Sword of night and flame

[Rotunderance Prime]

I was today years old when I found out how many people still think this weapon is better than Rellanas twin swords....

I mean it was okay before the nerf, but uh really outclassed by like everything else in a short period...how can there be so many people thinking that 2x sword of night and flame is better than the twin swords? o.O

[Fenix]

Who thinks this? Renella's swords AoW are almost instantly Cast, where the other takes time...
SoNaF AoW might be better in some cases...
Now Moveset is just preference.

[Rotunderance Prime]

Originally posted by Fenix:

Who thinks this? Renella's swords AoW are almost instantly Cast, where the other takes time...
SoNaF AoW might be better in some cases...
Now Moveset is just preference.

its all over reddit and the elden wikis. Its nuts

[DarkFenix]

Rellana's Twin Blades just aren't very good. For starters its attack power is lower than you'd think, because the right hand sword is magic only, the left is fire only, you're not getting all of your listed damage on each hit. The four-way scaling split is also a lot harsher on it, the normal attacks' scaling is biased heavily in favour of strength and dex, while the two weapon arts are based entirely on int and faith respectively. This is not a weapon that brings out its potential unless you have high stats in all four, and even then it has the glaring weaknesses inherent to light greatswords - almost no poise damage and no real jump attack.

The SoNaF on the other hand, has scaling weighted more heavily towards int and faith, plus being a single weapon every attack gets all of its listed damage (which is actually higher than Rellana's Twin Blades, taking into account the missing magic or fire damage on each strike). It's a lot more viable to use at a far more modest level.

I can't say I'm a huge fan of either weapon frankly, but Rellana's Twin Blades aren't in a position where it can be easily claimed they outclass the SoNaF, except in fashion of course.