Fire Knight Greatsword

[Twisty]

I was looking for a new build to run to change things up, and came across this weapon.

From what I've read people are saying it's really good, but on paper the stats seem just average. So what makes it so good and is it worth farming for to try a build around it?

[Dollmaker]

Was, it had a bug that made its Light attack combo with itself, making it essentially a DS3 weapon.

Properly build in this thing could delete players, cause landing the first light attack guaranteed a second one.

[Twisty]

Originally posted by Dollmaker:

Was, it had a bug that made its Light attack combo with itself, making it essentially a DS3 weapon.

Properly build in this thing could delete players, cause landing the first light attack guaranteed a second one.

Ah I see.
Do you know how it is now for PvE?

[Arquade]

Originally posted by Twisty:

Ah I see.
Do you know how it is now for PvE?

Pretty good. Was running it on my STR build, and this thing has best colossal sword moveset in the game. Damage was good too, since STR can infuse weapon with fire. Made two variants: Heavy with Cragblade, and Fire with Flame Skewer. Both were good, but fire one was slightly better.

[Saloman]

you are too late - 2 hit combo aka DS3 was deleted.

[Whargoul]

I put the flame skewer AOW on it, flame art affinity with 60 faith and it slaps

[vinisaurus]

I ran it in my faith build with the flame art infusion, good damage for PvE

[Twisty]

Sweet! I think my current build has about 60 str and 40 faith so that should do well with Flame skewer

[WereChicken]

It's really strong for a faith strength build. I use a heavy infused with fire spear to get the most out of both of my main stats. A pure faith users would find fire art infusion to be very strong given the high faith scaling (B) and the fact it gets additional damage when infused with fire in anyway.

[Archdeacon Monseigneur]

fire knight greatsword is still good. don't listen to that first guy who says it no longer is.

it has massive stance damage, inherent fire damage which can be further empowered, an A scaling in strength when infused with heavy, and the moveset of the godslayer greatsword (big wide diagonal sweeps).

just because its not longer broken-good doesn't mean it isn't good.

[BingusDingus]

They didn't really nerf it at all, they just removed the true combo, it's still extremely powerful. It doesn't do the most damage, but it's damage is very good and it swings pretty fast. The real reason it's so good though is the moveset, it's the best of both worlds, the Godslayer's Greatswords R1 mixed with the Zweihanders R2, it just feels so great to use.

EDIT: It's the Claymore of Colossal Swords.

[Kriss Hietala]

Does the nerf in 1.12.3 affect only attacks against players or mobs too ?

[Dollmaker]

Originally posted by Kriss Hietala:

Does the nerf in 1.12.3 affect only attacks against players or mobs too ?

Only really players.

Mods dont really have the same rules when it comes to poise as us, for us its usually one hit and we can roll away, while most enemies can be hit indefinitely as long as we have stamina.