Hey everyone! Thanks for tuning into this Top 10 video, I have really enjoyed making this little series and hearing your opinions on what weapons are best. Again, feel free to let me know what you think of today's Top 10 and what weapons you would include! I appreciate all the support and I hope you all have a great weekend :)
Tree guardian sword spear goes soooo hard man. Throw any damage buff on it with keen infusion and carnage ensues. I like running three of them( giants hunt, repeating thrust, and piercing fang)
My top based on pure aura 1. Sword of Night 2. Backhand Blade 3. Dragon Hunter’s Great Katana 4. Dryleaf Arts/Danes Footwork 5. Dragonscale Katana 6. Bolt of Gransax 7. Cross Naginata 8. Nagakiba 9. Falx 10. Claws of Night
Great video, any changes I'd make be would be purely subjective ;) I'd have the backhand blades somewhhere in the top 5, probably in place of the falx. Bolt would probably move up a space... Sword of Night would probably move up to the 7 or 8 positon. Dancing Blade Of Ranah would probably be somewhere between 6-10 (just did a lovely NG+! run with them)... again all subjective from the feel I had doing runs with them.
Milady power stancing and using jump attacks on the follow up is the last hit of the combo so using rotten winged, prosthesis, claw talisman, and twinblade talisman for really good damage.
Yeah, valid points, I personally don't like the backhand blades/prefer the others on this list but definitely does way more damage compared to sword of night for instance. They are definitely worth mentioning :)
My #1 dex weapon is the nagakiba. Great damage, good reach, bleed build up, quick attacks, decent guard when 2-handed, and a great AOW with unsheathe. Of course, there are others depending on preference and playstyle, but unsheathe is strong as it is. I do want to give some appreciation to the cross-naginata and urumi. The naginata is an excellent spear with slash attacks, and the inherent impaling thrust AOW can be quite powerful if used well. There are other great options also such as piercing fang, blood tax, or my personal favorite, ice spear. The urumi is great that it has such a great reach and has slash damage. If left on keen, it can be buffed with greases for any situation, and my favorite way to use it is with bloodhound's step.
yeah, there was some weapons I overlooked, tbh, I rarely used that weapon but I do know how good it is! It would probably be somewhere in the middle, possibly just below Bolt :)
Yeah that's what my build is about that I linked it to - I was keeping it just as it is for pure dex but when you have 2 of them and add bleed & cold... they're actually so broken!
@ it’s all good. I’ve not seen you make a whip build. One day when you’re bored (as if you have time to be) give it a “crack”. I’m sure you could make a much better build than me. 🌺❤️
@@murcaronisalad5322 deaths poker featured in my Int list as the ash is the main thing with that and scales best with Int - but swordspears are very nice :)
Yea I would say this is peak reddit IGN clickbait, there's no objective measurements, list seems to be catered to PvE exclusive yet misses a number of weapons and weapon categories that function well in PvE, list a number of weapons that simply infuse well as "Dex" weapons when that is not their most optimal infuse and list a number of quality weapons as being Dex focus weapons. Also Sword of Night is criticised for having magic damage but Claws of Night (which are being put at first place for some reason) also have magic damage and less of it too boot, which makes the usual "Muh flat defenses" argument moot Honestly with the different arguments he makes I'm surprised keen spiked caestus didn't make first place considering it is a weapon that infuses well, performs amazingly in PvE and just generally the best weapons in the game, and Is actually good in PvP unlike half of the picks here
@@dalf_souls2199 clearly haven't been keeping up with the series - for each stat we have done, I have included weapons that are dedicated for that stat NATURALLY - so weapons like death's poker won't feature as they have scalings in a different stat like INT When you're talking about quality weapons I assume you mean things like milady/venomous fang which actually have a better Dex scaling - I also did NOT infuse the weapons with any other status/affinity to make it fair. The whole "sword of night is criticised for magic damage but claws is first" thing is something I even mentioned in the video - I don't know why claws are so good, and sword of night is nowhere near because on paper, the sword of night should be much better - It will be something to do with motion values and damage multipliers behind the scenes. Feel free to tell us these weapons that I missed and then we can compare :)
Serpent fang with the correct setup absolutely annihilates considering that you can get 3 separate buffs from procking poison (poison hand, talisman and mushroom crown) paired with the classic millicent prostesis and rotten winged sword insignia its disgusting. And you can easily prock poison on yourself as part of the buffing before the fog wall too wich makes it even more powerfull.
Not really worth doing a list on those. Shadow brought new spells and incantations but none of them out classes anything from the base game. For INT night comet is the best all around due to decent damage and invisible projectiles so enemies will never dodge them. No incant will outclass the dps of int so you’re better off investing for buffs and faith weapons. But the shocking truth to all this (pun intended) is bolt of grax will outclass all ranged situations. Its projectile is so fast that enemies can’t or won’t dodge it, its damage is scaled only with DEX and can be buffed by talismans that work with multiple other items and not just spells and incantation. Oh and it costs 25 FP per shot making it cheaper to use than some of the hardest hitting spells in the game.
I'm surprised to see the nagakiba rank so high. I like it for exploring where a fast weapon helps sort out dogs or ambushes, but I've never had much luck with it against the more dangerous field enemies like sacred bird warriors and horned warriors, whereas, as long as you get the first strike, the old bloodhound fang destroys these. Perhaps it's my skills.
Golden vow + flame grant me strength + keen piercing fang ash is my go to at the moment. It just shreds all bosses. The attacks do require proper timing.
You were right the first time. Powerstancing the Bandits Curved Sword is far superior to the Scavengers Curved Sword… 1. Nagakiba w/ Double Slash & BloodFlame Blade 100% does NOT outperform Rob. As cringe as RoB is, Corpse Piler outperforms. I’ve tested it and RoB was better and it wasn’t that close to my surprise. 2. How did you possibly leave Guardian Swordspear & Godskin Peeler off this list? They’re both incredible Dex weapons and clearly deserve to be on this list. Huge oversight…
Coz not everyone has played it/seen it and tbf, if something destroys base game, it destroys DLC - if you have max scadutree, just 2x the damage you see in the vid as that's basically the conversion with scadu ratings :)
@@tkcjazza at this point everyone and their mom saw the DLC 😂 And it's not true that if it destroys in base game it'll be equally good in the DLC, especially on higher NG, scadutree level or not, also nor everyone has maxed out scadutree, basically, base game does not equal DLC aaaand twice the damage as you say is put against higher defense/hp bosses so you really can't say it's that literal increase
@@para-noxis not really… there’s a LOT of people still waiting til Christmas break to either get it (as a present) or have time to even think about playing it because of work/life etc. it is true that if something blasts through base game (like falx/claws) they will blitz DLC too. And the damage is doubled when at max scadutree, because when you do that, you have 100% boost to AR (x2 damage)
I kinda have to respectfully disagree also. You can tear new holes in the demigods in the base game and still not deal as much damage in the DLC. That doesn’t mean that it’s not viable, because every weapon and build is viable, but you would need more effort to rip through the bosses with the exception of a handful of builds that can destroy DLC bosses. This is all especially true once you’ve reached NG+7, when the bosses are at their tankiest. I believe that’s the sole reason my most other content creators demonstrate their builds at NG+2 at MOST. Because once you go beyond that, the builds don’t seem to broken anymore and you get diminishing returns with dps.
I don't think it does bro - the damage I was doing was WITHOUT additional bleed/buffs like bloodflame blade so you can easily deal another 20 - 30% extra damage than what I was doing in the vid - I didn't use them because I was keeping a fair test for all weapons - Flamberge is VERY good, but to say it outperforms Nagakiba is something I wouldn't agree with :)
@tkcjazza Keen Nagakiba +25 has a 242 base damage with 45 inate bleed & A scaling in dex Keen Flamberge +25 has a 275 base damage, 55 inate bleed & an A scaling in dex with greatsword stance damage. It's a better weapon
@@ViolentMessiah666 yes but the nagakiba is also much faster and piercing fang that comes on it is ofc pierce damage so deals more damage naturally & with critical hits - have a look at the damage I am doing with the Naga in the vid - if you can do more damage per second with only 70dex and 20str with GV, Howl and rakshasa armour as buffs (and talismans like two-handed and millicent pros etc) then fair enough :)
Milady with wing stance is actually one of the highest DPS weapons in the game, bar none. Keen with bloodflame to hope for a bleed or lightning affinity. You also get pretty good stance damage out of the heavy version of wing stance, so you'll reliably get some crits, as well. I would also include cross naginata instead of zweihander. The unique spear moveset is great, and pairing it with piercing fang makes it just incredible. This or the nagakiba are my go-to base game dex weapons for early game.
Wing stance is definitely the better AoW compared to what I was using - I know I briefly mentioned it, but I didn't want to include status changes/affinity changes too much as again, it would just turn into a list of curveswords/same weapon 10x with a different affinity. In NG+7 I just prefer Zwei compared to things like naginata so that's why that's there too :)
Of course, but as for our lists, we’re looking at weapons in their natural state - if I was looking at it like this, strength/dex/arcane list would be exactly the same weapons pretty much as you could just change the affinity to fit the respective list - but yeah, pretty much any weapon that you can change to just pure strength is going to do better damage :)
@@g.slayer44 I either go pure arcane for occult infusion with bloodtax or dex/quality with stormblade. I prefer the arcane build cause it’s more aggressive and it has more synergies with casting mainly dragon communion spells
This list was talking about natural infusions - although they’re still really really good, just they are a quality weapon C/C before changing to keen - I said I wasn’t considering infusions and I personally felt the others were better in that state :)
Claws of Night are insane - If you get 2 venomous fangs and add bleed & frost (one on each) that is actually so broken - That build is in the description :)
Hey everyone!
Thanks for tuning into this Top 10 video, I have really enjoyed making this little series and hearing your opinions on what weapons are best. Again, feel free to let me know what you think of today's Top 10 and what weapons you would include!
I appreciate all the support and I hope you all have a great weekend :)
Great vid, only thing I’d change is the Nagakiba at 1 but only because it was my first dex weapon and I love katanas
Tree guardian sword spear goes soooo hard man. Throw any damage buff on it with keen infusion and carnage ensues. I like running three of them( giants hunt, repeating thrust, and piercing fang)
Next series: top 10 of each damage type (with all 4 physical types too)
Yeah, was thinking of doing top 10 sorceries/incantations too
Lightning isnt possible lol
@@MuttDark like this series, if the weapon has higher lightning than physical damage then it’s a lightning weapon
@@gamerstorm9822 yes but there are only 9 weapons in the whole game that do lightning damage
@ you can do lightning spells too tho, like it’s everything from that spell type
My top based on pure aura
1. Sword of Night
2. Backhand Blade
3. Dragon Hunter’s Great Katana
4. Dryleaf Arts/Danes Footwork
5. Dragonscale Katana
6. Bolt of Gransax
7. Cross Naginata
8. Nagakiba
9. Falx
10. Claws of Night
No backhand blades? Rip. Easily top 3
Great video, any changes I'd make be would be purely subjective ;) I'd have the backhand blades somewhhere in the top 5, probably in place of the falx. Bolt would probably move up a space... Sword of Night would probably move up to the 7 or 8 positon. Dancing Blade Of Ranah would probably be somewhere between 6-10 (just did a lovely NG+! run with them)... again all subjective from the feel I had doing runs with them.
Just use the nagakiba and move forward to start a new age, THE AGE OF JAZZA
Milady power stancing and using jump attacks on the follow up is the last hit of the combo so using rotten winged, prosthesis, claw talisman, and twinblade talisman for really good damage.
Back hand blade have S scaling and Godskin peeler has A scaling in Dex. Could’ve have mentioned
Yeah, valid points, I personally don't like the backhand blades/prefer the others on this list but definitely does way more damage compared to sword of night for instance. They are definitely worth mentioning :)
I've (expat) been waiting for this one from you. Thanks Jazza. It fits perfectly for my current run.
No worries my dude! Sorry to keep you waiting so long ;) - I hope you're doing well though!
I like your list. Nagakiba is my number 1 dexterity weapon. Now with Rellana’s Cameo + Unsheathe it’s very nasty💯
My #1 dex weapon is the nagakiba. Great damage, good reach, bleed build up, quick attacks, decent guard when 2-handed, and a great AOW with unsheathe. Of course, there are others depending on preference and playstyle, but unsheathe is strong as it is.
I do want to give some appreciation to the cross-naginata and urumi. The naginata is an excellent spear with slash attacks, and the inherent impaling thrust AOW can be quite powerful if used well. There are other great options also such as piercing fang, blood tax, or my personal favorite, ice spear.
The urumi is great that it has such a great reach and has slash damage. If left on keen, it can be buffed with greases for any situation, and my favorite way to use it is with bloodhound's step.
Surprised to see Guardian Swordspear not making the list. Hard to argue with your top 3, however
yeah, there was some weapons I overlooked, tbh, I rarely used that weapon but I do know how good it is! It would probably be somewhere in the middle, possibly just below Bolt :)
Very nice list!
Big fan of the black knives. They melt enemies away. But they lack in range very badly.
actually venomous fang can be combined with bleed or frost buildup when u do it poison buildup still stays
Yeah that's what my build is about that I linked it to - I was keeping it just as it is for pure dex but when you have 2 of them and add bleed & cold... they're actually so broken!
I love the backhand blades
Awesome video! Where were my whips? 😂😂😂 They can be so much fun 😅
Yeah... errr... no whips lol 😅😅
@ it’s all good. I’ve not seen you make a whip build. One day when you’re bored (as if you have time to be) give it a “crack”. I’m sure you could make a much better build than me. 🌺❤️
Thank you for putting Zweihander in there 😆
@@Michaelis_ no worries, it had to be in here ;)
Guardians swordspears are super nice on a dex build. Also Deaths poker is good fun 😁
@@murcaronisalad5322 deaths poker featured in my Int list as the ash is the main thing with that and scales best with Int - but swordspears are very nice :)
Yea I would say this is peak reddit IGN clickbait, there's no objective measurements, list seems to be catered to PvE exclusive yet misses a number of weapons and weapon categories that function well in PvE, list a number of weapons that simply infuse well as "Dex" weapons when that is not their most optimal infuse and list a number of quality weapons as being Dex focus weapons.
Also Sword of Night is criticised for having magic damage but Claws of Night (which are being put at first place for some reason) also have magic damage and less of it too boot, which makes the usual "Muh flat defenses" argument moot
Honestly with the different arguments he makes I'm surprised keen spiked caestus didn't make first place considering it is a weapon that infuses well, performs amazingly in PvE and just generally the best weapons in the game, and Is actually good in PvP unlike half of the picks here
@@dalf_souls2199 clearly haven't been keeping up with the series - for each stat we have done, I have included weapons that are dedicated for that stat NATURALLY - so weapons like death's poker won't feature as they have scalings in a different stat like INT
When you're talking about quality weapons I assume you mean things like milady/venomous fang which actually have a better Dex scaling - I also did NOT infuse the weapons with any other status/affinity to make it fair.
The whole "sword of night is criticised for magic damage but claws is first" thing is something I even mentioned in the video - I don't know why claws are so good, and sword of night is nowhere near because on paper, the sword of night should be much better - It will be something to do with motion values and damage multipliers behind the scenes.
Feel free to tell us these weapons that I missed and then we can compare :)
Serpent fang with the correct setup absolutely annihilates considering that you can get 3 separate buffs from procking poison (poison hand, talisman and mushroom crown) paired with the classic millicent prostesis and rotten winged sword insignia its disgusting. And you can easily prock poison on yourself as part of the buffing before the fog wall too wich makes it even more powerfull.
Claws of night oh I think i know what I'm going to use for ng+8
Good vid as always.
Hey, thank you so much, I really appreciate the comment
You should do top 10 spells and incantations for each stat for your next series
@@coronaboredomseriously1949 no💀 pretty sure there aren’t even 10 arcane scaling sorceries
Not really worth doing a list on those. Shadow brought new spells and incantations but none of them out classes anything from the base game. For INT night comet is the best all around due to decent damage and invisible projectiles so enemies will never dodge them. No incant will outclass the dps of int so you’re better off investing for buffs and faith weapons. But the shocking truth to all this (pun intended) is bolt of grax will outclass all ranged situations. Its projectile is so fast that enemies can’t or won’t dodge it, its damage is scaled only with DEX and can be buffed by talismans that work with multiple other items and not just spells and incantation. Oh and it costs 25 FP per shot making it cheaper to use than some of the hardest hitting spells in the game.
I'm surprised to see the nagakiba rank so high. I like it for exploring where a fast weapon helps sort out dogs or ambushes, but I've never had much luck with it against the more dangerous field enemies like sacred bird warriors and horned warriors, whereas, as long as you get the first strike, the old bloodhound fang destroys these. Perhaps it's my skills.
Golden vow + flame grant me strength + keen piercing fang ash is my go to at the moment. It just shreds all bosses. The attacks do require proper timing.
Curved greatswords have hyper armour so harder for you to be knocked out of your attack and also can stun certain enemies
Thoughts on twin blades like the apostles?
You were right the first time.
Powerstancing the Bandits Curved Sword is far superior to the Scavengers Curved Sword…
1. Nagakiba w/ Double Slash & BloodFlame Blade 100% does NOT outperform Rob. As cringe as RoB is, Corpse Piler outperforms. I’ve tested it and RoB was better and it wasn’t that close to my surprise.
2. How did you possibly leave Guardian Swordspear & Godskin Peeler off this list? They’re both incredible Dex weapons and clearly deserve to be on this list. Huge oversight…
You didn’t even attempt to demonstrate anything on Shadow of the Erdtree bosses 😅.
Coz not everyone has played it/seen it and tbf, if something destroys base game, it destroys DLC - if you have max scadutree, just 2x the damage you see in the vid as that's basically the conversion with scadu ratings :)
@@tkcjazza at this point everyone and their mom saw the DLC 😂 And it's not true that if it destroys in base game it'll be equally good in the DLC, especially on higher NG, scadutree level or not, also nor everyone has maxed out scadutree, basically, base game does not equal DLC aaaand twice the damage as you say is put against higher defense/hp bosses so you really can't say it's that literal increase
@@para-noxis not really… there’s a LOT of people still waiting til Christmas break to either get it (as a present) or have time to even think about playing it because of work/life etc. it is true that if something blasts through base game (like falx/claws) they will blitz DLC too. And the damage is doubled when at max scadutree, because when you do that, you have 100% boost to AR (x2 damage)
I kinda have to respectfully disagree also. You can tear new holes in the demigods in the base game and still not deal as much damage in the DLC. That doesn’t mean that it’s not viable, because every weapon and build is viable, but you would need more effort to rip through the bosses with the exception of a handful of builds that can destroy DLC bosses. This is all especially true once you’ve reached NG+7, when the bosses are at their tankiest. I believe that’s the sole reason my most other content creators demonstrate their builds at NG+2 at MOST. Because once you go beyond that, the builds don’t seem to broken anymore and you get diminishing returns with dps.
@@tkcjazzayour logic about scadu scaling is sound don’t listen to the other guy
Flamberge outperforms Nagakiba it every area: more dps, more bleed & greatsword stance damage with the same scaling. Super underrated weapon
I don't think it does bro - the damage I was doing was WITHOUT additional bleed/buffs like bloodflame blade so you can easily deal another 20 - 30% extra damage than what I was doing in the vid - I didn't use them because I was keeping a fair test for all weapons - Flamberge is VERY good, but to say it outperforms Nagakiba is something I wouldn't agree with :)
@tkcjazza Keen Nagakiba +25 has a 242 base damage with 45 inate bleed & A scaling in dex
Keen Flamberge +25 has a 275 base damage, 55 inate bleed & an A scaling in dex with greatsword stance damage. It's a better weapon
@@ViolentMessiah666 yes but the nagakiba is also much faster and piercing fang that comes on it is ofc pierce damage so deals more damage naturally & with critical hits - have a look at the damage I am doing with the Naga in the vid - if you can do more damage per second with only 70dex and 20str with GV, Howl and rakshasa armour as buffs (and talismans like two-handed and millicent pros etc) then fair enough :)
I'm shocked the backhand blades are not on this list
will you do build around Dragon-Hunter's Great Katana?
Potentially, I’ve made builds on the other two great katanas so I will see about making one once we’ve done with the top 10s :)
Milady with wing stance is actually one of the highest DPS weapons in the game, bar none. Keen with bloodflame to hope for a bleed or lightning affinity. You also get pretty good stance damage out of the heavy version of wing stance, so you'll reliably get some crits, as well. I would also include cross naginata instead of zweihander. The unique spear moveset is great, and pairing it with piercing fang makes it just incredible. This or the nagakiba are my go-to base game dex weapons for early game.
Wing stance is definitely the better AoW compared to what I was using - I know I briefly mentioned it, but I didn't want to include status changes/affinity changes too much as again, it would just turn into a list of curveswords/same weapon 10x with a different affinity. In NG+7 I just prefer Zwei compared to things like naginata so that's why that's there too :)
1. Rakshasa 2. Milady 3.falx 4. Backhand
Very nice! Rakshasa was a little too slow for me to put it higher but it’s definitely a good weapon :)
Dancing Blade can shred many bosses as quick or quicker than any of these.
Milady does more damage on a strength. On a dex build, you don’t get extra damage when two handing the weapon, while strength build does.
Of course, but as for our lists, we’re looking at weapons in their natural state - if I was looking at it like this, strength/dex/arcane list would be exactly the same weapons pretty much as you could just change the affinity to fit the respective list - but yeah, pretty much any weapon that you can change to just pure strength is going to do better damage :)
#1 Pata
Pata is filthy!
Nagakiba carried me first playthrough
What is the armor set?
When I become a famous streamer I'll shout-out you
Thank you
what do you guys think about the Moonveil?
Solid, powerful, straightforward.
If you prefer to have challenge - it will soon become boring.
Godslayer greatsword doesn't get the love it deserves😭💔
It was in my faith list that we uploaded a couple weeks back :)
Yeah claws of night 😁😁
Funny how there was no zweihander footage
What do you think I am using at #9 then??? lol
Decent list but here's my list:
1. Nagakiba
2. Great Katana
3. Falx
4. BOG
5. Milady
Very nice - Falx and Claws of Night do way too much damage to not be top haha ;)
@ I prefer weapons that do better poise damage and are infusible. ClawsOfNight does mixed damage and I don’t really like claws. It’s just preference
What is your build for great katana?
@@g.slayer44 I either go pure arcane for occult infusion with bloodtax or dex/quality with stormblade. I prefer the arcane build cause it’s more aggressive and it has more synergies with casting mainly dragon communion spells
WHERE BLAKHAND BLADES? Try it out this is really broken
A nice video to eatch
All the best weapons are dlc weapons…. 😢
Whats is most op, blasphemous or dual scarvenger sword?
Blaspemous probably, the DLC indirectly nerfed dual scav's by making the bosses more likely to hit you during a jump attack.
@@lharsay thanks i get de darkmoon and dont reach volcano manor yet, so i will build around the darkmoon
brah u missed river blood...no buneo
That's coz it's an arcane weapon ;) - it's in my arcane list lol
Anyone putting my Zwie in a list gets a thumb up and a sub!
I usually dislike these comments, but seriously.... no keen backhand blades??? I quit!
This list was talking about natural infusions - although they’re still really really good, just they are a quality weapon C/C before changing to keen - I said I wasn’t considering infusions and I personally felt the others were better in that state :)
Anime
No, I don't agree respectfully.
1. NAGAKIBA
2. BOLT OF GRANSAX
3. BLOODHOUND FANG
I haven't played DLC yet, so I can't comment about those weapons.
Damn, I made claws only character but only on ng+2 atm, and I feel claws night are below venomous and raptors 🫣
Claws of Night are insane - If you get 2 venomous fangs and add bleed & frost (one on each) that is actually so broken - That build is in the description :)