How many standard 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.
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How many standard arrows to get Drake Sword?

You need to shoot the dragons tail when you are underneath the bridge. It should take about 20 arrows to do it. Shooting the dragon itself will yeild you nothing.
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What are the requirements for the Drake Sword?

The Drake Sword is obtainable in the Undead Parish. 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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What stats do I need to wield the 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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How to get Drake Sword after dragon leaves?

The dragon flew away before I could kill it and now I can't get the Drake Sword. Any solutions? Reload the area and cross the bridge again, it will come back. reload the area and it should come back.
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Dark Souls Walkthrough - Getting The Drake Sword from the Red Dragon (MUST DO THIS!!!!) (Part 010)

How to get Drake Sword easy?

After you shoot the wyvern's tail, it will fly to the bridge above and try to find you. After a few moments, it will return to its position guarding the bridge and the tail will be in the same spot as before. Repeat shooting the tail until you receive the Drake Sword.
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What is better than the Drake Sword?

Your best options are probably Zweihaender, Man Serpent Greatsword, Black Knight Axe, Gargoyle Halberd or Claymore. And upgrade that stuff, pronto. The difference between a unupgraded and a +5 is massive, nevermind +10 or +15, which is why all your weapons seem so bad compared to Drake Sword.
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Is it worth reinforcing Drake Sword?

It's up to you if that's worth it. You cannot add lightning damage to it, at best it gets to 300 attack. People refrain from upgrading it because you obtain dragon scales relatively late and can lean off the crutch onto their favorite weapon +10 after blighttown.
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Is the Drake Sword better than the 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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Does Drake Sword scale with Dex?

There are separate categories for Strength, Dexterity, Intelligence, and Faith. They're rated with letter grades. Again, Drake sword doesn't scale, so all you'll see there are slashes or something.
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Does the Drake Sword break?

It breaks fast if you use it's R2 two-hand special.
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Is the Drake Sword a unique weapon?

This sword, one of the rare dragon weapons, is formed by a drake's tail. Drakes are seen as undeveloped imitators of the dragons, but in they are likely their distant kin. The sword is imbued with a mystical power, to be released when held with both hands.
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Can I get D's sword?

After working through D's questline, players must then start working on Fia's questline. Upon making their way through the quests, they will reach a part where Fia kills D. Players can then obtain the special Twinned Armor from D, which they will need for the next part of the journey to obtain the Inseparable Sword.
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How much damage does it take to get the Drake 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 you still get the Drake Sword?

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. Then, go under the bridge (where there are the two hollows, and the little ledge that leads to the room with the rats).
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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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How strong is the 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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Is The Greatsword of Artorias better than Zweihander?

Lightning Zweihander beats both and needs less stat investment. It's around 700 attack. True Greatsword of Artorias will get to around 650 eventually, but it needs a pretty unreasonable amount of levelling to get there. Greatsword of Artorias +5 (Cursed) = 237 Attack, 100 critical, C str, dex, int, & faith modifiers.
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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 The Drake Sword the best?

Drake sword is pretty good and it's not that hard to finish the entire game with just that weapon. However many weapons are way better. Take for example a regular longsword, it swings faster has a better moveset and does more damage when regular upgraded and with the right stats or you can upgrade it elementally.
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Is the Drake Sword good for Blighttown?

You join his covenant, get the sword, and immediately go back to Petrus and change back. Early game means you won't lose any ranks in the covenant most likely. You can change covenants no problem. If you don't have anything upgraded besides the Drake Sword, it's probably best just to tough out Queelag with it.
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What does Black Knight Sword scale with?

Black Knight Sword has a C in Strength scaling and an E in Dexterity. Basically, it means that the damage increases the higher your Strength and Dexterity stats are.
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What stats do you need to use Drake Sword?

Strength needs to be 16 and Dexterity needs to be 10. That icon means your defensive stats have increased. I think the Drake Sword has some sort of enchant on it that does that.
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Is Drake the leader of sword?

X Drake: Captain (隊長, Taichō?) of SWORD and former Marine Rear Admiral, formerly undercover as a member of Kaidou's Beasts Pirates, and an infamous member of the Worst Generation.
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