Flexile Sentry Arced Sword

[yds]

Used ascetic to farm Sentry Souls and made all 3 weapons. So far Arced Sword seems to be the best. It has very fast swings, especially one-handed, staggers human enemies easily (especially effective against NPC invaders, I basically stun-lock them to death), has high damage when upgraded to +5 and very good durability.

In fact, I killed Sinh the slumbering dragon (who apparently breaks weapons) with Arced Sword without using repair powder even once and without the bracing knuckle ring. Very efficient.

(Btw, I think Sinh is a pretty cool boss. He's difficult but very fun to fight. Even with weapon breaking, since I can always equip a spare or some repair powder anyway).

[JellyPuff]

Originally posted by yds:

So far Arced Sword seems to be the best.

Warped Sword is easely one of the best weapons in the entire game, PvP especially. 130 counter, high base AR, decent scaling, unusual high poise damage for a lighter weapon (2H should stagger any NPC and even stunlock Ice Stallions at Frigid Outskirts with Stone Ring) and a good, fast moveset.
It even has something for gimmick-lovers, who like form over function with it's unique powerstance moveset.

If you want a cool curved greatsword that hits like a truck and a half, especially at high SL with both DEX and STR softcapped, try the Curved Dragon GS. Go to Freja's boss room and interact with the glowy thing in the back of the boss arena. It's a memory with the Ancient Dragon Soul inside.

[yds]

Originally posted by JellyPuff:

Originally posted by yds:

So far Arced Sword seems to be the best.

Warped Sword is easely one of the best weapons in the entire game, PvP especially. 130 counter, high base AR, decent scaling, unusual high poise damage for a lighter weapon (2H should stagger any NPC and even stunlock Ice Stallions at Frigid Outskirts with Stone Ring) and a good, fast moveset.
It even has something for gimmick-lovers, who like form over function with it's unique powerstance moveset.

If you want a cool curved greatsword that hits like a truck and a half, especially at high SL with both DEX and STR softcapped, try the Curved Dragon GS. Go to Freja's boss room and interact with the glowy thing in the back of the boss arena. It's a memory with the Ancient Dragon Soul inside.

Oh cool, I'll do that. I like Warped Sword as well, but against bosses it's not as good as Arced one. Against NPC, not sure, I didn't notice that much stagger, but then again, I mostly use R1 with light weapons.

[Chinese Blin]

Personally i would stay with the arced sword just because there is a single glitch that for some reason was never patched, if you angle yourself just a little before doing a ripost after a parry, the arced sword will do a couple extra ticks of damage, giving it the potential to oneshot any player that isn't too over leveled, about up to 2700 damage if you angle it perfectly, 2400 ish if your angle is a little off.

[Squirel_squire]

Originally posted by JellyPuff:

Originally posted by yds:

So far Arced Sword seems to be the best.

Warped Sword is easely one of the best weapons in the entire game, PvP especially. 130 counter, high base AR, decent scaling, unusual high poise damage for a lighter weapon (2H should stagger any NPC and even stunlock Ice Stallions at Frigid Outskirts with Stone Ring) and a good, fast moveset.
It even has something for gimmick-lovers, who like form over function with it's unique powerstance moveset.

If you want a cool curved greatsword that hits like a truck and a half, especially at high SL with both DEX and STR softcapped, try the Curved Dragon GS. Go to Freja's boss room and interact with the glowy thing in the back of the boss arena. It's a memory with the Ancient Dragon Soul inside.

This... so much this!

[yds]

Originally posted by JellyPuff:

Originally posted by yds:

So far Arced Sword seems to be the best.

Warped Sword is easely one of the best weapons in the entire game, PvP especially. 130 counter, high base AR, decent scaling, unusual high poise damage for a lighter weapon (2H should stagger any NPC and even stunlock Ice Stallions at Frigid Outskirts with Stone Ring) and a good, fast moveset.
It even has something for gimmick-lovers, who like form over function with it's unique powerstance moveset.

If you want a cool curved greatsword that hits like a truck and a half, especially at high SL with both DEX and STR softcapped, try the Curved Dragon GS. Go to Freja's boss room and interact with the glowy thing in the back of the boss arena. It's a memory with the Ancient Dragon Soul inside.

Turns out you were right about Warped Sword poise damage, I tried two-handing it and almost every R1 strike breaks poise of NPC invaders. Since I started NG+, I mostly switch between Warped Sword and Rickard's Rapier. Very nice combo.

[WickedRequiem]

The arced sword probably would be better received if it wasn't for murakumo.
The only advantage it offers over murakumo is the lower stats requirement if you two hand the weapon.