Sword of night and flame

[Minivazer]

I have Found the Sword of night and flame. It is described as the best sword in the game. My character is astrologer 74 lvl, with 43 intelligence and 7 faith level. It's pretty expensive to level up now. This sword requires 24 faith. Is it worth it to level up faith just for this sword?

[patrol]

It kicked everyone's ass, got nerfed, then buffed again, so i have no clue but it's still a good weapon from what I've heard

[nfinite.recursion]

It's not bad, but best sword in the game? lol no.

[Spacesuit Spiff]

Used that sword in my first playthrough and I'm gonna say no. The "spells" on it are worse than stuff you already have access to at 43 INT. It's perfectly serviceable in a quality build, but you have access to plenty of other stuff that doesn't require dumping points in faith.

[RyuKazé]

I used the SON&F sword initially with my Confessor but I found the Crystal Sword to be much better which requires no Faith, less Dex and Int and 1 more Str point. Even with the flames, the SON&F does less damage and the night part of it has too long a wind up.

[King of Games]

Originally posted by nfinite.recursion:

It's not bad, but best sword in the game? lol no.

then what is

[Sparhawk 59]

depends on use many great weapons enhanced by ash of wars for diff builds.

[GermanyMan]

There is no "strongest weapon".
There are weapon with raw Attack Rating but bad movesets, there are weapons that have a good moveset but Damage is mediocre and there are weapons that dont even fit into your own playstyle.

[dead inside]

Eleonora's Poleblade is funniest and best easy kill with dancing.

[Black Fox]

Originally posted by nfinite.recursion:

It's not bad, but best sword in the game? lol no.

Da best sworda in da game is morgoth's rainbow prism looking sworda

[Tony Addams]

I'm playng the DLC now, had some problems with bosses, looked for builds, tried a couple of the most OP and my verdict is: SoN&F is still the best. And you don't need to obtain any of specific items and go through a cascade of buffs for it to work.

[Nifty]

Originally posted by Minivazer:

I have Found the Sword of night and flame. It is described as the best sword in the game. My character is astrologer 74 lvl, with 43 intelligence and 7 faith level. It's pretty expensive to level up now. This sword requires 24 faith. Is it worth it to level up faith just for this sword?

The most useful thing about going 40/40 for sword of night and flame.

Or Renalla's duel blades in the DLC.

Is actually being able to use the golden order catalyst optimally.

Especially with the release of spells like giant gold arc, wrath from afar, New crucible stuff etc.

[Knavenformed]

Described by who?
A guide outdated by a year?

You can definitely have fun build completely around the sword, but you'd be gimped by not being specialized in either or for your first playthrough, since the sword isn't really optimal.