Best weapons for PVE

[Sabi The Worst Player Ever]

I want to kindly ask about best weapons for PVE.

Reason is that while Im in the middle of Grand Archives now, I had serious problems with Castle and its knights and simply swinging my LKS with lighting infusion isnt very effective. SL is 80, with stats of 27 Vig, 18 Att, 20 End and Vit, 20 Str and 18 Dex, 9 Int, 30 Faith and 7 Luck, so far running around with +4 BKS and +8 Lighting LKS . While I COULD go +10, it would cut me from cooping. Same reason why I wont increase SL further - cooping is my favorite activity and losing it is big no no.

Just to be clear - Im not interested in PVP. At all. More than that, I hate it. Whenever somebody invade me, I simply kill my character or let them kill me without fight (which sometimes is extremely annoying when invader start to throw dung pies, switch to bare fists or in general only prolog the invasion for no reason), plus often kill my character to remove ember status after helping somebody with boss. So I absolutely dont care about PVP aspects of weapons and related stuff. When cooping and host get invaded, its 2v1 or more anyway so "meta" aspects hardly matters unless invader is one of those experts that take 3v1 with breeze, then my you-know-what is grass anyway.

All weapon discussions I run at are about PVP and SL120 which rarely applies to PVE. For example, PVP matches have no problems with 45-60s long buffs and resins so sharp/heavy/raw weapons are more interesting. In PVE, nobody keep reapplying resin while going on the level and will be out of FP for casting buffs pretty quickly. Thats why I ask.

And no, its not like "every weapon works in pve". Would simple dagger carry you on whole game? Spear or pike?

Thanks for replies, like always.

[Lothric NASA Space Program]

>27 VIG
Ew.
Since you've got 30 faith, you might want to try the Saint's Bident if you like spears, a lightning or lightning-buffed raw longsword/lothric sword if you like straight swords, or a lightning/blessed Lothric Greatsword if you like big weapons.

There is no true "best", though. Some weapons will be better in certain circumstances

EDIT: Also, there's places you can co-op at SL 90-120 with +10, just FYI

[Cyalide]

A black Knight Sword or because the Ashen one is samll Black Knight Greatsword it requires 20 str and 18 dex so perfect XD its weapon art is very fast allowing you to gain high dmg reduction and poise for a small time and its the perfect GS with good range dmg and speed

[Sabi The Worst Player Ever]

SL90-120? Maybe at the end of Ringed City, which I dont have.

And I seriously dont understand the dislike for 27 Vig. Solid 1000 HP without multipliers, after that another points wont add as much.

[40+13x-3=17x-363]

Sellsword twinblades, lothric knight greatsword for dex.

Yhorm's machete, great club, ledo and millwood axe for str, add a simple caestus and you can maintain their WA forever.

Or an executioner greatsword+lingering dragoncrest ring, buff it, and then see your fp replenish every time you kill an enemy to later buff again. Or just leave it on your back and use any other weapon.

[Singrave]

DEX weaps are pointless

[Sabi The Worst Player Ever]

What makes Sellsword better than Gotthard, actually?

[Singrave]

Originally posted by Sabi The Worst Player Ever:

What makes Sellsword better than Gotthard, actually?

nothing
cuz either are worse than any str weap

[40+13x-3=17x-363]

Originally posted by lameover:

Originally posted by Sabi The Worst Player Ever:

What makes Sellsword better than Gotthard, actually?

nothing
cuz either are worse than any str weap

Except they are the best weapon for PVE, be it buffed or not with just a dex build.

[Singrave]

Originally posted by Lolimancer:

Originally posted by lameover:

nothing
cuz either are worse than any str weap

Except they are the best weapon for PVE, be it buffed or not with just a dex build.

nope
they are not the best for PVE
just look at weap stats

[Kris]

Originally posted by Sabi The Worst Player Ever:

What makes Sellsword better than Gotthard, actually?

Faster combos on twinblades, better reach on gotthards + I think gothards does a bit more damage.

[JaKeD]

Zweihander and Black knight glaive are personal favorites of mine

[Doctor Teo]

Honestly? Best overall weapon might be something in the standard Straight Sword category. I did my first playthrough almost entirely on the standard Long Sword (I didn't know about any of the others).

Long swords have quick attacks with minimal recovery time, low stamina useage, most have a good sweep to them for unlocked fighting or defending while surrounded, and some have a piercing strong attack with a little extra reach. Their only real weakness is a tendency to cause little poise damage (so no staggering), and for their attacks to bounce off of shields -- beyond that, they are weak to virtually nothing.

Now, granted, they aren't the best everywhere. When I was doing the Ashes of Ariendel DLC, I found myself annoyed by the Millwood Warriors -- not only did they do a lot of damage, but they actually defended themselves with shields, and I saw a marked improvement switching to a 2h strength weapon that could actually break their guards and/or stagger them. For everything else though, it's hard to go wrong with a Straight Sword.

[Tao314zdin]

if you do not care for PVP this build would do you much better:

vig 22
att 10
end 13
vit 15
str 13
dex 35
int 9
fth 45
lck 7

rings: lightning clutch + chain + RoF+3 + life+3 (if you can trade or just go to ng++ since you are all about PVE)

Lightning LKS+8 will have close to 500 AR which is not bad + you will have close to 1200 unembered health and around 120 stamina points.

The weak side is low attunament and only 1 spell slot. You can place there something like a med-heal and use simple-infused parry tool to regen fp.

LKS is top tier weapon in both PVP and PVE, you just need to build right for what you want to do.

PS.
Clutch is a handicap in PVP as it is nerfed there, but since you do not care you will be fine.

[40+13x-3=17x-363]

Originally posted by lameover:

Originally posted by Lolimancer:

Except they are the best weapon for PVE, be it buffed or not with just a dex build.

nope
they are not the best for PVE
just look at weap stats

First learn how the game works and then try again.

Originally posted by Heilig:

Originally posted by Sabi The Worst Player Ever:

What makes Sellsword better than Gotthard, actually?

Faster combos on twinblades, better reach on gotthards + I think gothards does a bit more damage.

Sellsword speed makes them have more DPS, even if gotthard have higher AR.

If you don't want to use buffs use this https://mugenmonkey.com/darksouls3/289337 You still can use resins and bundles to buff tho. And replace the untrue dark ring with lloyd's sword ring, pontiff's right eye, or anything else if you don't care about fashion.

[Sabi The Worst Player Ever]

just go to ng++ since you are all about PVE

Makes me wonder what would be the point to continue playing. I mean, its like climbing without aid to the top of the mountain to get top quality climbing gear left on the top - useless now since you already reached the top.

Sellsword speed makes them have more DPS, even if gotthard have higher AR.

What about the reach? I tried using sellsword but had hard time due to how I had to basically hug enemies due to LB low range.