What is the *best* thrusting weapon in your opinion?

[Last Jackdaw]

I want to try spears and the fencing style swords for my next playthrough any suggestions of a good early game and endgame target weapon?

(I was full on magic for playthrough one)

[Last Jackdaw]

I wanna be Dread Pirate Roberts

[GermanyMan]

The rapier the fat Godskin Noble is using looks sick. But i doubt it has the same moveset.

[Evilcheesewheel]

The heavy thrusting sword you can get from Placidusax's remembrance has a cool ash of war.

[815|Shouldabeen]

I can speak for thrusting swords and large thrusting swords. They're good vs enemies that don't move around a lot and are on a completely flat surface. If there's either an incline or a lot of movement in the fight they become trash tier pretty quickly. The tracking is awful and will cause you to miss a lot of attacks simply because they don't track vertically.

Ash of war impaling thrust is pretty good though. It damages through shields and deals a significant amount of stagger (same as charged R2.)

[Warspawn]

I like Vyke's War Spear (watch out you so you don't kill yourself with that frenzied flame AOE...buffing your focus helps) and Rogier's Rapier. (SO fun with parrying dagger or Misericode in the offhand!)..the Ornamental straight sword comes with a nice holy damage buff that really comes in handy...all of them are fast and stabby

o7

~War~

[p00se2]

im liking dual wielding estoc alot decent range too

[Knavenformed]

The Prisoner starts with a rapier that has a sweeping R2, very nice to start with.

Maybe try the Epee and see if you like big or small ones more and then go on finding the end game ones.

Imo the Godskin one is bad since it's all pokes.

[Warspawn]

I'm surprised no one mentioned the St. Trina sword. Sleepy time! Had an invader use that on me and I wasn't paying attention to what was going on. Thought it was the Night Mist that would damage the caster as well as me and had them down quite a bit until I decided it was time to take a nap.

o7

~War~

[Lesmir]

Originally posted by Last Jackdaw:

I want to try spears and the fencing style swords for my next playthrough any suggestions of a good early game and endgame target weapon?

(I was full on magic for playthrough one)

cross-naginata

good base damage , can have A dex scaling or B / B str dex quality ( or other infused ) can be buff , innate BLEED on it , great move set ( slash and trust ) can be use to poke with shield , good guard break , nice reach , good speed too , easy to wield and can be get under 15 minute of starting the game.

some other weapon might have greater damage but the bleed will be great in all game cycle and you can always buff it with spell or item to make it even better

[Izuzul]

Originally posted by Evilcheesewheel:

The heavy thrusting sword you can get from Placidusax's remembrance has a cool ash of war.

This is a true statement.