Melee weapon for sorcerers?

[Agent Orange]

I'm going pure sorcerer, and I'm wondering what a good melee weapon would be to pair with and invest into.

[ImHelping]

While it's not so great for stabbing people with it, the Scholar's Candlestick is a dagger "weapon" that can cast sorceries damage by a large 25%, even if you are just holding it while casting with a staff. So keep an eye out for it.

[Kabraliah]

I would go with longsword, rapier, or broadsword.

[Broso]

Crystal infused Dark Sword.

Moonlight Greatsword.

[MMB]

Moonlight greatsword.Boss soul of Oceiros, the Consumed King later in the game.

[Shicki]

crystal rapier/moonlight greatsword. crystal rapier being teh boss weapon from crystal sage

[Relevant Combiner]

Mandmaidens dagger gains fp per hit with it. I believe the wiki said using it on offhand gains 4 per while also having a unique moveset. (The same as the mobs who drop it, i believe) Might be a decent thing to carry offhand next to the xandlestick.

[Levethix]

Lothric knight sword. S rank scaling at +10 with a crystal infusion. It takes about 18 dex though to use.

[Hobo Misanthropus]

Escrito originalmente por picco:

Moonlight greatsword.Boss soul of Oceiros, the Consumed King later in the game.

Or very early in the game, potentially as early as the third Boss. If you kill Iudex Gundry (1st boss) then kill Emma in High Wall, triggering the Dancer fight (Second boss) you can then head into Lothric Castle and the Garden of the Consumed King, and fight Oceiros. Thankfully, Oceiros is (In my opinion) one of the easiest bosses for any patient Shield user.

Of course, you will still need to kill the Curse-Rotted Greatwood for the Transposing kiln.

[Agent Orange]

Escrito originalmente por Levethix:

Lothric knight sword. S rank scaling at +10 with a crystal infusion. It takes about 18 dex though to use.

According to my calculator, it ends up doing around 466 damage (phys and mag together) with minimum requirements and 50 intellect.
Seems like that might be worth using, especially with all of its thrusting attacks.

[ImHelping]

I uh, I don't think "Kill the dancer early" is really in the cards for someone who wants help picking out a weapon in the first place for a primarily sorcery build.

Lothric Knight Sword is also one of the most classy swords, along with having good scaling for Magical and Faith related infusions.

It's that 11 STR / 18 DEX requirement that keeps some of the full bore "efficient min/maxed" build people away from it when not planning on grabbing the MLGQ anyways.

Somewhat ironically when they turn around and suggest the Darksword anyways, which needs 16/15 STR/DEX, a larger investment for a sorcerer. But all they hear is "Darksword is great at spamming R1!" and their brains kind of shut off.

[Jwapican]

Best early game weapon for sorcerer is Uchigatana

[Agent Orange]

Escrito originalmente por I'm Helping!:

I uh, I don't think "Kill the dancer early" is really in the cards for someone who wants help picking out a weapon in the first place for a primarily sorcery build.

Use swordsman ect ect.

[eddyak, Lord of Scrubs]

Escrito originalmente por I'm Helping!:

I uh, I don't think "Kill the dancer early" is really in the cards for someone who wants help picking out a weapon in the first place for a primarily sorcery build.

There's a glitch using the Sword Master summon outside Vordt's boss room to beat the Dancer early on. I tried it myself, it basically gets you to Oceiros's boss room, so your early game sorcerer is actually viable rather than completely useless till Int level 50.

[Agent Orange]

Escrito originalmente por eddyak, Lord of Scrubs:

Escrito originalmente por I'm Helping!:

I uh, I don't think "Kill the dancer early" is really in the cards for someone who wants help picking out a weapon in the first place for a primarily sorcery build.

There's a glitch using the Sword Master summon outside Vordt's boss room to beat the Dancer early on. I tried it myself, it basically gets you to Oceiros's boss room, so your early game sorcerer is actually viable rather than completely useless till Int level 50.

I don't think I can kill oceiros on my own tbh.

[Epithet Lost]

infusing anything with crystal gem makes it a good sorcerer weapon. Its INT scaling is surprisingly good in this game (I can get a crystal thrall axe+8 to 400 dmg with only 45Int)