Is the dragonrider twinblade any good?

[THE ROWAN]

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[Dark-Master.Barbzilla]

Not particularly. I mean it is okay, but there are much better twinblades out there. I would aim for either Santiers (not technically a twinblade, but has the majority of the moveset, and has the halberd spin attacks to top that off) or Stone Twinblade / Curved Twinblade depending on if you are dex or strength if you want to have something that scales (I.E. you aren't going hybrid with Hex, Miracles, Sorcery, or Pyromancy, though they are still perfectly viable in those builds, the Santier's has no scaling so no need to worry about boosting your Str/Dex for the extra damage).

[THE ROWAN]

Originally posted by Dark-Master Barbzilla:

Not particularly. I mean it is okay, but there are much better twinblades out there. I would aim for either Santiers (not technically a twinblade, but has the majority of the moveset, and has the halberd spin attacks to top that off) or Stone Twinblade / Curved Twinblade depending on if you are dex or strength if you want to have something that scales (I.E. you aren't going hybrid with Hex, Miracles, Sorcery, or Pyromancy, though they are still perfectly viable in those builds, the Santier's has no scaling so no need to worry about boosting your Str/Dex for the extra damage).

wow. thanks for the in depth answer. Would the halberd be better, then, or is it garbage too?

[Dark-Master.Barbzilla]

Originally posted by Admiral Dingus:

Originally posted by Dark-Master Barbzilla:

Not particularly. I mean it is okay, but there are much better twinblades out there. I would aim for either Santiers (not technically a twinblade, but has the majority of the moveset, and has the halberd spin attacks to top that off) or Stone Twinblade / Curved Twinblade depending on if you are dex or strength if you want to have something that scales (I.E. you aren't going hybrid with Hex, Miracles, Sorcery, or Pyromancy, though they are still perfectly viable in those builds, the Santier's has no scaling so no need to worry about boosting your Str/Dex for the extra damage).

wow. thanks for the in depth answer. Would the halberd be better, then, or is it garbage too?

No worries, I just hate getting an answer to a question about weapons that say my choice isn't worthwhile without giving me an alternative to shoot for, and even more so when that alternative doesn't work for my build once I get it.

The haberd isn't garbage, but does have a major flaw. There is a limited zone where it does full damage (you need to hit the enemy with the head of the halberd). That said, it has a nice varied moveset, and deals a fair amount of damage (though i would use the roaring halberd if you are going with some kind of magic and the mastadon halberd otherwise (with the possible exception of the black knight halberd for a melee/pyromancer build).

Honestly if you like the Twinblades, just go ahead and up the regular twinblade to +10 and use it with the stone ring until you get the Santier Spear, Stone Twinblade, or Curved Twinblade (depending on preference and build), then go ahead and add poison or bleed to the +10 Twinblade to use as an alt weapon. There isn't anything wrong with the twinblades in general, it is just that the dragonrider's twinblade isn't especially good and needs petrified dragon bones to level up and they are particularly limited in a single run without burning aestics or doing obscene amounts of small white soap-stone co-ops.

[TrueArchery]

To be honest, the Curved Twinblade is worse than the Dragonrider one. Bad range because the short blades are even shorter thanks to the curved shape, bleed which builds up not bad, but isn't worth the damage difference to the Stone Twinblade.

I recommend the Stone Twinblade. It also upgrades with normal titanite. That's always a good thing. It looks better than the others, too, but that's just my opinion.

[Dark-Master.Barbzilla]

Originally posted by TrueArchery:

To be honest, the Curved Twinblade is worse than the Dragonrider one. Bad range because the short blades are even shorter thanks to the curved shape, bleed which builds up not bad, but isn't worth the damage difference to the Stone Twinblade.

I recommend the Stone Twinblade. It also upgrades with normal titanite. That's always a good thing. It looks better than the others, too, but that's just my opinion.

I agree with you there, with the one privision being; if you wanted to make a high dex build. The Stone Twinblades just are not top of the line as a dex user (though, one of the major issues with the game currently is the disparity between strength scaling and dex scaling, this is likely the reason behind the damage dropoff between the two twinblades). That said, I personally would recommend never going pure dex as your primary attribute. You either want to go quality or pick up an element to buff with.

[Remy The Nerd]

If you're rolling a INT build Magic Dragonrider TB is dope and if you pop magic weapon you become a Jedi

[TrueArchery]

When old threads get dug up on this particular forum there's always such a weird feeling of excitement whether I've posted in them or not.

[Fashionbeast]

Originally posted by TrueArchery:

When old threads get dug up on this particular forum there's always such a weird feeling of excitement whether I've posted in them or not.

Could be worse. You could have spouted bad opinions and advice in those old threads.

[TrueArchery]

Originally posted by Fashionbeast:

Originally posted by TrueArchery:

When old threads get dug up on this particular forum there's always such a weird feeling of excitement whether I've posted in them or not.

Could be worse. You could have spouted bad opinions and advice in those old threads.

Haha, tbh I don't even want to know how many of these ones (or the ones full of dumb arguments and insults) still float around because they definitely exist. I guess that's part of it ;)

[Miximillian]

Originally posted by The Pope:

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If you want something from Dragonrider buy his bow, it's one of the best

[ShiroiŌkami (白い狼)]

Originally posted by reza47.rfp:

Originally posted by The Pope:

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If you want something from Dragonrider buy his bow, it's one of the best

Sea Bow is better, Dragonrider bow is too stamina hungry.