Good One Hand Weapons?

[Last Jackdaw]

Doing a new playthrough.
Any suggestons of something I can pair with a medium or small shield, that has a fun moveset?

[Ironwu]

Curved Swords (Katana) are really nice. Work well with shield, and you can stow the shield and use Unsheathe for great damage (assuming you got one of the Swords with the skill). The Samurai kit starts with it, so is very good out of the gate and you can get Moonveil pretty early into the game. Both are great weapons and work with or without shields. :)

[ZTL-Altima]

Go classical Straight Sword or Katana with pocket dagger.

[Key]

Too vague to give an actual thought-out answer, depends on the rest of your build, you can one hand pretty much anything

[[LZ]Icy]

Frozen needle , its a poke sword , its heavy attack sends a free magic projectile (0 mana cost)

[Last Jackdaw]

Originally posted by Key:

Too vague to give an actual thought-out answer, depends on the rest of your build, you can one hand pretty much anything

Just looking for things that are good one-handed with kewl movesets (rather than 2H or Power).

Like Backhand blade: Is it worth using it 1H? or is the damage gimped?

[Gym_Leader_Myth]

If you want something stupid fun and easy to farm: Pickaxe. Not War Pick, which is a tiny stubby nothing, but a proper Pickaxe from the miners in nearly any smithing stone tunnel.
it's a great hammer you do need 2 of them to power stance because it does not power stance with any other great hammer (but the miners have a decent drop rate), it eats poise, and it does Pierce damage, which is great against medium and heavy armored enemies.
Since it's a standard weapon, and not a somber one, you can apply different ashes (wild strikes is fun) and use weapon greases for various effects.

I've been using one for a good chunk of the DLC. Good fun.

[JellyPuff]

There aren't really many weapons with unique 1H movesets in this game sadly.

Bastard's Stars might look cool. Ringed Finger is also fun and if you use the "No Skill" AoW on shields, you can use it's unique flick move 1-handed.

Executioner's Greataxe can also be fun, if you go for crits with your shield (parry or guard counter stance breaks).

[Last Jackdaw]

Pickaxe i would never even have considered. Will give it a shot.

[Key]

Originally posted by Last Jackdaw:

Originally posted by Key:

Too vague to give an actual thought-out answer, depends on the rest of your build, you can one hand pretty much anything

Just looking for things that are good one-handed with kewl movesets (rather than 2H or Power).

If you're looking for something with cool unique movesets there's Urumi, Nox Hammer Zamor Curved Sword and Flowing Curved Sword

[EF_Neo1st]

Originally posted by Last Jackdaw:

Doing a new playthrough.
Any suggestons of something I can pair with a medium or small shield, that has a fun moveset?

Any incantation "weapon" you can equip.
You can not have more movesets than that (tho mastering is sort of a problem, I started literally yesterday to play with only incantations).