Hardest weapons to farm

[hatk4sh]

I've been thinking, 20+ hours farming weapons is a lot but the harder they are to farm the less worth they have so I've made a list of the rarest drops, I would like if anyone add weapons to the list but for me it is:
1. Ghost Blade
2. Oolacile Catalyst
3. Great Club
4. Pickaxe
5. Balder Side Sword
What you think about this list? I hope the first 3 anyone agreed because it took the most time of my farming days.

[King Robert Baratheon]

None of those enemies are particularly difficult if you know what equipment to use when you come across them. Ghost ladies in New Londo Ruins? Cheese them with magic or arrows. Oolacile Sorcerers? A high stability shield with high magic resist (crest shield for people with low strength, havel's or artorias's shields for people with high strength) and bash/slash them with your weapon. The big boys in Blighttown for the Great Club? Tank their attacks with a good shield and then circle backstab or just parry them. I thought the great club was loot in Blighttown though (maybe that's the large club). Pickaxe? I forgot who drops that. Balder Side Sword? Aggro them one at a time and parry them. If they get stuck in that parry stance too long just walk away to make them chase you or kick their shield away (make sure you don't accidentally attack because you will get parried and take a lot of damage).

That being said I think the hardest to farm is the Channeler's Trident. You have to deal with most of the crystal hollows before the Channeler to kill him and even then it's such a rare drop. Sometimes you get lucky but most of the time you won't. Also if one of crystal hollows is buffed by the channeler they can do a LOT of damage. The archers do even more damage then the pure melee hollows. If you are in NG+ or beyond and a buffed crystal hollow hits you there's no surviving that. You are definitely getting oneshot.

[NerdDownTheStreet]

Originally posted by hatk4sh:

I've been thinking, 20+ hours farming weapons is a lot but the harder they are to farm the less worth they have so I've made a list of the rarest drops, I would like if anyone add weapons to the list but for me it is:
1. Ghost Blade
2. Oolacile Catalyst
3. Great Club
4. Pickaxe
5. Balder Side Sword
What you think about this list? I hope the first 3 anyone agreed because it took the most time of my farming days.

no 1 is silver night sword because i farmed over 50+hours with high item discorvery and i got nothing just a bunch of shields

[Singrave]

pickaxe i've found only once.
BSS not so difficult to farm, 5-50 runs only :)
others doesn't worth to farm, imo.
great club you found in Blightown on a corpse.

[juicy]

You want to know the hardest thing to farm?

-Dragon torso stone for early game pvp

[Ant Ra]

As is tried to get the balder sword i farmed hours and hours. All what i could get was a heap of helmets, leggins and shards. It was one session. Next day i tried the same and got no sword but a heap of helmets and shards.

Since then i make one run, clear the balder knights, relog and with the next run i get a new drop "set". After a while i got the sword and the shield as well and lots of it. Guess that is no coincidence and i guess thats for all rare items..

Oh, humantity was 10 btw.

Edit: the Trident i got with str builds but never with int. Method?

[Sati44]

From the wiki:

Ghost Blade 1% Chance
Oolacile Catalyst 0.5% Chance
Large Club (not Great Club, GC is on the ground in Blight) 2% Chance
Pickaxe 5% Chance
Balder Side Sword 1% Chance

Pray to RNGgesus I mean RNGwyn

[juicy]

Titanite catch pole > every other item in the game


Good luck getting that ♥♥♥♥.

[King Robert Baratheon]

Originally posted by Jooce:

Titanite catch pole > every other item in the game


Good luck getting that ♥♥♥♥.

I actually have always had good luck with that weapon dropping. During many playthrough's it's dropped from the Titanite Demon near Andre. I think i've only used it for a build once though and I didn't keep it very long. It's kind of ugly imo and even though I like some halberds I never liked using the Titanite Catchpole.

[Singrave]

i've got titanite catch pole and can drop it for you :)

[Taco Cat]

why no mention of the channeler's trident?

[Str41k3r]

okay then:
i'll give you the ghost blade, because there are actually 2 of em, but the rest is just nonsense.
the oolacile catalyst can be bought, the greatclub is actually a weapon laying arround in the swamp of blighttown, the pickaxe is dropped by vamos (and it apparently gets dropped by the ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ with the rocks infromt of queelags cave in the swamp) and last but not least, the balder swag sword is just dropped by 2 balder knights, because only 3 wield the weapon, the others all have rapiers.

Here i have a new list for you:
1.(Jagged) Ghost Blade
2.The Trident (the droprate is abysmal)
3.Painting Guardian Sword (these ♥♥♥♥♥♥♥ just keep dropping these dumb throwing knives)
4.The Titanite Catch-pole (yeah have fun farming that Strong one on the bridge)
5.Not sure what fits in here, bc many rate weapons can be bought, so i guess the man-serpent-GS or something like that

[Sati44]

The drop rate for the Trident is 1% same as other weapons we mentioned in thes thread. You are beeing to dramatic.

[hatk4sh]

Alright, I've seen many people trying to dismiss my list but I'm using the farming kit (symbol of avarice, 10 humanity+human form, gold ring and 1 hit kill weapon or pyro).
I think that the hardest is the ghost blade not only for its drop rate but the path to reach the ghost lady, the curse and there are only 2 in new londo (that means that there are 2 in the whole game).
The last weapon I've farmed is the oolacile catalyst and I found that the last bonfire before manus is the optimal but I don't have the str to wield the artorias' shield and the symbol of avarice (is pretty heavy itself tho) and the witches drop mostly green titanite, about the trident is another hard weapon but i found that the dukes archives' bonfire is pretty close to 2 channelers and wasn't that hard to get like the ghost blade, the painting guardian and titanite pole are easier but far from the bonfires and, finally the answer has the guy that wanted the dragon torso, 44 hours of gameplay and not upgrading any dragon weapon and I don't have the 30 scales...hardest so far and he/she gave me that idea xd

[hatk4sh]

Originally posted by Sati44:

From the wiki:

Ghost Blade 1% Chance
Oolacile Catalyst 0.5% Chance
Large Club (not Great Club, GC is on the ground in Blight) 2% Chance
Pickaxe 5% Chance
Balder Side Sword 1% Chance

Pray to RNGgesus I mean RNGwyn:praisesun:

Yeah, it was large club sorry

[hatk4sh]

Originally posted by Paladin Leeroy:

None of those enemies are particularly difficult if you know what equipment to use when you come across them. Ghost ladies in New Londo Ruins? Cheese them with magic or arrows. Oolacile Sorcerers? A high stability shield with high magic resist (crest shield for people with low strength, havel's or artorias's shields for people with high strength) and bash/slash them with your weapon. The big boys in Blighttown for the Great Club? Tank their attacks with a good shield and then circle backstab or just parry them. I thought the great club was loot in Blighttown though (maybe that's the large club). Pickaxe? I forgot who drops that. Balder Side Sword? Aggro them one at a time and parry them. If they get stuck in that parry stance too long just walk away to make them chase you or kick their shield away (make sure you don't accidentally attack because you will get parried and take a lot of damage).

That being said I think the hardest to farm is the Channeler's Trident. You have to deal with most of the crystal hollows before the Channeler to kill him and even then it's such a rare drop. Sometimes you get lucky but most of the time you won't. Also if one of crystal hollows is buffed by the channeler they can do a LOT of damage. The archers do even more damage then the pure melee hollows. If you are in NG+ or beyond and a buffed crystal hollow hits you there's no surviving that. You are definitely getting oneshot.

I've got videos of me farming that, I cutted the most of the farming but you can see that I'm trying to increase the drop rate without getting weapons faster, it's annoying to spend like 3 days playing like 3 hours to get the ghost blade and didn't find any, but if every item on the list isn't difficult what is difficult for you? Something like the cathedral of the deep crossbow in dark souls 3?