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I make make guides for Dark Souls 2 and sometimes challenge runs/pvp.
You can find me on discord by the name Officialmetalhead or at user ID 884891166179467325.
You can find me on discord by the name Officialmetalhead or at user ID 884891166179467325.
Dark Weapon: The Best Weapon Buff in Dark Souls 2
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And check out the voice actress for my videos @PenPenPlon
If you have any questions you can message me or ping me in the Dark Souls Discord server at Metalhead user ID: 884891166179467325.
Timestamps:
What is Dark Weapon: 0:00 - 0:32
Why should you use Dark Weapon: 0:32 - 1:08
How to get Dark Weapon: 1:08 - 3:33
How to optimize Dark Weapon: 3:33 - 6:27
Link to our previous video: ua-cam.com/video/i1PRL9_-6s8/v-deo.html
Link to the Skeptic Spices locations: ua-cam.com/video/-utPagM1Uwc/v-deo.html
Link to the Soul Vessel locations: ua-cam.com/video/CRz1yUBni0s/v-deo.htmlsi=ZsD8ohjOX4oVTaXp
Helpful PVE guides and tools:
Buff AR Calculator v1.4.5: tinyurl.com/Buff-AR-Calculator
Buff Duration Calculator: tinyurl.com/Buff-Duration-Calculator
General DS2 Advice and Information: tinyurl.com/General-DS2-Advice
Dark Souls II Damage and Defense overview: tinyurl.com/DS2-Damage-and-Defense
DS2 Best in Slot PvE Weapons: tinyurl.com/Best-in-Slot-Weapons
DS2 Best PvE Equipment and Stat Progression: tinyurl.com/Stat-Progression
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And check out the voice actress for my videos @PenPenPlon
If you have any questions you can message me or ping me in the Dark Souls Discord server at Metalhead user ID: 884891166179467325.
Timestamps:
What is Dark Weapon: 0:00 - 0:32
Why should you use Dark Weapon: 0:32 - 1:08
How to get Dark Weapon: 1:08 - 3:33
How to optimize Dark Weapon: 3:33 - 6:27
Link to our previous video: ua-cam.com/video/i1PRL9_-6s8/v-deo.html
Link to the Skeptic Spices locations: ua-cam.com/video/-utPagM1Uwc/v-deo.html
Link to the Soul Vessel locations: ua-cam.com/video/CRz1yUBni0s/v-deo.htmlsi=ZsD8ohjOX4oVTaXp
Helpful PVE guides and tools:
Buff AR Calculator v1.4.5: tinyurl.com/Buff-AR-Calculator
Buff Duration Calculator: tinyurl.com/Buff-Duration-Calculator
General DS2 Advice and Information: tinyurl.com/General-DS2-Advice
Dark Souls II Damage and Defense overview: tinyurl.com/DS2-Damage-and-Defense
DS2 Best in Slot PvE Weapons: tinyurl.com/Best-in-Slot-Weapons
DS2 Best PvE Equipment and Stat Progression: tinyurl.com/Stat-Progression
#darksouls2 #ds2pvp #ds2 #darksoulsscholarofthefristsin #gaming #darksouls #ds2pc #darksoulstrilogy #darksoulsbosses #darksoulsmeme #darksoulsremastered #soulslike #souls #guide #games
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I disagree with a couple of choices but a bunch of these weapons have unlocked....memories...of pvp back in the day. Also about the Bluemoon, the damage isn't really worth it if obtained early and the durability is just atrocious. It feels much better when you're deep into the game imo, unlike some weapons like the mace that are just great from the getgo.
such a hidden gem of channel
@@MustafaAladili-n5e thank you this means a lot to us
Why ery body playing ds2 all of a sudden?
@@RyanMathews-ld7hi we always have been
Sooo much fun
Red iron twin blade infused with lightening and buff with dark weapon is the way. Great vid thanks
But what is the best universal weapon I can decently kill anything like say oh the ancient dragon?
@@BladesOfAltair4Ezio Lightning infused ice rapier buffed with dark weapon
Sir Alonne Katana is great tho…
impressive accuracy of information and responsiveness. Subd.
@@connortodd4538 thank you so much for the nice comment!
How would you build the cheesiest ice rapier build?
@@alexhastings1227 Lightning infused rapier with dark weapon Rings: Ring of Blades (the highest version you have available), Flynns Ring, Old Leo Ring, and Third Dragon Ring Stats: 50 vigor Endurance: up to preference but at least 20 (the more the better) Vitality: 10 (no more or you'll lose flynns ring damage) Dexterity: 15 Strength: enough to 2 hand rapier Attunement: 10 Adaptability: Enough to reach 99 Agility INT: 24 for max duration of dark weapon FAITH: 14 to be able to cast dark weapon. Once you killed fume knight and acquire the Iron Crown which regenerates spell uses over time you can swap dark weapon for Sunlight Blade and sacred oath. You will want 54 faith for max duration of sunlight blade and 5 attunement slots to fit Sacred oath and sunlight blade.
@OfficialMetalhead wow that's amazing, saved and trying it on my newest playthrough, thank you!
Really good video ❤
I miss the spice system! Wish Elden Ring would have brought spicing down magic requirements 😅 and dark damage > holy damage purely for aesthetic reasons, ofc. Great video! ❤
@@xXLunatikxXlul many of ds2 mechanics were really cool and I wish they would be brought be back, like ascetics, thanks for the support!
@@OfficialMetalhead maybe one day we will see a remake of DS2 or a spiritual successor in the vain of DS2 :) thanks for making such informative content ❤️
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@@asap6763 thank you my original gangster
I wonder why no one rates bows.. I could tell than Bow of Want and Hunter's Blackbow are such a must have in your inventory if you're not a caster.
We actually do have a list of bows that we would like to showcase, as well as spell tools. Eventually we will get around to it but info gathering, script writing, footage gathering, voice recording, and editing tends to take a while.
You're sleeping on Drakeblood Greatsword though. Porbably the best greatsword, the Scythes in this game, though, are such a let down.. when the Great Scythe in the DS1 was an absolutely godly weapon
The problem for me with all of the Old Knight gear/weapons, the durability is so crap.. Ice Rapier is crazy OP
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It depends, on Bosses, its the best, for levels, basic Magic weapon is better cuz It hás double the usage
magic weapon does massively less damage. There's no area where you're going to be having more than 8 1/2 minutes of combat between bonfires, it's just not a thing. Having gmw as an option against enemies massively weak to magic or heavily resistant to dark can be an occasional benefit, but those specific scenarios where it's significant enough to be worth using over dark weapon are far and few between. Regular magic weapon is as utterly useless as flame weapon
@@lucaslourenco4528 to add onto what Jerry said, you can use magic weapon during the short amount of time you are getting the stats for dark weapon, but once you actually do get dark weapon then there's just no reason to use it.
This is great content!
@@Diego000793 thank you I appreciate it!
I’ve beaten this game 8 times and have used a few of these weapons but only beat it once using a best in class, the Ice Rapier. I also want to mention the Mace and the Mace of the Insolent because that lets you put dark weapon on the Mace of the Insolent and then you can use that mace to put Sunlight Blade on the left hand mace for two spell buffed maces at once. Pretty fun. Thanks for this video, I’ll play this game again using some of the weapons listed in this video!
super in depth thank you for your hard work
@@conievel9285 thank you for the support! You can check out our latest video as well if you want ;)
Dark Weapon is like Frank’s Hot Sauce… I put that ****** on everything!
@@TrebleSixVideos they dont let me put it on the binocolars
@@TrebleSixVideos hell yeah, good way of thinking
Question: Why don't you infuse your weapon with dark instead of lightning? Iirc, you get even more damage if you stack infusions and buffs of the same element.
This is a great question, let me explain. It is true that you get a small bonus from matching the infusion element with your buff. But the difference is minuscule, we are talking about +8 AR of extra damage for a worse damage type, enemies on average are weaker to lightning meaning you will average more damage with lightning infusion than dark, not to mention that if you face a dark resistant enemy while using dark + dark weapon your damage will be drastically worse than if you used lightning. Unlike ds1, in this game split damage isn't bad and targetting multiple elemental defenses at once isn't a bad idea.
@ So essentially, enemies have less resistance to lightning on average, so the dark damage bonus is balanced out? That makes sense. Thanks.
@goingunleashed5826 you got it!
This is grape jelly
@@sweetshousegirl hii cake thank you for commenting :)
@OfficialMetalhead is there other flavors of jelly in dark souls 2
@@sweetshousegirl there is strawberry jelly (Flame Weapon), blueberry jam (the magic weapon variants), and apricot jam (Sunlight blade).
@@PenPenPlon I like sunlight blade the best
What about getting to the 40 str/dex cap, uninfused weapon, and using dark resin? Would that be similar damage output?
@iambeowulf5758 it would be more stat investment for less damage still, we dont use dark weapon because it adds dark particularly, but because of the cast amount, duration and because it adds more damage than other weapon buffs for less stat investment. Sunlight blade for example adds the same damage (but as lightning) as dark weapon, but requires 54 faith to get the maximum duration from it and it only has 1 cast at 10 attunement. Weapons buffs can also be applied to elementaly infused weapons while resins cant, and since most weapons don't scale well infusing them with lightning gives you more damage right away, now if you add a spell buff on top of that you get even more damage for a longer duration than using resins. In the video you see me hit Alonne, who is weak to lightning, with a 40 str dragon tooth buffed with gold pine resin, and it was dealing less damage than a dragon tooth with 25 str infused with lightning and buffed with dark weapon. So even if you were to match your resins to the bosses weaknesses, the amount of damage you get from buffing an infused weapon even with an element that doesnt match the boss weakness makes it better. So yeah infused weapons buff really well and require less stats than getting to 40 str/dex while giving more dmg. Making softcapping said stats just pointless when you can do this. Also take into account the fact that this way you dont need to restock on resins and cant possibly run out.
A; it depends, usually no B; why would you waste 80 levels and use a consumable you have to repeatedly buy more of instead of just spending 30 levels for an infinitely recharging spell
@@OfficialMetalhead Yes, it makes sense. I thought that since infusing a weapon makes it deal split damage, it would be better leaving it uninfused and matching resins, so that you can maximize RoB too, but apparently it's still less damage. Thank you for your answer!
@iambeowulf5758 yeah split dmg isnt bad like in ds1 here, and no problem thank you for your question!
Any weapon buffs for SL1? 🥺
@@AcaciaVix flame weapon
@OfficialMetalhead new video incoming mayhaps?
@@AcaciaVix lol we arent making a video about that one, it has a very niche use case, but we are gonna make more videos just give it time
New damage type just dropped (for me) 🔥
@@lIlIlIlIllIl enjoy lol
love the depth of detail, thanks for uploading!
Thank you for watching and commenting❤
more quality ds2 content, we eating good
@@carim.K thank you for the support!
Worth noting Kings crown (which is very late) grants +3 intelligence and faith, making it the best stat boost helmet, and can let you lower your required stats to 21 intelligence and 7 faith, or by that point going to 27 of each for +3 to 30 which is the dark softcap
@@AutistiCat2406 its neat sure, but the extra cast from hexers hood into eventually Iron Crown for spell regen makes it not worth it over them
The main power of hexers hood is the extra cast, not the stats. Those are extra Iron crown lets you swap to SLB+SOATH, which is more effective
go blue
27:42 why must you give me a reality check, loved the vid btw
Nice vid. Crazy amount of work thank you
congrats on worlds first
Currently I'm using a +10 great sword, do you think the ice rapier would be a good replacement?
@@hussien04 if you switch to a lightning infused ice rapier your damage will skyrocket
@@OfficialMetalhead Thx
i think I'll switch my fire longsword 😂
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It took me so long to do manus SL1 on NG, I don’t think I have the patience like you do! Good job!
I actually really like the Greatsword for the horizontal moveset. You need 28 strength to 1hand it, but that's still a lot less stat investment than something like Ivory King and this game gives levels away like candy on Halloween.
Bro!!! I ONLY use Fire and Lightning infused longswords switching between them if needed for a boss and otherwise as their durability runs out🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣Why!?!?
finally i heard someone else pronounce caestus the same way as me
Very informative. I’ll have to give some e of these weapons a try next time I play DS2. I’m glad to know that I wasn’t being a complete idiot by using the broadsword for a while.
and where do shields come into this? What do you think about sword and board? Is there a way to play the game slowly and carefully, with minimal rolling, and more a focus on blocking?
Wait for spears you picked the Gargoyle Bident but the Yorgh's Spear has more damage
@@eumeliovazquezjr1630 Yorgh's literally does not have a single spear attack lol, its not even a spear
@@OfficialMetalhead what do you mean it is a spear weapon. It is classified as a spear.
@@eumeliovazquezjr1630 its classified as a spear but has the lance and twinblade R1 combined with other moves, none of which you find on other spears, it being classified as one has no impact on the game, when people look for a spear they look for a specific moveset that spears provide and this couldnt be further from that. Its just like Drakekeeper's warpick being classified as a greathammer and having the halberd moveset along with using the sweetspot mechanic. Or king's ultra greatsword, which is classified as an ultra greatsword but has the greataxe moveset just like crypt blacksword.
@@OfficialMetalhead yeah I understand your point. What do you think of that weapon? I as because I am using 2 of them right now for a play through.
This has the vibe of an employee training video lol. Very informative too. DS2 has such a wide variety of weapons. It's by far the game's biggest strength imo.
We are training new employees (DS2 new players) and hopefully correcting some of the misinformation on youtube lol
After watching this video i may give ds2 another shot, it had its issues the only nail in the coffin was the adaptability stat bs. Outside of that i was enjoying my time playing it
I hope you enjoy it this time, you can get 92 agl after the first boss which is a perfectly fine amount of s, and then once you get to 96 agility you basically the same s as ds1
Not so long ago i did a character on which i powerstanced the craftman hammer and dragon slayer axe and jesus never realize how weak most enemies are to blunt/strike weapons. I thought the great axe from the black knights and the dragon shrine would b among the best ones
@@elektra8535 the black knight greataxe behaves like a halberd and utilizes the obnoxious sweetspot mehcanic, on top of blakc knight weapons already being weak due to them dealing innate fire damage which is the single most resisted element in the game.
@@OfficialMetalheadi was talking about the great axe of the Drakekeepers I forgot their name so i just call them black knights lol didn't knew the black knight great axe had a sweetspot