
While non-physical builds are less common than their more ‘hit-things’ counterparts, intelligence builds have just as much capacity for destruction as any other. This weapon is found in the far left corner of the Untended Graves Firelink Shrine area.The main downside to this weapon is that it also damages the user for 1% of your hp per strike, though this is countered fairly simply with any of the game’s regen items such as the Sun Princess Ring. In addition, it also has the largest bleed effect in the game, making luck a worthwhile stat investment as well.
Having a very high base damage to start with, the exceptional dexterity scaling can bring this weapon up to one of the highest damaging dexterity weapons in the game.
Thankfully, the Chaos Blade is one of the best weapons you can choose when boosting your dexterity to the max.
This weapon drops from the Madwoman in the Road of Sacrifices areaįor players trying more to imitate the ninja aspects of a character, nothing fits this build better than a katana. The biggest downside is that despite being the best strength weapon in pve, it is much weaker in pvp due to a fairly predictable move set. In addition to this, it grants a small amount of health back on every hit, a great bonus in builds that emphasize tanking hits rather than avoiding them. Though it has a relatively small base damage, it has one of the best strength scaling in the game, a scaling that improves even more when upgraded to +10. For these players, there’s the Butcher Knife. Many people spend their time in Dark Souls 3 trying to give their six pack its own six pack and thus need a weapon to complement how absolutely ripped they get. In this list, I’ll be going over ten of the best weapons in Dark Souls 3 and the builds they work best with. While there are many ways players go about making their lives easier, the main way being to ‘Get Good’ as stated in the first commandment of Dark Souls, one method is to optimize your gear. Pretty much all the Dark Souls games are known for two things, difficulty and a legion of red phantoms that have spent so long practicing they can wreck your life with nothing but a broken sword and a loin cloth.