Can you modify Drake Sword?

Drake Sword can be upgraded by using Dragon Scales. When equipped grants Magic DEF +15 and Flame DEF +15. It's not recommended to spend Dragon Scales and 10,000 Souls per upgrade on this weapon as the resulting low increase in damage does not offset the high cost.
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Can you upgrade the Drake Sword?

The drake sword is one of several "dragon weapons" in the game - which can only be upgraded with dragon scales. You will come across several dragon scales in the course of the game. It cost 10k souls for each upgrade. It's also the only way to upgrade these weapons - you can't add lightning or any other effects.
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When should you stop using the Drake Sword?

The drake sword is a trap, by the way. It's a bad weapon that's really only good for the immediate area that you get it in. Once you've found a blacksmith, upgrade any other weapon that you like and stop using the Drake Sword.
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Is Drake Sword better than Zweihander?

The zwei is also pretty solid, but it's more efficient for a STR oriented build. The Drake sword is only useful if you plan on keeping the base requirements to wield it because of its lack of scaling. A quality build will be better off with just about any other straight sword.
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Is Drake Sword any good?

The Drake Sword is probably one of the most powerful early game weapons in Dark Souls.
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Is Drake Sword or Claymore better?

If you have good stats, the claymore will display higher damage, thus the drake swords damage will be as low as it seems. There is no illusion about damage. It can't be lower as it seems. If you have good stats, the claymore will display higher damage, thus the drake swords damage will be as low as it seems.
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Does the Drake Sword break easily?

It breaks fast if you use it's R2 two-hand special. It goes down 30 durability a pop.
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Can you get 2 Drake swords?

The drake's tail will respawn, but the sword can only be obtained once per playthrough.
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Is The Black Knight Sword better than the Drake Sword?

Prefer Drake because of the attack speed. Try them both and you'll see the Black Knight Sword is pretty damn slow. I also have both, but I actually prefer black knight's sword. Let's me running one hit crap in the swamp, and took down asylum stray demon in a much shorter time.
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Does Drake Sword scale with Dex?

The Drake Sword neither scales with dex (or anything for that matter), nor has a particularly high dex requirement.
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What is better than the Drake Sword?

If you can get it, the Black Knight Sword will last almost the entire game, and is a beast once it's upgraded to +5. Even better, especially if you like polearms, is the Black Knight Halberd. Damn powerful. Almost anything out-classes the Drake Sword, though.
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How many wooden arrows does it take to get Drake's sword?

If you continue shooting the wyvern's tail, after 20 or so shots (determined by your weapon damage stats and the size of your arrows) you will see a screen prompt saying you have received the Drake Sword. Congratulations!
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What does the Drake Sword scale with?

You are correct that the Drake Sword does not scale with your stats, as many other weapons do. With the sword upgraded to +1, you'll be doing 220 damage. Upgrading it to +5 will take this up to 300 - but at the cost of 40,000 souls and many dragon scales (9, I believe).
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Should I reinforce Drake Sword Dark Souls?

The Drake Sword can be upgraded, but most players would advise against doing so, as it requires Dragon Scales -- a somewhat rare in-game item that can be better spent on upgrading much greater weapons later. It's best to use the sword in its base-level form.
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How much strength do you need to wield Drake Sword?

16 is the required strength to hold it in one hand effectively.
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How many shots does it take to get Drake's sword?

As long as you hit the dragon anywhere with approximately 50 arrows the tail will fall off and you will be rewarded with the Drake Sword.
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Can Black Knight Sword go past 5?

All weapons upgraded with twinkling and demon titanite go to +5 max. BKGS is op in the first half of the game, but it gets outdamaged by most ultras once you get them to +15.
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Is Black Knight Sword good for end game?

All the Black Knight weapons are really powerful, so even in the late game it's not like the sword will suddenly be useless. As you said, Twinkling Titanite is easy to get, so upgrade it as much as you can. It can go up to +5, as all weapons can if you upgrade it with Twinkling Titanite.
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How rare is the bone sword?

The Bone Sword is a melee weapon that has a 1/200 (0.5%) chance to drop from Skeletons and Spore Skeletons in the Cavern layer. While rare, it can be a useful weapon if obtained early in the game.
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How rare is reins of the blue drake?

Reins of the Blue Drake has an extremely low (1% - 2%) chance to be found inside Alexstrasza's Gift after defeating Malygos in the 10-player version of the Eye of Eternity.
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How do you get the Hellkite sword?

The Drake Sword is probably one of the most powerful early game weapons in Dark Souls. To get it, you are going to have to cut off the tail of the Hellkite Dragon: The way I've always done it is to buy a bow from either the undead merchant or Andre the Blacksmith, and a LOT of arrows.
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Should I upgrade Claymore or Zweihander?

If you love huge and very powerful 2 handed weapons, use the Zweihander. If you use a shield, use the claymore. If you love huge and very powerful 2 handed weapons, use the Zweihander. You can still use a shield with the Zweihander, you just do the Combat Kick first to knock people off balance.
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What sword is bigger than the Claymore?

Yes. The German Zweihänder is generally longer than the Scottish Claymore. In fact most of the continental Great Swords are longer than a Claymore such as the Italian Spadone or the Spanish Montante.
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Which is stronger the Claymore or Katana?

Claymores are stronger since they're designed to beat up armoured knights as well as slice through console peasants that only have old outdated gear with which to fight. The katana was specifically designed for unarmoured opponents, with its slashing blade perfect for slicing and dicing.
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Do Drakes drop dragon scales?

I got 3 dragon scales. The dark souls wiki says the drakes have a 20% chance to drop dragon scales. I don't know how anyone could have even assumed that was the drop rate. 20% means that for every 5 drakes I kill, there is a chance that ONE of them will drop a dragon scale.
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