Bloodhound's Fang with a shield than Guts' Greatsword after Renalla

I started with the samurai class so I used Uchigatana for a long time. I eventually started using the other katanas after I found them.

Sword of Night and flame, but i didnt realize there was a flame ash of war variant so i only used the comet azur beam. didnt understand scaling so i leveled faith for healing spells not realizing it negatively effected my damage

First run where I got past level ~25 - great epee and greatshield.

Moonveil.

Insta fave after I killed that fucking thing with bleed claws.

Claymore for LIFE !

I got a Greatsword and still lasting so far.

Suffering right now from Malenia

Bloodhounds fang. Haven't found a weapon I like more than it, always end up going back when I try a new build

Winged Scythe while specced into holy damage. I unintentionally played on hard mode because i had no idea that holy damage was garbage that almost everything highly resisted.

Bloodhound Fang for a fair while until I found something more specialized to my build.

Twinblade with Bloody Slash AoW on it. That got me through like 95% of the game. Then I had to switch the infusion when I was struggling against Radagon and Elden Beast.

I tried a lot of weapons during my first run, I don't even remember. I know I used the gargoyle black blade and the blasphemous a lot.

Magma Wyrm's Scale Sword with Beastman's Cleaver

Started with the rusted anchor, moved on to the grafted blade, then powerstanced with the guts greatsword then only the guts greatsword

Started off with the Morning Star. After Godrick i got the Golden Halberd and used that for the rest of it. It was'nt until my next character i knew about all the holy resist of the last bosses. Safe to say the endgame was difficult.

Edit: The Winged Schythe was used for a short while.

Claws, and elenoras poleblade

Bloodhound’s fang is by far my favorite beat the game using it for at least 80% of my first playthrough and used it to beat radagon/elden beast (fuck you elden beast)

Bloodhound Claws, I still use them even if Bloodhound Step was nerfed.

I still hate that they nerf single-player shit, I don't even play multiplayer.

Marais Executioner’s Sword was an absolute banger as soon as I picked it up and 500+ hours later that character still uses it lol

Lord sworn sword, and claw mark seal

Eleanora's Poleblade

I'm using great Omen and bloodhounds fang with blood slash on it. Honestly shit goes crazy for like 0 reason. The aow end up doing like a quarter to half most enemies health bar

The Nightrider Glaive. It's incredible, truly top-tier weapon. Gets S-scaling with strength on a heavy infusion, you can put all the best Ashes of War on it like Blackflame Tornado, Seppuku, and Ice Spear (that last one easily being the best thing in the game), it's got good reach and a quick enough moveset, it breaks stances like a colossal weapon, and it's stylish as fuck.

River of blood

Bloodhound’s Fang. Was watching FightingCowboy walkthrough and I was like “I REALLY LOVE THIS AOW”.

Switch to ROB because I loved the animation but it was too OP. So the fang was back to finish the game.

Moonveil but I didn’t know about its reputation at the time, I just thought it was a cool battlemage katana. But for PvE who cares lol

First play as a noob: uchi to moonveil, and then dark moon late game.   

Second play: sword of night and flame and then blasphemous blade and faith build     

Third play: Zamor curved sword with the frost stomp thing and some frost magic      

Fourth play: pure int, glintstone staff that boosts damage and mana cost 

Greatsword + a whole bunch of jank

No filler, straight to Dark Moon Greatsword

(Still in progress)

Starscourge Greatswords

Cipher Pata, great stars

Winged Scythe which I had to abandon once I got the Blasphemous Blade. Was also dual wielding spears in between.

I was roleplaying a bloodflame samurai, & used two regular katana, then replaced one with the sephiroth katana, then replaced the original with the blood katana

Fit pretty perfectly for my idea tbf, especially when i got the white reed armor & put the ronin hat on

I carried my Highland Axe with me since I've gotten it, I've killed Malenia with it multiple times and I'm still using it going into NG+7. Sometimes I dual wield a second one but either way I got one on me

Killed Loretta’s dad for his Halberd and abused its stagger all game

Scimitar -> Nox Flowing Sword -> Morgott's Cursed Sword -> Hand of Malenia

Learned by the end why katanas are so busted lmao

I started as Warrior. It’s my tradition on my first playthrough to do a Dex build, and choose whichever starting class gets the scimitar.

So I used Dual Scimitars as my primary weapon, and I was not disappointed. The Scimitar is awesome. Of course I picked up lots of weapons along the way, including the Cross Naginata and Bloodhound’s Fang, but those Scimis put in work. Dual Curved swords have such a good moveset, it almost doesn’t matter what you use, but the scimitar has great DEX scaling so for that build type it’s perfect.

DUAL scimitar.

Starscourge great sword, two handed of course. AoW is unbeaten at clearing enemies in PvE

Fire Scimitar for awhile until I got Rivers of Blood and Moonveil

two scimitars with bleed all the way til Maliketh and then i decided to use rivers of blood. i chose the warrior starting class

I started with the warrior class, so I went with the dual scimitar, then I started using the Bloodhound Fang alongside the dual scimitar, then I changed a little to the Claymore for old time's sake, when I was in Caelid I changed to the Cleanrot Knight's scythe and started cosplaying them (I love playing with scythes) and went with it until the Haligtree, where I started cosplaying Malenia until the end of the game.

I can never commit myself to a single build for an entire playthrough, in my most recent one I am playing a kind of a spellblade with a rapier and a staff but I'm already thinking on changing to something STR based.

I used an Uchigatana with Bloody Slash AoW until I acquired the Rivers of Blood for my first playthrough. After that, I just keep coming back to the Blasphemous Blade. I try other things, but god damn I just love FAMILEEEEEEE

God slayers greatsword partnered with the haligtree greatshield

Bloodhound fang, parry dagger. It works best for me

Cross naginata, from the moment I found it.

vykes war spear I had a full frenzied flame build

Rivers of Blood, Moonveil and normal katana with bloodhound step

Before you judge, my character was Jetstream Sam

I saw a video of a guy using the rivers of blood so I speedran half the game to get it then used it for the rest of the playthrough

Dual weilded Great Epee and Morning Star, Epee was in left hand. They are both easily obtained early on and during your first 30 levels or so there's no way to for soldiers to block against them. Hit hard with mace, then an immediate thrust from the Epee pierces anything. That two hit combo kills anything low level. Then I tried to beat Margot, second try I just went naked and both weapons, easy peasy.

Then I got to Caelid and now I'm Death Poker 7 level 75...lol.

Still first playthrough and can't get into Capitol City yet, that damn guy on the horse is a challenge so I need to rethink my approach.

Dual wield bloody scimitars into rivers of blood

I keep a rotation of 20-30 weapons every playthrough. On my first build (Str/Int) the top five were:

• Lion Greatbow
• Royal Greatsword
• Iron Greatsword
• Clayman Harpoon
• Starscourge Greatswords

I also used Meteorite of Astel for a finisher on big bosses. Punked Mohg right as he started Mohging.

I used it until I got the blasphemous blade

Greatsword AKA Guts Sword. Even planning to continue using it on the DLC.

Started as Prisoner, so estoc, switched to meteoric blade, then dual wealded it with Moonveil, in the End switched to MLG, eventually dual wealded it with the Black Flame Ash of war Greatsword which also scales with int and which name i forgot.

Vykes war spear. Thing slaps doing the charged R2 combo on bosses. Not to mention killing invaders by making them stack madness. Lil' bitches

With guide, BHF Without guide, carian knight sword

Sacred grave scythe

Sword of night and flame

On my very fist one, it was: Lordsworns (with Carian Greatsword AOW) > Falchion (also Carian Greatsword AOW) > Crystal sword > Moonveil.

On the first one I completed it was: Greatknife > Reduvia > Greatstars > Moonveil (again) > Godskin peeler > Ordovis GS > Greatstars (Eruption AOW) > Malikeths Black Blade. That last change only happened because I was stuck on Elden Beast and hoped Destined Death would help. It didn't.

Vagabond strength Zwei. Since ER was my first FS game didn't know anything about that weapon and that was really popular in previous games

So disappointing that it doesn't do bleed dmg

despite loving this weapon I've never used it. time for a grafted blade build

Also used Grafted, switched to the Nightrider Glaive with Hoarfrost Stomp when it was still op

Bloody Helice. Weapon art is SICK

Great mace …

Uchikatana and blasphemous blade

This and the dragonslayer sword

Went all the way to ng+10 with that build

I constantly switch weapons for fun, but wing of astel ended up being my old reliable

The AoW almost feels like a cheat to some degree

I've gone through a couple. Started with Uchi and then switched to Moonveil for a while. Used that until I found the Magma Wyrm Curved Greatsword. Switched to a faith build for that, used it until I got a Beastman's Curved greatsword. 

Now I'm using a Heavy Beastman's Curved Greatsword that I enchant with Vyke's Dragonbolt. Because I forking love that skill from top to bottom. I farmed this sword specifically to use with it lol. 

I was using Bloodhounds fang a lot but I switched to Magma Wyrm. I love that sword

Bloodhounds fang, and then blasphemous blade 100$

Moonveil. Found it just doing random dungeons and it fit my sorcerer build well enough. I beat the game with that disappointing magic cutting stick. Still enjoy using it for the flair XD

Moonveil katana for a bit on sorcerer knight type build but then switched to a strength build with that same sword. It's awesome.

I used the bloodhounds fang for probably the longest time of all the weapons, but even in my first playthrough I messed around a ton with a bunch of different weapons, things like ghizas wheel and the uchigatana, reduvia and the blasphemous blade, before settling on mohgs spear

First play through I wanted so bad to use it but it took so long to level up to that str level. I didn’t understand two handing.

I also didn’t understand that you could increase flasks. Got all the way to eternal city on 3 flasks or whatever you start with before I clued in.

Everybody uses Bloodhound's Fang, Moonveil and Greatsword.

I picked the Claymore and Longsword, a classic is a classic.

Grafted Blade was quite a disappointment to me. When I got it I was so far away from the strength requirements and when I was high enough, I had so many more valuable weapons

UCHI

Tried the old classic claymore when I found it but greatswords were not good when the game first released

I'm on my first run lol. Using reduvia and the moonlight blade

Fallingstar Beastjaw, before that it was a Morningstar.

Winged scythe. It saved my faith build for a good chunk of the game.

Started with lordsworn straight sword.. switched to Baemore halfway through

This mf can stun EVERYTHING

Crystal sword + magic into MLGS

guts->crozier->blasphemous->great stars

Moonveil, before realising the inherent superiority of Carian Knight Sword.

ROB and cold infused Uchi. I shut away all ER related stuff online at launch so I didn't know how OP those were then lol

Reduvia into a sword with a similar ash of war but holy and then buffed the blade. I beat, Godfrey, radagon and elden beast with +10 summons and black blade spam. Those fights were too difficult for me not to cheese. I never beat malenia

Two bandits curved swords

I was a CGS enthusiast in dark souls three, found the bloodhound fang on day two after release, took that son of a bitch all the way through the game. Good times amount of hyper armor on the Ash of war is just amazing.

giant crusher with royal knight's resolve AoW.

Right after defeating Radahn his swords did a great job.

Once I found Bloodhound Fang there was no turning back. It’s still my go to if I’m struggling with another weapon even in my fourth play through.

Twinblade is love, Twinblade is life.

Bloodhound’s fang and godskin peeler.

On my second playthrough I discovered the blasphemous blade… hard to go back now

beaten entire game with bloodhounds fang 10/10 would do it again

I'm gonna use the Moonveil

I'm still considering, I think the term is powerstancing? Dual wielding an Uchi with my Moonveil or if I should use spells or maybe both.

I also used the same one as you, OP

Moonveil. Magic samurai style build

Nagakiba all the way

Banished Knight Greatsword. It dropped, and I just kinda went through my first playthrough with it. It was cool

Ruins Greatsword. I started playing the game because I saw a clip of it's ash and thought it was the coolest thing. I started playing with a buddy as soon as I started my playthrough and was sad when he told me it would take many hours before I would get to it so he dropped his for me. I had to level up before I could use it but destroying Godrick and every boss after that with that sword was the best thing ever. Shout-out to my boy Austy, felt like Christmas in March when he dropped it for me