Morning Star Rocks (or Favorite Underrated Weapons Here!)

[elaxter]

Title says all +10 morning star scales A off strength. Double B if enchanted with fire, lightning or magic. Plus bleed. I do 500+ damage when I use R2.

What is your favorite underrated weapon?

[Cake for Mumm-Ra]

Originally posted by =AxA= Valkrex:

Dual bleed falchions are actually a lot of fun. Throw a stone ring and blood crest with them, and hammer away at people and wait for the *thump-thump* of bleed damage. Then laugh as they try to do anything with their stamina cut down.

Even if you can't get the bleed to trigger, you can still get a LOT of hits in and deal some decent damage.

I'm probably the only person who still tries bleed lol, but its fun. Need to find some other good bleed weapons and try some stuff out. SCIENCE!

It may be a bit slow, but Flamberge now has S scaling in DEX (A when infused with bleed) and its one of the highest bleed damage weapons. Its strength requirement is low enough that you could 1h this sword - 2 handing it is much slower.

[Brother Nyarlathotep]

I like my falchion/rapier power stance combo. gives me curved sword moveset when attacking with both weapons and every function that the rapier has, including parrying.

[Gadwin]

On my knight build, the battle axe and mace are really nice. I mostly use them for their godly r2s.

[AlchemistMayCry]

While I'd never use them in PVP due to their movesets, the Heide Knight Greatlance and the Grand Lance are surprisingly good for PVE. Decent range, good for poking, powerful with backstabs (no idea on ripostes), but also indispensable for knocking enemies into bottomless pits or lava. Their only failing is their overly linear attacks, but when most of the enemies in the game will attack you head on, this isn't much of a problem.

I'm also a fan of three straight swords: the Heide Knight Sword, Sun Sword, and Drakekeeper's Sword. Of the three I think the Sun Sword has the most versatility due to it's moveset and low stamina cost, not to mention excellent excellent scaling, but considering it requires leveling up in the Sunbros, can take a while to acquire, when the Heide Knight Sword can be acquired rather quickly and can provide some serious damage very early on. I think their only failings is that to get the most you gotta buff em, and don't cause a lot of poise damage against some of the poise-heavy enemies in the DLCs.

[Rocket Witch]

Oh, I gotta try the Morningstar sometime then. Never liked how it looks, but a BB scaling strike-based weapon seems appealing for a non-physical build.
Well, here's my list:

Hand Axe. No infusions, just cleaving into fools who don't even know its moveset because no one ever uses axes. It's super lightweight and surprisingly effective for a basic 'starter weapon' type of thing (just like in DS1, actually). And I love how it just looks like a regular tool; I never was a fan of these broad-headed axes often depicted in fantasy media. Real battle axes actually have narrow heads for punching through armour.

Royal Greatsword. The Flamberge is better since it was buffed, but before then the RGS was capable of far more damage with the same status effect and moveset, the only real problem with it being its short reach. It could still be handy for a strength build after the dex-based greatsword moveset.

Great Scythe/Scythe of Nahr Alma. Everyone I've ever seen say anything about reapers complains about the sweetspot mechanic and laments over how much better the Great Sxythe was in DS1, but I find it rewarding to use a 'hard-mode' weapon like this. Once you get used to it, landing direct hits with the blade becomes fairly easy, at least in PVE, and the damage thus dealt seems to be higher than the weapon's AR would suggest.

[Valkrex]

Originally posted by Mandroid:

Originally posted by =AxA= Valkrex:

Dual bleed falchions are actually a lot of fun. Throw a stone ring and blood crest with them, and hammer away at people and wait for the *thump-thump* of bleed damage. Then laugh as they try to do anything with their stamina cut down.

Even if you can't get the bleed to trigger, you can still get a LOT of hits in and deal some decent damage.

I'm probably the only person who still tries bleed lol, but its fun. Need to find some other good bleed weapons and try some stuff out. SCIENCE!

It may be a bit slow, but Flamberge now has S scaling in DEX (A when infused with bleed) and its one of the highest bleed damage weapons. Its strength requirement is low enough that you could 1h this sword - 2 handing it is much slower.

Hmmmm. I may have to give this a try. THANK YOU VERY MUCH MY GOOD FELLOW!

[Aigle1705]

the humunculus mace is pretty awesome, esspecaly iif you have the preorder version, since you start with that thing. it deals ~400 dmg even if your low in dex n str. imho best alternate dmg weapon a mage can get.

[IkkouSoryu]

Craftsman's hammer. Easily overlooked, but this thing is a beast.
- you can 2-hand it with mere 10/10 str/dex
- it has 166 AR out of the box, 130 counterdmg, B-scales in str (A with slight upgrade) while weighing less than most straight swords
- one-handed it has wide sweeping club moveset
And the kicker:
- you can get it after only beating Last Giant and Pursuer. Then go and absolutely destroy anything in Heide and kick ass for pretty much the rest of the game. Then go on NG+ and powerstance a pair of these monsters. Good Lord.

[Stir Fry]

Black Dragon Greataxe. Max upgrade, Raw infusion, RoB+2. Dual wield with Black Dragon Greatsword for maximum bragging rights.

[Chewy102]

Originally posted by IkkouSoryu:

Craftsman's hammer. Easily overlooked, but this thing is a beast.
- you can 2-hand it with mere 10/10 str/dex
- it has 166 AR out of the box, 130 counterdmg, B-scales in str (A with slight upgrade) while weighing less than most straight swords
- one-handed it has wide sweeping club moveset
And the kicker:
- you can get it after only beating Last Giant and Pursuer. Then go and absolutely destroy anything in Heide and kick ass for pretty much the rest of the game. Then go on NG+ and powerstance a pair of these monsters. Good Lord.

Might be wrong, but you might be able to get 2 of those in just NG. One out of the chest Mc-Duff is sitting on and the other from Mc-Duff after spending a fair number of souls at his shop along with a slab.

And I agree. Both of the hammers you get from the smiths are great. In PvE. In PvP (note this was before the balance changes) I found them to be very weak with no good combos. But since I quit playing DkS2 online (got sick of hackers) I don't know how they fair now.

[76561198152155352]

You must be pretty good if you are hitting people with that moveset.

The moveset of the mace for PvP is horrible.

[Jill]

Originally posted by Javert:

You must be pretty good if you are hitting people with that moveset.

The moveset of the mace for PvP is horrible.

setting up hits using a bow to lure people into a roll is a good strategy for getting powerful hits, not to mention the fact that it's not a commonly seen moveset unless you've watched Peeve use it in one of his builds

[Rubberband Riick]

deffenitly chaos blade, no one uses that thing

[Jill]

Originally posted by Ulux:

deffenitly chaos blade, no one uses that thing

yukaslegion2 uses it, and I expect a lot of his followers/subscribers would use it as well

[Anebriate]

Originally posted by Ulux:

deffenitly chaos blade, no one uses that thing

No way, I like the resonant weapon dark infused dark chaos dark blade of dark. Nobody uses THAT one.