Hollowslayer Greatsword and Greatswords in general

[Kon-Vara]

So I wanna create myself a generic fighter character (quality build maybe) and am still undecided about the weapon.

Now I read that many people like the Hollowslayer Greatsword and I don't see how?

What's the appeal of Greatswords as opposed to an UGS?
In PvP: is it a viable option to learn the moveset with?
What LH would work best? I'm not strong with parries.

[psheue]

It´s really simple: In PvP, GS are pretty good and UGS are bad.

[Miromett]

Greatswords are faster than ugs but have less poise and damage in general. Ultra greatswords rely heavily on the first part of their generic stomp art heavily while Greatswords put emphasis on trading with their strong weapon art and guardbreaking with their second.

[plant]

Greatswords are usually faster get weaker than Ultra Greatswords. They are also lighter.

Ultra Greatswords are insanely powerful and have slow attacks. They also have poise, which allows you to take an attack but keep going through with yours.

Hollowslayer Greatsword has a unique moveset when twohanded as well as poise. It’s also great in PVE, where many enemies are hollows. The sword lives up to its name and does extra damage to hollows (doesn’t work against players).

You left hand should be whatever you want. I carry a medium shield usually, since they commonly offer 100% physical defense and are relatively light. On another build, I carried a Blessed Caestus for regen and faster attacks.

Alternatively, you can carry a light sword or dagger for fast attacks to deal with rolling. Curved Swords, Straight Swords, and Corvian Greatdaggers are good choices.

[Kain]

Hollow Slayer 2 handed hyper armor is great I can't count the times I have won fights trading with it.

And yea in pvp UGS most good players will dodge everything.

[Kon-Vara]

Thanks for all the answers.

Originally posted by Kain:

And yea in pvp UGS most good players will dodge everything.

Yea, I still gotta "git gud" and I get frequently outtraded.

Originally posted by James Gard:

The sword lives up to its name and does extra damage to hollows (doesn’t work against players).
[...]
I carry a medium shield usually, since they commonly offer 100% physical defense and are relatively light. On another build, I carried a Blessed Caestus for regen and faster attacks.

Alternatively, you can carry a light sword or dagger for fast attacks to deal with rolling. Curved Swords, Straight Swords, and Corvian Greatdaggers are good choices.

Bosses too?
[...]
Sword sounds good. I just saw a Midirkill w/o blocking/rolling etc. and now I'm trying to limit myself, which means sword. But what do you mean with faster attacks with the Blessed Caestus?

[Kon-Vara]

Originally posted by Zsynrael:

Thanks for all the answers.

Originally posted by Kain:

And yea in pvp UGS most good players will dodge everything.

Yea, I still gotta "git gud" and I get frequently outtraded.

Originally posted by James Gard:

The sword lives up to its name and does extra damage to hollows (doesn’t work against players).
[...]
I carry a medium shield usually, since they commonly offer 100% physical defense and are relatively light. On another build, I carried a Blessed Caestus for regen and faster attacks.

Alternatively, you can carry a light sword or dagger for fast attacks to deal with rolling. Curved Swords, Straight Swords, and Corvian Greatdaggers are good choices.

Bosses too?
[...]
Sword sounds good. I just saw a Midirkill w/o blocking/rolling etc. and so I unequipped my shield and try to find the blind spots in every attack (Gundyr Worked fine), which means sword. But what do you mean with faster attacks with the Blessed Caestus?

[Yal]

Hollowslayer is awesome in PvE no matter what you're fighting, that alone is reason enough to get it.

Caestus mainly are useful for faster parrying, and having them Blessed gives you HP regen even while you're twohanding the Hollowslayer.


If you wanna try a fun underused build, try dual-wielding dual weapons (e.g. Sellsword Twinblades + Onikiri & Ubadachi) - you can dual-stance either of the weapons at the press of a button, so this gives you access to 4 movesets at a moment's notice.

[cridus]

just use buffed caesti and punch things 'till they die while being un-staggerable.

[Laati]

Originally posted by psheue:

It´s really simple: In PvP, GS are pretty good and UGS are bad.

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