How many shots does it take to get Drake's sword?

Repeat shooting the tail until you receive the Drake 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.
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How many hits 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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What are the requirements for the Drake Sword?

To obtain the sword, the player must deal enough damage to the Hellkite Dragon's tail to sever it, placing the sword in their inventory. One method of doing this is to stand on the right side of the bridge under the drake and shoot its tail with a bow.
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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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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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Dark Souls: Drake Sword Guide

Is Zweihander better than Drake Sword?

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 it worth it to level up the Drake Sword?

Each upgrade will add 20 more points of physical damage, and it maxes at +5 (300 damage). And they don't scale with stats. So, good in the beginning - less so as time goes on. It's up to you if that's worth it.
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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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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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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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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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Is Drake Sword a dex weapon?

The Drake Sword neither scales with dex (or anything for that matter), nor has a particularly high dex requirement.
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How many bolts 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.
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How much strength do you need for Drake Sword?

Players will need a minimum of 16 Strength and 10 Dexterity to efficiently wield the sword, but for most classes, this won't require much work at all.
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Can you get more than one Drake Sword?

You can technically hit him in the face/body and once you deal enough damage you will get the sword. Only once sword per playthrough.
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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 the silver sword better than the black metal sword?

The silver sword is a better weapon against undead enemies like Skeletons and Draugr thanks to its extra spirit damage.
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Is Black Knight Sword rare?

Availability. Semi-common drop from Black Knights wielding the Black Knight Sword. One (non-respawning) is encountered midway through the Undead Burg; two more are found in the Undead Asylum if revisited; two sword Black Knights respawn in the Kiln of the First Flame.
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Should I upgrade Zweihander or claymore?

Claymore is amazing, the are both quality weapons. The claymore is a greatsword where the zwei is an ultra greatsword. It is much slower but hits harder. The claymore is lighter but way more versatile and quicker.
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Is Zweihander a long sword?

Zweihänders that were 4 kg (8.8 lb) in weight or more, were confined to parade and ceremonial use. Early Zweihänders were simply larger versions of longswords. Later examples had Parierhaken ("parrying hooks") at the top of the ricasso as well as side rings on the hilt.
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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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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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How much HP does Hellkite Drake have?

The Hellkite Dragon has 2208 HP, Drops 10k souls, and can heal when resting on the curch rooftop.
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How do you get the DS greatsword?

  1. Sold by Crestfallen Merchant for 8,000 souls.
  2. Found on dead boss in Anor Londo to the left of the large painting leading to the Painted World of Ariamis.
  3. Drops from Heavy Knight (mace and sword).
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