Wich straightsword should i use? and is lordsworn straight sword viable?

[elstirthibaut]

Hello, i'm at rennala boss fight and currently uses a lordsworn straight sword +3 but just found the lazuli glindstone strzighsword.

Is the lordsworn viable at middle and endgame and should i upgrade it at the blacksmith?
or should i use the glindstone even though the magic attack wont work very well agaisnt rennala.

i forgot that there was a blacksmith at the roundtable so i kept my weapon at +3,

thank you

[elstirthibaut]

no ideas?

[richardson]

I haven't finished the game, but looking at the raw numbers, a fully upgraded common weapon is going to be a half-step behind a fully upgraded weapon that requires somber stones to upgrade. Which would mean that it's certainly viable, but not optimal.

Also, with the patch buffing the drop rate of smithing stones and making them available on merchants, you might not go wild and upgrade literally everything to +6 or beyond, but no reason to fear doing it for something you're currently using or seriously trying out.

[Zeromentor]

Lordsworn is good early on, and the art can be swapped out to something else you might want. There's a few that are better for more specific builds, though, such as Arcane or Intellect.

[justfaded]

The katana kind

[ZTL-Altima]

Originally posted by elstirthibaut:

Is the lordsworn viable at middle and endgame and should i upgrade it at the blacksmith?
or should i use the glindstone even though the magic attack wont work very well agaisnt rennala.

Every weapon is viable entire game.

You should look into your build. For example, if you're going to be more Int based, a weapon that scales with Int is an indicative to be the best for you.

If you're not going the Int route, and spend points on Int just to meet requirements for a weapon, it may end up being very bad.

[Kodiak412]

On thing with the regular weapons is you can apply the buff grease to them depending on what the enemy is weak to. Unique weapons needing somber stones will not let you buff them.

With that said I love my Crystal Sword.

[elstirthibaut]

"You should look into your build. For example, if you're going to be more Int based, a weapon that scales with Int is an indicative to be the best for you."

what if i just wat to do melee; no magic nor faith? is upping the int because the weapon scales with int going the int route?
what should i prioritize then? (i mostly spent points on stamina and hp)?
since the scaling of the lordsworn isn't great i didn't put a lot of points in strengh.

'The katana kind" is that better than straightswords?