since my GS did around 160k. Aotd is really good for its price however dragon fuse glove is like 10m rn.

Doesn’t think 40m is worth 20% damage increases mean while me spending 2b for 11mp

I know this guide is directed towards low lvl players but when you hit a certain point giant sword just becomes so much better. I recently switched from sf to giant and saw a 200k damage increase.

there was no sink at my door.

where's the raider axe at tho. not everyone be rushing dungeons or slayers. some gamers might just be grinding small grinds like zealots or treasure hoarders or goblins/ice walkers while doing commissions. shadow fury my beloved. the ability alone is worth the 40-60m. one right-click and wabam, mob dies-- then wabam again two or three other mobs die. no aiming just one click. if there's a mob in crystal hollows behind some blocks, one click and wabam, you're put into the cave where the mob's at. giant's sword right-click ability op for fishing at any stage of the game. also good for beefy, packed 1x1s with mage cooldown ability. didn't realize that the glove made aotd strong enough to rival livid. nice.

You didn’t use one for all on shadow fury and giant sword. Its just 5m and the damage upgrade is more worth it than fully enchanting them with all other enchants. They would do more damage and if you think its a „unfair“ comparison then just put one for all on all the swords.

While yes the fel sword is pretty cheap the one your were using has 10k kills on it wich makes it way more expensive ( it’s around 7-10m from what I’ve seen ) so it isn’t that good of an option considering it’s price, still a great video you make good content! Edit : mb didn’t see the section about the fel sword …

Another thing, unless you dungeonize your AOTD, a warp AOTE is better than AOTD in dmg.

livid dagger needs ofa when no soul eater

Upgrading a aotd without a dragon fuse glove to a shadow fury. It's a great choice to make. I did double damage because I had gauntlet of contagion. It's a worth it weapon if you have money it will last a long time till probably a claymore unless u are Ironman. So yeah sf is good

some more proof that gab is a chad 1. he actually saw tons of confusion on the last video about superior and he cleared it up 2. he also saw that some people said the power stone was unfair and he also cleared that up as well

wise dragon armor and a ultimate wise 5 aotd is actually mega op for outside dungeons

my livid dagger does around 50k front hit vs my sf which does 200k. Just keep in mind this isnt the pure damage, as all of these weapons would be doing significantly more with 1fa

something i do alot on my main is ice spray go behind livid dagger it does so much more damage then my shadow fury because of the 2.20x damage buff (assuming the livid dagger damage buff is multiplicative) and the 50 more attack speed is crazy and i melt bosses

is pigman much worse than aspect of the dragon if used with superior? to me the increased def of pigman sounds pretty good and because of that i more or less maxed my pigman, but im now unsure if i should sell it and buy a fresh aotd and upgrade it. but the money i loose that i put in to upgrade my pigman would hurt much

The true giant sword is the friends we made along the way it also looks swag 😎

Right Modern lemme point this out to you, At 0:30 when you pop up the cata requirement on screen why do you choose to show the Cata 19 on the right where the Shadow Fury is and Cata 14 where the GS is.

i think livid dagger is better instead of buying glove

Modern soldier biggest livid dagger hater and I love it!

Key takeaway: modern soldier really likes aotd

cata 14 is nothing. I got to cata 20 in a few days with just party finder

I believe that the test would be more objective and correct if you would use your normal glove instead of the ender glove for all weapons(without the AOTD ofc) because if you wouldn't use the AOTD normaly you would not use the ender glove, as it is not as good and effective as another piece of equipment, like molten, as an example.

1: how do you hide your armor? 2: where did you get those cosmetics?

I'm an ironman who doesn't do a lotta dungeons so i don't have smth like a gs or hyp which is why i use warped aotv. I deal around 400k with it outside of dungeons without stuff like rag axe. It's honestly amazing how good the warped reforge is

as a person who likes doing f4/f5 carrys, its sad seeing lvl 20-30 or 40 with full sa armor (or 3/4 and zombie knight or superior) and they dont like their damage saying "the armor/the sword its bad etc etc etc" (or saying im carrying because i have good lvl, im lvl 115) , but when i see their profiles they have like 100 mp, dont use a good power stone and, dont apply good reforge for their weapons, and also dont apply stars on them.. so yeah, my point is to say they dont know how to progress and think the armor and sword is everything and the other skills or accesory bag are useless