Black Knight Greatsword Undroppable?

[Super Tuscan]

So, I've been "farming" the BKGS for about 4 hours now. I've created a total of 30+ characters, and the BK atop the watchtower right next to the Altar of Sunlight will NOT DROP HIS DAMN SWORD. Is this just a bug? Am I stupid for trying to think he would drop it? I figured it wouldn't be THAT rare of a drop. Is this something that was changed from the OG DS to the Remastered?

[John]

You are just unlucky.
Soft humanity (up to 10 or them) also brings up your item discovery so you might wanna pop few of those

[Super Tuscan]

I usually use the 4 humanities you get form the start to improve my drop % at least a little bit. I keep seeing people online say that it's a 1 in 3 drop, so I was confused why it wouldn't drop at all...

[John]

Originally posted by SuperTuscan:

I usually use the 4 humanities you get form the start to improve my drop % at least a little bit. I keep seeing people online say that it's a 1 in 3 drop, so I was confused why it wouldn't drop at all...

https://darksouls.wiki.fextralife.com/Black+Knight+Greatsword
This site says it's 1 in 5 but I don't know where they get their data.
Still with 4 humanities you should get one every few tries.
I can drop you one if needed

[Super Tuscan]

Yeah i've read other places that it's roughly a 20% chance or something. I tried an extra 5 times today and still no luck. However I've gotten the BKH drop almost every time so idk, maybe the game's just messing with me.

[lancealot59]

I'd ask, why do you even want the BKGS? It's inferior to a Zweihander in basically every way. Not that that means you shouldn't use the BKGS. But no use worrying about farming it when the Zwei is 30 seconds away from firelink. Make it a +5 then fire zwei if staying at base stats/level, or up it to +15/lighting/chaos if you want a true god tier ultra greatsword. Pretty sure the BKGS can't even stunlock with its R1s like the zwei can...I will say the 2HR2 on the BKGS is fun to land on enemies (launch them up), but the zwei pancakes are fun too

[Super Tuscan]

I've had a few ZH builds, but I just wanted more damage output from a greatsword class weapon. Having a higher base dmg plus a B scaling in strength I figured would be worth a try for another tank build. Plus, I usually have the hardest time with PVP against players using this weapon due to the timing of the attacks.

[lancealot59]

That makes sense. But in that case, you can just pick it up in the Kiln, right? I assume that character will be going to NG+? I dunno, feel free to ignore me.

[Super Tuscan]

Yeah, I just didn't want to use my "plan B" weapon all throughout the first playthrough until the Kiln. I've had the weapon drop numerous times on PTDE, but for some reason Remastered didn't feel like giving it to me this time

[Fox]

Dont listen to that Gank, Black knight weapons are VERY useful in early game providing you level the STR and DEX, (The Halbred is the best in my opinion) It's a 20% chance drop in the Basin from the knight. What i would do, Is start a new game with the master key and keep running it from the firelink through the drake's to the basin. Then you keep killing him with backstab's whatever. Then repeat if it doesn't drop. Liquid humanity helps a little. I believe you only need 22 STR and 18 Dex to to hand it. And if you combine it with RTR it can kill bosses like quelaag in 5-6 hit's

[Super Tuscan]

Originally posted by Wolf King:

Dont listen to that Gank, Black knight weapons are VERY useful in early game providing you level the STR and DEX, (The Halbred is the best in my opinion) It's a 20% chance drop in the Basin from the knight. What i would do, Is start a new game with the master key and keep running it from the firelink through the drake's to the basin. Then you keep killing him with backstab's whatever. Then repeat if it doesn't drop. Liquid humanity helps a little. I believe you only need 22 STR and 18 Dex to to hand it. And if you combine it with RTR it can kill bosses like quelaag in 5-6 hit's

I actually did this every single run I did. The BKH would drop almost all the time but the BKGS would never, lol. I've done a BKH build before, but it was so OP that it made the run through kinda boring, based on how easy it was.

[Super Tuscan]

UPDATE: Finally dropped!!!! Took 47 character tries to get him to drop it, but he FINALLY did.....hopefully the weapon actually pays off